Author note
Hi again, and thanks for the support since the last chapter. Here comes chapter 2. Now let's see what's happening to Zane and his friends!
Thanks for Reviewing: NathanDrake679, TrashyAuthor, Grenji, brad goss and Daniel1122.
Thanks to NathanDrake679 for beta reading.
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Past and Future
In one of the bigger rooms in the eevee mansion, all the Eevees were sitting at a dining table. Only one place was empty, with that being Lavenders. She had gone to her room after the incident in the hall showing no sign of coming out. The dining room was a rectangular room with a big window on the north wall. The opposite was filled with paintings and a banner. On one of the shorter walls there a set double door that led to a corridor. The kitchen door was set opposite of the entry door. At the table, in the center of the room sat everyone and chatted about random things mostly directed towards Zane.
"So, Zane, where do you live?" Glory asked.
"I'm from Kanto," He answered and smiled at Glory.
"Well, I have always wanted to go to Kanto but I've never really had the time," Glory said while toying with her fingers.
"If you ever go to Kanto, make sure to go to the top of Mt. Moon. The view there is awesome," Zane said full of excitement on the outside but feeling the sorrow of talking about his old home on the inside.
"Hey, where's the food? I'm starving," Flaria asked, turning her head to loo at Valerie.
"It's Valerie's and Glory's job to make food today," Eriel said and began to look at Valerie too.
"No problems, we fixed that earlier. We are just waiting for the fish gratin to be ready," Valerie answered with a calm voice.
"When was that, exactly?" Umbria said and giving Valerie a penetrating gaze.
"At 19:24, if I read the recipe right," Valerie said.
"The clock says it's exactly 19:36," Flaria said and while she crossed her arms.
"Shit," Valerie screamed and ran to the kitchen knocking a few things over with Glory frantically following behind.
"She always fails with the food," Flaria said now tapping her finger aginst the table and face palming with the other.
After about 4 minutes Valerie and Glory entered the dining room with the dish of fish gratin. The fish gratin was slightly burnt black on the top.
"Ok, here is food and some plates. Can somebody take a plate and some food to Lavender?" Valerie said, as she put the fish gratin down on the table.
"I do it," said Glory and began to put food on an empty plate, because no one else offered. She took her own plate along with Lavender's and began to move against the doors. She pushed through it and began walking up the stairs to the second floor. On the right were a short corridor, was a big circle round room with multiple doors along it. On the major part of the doors, right at eye level hung nameplates showing who's room it led to. The only furniture in the room were two small tables with only two seats with them each. One of them were placed in the space between the first set of doors and the other in the same way was place at the other side of the room. Then there was the glistening light that flooded into the room coming from a huge dome in the center of the ceiling made from pieces of glass creating a peaceful vibe.
Glory walked to one of the nearest doors that's nameplate read Lavender and opened it with her shoulder while balancing the food in both hands. Lavender's room only had four big things in it that stood out. That being her fluffy green bed, a drawer of forest green, along with a walk in closet, and a bench that's was completely filled with flower pots, plants, and other garden-related things. The differential with her room was huge with Lavender's being everything along the lines of nature, with everything in incomprehensible shades of green. Lavender herself was lying in her bed with her head shoved in a pillow.
"Lavender, are you okay?" Glory asked while she put down her and Lavender's plates on the drawer. Lavender just mumbled something silent to answer.
"I know this is hard for you but don't let the past manipulate the future," Glory said and stroke Lavender over her back.
"Don't you think that I would tolerate someone like him," Lavender said in a sudden outburst of anger and sat up.
"Calm down a bit, please," said Glory and put her arms around Lavender's shoulders.
"Why did all of you accepted this idea?" Lavender said and began to take deep breaths in an attempt to calm herself.
"Y'know that if you find it wrong with having him as a member of the family, you abound probably tell him the reason,"
"Never," Lavender stated, standing up as her will to say calm began to dwindle. She quickly made her way across her room and moved towards the door in an attempt to leave the room since she began to feel very uncomfortable in the current situation.
