Disclaimer: Don't own Code Geass characters, but I do own Annette and her roomie...and possibly other new characters that may come into the story.
Gino wandered into the Ashford library to get away from the girls who chased him everywhere. Annette L Brashivere was in a corner curled up reading some old, beat up book. His eyes widened, and a smirk spread itself across the lower half of his face. No girl at Ashford ever seemed uninterested in him. They swooned and stalked, waited and watched, chased and cornered. She was seeming to be very different.
"Haha, hey. Whatcha readin'?" was his informal greeting to the brunette girl he recognized from his ancient history class. She looked up with eyes wide and throat dry. He was more ecstatic than anything that she was startled. This could prove to be entertaining for Gino. Only a shy bookworm would be fun for his games. Annette coughed and took off the glasses she wore for reading in the library.
"It's Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen," she managed to get out. Her voice raised with courage with each word that passed her lips. Something in her mannerisms and voice made him realize that she wasn't like the girls of the student council or that chased him around. The Knight of Three sat down in the red, floral print, overstuffed chair across from her. His blonde hair shone brighter in the light from the window. The three braids from his hair made her gasp once she noticed them.
Only he could understand it then. Gino coughed once clearing his throat and blushed realizing why she was embarrassed. Annette rolled her eyes thinking of how she would explain it to everyone or anyone later. This was the reason that she didn't talk to very many people. He thought it over and leaned closer to her. Never before had he felt like that. A light flickered in her eyes when there was none that passed.
"I'm Gino Weinberg. You are some girl from my ancient history class," he introduced himself. Annette nodded. She went back to reading something on the back cover of her book. That was getting under his skin oddly enough. Gino liked when girls played hard to get, but she was being ridiculously hard to him.
"The name is Annette Brashivere. You forgot to mention you're the Knight of Three." She called him a player in her head. Not that she truly believed that; it was just that his reputation made it hard to believe anything else. He acted like he was a player around the school. To her, Gino was the epitome of player at Ashford Academy. No one really ever told her any different. Yes, they seemed to be a problem to one another.
Gino reached and took Annette's pale hand in his own. His lips pressed down on the soft skin of the back of her hand. This was one way that he would always greet a girl who intrigued him to no end. His lips spread apart to show his white teeth in a wide smile. Annette's own rosy lips pursed to an almost pout. She was not going to let him pull her in with an attitude like that. She was going to play her own way of hard to get.
"So, Annette Brashivere, how'd you know that I was the Knight of Three? Did you just happen to know who I am because how amazing I am?" asked Gino. His cockiness was overwhelming. Annette was going to puke if she had to listen to him going on about himself. She wasn't one to like talking to people, but he was like the type of person that she'd rather see getting beaten up by the rugby team. Perhaps that would make him shut up.
The chair that she sat in scraped across the wooden floor as Annette stood up to get away from Gino. If he was so interested in her, he was welcome to follow her wherever she went with the exception of the girls' bathroom. The corners of his lips drooped, and his eyes became a little darker as he realized that she was doing this to get away from him. He stood up also to see if he could stop her from leaving him then.
"Well, I knew because everyone here knows. I've got to be going. I'll see you around," muttered Annette. She knew that she would end up seeing him everywhere if he happened to be interested in her out of all his admirers. Nothing could keep her there if it tried. She was the type who thought that everything that Gino did was just for the attention from the opposite sex. Gino could have found that she did just because she hated to see people act like idiots.
She walked out of the library with her nose in the air. It was easy to see the distaste she felt for the Knight of Three. Gino was entranced by this girl that happened to be the one person who could resist him. That was the whole point of her display of dislike. Annette would play this to her strengths later in her life it worked to her likings. Nothing would be able to stop how much she liked messing with a guy like Gino with his whole player reputation.
The next day during first session Ancient History, Gino walked in early taking a seat next to the one that remained empty next to Annette for no known reason. He'd be damned if he was going to get rejected by any girl at Ashford Academy. Little did he know that Annette anticipated his plan and switched with her roommate who happened to be that class. She would sit next to Gino in Annette's spot while Anne was safely sitting nowhere near the two.
Gino listened to the teacher drone on about the way that ancient Egyptians did things. He was sure that if he were an ancient Egyptian, he would have done things completely different. Of course, that didn't matter any in his mind. If only the girl he wanted had done what he expected. Annette giggled once when she turned around to see how he was acting to being outsmarted. It was evident that games weren't only Gino's forte but hers also.
Annette was the first person to leave the room once that specific class ended. Second session passed slowly for both of them oddly. She really did want to see him again. It was odd though that she was acting that way. Her roommate, her classmates, and her few friends realized that something was different about the normally indifferent girl. She waited patiently for the class that she had with one of the Knights of the Round, Anya, to pass.
Third session physical education with Viletta made her shudder. It was the second of three classes that she had with Gino. He may have only mentioned the fact that they had Ancient History together, but he obviously forgot about PE and mathematics, their sixth session. Annette was going to play what she thought to her advantage. Her short shorts were the ones that she normally wore for ballet practice. Her tank top was white and tight just to tease him. An oddly placed smirk was what tied together the whole look for her this time around. Viletta Nu was shocked to see her student early to the gym that day.
"Ms. Brashivere, do you have a reason for being…different today?" asked Viletta. She was going to love this whole plan if she was the type that Annette thought she was.
"I decided that I wanted to see if Knight Gino Weinberg would realize me if I looked like this." She looked down at the clothes that were most like what other girls wore for that class. She was not ging to let herself go unnoticed. He was a warm-blooded male after all.
Viletta laughed at the girl's words. She thought that the plan would work on Gino. She knew him before she even began to teach at Ashford. This was just one way that she figured the sixteen-year-old student could get any boy's attention. She threw Annette a volleyball before speaking again, "Annette, my advice, woman to woman, is that you should ask him to be your partner today for serving. Tomorrow, you should ask the same thing. Then in two days, ignore him. Gino obviously would go to you automatically."
She wanted to say more, but the other students began to file into the gym for class. Viletta called the class's attention and used Annette for her demonstration for that day. She was sure that she could help her out as much as she could for any reason. That was why she had done that whole demonstration. She knew that her students could serve already. Gino wasn't the type who would pay attention to the demonstrations that were in class, but it was different that day. Miss Nu and Miss Brashivere had his complete attention.
"Hey, Gino, do you wanna be my partner?" Several girls had found their way to him before the demonstration was over. He sighed and looked down at each individual one while muttering a quick 'no.' Gino walked away from them all only hoping to find the girl he wanted. As he was about to give up while looking through the partnerless people, a volleyball was thrown into his chest.
"Annette! Oh, hey. Do you, um, want to be partners?" asked Gino when he saw who had thrown the ball. Annette's lips pursed as she thought it over. She had been the one to ask, but since he had asked, she would have been giving into him. This only made the earlier rejected girls listen in more than they already had been. Viletta was watching the two out of the corner of her eye. Part of her wondered if maybe her student was under Lelouch's Geass to distract the Knight.
A/N: If you've read my oneshot, then you may remember the first part. I loved it so much that it got its own story. That was my attempt at a cliffhanger btw.