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UNBOLD: ENGLISH | BOLD: CANTONESE / CHINESE

During the holidays, Lin had taught Mai English every day together with The Davis, except maybe Oliver. Mai forced herself to learn words after words, then the structure and it was a nightmare for her. Dictionary and exercise books were her breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, and dinner. But, she knew she had to do this if she wanted to communicate with other people in this country.

The long winter break had ended and it was time for Mai enrol in the new school. Luella insisted to put Mai at the same school as the twins, although Lin had protested because the school was too advance for her. Then Luella persuaded him with someone need to guide Mai in the new environment without Lin in it. Mai wasn't fully healed from her experience and meet strangers without anybody to be there would scare her.

Oliver was against the idea he had to look after Mai at school, but Gene wasn't at all. He had been excited since she knew Mai would go the same school as Gene and took the task with pleasure, although they had a different grade.

Since Mai knew she would go to the twins' school, she took the lesson more seriously. She said to herself to not embarrass them. Not only English, Lin also taught her all elementary subjects with Gene's 2nd grade used book.

One day, Lin had to teach Gene how to block spirits and assigned Mai to do some math exercise at the massive library. She was struggling with numbers and almost gave up because she didn't know how to do the last question. Martin was at BSPR, and Luella had been at the supermarket since afternoon.

Then suddenly someone showed up.

It was Oliver.

He came in without even glancing at Mai and climbed up to the stairs. Mai could his soft steps to the right side of the library. Not for long, he went down again with three books in his hand and searched for some more books on the first floor.

Oliver's eyes were sought for a book about Templar when he felt a tug on his sleeve. He didn't like that, but he looked to the source of his annoyance. The brown-reddish orbs met him in such a heart-breaking way and he couldn't help but jolt at Mai's stare.

"What?"

"Coul-d you… help-me with… this?" Mai showed her notebook, trying to ask him with a clear articulation. She knew Noll didn't like her, but she needed help.

"No, I couldn't," he replied immediately and back to the books on the shelf.

"Please," she whined, holding her notebook on her chest. "Please."

"No."

"Pleasepleasepleaseplease," she pleaded again.

"Stop it. You're annoying." Mai was like his brother, irritating. "Ask Lin if you have a problem with your lesson."

Mai looked down with a pout. "Ko-Ko… with Gene. He busy. Don't want–to bother. Ko-Ko tired."

She didn't want to bother Lin because he had work to do and tired. Okay, Noll got that, although her sentences were still rough. But that was a good improvement.

Oliver sighed.

The younger girl took that as a sign Noll had enough of her pleading. "Sorry… for bother you." Mai's face was downcast and turned around to solve her problem alone.

Mai sat down again on her seat before, sighing at the difficult problem. At least for her. She opened the book to see the example again, hoping she would understand in the end. But nope, she still couldn't get the explanation after three times study the book.

"Which problem you need help?"

That voice made her jump at the surprise. "Uh... just the last question," Mai pointed out the problem number 20. "You help me?"

"It's an easy problem. How can you not answer it?" Oliver ignored her question and scoffed at her. "Here," he took the pencil, "Just add this with this and this with this, then you will have the result. Do it yourself."

Mai didn't know how Noll could say this was an easy problem. It was hard for her. "This with this…" she mumbled and wrote down the answer carefully. "The answel is one hundled and fifty-eight?"

"Yes. I'm done helping you," he said and removed himself from Mai's side.

"Thank you, Olivel!" Mai shouted her gratitude with a big smile. She knew Oliver wasn't that bad.

Noll cringed at how she called his name. It sounded so wrong and he didn't like it at all. His name is Oliver, not Olivel. "Prevent yourself to call my name."

"Why?" Mai tilted her head with an innocent look. She knew she couldn't say 'R', but everyone had convinced her it was okay and kept on trying.

Oliver looked away from those big eyes. "Your pronunciation is awful."

"Well, I'm solly," Mai said with a frown. "Who I call you?"

"It's 'what should I call you'," the genius corrected her after a chain of wrong grammars.

"What… should? I call you?" Mai repeated, not sure if she was right in the middle of her question.

His glares seemed not working on her from the very beginning. "Just call me, Noll. But don't call me Oliver before you can say 'R' correctly."

"I'm wolking on it," Mai muttering under her breath.

"Miserably," he added.

"What a jerk," she fumed. She had been working on 'R' letter with Lin until her tongue almost came off from her mouth.

