Unfortunately, the four council members didn't return which made Scaramouche angry as he closed the door of the office earlier. Tomorrow, he will nag them all day, say all they want that he was acting like a mother, he doesn't care.

'Should I go home now?' Scaramouche was seating on an empty bench, eating some convenience store food. His surroundings were all dark, it was already 8 pm. His mom will probably call him and ask him where he is right now, which he was waiting for because he doubts a bus will appear at such late night.

Is this the feeling of not having someone to fetch you?

Somehow, that thought appeared in his mind.

Scaramouche remembered some of his friends being fetched by their partners, some of them even ditch their work or were waiting since earlier just to pick their lovers at the university.

"Wow, I'm envious," Scaramouche muttered. His everyday life, it's always full of couples. Every one of his classmates had a partner, you can even count how many students in his class are single.

The sleepover in Lumine's house was probably full of couples too. Thinking about it made Scaramouche annoyed as he remembered what happened earlier.

Can't people live as single? Why do they need a partner? Now Scaramouche was feeling lonely because of them. And that he should find someone too.

While Scaramouche was eating, a car stopped in front of him. He didn't pay attention to it as it was probably the lover of someone in the school, picking them up.

Scaramouche looks at his phone vibrate and opens it. Revealing Childe, his neighbor, and friend who sent him a message.

Childe: Comrade, my boyfriend picked me up.

Scaramouche rolled his eyes.

Childe: I couldn't fetch you, so I disturbed someone

Scaramouche becomes curious. Who the heck is the ginger disturbed? He continued to scroll down and see the text that almost made him throw his phone out.

Childe: I disturbed Aether, you won't be angry with me right? I'm sorry xoxo 😭😭😭

All of the people to disturb, the one that was getting on Scaramouche's nerves is the one he decided to disturb?

"I'm going to kill this man."

Scaramouche mentally notes to choke Childe when he sees him tomorrow.

What's up with him? The ginger knows he hated Aether, yet dare to do this? If he can't pick him up, he could just walk or wait for a bus, though he was lazy.

Scaramouche let out a heavy sigh.

He is going to wait for Aether to fetch him up like some lover waiting for their partner to show up. Hah! Scaramouche can't even imagine Aether fetching him up, heck, and Scaramouche's pride will not allow him to be fetched by someone he hates the most.

He is someone who holds grudges after all.

Scaramouche rushingly ate the burger. He doesn't even have time to swallow it and continued to bite the bread, making his cheeks plump as he chewed them.

"Done eating?" A cold voice suddenly appeared.

"Huh?" Scaramouche let out a confused sound. He looks back and becomes speechless.

The one he was supposed to ditch...

The one who gets on his nerves...

The one who he never imagines fetching him up...

Was right in front of Scaramouche.

Wearing a color white long sleeve polo with a brown-plaided vest with it, and brown trousers. The two upper buttons of his white polo were opened, and his collarbone was exposed. The worse was his perfume which gives a calming and relaxing scent, it made Scaramouche hate him more.

"Didn't expect to see you here, Aether." He muttered, pretending to be innocent.

He could just wait for a bus.

Scaramouche thought Aether would decline Childe's favor because he didn't like Scaramouche, but who's he joking? The one he thought will decline was in front of him. He was just in denial.

Aether just stared at him with an indifferent expression.

'Is he drunk?" Scaramouche smelled alcohol ricking out in Aether's body and his face was disheveled even though his outfit says the opposite. Seems like the sleepover wasn't just sleeping but a party with alcohol.

Scaramouche shallowed as he continued to chew the burger.

He usually had dominance even though he was an omega, however, the guy in front of him was very different from what he usually sees in the school, if it was obvious the guy was an alpha, it's even more obvious right now.

"Childe asked me a favor to fetch you up," Aether responded, soundly forced.

"I thought you prefer not to see me?" Scaramouche asks, getting up from the bench. He will choke that ginger man tomorrow.

"I am, however, it was a favor."

"You could decline." Scaramouche can handle himself.

Aether shrugged. "Unfortunately Childe was not the only one who owe me a favor, but my sister is." He rolled his eyes.

Lumine probably asked the same favor that Childe wanted.

"Ah right." Scaramouche dryly responds. Now he doesn't have any choice but to go with him.

"And do you think alphas will  not jump on you?" There's a roughness in his voice. "You're an omega. With that kind of face, they will jump on you, even though your aura says the opposite."

"Now you're meddling in my business," Scaramouche replied. "I am aware that I am beautiful, however, I will not let someone jump on me, just like what you said. Even you... And just mind your own business, I didn't mind yours did I?"

