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The grey bubbling clouds were pouring the boys academy of Momosu Island, raindrops tapped on the window and wall restlessly, making an endless drilling noise and occasionally the door slammed and the drain rushed with water, the path outside the building were pooled and flooded to the end of shoes' height, shaking up the teens inside the meeting room to cuddle to themselves, the cold temperature shivering their skins.

"Mon Dieu! Can't we just end the meeting already?! Or do you want the Great Moi to freeze here?" Ciel shrieked barbarically, his arms rushed to hug his own body that was already wrapped in scarf and school blazer. His giant red ribbon tied his long golden hair to a high ponytail as usual, untouched from the rainwater from outside under his great care.

"Not quite the intention, but if you don't shut up, we will," Shintarou replied. His glasses shone in anticipation, although he himself trembled his legs from times to times and was complaining inside his head nonstop.

Ciel tched and turned his head away bitterly, face pulled back from just cursing the other off.

"The real surprising fact is that Shintarou actually comes to the meeting, I thought he will just skip due to the weather," Felix said unsatirely, a snot coming down his nose and he did not even bat an eye, not disgusted--- that duty was passed to Leon who put the tissue box on his table, always prepared to deal with his best friend's attitude, especially when he sat next to him.

"I have a sense of responsibility unlike you guys!" Shintarou tapped his laptop aggressively, the note app that he used for student council related stuff just contained a keyboard smash from the middle of the report's paragraph to the end. He then clicked the text and selected the sidetracked babbling to be deleted.

Albert who kept glancing outside the window was snapped back to reality due to the whispering shared between Alexis and Charles, the student council president seemed to be wondering what the purpose of this gathering was again. When nobody made a note or called him, the lost brunette yawned and rested his head on his table, bored and sleepy. "I might be daydreaming, but I think I remember Shintarou had skipped meeting once for funsie or am I wrong?" Albert spoke through his drowsiness--- he blinked and his own arms were his bedroom pillows, the dripping of the rain was just his odd noisy air conditioner, one that he could turn off if it got too cold.

"That happens in K48, we are not supposed to know that though," Charles replied simply, not even wiping the smile off his face to appear serious, his chair pushed far from his table and his laptop had been turned on to a game of Solitaire.

In short, literally nobody was paying attention to the student council meeting. 

Alexis glanced around the room, he gathered up his maximum height and his hands raised slightly, the members turned their heads at once, not even needing to hear his squeaky voice. "Since the weather is a bit nuisance today and we are not in the mood, I propose we cancel the meeting and go home already?" He suggested, gaining a look of approval from Gion who sat at one of his sides across Charles.

Ciel and Felix cheered the loudest, which the rain punished them by slamming the open door from another classroom again. The event left them shaking up.

When everyone else was cleaning up their desks and putting away their belonging, Leon peeked at the situation outside, his body had not left his chair yet. "At this point, it will be considered lucky if we can even go back to our hostel without encountering a flood---" Leon said, worried sprayed on his natural expressionless face.

Albert might be three desks away from the prince of German's, but he was the fastest to shut him up, his forehead sweated from just thinking about having to stay in the room any longer, mind already occupied with another concern he needed to check, bag swinging in his another hand as the German prince looked up to him with a question, which the British prince just waved it off and patted his friend's shoulder.

"Nothing... Just go to rest! You are sleepy, aren't you, Leon?" Albert stepped to the side of Leon's desk with a weary smile as he began packing his stuff too.

He frowned. "I am not?"

"Just say yes, Leon, there's no point in fighting with him," Ciel muttered while walking past them with their other friends, his expression used to Albert's shenanigans.

"But lying is wrong." Leon stood up to join them too.

What was said to irritate the British at first instead backfired on Ciel. "Well, now you are making me annoyed too." A great fire of rage was spawn around him.

"There's no point in fighting with him," Felix echoed back his words with a giant grin, pushing off his buttons even more, knowing well what he was doing.

"Can you not see the weather is already bad outside?! Do you want me to kick you off the window?" Ciel yelled out the rage at his short friend who just laughed, running out of the meeting room like a little kid.

"Hey! Cheer up! At least it is not thundering," Charles said with a smile, standing in the corridor with Alex, Felix hiding behind them with his obvious red hair poking out.

"Yeah, thank Jones," Albert commented, kicking the back of Ciel's legs to push him out of the doorway as the prince was blocking it.

