Home for the Holidays(Ash)

[Ashley Shaw]

Ash took the fork with a smiled, nodding at what she had said. Sure, it was normal enough. If it was Ant giving him a tour, Ash would have been carried round the house, bridal style. Hell, he wouldn’t stand for it! But then again, it was impossible to break out of Ant’s grip, it was like a vice. Must be a feline thing. Sometimes he wondered if god accidentally made him a guy, and was actually planning on him to be a very scandalous girl. Well, either way, Ant was Ant and he was always going to think of a heterosexual partnership as grotesque. Ashley wasn’t to keen of sleeping with a guy anytime soon, even if Ant was slightly appealing -yes, he could judge him from a girls perspective. Some girls loved the mysterious emo guy, they found them irresistible sometimes. Sometimes girls hated them. Either way Ash wasn’t to hell bent of looking at things from a gay/girl point of view. Getting back to reality, Ash started -with a little effort- to eat the Bento May had prepared. He didn’t want to eat it at first, it was just to damn cute, and being around May for a while generally makes you a sucker for cute things in turn.

Ash got up from the sofa, following May into the kitchen, playing Ennie-Meanie-Minnie-Moe with the food sculpture because he didn’t know what part to eat next- all of it was so cute and he’d feel bad. But, eventually the taste got the better of him. Plus he hadn’t had anything to eat in the past ten hours, only having a sandwich before that. His stomach was beginning to rumble a little, and he was getting a sickly feeling like he usually did when he’d gone a little to long without anything to eat. Ash eventually didn’t care what he ate first because he was so hungry, and ate the first thing his fork came across. He swallowed a mouthful before shaking his head. Ant, Ant, Ant. He would be useless living alone. He followed her into the broken bathroom or laundrette as it seemed. He was surprised to see a little -or rather large- cat bound up toward them. May scoped the furry thing into her arms, and announced his name as ‘Boo’. Ash couldn’t help but think of ‘Monsters Inc’ whenever he heard that name. He stroked the cat a few times before May put Boo down. She lead him back upstairs and showed him the bathroom. Yeah, was this the room he walked in on just a few minutes ago? Yeah. He almost caught May going into the shower. Jeez he wouldn’t do that again. She pointed out the off limit room -how strange- and Ant’s room. She then proceeded to open her door and struck a pose. Ash found it only appropriate to clap in a very harmless and very joking manor. Of course it was quite hard to clap with a bowl in one hand a a fork in the other. Her room was organised well, clean, tidy, and completely different to his old room. He liked it a lot.

“It is a lovely room,” he said to her, stepping in and looking around. It was light, pale, but the teddies gave it a splash of colour. “Would you mind if I stayed in your room tonight? I don’t want Ant molesting me in the night!”
Ashley chuckled a little, finishing off the bento before butting it down on a drawer, stepping up to the smaller bed. She would probably stay in the bigger one, knowing May. He Didn’t really know why there was a spare bedroom. May’s friends perhaps? Sleep over’s weren’t that rare these days. Or maybe it was for another reason, but right now, all he hoped was that May spared him an awkward night with Ant

[Mayu Yoshiko]

Mayu froze, tapping her lip thoughtfully. Ash, staying in her room? Ant approved, he had to otherwise Ash wouldn't ask. Right? Wait hold on her was going near the smaller bed. "Please don't mess with that, Ant's had it there ever since he arrived. He's been praying his little sister will become a meta. So that bed is for her... No one sleeps on it." She gently moved Ash away so he wouldn't sit on it. May had spent awhile just cleaning it last time someone slept there: Ant insisted on perfection for it. "If you sleep in here it'd probably be on my bed, it's big enough. You get on side I get the other. Me and Ant do it all the time."

She smiled and sat down on her own bed, stretching over to grab a tiny digital camera. Of course it had nothing on Ant's stuff but it took pictures. So it worked. May grinned evilly and snapped a picture of Ash while he looked all innocent and not trying to seem like a badass.He might not be aware but when Ash posed for a picture, he always seemed to be cranky or something. "What do you want to do...?

[Ashley Shaw]

Ashley was about to test the comfort of the bed, that was if May hadn’t moved him away. He looked a little disappointed. Then, off course, May revealed who the bed was for. So Ant had a little sister, hu? Ash smiled. What was it like to be the elder brother? He’d only ever known the position of punch-bag baby brother. It hadn’t been very fun, and sheesh did the older ones annoy the living crap out of you. Ashley didn’t really want to think about that, he had no reason to. He could only wonder what kind of relationship Ant had with his biological little sister. He wondered if she ever would be a meta. If she did and moved here, would that mean he’d have to find somewhere else to sleep? Ash didn’t approve of three people sleeping in a room. It was uncomfortable, especially since he didn’t know Ant’s little sister. He’d probably have to move onto the sofa or -he hoped not- into Ant’s room. He was boisterous and homosexual. Those two didn’t go well when you happened to be a younger guy and the homosexual one liked the idea of a toy boy.

Ashley froze. Sleep in her bed? Oh Christ she did not just say that, right? They were friends, sure. But he would feel awkward, especially after what Ant made him promise. He’d not be to happy about sleeping in the same bed as a girl he was supposed to ask out he next day. What on Earth would May think of him then? The possibilities were endless, and yet most of them were just plain wrong. If he didn’t have a nightmare or talk in his sleep he was fine, he also had to stay dead still, because if he so much as tapped May, he’d probably never go to sleep that night, filled to the brim with awkwardness. Either way, he tossed and turned a lot in the night, and found it hard to get comfortable. And what about the duvet? One of them was bound to pull it so that the other was left with only the air as a blanket. He probably wouldn’t mind, the duvet in his dorm was literally like air, but if he had a nightmare and started sweating, it would be a bugger in the morning. And he had nightmares a lot of the time. He had no idea what about, he would only remember being scared shitless, almost on the verge of tears. He also found himself on the floor when he woke from a nightmare, because the dream had been so vivid that his body had gone with it. He’d been remembering more and more of the dreams now, and wasn’t really one to share them.

He relaxed just as her noticed May take a picture, he looked a little shocked afterwards, and placed his hands on his hips.
“You could have warned me first, May!” he said with a smile. Why’d she not warned him? He probably look like a rabbit in headlights, or maybe even a cat if he was lucky. If he looked like road kill then he’d delete the photo faster that you can say Jack and Jill. That was when she asked what he’d like to do? Crap. He had no idea. He’d gotten acquainted with the place, and he’d pack his clothes away latter. What would he do about Rossi though? Sure it was one of his most prized possessions, but he wouldn’t keep it stuffed inside the suitcase. He had also just remembered; he’d put on his locket today. He had no idea why, it wasn’t really a nice thing for him to see. It was cold against his skin even if he had been wearing since he’d left the dorms.

Ashley shrugged, “what is there to do, maybe we could pick out a random movie or set up a prank for when Ant comes home, or, perhaps you could tell me some of the household rules? I don’t seem to know any.”
Ashley smiled. The only rule he knew was that he wasn’t allowed to catch May undressed. Yeah sure that had been an accident, but he felt a little embarrassed still.