"What did you say?" Oliver absolutely didn't understand Chinese but he didn't like the tone she was using.

"Nothing," she stuck out her tongue.

The cold twin folded his arms. "Are you mocking me in Chinese?"

"Noll, Noll, Noll~" she sang, much to reminding Noll with Gene. She giggled at the easy name.

Great.

We have two Genes in the house.

"I heard that Mai," like a magic Gene came with Lin in tow. "Noll, Noll, Noll~ Come on, sing with me."

"Ko-Ko!" she dashed to Lin with her book, ignoring Gene.

Oliver smirked at his brother stunned face. Someone had broken his intention to tease Noll.

Mai opened her notebook in front of Lin. "I'm done with the exercise!"

"English, Mai," Lin told her, taking the book from her and examining her work with his personal pen.

"Solly. And… Oli-Noll helped me with the last answer."

"The last question," Lin corrected.

"What!? He helped you?" Gene asked, shocked.

Mai nodded.

"Noll, Noll, Noll~" he sang again.

"Stop that. Your singing voice is annoying."

"But, you helped someone. That's a miracle. Say, why did you help her?" Gene wiggled his eyebrows.

Oliver promised would shave those brows one day. "None of your business."

Lin ignored them and showed Mai some her wrong answers; almost half of them actually. Mai gave her full attention to Lin's explanation and asked some questions. Lin tried his best to teach Mai until she could understand the lesson.

"I bet you can't refuse her pleading look. Am I right?"

Bull's eye.

"No, you aren't."

Gene laughed. "I knew you aren't immune to Mai's eyes. My brother has a weakness. Aye, aye!"

A book flew right an inch beside Gene's smiling face and crashed into the wall behind him. Gene's mouth froze, then turned around to see the book.

"What the heck!? That's a dictionary and a thick one. Do you despise me so badly that you want to destroy my handsome face?" He cried at his younger twin.

"Oliver! Eugene!" a growl came from the baritone voice they had been familiar for months.

Uh-oh

The twins shivered and slowly looked at their teacher. Lin's face looked so scary. "Meditate for an hour and tomorrow you will run three extra miles."

Noll couldn't accept that. "He is the one who had provoked me first."

"Four miles, then," his voice went deeper and they dispersed right away to their meditation room.

Mai giggled. "You are mean, Ko-Ko."

Lin smiled at her, but not a sincere one. "And you, Mai. Do the problems on page sixty-two until sixty-five."

Mai paled and opened the page. "Ko-Ko you can't b–" her protest was cut off when she saw Lin still smiling at her.

"You want more?"

She shook her head. "N-no, thank you. These forty problems are enough." Not it was not. It was too many for her.

"Good. I have a call to make. Be sure half of them are right or I will make you do more than forty." Lin rubbed Mai's head before went out.

Mai pouted at her chair. "Meanie!" she cried.

Lin heard that but continued on. Taking care of three brats wasn't a joke. Even his pupils back in Hong Kong weren't this handful.

"Are you ready?" Lin asked from the front gate of Mai's new school.

That was the first day of school and Mai had been preparing everything last night with Lin. In the morning she had a bath and put on her new uniform, Lin even braided her hair. She wore a white shirt, navy blue blazer, plaid skirt, bow tie, black long socks, and a pair of Mary Jane flat leather shoes. Lin bought her a pink backpack with little cherries motive on it. It was pretty.

Before she went to school, Luella sure had taken hundreds of Mai's photos in her uniform, squealing non-stop. Martin was also there to wish her good luck.

She had rehearsed how to introduce herself in the mirror last night until Lin came to her room and told her to sleep. Mai couldn't sleep and chose to sneak into Lin's room whilst the man was typing the twins' progress on the bed. She told him she was nervous before Lin could say anything. Without Lin approval, the girl just jumped to his bed, trying to have some sleep. Lin sighed and sing his special lullaby for Mai.

"No, I'm not. What if they hate me? I'm not a British and my English is bad," she was nervous that her hands were sweating. It was because her origin that she got some trouble with Lin's relatives.

"Neither Gene and Noll are British."

"Yes, but–"

"Mai, listen to me," Lin bent so he could stare at Mai's eyes directly. "You will be fine. Gene and Noll are with you, also I have ordered Ni to be with you all day."

"You have?" Lin had never assigned his shiki to follow her to school.