"Lavender, you know that the others will tell him as soon as he ask."
"They won't, I know that they won't. Besides I'm going to the toilet," Lavender said in an attempt to convince herself failing miserably. She then got to the door placing a hand on the doorknob.
"You can't escape from this neither physically or mentally, we need to talk about it and find a solution," Glory said and looked Lavender in her eyes with a serious gaze.
"No, If you're going to his side and you don't make him leave then you're worthless in my opinion," Lavender screamed before opening the door completely and slammimg it behind her on her way put as she thought why doesn't anybody here even care about me?
Down in the dining room at around the same time. Almost everyone was finished with their meals and the normal discussion about who would be washing the dishes had begun.
"It's Lavender's and Glory's turn to wash today," Valerie said, through a mouth full, shoving the last bits of the fish gratin in her mouth.
"Well. They aren't here," Eriel said, as she put her cutlery down on the table.
"Since I'm new here, I don't mind doing it," Zane said, trying to be kind but also impress them anlittle bit.
"I'll help him," Flaria said raising a hand before she began to clean the table off.
"Why you? Do you like him?" Valerie asked, giving Flaria a playful poke on the shoulder.
"Sigh" was the only thing Flaria said and gave Valerie a don't-try-to-irritate-me gaze.
Zane with Flaria's help had now cleaned off most of the table. He had stacked all the plates with the cutlery set the on top of the stack. Zane then walked into the kitchen and dropping all the dishes in the sink. Flaria entered the room not very far behind Zane with a stack of glass.
"Why don't you have a servant?" Zane wondered, as he clean the food off the plates before putting them in the dishwasher.
"Do you really now how much that cost? Our parents send us money for living but not that much." Flaria said while she leaned against the countertop.
Now is the perfect time to ask Flaria about Lavender. It's only Flaria and I in the room, so hopefully, a super awkward situations occurs.Zane thought, before he took a deep breath so that he could start saying what was on his mind.
"Flaria, do you know something about… Lavenders behavior," Zane said, speaking the two last words in a whisper. Is she angry at me for asking about a private thing?Flaria stared at Zane for seconds before answering his question.
"I do know about it and you have the right to know what it is," Flaria walked over to the and small two person table in the kitchen and sat down the thought: If I say this to Zane Lavender would kill me but if I don't he would probably cause more problems to Lavender without knowing itracing through her mind.
"The thing with Lavender is that her past hasn't been very good to her. She hung out with a group of girls that were boy-catchers. She eventually got a boy and her friends pressed her to stay with him. We didn't see what was wrong with the situation but after a while, we understood that the boy treated her like crap, hit her, insulted her, and even abused her. We convinced her to leave him and well… she did but not much time later her friends convinced her to find a new guy. Since she was very shy she didn't even protest. Lavender ended up having boy after boy and all of them just wanted her body and treated her like crap. Due to her friends, she didn't leave them until we intervened. This moved on until a guy nearly raped her. If he hadn't tried at home and we didn't stop him, who know what he would have done. We stopped him before he actually did something. The consistency is that Lavender is a male-hater," Flaria explained, before sitting up from her chair. She then walked over to a shocked Zane and laid her hands on Zane's shoulders. "Zane, never tell this to anyone that isn't included in this family,"
"I won't, I promise," Zane said. Now things are beginning to make sense in this family.
Glory entered the room with hanging shoulders and her arms tightly crossed over her chest. She slammed the kitchen door shut behind her.
"What's wrong?" Zane asked taking Flaria's hands off his shoulders.
"Lavender and I were talking and it escalated to an altercation about Zane," Glory said full of distress .
"I already told him about Lavender's past," Flaria said, as leaned forward and embraced Glory in a tight hug.
Everyone went quiet for some seconds until Zane decide to speak.