"Ey! Is that necessary?!" The golden French yelled, then brushed off any dusts that had made onto his luxurious black trousers while glaring at the shameless culprit.

"Yeah, I have a place to be!" The British said even more stricter, he and Leon walked out of the room.

From afar, the commotion was being eavesdropped by nobody else but the Italian prince, his cold blue eyes watching them like a hawk, but more specifically on the only other brown-haired prince, Albert. His aide servant and bodyguard Livio closed the lights, fans, and the doors after them, his hand switched his master's bag from his busy hand to his empty one, carrying both of their luggage. He noticed this sudden interest Gion had grown these past few days and asked, "Is there anything interesting you see?" His smile curled up in his face as always, seeing it as his loner prince going out of his comfort zone to expand his friends list, their decisions to move in the academy got to the best one they ever had made.

"No... Just making a plan." Gion's voice was still quiet, it had been so after his countless plans failed to get a revenge on Alex and the princes, after that he had just been waiting in silence for more opportunities to arrive instead of seeking them himself, also enjoying the time and peace; Livio thought that was just him softening up to their new peers, but what did he as a low servant know?

"How about we go back to hostel then? We can warm up and I can make us an early dinner?" Livio looked behind him, Prince Shintarou, the another loner was also waiting for them by leaning to the corridor wall, his phone in his grip and EarPods worn.

"You two go ahead, I got somewhere else I need to go to." Prince Gion trailed away with no extra explanation, his hands shoved inside his pockets and his legs dragged him to the opposite direction, where Alex and his group had disappeared into, not even bothering to see the shock formed in Livio's expression.

The silver haired guy scratched his neck-long hair with the bag still in his hand. Welp. 

"Why? You are gonna follow him?" Prince Shintarou asked, startling him. His voice was flatly creepy when you did not expect it even in the afternoon.

"Yeah, it's kind of a part of my job as a bodyguard," Livio informed, his head titled to the Japanese prince and he wondered if he was judging him.

"Go ahead then. I don't care." Shintarou kicked off from the wall and walked, his eyes still focused on his screen, not making an eye contact with Livio.

The guy shook his head and followed the dude.

"It's really not what you think it is." The aide servant felt the need to explain himself. His long legs easily caught up to Shintarou but he still allowed the prince to walk ahead him, what he learnt from accommodating and serving Prince Gion.

"Really? Then why do you sound defensive?" Livio stared at him and he noticed Shintarou's left ear was not plugged with an EarPod so he could hear him speak.

Even so, he talked loudly as the other was deaf. "I really am not!"

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Gion wore his raincoat and opened up his umbrella, the raindrops from this morning and lunch travel still had not dried up from his dark coloured tool, him shaking it a bit to push them away and he stepped to the exit doors. He turned his head to his back to confirm if Livio was following from the inside of corridor, spotted nobody, not even another student or staff, then look ahead to his right and left the outside to the school ground and his black shoes walked out, the little weight they carried barely made an impact on the wet puddled ground, only little circle formed and splash to take notice of his presence as the strong smell of the rain accompanied him, the nostalgic sense with no source arising his spirit.

Or maybe there was. 

It reminded him of the old peaceful days of attempting to feed the stray cats and kittens in the streets, amongst the alleys and the park in his town, which always ended up with him going to meet and sit near Livio at the bench, the puddles of rains water on the manmade path and grassland. Livio smelt like rainwater, he reeked of home. His clothes wet or messy with Blackie's furs. Back then, Gion was too young and privileged; he did not understand that when Livio did not wear other clothes and removed the smell not because he was too lazy, but because he just could not. He just accepted Livio for who he was.

The Chemistry laboratory's light shone through the window and guided Gion to walk closer, unbothered by the calming rain as he took a sheltered path, the front doors near the whiteboard the teacher used to teach were wide open, welcoming him with their creaky and wooden chipped doors, pasted with notice papers and posters.

Gion needed to raise his pants above his ankles as the only path to the laboratory building was clogged up and flooded with the amount of food plastic and paper bags stored in the small drains, his legs skipping wide to make it across fast, thundering footsteps left a heavier impact, the rain chased and poured on his covered head for a brief moment. In the end, his black socks were still wet and victims, his head heavier.

