Siblings Resort: Chapter 7 - Chaos and Peace

"...I really wasn't thinking right last night. I missed a chance to sleep with Master Leon..." It was the morning after Master Leon arrived, and I was on my way to wake him up. Now that my embarrassment subsided, I couldn't help but fault myself for the missed opportunity last night. After so long apart, I could've maybe made him more aware of me as a girl if I played my cards right...

"Chirp-chirp!" Two birds flew together as I walked through the trail to the majestic tree in the middle of the property, further emphasizing my loneliness and jealousy.

"I might've even been able to confess to him... Such a shame..." I kept on walking along the path, eventually reaching the giant tree in the middle of the garden, and made my way to the entrance of the cave made by the trunks. There was a net full of mulch on the side of a brown hatch door. The fact that the door was not covered was proof that someone was currently down there. 

"Greeek..." The metal hatch door opened when I pressed a button that had its cover flipped over. I could see some lights at the bottom which further supported the theory of someone being down there.

"...Maybe it's not too late? I can probably confess to him right now... And he should be alone now..." My cheeks became red at the thought, and my heart started beating fast again, but I pushed all embarrassing thoughts aside and made my way down.

"Zzz..." I heard the breathing of someone sleeping nearby. The bunker that me and Master Leon made into our secret base is by no means small. The hatch entrance is by a small kitchen, and there's a passageway for the living room, sleeping quarters, restrooms, and an alternative exit that leads to a secret spot outside the property. Master Leon's father was the one who renovated the place for us and supported us to make this into our secret base. Said something about hidden bases being necessary to create opportunities for people to connect or something.

"Master Leon, are you still sleeping" I said but not so loud. I wanted to take the opportunity to see if he somehow changed the way he slept after a few months. That's what I told myself, but really, I wanted to see his innocent sleeping face.

"Zzz..." I entered the sleeping quarters and found him sleeping in the middle of two futons while covered up by a blanket. He seemed to be hugging something that I couldn't see because it was covered by the blanket.

"Master Leon, are you hugging a pillow? These two futons, did you maybe set them up in hopes I would come back to sleep with you?" I said this to no one in particular, but couldn't help but get into a teasing mood after the idea came to my head.

"Zzz..." I wasn't loud, so he kept on sleeping peacefully while still hugging what was underneath the blanket. He looked so at peace and so adorable... I couldn't help it. Without thinking, I let my flats slide off my stockings and feet as I crept onto the bed and crawled to his back underneath the blanket.

"Hey, Master Leon..." I whispered to his ear, "It's me, your loyal servant Alicia... Were you by chance waiting for me all night Master Leon?"

"Hmm...." He responded with some ununderstandable mumbles, but he let go of whatever he was hugging and turned his body to me.

"Huh...?! M-Master Leon...?!" I felt his hand circle around my back and held me in a gentle embrace. I felt steam practically go out from my ears, and started to blush uncontrollably. I may have been in a teasing mood, but I wasn't ready to be the one teased!

"...Alicia..." Master Leon mumbled while still sleeping, "Don't go... Stay with me... Please..." 

"Master Leon..." I saw a pained expression on his face. I was still blushing, but I managed to get a grip enough to understand he was somehow relieving his trauma. The loneliness he experienced for the past months... "Don't worry," I whispered as I gently patted his messy brown hair, "For as long as you allow me to, I won't leave your side..."

"...Alicia... Thank you..." I didn't really know if he was still asleep or semi-conscious, but it seemed my words calmed him somehow. While fighting off my embarrassed feelings, I let my face go to his chest as we did before he left, and I felt myself embraced by him even tighter. This was true happiness right here.

"Master Leon, I love you so much..." I let those words out without thinking, and I felt my consciousness about to drift off.

"...Love...? So Miss Alicia is in love with Big Brother?"

"..."

"Is that why you always avoided me...?"

"...!!!" I opened my eyes and saw someone looking down on me curiously while I was still in Master Leon's arms. Her brown hair and wrinkled magenta dress... She didn't have her giant red bow on, but I knew who this girl was without a second thought. "M-M-Miss Mylene...?" I couldn't move, time seemed to have stopped, and my feelings and thoughts were in turmoil inside me because of this unexpected presence in Master's Leon bed.

"...Miss Alicia, your face is really red right now... I never seen so much emotion in your face before..."

