[center] [b]Roleplay Title:[/b] The Breadsticks AU Nobody Wanted [b]Roleplay Origin: [/b] Breadsticks AU [b]Setting: [/b] Restaurant AU Earth [b]Characters:[/b] Adrien Szetella Bellakane Black Jecht Rutella Iris Sohma Lucifel Hyperion Bellerophon Black Valdeimos Mancini Valente Mancini Marcellina Machiavelli ____________________________________ Adrien chomped on another breadstick. He had a feeling he had been stood up for his date. When the waitress returned to the table with yet another refilled basket of breadsticks, he felt too embarrassed to look her in the eyes. He probably looked pitiful, sitting alone while eating away breadstick after breadstick. "A-are you ready to order now, sir?" she asked shyly, probably mortified to ask him after he had been so obviously stood up for a date. Adrien felt awkward as he nodded. He should probably give up on waiting. "Yeah...yeah I'll order now. Uh, sorry. For taking so long, I mean." he apologized, opening the menu and going straight for the desserts. He inwardly cursed Marcellina and Valente for insisting he go on the blind date they set up for him. Thanks to those blond demons, he was stuck in such an awkward situation. He wanted to go home but he did not want to just leave without ordering anything after sitting there for an hour, making the poor girl waste her time giving him breadsticks over and over again. “Um…” his eyes darted over the menu, “Bread…Fruit Pudding. Please.” Adrien would never admit he had been about to say breadsticks and corrected his embarrassing slip up by naming the first thing he saw starting with bread in its name. He quickly ate his bread fruit pudding, paid for his order, and made sure to leave a big tip before he fled the restaurant. -x-x-x-x- Apparently his best friends decided to make it up to him by setting him up with yet again another blind date. Adrien didn’t even want to go on the first one! Sadly, despite his protests the next night Adrien found himself back at the same restaurant. He even had the same waitress for his table. The embarrassment from the night before returned. “Um, reservations made by Valente Mancini…” he mumbled, repeating the same words as yesterday, and followed the girl to his table. His date actually arrived earlier than him, to his surprise, and was already waiting. "Uh, hey. I'm Adrien." He gave him a shy smile. "Hello. Jecht Rutella, a pleasure to meet you." he greeted politely, which eased Adrien's nerves. He seemed nice, at least. Unfortunately Jecht's polite and mannerly persona all but disappeared after Adrien made the mistake of asking the wrong question. The conversation had been going normally enough, at first. "Yeah, Valente and I are roommates with our friend Marcellina. How do you know him?" Adrien had asked, not knowing it was the beginning of the end. "Oh, we are coworkers. Miss Machiavelli works with us as well." Jecht admitted and Adrien leaned forward, immediately interested. Valente never mentioned what his job was and always spoke about work as vague as possible. Adrien sometimes wondered if his mysterious job was something ludicrous and joked about Valente being a member of the mafia or a secret government spy. Valente had gone pale at the joke and vehemently denied working for the mafia, much to Adrien's amusement, but decided not to bring it up again because Valente looked so anxious. He could only hope Jecht would tell him more about it so his curiosity would be soothed. Adrien didn't even know Marcellina worked in the same place as Valente! He listened eagerly to Jecht's words. "But I rarely see Marcellina or Valente. I mostly work with...Trixxtal." he spat out the name with venom, and Adrien could only stare at him in shock at his abrupt anger. Subconsciously, Adrien scooted his seat back and cradled the basket of breadsticks closer to him. "Just today, the Boss assigned us a job and in the middle of the job he brings up an argument we had earlier..." Nibbling on a breadstick, he listened to Jecht's sudden rant. He also wondered who the hell Trixxtal was. "...And then, he dared to threaten my poodle! It's not my darling Cece's fault if she wanted to chew on his favorite shoes, Trixxtal should have put them away instead of leaving them on the floor! He always makes such a mess and it drives me crazy when he moves around my stuff. Ugh, one time he tried to replace one of my paintings on the wall with this low quality trash he found in some plebeian store..." "U-um...excuse me...my name is Bellakane and I-I'll be your server today, are you ready to order?" the timid waitress, bless her heart, tried her best to end Jecht's tirade. Jecht apparently did not hear her and continued talking about how angry he was at this Trixxtal person. Adrien locked eyes with her. For a moment, Adrien felt a connection with her, bonding over their awkward position of dealing with Jecht. Adrien froze when a sudden thought struck him. If Bellakane took his order, he would have to wait for his food to be