He ignored the uncomfortableness and approached the bright Chemistry laboratory, rapping his knuckles on the door, no longer a watcher and now one of the guests to the house of stray cat and her kittens. Another human was already inside the place, standing with his back to the Italian prince as he peered-hypnotised into the wide box on the teacher's table, his face broke into a smile, and he waved at Gion to come inside, the room only lit at the area he was, the other space especially the back was pitch dark, the fan only spinning above the smiling brunette.

Rat, he kept making it here before me. But really, Gion was not complaining much, he rather had someone who loved cats as much as he did to check on the animals' safety than continuing their petty rivalry.

Prince Albert stepped aside to let the other prince join him looking into the box and made himself at home. A trail of water had been left from his own journey in the rain, his own raincoat that did not cover his head anymore was dripping. Gion himself also ignored his manner, something that he learnt to push aside when he entered the place for other purposes than to learn Chemistry and science, especially when they had gained permission from their teacher to use it to store the cat and kittens.

"How are they doing?" Gion's voice automatically lit up from his usual quietness upon seeing the felines were kicking and playing just fine inside the box. The mother cat sat outside and near the box cozily, blocked from his vision when he was still at the doorway but now visible, his hand itching to pat all of them already.

"They are alright! Seem like someone came to feed them already. It might be our science teacher," Albert explained joyfully, an empty adult cat treats and a kitten food plastic swayed in his hands, both expensive and well recommended in Momosu Island, something that they both knew because they had searched online and visit the pet stores multiple times.

"That's nice." Gion smiled, creeping his face closer to the kittens, two of their fur patterns similar to their mother's, with black and grey dots over their mostly white bodies. There were two other kittens as well, one was a full black at the far corner of the box deep in his dream, and another with greyish white fur and black face, ears and paws like a Siamese. All healthy and fed well.

Finally, after what felt like an entity of staring and longing, Gion's face backed away and he took a fresh air that was not contaminated from the kittens. Gion looked up to Albert who was patting the adult cat and asked, his voice was not as stern like in the meeting room, "So, for the two weeks holidays, you are sure the animal shelter owner had confirmed he would let them stay for the time being?" And thus, his interest to meet prince Albert recently was revealed, not a secret between them two at all. In fact, the British prince had given Prince Gion his phone number for that purpose alone (which Gion always had but never saw the purpose of needing to use it, but he was too soft-hearted to reject it when the other was too eager to share and even wrote it in his phone).

Albert slapped his foreheaad with a loud smack. "Ah yes, the good news! I forgot to tell you, Jolly--- But the cat shelter's owner contacted me last Saturday and told me he would take them! Sorry for forgetting about it!" The cat lifted her head when Albert stopped patting her to bow his head at Gion apologetically, watching them with an amusement and her tail swinging on the table softly.

Gion wanted to facepalm, half his worry these past days could have been cleared off so easily. What was the point of exchanging phone number if Albert just forgot anyways?! He slowly remembered why he detested the princes and Alexis so much, they were so unreliable! (Besides from the fact that Ciel stole his younger sister Gina which triggered his sister complex ehem ehem). 

He just sighed and brushed the other off, his braincells would be running if he batted another eye at the matter, but at least the issues regarding the cat and her kittens were resolved. He could breathe much calmer now.

"Please don't be mad. I was just so happy that I forgot and had a silent celebration about it," Albert explained himself more, trying to keep an eye contact with the prince who had grown tired of the guy's carelessness.

Celebration? Why so eager about this? It always attracted his attention how these princes could be so excited at the littlest news, how they were so shameless about it too. So, Prince Gion decided to just ask instead of admitting defeat into the silence, or in whatever state they were with the rain. On the bright side though, the tapping on the wall and roof had become less feral, as the world outside became less grey and blue, like the sun was coming out of the clouds anytime soon and painted the school in its sunlight again, Ciel and Felix making a bubbly remark about it. Porca Vacca, why are they inside my mind?! Gion rubbed the side of his forehead while squeezing his eyes as to throw them away, but Albert did not notice.

"Oh, nothing, I just celebrated by making my favourite meal and be laid back." Albert scratched the back of his head and grinned guilty, especially with the fact he had been using the weather as an excuse to not finish his reports while in reality he got a lot of free time and was just lazy.

But Gion was not thinking about that, he could not stop asking and be interested in other stuff. "Favourite meal?"

"Yep! Fish n chip!" Albert said proudly, his greyish purple eyes wide and innocent.