"M-M-M-"  I couldn't stop stuttering as I got out of Master Leon's embrace and sat up while slowly backing away. "Miss Mylene," I said finally off the bed while still a wreck and stuttering, "w-what are you doing in Master Leon's b-bed?"

"Huh? Well, I mean..." She started to get flustered, and her cheeks blushed a little for some reason, "I mean, last night... Big brother, I asked, and well, he said it was fine, so we, together, slept together?" Her response made time and the environment around me turned stone cold still for a few seconds, and the emotions drained from my face and thoughts.

"Together," I said in an emotionless way while I looked down stoically, "You two slept together last night?"

"H-Huh? Um... yes..." She said not noticing the change in me because she seemed happily flustered from her own emotions. "It was really comfortable... I felt really safe and warm with Big Brother..." All of a sudden, my emotions came out at once, and I grabbed the pillow underneath Master Leon's head and then I smacked it on his face with all my strength before running away to the kitchen with just my white stockings on my feet.

"MASTER LEON, YOU IDIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTT!!!!" I screamed as I climbed up the ladder to the hatch I accidentally left open.

*****

"Huh?! What's going on?!" I felt something soft hit me on my face with a ton of force and I immediately shot up in a daze. What I saw was just my little sister next to me on the bed as she looked over in the direction of the hatch. Did someone come in? I thought I heard someone scream...

"I never seen her like that before..." Mylene said softly.

"Who, was someone here, Mylene?"

"Huh? Oh wait, that's right! Are you alright Big Brothe-woah!" My little sister seemed to have been trying to ask if I was alright, but she placed her hand that was supporting her on top of mine. The unexpected sensation caused her to unconsciously jerk her hand away but as a result, she lost her balance.

"Woah there," I said as I caught her with my hands. "It seems something happened as I was sleeping. Is everything alright?" 

"Yeah, everything is fine Big Brother. It just seems like Miss Alicia was so surprised to see us sleeping together that she ran away" she said chuckling strangely as she pulled away.

"Alicia? Really?" I turned towards the direction of the kitchen and noticed that Alicia's flats were on the floor in a messy fashion as if it was left behind by accident. "I see..." I get up and put on and tie my shoes as I pick her flats up. "I should probably go check up on her and return these, but..." I look at Mylene, remembering last night's events, "are you going to be okay?" She stiffened at my question and got out of bed before putting her bare feet in the purple flats that were decorated with a ribbon."

"I... don't want to go back there, Big Brother. At least not alone, so please..." she said with a scared face. I didn't like the way she was looking, so I got near and gently rubbed her head with my hand.

"So you'll need me to come with you, right?" She gave me a nervous nod to this question, and in response, I gently grabbed her hand and tried gently pulling her to the kitchen. "Shall we go, then?" Upon understanding my response, she nodded more happily and smiled.

"Thank you Big Brother."

*****

"You came back...?" Mylene stormed off after I said her giggle was cute, but for some reason, she came back? I was currently still inside the tree's trunk cave, and I was just finishing pulling a net that contained mulch that had a brown hatch door underneath that was previously hidden by it. Mylene's eyes were looking down at her purple flats embarrassed for some reason, so I don't think she noticed it yet...

"I..." she started as I got back up and got near her, covering her view slightly. "I don't want to go back there... It's a prison, and I'm scared that I won't come out of there again if I go to sleep there..."

"So you want to sleep with me? Is that what you're asking...?" She looked up, a little flustered.

"I know this is bold of me, but I've been very lonely and get nightmares when sleeping alone. I don't want to have those anymore, and you said that you would do anything for me, right? So I thought... maybe..." She blushed and looked back down from embarrassment.

"Sleeping together, huh..." I said while thinking. Sleeping with someone was nothing new. I used to sleep with Alicia a lot, but that was because she was someone I had known for my entire life. And it's not like I don't understand Mylene, for the past months, I have also gotten nightmares as I slept alone in places I didn't want to be.

"Um, I..." Mylene seemed to be hesitant about following through with what she suggested, so I knew I had to make up my mind quickly. Her embarrassment was going to make the decision for her, and that would be a failure on my part as an older brother because asking that took courage.

"Stand back, Mylene. I'll open the hatch door so we can sleep together in the secret base." My positive response made her give an astonished reaction, but then curiosity overruled it.

