Ryo started distracting the azure male, who was currently beating him at Moral Kombat. "Take it like a man, you cheat." Despite his comment, the blond continued to throw his weight around towards the boy to sabotage him.

Kaito cringed at the bothersome noise and bitterly glared at them. "A person cannot simply enjoy some peace around you two."

"Don't be like that, come and join us!" The blond threw a controlled in his direction while the intellectual simply flicked it away and proceeded to read his book. "Ren! Could you make some popcorn?!'" Ryo shouted towards the kitchen to the boy inside.

"Make it yourself, I'm cooking."

He cooly replied, making the male groan in frustration. He then glanced at the quiet boy that was sitting on the couch with the dog next to him and spoke out in a sweet tone, "Alex, could you-?"

"No." Ryo slumped at his rejected offer. Out of the silence came a pair of angry footsteps descending from the second floor. As Jin appeared on the landing, he held a distasteful expression and threw his phone to the ground, seemingly uncaring whether it would come out in working condition again. "Wow, Jin is actually angry about something. Don't abuse your phone like that man, it didn't do anything to you." Jin unamusingly glanced at the playful boy and exhaled heavily.

Bako paused the game glanced at his frustrated friend. "What's wrong? You seem stressed?" The brunet begrudgingly walked towards his abandoned device and reluctantly took it back.

"(Y/n) set me up with this girl and she hasn't stopped texting me since yesterday." He looked at his phone to see three new messages from the female in question. When he glimpsed back at the blond, a certain sense of anger and indignation spread through at the sight of the boy's mocking grin.

"So she friend zoned you? HAHAHA, that's precious! Jin, I can't imagine how-" in a matter of seconds, Ryo was shoved to the wall, just barely allowing his feet to touch the ground. He would have felt some sort of jolt of pain, had the shock of the sudden action worn off. "J-Jin, what the-?!"

"Shut up! I'm getting really tired of your punchy, little comments." The boy pushed the blond further into the wall, digging his fingers further into the boy's shoulders. "Don't you f**king crack jokes at me when you don't understand how it's like! I've been more than patient with her and in the end I get nothing but the title of her friend. So go and make a punch line out of that, I dare you. Give me a reason to do something." Ryo could feel his shoulder blades fracturing under the tremendous amount of pressure he was receiving from the snapped boy. The blond got a chance to relax when Jin had to be torn away from him and set at a distance.

"Jin calm down! What's wrong with you?" Ren held the enraged boy back, still in a stupor at the unheard of rage that he was exhibiting.

"Stay composed. What has gotten into you?" Kaito scolded the uncontrolled boy, who simply turned to him with a glare.

"And you..." Jin shredded himself away from his restrainer and strode over to the other male in question. Before Kaito could react to the sudden approach, he was gripped by the throat, causing him to choke out his surprise. "You know how to make things happen, right Kaito? Then bring (Y/n) here. I want my (Y/n). I've been patient with your little guidelines, and look where it got me. I want (Y/n), get her here..." The more he spoke out her name, the tighter the grip around the intellectual's neck became, restricting the male's speech. Before anything could further escalate, Jin had to be forcefully wrenched away as a buzz was heard. The male was forced to calmly simmer as he had to be tightly held back by the tall artist.

"What's wrong with you?! Calm down!" As Bako kept an iron hold on the feral boy and Ren attempted to speak sense into his friend,

Ryo began noticing the annoying sounds of the frantic buzzer and unsettlingly walked over to the intercom to ask on who it was. "It's me. Let me in." From the speaker came out the stiff, serious voice of the girl. After a moment of silent exchange of glances and an immediate effect on the enraged boy as he snapped back into his more stable state, (Y/n) asked for the gate to be unlocked in stern speech.

As the teenager was allowed to enter the premises, the boys normalise themselves and moving back to their places. When Ryo opened the front door to greet the girl with a smile, he was returned with a boiling look. "Afternoon, angel. What's wrong-?" (Y/n) pushed past the blond and paid no attention to the rest of the males present and headed for the specific quiet boy she's been gushing to deal with.

