a/n: Okay, here's to a few of my reviewers if I can remember their names. lol
Hershey_Kiss: Whew, I'm glad I didn't lose you! Your last review kind of made me worried! lol Don't worry, I'm trying very hard to update. Wanna' check out an original fiction of mine? Oh!! Hold on, I'll put that at the end of my reviewers to everyone. lol
Black-Rose-Of-Death: Alex really doesn't like Jade just because she doesn't like her. She hates the fact that she's her sister, but always plays the part of her mother, telling her what to do. As you said, things in a teen's mind are complicated. lol
K Yami Yugi29, Kanikameskhenet, Lily of the Shadow: I'm glad you like the fic, and I hope you stay with me! And bear with my long review answers. lol
a/n: Okay!! Here we go. I put up an original fiction on fictionpress.com. I'm Greenwood Dancer there too, and my fic is Melina Hallaway. It's an action/adventure/fantasy fic. Well, anyone who wants to check it out, reviews are most certainly welcome and appreciated. ^_^
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Alex was walking home from school, her coat wrapped tightly around her. The gang thought she was insane, walking home in the freezing weather, but Alex couldn't stand riding the bus. It was too cramped with too many people acting like idiots. Normally she would walk with Bakura, but his dad had picked him up to go run some errands or something.
She sighed, somewhere between happy and annoyed, and bent her head against the wind. She reached home a few minutes later, extremely happy to get inside out of the cold. Alex shot up the driveway and through the front door, slamming it behind her with a violent shiver. She was reluctant to take off her coat and rubbed her arms, trying to warm herself up. Finally, after a few minutes standing by the door, she took off her coat and put it on the hook. For the first couple of seconds she felt rather cold, but she refused to hug herself, knowing that would only make her colder when she let go.
She sighed and entered the living room where Jade sat with David, watching TV. When David heard Alex come in, he snapped his head around.
"Alex! Hi!" he said happily, a broad smile on his face.
Alex grinned, walking over to the couch. She tousled his hair as she dropped down next to him. "Hey squirt. Did you get stuck with homework?"
David rolled his eyes. "Duh. And half of it's math. Is Bakura here? Can he help me?"
Alex grinned and put an arm around her brother's shoulders. "If Bakura was here I wouldn't be sittin' with you."
"Gross!" David cried, though he was laughing.
When Bakura came over, if David had math homework, he'd usually help him. After he spent some time with Alex of course, but he had become almost a brother to David. Sometimes Jade wished that Bakura was her brother's role model instead of Alex. Alex could just be so... overwhelming sometimes.
At the moment, Jade sat on the other side of David, completely unnoticed by either of them. The second Alex comes into the picture she disappears from the face of the Earth. Why did her sister insist on turning David against her? Jade sighed and turned her attention back to the TV. She still had the frame to tell Alex about. But how could she bring Alex down when she was in such a good mood? She hadn't told David either, how could she? How would she tell them that she had broken it?
"I'm going to get some water, you want some, Alex?" David asked, looking at his sister with his huge, brown eyes.
"Yeah, sure. Don't forget the ice!" Alex called after him as he headed into the kitchen.
"Right!" he called back and disappeared into the next room.
Alex put her feet up on the coffee table and reached for the TV remote, but her sister snatched it away.
"I'm watching that," Jade said.
Alex scowled, but did nothing more, which made Jade feel even worse. Her sister was really in a good mood if she wasn't up to arguing with her. But the second Jade told her about the frame, Alex's mood would change for the worst. The redhead fidgeted in her seat nervously, staring at the TV.
"Here Alex," David said, handing his sister a glass of water over the back of the couch.
"Thanks squirt," she said, taking a sip of it. She tousled his hair before standing. "I've got homework, so I'm headin' up the stairs, alright? I'll see you later."
"Okay. Bye," David said. He looked over the couch to watch his sister jog up the stairs and disappear around the corner.
Jade felt her heart speed up and she squeezed her eyes shut, waiting for Alex's furious shriek. A few minutes later Alex came to the top of the stairs.
"David, where's that picture frame you gave me? Did you move it or something?" she asked, leaning on the banister.
David turned around in his seat and gave her a curious look. "Uh uh, why, can't you find it?"
"No, I can't, if I could, I wouldn't be asking you where it was." She turned her attention to Jade, her eyes dark. "What about you, Jade? Did you move it?"
Jade felt numb all over as she pushed a lock of her scarlet hair behind her ear. "I... I lost..." She heard thumps as Alex came down the stairs quickly. A few seconds later Jade was staring up at her, fury in her sister's eyes.
"What did you do? Where is it?" Alex cried.
"Alex, it was an accident, I lost my balance... and it broke... I'm sorry!" Jade said, waiting for a punch in the face.
"YOU WHAT?" Alex shrieked. "What the hell were you even doing in my room?"
