"You and Leaf are... dating?" Serena asked, still in shock. Gary avoided the girl's gaze, feeling guilty. "We are."
The words stung Serena, she felt ashamed that she had even developed feelings for Gary especially after traveling with him, because she'd learnt he was a player.
The blonde haired girl turned away, annoyed at herself, she went to leave but Gary had stopped her. "Serena, I love you, I always will, but as a best friend.. I don't want to lose our friendship." The brunette insisted, eyes filled with regret. Serena looked up, looking him dead in the eye, "Well it's too late Gary, it's already gone."
Serena then pulled away from Gary's grip and zoomed down the hallway. Gary watched, frozen, feeling guiltier than he'd ever felt. Leaf and Serena had been reminders that he still felt human feelings, he still had humanity left inside him.
Upset, the boy turned back to his dorm door and punched it, but with his strength the door broke off the hinges.
Serena entered her dorm and locked it behind her, she was furious. She couldn't tell whether she was angrier at Gary or herself.
"Serena?" The girl looked up to see Iris, her face showed concern. "Gary's a dick." Serena managed to say. "What happened?" Iris got off her bed and walked over to her best friend.
Serena proceeded to explain what had happened, which had angered Iris. "That asshole! He's such a jerk!" The witch growled, "Cmon, let's just go to the festival.. I don't wanna waste anymore time being angry over this." Serena admitted. Iris nodded, "Yeah of course, let's go."
Dawn's POV
I sat with Ash, Touko and Cilan. We were still drinking coffee and planning tonight. Ash yawned and stood up, "Cmon guys we have a festival awaiting us!" He then took my hand and basically pulled me out of the seat.
"A bit eager." I laughed as Touko dragged Cilan out of his seat, "He's right! Let's get moving!" Touko boomed excitedly as she and Ash lead the way. They were such kids.
We left the school premises and headed onto the main street, where people were already beginning to crowd. On this side of the street, there was food, the other side had games and rides. Lanterns were hung along the powerlines and people seemed so cheerful and happy, I was thrilled for this.
"Cotton candy!!" Touko boomed, dragging Cilan away to a cotton candy stall. "Can we get some?!" She pleaded her boyfriend. Cilan just chuckled, "We'll take two please." He said to the lady running the stall.
"Cmon! We don't have all day." Dawn tugged on Ash's arm, as he was in a daze. "You're right - let's go~" He chuckled as they left, into the crowd.
Normal POV
Calem wandered down the hallway, where he met with Paul and Ursula. He shot them both an unamused look as he didn't want to be anywhere near them.
"Good morning my pawn, I hope you're ready for a day full of destruction. I love chaos." Paul said happily, as Ursula just laughed.
Calem didn't understand why Ursula was now on his side with this plan, when she first found out the black haired boy was a hybrid and sired to Paul, she didn't like the idea.
"You're crazy if you think I'm going to do anything of the kind." Calem admitted. Ursula then stepped forward, quickly wrapping her hand around his neck. "You seem to forget you have no choice, you're sired to my brother." She insisted, before tightening her grip, "And you will do everything he asks you to."
"Enough." Paul hesitated as she released Calem, he gasped for air. "Just when I thought you were the nicer twin, I realise you're actually both as insane as eachother." Calem growled, aiming that at Ursula.
"What can I say? We're agents of chaos - besides; My brother has finally found something that makes him happy." The pink haired girl grinned.
"Today I want you to fight some people, makes some scenes.. I don't care what you do, as long as you're a bad person." Paul ordered. "Maybe you should pick a fight with Gary, you and I both know you hate him."
"Just don't bite him! I need him for my own purposes." Ursula added. Calem looked at them both, an expression full of disgust. He hated being treated like a puppet, he'd rather die than live a life like this. He refused to drink human blood which turned him into a hybrid, because he knew he wouldn't live his own life, but the twins forced him to drink human blood, and now he is Paul's puppet.
The black haired boy glared before leaving, wanting to enjoy the festival, he knew he had to just stay clear of Gary and nothing should happen.
Everyone was enjoying themselves at the festival, Dawn and Ash had played a heap of games and gone on a lot of rides together, same with Touko and Cilan. Iris and Serena went together and enjoyed themselves on some rides. Calem had bumped into Barry and decided to hang around him. Gary and Leaf also met up and enjoyed the day together.
Ash's POV
"Uh oh." Dawn laughed nervously as the roller coaster was about to zoom downhill. I laughed along too before we both screamed as the slope was steep.
We reached the bottom and Dawn turned to me, her hair covering her face. "I can't see." She joked as I fixed her hair out of her face. "Thank you." She laughed again as I did too. With my hand on her cheek, I leant towards her to kiss her. She kissed back, putting her arm around my neck to pull me closer.
