EPISODE 7: ZAZIE'S JEALOUSY!

[SELENE'S POV]

"Alright everyone gather round! And when I mean everyone, I meant my group, and when I mean my group, I meant my friends." Aaliyah's voice was heard all throughout Yuusari, even in the outskirts of Yodaka. I walked closer to her with one of my silver-haired friend as Aaliyah jumped off the stage and walked towards us.

"Wow, you really need to announce that?" Raphael-senpai asked while putting an arm around her back which made Aaliyah blush like a newborn baby, I think.

"Of course I do!" Aaliyah walked off, trying to get out from that situation while Raphael gave a smirk which made Aaliyah's face even more blushed. Lag and I were giving each other glares until Hans-nee-kun came together with Sylvette who was also excited for another Aaliyah Meeting.

"So? What will we do today?" Sylvette cheeringly asked while Hans-nee-kun walked towards Raphael who was still staring at Aaliyah's red face. Lag walked towards Sylvette and snuck up behind her until Zazie came along.

"What now Aaliyah—"

"Na-ah-ah-ah! Not you cat-eyed idiot." Aaliyah placed her palm near his face to stop him from walking much further. He gave me an annoyed look while all I can do was look away, acting like my glare just passed by.

"Go oveeeer there!" Aaliyah pointed at the corner of the Bee Hive and told Zazie to wait there while we go our Aaliyah Meeting. Zazie obeyed since he would lose to Aaliyah if he started a fight, but I heard him mutter a few words under his breath and walked away.

"So, our topic? Zazie. Can you tell me some of Zazie's emotions that you've already seen." Aaliyah asked each one of us and waited for a reply. She gave a look at me, I passed it to Raphael, he passed it to Lag, then to Sylvette, then back to Aaliyah. We wasted half a minute until Lag spoke.

"I saw him annoyed all the time."

"I see him in-love with someone! And that someone is—"

"SELENE!" Whaaa?

"Never mind, I saw him uh… happy?"

"Jealous!"

"Yeah, but have you guys saw him cry?" That question stuck our minds, we actually never saw him cry…

-SELENE'S IMAGINATION-

Zazie, he's, crying?! His cheeks turned pinkish red; his eyes were full of tears, his mouth crumpled in sadness, his usually annoyed face changed into a crying Zazie…

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I immediately covered my mouth. What am I thinking?! Aaliyah and the others sent me a look, a look of clueless faces which I replied with an awkward smile.

"Okay, Aaliyah, what you're saying is, whoever makes that annoyed Bee cry wins, and what's the reward?" Raphael spoke which made Lag scratch his head; I think all of us needs to try it out.

"Hmm… How about we treat the winner for a day? Free lunch, I guess?" Aaliyah replied back which we all agreed on. Now, the contest is on! I just need to think of a way on how to make Zazie cry… what the heck am I thinking? This is exactly one of Aaliyah's master plans but… it seems fun, I get to see Zazie cry, but is it possible? How can someone like Zazie cry? I want to know how Aaliyah-nee-chan will do this for free lunch, much like Connor.

"ZAZIE! COME HERE!" Aaliyah shouted to the always-annoyed-Zazie who was staring into space. Zazie turned and walked towards us with his usual annoyed face until Aaliyah grabbed his arm behind her shoulder and pulled it, resulting Zazie's body lying on the floor.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" He shouted.

"CRY!" That was just… insane.

"Why would I cry!?" Zazie tried to stand up with his butt aching but Aaliyah knocked him off his feet which led Zazie to lie down on the floor again. Aaliyah, this is a bit abusive…

"HAHAHA! I said cry!" All of us formed big sweat drops on our heads until Raphael-senpai stopped Aaliyah's insane plan and told her that he'll be next since her time is up. I rushed towards Zazie and helped him up, his butt still aching. Raphael ran towards Zazie and took his cap and gun and ran outside, leaving us clueless once more time.

"Haha! I got your cap and shindan!" That was not insane, that was immature of a 16-year-old.

"Tch, give those back." Said the 15-year-old boy. (A/N: I can't believe I'm enjoying this!)

I mean, this plan might turn out unsuccessful, since, who could make him cry?! I looked at all of them, looking surprised while Zazie was staring at Raphael with his annoyed face again. What's going to happen this day forward?

[ZAZIE'S POV]

Just what are Aaliyah and the rest up to? I suppose they even dragged Selene in their silly plan. I looked at Raphael who was still waving back and forth my cap and gun. Ugh, weird.

"Selene!" I heard a male voice just outside the Bee Hive and he ran towards the dense girl. I looked at him while Selene was smiling like an idiot. Just who the hell is he?

What the hell am I thinking? I saw Aaliyah and Hans whispering with each other while Lag and Sylvette were also whispering. Raphael walked back towards me and put my cap and handed me my gun back, good for him.

"Who is he?" I asked Raphael who began to look curious.

"You don't know him? He's the new… um… you know… the new "crush" of Selene." CRUSH?!

"Who is he?" I asked him again.

"I think his name is Alexei… I forgot the surname. He's also a Letter Bee here." (A/N: No you didn't, I couldn't think of a good surname.)

Alexei? Selene's new crush? The hell?! I looked at Raphael who began to walk towards Aaliyah who began to whisper together with Hans, Lag, and Sylvette while Selene with that Alexei was still smiling like an idiot.

What the heck?

[BACK TO SELENE'S POV]

I looked at Alexei-kun and I looked at Zazie who began to look away with his face red. Ugh, I hate Aaliyah's plan about this… I can't believe she really meant this to happen!