"I was doing the laundry and I had to put your clothes away..."
"How many times have I told you to stay out of my room? THIS IS WHY! Where is it?" Alex asked.
"In my room..." Jade replied quietly. She watched as her sister stormed up the stairs to Jade's room.
"Alex's dresser is on the other side of her bed, how did you lose your balance and knock over her frame?" David asked, looking at his sister.
"I was looking at it..." Jade muttered. She suddenly felt ten years younger, losing all of her maturity in the realization she had done something bad.
"That frame took almost all of my money! I wanted to get something really special for Alex and you broke it!" David cried. He got off the couch and ran up the stairs after Alex, Jade staring after him, a hurt expression on her face.
She had expected him to be upset, but he had never yelled at her before. Not like that anyway. Like... he really... hated her. She hadn't known any of this, she hadn't known how much that frame had cost her brother, or how hard he had looked for something that would show his sister how much he loved her. How could she have been so clueless?
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Alex sat on her sister's bed, holding the pieces of her beloved picture frame. She pieced it together and looked at the photo, half furious, half sad. She looked up as she felt weight on the bed. David had climbed up and sat cross-legged in front of her, his hands in his lap.
"What right does she have to touch my things?" Alex cried, holding up a piece of the frame.
"She doesn't! You told her a lot of times not to go into your room too! I paid a lot of money for that! Moki helped me find something perfect and Jade broke it!" David said, staring at it. Alex thought his eyes looked slightly misty, but she said nothing about it.
"I can't even fix it," Alex said, removing the photo. "I should break something valuable of hers and see how she likes it!" She got up from the bed and put the frame in the garbage, fury in her eyes.
"No, don't do that. It /was/ an accident," David said, looking up at his sister.
Alex turned to him, slight confusion in her eyes as to why on Earth he would stand up for Jade. She studied him for a minute before turning away and saying, "Whatever." She left the room and headed into hers, the photograph in her hand. She slammed the door shut, the sound echoing throughout the house. Sitting down on her bed, Alex looked at the photograph, remembering the day it was taken. She had been with the only two people she cared about and even Jade's presence hadn't been able to bring her down. But of course, Jade's whole purpose on this planet was to ruin Alex's life, so naturally she would break the thing she cared about the most.
With a frustrated yell she slammed the photo on her end table as she dropped back on her bed. - I HATE YOU JADE! -
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a/n: There's really not much to say here, er... just review, kay?
Hershey_Kiss: Whew, I'm glad I didn't lose you! Your last review kind of made me worried! lol Don't worry, I'm trying very hard to update. Wanna' check out an original fiction of mine? Oh!! Hold on, I'll put that at the end of my reviewers to everyone. lol
Black-Rose-Of-Death: Alex really doesn't like Jade just because she doesn't like her. She hates the fact that she's her sister, but always plays the part of her mother, telling her what to do. As you said, things in a teen's mind are complicated. lol
K Yami Yugi29, Kanikameskhenet, Lily of the Shadow: I'm glad you like the fic, and I hope you stay with me! And bear with my long review answers. lol
a/n: Okay!! Here we go. I put up an original fiction on fictionpress.com. I'm Greenwood Dancer there too, and my fic is Melina Hallaway. It's an action/adventure/fantasy fic. Well, anyone who wants to check it out, reviews are most certainly welcome and appreciated. ^_^
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Alex was walking home from school, her coat wrapped tightly around her. The gang thought she was insane, walking home in the freezing weather, but Alex couldn't stand riding the bus. It was too cramped with too many people acting like idiots. Normally she would walk with Bakura, but his dad had picked him up to go run some errands or something.
She sighed, somewhere between happy and annoyed, and bent her head against the wind. She reached home a few minutes later, extremely happy to get inside out of the cold. Alex shot up the driveway and through the front door, slamming it behind her with a violent shiver. She was reluctant to take off her coat and rubbed her arms, trying to warm herself up. Finally, after a few minutes standing by the door, she took off her coat and put it on the hook. For the first couple of seconds she felt rather cold, but she refused to hug herself, knowing that would only make her colder when she let go.
She sighed and entered the living room where Jade sat with David, watching TV. When David heard Alex come in, he snapped his head around.
"Alex! Hi!" he said happily, a broad smile on his face.
Alex grinned, walking over to the couch. She tousled his hair as she dropped down next to him. "Hey squirt. Did you get stuck with homework?"
David rolled his eyes. "Duh. And half of it's math. Is Bakura here? Can he help me?"
Alex grinned and put an arm around her brother's shoulders. "If Bakura was here I wouldn't be sittin' with you."
"Gross!" David cried, though he was laughing.
When Bakura came over, if David had math homework, he'd usually help him. After he spent some time with Alex of course, but he had become almost a brother to David. Sometimes Jade wished that Bakura was her brother's role model instead of Alex. Alex could just be so... overwhelming sometimes.