"Why don't I talk to her to prove that I'm better than the other guys she's met," Zane said.
"She's had this attitude towards it for a while but I kinda think it is worth a try," Flaria said, hopefulness building in her tone.
"I'm in," Zane said. Now all the attention was directed towards Glory.
"Well, I…I don't think we will succeed but I can join," Glory said, before she freed herself from Flaria's hug.
"What shall we do first then?" Flaria asked.
"I think it would best to tell Lavender that I know about her past, since going behind her back won't be the best in the long run," Zane said.
"True but who should tell it to her?" Glory said, as she walked over to the small table and sat down.
"You are in the same age as her and your in the same class so you know her the best," Flaria said sitting down across from Glory. Zane walked over to the table and rested his hand on the edge of it while he spoke:
"I think I should do it since it is, after all, about me."
"Never, if you told it to her she would be way more angers at you and your life would be in imminent danger from her rage. Besides it was me who told you so that makes it my responsibility to tell it to her," Flaria said.
"As long as I don't do it and Flaria does. She's better for it anyway," Glory said trying to chicken out from the task.
"Ok, its settled. I'll do it," Flaria said.
"Flaria, Glory, should we tell the other about our plan?" Zane asked.
"Maybe because we might need their help later," Glory said, before she finished walked to the kitchen door and left the room.
"I'm going to tell this to Lavender then since Glory won't," Flaria said, trying to stay positive.
The kitchen door was opened and Valerie entered the room.
"Hey Zane, since you aren't busy right now, I need to show you your new room," Valerie said and began to lightly drag Zane towards the door.
"Of course, I'm a bit curious about my new room," Zane said, full of curiosity.
"Don't be lazy then. Follow me," she said as they walked through and began to walk toward the stair, to the upper floor.
"Where are the others?" Flaria asked and followed them.
"In the living room watch telly. The are of course looking at some worthless drama movie," Valerie said and making a face of disgust as they passed the living room.
"I hadn't seen any of the rooms yet but how do they look?" Zane asked.
"Every room is customized after the person, so my room, for example is blue while Flaria's is red," Valerie answered. They walked up the stairs and turned into a corridor with a row of doors. Every one of the doors had their own nameplate.
"This one, to the right of Glory's is yours," Flaria said as she walked to the door and opened it for Zane and Valerie. Zane then walked into his room and looked around, completely blown away by what he saw.
"It's fantastic!" he said full of excitement.
The room was coloured in black, while the furniture was coloured in mainly red matching his fur. The room was also much bigger than his old one.
"How did you know these were my favorite colors?" Zane wondered.
"We guessed and if it wasn't for Umbria your room had been pink now, we were one vote from accepting Eriel's suggestion," Valerie said, with a disappointed grimace.
"Remind me to always look out for Eriel," Zane said, walking over to his new bed and sitting down.
"Are you going to get your bags before Eriel fills them with spiders," Flaria said and nodded towards the corridor.
Zane, getting the hint quickly sat up to walked out of his room down the stairs in a fast walk. He got to his bag and was about to lift his bag before a voice rose behind him making him jump a little.
"Do you need help?" Umbria said.
"I'm good," Zane answered and picked his bag from off the floor.
"Maybe but remember that you have school tomorrow and if you arrive too late that might hinder an opportunity."
That fact hit him like a stone.
Well that was random. Dang it, going to school is one hundred percent boring when you don't have any friends.
Stop being so negative. You are going to be in the same class as Glory and Lavender. Besides, there must be someone in the class you can hangout with.
If I don't find any friends?
Then you got me!
Sigh… I surrender. I guess you're right.
During this small little mind conversation, he hadn't realized that Umbria just stood there and waited for some kind of response. Luckily Umbria was interrupted by Glory yelling from the living room.
"Hey Umbria stop playing parent. Before Zane arrived you could take responsibility and still not act like a parent," Glory yelled.