What does that sound like a cat's food? Gion wondered if he could feed them to the cat and her kittens. But then again, his closest person, Livio, loves mash potato like it was a serving from heaven, Gion could not really complain and judge other people much. Maybe he should be thinking about what his own favourite meal instead, that surely would not be anywhere close to pineapple on a pizza, a disgrace.

So he expressed his questions to Albert who was offended at first, his face grumpy that his prideful national food just got mocked like that, then he babbled about how cats could not eat fish n chip from its high salt and fat, that even fishes should be given in a moderation. All Elsa's meals had already been provided by the professional castle chef with fully healthy and nitrous food. Gion's eyes brightened up as they normally got when the English prince mentioned his pet cat, something that he was never allowed to raise and bring home. Albert had given him the honour of seeing pictures of the small creature, who was perfect as he imagined her to be.

That pretty much summed up their private interaction in the past two months, if Gion was curious enough, he asked a question, and another, and another; and Albert, the self-claimed gentleman he was, always replied with equal enthusiasm, never tired of the endless questions, but maybe that was only because his mind was half-distracted with the kittens already, their furs and paws so soft to look at. Although they barely interacted outside of their private encounters like they did now, there was no coming back after they spent countless hours shoulder-to-shoulder sitting at the Chemistry laboratory first table near the front doors peering into Gion's laptop to search information about cat birthing and birthplace with concentration. Shames and egos were simply old thick leathered books that were placed inside the bookshelves to be forgotten and collecting dust.

Their dynamic had already changed when they stumbled into caring the same pregnant cat hovering the science building, the mischievous cat seemed to know her ways, her tail swinging wildly as she brought them too to the same laboratory, making them crouched at the same time to pat and play with her. A plan perhaps to gather the best expensive cat food from two princes at once.

Without an awareness, soon enough, with nobody peering and being a busybody, Gion tousled Albert's hair, his conscience to stay cold and aloof did not even catch it, his Nonno's lesson to be heartless and cruel easily forgotten when he met another one like him, eyes softened from the kittens presented in front of him, just another thing he did to people he warmed up to, like what he did to Anubis when the little brother wanted his attention, and Albert--- the other guy who was used to affection, hugging, and patting did not even point out it too, letting the little gestures passed between them casually with no need to be dramatic and loud, the laboratory being their little homes for themselves and their small friends. And although Albert did not like science with it being his weakest subject, he found it to be very cozy, and another cat lover like Gion's presence made it more lively and happier place to be at.

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The sun sneaked past the torn-up clouds with a hint of snarkiness, beaming so powerful as it never disappeared to make fun of the princes below his vision for longing it for so long, the countless clothes waiting to be dried and citizens eager to pick up their house chores and went outside to finish grocery or exercise in the late afternoon.

One by one, the island owner's son and the four princes lifted their heads and came forward from the corridor of the Physics laboratory, just near the corner of the Chemistry's in the same building, their curiosity unmatched as they looked at each other in their raincoats and back to the bright-lit laboratory, the open doors never closed and slammed once in their speculation.

"Yay! It has stopped pouring!" Felix commented, his hand slipped his coat off from his body with no sweat, his two ahoges on his red hair escaped and be bouncy. The others followed suit by dropping their head coverage, fresh air freed from the damp environment flowed through their hair and ears, giving them the room to breathe and enjoy the moment, although the nostalgic smell remained.

"Don't you feel like this is recommending stalking people to the readers?" Ciel pointed out and untied his long golden hair from his red ribbon, the French pressed it into a squeeze and then placed it over his shoulder in front of his blazer, not a single strand of hair wet.

"Only if it is when stalking your own friends," Charles said, his back stretched from cowering too long to watch, he groaned slightly as Leon also stretched his numb body, with the exception was that he did not bother to hide anymore after five minutes and just stand from realising that no sane people would be out during the rain session and spotted them, Albert and Gion were also too busy in their own bubble world to notice. He just forgot to tell his friends midway their stalking.

Alex was the last to tear his eyes away, his pair of glasses refused to break the contact from the happy Albert who was chatting animatedly to Gion, who was also unusually smiling, a rare sight of the Italian prince, and that made the little him joyful too. Eventually, he did look away to his other friends cheerfully, "Since Albert is fine, we can go home now without any worries!" The four princes twinned his smile and gave him thumbs ups. They took their bags from the ground next to the wall that were saved from the tiny flood, then planned for their dinner and next activities.

