Measure 3

…..................................................................................................................................................................................So. This. is. How. it. Begins?

Okay, so why am I trying to figure out how to put on this bra? Oh yeah this is the beginning of my life as a teenage girl. It is here where I've officially reached the lowest point of my life.

I finally get the hooky thingy to go through the loopy thingy. I look in the mirror.

I look so gay... that chick owes me big time. Also I hope she isn't expecting to smile because I don't recall that being part of our deal.

"Fran? You done in there?" Speaking of Satan...

"Umm I think..." I say putting on the black and white striped V-neck.

"Okay now put this on~!" She instructs sliding another garment under the dressing room door.

"Yeah yeah," I say picking it up and looking at it. Yeah not even in hell...

"I'm not wearing this." I say bluntly.

"Why not?"

"It's a skirt."

"Yeah and?"

"I'm not wearing it."

"Why? Is it cuz you don't want to shave? Cuz we can always wax!"

"What? No, I'm just uncomfortable with the idea of wearing a skirt." Like any sane guy would.

"Fine..." She sighs, " I guess pants will do..."

She slides a pair a pants under along with a very girly looking belt.

Well as long as it isn't a skirt...

I dress and come out of the dressing room.

"Ahh~ the A-cup works well." She says observing. "But don't you think this would all be easier if you... you know, just used your misty power thingy to create an illusion?"

"Don't you think this would all be easier if we just, you know, not do this at all." I retort.

"Yeah, not an option." She glared taking the frog hat from my head and placing it on her own.

"This is heavy." She complains adjusting it.

"It is." I agree.

"There! Do I look like you?" She says twirling. She was wearing my spare Varia uniform. I think she had bandaged down her chest, because she actually looked like me.

"Stop twirling." I stopped her because it was making me sick. "And stop smiling."

"Yeah yeah, I know from now on I have to act all emo and stuff."

Vain pop. I'm not emo people!

"And Fran, you're going to have to at least try to smile every so often."

"Yeah yeah, don't expect much though." I wave.

"Okay I think we're ready!" She says skipping towards the door.

I sigh. This is going to feel like forever.

…......................................................................................................................................................................................Yeah. That. Went. Well.

The first day of this marvelous week went well. Bel-sempai had been sent on a mission and didn't come back till late. The second day on the other hand...

"Lussuria-san, where's Bel-ku-sempai?" That 'thing-pretending-to-be-me' said as I walked into the room.

"Frannie~ you should now by now that Bel-kun doesn't get up till noon on Mondays." Lussuria answers organizing the bookshelves in room.

Idiot.

"Oh yeah, well I forget, it's not like I care." Her monotone sounded a little off.

Not bad, could have been worded differently but not bad.

"Fran honey, you asked." He says turning to face her with his overly girly worried expression. "And what's wrong with your voice? Are you getting sick?"

"He's probably just hitting puberty." I say sitting down.

"Good morning Desirae, you're here early today~" Lussuria waves.

"Good morning princess." The thing says, and without being sarcastic I might add. She absolutely fails.

"Good morning grass-head."

And no comeback either... I sigh.

"Is something wrong Des~?" Lussuria looking up. "You're looking more down than usual."

"Yeah I woke up this morning with a massive headache." I say rolling my eyes for effect.

"Ah~ would you like me to make you some tea?" He offers.

"Yes please."

"Very well, come on down to the kitchen." He says as if we were on one of those cooking shows.

We go down to the kitchen. And as he's making my tea I complain about small stuff. Acting like the Thing was easy, you just had to make a big deal out of everything. When he's done, we go back to the study.

I sit down sipping my tea. "I wonder where the frog went..." I say with little interest like she would.

"Oh he was scheduled for target practice today, he's probably doing that." Lussuria going back to cleaning the room.

Crap. I swear realizing that today I DID have target practice. I usually forget these things and sempai reminds me. Oh double crap... sempai...

"Um, I'll be right back I forgot something." I say putting my tea down and excusing myself.

"K, hon~" Lussuria saiys not paying much attention.

I rushed down to the training area out back. I wasn't sure if Desirae had understood what the definition of 'Target Practice' was. Especially when it's coming out of Sempai's creepy mouth.

This is why I don't interact with society. I sigh.

…............................................................................................................................................................................................She. bleeds. I. don't.