Zane took this opportunity and shot upstairs in a blur. He quickly left his things in his new room, before heading back down stairs and into the living room.
The whole family was now sitting in the living room. Everyone was looking at some kind of drama-romance movie. The tv they were so engrossed in was hanging on the wall opposite the door. Two couches were placed in a ninety-degree angle to each other on the other side of the room. Between them was an low table with a few remotes sitting on it. Zane then took the only empty place on the couch which was next to Glory. He looked at the film in five minutes and decided to agree with Flaria and Valerie on the fact that, the film was extremely boring. He suddenly was hit with tiredness causing him to yawn.
"Are you tired already?" Glory said, looking over at Zane.
"Yeah, I didn't sleep too much last night," Zane said.
"Ha, you need to go to sleep early then, beacause the clock says it's only eight o'clock," Glory said, in a teasing tone to Zane.
"That reminds me of something," Umbria said before she continued: "Since summer has ended and autumn has begun, that means that the first school day is tomorrow."
"And that means that you all persons younger than me have to go to sleep," Flaria said, as she looked at Glory with a huge grin.
"You do that because you want to tease us, this isn't necessary," Lavender said, refusing to move even when Flaria began pulling Lavender's ear.
"Hey, if you don't move I lift you to your bed," Flaria said, before she lifted Lavender and began to walk to upstairs to her room. Lavender tried to wriggle her way out of Flaria's arms but failed miserably.
"Hey, somebody help me!" Lavender said, looking at the rest of her sisters.
"For one time it isn't me she is teasing," Valerie said through uncontrollable giggles.
"Come on now Glory, Zane, I can't stay here the whole night," Flaria said and left the room. Glory looked away from the screen and rose from the couch heavily.
"I thought it was a joke," Glory said and began following Flaria. Flaria walked to the circle like room and carefully dropped Lavender. After her was Zane and Glory came up the stairs. Immediately, Glory took the chance to argue about the ridiculous bedtime.
"Can you stop it? The clock says it is only five minutes past eight, I was just joking when I said that Zane needed to go to sleep," Glory argued, before walking over to the small two-person-table in the room and satting down. Flaria just smiled and said: "I'm not joking,"
"Not even Umbria does things like this and if we are so young that we need to sleep at eight, then why isn't Eriel here?" Glory questioned, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Don't you understand that I'm doing all this because it's funny," Flaria said, as she went over to the table and sat down.
"So who is first on the toilet?" Flaria said and nodded towards one of the doors on the other side of the room. Lavender quickly to the chance and went to the door to use the toilet.
While the girls had been arguing about bedtimes they hadn't noticed that Zane had snuck away to his door and into his room. He began to take all his clothes off and put them in the wardrobe. After that he changed into a pair of red and black pajamas. He then left his room and aimed for the toilet. When he approached the door he saw that it was locked. I suppose that Lavender is still there.He then turned and was about to go to Flaria when the toilet door was opened or more exactly slammed in the back of Zane's head (R.I.P. Zane 2017-03-13, I mean it hurts a lot!). He groaned at the pain and turned around to scold Lavender when he suddenly stood eye-to-eye with Glory.
"I'm sorry I…I was up in my own thoughts and… are you ok," Glory stuttered and began to back away from Zane. When Zane saw that it wasn't Lavender his face softened a bit. He noticed that he was knuckling his fists and baring his teeth.
"Zane, stop glaring like that at me," Glory said and took another step away from him.
If she thinks I'm angry, why not prank her?Zane thought and took a step towards her.
"Flaria help me, he look likes he is about to kill me," Glory said and looked at her sister while she took another step away from Zane.
"Sorry sis but I'm busy seeing my sister being scolded by Zane."
