Ring! Ring! Ring! Ri-!

BANG!

The moon and a few stars shone brightly through Leaf's window as she pulled her hands back under the covers and slept a bit more.

Bang!

Leaf sometimes wonders why she even accepted the job as a maid. It's quite a pain in the neck. Especially when you have a friend of yours who wakes up at four in the morning so she can prepare, get hyped up for the day, and wake you up.

"Wake up!" yelled the enthusiastic maid, Marie as she yanked the covers off of Leaf in a split second. Leaf's eyes shot open as she glared at the maid. You can never really have peace in this house, if it was a house at all. Leaf mentally sighed and closed her eyes once more. After all, it was hard for someone who stayed up late for a party and wake up only two to three hours later.

"Fine then. Ignore me!" said Marie her orange eyes blazed with annoyance. Leaf flinched at the sound of the door slamming closed. She slowly opened one eye to see if her room was lacking the presence of Marie. Leaf sat up and looked at her alarm clock.

5:07

'What a waste of seven minutes,' thought Leaf. She slipped out of bed and into the restroom. She looked to the table near the corner of the restroom.

"Great. Just great! I forgot to leave a set of clothes here last night," Leaf complained to herself. Last night. Leaf started to recall last night's events with Gary unconsciously. Nothing as much as a blush appeared on her cheeks, but still, she was kind of embarrassed that a personal maid, his personal maid, had to be treated like a princess. She never really thought of herself as one, but considering the things he had done, she thought it was fine to at least feel she was considered as a human. At least. Nothing more, nothing less.

Leaf went back out and took two sets of clothes. She went back inside and changed quickly. After forty-five minutes or so, she gathered all of the clothes her small hands could hold and went to the laundry room to clean the load of clothes.

Another fifteen minutes passed and Leaf came back to the laundry room to unload the pile of clothes. After five minutes, Leaf was in the kitchen cleaning dishes from those who ate very early in the morning. Leaf made a sandwich and made Gary an English breakfast.

By the time she was done, she only had about three minutes to wake Gary up.

"Lucky guy. He gets to sleep in 'til seven," muttered Leaf as she rushed to get to Gary's room while eating her sandwich at the same time. Once she got there, she had to take a few seconds to catch her breath. "I really need to work out more." She opened the door slowly and walked into the room. Gary was still sleeping peacefully even with the loud panting. Leaf got closer to wake him up, but stopped once she was within a few centimeters of the bed. Leaf looked at her sleeping master. His spiky hair was his trademark, but it was a messy lump of brown now. His skin looked so tempting to touch, but Leaf tried to deny her urge. After a second or two debating what to do in her head, she gave up to her urge and reached her hand out to touch his cheek.

Gary's eyes jerked open to reveal his green eyes. The same green eyes Leaf came to like after only hours she spent with him, but of course, she never told anyone this or even whispered it. Leaf yanked her hand back and tried to cover any evidence of her actions. Gary's eyes wandered around the room until they landed on Leaf who was forcing a smile on. Gary could tell it she was hiding something. He felt a little tingle on his cheek from Leaf's touch and knew exactly what had happened.

"Morning, Leaf. Did you like touching my cheek?" asked Gary with a smirk. A light hint of pink appeared on her cheek before she answered.

"O-of course not!"

"You still admitted you touched it," said Gary as a wider smirk appeared, knowing she was lying. He sat up and looked at Leaf, waiting for a cute reaction, but sadly, she looked away. Leaf's heart was beating furiously, but tried to slow it down. He got out of bed and walked to her. "You got some crumbs on your mouth," said Gary as he took a few with the touch of his finger and nibbled it quickly. Leaf could feel his breath on her neck and a deeper shade of pink appeared.

"J-just get ready f-for school. B-breakfast is r-ready," Leaf said as calmly as she could and left the room. After she closed the door, she ran to her room as quickly as she could and slammed the door closed. She plopped onto her bed and touched her cheek. Since when did her cheek get this hot? For some reason, she liked the feel of his body against hers. Wait a minute! What was she thinking? Leaf pinched both sides of her cheek and ordered herself, "Snap out of it, Leaf!"

She looked at the clock on her nightstand.

7:09

"I only have a minute to get ready!" yelled Leaf as she ran into the restroom and changed to her school uniform.

Leaf ran as fast as she could down the sidewalk and made a very sharp turn at the corners. A limo pulled up beside her and followed her. The window rolled down to reveal Gary as he put on his best smile, which was a smirk, as always.

"Want a ride to school? I'll offer a seat next to me," offered Gary as he looked at her with alluring eyes. For a moment, Leaf wanted to agree, but forced herself not to.

"I'm fine. Go on ahead, young sir. It's my fault I'll be late so I have to take the punishment as the maid of the household and I wouldn't want you to get a tardy mark because of me," Leaf insisted. Gary's smirk faded into a small frown.

"Suit yourself, then," Gary agreed to her request and waved to the driver to go.

"That was easier than I thought," Leaf told herself, "Wait! This isn't the time for this!"