cooked and brought to him. He would have to eat his food. He would have to wait for the bill. This translated to him listening to Jecht the entire time, something Adrien was unsure he wanted to continue to do. "I-I just got an urgent text!" he blurted out, standing in his chair abruptly. "Sorry but I have to go home, right now, immediately!" Before Jecht could say anything, Adrien fled the restaurant once again. It was only when he got back to his car that he realized he had still been carrying the basket of breadsticks. His cheeks flushed red from embarrassment; he could not believe he accidently stole their breadsticks. Even though they were free, Adrien felt guilty, so he resolved himself to return the basket later once he knew Jecht was long gone. After he finished the breadsticks, of course. -x-x-x-x- To his despair, Valente and Marcellina set him up on another blind date to try to redeem themselves for the fiasco with Jecht. Adrien, unable to bring himself to stand up to his friend's whims, found himself seated at the restaurant once again. Once he asked the waitress, who was Bellakane again, for time to look at the menu Adrien looked at the woman who arrived earlier. His date sat across from him and while she seemed completely normal, after yesterday's disastrous date Adrien knew better now than to judge by the first impression. "Nice to meet you, I'm Adrien." he tried to smile politely. The woman gave him a bright, cheerful smile that filled him with hope that she was nothing like Jecht. "I'm Iris! I'm happy to be here." she chimed, her eyes lit up with excitement. "When Marcellina asked me if I wanted to go on a blind date, I never thought she would set me up with a pretty guy like you!" Adrien blushed, flustered by her forwardness at calling him 'pretty'. He was unused to compliments because it was Valente who usually got deemed 'beautiful', so he got most of the attention whenever they hung out. "O-Oh? Uh, thanks - " "I love beautiful men, you know, that's how I met Valente!"she interrupted, and Adrien was only a little surprised that she had met Valente too. That immediately set off warning bells in his head; anybody who knew Valente was strange in some way and his blond friend always called Adrien 'his only normal friend'. "I should have known you would be beautiful too, since you're friends with Marcellina and Valente! I'm actually searching for a beautiful man in my memories, so when I saw Valente's beautiful face I thought it could be him, but he wasn't." she said with a pout. Adrien was at a loss. What in the world was she talking about?! How did the conversation turn this way? With resignation, he asked, "And...why are you looking for a beautiful man?" She immediately piped up, apparently happy to talk about herself. "I have amnesia." she admitted unexpectedly, "My only memory of the past is a beautiful man, smiling at me and saying 'I love you, Iris'...How can I not want to search for him? I don't even care about my missing memories...I want to find that man! " Adrien was surprised at her answer, but he smiled softly. "That's...pretty touching. You're searching for the man who loves you." Iris grinned. "Yup! His face is blurry so I'm trying to meet as many people as possible since I don't know his face clearly. I might meet someone who knows him!" she explained, before suddenly reaching into her large purse and taking out...a basketball? "And this will help me!" she revealed, showing the basketball proudly to him. "Huh, a basketball? Did he play the sport or something?" he asked bewildered, wondering why she was showing it to him all of a sudden. Adrien did not even want to understand how it fit into her purse. Adrien watched as she shook her head. "Nope, this basketball has a spirit named Ju-On attached to it." she said with a straight face. Adrien stared at her as she spun a wild tale of her first meeting with Valente. Marcellina met her on a trip to the mall and the two hit it off, becoming fast friends and Marcellina became determined to help Iris on her quest for love. Since Valente had connections with powerful people he was asked to help find the missing man, but when they came face to face Iris immediately thought he was the most beautiful human being on the planet. Perfection like him just HAD to be the sweet man from her memories! Iris proudly described her efforts in stalking Valente, seeing absolutely nothing wrong with 'wanting to be by her beloved's side forever', and Adrien vaguely remembered his friend complaining about a crazy stalker about a month ago. Adrien never saw her because Valente wanted nothing to do with her, but if Iris was the same girl...why the hell was he on a date with her, then?! "But one day Valente tearfully admitted that there was a man more beautiful than him, he saw him long ago and had only just remembered," she continued, completely serious about what she was saying, and Adrien was still in disbelief that this story was real. "He told me that man