Glory just looked at Zane and began speaking with an afraid voice again: "It…it w-was a mi-mist…,"
At last, couldn't Zane holds his poker-face and began laughing. Not long later did Flaria join in the laughing. When Glory realized that Zane hadn't been angry at all she began to laugh too, more of the relief than from the actual joke. They laughed and laughed, so much that Zane could't even manage to stand up anymore so he just dropped to the floor. After a few minutes of gut busting laughing did it finally began to die out.
"That was a good one!" Flaria said and walked over to Zane sat down beside him on the floor.
"Zane, never do that again. You scared the shit out of me!" Glory said, still smiling and sat down, astride on Zane's chest. Uh, she isn't so heavy after all,he thought blushing a bit.
"Promise to never scare me like that," Glory said and put her hand on his shoulders.
"Why would I? It was funny," Zane said, before trying to get from her grasp and remove her to no avail. She pushed his shoulders against the floor and said: "I won't release you, if you don't obey," Glory said and gave him another push against the floor. When he hit the floor the back of his head, unfortunately, hit the floor and the pain reminded him of itself. Zane groaned in pain again.
"Sorry, forgot that," Glory said and carefully moved off him.
"Maybe we should do something about it?" Flaria suggested and sat up from the floor.
"I got an idea, come follow me," Glory said with an enthusiastic voice and led Zane to her room. Her room was painted in a light blue color with streaks of dark blue. She had most of her things colored in blue shades. The temperature was also some degrees under the temperature that was in the rest of the house. Glory carefully led Zane to her bed and sat him down on her turquoise duvet. She sat down behind him and slowly she laid her hands on the back of his head. He felt her hand became colder and colder. All the while he felt how the pain slowly began to lower until it was nearly gone.
"Better?" Glory asked and softly began to stroke him from his head down to the neck.
"Yes," he said and turned around to face her. They sat there and looked at each other for a while. Zane looked at Glory and saw things he never thought about earlier. Saw the black tinted dot of fur on her neck. Saw the little tiny scratch she had under the fur on her ear. Saw her beautiful glittering eyes. He saw the beauty in her whole body. He looked her in the eyes and she looked back. Zane just drowned himself in her eyes of perfection and felt when her soft hands took his. She is really cuteZane thought. She is so perfect in every way.They looked at each other for a few seconds more until they both began to carefully release each other's hands both blushing. Glory just smiled at him and said: "I suppose we need to sleep before Flaria decides to resume her joke and put us to bed," Glory said and stood up from her bed.
"Yea, that sounds like a good idea," Zane said and made his way out of her room with goosebumps and a slight blush. When he was on his way back to the bed he heard a crash followed by a scream that came from Lavender's room. The scream made him freeze for a second until he recuperated and he ran into Lavender's room. In the room was Lavender and Flaria, Lavender standing with a lifted fist bent over Flaria and Flaria was on the floor bleeding. Around Flaria were several broken pots and ceramic shards. Glory appeared in the door and immediately dragged Lavender away from Flaria. Flaria stood up from the floor and quickly left the room, ignoring Zane's and Glory's confused looks.
Everything went quiet. The only thing they heard was the wind rustling in the leaves. After a while, Lavender was the first to talk.
"Zane, leave us," Lavender said and turned her gaze to Glory. Zane left the room and went down the stairs to see what had happened to Flaria. He was, despite the last events, a bit happy that Lavender actually talked to him in a non-angry mood. At the staircase, he's saw a trail of blood stains began and run to downstairs. A little more worried, Zane followed the stains down the stairs to the big bathroom.
I Wonder Lavender actually did to Flaria? I thought they were good friends in this family.
The door stood wide open and he heard voices coming from inside the room.
He entered the room and was surprised by how big it was. While the other bathroom was only a one person bathroom, this was a bathroom designed for at least three people at a time.
It was a rectangular room with the door at the short side. One wall was equipped with three basins. The farthest wall was divided into three separate small toilets. The last long side was also divided into two sections. In the first was a long bench made of marble, that spread out over the bench. Ingraved in the wall was a shelf to put things on or use as a table. In the second was a few hooks, bathroom cabinets, and other things you can find in a bathroom. Between these two sections was a open corridor away to another part of the bathroom.
