Well this is my first fanfic about Kaleido star and I hope you guys will like it, and I don't own Kaleido star..,
Kaleido stage one of the most prestigious stages in America resides in Cape Mary, California.
This is the place where performers who wants to fulfill their dreams try to enter and perform until they can perform with the two top stars of the said stage.
Layla Hamilton, the Golden phoenix, and Denise McKnight, one of the best trapeze performers around, performs in the said stage. Denise, Layla and another performer named Yuri Killian have been together ever since the three of them joined the stage, but Layla and Denise? They go way back ever since they were kids. They've been engaged ever since they were 6, that's why they've been together all those times.
Now this story starts before the main heroine of the Kaleido stage appears. This story starts when Layla and Denise were trying to perform the Golden phoenix for the Circus Festival in Paris.
*Denise POV*
"Layla, your movements are a little slower this time, let's take a break for 10 min then do this again" I said to her as I sit down the trapeze. Layla was wearing her usual practice outfit a light blue leotards outside a white leggings and her blue shoes and I was wearing my blue board shorts, white shoes and nothing for my top. Usually there would be girls squealing when they see me like this and some boys would be drooling already if they see Layla like this, but for us it's pretty normal.
"Okay, 10 minutes it is" she said as she swings gracefully to the stands.
"Hey! Denise! Layla! Are you guys taking a break?" Yuri said as he enters the practice room.
"Yeah, we'll be taking a 10 min break, why'd you ask?" I said.
"Kalos has been looking for you two, he said to meet him in his office as soon as possible" he said to us
I looked at Layla for a second then nodded at her.
"I think our break will be longer than I thought it would be, let's go and check what he has to say before continuing our practice." I said as I smiled at her, she nodded at me so I took my jacket and drape it on Layla's shoulders and just smiled at her then I wore a muscle shirt over my head then opened the door for us.
"Hey, Yuri, you gonna stay here?" I asked
"Nope, I just dropped by to say what Kalos said to me" he answered
"Oh, I see were you gonna practice somewhere?" I asked again.
"Nope, not really I'm done practicing for today so I'm about to go home now" he answered again
"Oh, I see bye then" I said as I walked up to Layla who was practically leaving me behind.
"What's the rush?" I said as I held her hand into mine. She looked at me for a sec then she answered
"You know how I hate wasting time like this, we should be practicing right now" She said
"Come on now, you know how Kalos is. He should be telling us something about the festival that's why he asked us to come to his office" I said cheerfully
"But still… hm?" she stopped mid sentence since I stopped walking and I pulled her a little so she looked at me "what is it?" she asked, instead of answering her question I pulled her into a tight hug and whispered something in her ear.
"You're too nervous, chill out a little I'll always be behind you or beside you in every situation we face. I'll never ever leave you alone." I rested my hands on her shoulders and looked her into the eyes. "I promise that no matter what happens I'll always be with you, I love you Layla Hamilton" I said as I smiled at her.
"I.., uh" she blushed a little then playfully slapped my cheek "Shut up, you're being a little too cheesy than the usual you know? Where's my REAL boyfriend? He is NOT this cheesy!" she said as she smiled at me. "But Denise, you know what?" she said
"Hm? What is it?" I asked
"Nothing" she said as she walked ahead of me then she looked at me for a while then whispered something" thanks" she whispered
"What?" I asked again since I didn't clearly heard what she whispered to me but she just smiled innocently at me then walked away, and as if I'll let that past me so I ran a little until I could get a hold of her hand and pulled her to me and asked "what did you just say?" I said smiling at her.
"Nothing, It's your fault for not hearing it" she said smiling at me.
"Come on Layla, you can say it again right?" I said to her smiling a little.
"I'm not saying it again, and we're almost at Kalos's office so let's go, we still have to practice after talking to him" she said.
"Ugh.., Fine you win" I said as we both walked to Kalos's office, we were walking hand in hand until we were in front of his door I opened it so we both could enter his office and finish this talk already.
"I only have one thing to say to you both." He said. Layla and I looked at each other for a sec then I held her hand. "You two don't have a place in the Kaleido stage once you two lost in the festival. I don't want second rate performers to perform in my stage so you two better win that festival or you two will never have a place to return to, got it?" he said as Layla's grip on my hand tightened a little so I just had to say something to make her feel a little less tense.