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After the evening of orange sky rose up, the lingering smell of the rain broke out and welcomed the two boys to the outside world, the water still dripped from the rooftops to the drains below through the rain pipes as Albert and Gion looked out, their expression treating it like it was a brand-new place, somewhere they were unfamiliar with, their raincoats had been folded and put away, hanging from their arms. It was a humanity test for them to either close the light and leave the cat and her kittens in the dark or waste the electricity, in the end their emotional side got the best out of them, Albert's finger only touched the fan switch. They also could not close the doors, leaving it wide hanging in case the mother wanted to come out.

"Gee, I didn't realise we had been playing with the kitties for too long!" Albert chimed to the other and their track of footsteps stopped at the porch of the building as it was a command. The cold Italian prince stared at him for a while before he turned away, ready to pretend nothing had happened once again when Albert called after him. "Wait, don't go yet!" Gion's shoes halted a few inches from the puddles near the drain, where the only sheltered path was across it, his hands still shoved inside his pockets as he made his decision while appearing nonchalant, not wanting to look troubled beside the dumb brunette (as he was not a brunette too). The problem was that, it was covered with dirty litters, ones that came with the water flows. He sighed calmly and accepted Albert to be at his side. 

"What do you want?" He asked, although the mere movement of his eyebrows alone spoke. Albert thought for a long time as his courage was robbed by their alone times in the laboratory, like they were only capable of bonding inside and never outside, the books of shame being pulled and flipped open again, dust with their names and trace.

He ran his hand through his hair then changed midway to bow his head slightly again, less than before. "I just wanna address again that I am sorry about that, I don't mean to forget telling you--- so to make up for that, why don't I share my Elsa pictures with you during the school holidays?" Albert pulled up his phone and faced it to Gion, his screen brightened to a cat in his home screen wallpaper. "Would that be okay?" The gentleman lowered his phone from going numb when the other did not reply for a long time.

"..."

Albert's smile was going weary, embarrassment started pooling in his cheeks. "It---it's just that I notice you perk up every time I mention Elsa? So, I thought it might be alright if I share my old and new recording her?" He detailed, not wanting to sound stupid, but his clumsiness just made him appear more troublesome, regret rushing in from overthinking about how the other must be offended and labelled him as a self-centric person.

"Ok." Finally, Gion made a sound, his expression barely had any impact of changes, like the calm water of an untouched lake.

Albert almost tripped. "Just ok? What reaction is that?!" He questioned, placing both of his hands on his waist.

"I agree." --- Stonehearted Gion expanded.

"Add more excitement to it! I feel like I am talking to a brick wall!" Albert scolded, becoming bossy and glared at Gion. After getting out of the lab, their other selves were really brought out to the light, which was for the worse as that made them remembered why they loathed each other in the first place.

Gion frowned, backstepping away from the guy like he was crazy. Enough! He told himself. There was no need for the sheltered path anymore, it was not raining. He could easily walk using the other way and be freed from this guy's nuisance.

"Oh yeah, my cat also had kitties now since Elsa was pregnant that time," Albert mentioned out of nowhere, his memory muscles really needing a rework. Gion stopped on his path again, his head turned slowly at the other, his presence could not be rid of without a confirmation right on his stubborn face.

It took Albert a while to understand but he reassured the Italian prince with a hint of annoyance, "Fine, I would make sure to send you the pictures of the kitties too! But don't be too weird with them because last time I was home Elsa was protective of them," he said like Gion would travel to his house through the video and kidnapped his pets.

Gion perked up then disappeared without a second glance, not minding the other student council member another bat of eye.

Bonus:

"Livio, come here," Gion ordered as he sat with his legs crossed on his bedroom armchair, the balcony's curtains only half-opened to add to the fancy atmosphere of the golden and rich decorated room from wall to floor. His aide servant and bodyguard nearly just exited to fill more drink, the black tea inside the glass kettles had already been emptied by his master.

Livio rushed to his side happy to help, "Yes, Gion?"

Gion did not say anything, just showed him his phone screen with the badly filtered noise of the recording exploded in the background, an effect from not wearing an earphone from Gion's side, he watched obsessively for Livio's reaction while the guy just titled his head from the video being presented to him.

