Chapter Four: His Bunny Girl

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Axl was in a personal hell of his own making. For the last three days he had watched Sue closely for any indication that she remembered him or his costumed alter ego. She showed no sign that she did but that wasn't exactly what made Axl feel like he was being put through eternal torture, no. It was the fact that when guys paid attention to Sue; he got pissed. When guys ignored Sue, treating her like she wasn't even there; he got pissed. Also, there was the problem of him noticing little things that Sue always did but in a new, much more appealing, light. Like how she bit and nibbled on her lip when she was deep in thought or how she was actually kind of pretty when she wore her hair a certain way. But worst of all was probably that whenever she was in his line of sight he wanted to kiss her senseless.

"So anyways, I was, like, seriously wondering if you were, like, available this Friday night?"

Axl tore his gaze away from Sue as she stood at her locker riffling through it to look at the blonde hanging on his arm. Axl slipped on his Axman smile for her.

"Possibly, what do you have in mind Kelly?" Axl asked, trying to feel enthusiastic about the hottie next to him.

Kelly giggled, "That party I was telling you about that's happening tomorrow night. It's a costume party since, like, the Halloween season isn't over yet."

Costume? Axl immediately perked up. "Really?"

"Yeah," Kelly said excitedly "My cousins are throwing it, they're totally cool. Like, last year's party my cousin Jenny snuck in alcohol and we never got caught."

Alcohol? This was sounding better and better. Axl's gaze drifted back to Sue and an idea took root.

Axl gave a dramatic sigh "I wish I could go but my Mom's making me spend time with my little sister that night, there is no way she would let me leave my sister."

Kelly looked crest fallen "Oh," she mumbled, then a hopeful glint entered her eyes. "Um, like, how old is your sister?"

Axl hide a triumphant smirk and replied "Not much younger than me, why?"

Kelly looked thoughtful for a moment before beaming "You could, like, bring her with!"

Axl faked a concerned look "Are you sure?"

"Positive!"

Bingo. Axl gave a big smile victorious smile. At Kelly's party Axl could take Sue somewhere private and get her out of his system, all under the protective cover of a simple costume.

After school was over and Sue and Axl were getting into the car to go home Axl informed Sue that she would be attending another party with him.

Sue stared at her brother with wide eyes as she buckled her seat belt. "You're taking me to a party without me having to pester you?"

Axl heaved a heavy sigh as he drove out of the school parking lot "Yeah, Kelly thought you looked so dorky and sad that she said I had to bring you with."

Sue was thrilled but also feeling a tad wary considering what happened at the last party Axl had taken her to.

"And," Sue asked. "You're okay with me going?"

"God, Sue! Can't you just say you'll come instead of over thinking it?!"

Sue shrunk into her seat "But…" she started to say when Axl cut her off.

"You're coming. Otherwise I'll look bad in front of Kelly." Axl decreed, ending any further arguments.

Sue felt a slight ping in her chest at the thought of Axl trying to impress Kelly. Were they dating? Was she the pretty girl Sue had noticed standing next to him in the hallway? Sue shook her head, she really shouldn't care. But, Sue reluctantly admitted to herself, she did care. Over the past few days her memories of her pirate slowly changed until it seemed that it was Axl who had kissed her at the party, Axl who touched her, Axl who made love to her.

Sue knew something must be wrong with her to start imagining that Axl was her pirate, he was Axl even if they weren't brother and sister he would never do those things with her. Sue was stunned when that thought upset her, Axl would never look twice at her if they weren't related.

"What costume are you going to wear?" Axl asked, snapping her out of her rather depressing thoughts.

"Uh, I think I'll wear the same one I wore to the last party."

"The bunny one?"

Sue looked up at Axl in surprise, she hadn't thought he'd noticed what costume she had been wearing. "Yeah, that one. What about you?"

Axl shrugged. "I think I'll just wear my jersey"

He'd save his masking zombie pirate costume for his plan; wear some non-concealing costume on the way there, change into a different costume that hides his face after they arrive, and get Sue alone so they could continue what they started at the last party.

Sue gave him a look "That's not a costume. Why not wear the one you did last time?"

"Because, Sue, there were tons of people wearing a zombie pirate costume and I don't want to be like everyone else." Axl smoothly lied in an exasperated tone.

"Oh, okay." Sue accepted as they pulled into their drive way. A thought occurred to Sue, frowning she asked "why not make a new costume?"

Axl ground his teeth, Sue was making this a lot harder than it needed to be. "Because the party is tomorrow night. Now stop asking so many pointless questions."

Axl waited impatiently for Friday night. Sure, it was only a day away but being so hyped for it made it seem like ages before it finally came. School was over, they were home getting ready, and it was almost time.

Axl simply throw on his jersey and painted a black line on each of his cheeks. Bundling up his pirate costume and gore face paints, Axl sauntered to the living room to wait for Sue. Thankfully, she didn't take too long. She wore her white bunny costume with the half-face mask. And just like that, Sue wasn't his sister anymore. She was his bunny girl that he was going to do mind blowing things with.

"Ohhhh!" Frankie cooed, "Let's get some pictures!"

After suffering through the paparazzi that was their mother, Sue and Axl escaped to the car and made their getaway.

Axl stopped two houses from the party and turned to Sue. "Get out, the party is at the big blue house."

Sue blink in confusion "Why?"

"I don't want to be affiliated with you"

Once Sue sadly got out and started walking towards the party, Axl quickly shimmied into his zombie pirate costume, applied his gore and eyepatch, parked his car, and slipped, almost unnoticed, in to the wild party.

Axl scanned the crowed for Sue. A few girls tried to get his attention but he was far too focused on obtaining what he had obsessed over for almost a week.

And…There!

Axl spotted Sue in a shadowy corner at the edge of the party near a door. Perfect. Axl began stealthily making his way to her.

Sue stood by herself with an empty cup in her hands watching the party. She had been so excited that she had actually been invited to a party that she had forgotten how much she disliked these loud alcohol fueled parties, in fact the only thing that made the last party even remotely enjoyable was her pirate. And, now that she was here, alone with nothing to do but wait for it to be over, Sue could admit that she had held a tiny hope of seeing her pirate again.

Sue closed her eyes. Even after telling herself over and over to forget him, that it was the alcohol's fault she acted the way she did, she couldn't help but want to see him again. Okay maybe do a little more than see but she wasn't going to get her hopes up. For all Sue knew he could have been so intoxicated that he didn't even remember her.

Just then a pair of hands covered her already closed eyes, "Hey," a male voice said. "How's my bunny girl doing?"

Sue gasped as his hands fell away. Turning, she faced the one person she had wanted to see more than anything tonight "You!?"

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