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Okay lets actually put a disclaimer up this time. Sorry I was in such a rush I had to go to work and I just wanted to get it up last week. Sorry bout that :3
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Chapter 11: Never Winning
"Why do I have to look cute for him?" She looks down at her red evening dress in disgust. Her brilliant plan to completely sabotage the entire date was a negatory. Her father had taken the extra leaps to make sure that it was going to go flawless.
Anything for his darling daughter as he said.
Anything but allowing Zack to accompany her.
After much complaining, threats, things thrown, and insults her father told her that her she was going to go if he had to drag her by her hair there. This resulted in her daring him to try and him standing up reciting the role of a child.
Lightning zapped between the two.
"Do you know how many people die in car accidents?" She asks once she slams Andromira's passenger door shut. This gets her a nice and nasty look from Andro.
"Not enough. We're still overpopulated."
"I knew that you'd say that!" She smirks, slouching a bit in her seat. "So I thought that I'd do something about that starting with one man at a time."
"Cute." Andromira makes a point of rolling his eyes, which only makes her smile grow even bigger. She wasn't about to let him enjoy his time tonight, she wasn't even going to allow him to hold her hand in public.
"This is where we're going?" She eyes the place. Its one of the fancier places in town, some might even argue that it's the fanciest. She remembered the time that her father had tried to take mother here for their anniversary. They ended up staying home with Riza cooking rice omelets.
"Impressed?" Andromira asks. He seems pleased to see her peering out the car window, nose right up against the glass.
"Not a bit." She was however impressed that he would dare bring her to such a nice place where many people would be about. Thoughts about all the nasty things that she could do to ruin the night was flooding through her brain. So much so that she actually smiled.
"You should be." He opens her door for her and before he can shut it, she kicks it shut with the heel on her spiked shoes. Another disproved look that completely misses her.
His offered arm is rejected.
"You're in a nasty mood today."
Pfft. "The company isn't too good today. I feel like I'm missing something…" Her eyes quickly glance to her side. It was that feeling again, the feeling that she always gets whenever Zack isn't at her side. It wasn't her favorite feeling; in fact it felt rather empty.
After quite literally dragging her out of bed, Zack had started throwing clothes at her and then just left. He stated something about going out with Silas and if she wasn't home by curfew then he was going to drag her back.
The thought of him going out to once again look for her was rather pleasing.
"Welcome…your table is ready. What-"
"Separate bills-"
"Don't listen to her sir. I would like a glass of your finest wine and this lady will have water." Andro shuts the drink list menu without hardly looking at it.
Unsatisfied, Linuette grabs their waiter by the elbow. "Actually I'd like a sparkling water thank you." It was still water only now it had carbonation in it. Most satisfying.
"Learn to enjoy yourself." Andro leans forward on his palms chin just barely touching them as if he's making an effort to make things appear normal.
Linuette shrugs. "I am. You just think that I'm not; which shows just how little you know about me."
"Grow up."
"Get a haircut." Glaring. They don't exactly appear to be the loving couple that Andromira claims them to be. "See here's the thing Andromira. When a child doesn't get its childhood and has its entire life planned out for it, it decides to rebel. Don't like it? Leave."
"If you even think for a second that I'd give up on this then your even stupider then I originally thought. Your father is a very kind man and so I won't say any more than that." Acting as if he held all the pieces was beginning to really tick her off.
Has he always been this pompous?
She had always thought him to be overconfident and egotistic but this was just ridicules. He didn't used to be this bad…but now. "You're jealous!" It wasn't supposed to make sense when she had said it for she had merely said to tick him off.
"E-Excuse me?" He stutters.
"You're jealous of Zackary! I can't believe this…you're actually jealous over something that isn't yours to begin with!" It made sense now. His attitude change and his constant insults thrown his way. This was child's play.
"I would never be jealous of that moron! What a ridicules thing to think that I would be jealous of that half-wit of a body-"
"Stop it now!" She gets up, slamming her palms on the table. People look up, wondering and yet slightly annoyed about her sudden outburst. After all her tiffs weren't usually this public it was his fault. "I won't just sit here and listen to you insult Zackary. Do you understand me? You'll never be half as smart as he is nor will you ever be able to touch him. It's just not possible."
