Something Else To Reconsider
Written by Karinda Stellare Yosheru
Chapter 4. Never judge by difference
Location: Outside Foshi's Warehouse
6:20pm
Thursday Evening
"So.... How did she get to be like this?"
Zezzabellina Quintessavera walked into the bedroom, in her dark arms, a tray covered with food. Kieba watched on hungrily as Zezzabellina placed the tray on the bedside table.
"Well?" The hybrid asked. Kieba frowned.
"She decided to take her leave..." She answered, crossing her front legs.
"And why was that?"
"Uhhhhhhh..."
Reili strolled into the room, her eyes flashing with anger.
"Because some fuckhead was being his wonderful self." She said, jumping into the conversation. Zezzabellina rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Syaoran?"
"You better believe it." Reili answered sarcastically. "Got a wonderful sense of hospitality and kindness, doesn't he?"
Zezzabellina groaned irritably and looked down at the form in the bed. She grinned.
"He won't be very happy about our newest member to the family, won't he?"
"And...." Reili slid up beside Zezzabellina and looked over her shoulder at the sleeping girl. "What the hell do you mean by that?"
The hybrid smiled and patted Reili's shoulder.
"Why, I'm-a gonna adopt her." She answered, clasping her paws together. Kieba sniggered as she watched Reili's jaw hit the floor.
"No you're not." Growled a masculine voice. Reili rolled her eyes.
"Oh. Here's fuckhead himself. Good afternoon, sir." She said sarcastically. Syaoran walked straight into the room, and pointed to Sakura.
"There is no friggen way am I gonna let her stay here."
"It's not up to you to decide. I own this house, I say who stays and who leaves." Zezzabellina said firmly, crossing her arms. Reili sidestepped so that she stood beside the fuming young man.
"Ehhhh.... Zez... I am with fuckhead on this one. She can't stay, I mean... There's something different about her. Dun ask me what though, cuz it stuffs me."
"See?" Syaoran added. "We don't want her here."
Kieba kept low. She hated family disputes.
"That will be quite enough!" Zezzabellina shouted, stamping a foot on the floor. She turned to Reili. "Who was it that let you stay when creatures pushed you aside because you were a freak?"
Reili looked to the ground and sighed.
"You did."
The purple hybrid turned her attention to Syaoran.
"AND! Who the hell was it when you first came to Gemstar and everyone did the same to you as they did to Reili because you were "different", and accepted you for who you were and brought you into her home? WHO WAS THAT CREATURE?"
For the first time in a long time, Syaoran felt ashamed of himself. He knew that he had not given the newcomer a chance, but she was just different, yet familiar at the same time, that it chilled him.
"It was you." He muttered. Zezzabellina looked down at the girl and then back at the two.
"Now you tell me. I know just as well as you both do, that she has an aura, and of course that makes her well and truly different, but tell me, is that what makes her so different to you?"
Kieba felt like cheering. One could always trust Zezzabellina to come up with a way to settle things.
"Now. Reili, Kieba. Go and get dinner prepared. You'll find some food in the fridge. Do what ever the hell you want with it, except for putting arsenic in Syaoran's. Just surprise me, m'kays?"
Both reptiles nodded and trotted out of the room, the taller of the two, Reili, muttering curses underneath her breath. Zezzabellina smiled, knowing well that she had won and went back to feel the girl's forehead for any sign of sickness. Although she knew that Syaoran was still there, watching her, she didn't say anything until he went to walk out of the room.
"You know." She said softly, yet loud enough for him to hear."You two are not so different after all."
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