Hiding behind a bush and using my illusions to be unseen, I observe. They were practicing with an extra target today. They were searching for him. And is it just me or is that Thing standing waaaay to close to sempai. Suddenly Bel throws a couple knifes into the leaves of a tree and the target falls out.

"Ushishishi, stand back froggy, he's mine." He says heading over to the 'corpse'.

The targets are stuffed of course, but sempai being as twisted as he is enjoys ripping them to shreds. Although I'm not sure if it's just because he enjoys it, or because he likes to bug the stupid shark commander.

Quickly I sneak up behind Desirae and pull her into a bush.

"Heey!" She exclaims surprised.

"Shhhh!!!"

She stops fidgeting, and looks at me curiously.

"What do you think you're doing?" I ask.

"I'm spending time with Bel-kun~" She says with (ew) sparkles in her eyes.

"Stop calling him that," I say slightly annoyed, "And you realize that he's going to start throwing knifes at you any second now, right?"

"Wha? No he can't do that! It'll leave scars!"

Yeah that's what you should be worrying about...

"Don't worry I got you covered." I sigh. "If he throws them I'll make an illusion to hide you or something..."

"Yo frog, where'd you go?" Bel smirked looking around.

"Hurry get out there!" I whisper a little too loud and Bel's head snap towards us.

I quickly cover me with an illusion... or so I thought.

"Desirae?" Bel asks confused and I look next to me.

Shit, I made her invisible instead... this illusion thing isn't as easy as it seems you know?

"Um.. hi." I wave nervously.

"What are you doing in a bush?"

"I... Fell, I guess..."

"From where?"

I shrug.

"Whatever, come help me find the stupid frog."

I struggle to get out of the bush, I finally do. We wander aimlessly without any talking, you'd think sempai would of noticed that something was off by now, but he didn't.

Hopefully that Thing got the hint and got out of there.

"The prince is bored now, I'm out of here." He says finally.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, stupid froggy should know better by now." He smirked, creepy. "Tsk. I'ma have to punish him later."

We were making our way back to the mansion when:

"Hey guys, wait up."

I sweat drop.

Well at least she said it monotone...

"Hey frog..." Bel chuckled.

Punishment time... yay, I think half not paying attention. It wasn't till it was too late that I realized what was going on. By the time my reflexes has kicked in, sempai had already thrown the knives. Next thing I know they're in me, and I'm standing in front of Desirae.

Bel raises an eyebrow at this, well probably. Then he grins.

"Why is the princess defending the frog?" He approaches me. "And more importantly why isn't the princess bleeding?" He pulls out a knife from my shoulder and examines.

I glare, he had known all along. I had suffered for nothing.

He pushes me over and walks up to Desirae. I topple over and land in the mud. Great now I'm dirty...

"And I'm guessing this is all your doing?" He asks the princess.

She nervously nods.

"Why?" He asks in an almost mockingly way.

She doesn't answer but I assume Bel knows because he sighs and says, "You know I don't like you right?"

She nods again now on the verge of tears.

"Then what are you still doing here?"

She doesn't reply, instead she falls to her knees and breaks out into sobs. The beloved frog hat falling into the mud and rolling to Bel's feet. He picks it up and tosses it to me slamming me back into the mud puddle.

"Told you not to take it off frog." He says before walking off.

He's not expecting me to put in on NOW is he? It's dirty...

I look back over at Desirae. She's sobbing like crazy,AND AGAIN I find my myself in that awkward position in which I don't know what to do. I get up from the mud hole I'm in and slowly approach her.

I know that she probably deserves being in this situation, and I should be laughing my head off. But for some unknown reason (that I'd be hating myself for later) I felt guilty. For what!? My subconscious argues.

I'm a horrible person really.

"Um..." I say searching for words.

"Fran..." She sobs before jumping quickly and hugging me (Although at first I thought she was going to strangle me). "Thank you. You're the best."

"Um... yeah." I say trying to loosen the death grip.

"Thanks for doing this for me." She smiled rubbing her eye. "I owe you big time k?"

"Mkay..." I say starting to head back.

I don't know if she followed but, I was done here, and that was that.

End of Measure 3


Beware Desirae haters... it is not over yet! But don't worry vengeance is near! Sort of... it'll be a while...

Anyway, sorry if you were disappointed by Fran not having to wear the skirt. I just felt like he deserves a break, in many other fics he tends to always lose the argument in cases in which he has to wear a skirt, so I gave him a break ^.6

Please R&R comments are good both positive and negative!

-Echo