"Then rest assured that, that trophy will be ours" I said calmly and confidently at Kalos. "So make sure that our spot here is still the same as always" I said in a serious tone.
Layla was shocked about what I said but she instantly regained her composure when I let out a smile at her.
"Kalos, Denise is right, we will be home with that trophy so make sure that we will still have our place once we return" she said then she turned around and went out off Kalos's office.
"You didn't have to blow her top like that you know" I said as I looked at Kalos.
"I just wanted to make sure that you two have the will to win" he said.
"I suppose you're right but still seeing her like that, wow! My perception about her will really change if I have no idea of who Layla Hamilton really is" I said as I walked to his door. "Anyways gotta go, we still have to make up for lost time, see ya" I said as I walked out of his office and ran to catch up with Layla.
"Those two can really be the star of my stage someday, but for now, I have to push them to their limits so they can pursue more and learn more in this stage" Kalos said to himself.
*After a couple more of hours training it was 5 pm*
"Alright Layla, its 5 pm already lets pack up?" I said as I pull myself to sit on the trapeze.
"Is it that time already? *sigh* okay, lets pack up" she said as she swing back to the podium.
I was climbing down the ladder from the podium I was standing a couple of minutes ago when I saw Layla staring off to space
"Hey! Layla? You okay? are you tired?" I asked.
"Hm?" she looked at me. "No, not really I just remembered something when we were still in high school" she said.
"High school?" I asked as I wore a shirt over my head and gently straighten it out a little.
"Yea, something happened before, but I really never had the chance to ask you about it, and don't ask me why but I just suddenly remembered it." She said as she gently wiped the beads of sweat on her face with a towel.
"Oh, I see, what happened? I mean what did you want to ask me about?" I asked as I look at her and sipped some water from my water bottle.
"I still need to get changed so, I'll ask you later when we get home, by the way aren't you gonna get changed?" she asked looking at me.
"Me? I'll change once I finish taking a shower so-"but I was interrupted.
"So you'll change once we're at home and that means you'll take a shower at my place again right?" she finished.
"Yea, I was thinking about that" I chuckled.
"I suppose we are so in sync that we can somehow read each other now" she smiled.
"I suppose, or am I just too predictable now?"I chuckled
"You're not that predictable you know. I think only I can read you like this" she smiled as she picks up her sports bag that I took away from her hand and carried it with my own bag.
"And I'll carry this bag for you. You'll change at the girls' washroom right?" I asked while smiling at her.
"Yea" she answered as we walk through the hallway to the girls' washroom.
"I'll wait for you here" I said as lean on the wall next to the door of the washroom.
"Alright, I'll be out in a minute" she said as she took her bag inside the washroom.
15 minutes passed and she went out of the washroom wearing her usual casual clothes. Orange blouse and white skirt and her red high heeled shoes with white anklet lock. I was staring at her for a while but then she somewhat caught me a little off guard since she stared at me as well then she walked towards me.
"Is something wrong? Or does my outfit doesn't suit me?" she asked looking directly at my eyes
"Huh? Yea, I mean, you look good, you look great on your outfit and it suits you well" I said as I nervously laughed and scratched the back of my head.
"You sure? Your look on me says something else, are you sure it's ok? This is the usual clothes I wear right?" she asked again.
"Yea, I'm positive that it looks good on you. Don't mind me, I was just thinking about something that I dazed off thinking about it, sorry" I said as I tried to cover the slight blush I felt on my cheeks with my hand.
"Ok then. I trust you with these issues so shall we go?" she asked smiling at me.
"Yea, let's go" I cleared my throat a little then took her bag from her hand while smiling at her then I carried it and walked beside her 'til we reached my car. My car is a 2007 model of a top – down convertible carera 4s Porsche. I first opened the door where Layla will sit in then I closed it gently when she's already sitting inside while I put our bags behind our sits then went to the driver's sit and I drove us back to the Hamilton's house.
It was a 45 minutes drive since traffic got in our way. We arrived at her place by 6 pm already and when we got there. I got off the car and took our bags first then I saw Layla getting off the car as well.
"So shall we, Miss Hamilton?" I said as I offered my free arm to her like a gentleman would.
"Looks wise?" she said as she looks at my outfit. "You don't really look like a gentleman, but personality and attitude wise? You are a real gentleman Mister McKnight." She said smiling as she took my arm and clings to it.