"Gross!" "Cmon lovebirds, get off the ride!" "We want a turn!" We both pulled away from eachother, embarrassed by those comments. I turned around to see Iris and Serena, they were the ones teasing. My face went red, when I turned back to Dawn, I notice hers did too. "Maybe we should get off the roller coaster." I awkwardly suggested, "Good idea."
As we exited the ride, Serena and Iris laughed at us. "Veeery funny." I said sarcastically, still embarrassed. Dawn giggled, over being embarrassed.
"Let's go in the scary house!" Dawn eagerly boomed, taking my hand and dragging me away.
Ursula's POV
I watched as Ash and Dawn dashed past, enjoying eachother's company. I sighed; why were they so perfectly in love with eachother when they've only been together for like.. a week?? It made no sense to me, they skipped the awkward stage entirely!
"Hey! Are you alright?" I heard a voice. I looked up to see Barry. Pest. I was only using him as a pawn, a part of my plan.. I wish he'd leave me alone.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I retorted as Barry must have been offended by my tone. "Sorry.." I began, seeing his reaction. "I'm just upset.. The man of my dreams is in love with a stupid little smurf brat." I growled. That comment must have gone straight over Barry's head because he didn't realise that I was talking about his soon to be sister.
"I'm sorry that happened to you.. but you don't deserve to sit around, alone at this festival! You should come with me! My friend left me a while ago." The blonde explained. I looked away from his gaze, truly I didn't want to spend time with him.. but I also don't want to sit alone for the day seeing Ash happy without me.
"Sure, why not." I stood up as Barry's smile widened. "Alright! Last one to the roller coaster gets fined!" He boomed before racing off through the crowd. "Oh we'll see about that." I laughed before using my super speed, racing through the crowd.
Normal POV
As Serena went to buy popcorn, Iris spotted Gary and Leaf and quickly left to talk to him.
When the brunette boy noticed her approaching him, he knew he was gonna get an earful about how much of a terrible person he was.
"Iris, hi." Gary bluntly greeted. "Hi, Gary. I'm sick of you being such a play boy, you need to grow the fuck up and realise if you keep playing this game, you're just going to end up alone." The purple haired girl glared. "What the fuck are you talking about?" Gary retaliated. "Well first you tried to play Dawn, then Serena and for all I know, you're playing this lovely girl beside you."
Gary was taken back, "I've never had feelings for Dawn! And Serena, she's my best friend! Leaf is the one I have feelings for, you need to get your story straight before you accuse me."
"Well, let's see; first you try to use Dawn for blood, if it wasn't for Ash you would have kept at it, then you use Leaf for blood too, you didn't even care about either of them, let me add! Then you played with Serena's feelings just after she broke up with her boyfriend and now suddenly you're in love with one of the girls you used simply for blood. I'm pretty sure my story is straight." The witch grumbled. Gary couldn't argue with her, she was right.
Iris then looked to Leaf, "If I were you, I'd be careful. He's just going to use you for blood, it's the only way he knows how to treat humans." She said before turning to leave. "How dare you?!" Gary boomed, racing over to her. He put a hand on her shoulder, about to turn her around but before he could do anything, he felt a sudden unbearable head pain, which caused him to drop to his knees.
Iris looked down at Gary, with a glare, "You should be more careful Gary.." She insisted as he cried out in pain. "Gary?!" Leaf boomed. Iris released the pain, "If I see anymore of my friends hurt, like Serena was this morning, you're going to regret everything." She insisted before leaving.
"Gary, what is she talking about?!" Leaf bent down to help him up. Gary stood up, opening his eyes to reveal pain, "She's right."
Ash and Dawn exited the scary house, Ash unbothered while Dawn was a bit shaken, "I didn't think it'd be that scary!" She admitted, holding onto her boyfriend's arm. Ash just chuckled, "That was nothing." He admitted.
"Oh look at you, scared of nothing." Dawn teased. "Basically." Ash grinned. The two walked along, deciding to play a dodge car game.
"I love this game!" Ash and Dawn boomed at the same time, racing over to the entrance for the game.
They entered the race course and each sat in a cart. Dawn and Ash kept a grin at eachother, as they each believed they were better at this game then one another. Barry, Ursula, Serena, Iris, Touko Cilan and a few other people joined in, all in seperate carts too.
Once the buzzer went off, the drivers frantically stepped on the accelerator to speed off. Ash bumped into Barry, Barry just laughed and bumped him back, this became very continuous. Serena, Iris, Touko and Dawn were all chasing after eachother, zooming through the rink, trying to bump eachother.
Dawn was closest to the wall, next to her was Serena, then Iris, then Touko. Touko planned to ram into them, slamming the carts against the wall. She then took her plan into action, ramming into Iris, who then rammed into Serena who then was supposed to ram into Dawn buy she quickly slammed on the accelerator, zooming ahead, leaving the three girls to slam into the wall. "Catch ya later!" Dawn laughed, zooming off.