must have been the one I had been searching for, and he was so sorry for wasting my time on him when my real love was still out there somewhere. Valente gave me this basketball as an apology, and now I carry it everywhere because he said it was special." "Valente told you that basketball is...special?" he asked, wondering if this girl was just playing a joke on him. Sadly, Adrien could absolutely see his friend pulling a stunt like this to get rid of a creepy girl. In fact, now that Adrien thought about it, that basketball was probably his! Valente went through his things one day and, out of the blue, asked for one of his old basketballs. Adrien had never gotten it back. At that moment, Bellakane returned to the table to take their order, but Iris did not notice her and continued her story. "Yes! Valente said this basketball contains Ju-On inside." she said happily, reminding Adrien of her words earlier, "Ju-On loves beautiful men, so as long as I carry the basketball with me, I will be guided to them. Eventually, I'll find my love, Ju-On will lead me to him!" Out of the corner of his eye, Adrien saw Bellakane looking confused and eyeing the dirty basketball that Iris set on top of the table. He said nothing to either of them and was pretty much acting on autopilot now; the ridiculousness of the situation had drained him of his energy. "I helped Valente seal Ju-On into that basketball, so you will definintely find him one day." he said with a straight face, reaching for his phone. He stuffed it into his messenger bag, and without thinking, shoved a breadstick into his bag. "I'm not him, and I don't want to keep you from your search, so..." he shoved another breadstick inside, "Sorry but I have to go home, right now, immediately." He practically flew from his chair. As he left, he had the feeling Bellakane was trying to keep herself from laughing at him. When he opened his bag at home, he was mortified and embarrassed to find a couple of breadsticks inside. -x-x-x-x- Marcellina vehemently apologized for her mistake in choosing the previous nights date. Adrien forgave her for not realizing Iris was actually a madwoman on a manhunt, but he was unsure if he wanted to forgive her for setting him up on another date as an 'apology'. At least he had the breadsticks to look forward too. And Bellakane apparently knew this, because not even five seconds at his table and she already had a basket of breadsticks waiting for him. "S-so Valente set you up on another blind date?" she asked, but suddenly began to blush and she began apologizing profusely. "I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked, that's none of my business!" Adrien just chucked, his embarrassment could not possible rise any higher could it? "Ah, haha, yeah...unfortunately...You don't have to apologize though. If anything, should apologize for taking so many breadsticks...I lost the basket from the first night too." he grimaced, his face turning red as she suddenly giggled at him. "It's okay...Valente returned it for you, don't worry. Um...I'm Bellakane, by the way." she introduced herself, and Adrien smiled in relief that he was not in trouble. "Oh, that's suspiciously responsible of him then...And nice to meet you properly, Bellakane. I'm Adrien." he greeted, and felt oddly comfortable speaking to her. He had a feeling it was because she had already seen him look pitiful on his blind dates. "I'm sorry for wasting your time with my uh...dates." "Ah, I think Valdeimos doesn't mind...he's the owner of the restaurant. Valente is his little brother, so he's used to trouble and strange situations caused by him." she explained, and suddenly Adrien finally understood why he kept getting sent to this restaurant and why he had not been banned from the building. He couldn't help but laugh. "Finally, things are making a lot more sense! I don't know much about Valente's family, so I had no idea his brother owned this place..." The friendly chatter with Bellakane continued and she spent her short break talking with him. Her shyness slowly disappeared the more their conversation and it was pleasant speaking with her. Unfortunately, the pleasant atmosphere disappeared once Adrien suddenly felt a sense of foreboding when an obnoxious voice carried throughout the room. "AHAHA IT IS I, THE DEMON LORD LUCIFEL WITH MY FAMILIAR TAPIOCO, HERE AT THE REQUEST OF WIZARD VALENTE, TO GIVE THE HONOR OF BASKING IN MY PRESENCE, TO ALL THOSE IN THE ROOM..." Adrien slowly turned around, and his face grew pale at the man speaking near the entrance. He wore a golden crown on his head, alongside a pair of obviously plastic devil horns. While the dress shirt he wore actually looked nice, and surprisingly normal, on top of his shoulders rested a long flowing cape. The shoulder pads were large and shaped as skulls. In his hands, was a white duck. At first he thought it was a realistic plushie but he saw it move and that was the last straw. "Oh hell no, I'm going to kill