Aether just stared at him. Scaramouche can't help but feel conscious of the way Aether stares at him. It was far different from before, even though they were exactly the same.

Scaramouche and Aether continue to stare into each other's eyes.

Scaramouche never backed down even though his instincts were saying he should be lowering himself in the presence of an alpha.

He was annoyed, how dare Aether meddle in his own business? When he was not minding the latter's own business? Is this an effect of alcohol in his system?

Aether perhaps realized that Scaramouche will not back down and sigh.

"Going home or going to the party?" He asked, as he turned away and opened the front seat of his car for Scaramouche.

"Do you want me to faint from the lack of sleep? Of course, I will go home." Scaramouche rolled his eyes. He had a plan to attend the party, but he wasn't sure because he might just sleep the whole day.

"Hmm..." Aether hummed.

Scaramouche gets in the car and watches Aether close the door. He let out a scoff as the latter didn't let him close the door. Aether being a gentleman feels weird.

"You know the location of my house right?" Since Aether often drives Lumine off to Scaramouche's house when they have a sleepover in their house.

"Yup."

"Then, thanks in advance." Scaramouche closed his eyes, he leaned his back on the soft mattress of the chair. He was feeling sleepy now, probably because the hunger in his stomach disappeared.

Scaramouche heard Aether mutter something he can't understand and decided to ignore it. Aether was perhaps chanting a ritual on how to get back with the guy who slept shamelessly in his car.

"In that appearance, you should just sleep." Of course, a peaceful situation is impossible with him.

"Don't you have eyes? I'm sleeping."

"I feel sorry for your lover." Aether sighed, not sparing a glance at Scaramouche who was startled at the sudden mention of it.

"Mind your own business." Scaramouche rolled his eyes. He doubts he will find a mate for him. Who would have a lot more patience toward him than his parents and friends? No one, even himself sometimes can't understand him.

"And...be quiet, I'm sleeping," Scaramouche muttered as he closed his eyes, relaxing his whole body and mind. And soon, dozed off.

++

Huh?

And that's how Scaramouche finds himself in his room, with his mom checking his forehead and concluding that he was sick.

Why did he even get here?

He remembers falling asleep in Aether's car, you can't blame him, the atmosphere in the car was calming, which is confusing already since Scaramouche hated Aether's guts.

He doesn't remember anything aside from that. He just woke up in his room, staring blankly at the ceiling with no energy to get up from his bed.

His mom who usually called him to eat breakfast before going to school, enter his room. Concluding that he was sick even though he didn't say anything. Aside from the hot body and headache, Scaramouche was fine.

'I don't even attend the party.' Since he was asleep the whole time. Lumine will understand why, but Scaramouche was quite guilty about it since he promised to attend.

He doesn't even have the energy to check up on his phone even though it was vibrating from time to time.

"I already text Yae to excuse you to the professor." Ei, look at her son who was eating the porridge she cook for him. Fortunately, the porridge was cooked well because her son was not showing signs of bad expression.

Scaramouche nodded. That nasty pink-haired bitch.

"The guy who drives you here, is he your boyfriend?" Scaramouche coughed at the question. The porridge in his mouth almost spilled.

"What?" He looks at his mom horrified. What makes her think Aether was his boyfriend? He couldn't even dream of it.

"I think you got the wrong idea, Mom." Scaramouche denied it.

"It's Lumine's brother, he just drives me here because Childe asks him a favor,"

"Is that so? That boy said to us yesterday night that you will be sick tomorrow and he was right."

"And you believe that?"

Suddenly, a mischievous smile appears on Ei.

"It's just, we got deja vu." Scaramouche squints his eyes at his mother. Why does he have a feeling that it's not the only thing that happened yesterday night? The fact his mom Yae wasn't here and Ei didn't scold him for bringing an alpha into their house while sleeping so defenseless in his car was suspicious.

"What's his name though?" Ei asked. Scaramouche rolled his eyes.

"Aether."

"Oh, is he older than Lumine? Now I think of it, they resemble each other a lot."

Scaramouche rolled his eyes once again.

"Yes, two years older."

Aether and Lumine might look like twins, even Scaramouche thought of that before since they really look alike but Lumine said to them that Aether was her older brother.

"I see."

"Don't ask me any questions about him anymore. Thinking about him makes me sick." Scaramouche replied as he lay back down in the bed and closed his eyes.

"Seems like you hate him." Of course, his mom was dense to stop.

"Where's the nasty pink-haired bitch anyway?"

"Kuni, you shouldn't call your mom a nasty bitch. She is the reason why you exist and leaves my womb. Anyways, she had work to do this morning, she will go home in the afternoon."

This is why Ei was bothering him and not Yae.

"Yeah yeah whatever."