"Even though you were only here for less than a week, you try to get yourself a tardy mark! What do you have to say for yourself?" scolded Mrs. April as Leaf stood in front of the class, wincing at the words of her teacher. "Stay after class for detention. Make sure you check out this book from the library before the school day is over. You're going to need it."

Mrs. April handed Leaf a piece of paper with a book title written on it. Leaf took it without hesitation and went to her seat. Mrs. April went straight to her lesson right after Leaf sat down. Gary just happened to sit beside her this time. (A/N I'm very sorry if I messed up on the seating chart, but I just can't remember where they sit and don't have a lot of time to make one. So please bear with me if I place the characters in different places in the classroom. ^.^)

"You should've just accepted my offer. I bet it would've been better than detention. I can tell who'll be the teacher," Gary whispered to her while looking at the board. Leaf didn't bother answering, knowing that she'd get into more trouble if she did anything else. "Are you just going to ignore me or are you gonna answer me?"

"…"

"Hello? Hey, chocolate hair! Are you going to ignore me?" asked Gary as he slammed his fists onto his desk. The whole class looked at him.

"What are you doing; disturbing my class like! Mr. Oak, what do you have to say for yourself? You should know better. You've been in school longer than Ms. Green. Hey! Listen to me when I'm talking, young man! Are you even listening?! Mr. Oak!" yelled Mrs. April as she tried to desperately get Gary's attention.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Just continue, I'll be going on my merry way to talk," said Gary, trying to insist that the students would just ignore the world around them and only focus on studying.

"No can do. I'm sorry, but you'll be going to detention with Ms. Green, so please try to keep it quiet! I know you kids would like to get yourselves into a relationship with others, but the classroom is not a place for this," explained Mrs. April, trying her best to put it in a nice way.

"Leaf! Are you finished? I don't want to stay standing for much longer," complained Gary as he leaned against the wall of the library. Leaf was looking in the history section of the library.

"I'm not done yet. Just wait a little longer, young sir," replied Leaf as she took a book out, but put it back because the title was not what she was looking for.

"Leaf?"

"Yes?"

"Do you know what love is?" asked Gary, wanting to know her answer, but he knew what it would be. Everyone knew what love was.

"Surprisingly, no," answered Leaf without hesitation without even looking at him. Gary's eyes widened in surprise, but soon turned into an evil look, one that Leaf didn't like. Leaf took out another book and kept it in her hands after reading the title.

"Interesting," Gary whispered to himself.

"What is?" questioned Leaf, looking at him this time.

"Leaf, do you want to learn what love is?" asked Gary, hoping she would say yes. Leaf was starting to get a bad feeling about by the mischievous look in his eyes. Knowing she would regret it, she nodded her head in response. Gary smiled his usual evil smirk.

"So? What is love?" asked Leaf, the innocence of her heart shone through her eyes. They were gleaming with curiosity.

"Lesson one begins right now," answered Gary with a smile. Leaf's face paled quite a lot and regretted her decision right away. Gary grabbed her hand and tugged at her to follow. "Follow me."

Leaf helplessly followed, knowing nothing of his plans for her. They headed toward a place somewhere isolated in the library. Leaf looked around, but nothing sparked her interest. Gary then slowly walked closer to her, if he wasn't close enough already. Leaf took a step a step back for every step he took until she could feel the wall behind her. Gary placed a hand on both side of her delicate figure so she couldn't escape no matter how hard she tried.

"Gary? Is something wrong? If not, I really should check out this book," said Leaf, trying to make more excuses to leave in her head.

"I thought you wanted to learn what love is?"

"I do, but maybe some other time?" suggested Leaf, hoping he would agree. By now, she was slightly shaking, but this went unnoticed by Gary.

"Don't worry. The first lesson is a quickie," said Gary, ignoring all of her wishes and mental pleas to leave. "Love is a feeling you get when you meet your destined person." Gary face got closer to Leaf's. "How do you know if you're in love? That's easy. First your heart beats faster." Leaf's heart, indeed, did beat faster. "Second, some blood will rise to your cheeks and redden them." Leaf started to blush once Gary got to closer to her, their noses almost touching. "Yet, you don't want to leave this person alone."

Gary's breath reached Leaf's lips and he was close enough to kiss her on the lips. Leaf suddenly realized what was happening and ducked down, escaping Gary's hold on her. By the time Gary realized she escaped, Leaf was already halfway to the library counter.

"She sure knows how to tick me off," muttered Gary as he started walking after the brunette.

"Make sure this essay is finished by Monday. No exceptions," said Mrs. April, her voice was like the clap of thunder.

"Yes maim," said Leaf, gathering her things and packing her things.

"Whatever you say, Queen of Essays," said Gary as he leaned back on his chair, yawning to indicate he was bored. Mrs. April gave him the look. Gary flinched and restated his sentence, "I mean, yes maim!"

"Good. Students dismissed." Leaf was already walking toward the door and Gary tried to stuff his things in his bag and went after her. It took a while to catch up with her since Leaf was walking pretty fast for an average walk, but Gary caught up anyway.

