Bittersweet Romance

breathes heavily Finally I finished writing and typing chapter 3!! I tried to make it longer but this is all I can to write, but I hope you guys like it. Enjoy the story!

Chapter III - Secret Revealed

She smiled at him then left, leaving the blonde boy speechless. Did Garnet really said yes to him? The blonde boy was just standing there, still can't believe what his "angel" said to him. You can hear the fountain's water flowing down from the silence of the atmosphere, then Blank, Cinna and Marcus came out behind the bush and approached their friend.

"You lucky bastard.." Blank said to Zidane, smirking at him.

"Uuhh, Zidane, Are you ok?" Cinna said poking him.

"Is he breathing?, he's not moving." Marcus said looking at Zidane's face curiously

"Hey, Zidane!!" Blank shouted waking Zidane up.

"She... said... yes..." Zidane whispered

"Yeah, we know that.." Blank replied

"She said yes... SHE SAID YES!!!!!!!!" Zidane cheerfully shouted to Blank "I thought she'll say no to me but she saud YES!!!. I'm so freakin happy!! but... I- I don't know what to do at the festival. What if I mess up,.. What if I do something stupid!! What if--"

"Calm down Zidane!!" Cinna stopped Zidane from talking, holding his shoulders shaking him.

"You have to help me, guys!" Zidane said to them

"No, you have to do this yourself. Since the previous years you always follow her everywhere she go, It's like your her stalker. You don't even talk to her or go closer to her. This is the only year you had a chance to talk to her because Cinna helped you." Blank scolded him while Cinna was smiling behind him.

Zidane sighed "You're right. I have to do this myself... I'll tell her how I feel after the festival."

"Yeah, let's talk about that later we'll be late again. I think our break is over." Blank told them, then they left the garden and rushed to their last period.

After School

School was over, students are starting to go inside the school bus, some of them are just walking home with their friends and others are waiting for their ride. Blank, Cinna and Marcus already went home. Zidane is still waiting for Mikoto and Kaija outside the school, while he's waiting. He sat on the bench.

He saw Garnet waiting for her ride too. Garnet notice Zidane was looking at her, she waved at him and smiled. Zidane's face turned red again and waved at her too, smiling timidly.

"Stop smiling like that, you look retarted."

"Brother's face is so red."

Zidane looked behind him and saw his two sisters. "I didn't saw you two coming."

"Because you're looking at Garnet, dufus." Kaija said to him. Mikoto saw Garnet leaving, she waved at her and Garnet waved back. Zidane looked at Garnet going inside the car and her car leaving. Kaija looked at him and smirked evilly.

Minutes later, their mom arrived. They got their bags and went inside the car.

At Home

When they arrived at their home, Zidane went to his room. He put down his bag, open his closet and change his clothes. After he changed his clothes, he lie on his bed then suddenly someone knock on his door. He stood up and open the door.

"What do you want?" It's Kaija. Zidane looked at her seriously "How mean. Is that how you greet your sister?" She said to him, with a childish voice.

"May I come in my dear brother?" she smiled. Zidane open the door all the way and then Kaija went inside. She sat on Zidane's computer chair and face him.

"Tell me... Do you like that rich, smart girl?" She asked with a serious face "Who? Garnet?"

"Duh, who else?"

"Why?"

"I just wanna know." She stood up and walk closer to Zidane. She touched Zidane's face, she move closer to his face "I can help you" she said smiling evilly. Zidane look away from her so Kaija can let go of his face.

"I don't need your help." He said with a low voice.

"Why not? I'm being nice to you here." she said

"Whatever..."

"Ok fine, I won't help you, but be careful. You don't know what will happen in the future." she said seriously and left. "crazy old lady.." he whispered.

Suddenly his stomach growled. "Man, I need to eat" he said to himself. He left his room and went downstairs, while he's heading to the kitchen he didn't notice Kaija sitting on the sofa behind him,

"I know Garnet's number and address.." Zidane stopped when he heard Garnet's name, he looked behind her fast and saw Kaija grinning.

"H-h-how did you.." he said with a shaky voice.

"How did I know her number and address?" She continued

"Y-yeah"

"I know everything" she said with her evil smile again.

"You want it?" She said leaning on the sofa and waving the little piece of paper where Garnet's address and number is written. Zidane walks closer to her and going to get the paper but then Kaija didn't give it to him.

"One condition"

"What?"

"Clean the house" She said with a bossy tone. "WHAT!? Isn't that your job??!" Zidane shouted. Kaija's eyebrow raised and look at him and she grab Zidane's short and pull him closer to her face.

"Do you want this piece of paper or not?" She said to Zidane's face with a scary voice. "I w-want it.." looking at her with a scared face. Kaija pushed Zidane and let go of his shirt.

"Good. Here." She give the paper to him, she stood up and then walks to her room.

"Don't forget to clean the house ok? Mommy will be mad if you dont. I'm just going to sleep. Thanks my dear brother, that's why you're my favorite." She said while going to her room then before she go inside her room she gave Zidane a flying kiss and winked then went inside her room.

Zidane sighed and looked at the paper. He saw her address and phone number. From the previous years, he didn't have a chance to ask Garnet her phone number or even where she live. He put the paper inside his pocket, then he start cleaning the house.