"Yes. Your English is improving and getting better. You can say 'R' correctly now. Don't worry about it. Understood?" he planted some confidence in Mai.

Mai smiled. "Understood."

"Off you go. Oliver has been glaring at us." Lin patted her head. "Someone will pick you up later. I have to help Martin with BSPR after this."

Mai turned at Noll and giggled. "Okay. Good luck." With Lin's bending form, she could kiss his cheek. "See you later!" She dashed to the twins.

"Don't run," Lin warned her.

The three of them walked to the school with everybody wondering who was the girl with the famous twins.

"Ko-Ko, bye!" she shouted, waving with two arms while walking backwards. "I love you."

"Mai, don't–" he facepalmed when Mai was almost fell down on her butt, but the twins prevented it.

Lin didn't know what he should do with Mai's clumsiness.

"Ko-Ko!" Mai shrieked out with an extra big smile on her face when they arrived at home. The twins followed from behind.

"Welcome home, kids" Luella greeted at the kitchen. She came home early because some of her patients were asking for rescheduling. "How was your first day?"

"Fantastic!" Mai jumped up an down. "I make some friends in my class and had lunch with them. They also help me with English!"

"Really? Some new friends you have there, honey," Luella smiled while putting some eggs in the mixer to make a cake. Special for Mai's first day of school.

"Yes. They are good people, but some are quite..." Mai couldn't find the right word.

"Bad? Evil? Wicked?" Luella threw some terms to Mai.

Mai shook her head. "Not bad or evil." She thought again. "Nau... something like that. I forgot."

"Naughty?" The lady offered.

"Yes! Naughty, naughty, naughty," Mai repeated so she could remember it.

"She didn't even need us to blend in," said Gene, taking off his backpack and put it on the chair. He poured some tea into a cup.

"But you helped me before I'm going to my class. Thank you." Mai grinned from ear to ear. "Where is Ko-Ko?"

"He still in BSPR, helping Martin with some of the engineering problems. I heard there is a dangerous virus got into BSPR's systems," Luella answer for her. "But I'm sure he will be here soon."

"Then Martin picks a right person," Mai opened the fridge and poured some lemon water into a mug.

"Why? Is he some kind of a tech geek?" Gene picked a little apple from the island and sit on the stool.

"Geek? What is that?" Mai asked, didn't know that word.

"It's a term to describe an expert or a person obsessed with intellectual hobby or job," said a voice from behind them.

Noll walked to the teapot and had some for him. He had already changed into casual clothes.

"Hey, how can you change so fast?"

"I still don't get it," Mai said with a grimace.

Gene looked at Mai and thought for a simple explanation. "If you like technology and good at it, then you're a geek."

"Oh, I get it." More or less.

"That was I said before," Oliver frowned.

"Your explanation is way too difficult for Mai," Gene spoke the truth, and Oliver rolled his eyes.

"Well, Lin is great with technology. He can fix any computer or electronic equipment when we were still in Hong Kong."

"He likes technology so much, huh?" Luella mixed some cream for the filling.

Mai nodded. "Yes. You should see him when he was fixing an air conditioner with his hanfu. So weird."

"Hanfu?" the lady didn't know what was that.

"It's Chinese traditional clothes, mother," Noll told her.

"Oh, I see. I never see him in hanfu before."

"He only wears those in Hong Kong, though," Mai shrugged. In England Lin usually wore casual clothes or suits.

"I would love to see that," Gene said.

"I have his photo in hanfu. Do you want to see it?" Mai offered.

Gene clapped his hands. "Yes, absolutely."

Mai hopped down from the stool and unzipped her backpack. After some seconds, she found her small pocket album. There were only 3pages in the album and only one filled with her photo with Lin.

"You carry that pocket album everywhere?" Gene asked when Mai walked back to the stool.

"Yes. Here," she gave the album to Gene, Noll and Luella peeked from his both sides. "It was taken on my five birthday."

"Fifth birthday," Noll corrected her again for a hundred times that day since she woke up.

In that photo, Lin was standing behind Mai in his white and sky-blue hanfu with silver embroidery, he had a loose braid to the side and an eyepatch. While Mai wore a baby-blue and peach female hanfu, her hair tied into half pigtails, holding a whale plush toy in her hands and grinning.

Meanwhile, Lin didn't smile at all. His expression kept passive, his visible eye looked very sharp but his hand on Mai's shoulder spoke louder than any word. It was a sign not to mess with that little kid.

