Vehemence + Dependence REVISED - an Original Quintessential Quintuplets Story

11 - 'Superstitions are for Dummies'

(Y/N) did a quick mental placement check and realized this. "Oh, um... guys, there's only space for six here."

The rest of them also did a quick mental check and reached the same conclusion.

(Y/N) sighed. "I can sleep in the corner, I don't mind."

"Maybe Uesugi should sleep in the corner," Nino suggested.

"Maybe Nino should sleep in the corner," Fuutarou struck back.

"You deserve it more."

"Guys!" (Y/N) interrupted. "It's fine, I'll sleep at the side. I don't want your sleep to be ruined."

The seven eventually laid out their bags in a grid pattern. So (Y/N) could have some space, the rest of them overlapped their bags a little towards one side.

(Y/N) took the liberty to order pizza for the gang. Luckily, he remembered what they each had from last time.

They each took a bath or shower (depending on their preference)—except Nino, who refused to bathe while Fuutarou was somewhere near her—since they knew the pizza would take a while.

The rest of the night was pretty average and normal.

But something was keeping (Y/N) up.

It was Fuutarou's sniffling.

After he 'fell asleep', he kept sniffling, as if his nose was running.

Weird, (Y/N) thought. No chance he got it from Raiha, right? Nah, my dude's stronger than that.

(Y/N) eventually gave out and fell victim to sleep. And he slept a very good sleep.

~ + ~

"Hey, Uesugi-san!"

"What is it, Yotsuba?"

"Did you hear about the dance around the bonfire?"

"What about it?"

"There's a legend that partners that are holding hands at the end are together forever!" She raised and spread her hands at 'forever'.

"Please tell me you don't believe in that stuff."

"But of course! It makes the dance so much more special."

"Superstitions are for dummies."

"Dummies? Uesugi-san, are you calling me a dummy?"

"Well..."

(Y/N) half-listened to their conversation as he ate his breakfast. They were in the car now, back on their way to the resort. The storm had cleared up from the night before, so the drive was going much more smoothly.

(Y/N) had woken up quite early that morning. In what felt like a hazy dream, he saw someone—Ichika, he thought—making a move on Fuutarou. He decided that he didn't want to deal with that and closed his eyes for a bit longer.

(Y/N) opened his eyes again, and everyone seemed to be still asleep. He got up and, as gently and quietly as he could, navigated around and between them to get to the door. The inn had included coffee from their automatic coffee machine, so he grabbed some to wake himself up.

He was sipping his coffee when a slumped-over Ichika slowly walked in.

"Good morning."

"good morning" she said in a very sleepy voice.

"You're a coffee drinker?"

"enough" she said as she took a cup and put it under the machine.

"Makes sense, based on your sleep patterns."