At the moment, Jade sat on the other side of David, completely unnoticed by either of them. The second Alex comes into the picture she disappears from the face of the Earth. Why did her sister insist on turning David against her? Jade sighed and turned her attention back to the TV. She still had the frame to tell Alex about. But how could she bring Alex down when she was in such a good mood? She hadn't told David either, how could she? How would she tell them that she had broken it?
"I'm going to get some water, you want some, Alex?" David asked, looking at his sister with his huge, brown eyes.
"Yeah, sure. Don't forget the ice!" Alex called after him as he headed into the kitchen.
"Right!" he called back and disappeared into the next room.
Alex put her feet up on the coffee table and reached for the TV remote, but her sister snatched it away.
"I'm watching that," Jade said.
Alex scowled, but did nothing more, which made Jade feel even worse. Her sister was really in a good mood if she wasn't up to arguing with her. But the second Jade told her about the frame, Alex's mood would change for the worst. The redhead fidgeted in her seat nervously, staring at the TV.
"Here Alex," David said, handing his sister a glass of water over the back of the couch.
"Thanks squirt," she said, taking a sip of it. She tousled his hair before standing. "I've got homework, so I'm headin' up the stairs, alright? I'll see you later."
"Okay. Bye," David said. He looked over the couch to watch his sister jog up the stairs and disappear around the corner.
Jade felt her heart speed up and she squeezed her eyes shut, waiting for Alex's furious shriek. A few minutes later Alex came to the top of the stairs.
"David, where's that picture frame you gave me? Did you move it or something?" she asked, leaning on the banister.
David turned around in his seat and gave her a curious look. "Uh uh, why, can't you find it?"
"No, I can't, if I could, I wouldn't be asking you where it was." She turned her attention to Jade, her eyes dark. "What about you, Jade? Did you move it?"
Jade felt numb all over as she pushed a lock of her scarlet hair behind her ear. "I... I lost..." She heard thumps as Alex came down the stairs quickly. A few seconds later Jade was staring up at her, fury in her sister's eyes.
"What did you do? Where is it?" Alex cried.
"Alex, it was an accident, I lost my balance... and it broke... I'm sorry!" Jade said, waiting for a punch in the face.
"YOU WHAT?" Alex shrieked. "What the hell were you even doing in my room?"
"I was doing the laundry and I had to put your clothes away..."
"How many times have I told you to stay out of my room? THIS IS WHY! Where is it?" Alex asked.
"In my room..." Jade replied quietly. She watched as her sister stormed up the stairs to Jade's room.
"Alex's dresser is on the other side of her bed, how did you lose your balance and knock over her frame?" David asked, looking at his sister.
"I was looking at it..." Jade muttered. She suddenly felt ten years younger, losing all of her maturity in the realization she had done something bad.
"That frame took almost all of my money! I wanted to get something really special for Alex and you broke it!" David cried. He got off the couch and ran up the stairs after Alex, Jade staring after him, a hurt expression on her face.
She had expected him to be upset, but he had never yelled at her before. Not like that anyway. Like... he really... hated her. She hadn't known any of this, she hadn't known how much that frame had cost her brother, or how hard he had looked for something that would show his sister how much he loved her. How could she have been so clueless?
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Alex sat on her sister's bed, holding the pieces of her beloved picture frame. She pieced it together and looked at the photo, half furious, half sad. She looked up as she felt weight on the bed. David had climbed up and sat cross-legged in front of her, his hands in his lap.
"What right does she have to touch my things?" Alex cried, holding up a piece of the frame.
"She doesn't! You told her a lot of times not to go into your room too! I paid a lot of money for that! Moki helped me find something perfect and Jade broke it!" David said, staring at it. Alex thought his eyes looked slightly misty, but she said nothing about it.
"I can't even fix it," Alex said, removing the photo. "I should break something valuable of hers and see how she likes it!" She got up from the bed and put the frame in the garbage, fury in her eyes.
"No, don't do that. It /was/ an accident," David said, looking up at his sister.
Alex turned to him, slight confusion in her eyes as to why on Earth he would stand up for Jade. She studied him for a minute before turning away and saying, "Whatever." She left the room and headed into hers, the photograph in her hand. She slammed the door shut, the sound echoing throughout the house. Sitting down on her bed, Alex looked at the photograph, remembering the day it was taken. She had been with the only two people she cared about and even Jade's presence hadn't been able to bring her down. But of course, Jade's whole purpose on this planet was to ruin Alex's life, so naturally she would break the thing she cared about the most.
With a frustrated yell she slammed the photo on her end table as she dropped back on her bed. - I HATE YOU JADE! -
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a/n: There's really not much to say here, er... just review, kay?