Valente...!" he hissed, and Adrien turned to Bellakane with pleading eyes. "Get me out of here without getting seen, please, Bellakane." Bellakane was stifling her laughter and nodded, pointing at the kitchen and motioning for him to follow. Adrien quickly replied and followed her, but as soon as they stepped through the doors, the waitress burst out laughing. "I'm so so so sorry for laughing...but...I cannot believe....! Lucifel, of all people...Pft..." the girl drew looks from the rest of the staff, but only one man approached them. "Bellakane...what are you doing? And why have you brought this customer into the kitchen?" he asked, frowning at the two of them, but there was no anger in his eyes. Bellakane took a moment to compose herself. "Valdeimos, he needs to sneak out the back door. He's Valente's friend and got set up on a blind date with Lucifel..." she began to explain, thought she was cut off when the owner of the restaurant spoke. "I understand. Show him the exit, Bellakane, I'll get rid of the idiot. He probably brought that duck with him too..." Valdeimos sighed tiredly, but with undersanding in his eyes, and Adrien had a feeling there was a story here he was missing. "Thank you." Adrien said earnestly to Bellakane once they reached the back door. "Really, thank you. I don't know who that weirdo is, but I'm so glad I don't have to find out. And I don't even want to know why he carried around that duck. It's probably a story just as weird as that basketball one." Bellakane giggled again. "Lucifel is Valente's childhood...friend? Both of their dads work for my dad, so we all grew up knowing each other and Lucifel has always been weird. He calls himself the demon lord and Valente a wizard for some reason. Valente and Valdeimos are actually my cousins, so he calls us wizards too." Adrien blinked, surprised that his new friend was related to Valente. No wonder she found the situation amusing. "Oh wow. That's pretty interesting...Haha, well I don't want to keep anymore of your time so I'll go now. At least I didn't accidently steal any more breadsticks this time!" he laughed, ready to leave, but was stopped when Bellakane whipped out a to-go box. "I figured you would leave without your date...so...I made this for you...Um, bye Adrien!" she blushed as she handed him the box and ran away before Adrien could say anything. "Huh?" he muttered, opening the box to inspect what was inside. He laughed hard when he saw breadsticks inside. -x-x-x-x- After chewing out his friends for setting him up with crazy people, Marcellina and Valente apparently took his words as a challenge to find him a better date. Adrien was once again at the restaurant on a blind date, but at least time, he had been assured by Marcellina that this person would be a normal person. He didn't believe her at all. The fist sign that the night would not go well was Bellakane's gaze of pity when he stepped through the doors. "Welcome, Adrien. Your date is already here. I'm so sorry." she informed, but she looked tired, the same expression Valdeimos had the night before when he found out he had to deal with his brother's messes. "Do you...know him?" he asked hesitantly, already feeling dread settle in his body the closer his steps brought him to his table. "My big brother, Bellerophon." she admitted and sent Adrien another mournful look. "I'll get your box of breadsticks ready, Adrien." Adrien choked back a laugh. "He's that bad or what?" he asked, but didn't get an answer because they had arrived. The man waiting at the table was unexpected. Dressed in a white suit, a golden rose tucked into his pocket, golden hair as pretty as Valente's, and a pleasant smile...Adrien got the impression he was looking at an angel. While he did not trust any person chosen by Marcellina or Valente, Adrien definitely preferred Bellakane's angelic brother to that demon wannabe from last night. "Hello, you must be Adrien. I'm Bellerophon." greeted his date, who extended his hand and offered him a single yellow rose. "O-oh, thank you." he took the rose with a blush, surprised he had received a gift at all. None of the others had gifts for him, and Adrien's expectations of the date were too low for him to bother bringing anything either. He took a seat and Bellakane suspiciously had left, and Adrien wondered if she was taking her sweet time so Adrien would have enough time to flee before ordering. Adrien twirled the rose in his hands and smiled. Even if this date ended in disaster, he would appreciate the flower, he hardly ever received gifts from anyone. "I really like roses." Bellerophon began suddenly, causing Adrien to look up, "I have a garden back home and grow them all myself as a hobby. I hope my servants can tended to them properly." he said with a sigh, before smiling at Adrien again. "Do you have any hobbies, Adrien? Valente, when he asked me to meet you here, said you have an interest in television dramas. I mostly watch online, to keep up with shows I watched