"He's a body guard-"
"I love him!" It was said…so sudden that she hardly realized what had just flown out of her mouth. Her legs feel a bit wobbly as she stares at Andromira, shocked herself. He was already shaking his head not believing a word of it.
This was good. This was just a bit too good for him to hear.
She bites down on her bottom lip as is her tendency when something like this happens.
It makes sense though. That was the feeling…that odd feeling that always gets to her whenever he isn't around. It's a nasty feeling of want; she wants him to come home. To come and guide her in any way that he sees fit.
The way that when she'd catch him starring this overwhelming sense of happiness would flood to her cheeks. Someone who has caught her interest…and actually stays with her to enjoy the ride that she brings. It was him.
It was that thing!
That thing that he does…
"I'm sorry I don't believe I heard you correctly," Andro gestures for her to sit which she does due to her unstable legs. "You're telling me that you actually care for that thing that follows you around?"
"Y-Yes…" She trembles.
The smile that he gets is almost frightening. "Isn't that just grand?"
"…" She was done speaking. It wasn't that she couldn't speak it was just that her brain seemed to have been fried or something. Completely unresponsive she wonders what to do. It wasn't like her to not have something snarky to say to him…it was natural.
"And I'm sure that your father will think the exact same thing when I tell him," Like a kick to her brain she looks up at him meeting his glare with a fierce one of her own. "I wonder what he'll do about this-"
"He won't care," She states all matter of factly. "Father won't care and do you want to know why?"
"Enlighten me."
"Because…Zackary is an Elric."
"I thought I told you that I'd drag you back…" A hand falls onto her left shoulder, squeezing slightly as if to say 'if you run you'll regret it'. "Do you have any idea what time it is?"
"Half an hour past curfew…it only takes thirty minutes to get down to here from the house." She says back. Yes down a little ways is the river where people often sit on the steps to view the many people out on boats. "I knew that you'd show up eventually…"
"And you thought that it'd be hilarious to make me run all this way just to find you when you could have had him drop you off at the door?" He was no doubt raising an eye brow.
She smirks. "Yes because if he had dropped me off at the door then he'd without a doubt expect a kiss. I wouldn't want to get my dress dirty with the blood of a slime."
He moves to sit next to her, her hand covers his own both cold as the night air. "That bad huh?"
"I walked out to be honest. I'm wasn't in the mood to be fawned over by the maid nor questioned by father. In fact the only person I wanted to talk to was you. Hence the not coming home…see-"
"It all works out in the end. Although now you'll be questioned about why you're out past curfew." Zack sits, moving his hand down along her arm to rest on her knee. Her own hand droops back into her lap where it was beforehand.
They sit in silence, each of them just enjoying the light touch of another mixed with the night's air and the sound of the water running on by. He knew why she likes this spot instantly. The sky seems so open due to the lack of buildings in the middle to soak it up. The stars were rather beautiful.
"Hey Zack…"
"Yeah Linuette?" It was another one of these moments.
They were never pleasant.
"You're not going to leave me right? Not ever..."
Where's this coming from? "I don't plan to-"
She whips her head around to stare straight at him. It such a sudden movement that he finds himself flinching. "Even if father tells you to leave? I mean you're in the military…if he told you to leave then we might never see each other again! What will I do?"
"Wait what? Why would he tell me to leave Linuette? What did you do-"
"Nothing that I can help!" She cries. Her voice was like that of a hysterical person. She didn't know what to do nor what to say. She was looking for impossible answers. "Just…you know…promise me that you're not going to just leave me. We'll still see each other right?"
"I'm not going to leave. There's nothing that Andromira can say that going to make your father dismiss me alright? Now calm down…" He didn't understand it, he couldn't understand it. There wasn't much that he could think of to do except to just tell her what she wants to hear. It wasn't like the other times when she was just trying to get out of something, she was genuinely worrying him now. "Where is all this coming from?"
"Where you ask?" Her eyes drop to the stairs. "From the simple fact that being alone sucks and yet being with someone makes me feel horribly alone."
Basically…she can never win.
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