We walked inside her house and I escorted her back to her room. I was about to go into my room. Well since we were engaged and I spend almost all my time with her, her father decided to give me a room next to Layla's since whenever she has a problem or is thinking about something she have this habit of calling me in the middle of night asking me if I'm busy or something then she'd say she's fine so I'll somewhat go into panic mode and drive as soon as I can to her place to talk to her, so whenever that happens I still have to drive back home or she'll insist on making me sleep in one of the rooms in her house or if she's really bummed out I sleep next to her to make sure she'll be fine. Then I turned around and faced her.
"Do you have any plans for dinner?" I asked.
"Nothing, why'd you ask?" she said looking at me.
"Do you want me to whip up something? Or should we just go eat outside?" I asked again.
"It's been a while since you've cooked something so, I guess-"she said halfway
"Do you want steak?"I asked looking at her. She smiled at me
"Yea, anything would do. I'll just take a shower then I'll meet you downstairs" she said smiling at me
"Ok, I'll do the same" I said smiling at her then turned around to go to my room.
When I got into my room, I placed my sports bag beside my bed and realized that I'm still holding Layla's bag so I went back to her room and knocked on her door.
*Knock, knock*
"Layla? Hey, Layla your bag's with me can I come in?" I asked
"Just a minute" she answered behind the door. I was standing there in front of her door waiting for her to open the door so I could drop her bag in her room and carry on to my room and take a shower already. She opened the door and all she was wearing was a bathrobe I instantly covered half of my face with my free hand to cover the blush I instantly felt creeping into my cheeks.
"What the hell? What's wrong with me all day today? I've been blushing with every move she makes. What's going on with me?" I mentally asked myself.
"Is something wrong?" she asked looking at me.
"Huh? Nothing, I'm fine" I said smiling at her waving my hand in front of me. "Anyways, here's your bag I forgot to drop it off a couple of minutes ago." I said as I hand her bag to her.
"Oh, thank you. I'm looking forward to dinner tonight" she said smiling at me.
"Don't worry I'll whip up something good for you. Promise, so see ya later" I said smiling while I went on ahead to my room to take a shower.
I was in the shower and things that happened today made me think a little.
"What's wrong with me? I've been blushing like mad ever since our practice finished this afternoon. I know that I haven't seen her for over a week because of work but this? This is something new! I've never been like this towards her. We love each other and we're both aware of our feelings for each other but this is really weird. Am I falling over and over again for her?" I stared at the shower's knob for awhile then I got a little agitated
"Arrrgghhh! I don't know anymore!, damn!" I shouted then I turned the shower a little more harder and tried to finish as soon as I can.
After I finished taking my shower, I dried myself with a towel then wore a boxers then I laid myself on my bed for a sec.
"Damn, this is really getting on to my last nerve. This is really irritating, *Sigh* but I need to get a move on, I have to cook something for our dinner so I better dress up already" I was mentally lecturing myself as I laid there in my bed but as I have thought I have to cook something for us so I opened my cabinet took a shirt and wore it, then I pulled a black slacks and wore it and then I wore my black socks then my leather shoes and took out a black coat and wore it.
I went downstairs and into the kitchen I saw Makkoli in there.
"Hey, you gonna cook dinner?" I asked her.
"Yes, Sir Denise" she answered politely
"Oh, I'll take care of that. I promise Layla that I'll cook for her tonight so, let me take care of that tonight" I said smiling at her. Then I turned around to take my coat off and hang it on a chair at the dining table and took an apron wore it and put a bandana on my head to keep my hair in place.
A couple of minutes passed as I was cooking our dinner. The menu for tonight was steak covered with mushroom steak sauce, rice and for dessert chocolate fondue with strawberries and marshmallows on the side. I was practically smiling the whole time when I was cooking the steak and melting the chocolates, I don't know why but I was smiling and happy cooking dinner tonight.
"Smells nice" Layla said from behind so I immediately turned and I saw her behind the counter, arms crossed and she was looking at me, slightly smiling. She was wearing her blue sleeveless blouse, white skirt and white high heeled shoes.
"Does it smell nice?" I asked as if I didn't hear her say it was nice.,
"Yea, it smells nice. It's a good thing you know how to cook" she said smiling at me.
