Hiiiii!! I got a sudden flash of inspiration and wrote this, so I hope its good! This takes place in the first series, somewhere after 'The Siren Effect' but before 'Love Potion #9'. Enjoy!!
Disclaimer: I don't own H20: Just Add Water. If I did, this would have happened. And Charlotte would not be in it.
"So, I was wondering," Lewis scratched the back of his neck nervously. "If you wanted to go get a pizza or something tonight...?"
Cleo smiled at him. "I'd love to Lewis," she said, walking around a large puddle of water on the way back to her house. "But...I can't. Sorry. I've just got somewhere to be, someone to meet..."
They turned the corner and Cleo let out an excited squeak. "He's here! Sorry Lewis, I've gotta go! I'll see you tomorrow, ok?"
"Um, yeah, yeah, sure," Lewis watched her running into her house, a happy grin plastered on her face. "...he?"
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"Lewis tells us you had a boy at your house," Rikki stated as Cleo slid into the seat opposite them at the JuiceNet Café the next day. "Care to explain?"
"Nope," Cleo smiled dreamily into space. Emma and Rikki glanced at each other.
"Hi guys," Lewis dropped himself next to Cleo. "Hi, Cleo. Cleo?" She continued to daydream. Lewis waved his fingers in front of her face. "Yoo-hoo, Cleo?"
"Hmm?" Cleo snapped out of her trance-y thing, just in time to look at the door and see a tall, dark haired boy walk in. He was good-looking, with dark grey eyes and long brown hair and a wide smiling mouth. Cleo grinned and waved, and the boy waved back. "Sorry, Lewis, gotta go," She squeezed past him and skipped to the door, linking arms with the boy. They walked out the door together, chatting and laughing.
Lewis was frowning.
"Cleo has a boyfriend," Emma said, trying the sentence out in her mouth. "Cleo, boyfriend, boyfriend, Cleo..."
"Cleo, boyfriend, who's not Lewis," Rikki put in.
"Oh yeah, forgot that bit," They both looked at Lewis. He was still frowning.
XXX
Cleo's phone rang. And rang. And rang.
James rolled his eyes. "Cleo, your phone's going off!" he yelled down the corridor.
"I'm busy, James, just leave it to go to answer machine!" Cleo called back up the stairs.
He looked at the caller ID. "It's Lewis!"
There was a bang as Cleo dropped something in the kitchen and came running up the stairs. She grabbed her phone off James and put it to her ear. "Hi, Lewis!"
James smirked. "Cleo's got a boyfriend..." He dodged her smack and laughed.
"He's not boyfriend, shut up! No, not you Lewis...Was that tonight? Are you sure? Sorry Lewis, I can't," Cleo's face fell. "No, no, it's not that, my family is going out to dinner together tonight. I'm sorry...I'll see you later...Bye,"
"What?" James pouted at her as she hung up solemnly. "Missing a date with your boyfriend to come out on a family dinner?"
Cleo just gave him a death look. "Every now and then, me, Rikki, Emma and Lewis all get together and sleepover at someone's house. Its usually Emma's, 'cause hers is the biggest. And we have movies and snacks and we usually stay up half the night talking. We always plan them ages in advance, and I forgot it was tonight." She flopped down on her bed. "This sucks."
"Was Lewis the blonde boy you were sitting with today when I met you at that café place?"
"Yes...why?"
James gave her a superior 'I'm-Older-Than-You-Therefore-I-Know-About-These-Things' look. "Cleo, you talk about Lewis all the time. Do you think I don't know what's going on here? You like him."
Cleo shook her head and jumped off her bed. As they walked downstairs, Cleo said, "Me and Lewis have been friends since we were five, of course we like each other, you generally do tend to like friends." She stopped halfway down and turned to face James. "And that's all, ok?"
"Right," James nodded and headed down the stairs after her. "So...have you kissed him yet?"
"James!" Cleo shouted and he grinned.
"I'll take that as a yes, then, shall I?" He ran out of the door as Cleo chased him down the street.
"When I catch, you, you are gonna be so- Lewis!" Cleo froze in the middle of the pavement.
James stopped and turned to face her, looking confused. "I'm gonna be Lewis?" he asked.
"No...Lewis," she marched forward, grabbed his hand and started to pull him back into the house. He easily escaped her grip and looked down the road to see Lewis walking up with the two girls who were at the café earlier. He guessed they were Rikki and Emma.
"No way," James laughed. "I've got to meet lover-boy." He started to run down the street towards them.
"James!" Cleo cursed herself for wearing a skirt as she ran after him.
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Ring. Ring. Ring
"Is she answering?" Emma asked.
"If she was answering, would I be silent?" Lewis asked her.
"Point taken," Emma admitted. Rikki smirked.
"Hey Cleo!" Lewis nodded to the girls. "You want me to shut up? Oh right...So you, ready for tonight, the sleepover thing...Yes, its tonight Cleo...Of course I'm sure! Oh...is it cos of the pizza thing yesterday? Oh...no, no it's fine...I'll see you then...Bye..."
He took the phone away from his ear. "She can't come tonight," he told the girls. "She has a family dinner, or something."
"Its not gonna be a proper sleepover without Cleo, though," Emma pointed out. Rikki shrugged.
"At least she won't be there squeaking at every minute in the horror movies," she pointed out.
"But-" Lewis started, then stopped. He wasn't about to tell them that Cleo always sat beside him during the horror films and she held his hand all the way through because she was scared. No, he wasn't going to tell them that.
"But...?" Rikki asked him, with a slight smirk. "What was that Lewis?"
"Nothing, nothing," he said quickly avoiding her steady gaze.
"We should go by Cleo's house," Emma decided. "And see if she approves of us having the sleepover without her."
As they walked up the street to Cleo's house, they saw the boy from earlier in the café running away from Cleo, who looked happy and mad at the same time. Then she saw them walking up and froze. The boy turned and watched her, and she walked up o him, said something then grabbed his hand and started walking in the opposite direction. The boy slid out of her grasp, grinned at her then took off towards them.
He stopped right in front of them. "I'm guessing you're Emma, Rikki and Lewis," he said. "Cleo has told me so much about you lot, especially – OW!" He turned round and saw Cleo behind him, her hand still raised from where she had whacked him across the back. "What was that for?"
"James, get inside," She told him gravely. "Please,"
James watched her face for a few minutes then nodded. "Ok," he started to walk back up the street. Cleo took a deep breath and sighed, before following him.
"Cleo, wait-" Lewis took a step forward.
"Not now Lewis," she turned round. "Sorry I can't come tonight, just have it without me, ok?"
And she ran off, leaving her confused and upset friends behind.
"Well," Rikki faked talking brightly. "That went well, don't you think?"
So, what d'ya think? If I get enough reviews, I'll put up the next bit! And if you're reading, this and have n idea for a H20 fic, please write it and add it, cos we need more on here!!