Disclaimer: I don't own anything of the ever after high franchise and if I did at least half of the characters would be gay.
As Kitty ran away due to the spell Raven cast on her the magically talented queen to be leaned towards Cerice.
"How about we hang out together?"
"Sure. Do you have anything in mind?" She was thrilled to do something with a friend since she was alone most of the time. Hiding a secret and being shy were two things that made lonely.
They sat on the floor wearing their pyjamas and...
"Sooo.. What do we do now?", Cerise was much less thrilled about "doing something with a friend" if that only involved staring at the ground while wearing pyjamas. "Two girls pajama party" had sounded somewhat more exciting and somewhat less awkward.
"I don't know." Raven shrugged cluelessly. "Tea?" She conjured up an entire tea set out of thin air, filled with steaming earl grey and with sugar, milk and cream abundantly available.
"Perfect! I love it!" Cerice clapped her hands enthusiastically and emptied her cup within a heartbeat.
Raven leaned slightly towards her. "So I was wondering. When you are the big bad wolf and little red riding hood at the same time how are you ever going to fulfill your destiny? You can hardly eat yourself up, right?"
"I guess that could be a problem. I don't care about that old story anyway. I mean my parents went off the books. Why should I even attempt not to follow their example?" She rolled her eyes and went on to sip a second cup of really hot tea away like it was water. Raven felt the heat burning in her insides just by watching.
What she said however, did leave an impression on her. Did her words mean that everybody was free to do whatever they wanted and that the whole destiny thing was nothing but hot air? It certainly looked like it.
"I am so glad I could fnally tell somebody about..." she pointed at her wolf ears. "This." She took Ravens hand and looked her in the eyes. "Thank you Raven. I really needed this."
"It goes without saying. We are friends after all aren't we?"
Cerise nodded slowly and ended the awkward silence that followed by drinking up another few cups faster than it could possibly be healthy.
Some time went by and eventually Raven fell asleep while sitting on the ground with her back leaning on her bed. It was at this time that Cerise really looked at her for the first time and realized how pretty Raven was. Now that her hair was an absolute mess and her mouth was opened in a sort of goofy looking way the big bad wolf in the shy little girl awoke and it wanted this sleeping beauty.
Cerise figured that her eyes had probably switched colours by now, since there was nothing she could do to stop herself from slowly moving towards Raven. Her eyes came closer and closer to hers until she could feel Ravens breath on her skin. She smelled tasty and her body heat caused Cerise to growl silently. Her hand was just about to touch Ravens cheek when suddenly a noise broke the magic of the moment. The door. Apple!
Cerise jumped back in a normal sitting position and put her hood over her head. Her muscles were as tense as they could be. What are you doing?! She is your friend! And a girl!
"Oh hey Cerise! I was at one of Briars parties. It was totally awesome, such a shame you missed it." Apple landed on her bed and fell asleep right away. Very convenient.
The little wolf girl picked the little witch up, put her on her bed and her blanket on top of her.
"Good night Raven." She whispered and left for her room.
The weeks that followed were just terrible for her. She only had to see Raven from afar to get into a fistfight with her self control and as if that was not enough, of course Raven had to start a small rebellion against the traditional ways and thereby free her from the pinch of societal expectations and her very existence that she had been stuck in. Raven managed not only to get the wolf inside Cerise to fall for her, but also her human side.
For a while she was caught up in this terrible spiral of wanting to be close to the one she had a crush on and the certainty that she would eat her up in a not so bloody way if she actually tried to get close to her and it drove her absolutely mad! Of course the emotional roller coaster got a little better eventually and she was able to talk to her for a few minutes a day, which was a massive improvement as far as she was concerned.
Cerise thought about just telling Raven how she felt, but the fear of not only being rejected, but also loosing Raven as a friend always held her back.
"I have to go. See you Raven!" And with that she was gone again. Did I do something wrong? Ever since their little tea party Cerise acted in strange ways. The first two weeks she ran away whenever she saw her and after she finally started talking to her again, she always pretended to be in a hurry and was tensed up as a guitar string. Did I cast a spell on her while I was sleeping or something?
Raven was really bothered by this as she liked Cerice and the fact that she was avoiding her for unknown reasons did not help with being a good friend to her. Not to mention she missed talking to her.
She opened her locker and found a note in it concerning a holiday called true hearts day and an associated secret party as well as time and place of said party.