"Well, that's just one of the advantages of being home alone and far away from your parents because of work" I said to her "By the way Makkoli, did you finish what I instructed you to do already?" I said smiling at her.
"Yes, Sir Denise" she said smiling at me.
"Nice" I said. "So, could you, well, escort Miss Hamilton there?" I asked her
"Of course! it's my pleasureSir Denise" she said as she turns to Layla and I continued on cooking.
"Denise?" she asked
"Don't worry 'bout a thing, everything's gonna be ok, just trust me on this one Mademoiselle Layla" I said smiling at her.
"Whatever, you say then" she said as she let Makkoli escort her outside.
"Alright, I have to finish everything up then" I said as I flipped the pan with steak, then checking out the chocolate on the other pot.
10 minutes more then everything was done. The fondue was neatly placed in a bowl and a saucer was beneath it with some mints on the side. The steak was place on a plate with a cup of steamed rice and was presented neatly and now for our drinks since I have no intention of making Layla drink alcohol or any kind of wine for that fact so I already prepared a nice apple cider with cherries inside the champagne flute.
Before I actually went outside to face Layla, I somewhat smelled myself first to know if I still smell like steak or something like that.
"Hmmm, I don't really smell like steak so I guess I should head there now. She might be bummed already from waiting, and I'm getting a little hungry now" I said as I took the coat I hang on the chair and wore it. I saw a couple of roses in there vase so I picked and took just one and I held on to it as I went to their garden, as I walked the hallways to the place I tried to fix my hair a little since it's been on a bandana ever since I walked out of the kitchen to cook.
Then I was there just beyond this glass door, I saw the girl that made my heart always skips a beat or rather make my heart beat a lot faster than the usual. I smiled a little first then I opened the door smiling at her.
"Beautiful night isn't it?" I said smiling at her.
"Yea, it is a beautiful night" she said staring at the sky.
"Hey, this is for you" I said as I hand her a rose
"Thank you" she said as she took the rose from my hand and gently smells the rose "It smells wonderful" she said smiling at me.
"Anyways, let's eat? The food will taste bad if it gets cold" I told her.
"Yea, I was looking forward to this. It's been a while since someone else cooked food for me. It's always been Makkoli, it's not that her cooking is bad it's just that it's always her or I'm always dining out with my father" she said looking at the flower at her hand.
"Makkoli" I said as I looked at Makkoli.
"Yes sir?" she answered.
"Could you, uhmm, bring the food I cooked here? Oh right, I cooked some for you as well, it's beside the platter I made for Layla and I, awright?" I said smiling at her.
"Oh!, thank you sir Denise and I'll bring your food right away" she said smiling at Layla and I.
I was staring at Layla for awhile and I guess she hasn't noticed it yet since she was still looking at the rose I gave her.
"Hm? Is something wrong?" she asked. "You've been staring for awhile, is there something on my face?" she asked again.
"Nothing, nothing's wrong, I just, I don't know, it's been a while since we have some free time to spend with each other like this, right? I've been away for awhile because of work, and now we can't really spend time together that much because we're training for the circus festival, and it's just, I'm starting to miss hanging out with you, that's all" I said smiling as I scratched my cheek a little since I can feel that I'm blushing already.
"I, I don't know what to say" she said a little surprised with my confession. Although I saw that coming it still somehow made me a little sad
I chuckled a little. "just as I thought" I said chuckling again,
"what do you mean" she asked
"what I meant was, I already saw that answer coming, we've been together since we were kids so, I already have an idea to what your answer to that kind of confession" I said trying to cover the sadness I felt in her answer.
"oh, so am I predictable now?" she said coyly
"no, not really, I just know you more than any other guys is all" I said smiling.
She just tried to hide her blush with her bangs then looked at the garden.
"Lady Layla, Sir Denise" Makkoli called.
"yes" I said as I looked at her.,
"Dinner is served" she said smiling at us.
"hey, thanks" I said smiling back at her.
"Makkoli, thank you" Layla said.
"So shall we eat?" I asked, but then I remembered something "Hey, Layla, what was that something that you remembered back when we were in high school?" I asked. She was about to eat but then she put her fork back to her plate then.
"Oh, that I just remembered that…"
And cut!
this is my first fanfic about Kaleido star.,
So I hope I won't get flames on this..,
Healthy reviews would be nice though..,
Thanks
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