Offworld Wars
01 : The Beginning
By Lady Halcyon
As I was helping Sai prepare breakfast the next morning, I thought about how to thank Rae for inviting me over for the night. I wondered about asking her and her friends to come for lunch tomorrow.
"You do like these girls, don't you?" asked Sai, when I realized that I had been musing aloud. "I really don't think you want to scare them by asking them to come over."
"You have a point," I admitted, remembering that Kento was a bottomless pit and, more often than not, one or more of them would act like a little kid. "There's got to be some way to have them over and not scare them off."
"Tell everyone to be on their best behavior. Invite Yuli over and they'll really behave," Sai suggested as we put everything in the oven to keep it warm. It would be another thirty to forty minutes before the rest of the guys got up. They never got up before eight o'clock.
"That just might work. Thanks, Sai!" I called as I ran to my room to make a few calls. About half an hour later, I came back down. I walked to the dining room and announced, "Guys, tomorrow afternoon, my friends are coming over for lunch. Yuli is coming too."
"You're nuts!" exclaimed Ryo. "Do you want them to be scared off by us?"
"That's why Yuli's coming, Ryo," I explained patiently. Mia sat there watching us, and I could see she was enjoying it. "You guys behave better when he's over."
"She has a point, fellas," Sage said.
"Thank you, Sage," I said. "Since we're going to have company tomorrow, we will spend today cleaning this place. That includes your rooms, guys." They groaned as I continued, "I expect you to pick up your junk and put it away neatly, dust your shelves and dressers, and run the vacuum. After that, you can help me straighten up down here."
"Why us?" asked Kento. "Why do we have to help?"
"You guys do live here," I said with a little exasperation. "Do you deny that your stuff is all over this house?"
"No," they said in unison.
"Do you deny the fact that more often than not, one of you is the cause of the messes around here?" I asked. They said no.
"Well then, that's why you have to help clean up."
"Oh."
"We'll start after breakfast. First, like I said, you will clean your rooms; then we'll work on the living room, the dining room, and the kitchen. After that, we should do the backyard."
"All right, all right," they grumbled as they finished eating.
The rest of the day was spent cleaning. Several times I had to remind them to do what they were supposed to, but otherwise all went well. We even had time to do the backyard. Sai mowed the lawn, while Rowen and I weeded my garden and the others picked up the junk, sticks, and assorted balls that were lying around the yard. During dinner (we had ordered pizza-no one had enough energy to cook), we planned the menu. Sage said he would grill some burgers, and Sai and I had agreed to do the bulk of the food preparation, as well as make some veggie platters, salads, and dip. Rowan was forbidden to enter the kitchen, so he said that he'd go shopping for chips and drinks and whatever else we might need. Kento and Ryo said they'd make a dessert.
When I went to bed, I was exhausted, but I was excited too. Finally, the two groups of my friends would actually meet, and possibly become friends. As I fell asleep, I kept thinking that tomorrow would be a beautiful day. Unfortunately, those thoughts did not keep the spooky dream at bay, and, if anything, it was worse.
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