"Yes, that's Prince Albert's cat, what's with it?" Livio asked with an upmost interest, as he did not already know and play this scene for the umpteenth time since the start of the school holidays. It honestly had begun before that, Gion showed him after his dorm chores time in their hostel, but with the school's pregnant cat and the kittens, Prince Albert occasionally making in it the footage and the Italian prince's camera too, always smiling and grinning each time, holding the adult cat or the kitten gently. In the last two days before the break, Gion brought him and Shintarou to see the cat and kittens themselves, the last day before they had to take them to vet owner's place. Shintarou pretended he did not care, but followed up anymore, hiding the cat treat inside his pocket. 

Back to presence, "As adorable Elsa is, Gion... you got to stop showing me the cat videos," Livio pleaded, still carrying the tray of the dessert leftover and empty kettle. Despite being a big cat lover too and growing up with the stray animals in his childhood, there was only so many time his master could interrupt him during his house chores time to watch a very long video with no background music of Prince Albert's cat family history. Counting up to now; it must have been the 12th times already, and it was the second holiday. He must have seen Elsa's growing up from the small-palm kitten to the adult cat she was now already.

Gion turned the screen to face his quiet expression back, the video was still running because Albert did not know how to edit and cut a footage, or that he did not realise the idea of sending a 30+ minutes video of his fur babies was perplexing. Gion did not mind it though. "...No," he said sadly to Lion.

One of the Elsa's months old kittens reminded him of Anubis.

Bonus 2:

Albert cuddled up in his bedroom, his elegant flowers-pattern blanket covering up half of his face as his eyes locked on the phone, brightening the bridge on his nose and the greyish purple iris. After nine o'clock, the prince of England barely turned on his phone to interact with his friends anymore, wanting to keep a healthy and continous sleeping habit. But for the past few nights of the two weeks holiday, Albert could not doze off without checking on the status and update of the another brunette prince, one who lived in Italy.

Prince Gion had also returned his favour by sending his own journey in his neighbourhood— feeding and cleaning the street cats. His bodyguard, Livio, was always by his side and carrying the expensive foods and stuff to keep them alive. Occasionally, Gion would tear the treat plastic wrapper open and crouch to feed the cats himself, especially the little ones, the kitten's nose pressing onto his fingers as the Italian prince gazed it softly. And as Albert rewatched each one of the video— his eyes could not be torn away from the screen— with a sense of drowsiness from his soft mattress and his finger swiped the footage he put under the collection of 'Cats.', an unexplainable feeling of emptiness began craving into his chest like a holed barrel; he could not help but to think, Won't it be good if I am the one walking beside Gion on the pavement?

Won't it?

He blinked, and screamed in lowercase onto his hands, his phone was dropped out of his hand beside his pillow roughly. He rolled to the other side of the bed where the wall greeted him, hugging his body pillow. It was not even an embarrassment creeping up to his face, but a wonder; Is Gion really not that bad after all? Or am I going crazy?

He kidnapped you and your friends, Albert, remember.

But at the same time though, was he that bad?

There was no doubt some of his actions were straight up wrong and questionable, but was Gion himself a terrible person who had no redeeming qualities?

Well... people always said if you wanted to know someone's real self was to see how he treated animals around him, and to Albert, that was their relationships with their cats, and Gion passed that with a flying colour.

Oh man.

It might sound crazy, but he might have fallen in love with his previous captor.

Oh God.

That captor did be having some sorts of fashion style too. His haircut did be suiting his cold face nicely and his coat was always chosen neatly. Albert could not stop staring at his appearance too besides the cats.

...Was he checking him out?

Albert blushed. 

Bonus 3:

Gion checked on his phone mutliple times with the interest of seeing if the specific person had replied to him, although he never made the first move to begin chatting and texting the person directly, waiting for Albert to interact with him first just to reacted with emojis and left on seen. And if Albert did reply to his cat posts, he just stayed quiet and reread his texts without saying anything back.

As he looked back to their chatroom while late the afternoon beamed onto his house library from the open window, orange sunlight sparkling the carpeted floor and the furniture inside including the armchair he was sitting on, darkening everything else not in its sight; Gion wondered maybe if he should be coming out of his shell and engage with the English prince more, as he found the person to be quite cozy to chat with.

He typed on his screen, with no clear goal and plan in his mind, but to simply talk with the person he liked.

The End.