Who asked the other out first ?? Do the others know about you two ?? If yes, how did they found out and how did they react ??? -curious anon đ
Osomatsu: Ok, as we already explained before here. That was our first date, one that Choromatsu didn´t even know we were having. *laughs*
Long story ahead. You´ve been warned *laughs*
Choromatsu had come home irradiating the same gloomy aura for the tenthtime, we didn´t even were safe on the weekends when he turned into a zombie,barely eating, drinking⌠breathing. He spent the whole day just laying around,sighing and feeling pathetic about himself.
The thing with Choromatsu is that, despite his own wishes and efforts,he is the less stoic person in the world. If he´s sad, he either cries orpunishes everyone by killing the good mood.
So, yeah, Choromatsu had a severe depression. The reason? He had beenrejected for the 20th time. That´ll kill anyoneâs spirit. Well,except for me. I had confessed about 50 or 60 times by that day, and rejectedof course. I didn´t delve too much into it, most of the times the words justslipped my mouth before I could notice, and always in the most inappropriateplaces, so it was an expected result.
Now, everyone in the house were getting tired of Choromatsu´s lack ofspirit. He was acting like he was the only one in the world that ever gotrejected. You know? We sextuplets knew that feeling pretty well.
In any case, ok, we could granted some merit and cut some slack to him.He was the one who used to fly higher with his expectations, having as result:his hard falls. Apart from Karamatsu, of course, but that idiot just doesn´tknow how to fall, he keeps rising himself up higher. We will pray the dayKaramatsu falls, it´ll start the life on Earth again or something.
Anyway, everyone in the house left to eat dinner outside, I think theywent for ramen that day or something, Choromatsu didn´t go, he wanted to drownin self-loath and die alone at home. I told my family I was going to stay withhim and try to cheer him up. We used to buy these popsicles that comes with twosticks, split it and eat one each while talking about stuff. We were on 11thgrade and we haven´t done that since we were in 8th grade, I thoughtthat, maybe, using our former ways of talking to each other would help thattime too.
When I came back I went directly to our bedroom, I knew he would bethere. I wasn´t mistaken. Choromatsu was laying down like a dead body on the couch;half of his limbs were hanging from a side.
I took a deep breath, ready to face him.
âHey little brother, I brought you something.â Opening the popsicleâsbag and dividing it, I sit next to him on the floor.
âAh⌠Osomatsu, I didn´t hear youâŚâ
Grabbing his part of the treat, he thanked me, not without gifting methe most pathetic and depressed sigh one could ever hear after joining me onthe floor.
âOook, I think we should talk.â I said trying to sound determined.
âAbout?â Choromatsu was looking at me as if life itself had abandonedhim in the middle of a street under the rain.
âDid you just seriously ask that? Buddy your mood sucks.â
I admit it, it wasn´t my best attitude.
âOh⌠I´m sorry.â Impressively, Choromatsu didn´t answer back, hesincerely apologized⌠and it was scary.
âEr⌠ok, umm Choro? I know it could be hard on you and everything, butdon´t you think it´s time to try and move on? Did you like this girl thatmuch?â
âIt´s not⌠the girl⌠it´s not about this particular time. I´m justwondering if there´s something wrong with me, it doesn´t matter how much I try.The girls just don´t like meâŚâ
That was a valid feeling; I think we all asked in some point if we hadsome type of disease. The girls simply didn´t want to date any of us six.
âWell Choromatsu, I know it could hurt and everything but, you can´tjust give up on life like that.â
I actually didn´t know what to say or how to cheer him up with thatfeeling. My plan was simple, listen to his pain and try to hate this girltogether with him so he could feel better at the end. This deep contemplationof his life, I wasn´t ready for that.
âYes, yes I can. I just don´t have any hope towards anything anymore.â
âUmm⌠this may sound stupid but, every time a girl turns me down I triedto refugee myself in side crushes. Like I know that finding someone new to likewill help me to take my mind away from this person.â
âWhy? You can´t say something won´t work if you haven´t tried it.â
âBecause she was my `side crush´, supposedly this will help me forgetthe other person.â He was eating the popsicle as if he has a vendetta towardsit.
