She looked at Grenchant who was arguing with Maxwell while Maxillary was looking at her intently. She gave him a smile when she to met her brother’s scrutinizing eyes.
His face quickly beamed and his ears became red, suddenly forgetting about his sister’s confusing acts.
‘Cute.’ Maxine thought.
Maxillary did not saved Drenchville this time. It was such a shame to bring him along for nothing and Maxwell and Grent at that.
Maxineirah looked at Grenchant when she thought of something useful of him.
“Gre-” uh-oh she almost called him by his name when Grenchant was still not even introducing his self and calling him without formality at that. She swallowed the lump on her throat.
“Who are you?” she asked pertaining to his childhood friend.
“Yeah, speaking of… who are you?” Maxillary and Maxwell seconded in chorus.
“Huh?”
“You don’t know me?!” Grenchant asked with high pitched voice while pointing to his self.
“Would we ask if we know you?” Maxillary.
“Have you already introduced yourself?” Maxwell added
Grenchant fell thinking for a moment and after remembering that he did not inteoduced his self on the siblings yet, he bumped his fist’s side to his palm and gapped his mouth into an ‘Oh’.
He suddenly felt proud. At last, he could feel it since he received few humiliations from them.
He could brag that he was a Duke’s son, not knowing that Maxillary and Maxwell were also a Duke’s sons and also Maxineirah’s brothers.
He only thought the two boys who was with Maxineirah were just servants and soon, that would break his expectations for himself.
“Huh! How could you not know. I am Duke Gabriela’s son!” he said proudly in his grin with his hand on his chest. Obviously, boating his profile and noble birth.
Maxwell and Maxillary scowled in unison.
“We are also, though.” Maxillary said plainly that solidified Grenchant’s thoughts.
“What?!” Grenchant asked exasperatedly with his eyes widened looking at Maxine’s two brothers.
“Are they saying the truth?!” Grenchant asked and pointed his fingers at her brothers. Maxine cleared her throat.
His finger again.
“Certainly. Yes. They are my blood brothers” Maxine replied with her eyes closed, nodding her head in agreement.
“So… who are you again?” Maxillary asked for the second time, who really knows nothing about the other nobles. Grenchant’s mouth gapped open.
“I told you, I am Duke Gabriela’s son!” Grent said.
“Who?” the two boys who doesn’t have an idea asked in unison. It was like, a question mark were planted on the top of their heads.
Maxine shook her head as she sighed before chuckling a little to herself. As expected to her brothers.
“I am Grenchant Lovage Keithleen Froster Grabriela!” he said proudly as if he wanted them to clap hearing his good name.
“Oh. Ok.” the three of them deadpanned that irritated Grenchant.
“Maxillary Deanshanger Gresford Levyne Zachrono.” Maxillary politely said.
“Maxwell Kalamos Zanetti Levyne Zachrono.’ Maxwell said snobbish.
“I am Maxineirah Shinoe Alde Levyne Zachrono, Young Master.” Maxineirah actively introduced herself.
Maxineirah felt something pricking her nape and noticed that someone might looking to her so she immediately looked at Drenchville -whom she did not leave her attention after seeing him- and found him staring at her.
Though, Drenchville was not staring at her literally, but she could sense that he was staring at her in his peripherals. Well, they both did.
It would be hard to find him again if she lost the sight of him. Thankfully, he did not wandered off too far.
She looked again at Grenchant.
“Then, Good Son of House Gabriela, Young Lord Grenchant, may I ask you something?” Maxine asked formally with a small smile on her face.
Again, Grenchant stared at her in awe but immediately went back to his senses when he heard the girl’s brothers exaggeratedly coughed.
He rolled his eyes at them before throwimg his attention to Maxineirah and pretended to be graciously serious despit of his turning red ears and neck.
“You can cut the formalities. I could do anything that is within my powers, Lady -wait. What should I call you?” Grenchant asked baffled.
“Maxine. Call me Maxine.” Maxineirah replied smiling that made Grenchat beamed in happiness and her brothers to protest.
“What?”
“You will let a stranger to call your name?”
“Well, he is not a stranger anymore brother, he said his name is Grenchant.”
“Still, do not let him call you that!”
“Why?”
“Just do not!”
“It is my name.” Maxillary and Maxwell was left speechless. It was indeed her OWN name.
“Then you can also call me Grent.” Grenchant butted in excitedly, his eyes glimmered in joy.
Maxine giggled quietly.
“Yes. Then, can you lead my brothers on your playmates? I am sure you know why. My brothers based on the rumors circulating around, they are not good with interacting.” Maxine said half smiling.
Grenchant was in dazed because Maxine sounded like an adult but he definitely get it while the brothers felt like they were stabbed in the head.
“Hey!” they protested.
Maxine leaned forward to Grent who seemed to be flustered by her sudden move. She smiled britghtly and the two on the sides were fuming mad.
“If you do, You can request anything from me.” she tilted her head and the Young Lord unconciously agreed to her without thinking because of too much flush.
Maxineirah then approached his two brothers and hugged them -before they could even nag her- and their anger immediately dispersed and even kneeled just to hug Maxineirah properly.
“Our Maxine is such a cutie pie.” Maxwell said charmed by Maxine and started inhaling her fresh scent.
“Indeed. So we should not let some bastards take her away.” Maxillary stated poisonously as he sent sharp look at Grent who did not look like bothered at all and was just smiling insanely to himself.
Maxineirah’s lips twitched and she had goosebumps on her nape.
She also quickly hurried back from them.
“Can you go with him brothers?” Maxine was trying to look pitiful infront of them. They looked at each other because she looked like a lost kitten. Despite of that look, they were ready to refuse when,
“I also want to play with you, brothers but you do not know how to handle play so I quite pity myself for knowing brothers could not play with Maxine because they do not know how.
“So Maxine went to ask for an aquiantance to guide brothers in learning how to play. Does brothers hate the idea?” Maxine asked sadly and looked disappointed.
She was not so sure if this kind of work would be enough to convince his two hard-headed brothers.
She was embarassed right now for looking like that and saying those words just to make her brothers agree.
‘Just say yes, brothers!’ she prayed silently.
Maxwell and Maxillary realized that Maxineirah’s words were true. They had not truly played with her even once because they do not know how. The only fun thing that they know were to catch bugs and insects or any animals in their gardens and giving it to her afterwards.
They also know that Maxine only tagged along with them at first because she has no one to play with but whem she got interested in swords, she did not go with them anymore when catching bugs.
“Fiiiiiinnnneeeeeeeee.~” both of them replied in defeated tone. They were pouting and kept looking back at Maxine who was just waving while smiling at them as they left the place with Grenchant daydreaming.
The task was accomplished with his two brothers and she all need to worry about was when would her three more older brothers realize that she was gone so she needs to be quick.
It would not be long from now before her brothers search for her whereabouts.
She have to deal with Drenschville for now.