-FLASHBACK AWHILE AGO AFTER IMAGINING ZAZIE CRYING-

"Selene, I asked someone who was a friend of mine to come play with our plan to make Zazie cry, okay? I told him to pretend that he was YOUR crush to make Zazie jealous." That was ridiculous.

"I can't do that!" I replied back.

"Come on, I wanted to see Zazie cry and jealous." Sylvette and Lag told me.

"Okay, his name is Alexei Goldleaf, so be sure to act idiotically to make Zazie think that you have a crush on him and not on Zazie, got that?" Aaliyah-nee-chan, I'm sure she's just joking.

"I'm not joking." Great, she can read minds now. Everyone was now looking at me, hoping I would agree to her plans which I did since all of them were looking at me with pleading eyes. I lost, AGAIN.

-END FLASHBACK-

"Alexei-kun!" I replied back, acting foolishly and hoping Zazie will buy that. I heard Aaliyah and Sylvette said that I was acting great and it seems like the plan is working, I'm sorry Zazie, they got me into this. No matter what you think, my crush will be you.

Wait, WHAT?!

I have. No. Idea. What. I'm. Thinking.

I noticed Raphael walking right to me and whispered something…

"Zazie's jealous." Great, so can I stop this nonsense?

[ZAZIE'S POV AGAIN]

Why the heck would I be jealous of a boy like him? It's not like I really like Selene, right? The hell… I do. Anyways, Selene looks happy with him around. Whatever Aaliyah's plans might be, it looks like I lost. I would be very happy if I can get revenge, but right now, I'm not.

I looked at Selene acting idiotically towards Alexei, I decided to walk outside and pretend I never came in the Bee hive. I'm acting strange, right? If my normal attitude towards Selene, then I would just let it go, but now, I wanted to shoot another malice bullet towards him, nah, I think that's the same thing. I looked at my shindan and wondered, what the heck are they planning?

"Zazie!" I heard Largo's voice call my name out.

"What?"

"Heh, looks like someone is jealous. Have you seen the new Bee? Goldleaf?" Great, he began to spit his last name in front of me.

"If you're going to tell me all about that Goldleaf, just leave me alone." I told him which made Largo leave and go back to inside together with the rest. What are they up to? Whatever it is, I felt like I just lost.

[SELENE'S POV AGAIN!]

I wonder how Zazie is doing…

"Aaliyah, you won! You can stop this madness thingy." I told her since Alexei's arm was still around my shoulders. Aaliyah walked towards me and dragged me off somewhere and told me something.

"Tell that to Alexei, he's the one who likes you." What. The. Heck?

"You go tell him! I'll go talk to Zazie…" I told her back.

"Heh, then the plan wouldn't be done yet." Aaliyah replied back and dragged me back. "Remember, Alexei's just another 15-year-old, just like Zazie. Okay? You go tell him?"

"Aaliyah, please tell him. I have to talk to Zazie about this insane plan of yours." I told her. Aaliyah finally agreed and talked to this to Raphael, Lag, Sylvette, and Hans-nee-kun until he walked towards me.

"Be sure to say the right words, okay? You don't want him to misunderstand." Hans-nee-kun told me and wished me luck; it isn't that hard to explain everything to Zazie, right? I rushed to see Zazie outside but he isn't on the stairs. I looked to the next possible place, the tree just on the side of the Bee Hive. And just as suspected, he's there.

"Z-Zazie…" I stuttered. He didn't bothered to look at me, I walked closer to him, until I saw him blushing a light pink on one of his cheeks. I sat next to him, hoping I could get the chance to explain—

"Aaliyah planned this, right?" And he's got the point.

"She did. She, no, um, they wanted to see you cry so… there. And also, about Alexei, she also planned that one." I replied back.

"So, you don't really like him?" he asked me.

"I don't. You know I don't. He's not my type—"before I knew it, Zazie suddenly hugged me, HUGGED ME!

"That's…good to know…" what is he talking about? (A/N: Dense as usual, eh Selene?)

"Uh—" Whatever, I'm hugging him back. I felt my cheeks heating up again, as usual but this is just different. Zazie's normal attitude towards me is that he'll tease me, he'll just randomly pat or touch my head, he'll often drag me off to somewhere else, but how come, he's hugging me right now when he should be teasing me nonstop.

"Looks like I won!" Aaliyah shouted which made Zazie pull away and leave me clueless, again.

"What do you mean you won?!" Zazie shouted, trying to stand up.

"Hahaha, I won!" Aaliyah once again chanted while Lag and Sylvette went back inside, talking to each other, Raphael and Hans-nee-kun were chatting with each other, now that I've noticed it, Alexei-kun isn't here.

"I WON! YOU HAVE TO TREAT ME TO LUNCH SELENE!" Ehhh?

"Zazie didn't cry so why did you win?!" I shouted back.

"Heh, but I got him jealous because of my plan!" And thus, the balance of Ambergroud was once again restored. Zazie was chasing Aaliyah towards the ends of the world, Lag and Sylvette were teasing and talking to each other, Raphael and Hans-nee-kun were chatting with each other, Aaliyah was holding my hand along with her and thus, I was also being chased by Zazie…

Another weird day happened… can anything go to normal the next time?

ME: And it's done!

SIS: Are you done with your projects?

ME: Not yet. We have a 4-day weekend, right?

SPACE: Now that you've mention it…

ME AND SPACE: DUE TOMORROW DO TOMORROW!

SIS: *facepalm*

TRIO: Till we meet again! Trio, over and out!