Ch 45: Annoying
Should I conclude everything that happened today? Whatever your answer is, I would still think I should.
First of all, the school was good. It was Lance who sucked. Then, shopping was all good, but no money sucked. Next, working was good, but overworked sucked. The last one is cow was good, but cow poo sucked.
That's not really helping.
The dinner went along just fine. But something strange happened, even if I already knew the reason. Olivier took a bath before she ate her dinner, leaving the dinner party. I, Reanne, Ludwig, Yummi, and Cole acted like we didn't know anything and proceeded to eat our own dinner. Good lord, the king, and queen were suspecting us because there was one available chair. The worst was, of course, the real Jin already scouted his eyes on scanning the whole area to find his shortie.
"Someone doesn't join our dinner?" the queen asked. I gulped my saliva and peeked at Reanne's reaction. I tried to send telepathy to her so she could represent the whole gang to explain.
"Olivier took her bath, your majesty," Cole explained. His uncovered eye was all puffy due to his overwhelming happy feeling.
"Olivier?" the queen tried to remember.
"The one Jin..."
Panicked, Jin held Mamoru's mouth as a hostage. One more word and Jin was revealed. He shut Mamoru's mouth hardly even Mamoru couldn't laugh seeing Jin's reaction. Actually, I was kinda interested in seeing the parents' reaction to Jin's type.
"The one with long black hair, Your Majesty..." Reanne added, taking Jin's side.
"And short..." Ludwig replied.
I pinched his side stomach so hard that I was pretty sure I left a bruise. Ludwig was ow-owing his ass holding the pain. That's not a nice thing to say to your friend, you know!
"Bathing before dinner?" the queen confirmed.
"Yes, Your Majesty," now Yummi replied.
"Is she okay?"
"As I remember, yes, Your Majesty," Cole answered to put the queen's mind at ease.
"Olivier doesn't mean to disregard the dinner..." Reanne uttered. "It's because... something happened... that she needed to... bath so early..."
The king and queen looked at each other.
"Would you mind telling us why?" now the king offered his curiosity.
"But, Your Majesty. I don't know if the topic's well to be discussed during a hearty dinner like what we are having now..." Reanne felt uneasy.
"Now, now... Please tell me."
Reanne tried to save her friends from an unwell topic. In fact, she failed so hard that the whole audience looked at her enthusiastically as if she was holding the result of world hunger. Meanwhile, Yummi and Cole finished their meal as soon as possible and pushed their plates as a sign of 'nah I won't eat anymore'.
Well, it didn't affect me, so I kept on eating. The same went to Ludwig. He still ate his whole plate diligently.
Reanne sighed.
"The truth is...."
Reanne explained everything that happened in the Vengiel's. Like literally everything. The thing with Jin getting pushed, the thing with Olivier's yelling, and of course the thing with cow poo. It was so intense that Reanne took her sweet time explaining how the base manure looked and smelt like and of course its consistency was so detailed. The king laughed with his hands covering his face; I could see Jin did the same if he felt embarrassed. Elise and Kyo had to end their dinner while the queen lost her appetite. The couple Ixora and Koko paused a bit, swallowed a lot of water, and continued eating.
"I didn't see that coming..." the queen covered her mouth with a wipe cloth. "I'm sorry to ask..."
"I'm sorry to explain, your majesty..." Reanne sighed again. "I tried to stop..."
"Yeah... No... Don't be sorry. You're right..." the queen followed the sigh. "I should've learned to listen more."
"Reanne... Do you think the bath that we will take is already contaminated by the poo Olivier take?"
The crowd froze with Elise's concern. We were almost sure that Olivier wasn't the type to pour cow poo into our bath. Well, we could think that she didn't care about her appearance but since Reanne took better care of her, Olivier replied with her feeling about staying healthy and clean (at least from poo) as long as possible.
But... It's fun to tease Elise.
"Who knows? You don't need to take the bath if you don't want to, Elise..." Aura smirked.
"But..." Elise let her puppy eyes out. "I want to bathe..."
"Happy bathing with poo soap," Aura laughed.
Aura had to let her body be Elise's hitting bag. Elise insisted on taking Aura to a bath to scare her. But of course, Aura just played along with Elise's game, knowing that she had full control of the game.
Put that aside.
Jin looked confused by Reanne's information. He had mixed feelings about the thing that happened to us and of course, to Olivier. His mind was suddenly a puzzle, with each piece completely blank.
"Olivier did this for me?" Jin asked.
"Not you, but ... you..." I tried to see his reaction and suppress it so he wouldn't fight with Olivier. "Well, you know... it's not for you per se... but it's for you."
"She did it for the cow," Ludwig shrugged. This time, Reanne pinched his stomach's other side.
"You don't have any recollection of the trio?" Reanne diverted the topic.
Jin held his face with his hand, shaking his body left to right as a sign of thinking... maybe harder than usual. What a weird guy.
"Honestly we had a lot of people who disliked us, of course..." Jin replied. "But... I don't think I... remember the trio..."
"It's because you have been keeping the peace here, Jin. So we actually didn't really have that need to console any sides," Mamoru added and explained while eating his bread casually. "This guy here had been making rounds around the kingdom and solving problems with his... hmmm... I don't know what to say..."
"Friendliness and good manner?" Reanne tried to fill the space.
"His friendliness and good manner, exactly," Mamoru nodded. "Well, he's always like that and somehow no matter how high the fire is, consistent water pouring on the fire, it will get extinguished someday. That's how he kept the peace in this kingdom."
"I'm not always like that, brother..." Jin responded. "Well... it all depends on the situation."
"Oh really? That's new to me," Mamoru acted surprised. "So, what changed you? Or should I say... who changed you?"
"I never changed! I said that it depends on the situation!" Jin sighed.
Yeah, sure. I and Reanne witnessed how Jin claimed himself as Olivier's fiance. Also, we all knew who shouted like an ambulance siren when Mawar hugged him. Sure, sure. I bet even a peaceful person like him somehow hit his patience limit.
And for this dumb prince, Olivier was his limit.
"But... there's a thing that bugging me..." Jin patted the table softly with his fork's other end.
"What?" I responded nonchalantly.
"It's me... that we are talking about..." Jin attempted to make a justification. "It's me..."
"Why with that?" Yummi responded with her soft voice.
"Judging from Olivier's action, I bet that guy will be there again and just to meet her..." Jin covered his face. "That guy would think that Oliver hates him so he would try to talk to her just to end a misunderstanding over..."
I and Reanne looked at each other. Telephatically speaking: that guy? Is he what we think he is? Reanne shrugged in response. She didn't want to think about something that had not happened just yet. It was a possibility that it wouldn't happen. Well anyway, a good point. I should learn a thing or two from Reanne.
I was glad that I didn't continue because Olivier was coming in the moment we ended the conversation. She didn't talk a thing nor engage in any conversation. The food on the table was her first goal. As I saw her eating, I could see that her nose moved really fast again, I didn't know why.
Maybe she had an allergy reaction.
After school on the next day, we, the Pummel gang, took our sweet time observing the market before working. Then, a sudden thought filled in. I wondered if that guy was there.
"Good day, Mr. Vengiel. Is the girl with black hair working now?"
We came at the right time and Jin was right. Young Jin was totally going to talk to Olivier... and the worst part was... Olivier was still annoyed with her cow's hurt.
After work, we had a glimpse of the real Jin meeting Olivier in the hallway. He tried to say hello to her but instead, he only got Olivier's cold response.
"Hello, Oliv..."
"You are freaking annoying."
Jin was stunned and died standing up over the mistake he didn't make.
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