"So? How'd you like the lesson?" asked Gary as he walked alongside her.

"I have no comment for the lesson, although, it was weird," replied Leaf as they turned the corner.

"Aw. I thought you'd like it."

"Well, I'm postponing it until I feel like a want another lesson," said Leaf, hoping he'd agree to her silly quest, but knowing him, he probably wouldn't even care what she thinks and would do it anyway.

"Class is class is class! I'll do it whenever I want. I'm the teacher anyway," said Gary. The mischievous glint in his eyes returned and Leaf didn't like it all that much.

"Oh look! We're home already. Why don't you go and eat dinner while I'll do whatever I need to," suggested Leaf as she pushed him to go inside and then ran off to go somewhere.

"Hey! You can't just force me to eat! You know I'm picky!" shouted Gary as he tried to run after her again, but lost sight of her after she ran past the gates.

"Dinner's ready, young master. It's best if you go and eat now to stay healthy. Please don't worry about Miss Leaf. I'm sure she's only going to her part-time job," said Marie as she walked out of the mansion and pushed Gary inside.

"What part-time job? Hey, Marie! Don't ignore me!" commanded Gary while he was pushed in.

"Why don't you ask her yourself?"

"It's hard to catch her using her free time. You know you hardly see here rest," said Gary as he stopped his struggling and walked to the dining room, knowing it was useless if he tried to resist.

"The moment you want to happen will come sooner or later. Don't worry about it so much," comforted Marie as she walked slowly and quietly behind him.

"I guess you're right," agreed Gary. By now, they were almost near the dining room doors.

Leaf ran as fast as she could to get to her job, knowing she was going to get scolded for coming this late. At least she was sure that the employees where nice enough to let her off more than a hundred times. Soon, Leaf reached the door of a maid café called Coeurs Colorés.

"Leaf! How can you be late once again? You know how many times this had happened last year. Don't start it again this month!" scolded a voice from the back. Misa, a girl with medium length hair and red eyes, looked at Leaf with disapproval. "Come early next time! It's getting so late that the shop closed already. You're lucky you have at least one customer left who insisted on coming now."

"Don't worry! I won't mess up this order," reassured Leaf as she went to change into her uniform. Misa's eyes said everything. This time, the message was; don't you dare mess it up this time because I'll give you a real beating if you do! Leaf ran out and got a notepad and a pencil. "What would you like to order?" The girl looked up. She had mid-length hair of a beautiful shade of brown and her silver eyes looked like twinkling stars. To top it all, she had a great figure that even star celebrities would envy. As always, their regular customer who came every day would order the usual.

"Good evening, Leaf." Her voice was like honey. Sweet and smooth. Leaf envied her sometimes.

"Right back at you, Torah," greeted Leaf with a smile. What she didn't know was that Torah loved Gary and of course this meant a love war between the princess and the maid. Poor Leaf just doesn't know that she likes Gary, but oh well.

"The usual, please," said Torah and then she went back to reading her book. Leaf bowed slightly and went to place the order.

Leaf got back and had done everything her schedule called for. Even doing homework was part of it. It was now ten past twelve. Leaf couldn't wait to plop herself on the bed and sleep.

"Hey Leaf!" called a voice as the doors opened with a bang. Gary. "How are you doing? I came here to check if you're still awake so let's have a little one on one chat time."

"No," rejected Leaf as she pulled the covers up and tried to get to sleep, thinking he'll leave once he knew she won't talk to him.

"Come on, Leaf. It'll only take a minute!" begged Gary as he tried shaking Leaf awake, but failed drastically. Leaf was sleeping peacefully as Gary looked at her in annoyance. "She doesn't know how much she annoys me, does she?" Gary questioned himself.

"Wake up at…five. Clean. Get…the laundry," murmured Leaf. Gary rubbed his temples, trying to soothe his headache. He didn't know how many times he wanted to get Leaf's attention, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't even get Leaf to turn her head towards him.

"Oh well," said Gary as he walked out of the room, making sure to close the doors before he left for the night.

Hi! The ending seemed rushed. It also seems a lot longer than usual, too. For awhile, I don't think I ever said anything about the disclaimer, but oh well. Gary!

Gary: Yes?

Do it! Do it! Do it!

Gary: RuruPuppy2854 does not own pokemon. Even if she did, she won't know how to work the anime.

That's mean! Take it back!

Gary: Don't worry, you'll get used to it. At least until I get my way.

It's not my fault that this story had to get stretched out. After all, it does take place throughout three months and a week or more. I think that is the average time period it takes to woo a girl of your interest who completely hates you for who you are.

Gary: Shut up! It only takes me a week. Just wait and see!

Make sure to review in the box down there!

Gary: Hey! I wasn't done talking!

*pushing Gary out of the room* Bye! See you next time! Make sure to review to your heart's content and don't hold back!

Gary: *almost out of the room* I still want to be in the commentary! I need some spotlight here! Are you just going to ignore-

*closes door* I'll put up the next chapter as soon as possible. Read and Review!