"Whoa! He looked like a noble, very regal," Gene responded after gawking at Lin, thinking that someday he wants to wear those.

"Does he always look like that in Hong Kong?" Luella had to admit it that Lin emitted such power and authority there.

"Well, if you mean he wears hanfu every day then the answer is, yes." Mai gulped down her lemon water.

"He must be a scary alpha," Gene mumbled, still staring at the photo.

"Alpha?"

"A leader," the older boy answered. Simple enough for Mai.

Mai shrugged. "Sometimes."

"Mai, do you always can see Lin's shikis?" Oliver asked with a different topic but stayed on Lin.

Mai thought for a moment. "Not always. But most of the time, if they choose to reveal themselves."

"What kind of demons are they?" he now took the stool beside Mai.

"Kinds that could kill you because of your curiosity, young man," their subject of conversation snatched the album from Gene's hand from behind.

"Ko-Ko!" Mai jumped to Lin, hugging him like there was no tomorrow.

Luella had been the first who notice his entrance because of her position and said nothing. She continued making her cake.

"God! How did you do that? I can't even hear your footsteps," Gene put a hand on his chest that beating so fast because of the surprise.

Lin secured his arm on Mai and let her kiss him. It was like another normal day after school for Lin, but Luella almost fainted.

"Why I cannot know about your shikis?" Oliver's eyes narrowed. "It isn't a secret here."

"Your purpose isn't about my shikis, but you're intrigued by Mai whether she has psychic power or not. You are wondering why Mai can see them, however, Gene can't except feels my demons."

Noll got busted there and looked away.

"What? I have psychic power?" Mai snorted. She couldn't understand all the words Lin had said, but she caught most of them.

"I don't know. Do you?" Lin asked back.

"I don't know. But it would be cool if I have power like Gene."

"Like me?" Gene smiled. "You want to see ghosts?"

Mai pursed her lips. "Not that one. It's the one that helps Noll with his power."

"You mean the connection to channel my power into Gene and filter it for me?" Oliver didn't see that coming.

"Yes."

"Why you want that power?" Lin asked.

"You said that Noll's lift-things power–"

"Psychokinesis, PK for short. You can say that, can't you?" the prodigy added.

Mai wanted to punch him but chose to continue. "Yes, PK," she emphasized. "Ko-Ko said that Noll's PK is dangerous without Gene."

"That's true. And…?" Gene pushed her to carry on.

The young girl was trying to form the words inside her head before delivering it. "And Gene sometimes tired. So, if I have that power I can help Gene with chan… chan…"

"Channeling and filtering Noll's power?" Lin helped Mai.

"Yes, that," she smiled gratefully, then at the twins.

Luella was sure her heart stopped there.

"You want to help me or Gene?" Oliver wasn't sure Mai would help him.

"Both, of course. Gene will be less tired and you aren't in danger. Isn't that great?" She looked at Lin. "And Ko-Ko will not stressed out, right?"

Lin stared at her for a second and smiled. A true smile that making Mai's smile got wider. "That's right."

If Gene was speechless, Noll couldn't feel his tongue. The twins didn't know what to say to Mai's innocent kindness. Even though that was only Mai's imagination, but the sincerity was honest and pure.

People wanted power for themselves, but not Mai. From all those many powers in the world, she chose Gene's ability to help Noll and Gene at the same time. And Lin.

"Oh, Mai," Luella whispered, her chest tightening.

"That sounds great to me," Gene smiled back at the young girl. "Thank you."

"That's stupid," Noll emptied his cup and walked away from the large kitchen.

"What? I'm not stupid!" Mai exclaimed at his back.

The other three smirked at each other after seeing Noll's cheeks got a little red before he went out. He was embarrassed.

Her legs couldn't take it anymore, her breath came and out quickly, sweating as she ran. Her high ponytail waved to the right and left, slowly became loose. The wind was cold and the sky was dark.

She didn't know why she was running, but she had to or that man would be angry. She could feel her knees weakened every time she forces them to move. Her chest hurt because of the rapid beating hit her sternum.

"Come on, Mai," said the voice in front of her.

Easy for the owner of the voice said that.

"I-I can't," Mai stuttered because of her breathing. "Can we take a break for five minutes?"

"We have been running only for ten minutes and you want to take a break for five minutes?"

