"Aw, so hot." mischievous Mario commented on M's temper throughout the day. M didn't like that joke so he gave his friend who made the statement a sharp look. "Oh, just chill, Bro. Don't be so hot," Mario immediately retorted, now raising both hands.
"That's enough. Mario, you're really annoying. You know? As for you, why are you so hot-headed, M?" Matthew reprimanded his friends from arguing.
"Nothing. I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed."
"Just woke up on the wrong side of the bed? And yet you're not in the mood most of the day?"
"What a vexer," M rebutted. He turned his back again and was ready to walk away to avoid the questions of his friends.
"Sorry," Aki couldn't help but say. She thought that she was to blame for M's temper if the reason for it was about how he woke up this morning. Because she tried to wake him up earlier.
The three young men looked at the girl's sudden speech. "I shouldn't have woken you up earlier."
"Tsk. Dumbbell," M said weakly.
"So, why are you avoiding each other? Just because you woke M up?"
"Hmm-hmmn." She nodded her head in response. "He might get even angrier if I nagged him, so I avoided him," she explained.
'You're really a dumbbell,' M commented in his mind.
"How about you, M? She woke you up early in the morning, so you're hot-headed the entire day?" Mario asked his friend.
"No," M replied briefly.
"Huh?" Matthew and Mario stopped walking because of M's unclear answer.
"I'm not angry," explained the young man.
"Then what?" / "You're not angry?" Matthew and Aki asked at the same time.
"You don't want to talk to me, I won't talk to you either. What should I tell you?" With his serious face, M frowned as he looked at Aki.
"That's it?!" Mario asked in disbelief. His eyes were round, he couldn't believe his friend's logic.
Matthew, on the other hand, tried not to laugh because of his friend. "How shallow!" he commented. Not able to suppress his laughs, he was struck by M's sharp gaze.
"So it's your fault, Aki. Why are you avoiding him?" Mario burst out laughing after realizing the shallowness of his friends.
"How could I not avoid him, he's mad at me!" Aki jumped on her defense.
"I'm not mad!"
"Why are you yelling if you're not?"
"You were the first to shout!"
"Why did you imitate me?!"
The two were facing each other and their voices were high as they seemed to have forgotten that there were other people around.
"Shsss…Stop shouting. My ears hurt," Matthew reprimanded his friends again.
"Because you walked out last night and you didn't even pay attention to me, so I thought you were mad!"
"And who the hell said that?!"
"Don't yell at me!"
"Don't yell at me either!"
'Tsk. Tsk. How childish,' thought Mario and Matthew. They wanted to run away from these two. It looked like they were now okay because they were talking to each other again. It's just that they were shouting.
"I was so excited about my first day of class, and then you're like that!"
"If you hadn't been so close to Mario, I wouldn't have ignored you earlier! What else should I do? Mario already did!"
"Ey! He's jealous," Matthew said, still laughing at his friends' behavior. Especially M. This was the first time that they saw him act like this.
M seemed embarrassed of what his friends thought about what he was doing. "I'm not jealous!" he flatly refused.
"Oh wait, man. I'm not talking about you. Don't be so defensive!" said Matt, who couldn't help but laugh.
'I'm the guardian of this ignorant angel here, so I'm worried. If she is neglected, her parents will get angry. I'm the one who'll be dead!' unspeakable litany of M. M's unspeakable litany. He looked around again. He was afraid that Aki's parents might be nearby.
* * * * *
M handed Aki some dirty ice cream as a peace offering like mortals usually do after a small fight.
"What is this?" Aki glanced at what was given to her for a moment before looking up at M.
Mario once again looked at her in disbelief.
"You don't even know what dirty ice cream is?!" he asked. While the quiet Matt seemed to be amazed at her innocence.
These four friends were currently in front of the school. They decided to wait for Mharc here while they helped M and Aki reconcile.
"Di-Dirty ice cream?! Are you going to poison me?!" There was slight annoyance in Aki's voice and sadness at the idea that someone she considered a friend could do something bad to her.
"Poison you? Why would I even poison you, anyway?!" A few minutes later, the two started yelling at each other again.
"Maybe she's allergic to dirty ice cream, M? Or to the flavor you chose?"
"No, she's a glutton for strawberries and chocolate. Eat this or else it will melt. Tsk." Matt was the first person he spoke to before turning to Aki.
The ice cream that M gave to Aki was pink and covered in chocolate. That's what he chose to buy because he knew how greedy Aki was for that flavor.