Everything seemed to be moving at an abnormally fast pace. (Y/n) marched up to the boy with heavy footsteps and as she stood in front of him, her hand automatically raised up and sharply came down on his face. The sudden action seemed to leave him stunned and confused at the blunt assault. "How could you do this?! Why would you lead them on like that?! Do you realise what you just did?!" (Y/n) swung her palm again, the only effort in holding back was keeping up only open hand attacks. "Why did you give them such hope?! Why did you have to mess with both of them at the same time?! Now they can't even look at each other. Now they feel like I betrayed them. Now I could have lost two of the most important people in my life because you had to play Casanova! Because of you, I had to watch Saki cry. Because of you, Lala is feeling worthless." With every sentence and question, came another hit from the infuriated girl, while the boy simply took each strike in silence. "Because of you, I lost my two best friends." Slap. "Because of you, they started a feud." Slap "Because of you, things won't be the same again. Because of you..." (Y/n) had finally snapped from her angered state and could finally afford to let her grief and pain out in the form of tears. Alex stared up at the mournful girl and felt even more confused than before at what he had done.

'No...this isn't how it's supposed to be. I can't make her cry, I need to defend her...' The boy watched in concerned puzzlement as the girl's sniffs turned to light sobs. 'This isn't meant to happen. I promised she'll never be hurt if she stayed with me. Then why is she crying...?' The male reached out to stroke the girl's moist cheek, only to get his hand slapped away.

"Don't touch me! I don't know what your problem is, but now I can't fix it. I don't know how to fix it..." (Y/n) began trembling on the spot, imagining her upcoming days in school without the banter with the twins, without their playful mockery and understanding kindness, and she couldn't help but feel the guilt of what a low-class friend she had been to them. "I...I hate you..." The boy could only silently take all the hurtful words and share her guilt.

After a long minute of her guilty sobs, (Y/n)'s mind began to get more lucid and clear up from her anger. And as she saw the concerned and shamefaced male looking at her with an ashamed expression, it forcing her to realise what she had just said. Her rage was replaced with sympathy and regret, coming to grips with her accusations and responsibilities. "No...no, it's not your fault. You did nothing wrong..." (Y/n) wiped a few fallen tears and gives an awkward and forced smile that disappeared quickly. "You did everything right, it's me that screwed it up just because I didn't realise what they were going through...You only tried to be kind and friendly to them, it's not your fault they took it the wrong way...I'm sorry... I don't hate you, I really don't. I hate myself." (Y/n) wrapped her arms around the guy to take back her insults and lashed out attitude he had to endure. Alex seemed to visibly relax into the female's embrace and pushed himself further into her hug. "I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry, I'm so sorry." She repeated the phrase continuously, seemingly not only directing her apology to the boy but to her none-present pair of friends. After a moment of quietly shaking in his arms with the apologies, she felt a pair of hands on her shoulders. She looked back to see the concerned expression of the harsh intellectual.

"(Y/n), what's the matter? Tell us what's wrong." The girl sniffed once, ultimately seeming to calm herself and let go of Alex.

"I just messed up on so many levels with the twins..." The male nodded and promptly sat by the girl on the sofa. Kaito gently stroked her hair in a comforting manner, savoring the consent of expressing his affection.

"Share with us what happened, I'm sure it's the least you can do to explain yourself to Alex." He slyly smirked behind her at the fond touch she was allowing him to present and her vulnerable state. "I'll go and help Ren prepare something, take a moment to gather your bearings."

(Y/n) nodded her gratitude and softened her worries at the comfort of the males. As the coal-eyed pianist and his friend enter the designated room, away from the rest of the group, Ren couldn't help but impressively grin at the genius. "That was quite the feat Kaito, I'm impressed by the speed of the progression." The other male pleasingly smiled at the congratulations.

"It wasn't quite as difficult as I anticipated. She might do a good job at using her defence mechanisms, but it doesn't take a psychologist to figure her closeness and fondness towards her friends." The intellectual proceeded to chop up pieces of vegetables while carefully analysing his analogy, "Its sort of like lions hunting down their prey; first they separate the target from the rest of the group and then as the innocent animal tires, they hit." The knife was stabbed into the chipping board and the handle was clenched tensely by the crimson haired male. "However, we first need to get rid of her 'precιoυѕ ғrιend' and she'll become completely emotionally dependent on us."

"Shouldn't be hard. We've already seemed to take her away from the two older students and that annoying pair. That b*****d shouldn't be hard to delete from the picture."