⊱ Le dîner en famille avec chaos ⊰

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"All you buffoons, rejoice! Our little sister is finally abstaining from lechery!"

"I'd rather poke my eyes out than have you as my brothers," I mumbled, downing the glass of wine in one go as the other six members of the deadly- or rather, goofy sins hurrayed in unison, nearly breaking their glasses as they clanked with way too much enthusiasm. "Seriously, sit your asses down! Are y'all five?"

"Party pooper," someone muttered under his breath as they all took their seats, placing their glasses down.

"Grouchy grape," another one whispered, barely audible, but I still heard it.

"Heard that, Envy," I hissed, throwing a glare at the green haired man who pretended to be fascinated by the grilled lobster before him.

"And I'm not abstaining, you know I can't do that. This is just temporary since I have the body of a weak human now," I stated while cutting the salmon before me. Pride nodded in the corner of my eyes.

"Means you can't bang dozens of times a day," Greed coughed and I slammed my fork on the table before shooting up from my seat and lunging at the blonde piece of shit, clenching the knife in my hand, planning his death in my mind. He teleported next to Wrath, clutching the unbothered man's arm for protection with a nervous laugh. "What?! Did I say something wrong?"

"I don't fuck around and you know it, you pervy munchkin! It's only once or twice a month to fulfill my sin in order to continue existing, dipshit," I shouted, charging at him

"And you've been existing for what, centuries? That's at least a thousand men per century, Eunsook. Damn, you have a vajayjay of steel!"

"Fucking-" I threw the knife at his chest and it pierced through his posh dress shirt, prompting a whine from the guy. He wouldn't feel pain anyways, that grumbler. "You think I enjoy being with scums?"

"Oh, I would," Greed chuckled, pulling out the knife with ease, with no traces of blood.

My eyebrows twitched. "Then you're rightfully where you belong. In hell."

His expression suddenly fell before he stepped up to me with his jaw clenched and eyes narrowed at me. "Excuse you?"

A foreign rush of panic and guilt surged through my veins, but I kept the eye contact, holding his resentful glare. I urged myself to apologize immediately but my anger wasn't allowing me to do so.

"I have a knife in my hand and you're pretty much mortal now," he gritted out, plump lips parted slightly in pique. "You won't die but you will most definitely feel pain."

"You're going to stab me?" I scoffed in disbelief.

The purse of his pink lips assured me that he wasn't going to do such thing, but the fact that he was threatening me like that was leaving a bitter taste in my mouth.

"Both of you, cut it out this instant," Gluttony, the eldest out of all of us demanded as the others eyed us warily, preparing to jump into the situation and stop us from doing something stupid. "Apologize to each other and proceed to dine. This is supposed to be a healing time for everyone. Don't mess up this tradition."

Although hung up in the words exchanged between ourselves, Greed and I reluctantly mumbled our apologies and took our seats among the other members. The tension was still lingering around us. We never pried into each other's personal life and turned a blind eye to each other's insecurities since we all unfortunately ended up in hell where we thought we didn't belong.

It was so low of me to make such a comment.

"Does the food taste better now that you have your tastebuds, Eunsook?" The usually quiet Sloth spoke up, shattering the silence.

My eyes perked up at the dark haired man. "Actually, yes. My senses heightened after getting human qualities and food flavors just burst in my mouth."

He gave me a small smile, his tired eyes softening. "Good for you."

"Yeah, good for her. I'd like to stuff my mouth with delicious food, too, but this tastes like barely flavored clay, I want to cry," Gluttony exclaimed, pouting at the chicken drum in his hand.

"Aw, come on, it's not that bad," Pride coaxed, taking a bite from his delectable steak with a hum of satisfaction. "The taste is dampened but I can still savor the meat well, Jin."

"Nah, man, you're tripping," the rosy haired man laughed, making the hazelnut man hang his head with a face palm and everyone else smile, easing into the dinner.

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"So this is where I like to eat ice cream. They have the best ones in the country, if not the whole world," I sang, hastily plopping down on one of the cushions next to the window inside the sweet-smelling cafe. "I'm sure you will get even the slightest taste since the ice cream tastes so so good. You can even get ice cream cake!"

Oh, how I loved the smell of sugar, vanilla and chocolate all mingling in the atmosphere!

The two men took their seats before me with amused looks, marveling at the surroundings. At least from what I knew, they hadn't visited cafes in the last tens of decades, so this must had been quite new to them. I could tell from the sparkles in their eyes.

"Seems nice," Greed admitted while scanning the menu on the table with a childish grin. He would look so innocent and soft whenever he was like that. "I'll have the chocolate- layered ice cream cake."

