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merryfortune · 3 years

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Day 5 / Orange

Clover and Violets 2021

Ship: not applicable | Aki/Carly

Universe: 5D’s

Word Count: 1,574

Rating: T

Tags: Canon Compliant, Developing Relationship, Slight Age Gap

Carly wasn’t all that close to Aki which is why she was surprised that Aki would go so far as to not only invite her over but chauffeur her around, as well. Carly met the limousine at the corner of her favourite cheapo department store and was then on her way. The inside of it was plush and velour, mostly maroon but there were other decals as well, like the bucket of ice with some sort of fancy bottle of tonic water sticking out of it but looking through the other beverages, Carly decided that she preferred regular old water.

Arriving at the Izayoi estate, or at least the off-shoot secondary location of it which Aki had been permitted to live in, took Aki’s breath away. The estate was bigger than the entire block that her apartment was on, the very same one she was ashamed of and the house itself was probably taller than the complex too. And definitely wider, as well.

Ornate, golden gates opened at the cue of an automation and Carly was taken further into this strange, gilded world of money and affluence. It was mind boggling. And it made Carly squirm in her seat, like she wanted to be eaten up by the upholstery but as the limousine followed through the curve of the road, past the circular garden in the quay, she glimpsed Aki.

Aki, with her hands fidgeting in front of her, was waiting politely in her casual clothes; a corduroy, orange skirt that went over her knees paired with a pale blue peasant shirt that was off her shoulders. She greeted Carly and the limousine with a smile. She waved at them both until the limousine slowed down in front of her.

Carly tried to open the door for herself but the driver swooped in first, for some reason it stung but Carly got out regardless. Aki beamed at her.

“Thank you for making it today, Carly, it means a lot to me.” she said with a nice, even voice.

“Y-Yeah, no worries, glad to be, um, out of the house - and not ‘cause I’m doin’ groceries.” Carly laughed awkwardly but Aki had a genuine, good-natured giggle at her joke. Carly smiled.

“I hope you don’t mind but I thought that we would just hang out in the garden, the house feels very… stiff, I feel more at home out here but if you’d prefer-”

“No, no, that sounds perfectly good. I need more Vitamin D and stuff.” Carly replied.

“Thank you.” Aki said. “Well then, this way.”

Carly nodded and Aki led her through the gardens. The lawns of this place were immaculate but the garden itself may as well have been Wonderlandian. The transition from the neat clippings with no level of variance to the hedging and bushes of the inner garden was seamless. The garden was beautiful, if a little eccentric, with all the roses and sculptures.

But Carly noticed something else aside from the scenery the further in that they got, the more natural Aki seemed. Like she was less nervous. Carly wished she could say the same about herself, she just felt more and more nervous. After all, they weren’t really close friends. More friends of mutual friends or acquaintances. It felt weird to be all alone without any of the boys, or even the twins, around with them.

At the centre of the garden, there was an ivory white gazebo for them to perch under. It was furnished with an outdoor seating set coloured similar, the table of which was furnished again with a pitcher of water, glasses, and a complimentary charcuterie board. Aki slid along gracefully on the stone seating provided but Carly was a little bit more awkward as she sat down. Especially because the seating was kind of hard and she was the type of gal who liked to lounge in not exactly luxury but at least in soft comforters, like on her three seater in her crummy apartment or even the front seat of her car.

“Thank you again,” Aki said after the moment of silence between them became seconds, “for coming out here. I just. Wanted to talk with you.”

“Oh, um, okay, why?” Carly said.

Aki blushed. “Sorry, did that make it sound like I was cross with you?”

“Only a little.” Carly said and she pinched her fingers together for emphasis.

“I just wanted, you know, a little girl-talk as they say.” Aki explained with an unusually terse voice.

Carly’s eyes went wide and she nodded vehement, “Oh, I get you, I get you, yeah, cool, sounds good.”