"Secret base?" It was then she saw me flip off a protection cover next to the hatch door revealing a red button. As Mylene was surprised to see the hatchet door itself, I pressed the button which caused the hatchet itself to open automatically. "It opened by itself? I never knew we such a thing here..."

"Well," I stated getting ready to go down the ladder, "Everyone calls it a secret base, but everyone who works here knows about it. It's just that no one uses it, but me and... someone else?" I hesitated to tell about Alicia's involvement in it without her permission. "Anyway, wait until I turn on the lights, and then come down, alright?" I went down and turned on the lights, prompting Mylene to come down. She was a little shaky while coming down, but I made sure she saw me nearby to give her more confidence. Still... 

"You're getting red? Why?"

"Um, no, it's nothing. I just remember a rule I forgot about that was established when coming here..."

"A rule, what do you mean, Big Brother?" she asked innocently finally getting down.

"I'm sorry, I can't say. It's not important, though, so everything is fine."

"I guess that's fine..." She looked at me curiously with those innocent eyes. Yep, I do think pink suits an innocent girl like her, as compared to the purple Alicia wore the day the rule got established...

"Anyway," I said as I pressed a button near the light switch to automatically close the hatch door. "let me give you the tour." I showed her the kitchen, the restroom, the living room, and the sleeping quarters. I also offered to see what was at the end of the hallway that led to the alternate exit, but she said it sounded scary. I locked that entrance to put her at ease. Eventually though, after getting distracted by playing some card games with me, she gave a yawn and I knew bedtime was near. I led her to the sleeping quarters and showed her a futon near mine that would be her place to sleep for the night.

"Um..." 

"Is everything alright, Mylene?" She grabbed the helm of her dress and flushed a little.

"I forgot my pajamas..."

"Oh, I see..." The pajamas here, as long as it was as it was before I left, should be mine and Alicia's only. I didn't feel comfortable using Alicia's clothes, but to use mine would be weird... "Do you want me to go get some clothes from your room?"

"Um, no! I'm actually okay sleeping in this dress. It's soft and I slept in it before..." At first, she seemed to have panicked, but then she trailed off for some reason, and I sensed her eyes become a little lifeless. To distract her, I did what I did to distract Alicia the day she got angry at me for seeing something purple. I quickly picked her up in a princess carry. "Huh? Ah, w-what are y-you doing?!"

"You seemed to be going to a dark place, so I wanted to surprise you enough to forget whatever it was you were thinking."

"Y-you didn't have to do it this way! It's embarrassing!"

"Mylene, you're encouraging me to do more with how cute your blushing face is."

"!!!" She then hid her face in my chest as she manipulated my shirt to hide her face. It seems she getting comfortable with me throughout the card games we played together...

"Um, Mylene," I said as I sat down on her futon. You can crawl off now if you want. We're on your bed now, so you can escape if you want..."

"No..."

"No...?" She looked at me with her flushed face, and I sensed a little anger. "You will sleep with me tonight as an apology for your misdeeds, or else."

"Um, Mylene, I don't mind I guess? But the futon is too small, you know..."

"Don't care!" ...I guess even little sisters are girls who are complicated to understand

*****

I wanted to embarrass Big Brother by making him sleep with me, so I forced him to join the two futons together and made him sleep in the middle as I clung to him from his front. But...

"You fell asleep even with me cliquing to you...?" I felt defeated. I even guilted him to sleep in his regular clothes because I was doing the same with mine to make the situation uncomfortable for him, but it didn't affect him at all...

"Zzz...."

"Honestly, Big Brother..." He was a strange person, but for some reason, he was someone I was just comfortable with despite knowing for such a small amount of time. I'm even clinging to him without reservations. Was that because of how lonely I was before that I was desperate for affection..?

"Zzz..." I looked at his peaceful sleeping face, and I felt all the tension I built throughout the last few years go away. I didn't understand how, and I'm still feeling something weird whenever I see him... Just what is this...

"Big Brother, you're so weird..." But maybe I'm more weird because I'm clinging to him more, and feel so at peace. He then slowly hugged me back and embraced me, and I felt my cheeks get warmer, and my gaze was mesmerized by his peaceful demeanor. I held his shirt tighter, as my conscience slowly drifted away...

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