While he was in the middle of cleaning the house, he heard the doorbell. He went to the door and open it, seeing his Mom and Mikoto behind them was his friends Blank, Cinna and Marcus. His friends wave at him then he smiled back.

"What's with the outfit brother?" Mikoto said

"Are you the new maid here?" Blank joked, Mikoto and his friends laughed

"Whatever.." He said. Zidane was wearing a white apron, white bandana and holding a rag.

"Why are you cleaning the house?" his mom asked. She went inside together with Mikoto and his friends. "Where's your sister?" She asked again.

"She's sleepng." Zidane replied, his mom sighed and went upstairs and knocked at Kaija's door. Zidane looked at his friends "What are you guys doing here?"

"We're bored so we decided to come and see you." Blank said, Cinna and Marcus smiled

"I see.."

"Let's go somewhere" Marcus added

"But I can't. I'm still cleaning the house."

"You can take a break honey." His mom said "I'll tell Kaija to finish this for you." His mom took the rag from his hand. "Thanks mom" He smiled at her and his mom smiled back.

After five minutes, Zidane went down. "Ill be back later!" he said to his mom "Ok, Take care!" and they left the house.

Outside

"Where do you want to go?" Cinna asked while they're walking, Zidane took out the paper "Can we go here?" He gave it to Blank, they stopped walking and look at it. "I know this place.." Marcus said

"Isn't this the place where we saw Garnet?" Cinna looked at Marcus. "Is it far from here?" Zidane asked.

"Not really." Marcus replied. "Let's go check it out." Blank said, then they start walking . After a while they stopped at this street with beautiful houses, Cinna took the paper from Blank and looked at it again. "Hmm.. It says here 902 Crescent Street." They looked at the sign above them, it says Crescent Strt. "We're here, let's look at the number on the houses." Cinna told them, they start walking again and all of them were looking at the numbers. They passed 897, 898, 899, 900, 901, then finally 902.

"Found it.." Zidane whispered, his friends looked at the house that says 902. "Damn.. That's a big house.." Cinna said still looking at the house. Blank saw a black car coming to their direction.

"Someone's coming." They all look at the black car, they hide behind the car next to them. The car stopped in front of Garnet's house. Someone came out of Garnet's house. It wasn't Garnet but she kinda looks like her. "Is that Garnet's mom?" Zidane asked and looked at Blank.

"I think so.." Blank replied, "She looks young." Cinna added. Garnet's mom waved at the black car then she turn back and called someone from inside the house, Garnet came out. Zidane's heart beat again, but when he saw a guy came out of the car his heart stopped beating.

The guy has shoulder-length hair like Zidane's but his hair is brown, but he doesn't have the long hair behind him. . He looks like Zidane a little bit. He looks clean and formal.. "Who's that guy?" Blank asked looking at the guy. "Is he a relative or something?" Cinna added.

"I don't think so.." Zidane whispered. Cinna looked at Zidane then looked again at the guy "Oooh, someone getting jelly here." (a/n: jelly is jealous hehe! xD)

Zidane looked at Cinna, his face got red. "W-what? N-no I'm not, why would I be jealous of him?"

"Psh.. liar.." Cinna whispered looking at him seriously. The guy went inside together with Garnet's mom leaving Garnet at the gate. He saw her sighed, then going to close their gate.

Blank looked at Zidane, who's looking gloomy. "You ok?" Blank asked. "Yeah, I'm fine.." Zidane replied and looked at the gate again. When he saw Garnet still at the Gate, he was shocked when Garnet waved at him.

"Zidane? Is that you??" Garnet shouted. Zidane looked at his friends behind him, they didn't look at him. Zidane waved back at her. Garnet open the gate again and ran to them.

"What are you guys doing here?" She said in a cheerful tone. Zidane looked at his friends again, but they ignore him again. "U-umm.. Well, w-we.. we were just checking this street because there's a lot of big houses hehehe" laughing timidly. Blank put his hand on his head and sighed.

"Oh. Well, this is were I live. My grandmother gave this house to us, when we were at Alexandria." She said. "Oh.. umm.. It's a nice house" Zidane said still smiling

Garnet laughed "Thank you. So where do you live?"

"Me?" Zidane said pointing at himself.

"Yes."

"Uumm.. Not far from here. Maybe three blocks from here" He replied

"I see.. "

"GARNET!!" Garnet heard her mom calling her "Oh I have to go, I'm happy to see here. See you tomorrow at school, Bye!" She waved at them and smiled then she went back inside her house.

"Nice going.." Blank said.

"What did I do again?!" he shouted.

Blank sighed again, "You should've asked her who's the guy who came"

sh#... "you didn't tell me!" he said to Blank

"Whatever.. Just ask her at the festival or maybe tomorrow.." Blank said to him. Then Blank started to walk back to Zidane's house. Zidane looked at Garnet's house one last time, then he started to walk home together with his friends..

End of Chapter III


Oh wow, thank you for all who reviewed and gave me suggestions. I really appreciate it and specially those people who liked the story. I didn't know that you guys will like it, even though the grammars are wrong hehe! Thank you so much, it gave me inspiration to write the next chapter. Well, I hope you like chapter 3. Can you guys give me any ideas what will happen next to this chapter? I will apreaciate it hehe well, see you next chapter! thank you again.