“And, well, Runa is just a bit too young for me to burden her with all the trials and tribulations of high school, besides… she fits in with her peers really well despite her psychic powers but me on the other hand… Well, not so much but you seemed like you would know a thing or two about that…” Aki rambled.

Carly didn’t say anything but she did stare. She was fairly certain she ought to be insulted or offended by the implication that she had been the ugly duckling at school but honestly, Aki was so pretty she could say whatever she wanted forever. Not to mention she was right and Carly was still, pretty much, the ugly duckling but better that than the unwitting hummingbird...

Aki continued to ramble since Carly was quiet, “And you’ve already graduated high school, haven’t you? I thought maybe you might have some advice.”

“Oh yeah, I have advice, I can totally give you the declassifieds and the four-one-one and on how to survive the most brutal years of anyone’s life.” Carly bragged like she was more than two years out of high school herself and that she hadn’t done her university course entirely online.

“Really?” Aki exclaimed. “Oh, that would be wonderful, thank you so much.”

“Oh, don’t get too excited, I’m gonna sound like a greeting card here, totally couldn’t even do a blog post on the subject but honestly? Keep doing what you're doing. Who cares? But at the same time, the consequences of high school aren’t real and I should have attacked that one girl who harassed me like a wild animal. Gee, if I had your powers, well, I would’ve been more like the protagonist of that one horror movie, you know, the one where the girl wins Homecoming Queen and ends up in pig’s blood and glitter. Yeah.” Carly rambled.

Aki laughed. “You’re really funny, Carly, but thank you. It helped just a little bit.”

“Huh,” Carly thought to herself, “maybe I could do a blog post on it. Or even a news article. Thanks for the career advice, high school girl.”

“Thank you,” Aki said, “and please, eat up, I want you to feel at home here…”

“Like you do?” Carly pointed out. “You don’t even need glasses to see that you’re clearly not all that comfortable here.”

“It’s that obvious?” Aki asked as she took an orange from the charcuterie board laid out in front of them.

“Blindingly.” Carly said. “But here’s some more advice from a high school leaver, getting your own place, even if its just your car that you’re living out of, is so much better than your parents’ place.”

“I’ll bear that in mind.” Aki replied.

Carly took the other orange. She was surprised that it wasn’t peeled; she glanced up at Aki and darn, too late.

“You know,” Carly said, “I’m a bit superstitious.”

“I have heard that, actually, you use - and divine from - a Fortune Lady deck, correct?” Aki recalled with a blink of her pretty, maroon eyes.

“Correct-a-mundo.” Carly replied with a snap of her fingers. “Anyways, did you know you can do love fortune telling from the rinds of fruit skins?”

“No, I didn’t know that.” Aki said and she put her orange’s rind, which was in pieces, on the table.

“Yeah, lemme show you.” Carly said.

She continued to dig out the rind of her orange, making sure that it was all on one continuous ream. This was easier with apples, Carly thought to herself, even sticking out her tongue until she had done to completion. Her fingers were sticky with the juices but honestly, Carly preferred oranges to apples anyway.

“Once you have the rind, you toss it over your shoulder,” Carly said and she did exactly as she preached, she tossed the rind of her orange over her shoulder, it sailed past her similarly coloured puffer vest, “then you get up and look at how the rind’s fallen. If you're lucky, it’ll make the letters of your soulmate’s initials.”

“My, spooky.” Aki cooed.

Carly got up and she looked at what she had done. Her eyes traced the netting and rind and she was certain. A-I. or maybe I-A. Depends. Either way she seemed to be in big trouble but she glanced back to Aki, Izayoi Aki or Aki Izayoi depending on if her name was read family first or not, and Carly blushed.

“Aw, darn, my luck’s super bad today,” Carly said and she forced a barky, fake laugh as she got down to pick up the pieces of the rind, “I didn’t get anything. Oh well but now you know.”

“I’ve learned many things today, thank you, Carly.” Aki replied.

And to her cute bewilderment, Aki watched as Carly’s face got redder and redder. She wondered why.

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