Well, at least he was releasing tension.
âOh wait, did you just said that was your `side crush´? So this wasn´tthat serious right? Hey, tell me, who´s your big crush, do I know her?â
I was honestly trying to just make some talk, to see if Choromatsu wouldjust forget about the other matter.
âI don´t think I want to talk about this right now.â
âEh? Why not? C´mon, tell me, tell your Onii-chan who this person isâŚwait, unless is that cat idol you´re liking recently, then I´ll kick your ass.â
âNo! of course not, I mean, I do love her butâŚâ
Choromatsu started talking about the artist as if I really cared,honestly, most of the time he´s talking about that idol I don´t pay attention,I´m actually more interested in this `big, big crush´ of him.
âYeah, ok, good for you.â Not sure if I interrupted him to be honest.âNow, Onii-chan wants a name, give me this person´s name and we can go andstalk her together.â
âHuh!!?? Are you insane!? You don´t say `stalk´ somebody just like thatâHe was making a fuss out of nothing, but it was ok, he needed to relax.
âThen just give me a name, I want to know, c´mon, tell me who this bigcrush is.â
âEh, I don´t know if my heart is ready to share this information rightnow, a second heartache would be too much, I just went through a harâŚâ Openinghis eyes wide he went silent, shutting his mouth with his hands.
âHuh? Wait, what? What does giving me a name had to do with a heartache?⌠⌠⌠⌠Choro?â
The mood went from awkward sibling talk, to just awkward.
âI⌠because⌠is someone you know, andâŚâ
Choromatsu doesn´t know how to lie.
âThen why would it be bad for your heart to tell me? It wouldn´t be thefirst time we like the same girl so that´s not it.â
Blushing aggressively, he froze in deadly silence, avoiding my sight withevery molecule of his body. I then fell into realization of what he wasimplying⌠or at least, what I wanted to believe he was trying to say.
âChoromatsu? Hey c´mon say something, don´t make me fuel my hopes heremaking me think weird things.â
I didn´t realize either what I was saying until the words were alreadyspoken.
âOsomatsu-niisan⌠fueling hopes?â he whispered with a dreamy tone in hisvoice, as if a light had appeared at the end of his dark tunnel. âAre youtalking about what I think you´re talking?â
âIf what I´m talking is the same that what you were talking then yes.â
âSo⌠is it ok for me to think we are thinking the same?â
âWellâŚâ I stuttered. âIf what you´re thinking is the same thing that I´mthinking, then, yes?â
âAgh, you´re just repeating things! Just tell me, what you said, it meantthat you´re on the same page in this than me?â
âI know I´m on a page, and I think you´re on that page too, but it´ll betoo risky to assume it´s true if it isn´t.â
âWell, yeah, then it´s the same topic right? It´ll also be a riskyconfession on my side if I accept what you´re thinking is the same as what I´m thinking.â
We stared into each other´s eyes. More confused than ever.
âI don´t know what we´re talking anymore, or if we´re actuallyunderstanding each other right now.â I said, betrayed by a sudden blushing.
âWe´ve been on the same page for years, always knowing what the other isthinking without words⌠why would this time be different?â clenching his handsChoromatsu was starting to blush too.
âBecause it´s scary to jump from that cliff and fall into an inevitabledeath.â
âI⌠don´t know whatâŚâ
I knew Choromatsu wouldn´t move. And as how things were, I was tooscared to do any type of movement, but I´m not like that. It was all ornothing. Before he could make another sound, I got closer.
And closer, until our lips finally met.
We broke the kiss, feeling the burning in our body, the adrenaline ofsharing something so intimate. But mostly, the happiness of having the samefeeling.
âSo we were on the same page.âHe said locking his yes with mines, sheepishly smiling.
âYes. Once more, we were.â Brushing the underside of my nose with myindex, we kissed a couple of times more.
Osomatsu: And yes, that was our very first kiss.
