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Lief was excited. Josh and Ethan were in the same class as him at school this year and since then, they had quickly become best friends. Now they were almost inseparable and were coming over to Lief's house for a sleepover tonight. Josh had slept over at Lief's before but Ethan's mum was pretty strict and wouldn't let him have sleepovers until he was at least nine years old. Ethan had his ninth birthday a month ago, shortly after Joshes, and so he was now eligible (in his mother's opinion) to sleep over. This was going to be his first ever sleepover! Lief couldn't wait.
He looked over at the clock in anticipation: 4:25 it read, in five minutes, his friends would be here!
Lief jumped off the kitchen stool and grabbed a chocolate muffin from the counter; fresh from the oven and still warm. He took a bite and smiled. His mum had baked some muffins for his friends and him to snack on during their stay. It helped a bit that she was an awesome cook.
The doorbell rang.
"Lief, Josh is here!" he heard his mum call. Lief's head shot up and he ran towards the front door, opening it to reveal his friend josh struggling to carry a huge sleeping bag in his arms while his mum stood next to him holding his backpack.
Josh grinned, "Hey Lief."
Lief opened the door a bit wider, "Hey! Come on in."
Josh and his mum shuffled through the door, "Hi Mrs Steven!" Lief beamed at Josh's mum. She asked him how he was and then he took Josh's stuff and threw it on the living room couch. Josh's mum and Lief's chatted in the kitchen while the two boys played soccer outside in the garden. Lief was just about to kick the ball when he heard the doorbell ring for a second time.
"That'll be Ethan!" Lief said, running inside the house. Josh followed,
"First sleepover, eh?"
Lief turned towards him just as he reached the door. "I know right?"
He shook his head laughing then opened the door to greet Ethan.
Lief could see straight away that he was excited. He led Ethan and his mum into the kitchen where she joined the other mum's and started talking about god knows what mums talk about. The three boys went back into the garden and began playing soccer again.
Ethan was the first one to speak up. "Why don't we go down to the park!" he asked. "There's tons of room to play soccer there."
Lief groaned, he knew this was going to happen.
"Well, you see…" Lief began, rubbing the back of his neck.
Josh chimed in, "Lief doesn't like going to the park, because of, what's her name again, Jamie?"
"Jasmine." He said through gritted teeth.
Ethan's eyes widened, "Why? Who is she? What did she do?"
Josh laughed, "just a girl who pushes him around-,"
"Does not!" Lief protested.
"Well if you're so sure she doesn't, then let's go down to the park!" Ethan said excitedly.
"Yeah, come to think of it, I've never actually met her." Josh said curiously.
Lief opened the back gate, "You lucky soul."
They walked across the road and there she was; sitting on her stupid swing, not even swinging on it. Why didn't she just sit on a bench and let other kids have a turn on it. Her hair was knotty as always, and her face screwed up into a permanent scowl. Lief saw her look up at him and his friends and got a sour taste in his mouth.
"Is that here," Josh called out, pointing to a skinny girl with brown hair and glasses sitting on top of the slide. Josh broke into a laugh.
"What? No, no." Lief shook his head, "she's other th-,"
"Is that her!" Ethan gestured to a petite girl with blonde hair, feeding the park pigeons in a white dress, "she could definitely beat you up!" This time, both Ethan and Josh laughed.
"1. That's not her," Lief began, "2. That girl could not beat me up and 3. Jasmine does not push me around."
That only made them laugh harder.
"Well there aren't any other girls here?"
Lief pointed towards the swing set and his two friends turned their heads with an amused expression on their face. As soon as they saw her though, they became instantly silent.
They just stood there for a while, mouths wide open, a blush creeping up their faces. Lief was afraid a fly might fly into their mouths.
"Wow." Was all Ethan could make out.
"yeah…" Josh croaked.
Ethan stumbled on his words, "Dude, she looks-,"
"Like a total snob!" Lief finished. "I know!" His friends exchanged glances, "Let's just stay away from her, Ok? Anyway, the field is this way," and he began walking in the opposite direction.
The two boys gulped and began following Lief towards the grass. They began playing soccer on the field, but Lief's friends weren't really into it. They kept looking over their shoulders every few seconds, trying to see if Jasmine was still there.
Lief kicked the ball towards Ethan who tried to stop it but failed, the ball passing underneath his foot. Lief watched as Ethan gave an apologetic face and then clambered up the hill to retrieve the ball. That just left Lief even more confused. Ethan is awesome at soccer, he thought, he would never miss an easy kick like that.
The ball rolled across the grass onto the barky surface of the playground and then stopped right next to Jasmine's feet. She looked up from the book she was reading and stared at the soccer ball. It was Lief's, she thought, ew.
One of his friends ran up to the swing set and picked up the ball. Jasmine raised her eyebrows. He had light brown hair and hazel eyes, he grinned. "Sorry about that," Ethan said, Lief could hear him talking from the field, "I'm not very good at soccer."
What? Lief thought, not good at soccer! What was going on, Ethan was the best soccer player Lief knew, he was captain of the soccer team for crying out loud. He turned to ask Josh something like, "are you hearing this?" but he was gone too. He looked back up towards the swing set and saw that Josh was now standing next to Ethan, talking to her! He peered at Jasmine's face, was she, smiling?
What the hell was going on? He stomped up the hill and everyone turned towards him. Jasmine's expression changed into a glare and then she brought out her book again and began to read.