"Strawberry sundae," I chimed without looking at it. I had been wanting to try it for a while.

"Vanilla heaven for me," Sloth finally said after a minute of reading and flipping menu pages. "Will I go to heaven if I eat it?"

I chuckled, "Maybe for a moment."

After the dinner, Sloth was planning to go on a small getaway and probably grab a dessert on the way, and asked me if there was a go-to place for me. When I told him that I could show him a very nice place, he dragged Greed with us despite his protests. Even without activating his power, he was strong in his persuading skills.

There was still this tension between us but it seemed to have subsided as my closest member of the sins cracked jokes and even gave me smiles here and there between our conversations. Perhaps this was Sloth's intention...

"Don't look but I don't think you noticed loverboy sitting a few tables away from us when we came in," Greed whispered with his eyes fixed on something far away.

I swallowed, freezing for a second. "Jungkook?"

He wordlessly nodded.

"Alone? Did he notice us?"

"No. I don't think so. We're safe. He's with his girlfriend," the blonde man replied, still watching him.

"Oh." Of course he was with her... But wasn't it only yesterday that he was crying probably because he had an argument with her that he ended up not watching the concert? Or was I mistaken?

"He looks so happy with her," Greed commented and as if on cue, I heard his ever so euphonious hearty laughter resounding behind me, tugging something inside my chest.

I thought I was mistaken with my speculation until Sloth countered, denying his remark.

"Really? His mind is in turmoil though."

Upon his rebuttal, I suddenly realized that Sloth's powers included the ability to peer into people's minds. In other words, he could read minds in order to persuade them easily.

The gratifying cup of ice cream before me was long forgotten. All of my attention was on the pitch black haired man before me and the other dark haired man way behind me.

Grabbing Sloth's pale hand on the table and earning the two's attentiveness, I earnestly asked, "What turmoil, Yoongi?"

The man blinked twice at me before breaking into a sheepish smile, a stark contrast to his usual cold demeanor. "I don't think I should tell you that. It's quite personal."

I winced in defeat. "Really?"

He chuckled. "Really. But I can tell you that he has a lot in his mind. He's..." His eyes darkened as they were fixed on Jungkook again. "I dare say, he's very... self-destructive... His thoughts are quite dangerous."

I gulped, my stomach dropping. "Dangerous, you say?"

Greed's expression turned doleful, his thick eyebrows knitted together as he listened to him.

"Yes, and I don't know how he holds up. He doesn't seem happy with her," he referred to Jia whose loud laughs were now being heard clearly. "Actually, scratch that. He seems to care for her, but it's not that great of a... matter to him?"

Even though I was struggling to grasp what he was trying to say, I got the gist of it. A relationship like that wasn't impossible to mess with. Quite the contrary.

And yet, I didn't feel good about it. I felt heavy with unknown emotions. I shouldn't be feeling sympathy for him. I wasn't supposed to.

The laughters died out and I allowed myself to take in what Sloth revealed, something I wasn't expecting.

"He's thinking about you now."

My mind short circuited, blacking out for a second before the words sunk in it.

"M-Me?" I bit my tongue when I stuttered. "Why?"

"Why do you think?" Sloth smiled softly, catching me off guard. "You're practically glued to him every single day, it seems. How can he not think about you?"

But he's with his girlfriend...

"He thinks he's glad to have you. He's thinking about the times he laughed with you and the way you always supports him. You're so cute when you sneeze, he thinks." He exaggeratedly covered his mouth with wide eyes as if that was a shocking news, earning a slap on the shoulder from me. "Seems to me he likes spending time with you. Or you with him."

"I do not," I quickly denied, but hesitated afterwards. "Well, not that much. I mean, I do like spending time with him since it's nice to experience new things. He helps me, makes me laugh, sometimes corrects me and I appreciate that. And sometimes I seek for him- I mean, what?"

Both of the men's eyes were blown wide as they gaped at me with sheer bewilderment. Holy heck, I wanted to dig up a hole and bury myself after retracting my words. My cheeks were flaming.

"Eunsook, are you-"

"Oh, shut up. Let's get out of here. I'll show you my favorite pizzeria now." I shot up from my seat and tugged their arms to leave the place. "Come on, come on."

They stood up, following me with their ice creams in hand and uncertainty crossing their features.

With a deep breath, I took a glimpse of the couple at the back as we walked out the door and surely, Jungkook was talking to Jia whose back was facing us with a small smile. A usual sight to me by now.

And yet, the more I saw that, the more I felt out of sorts...

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This could be classified as slow burn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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