Leaned agaist one of the basins stood Flaria with no clothes on the upper part of her body, instead, she covered her front side with a towel while Valerie was cleaning her fur with a cotton ball.
"Stand still," Valerie said and put a hand on Flaria's shoulder to hold her still.
"Hey, are you okay Flaria?" Zane asked and gaving her a pity smile.
"It is not as bad as it seems," Flaria said, with a sigh.
"What happened," Zane said and took a cotton ball. With it, he began helping Valerie with cleaning up the blood in Flaria's fur.
"I tried to tell her what we talked about," she began, with a stutter.
"I don't know how she could do this to me," she continued, breaking out into a sob.
"She was just angry, that's all," Valerie said and patted Flaria on the head in a reassuring way. They stood there in silence for a while until Valerie spoke.
"Your fur is clean now and since the wounds from the pot shards aren't big nor deep we only need patches to cover them," She said and took a box from one of the cabinets.
After a half minute of patching Zane tried again: "What happened to you?" Flaria just covered her face with her hands and sobbed. After a while, she said: "tomorrow." Not at all satisfied with the answer he tried again.
"Why wait until tomorrow?" Zane said and gave Flaria his baby-doll-eyes.
"Don't push it," Flaria said and looked away from him.
He sighed and began examining the room.
"Where are the showers?" he said and looked at Valerie for answer.
"If you follow that corridor between the benches and the cabinets, you'll see them.
Zane followed the short corridor and found a room with a shower drapery to the right and three bathtubs to the left. The floor and the walls were made of tiles as the rest of the bathroom. He walked in behind the draperies and saw three regular showers in a line. As Zane entered the shower he heard some steps behind him.
"Wonder where Zane went?" Valerie said as she entered the showering room.
"Don't know, don't care, I'm going to take bath," Flaria said and began getting various soaps and skincare products. Zane froze when he heard this.
If she is going to take a bath that means she won't wear any clothes, I'm stuck.
See it from the good side, you now get a chance to have a sneak-peak at her now.
What are you talking about, I would never do such things! I have never seen a girl naked.
Everything must have a first time, you are after all 15.
Zane was interrupted in his thoughts when something pushed him the floor. The surprising attack made him jerk his elbow in the attacker. Something soft stopped his elbow earlier than he expected. The attacker did immediately release him and he turned around to see Valerie sitting behind him, giggling at his reaction.
"We hadn't forgotten you if you thought so," she said and lifted him to his feet.
"Did you get that little sneak-peaker?" Flaria said from the other side of the drapery.
"Of course," Valerie said and pushed him out of the showers. Thankfully for Zane, Flaria was fully clothed.
"Hey I didn't try to look at you," Zane said to Flaria.
"It's just a joke, we know that you didn't," Flaria answered.
"Depends, this little guy hit my breast with his elbow, isn't that sexual harassment?" Valerie said and gave Zane a hug.
She must learn about limits. I have only been here an evening and she is hugging me like I have been here a my whole lifetime.
"It was a mistake," Zane said and gave Valerie an angry glare.
"I understand, go now so we can bath," Valerie said and released him.
With a fast speed, he left the bathroom, he headed straight to his room and went to bed. When he was in his bed he began thinking about his crazy day.
Aside from Lavender, this place seems quite okay.
After at few restless minutes, he ended up thinking about Glory. No matter how much he tried to sleep, it was nothing compared to his will to think about Glory. Everytime he thought about something it ended up being about Glory.
It must be the fact that I'm new to this family…I think.
Author note
And there we got it, the second chapter! I must admit that this chapter is a bit longer than 3500-4000(5000) words but shall I split it in two chapters next time or just have longer chapters sometimes? This time I took a part of this chapter and placed it in the next to make 500 words shorter.
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