"But I can't anymore. I have never run this much in my entire life," she complained, bending with her hands on her knees.

"Yes, you have. When you were a toddler you ran really fast that Ni had trouble to catch you."

'And he is a wolf!'

Mai dropped her body to the ground. "I will be glad if Ni catches me now and carry me like usual."

Lin could feel Ni wanted to grant Mai's wish, but he held him down inside. "Gene, Noll, continue your run. I will walk with Mai."

"What? I want to walk too, then," Gene whined. They had miles away for their training.

"Go," Lin helped Mai to stand.

Noll pulled Gene before Lin could put some extra miles for them. He didn't need that at all.

"Tell me again, why I have to run with you? I rather sleep at this hour," Mai patted her track from the dirt.

That morning at 5 AM, Lin woke her up and told her to put her tracksuits. After grumbling and moaning about how cruel Lin wake her up so early, she put them on. With fogged mind and bleary eyes, she followed the boys run around the manor after some warming up. Lin watched her so she wouldn't fall.

After more than five minutes, it was rather her sweat did the running than her legs. Yes, back then in Hong Kong she did the servant's jobs and it was tiring. But she was bad at running.

"Because you need exercise, Mai. Running will make your body healthy and decrease your nightmares. Gene's nightmares have lessened from time to time because of it."

Mai walked beside Lin. "I hope so."

"Do you still can't remember your nightmares?" Lin picked up his steps, signalling Mai to do the same. He needed to know whether it was an ordinary nightmare or not.

"No, I still don't," Mai shook her head. "The only thing I could remember is the terror feeling."

After her bad traumatic experience, she had nightmares more frequently. Not every night, but enough to make Mai almost become a permanent residence in Lin's room.

The Chinese man knew, when Mai sneak into his room that means she had a nightmare or feel lonely after he came home from his overseas job. The first time Mai had her nightmare, she came to Lin's chamber crying with pitiful sobs. She was four at that time. Lin didn't have any choice than let Mai sleep with him. Since then, she would show up at his room with her pillow and her favourite plush toy every time she has a nightmare.

"Then why don't put me in dance lesson?" Her walk became faster. "It's the same."

"You want to dance again?"

Mai nodded. "When you left, I stopped coming to my dance lesson because of…"

"It's okay. I understand," he patted Mai's head. "I will sign you up for dance lesson again."

"You will?" Lin nodded. "Thank you, Ko-Ko! You're the best," Mai shouted and hugged him with so much happiness.

"But you still have to run in the morning. Every day."

Mai leant back. "What?"

"And meditate too."

"What!?"

"And Tai Chi."

"KO-KO!"

"Did you hear that?" Gene sharpened his ears while running.

"Maybe a dog howl. Ignore it."

"I'm sure it was Mai's voice." He was so tired that he could sleep again on the grass.

"What's the difference?" Noll asked nonchalantly.

"Hey! That's not nice." The older scolded the younger.

"I'm not nice," he stated the fact.

"I'm tired too, but that's not a right reason to call Mai a dog."

Noll didn't give his reply and focus on the running path. He could feel his body liquid soaked his t-shirt.

"Noll."

"Hm?"

"What do you think about Mai?" Gene pushed back some wet hair.

"Very bad English."

Gene hissed. "That's not what I mean, idiot."

"Then explain it more clearly. My answer was based on what I think every time she talks."

"Geez, I mean her personality. And she is trying very hard with English. You know English is one of the hardest languages in the world to learn. Give her some credits, will you?"

Silent.

"Answer me!" Gene coerced her brother to give a response.

"I'm thinking, stupid! Just be silent and let me think," the younger replied, annoyed with Gene's impatient.

"I'm asking about her, not some physics formulas."

Oliver slowed down his run. "She is a… sincere girl, I guess," those words came out like he was strangled by someone.

"You guess!?" Gene appalled at him. "Didn't you hear what she said last week? She wants to help us without anyone told her to. She IS a sincere girl."

"Well, fine. She is a sincere girl. Happy now?"

Gene grinned at Noll's confession. "I think she will be a great friend."

Noll shrugged. He didn't care, he just wanted a bucket of fresh water and rest.

He hoped Mai wouldn't get near his personal space.

A/N: Just another instalment of the story. Sorry if it's a boring chapter.

I tried not to make Naru's attitude so bad because Gene is beside him.

Let me know if you can't understand Mai's bad English.

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