She then bumped into Ash, who bumped into Cilan. Barry then bumped into Dawn and for a second, the four of then were stuck. "Uh oh." Barry blurted, but Cilan floored his cart and managed to escape, freeing them all.
Ursula noticed Dawn zooming by and smashed into her cart, and somehow caused her cart to go spinning. "Woah-oah-oah I'm getting dizzy." The blue haired girl admitted, as the people close by laughed.
The fun soon came to an end as the man running the game called for the carts to be stopped and everyone had to exit.
Gary and Leaf kept walking, Leaf trying to get Gary to talk but he wouldn't budge. "Goddamnit will you stop walking and listen to me for two seconds? I'm your girlfriend and I am concerned." Leaf huffed as Gary stopped working. His demeanour had changed completely, he was cheerful before but now he's visibly upset.
"I don't want to talk about it Leaf. Iris has just made me realise how cruel I really am.. What I did to you was horrendous." The brunette boy admitted. "Can you please explain?" Leaf pleaded, wanting to resolve this. "I told you, I don't want to talk about it." Gary looked away. Leaf sighed, "Fine, then I'm going home."
The brunette girl walked away, Gary watched, feeling hopeless. He'd upset now two people that he was close to, but he couldn't bring himself to explain to Leaf what he'd done to her.
Gary's thoughts were soon interrupted, "Oi! You!" It was Calem. Calem approached him with a glass bottle in his hand, the bottom of it had been smashed.
"What do you want?" Gary bluntly replied. "To fight. You are the biggest asshole I know and I've been meaning to get you back for the party, recently." Gary blinked, remembering how he shoved Calem around.
"You're messing with the wrong person, because I am currently very angry." Gary admitted, Calem then shoved him. "I hope you're fucking ready to get your face pounded in!" Gary growled, shoving him back. The two broke out into a brawl, attracting attention from other people.
Ash noticed the fight and raced over, Dawn following him. "What the fuck?! Can you guys cut it out?!" Ash growled, dragging Gary away as Cilan came over and dragged Calem away. Calem got out of Cilan's grip and went to strike Gary with the broken glass bottle but instead hit Ash.
"Ash!!" Dawn boomed. Ash looked at the cut on the palm of his hand and clenched it shut. Calem dashed away and Gary got out of Ash's grip, glaring at Calem as he left. "What a little bitch he is."
"Are you hurt?" Dawn asked, racing to her boyfriend. "No, I'm fine." The raven haired boy insisted. "Really? Show me your hand." She insisted, trying to open it as he kept it clenched shut.
"Ash!" She groaned, as he finally opened his hand, to reveal nothing. The cut had healed. Dawn's eyes widened. "But- I swear it was bleeding!" The blue haired girl boomed. Ash shook his head, "He missed, I promise."
"No need to worry!" He said, using Dawn's saying. She sweatdropped, "Right." Ash then took her hand, "Cmon, we have a date soon." He said eagerly. "Right! I've gotta go get ready, as do you." The girl laughed, though she was still convinced she saw a cut in Ash's hand.
Timeskip to an hour later
Dawn stood in front of her mirror, curling her hair.
Barry walked in, dressed up nicely. "Where are you off to?" Dawn asked curiously, as she finished curling her hair. "To the new diner, what about you?" Dawn then turned to Barry, "I'm heading there too actually.. With Ash, Touko and Cilan."
"I'm heading there with Ursula." Barry admitted. Dawn eyed him curiously, "Ursula, hey?" The blonde haired boy blushed nervously, "She's quite cute, I hope I can get to know her better." Seeing Barry talk shyly was different, he always seemed so confident. "She invited me out, which was a surprise.. I'm pretty excited." Barry chuckled nervously.
Dawn finished her makeup and smiled, "Me too.. Hopefully all goes well with you and Miss Pigtails." She admitted as the two left Dawn's room and headed downstairs.
Dawn knew she felt a way towards Ursula, a feeling of dislike, she still couldn't figure out why. She knew there was a reason there and there was some sort of memory but she just couldn't remember, like there was a hole in her memory.
"Let's go~" Barry chimed, opening the door for Dawn as they left, locking the house.
Dawn wore a pink shirt, which was covered in roses, a black skirt which reached down to just above her knees, she also wore black heels.
Barry wore a blue collar shirt and black jeans, as well as nice black shoes.
The two walked through an alley that lead onto the main road. They soon reached the newly opened diner.
"Goodluck with Ursula." Dawn teased, nudging Barry as he blushed, "Definitely gonna need it.. Have fun with your boyfriend, and Touko and Cilan." Barry teased back, though it didn't have as much of an effect.
The two 'siblings' pushed the double glass doors open and entered the diner.
