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Subaru lets out a sigh while checking his phone, wondering when and if he'll ever get a message from his long distanced lover today. he shakes his head and slowly gets out of bed while muttering under his breath "I'll check on my next break" he rather not deal with Ram or Beatrice giving him crap for 'sleeping in' again
so he went onto the usual start of his day, changing into his work clothes then heading to the bathroom to brush his teeth and clean his bedhead hair. pausing in confusion when the four of the big names of the mansion were gathered around a table, he wasn't expecting all of them to be in one place this early in the morning, mainly because two of the four are doing their tasks at this point...well, one of them if Ram decided to push her work onto Rem yet again to sneak in some alone time with Emilia
his curiosity won over and he walked over to the group "sorry for butting in, but is something major going to happen?" stepping back just slightly when a certain pinkette and blond narrowed their eyes at him once their respective lovers weren't looking at them which was pretty easy when he was the center of attention
Emilia was kind enough to not let the silence drawl on for too long "oh, Subaru, good timing!" giving a sheepish smile "apparently we're being kicked out to study at one of these boarding schools and we can't decide" she grabbed his sleeve and dragged him closer while pointing to five separate sheets of papers, naively unaware of how such a simple action had made Ram feel jealous
the only male in the room did his best to ignore the chill running down his spine "well, uhh, I can try to help by suggesting what I prefer? let's see" he skimmed over the names until one catches his attention, genso university, the name alone makes him think back of the edge of town with a similar name he grew up in "oh, oh. this one! I would prefer this one out of the bunch" pointing to show the group what he wanted
and he deflated slightly when Ram spoke up, if only because it was something he kinda expected "so we should avoid that one like the plague and choose one of the other four?" he deflated even more when Beatrice hummed in agreement, was she still mad at him tripping and accidentally spilling her hot chocolate onto her?...she probably was given that it was yesterday that it happened
he retracts his arm and tried to keep his usual smile on as she steps from the four "well, that's just my opinion on it. guess that you four are the ones entrusted with choosing the place, right?"
Rem made everyone jump with how suddenly she stood up and slammed her hand on the paper detailing what genso university was about "Rem chooses this one! Suba seemed to be quite happy about it so it must be a good place" closing her eyes "plus, Rem doesn't like it when any of you fakes a smile, so I wanna remove the fakeness from Suba's smile"
Emilia looks at Rem, Subaru then Ram, not quite sure if she should vote with the two or her own girlfriend. gulping softly, she decided to let a single question define her answer as she sets her hands on her lap "hey, Subaru...what makes you want to go to this one?"
and boy oh boy did the butler's face go bright red when he recalls the main reason why "w-well" he had to turn his gaze to the wall when the four sets of eyes looking at him got to be too much for him to bear "it's in genso town, a town in the state of gensokyo that I grew up in, so I have pretty good memories about the place unlike this city from before working here and even a few friends that I've been trying to keep in touch even after moving here are still living there"
he starts to wonder if he should've just stayed out of this when the silence returned and even lasted for a good while then he choked on his own spite at what he heard "maybe dumb boy here had a one night stand and wants to try getting more one night stands? makes more sense to me than fate liking him, I suppose"
once he stopped choking on his spite was when he turned to glare at the shortest of the five there "w-what the heck Beako?! I've never had any such stands before and besides. I don't want to do that intimate act with her until after we get married" yet he lost his glare and covered his mouth shortly after saying words he never meant to say, much less yell out. guess the blond's words had struck a nerve with him more than he thought it would
he steps back a bit from the group staring at him in shock as his face turned to a dark red, he even made a run for it only to have his arm grabbed by the blue-haired maid that's normally his saving grace against Ram's more malicious means of messing with him
speaking of the less expressive maid "well? out with it, what the heck do you mean by that?"
he could barely think with how embarrassed he is so he just blurted out the first thing that came to mind "I have a girlfriend named Rei'sen who's still living in genso town and I wanna see her so badly, that's why I prefer that school to be the one we go to!"
he made a break for it the moment his arm was let go, never stopping until he reached his room and locked the door. content to stay shut in for the rest of the day or maybe even forever, forever sounds nice after how much of a fool he made of himself
back with the four he left though. Emilia became certain with her choice, she looks back at the table then gently placed her hand on the paper that had the university she wants the group to stay at "I vote to...ew" moving her hand off of the paper and wiping it against her sleeve "why is it so wet now?" shaking her head to regain her focus, she spoke with a small smile "I vote with Rem and Subaru"
Rem perks up and raised a hand in a lil celebratory pose "I'll go tell Suba the good news then" then lowers her hand with a sheepish smile "umm...sorry by the way, Rem might've slammed the hand that was holding Beako's hand for the last few hours" heading off to find the man she plans to tell about the news of where they'll be moving to
the half-elf stands up while brushing off her dress "I'll go let them know that we've finally chosen where to go to" walking off to get the preparations started
the two left behind simply look at each other, where the three went off to then back at each other "well...how was your date with sis?" Rem leaning onto the table while crossing one leg over the other
Beatrice slumps her shoulders while sighing heavily "it went pretty well until that idiot tripped over his feet and spilled hot chocolate on me" looking away while hiding her mouth behind her hand "d-didn't help that I needed help with changing clothes with how hot it still was"
the pinkette gains a smug smile as she gains an idea of what happened after that point "so that's why Rem seemed so floaty and happy yesterday to the point that even messing up a few of her choirs didn't fazed her" the smugness giving way to tease "you should let her see you naked more often, it really boosts her mood" laughing at the spit-take that the blond did of her tea
and when Beatrice could finally recover herself, Ram was long gone for an immediate retribution, leaving her to sulk alone at the table...for about all of thirty minutes then the rest of time there was spent cuddling with Rem