Lief ignored her and did a you're-acting-really-weird kind offace to his friends and then said, "What are you guys doing?"
His friends snapped out of where ever they were for a second, "talking to Jasmine," Josh answered quickly.
Lief looked at them like they had just said they were going to jump off a cliff.
"WHY?" he said simply, "Why do you want to talk to her."
Hearing this, Jasmine stood up, "Excuse me!" she shrilled then slammed her book shut and walked up to Lief.
"Hey man, lay off her," Ethan said to Lief. Great, he thought, they didn't believe what a horrible person she was!
"Oh no," Lief shouted, "you guys don't get it!"
"Get what." Jasmine said, folding her arms, "blue boy!"
Ethan looked confused, "blue boy?"
"Wait!" Josh asked, "How did you know about that."
They turned to Lief.
He was silent.
Jasmine broke the silence, "because I was the one who poured it on him!"
Lief rolled his eyes.
"What? You did that! HA, that's hilarious! Lief was walking around school for a week with blue paint all over him! She really does beat you up!" Josh exclaimed.
Lief went bright red but then turned back to Jasmine, "you seem to be forgetting who got covered in paint first Jasmine! Or should I say, green girl!"
Jasmine scrunched her hands into a fist, "YOU LITTLE BEAST! YOU RUIN EVERYTHING!" she stormed up to him and poked him on the chest, "because of you, I can't go to art class and now I can't even read a book!"
He narrowed his eyes, "as I do remember, you flicked paint on me first and as for right now, you don't have to be talking to me right now, you could be reading your book!"
Jasmine looked exasperated. Good, Lief thought, that'll teach her a lesson. "Your insufferable!" she exclaimed, "Your just too stubborn to admit it."
"Whoa." Josh said. Ethan nodded in agreement.
Lief picked up his ball, "yeah, yeah, keep telling yourself that, come on guys, let's go home."
He walked across the road, not even bothering to look back to see if his friends were following him. ARGGHHH! He just wanted to scream! What was wrong with her! She's so, annoying and stubborn! He kicked a pebble on the road and it skidded across the asphalt onto the grass.
Jasmine turned around and sat back on the swing, that comment stung more than Lief fighting back; he had the last word, the last say, and she couldn't do anything about it.
Lief's friends caught up to him, Josh placed a hand on his shoulder, "hey, are you ok?"
Honestly, Lief didn't know. He just knew she hated that girl more than enything.
"Yeah," he replied, "it's just, she's so, so, annoying!" He threw his hands up in the air.
"In her defence, you were pretty mean to her!"
Lief turned around to his friends, "are you kidding me! She's the most cold-hearted person I've ever met!"
Ethan looked at his feet, "I thought she was pretty," he said. Lief's glanced at him strangely and his face got all flustered, "pretty nice, I mean!"
"Sure, that's exactly what you meant," Josh laughed and nudged the red-faced boy with his shoulder, "and don't worry dude, I totally agree! Now, come on Lief, let's go eat those chocolate muffins!"
Lief felt a bit better, at least Josh was happy to drop the subject. But what were they trying to say about Jasmine? That she was, dare he say it, pretty? Ew! Definitely not. In fact, he wasn't too keen on a eating anymore, in the case that he'd feel sick. He imagined Jasmine's face one more time but stopped when he threw up a little in his mouth.
Nope, definitely not. They were talking about something else, I mean, they had eyes! He looked up to see Ethan and Josh, about the walk round the corner.
"Hey! Wait up!" he called. He ran up to his two best friends and put an arm around each of their shoulders, "trust me guys, these muffins taste soooo good!"
Jasmine Horan
well, you can just check PM (: tty soon!
Emilyjade
awww, thanks for the compliment (: and for giving this story a chance!
Guest
Haha! sorry about it repeating! haha, i must've pasted it twice by accident! Its fixed now, but thanks for telling me, i wouldn't have noticed otherwise XD and heres chapter 3 for you, so enjoy :D
AH
Hey! aww, your reading charms too! thanks so much! Charms might be a while, it's the second last chapter and i don't want to stuff it up! I don't want you to wait to long though, so I'll try and get it up online faster! thanks for all your support! :D
Theolnextdoor
oh gosh, i didn't think i was that good an author! but thankyou so much, honeslty, just, wow, thanks so much! :D haha, im reading that back now and i sound like the biggest dork XD Thanks for reading charms too (: haha, im glad you enjoy both of them! And really good DQ fanfics, well, ive read them all! (i know, i have no life!) it depends what your into... ill just give you a few for different topics
i know most of them are jasminexlief so if you're looking for something like that then most of these should be like that (because i love them!) but here are a few of my favourites!:
Dain sees the light by RaineYlevol
An unlikely Relationship (god, this one is sooo good, cause its the only one out their were its, what happened if the shadowlord never invaded, ya know, jasmine grew up as a normal girl, Lief grew up as a prince, that kind of thing) by blerghy
Deltora High by Elven Tresses
Camp Deltora by homesweethomicide13 (seriously any DQ fanfic by this author is usually really good! this is one of my favs although ive noticed most of them are bardaxdoom)
but yeah, theirs a couple, they all involve liefxjasmine to an extent, infact im pretty sure that all of them are bu yeah (: hope that helped, thats a real variety too (:
so yeah, thanks for everything, and happy to help!
well, thats it (: see you guys next time