The moment Cerise caught one of the heart blossoms the fairies dropped she knew what she had to do. A few moments later she found whom she was looking for and prepared herself. Never before has she been this nervous an anxious about anything and never before has she had such an urge to quit everything and run, but she mustered her courage took a deep breath and went in the direction of who she thought would make her heart shatter into a thousand pieces.
"Raven?"
She turned around and found Cerise standing there with a face as red as her hood. "Hey Cerise. Are you alright? You don't look so good."
"Raven, I..." Cerise exhaled audibly and held a heart blossom up towards her. "I want you to have this, because I..." She closed her eyes "Because I am in love with you!"
Because I am in love with you! The words echoed inside Ravens head even after Cerise had turned around and ran. She starred at the heart blossom in her hand and was completely stunned. She did not even know what to think at this moment. The last weeks she has been worried Cerise would hate her and now this!
"I don't even know if I like girls that way!" she shouted in her confusion and got the slightly weirded out glares of the surrounding crowd. I need some fresh air!
"Are you two fighting again?" Maddie giggled and sipped on her tea after she noticed that Cerise ran away before they even met again.
"No, we're not fighting.", Raven sighted an continued with misery in her voice. "What should I do Maddie."
"You can only get to the top of a mountain... When you climb it!" Maddie told her giggling with excitement as she usually did.
"So... What now?"
"Talk to her silly! What else?" She thought about something for a second: "Tea?"
"What should I do dad? I just want to disappear." Cerise mumbled from between her arms, where her face was buried. The evening of true hearts day she had spent crying and all the time ever since she spent cursing her own stupidity. How could she have been so dumb?
"Is it about Raven?"
Her head was in position to stare at him faster than anyone could look. "How do you..."
He laughed in a calmand understanding way. "You are as easy to read a book." He put a hand on her head and moved it slowly "Don't worry about is too much. It will be alright."
"You don't have a problem with it?" She had been afraid he would be mad about her falling in love with a girl.
"A problem with what? The fact that you have good taste when it comes to women? Hardly."
Cerise hugged her father enthusiastically. He had just gotten rid of another big burden on her shoulders. "You're the best!"
Raven was set on confronting Cerise and talk this whole thing through. She went so far as to ask the big bad wolf where she was and was slightly confused as a result after he did not just tell her, but also gave her a thumbs up and a wink for no apparent reason.
"The forest? That is the worst description of a location ever!" She noticed after she went to the forest and remembered that it surrounded the entire school. "Great!"
It felt like ours of walking around between the trees, when she finally heard somebody laughing. It was Cerise. She was playing with a young wolf and rolling with it on the ground. To see her carefree and happy like that made Raven smile and gave her a funny feeling in her stomach. Like something was tickling her from inside and lifting something up that weighted heavy in her chest.
"Can I join you?" she asked and smiled awkwardly.
Cerise tensed up immediately. Raven hated that she had that effect on her right now.
"Ahh, sure..." She put the wolf on the ground that curiously sniffed on Raven.
"He likes your smell." She laughed with an expression that appeared to say Not only him though.
Raven sat down on a tree stump next to her. "You know, I have been thinking about what you told me that evening and I might not know what to think about it, but I don't want it to be like it is now. So let's talk about it."
"Raven I..." Cerices eyes looked pained. "I love you. You are the kindest, bravest, smartest and most beautiful girl I know and I don't think I will ever be able to go back to seeing you as a friend. So if it is that you want me to do – Sorry, but no."
Raven felt her face warming up and she quickly looked away.
"I don't really know what I want." She mumbled.
"What?" Cerise thought she heard something wrong.
"I don't really know what I want." Raven repeated a little louder.
Cerises face was right next to her ear within a heartbeat. "Do you want to kiss me?"
Raven was baffled. She was so blunt all of a sudden. Her face got even warmer and she noticed that Cerisses face was also red. "I don't know."
"Do you want to try it?"
Raven nodded.
Cerises hand gently turned her head to face her and to look in her beautifully shining yellow eyes, before she closed them and pressed her lips on Ravens. They were unexpectedly warm and soft and this moment gave her a peace of heart, she had never known before while at the same time igniting a new fire inside of her. Was this love?
"How did you like it?" Cerise whispered in her ear. It was obvious that she was burning with passion, but also more tense than ever.
Raven responded by pressing her lips on Cerises and opening her mouth to signalize that she wanted more. She heard a satisfied growl and felt how a pair of warm arms pressed her against this very special young lady.
I hope you enjoyed it and I didn't mess up wth the language (Not a native speaker). Tell me in your reviews!