in my home country, so I have not seen any of this countries' television yet." Adrien's face brightened, thankful that Bellerophon had not unleashed a weird life story on him like Jecht or Iris for their first conversation. "Yes, I love TV dramas! I spend a lot of my free time watching them, actually, it's probably embarrassing how obsessed I can become over some of my shows. So you like shows from other countries? Are you new to this country, then?" he asked, happy to talk about the topic. "Yes, both my sister Bellakane and I are just visiting here while our parents deal with some issues back home. We're staying with our cousin, Valdeimos, for now. He owns this restaurant and Bellakane wanted to help out to show her gratitude. I admit I've acted a bit...lazier." he confessed with a light chuckle. "I spend all my time on the computer, watching my shows. I get obsessed too. I spend all of my extra money collecting items from my favorite shows. Especially anime, I love that the most! My room back home is filled with figures and posters of my favorite characters." "Finally, somebody who understands! I'm the same way...I keep buying every merchandise I find. One time, there was a rare poster being given out so..." Their conversation continued, and Bellakane was surprised when she arrived and Adrien had not run off yet. He actually got to order food and ordered spaghetti, just because he knew they would go well with breadsticks. It was easy speaking to Bellerophon because they had common interests and Bellerophon was (so far) sane compared to the previous dates. When the conversation turned onto a strange topic and Bellerophon started to say weird things, by this point Adrien just rolled with it, nodding his head as he listened and ate his spaghetti. Even when he said things like: "My father is the ruler of my country, and as the king he makes many enemies. This is why I support the death penalty. Murderers who try to harm my family and the citizens are the worst of humanity. Annoying people like them should just be executed." and "I technically have a fiancee, but she has been comatose the past few years and I just can't bring myself to abandon her despite the low chance of her waking up. I feel guilty for her condition. I'm a prince so she was targeted by assassins and she got hurt during the attack. She survived, but never woke up, and I actually carry this golden rose to remember her." and "Alright, so I had a crush on my best friend, right? But it turned out he had only befriended me because his family was trying to overthrow the government in a coup de'tat. It broke my heart when he betrayed me, but I still convinced my father not to execute him because I can't help but continue to care about him. I'm such a hypocrite, haha, just earlier I was supporting the death penalty! Anyways, that's why Bellakane and I are in this country. We're staying with our cousin until my mother feels it safe at home for my family." Adrien listened with rapt attention, chewing on his breadsticks. "Uh, wow. My life is nothing like that. I'm an orphan and never really had family or anyone at all, really, until I met Valente and Marcellina." he commented, refraining from mentioning to Bellerophon how his life sounded like a ridiculous soap opera. In fact, it sounded like the plot of a television drama he would want to watch. Bellerophon was even a prince; Adrien never imagined ever meeting real royalty and apparently he had met two of them! He felt guilty, though, thinking of Bellerophon's life like that. He described real events that happened to him, not episodes in a show. "But I think - " However, he was interrupted, when Bellerophon got a glimpse at his phone. The prince's face was pale and he looked extremely worried. "Oh no! It's already this late?! The new episode of Magical Girls Love!Live! Rangers is going to be released in twenty minutes. I've been waiting all week for it..." Bellerophon trailed off, and took out his wallet, setting more hundred dollar bills than he actually needed onto the table. In the biggest plot twist of Adrien's life, it was Bellerophon who stood up and exclaimed, "Sorry but I have to go home, right now, immediately." in his extreme passion over his anime. Adrien just stared as he watched Bellerophon shove breadsticks into his backpack ([i]it was cute,[/i] Adrien thought, [i]with its anime characters[/i]) and watched the elegantly dressed man in a suit, wearing an anime backpack, rush out of the restaurant worrying over missing out on the new episode of his show. Adrien stayed silent for a moment, looking at the empty breadstick basket in sorrow, before exclaiming: "Normal, my ass. There was nothing normal about him at all!" He felt better though, when an amused Bellakane handed him more breadsticks. -x-x-x-x- Adrien was in hell, obviously. Why else would he be on another blind date?! "I'll definitely get back at Valente and Marcellina for this...!" he mumbled, biting into a breadstick. [/center]