Author Notes: Kelly Russell is Sydney's sister, her husband is a pilot of a famous airline [which I don't know yet!] and he is on duty. She is an accountant in one of a bank. She is 27 years old. Oh oh, she has a kid named Natalie Griffin and 4 years old.
Chronicle of Silence
Chapter One
Sydney walked in her sister's house an hour late. She could hear her coming down the stairs with a rage.
"Where the living hell were you?" her sister asked.
"I was caught up with school work, and what one hour?" she said jokingly. She began to laugh, and then saw her sister's face and then stopped.
"Well, I'm late for my meeting because of you, and my boss is going to kill me!" she said hitting Sydney across the head. She then walked to the stairs to call her daughter.
Natalie ran down the stairs and shoved her face in Sydney's stomach. Sydney showed some sign of pain, but she hugged her back. "Hi, kiddo!" she said picking Natalie up.
"She hasn't eaten dinner, and she has the tickets with her. It doesn't start for one and a half hours, so take her to dinner first!" her sister instructed. Sydney nodded in agreement. Kelly then shoved them out the door and shut the door behind her.
Sydney opened the passenger door and strapped the belt on Natalie. She saw Kelly taking off without a good-bye. She finally strapped herslef in and drove off.
"So, where do you want to eat?" she aksed keeping her eyes on the road.
"Are you going to buy me candy?" Natalie asked sweetily.
"What kind of Aunt would I be if I didn't?" she replied looking at her, smiling. "But you have to eat first. So how about pizza?"
Natalie yelled. "YAY!" Sydney took it as a 'yes' and took a right turn.
They arrived at the pizza place a few minutes later. They finished quickly. Sydney then drove to a conveinence store that she knew well. She ordered Natalie to stay in the car and walked in to get the candy Natalie liked. She knew what she wanted because it was her favorite too.
"Hey, Mike!" she said as she walked in. She headed for the candy section, where she saw a strange man looking at the candy she wanted. He was tall and had his hair going over his left eye. He seemed to be reading the ingredinets.
"They don't contain peanuts, if that's what your looking for!" Sydney said as she grabbed two bags.
She recieved no answer from the man. He stood there still eyeing the candy. "Is there something you're looking for?" she asked politely.
Still no answer. 'Is he mute?' she thought to herself. She ignored him and walked to the cash register. The silent man came to the cash resgister with about ten bags of the candy at the same time Sydney did. She didn't notice Mike was giving her the change and dropped it on the floor, because she was looking at the silent man in shock. She finally came to, and found the silent man was helping her pick up her change. 'What a sweet guy,' she thought as she took the change he picked up for her.
"Thank you!" she said as she left the store. She could've sworn that she heard him reply with "You're welcome!" but was unsure.
She opened her door and gave a bag to Natalie, who opened it imediatly and began eating. "Well, we better go or will miss out on all the side-shows," Sydney said looking at Natalie, whose mouth was filled with the candy.
They finally arrived there and realized that they have thirty minutes to go around before the show started. Time passed by fast and they headed for the show. They took a seat in the back because they were already too late and people were there a lot sooner. The whole tent began to dim and the ringmaster came out, welcoming them. Elephants, horses and dogs did their tricks. The tight-rope walkers walked the rope. People flew off trapzes and bikers rode thier bikes through rings on fire. The only event that caught Sydney's eyes were the woman with a pink dress on with red hair and a masked man, covering only half of his face, standing at a large target, while the woman kept shooting knives at him. She could see clearly that he was calm and that he had a lot of trust in this woman. She didn't miss anyone that might've caused him injury. She finally finished throwing fifty knives, forming the outline of the man's body on the large target. They took a bow and left the ring. The seals came out and did thier trick. Sydney found herself not paying attention because she kept thinking about the man and woman who has just left. The ring master finally came out to tell them good-bye.
Everyone stormed out, while Sydney was stuck on her chair, because of the crowds of people stepping on her foot, not allowing her to get up. She looked to her side and found Natalie missing. She thought that she was on the other side of the people, so she called out her name, and got no answer. The crowds began to clear and she quickly looked around for her, but no sign. She kept shouting her name. She ran out to see if she was waiting for her, but wasn't there. Sydney began to scream her name.
Natalie looked around and didn't find her Aunt. She yelled her name, until a man came out from a room that was beside her. She looked at him terrified. He gave her a small smile. She noticed that he was in a costume and that he was on of the 'freaks', as her mother called them.
"Are you lost?" he asked softly.
She began to cry. "Yes, I can't find my Aunt," she replied.
He leaned forward to meet her eyes. "Don't worry, I'll help you find her."
She found a sense of security ih his eyes and hugged his neck. "Thank you," she said.
Sydney felt the urge to cry, she didn't trust anything about the circus. She now understood why her sister never comes to these things, while Natalie adores it. She ran into the tent back again, to see if there's hope that Natalie might have come here while she was on the hunt for her. She was disgusted with all the people laughing and having a good time, so she felt it would be a good idea to go in. As she walked in, she heard little squeaky laughter. She walked in and found Natalie sitting one of the seats with the man with the knives. She yelled out her name, which made Natalie look up and run to her. Sydney carried her to give her a hug. She walked down the stairs to thank the man. She noticed something familiar about him.
"Thank you so much!" she said greatfully.
He gave her a smile. "Bye, Natalie!" he said. Natalie giving him a little wave.
Sydney fought herself. He was the man from the store, and she wanted to introduce herself. "I don't beleive we have introduced ourselves. I'm Sydney Russell, and you are..." and took out her hand to shake his. She waited for him to reply, but got nothing but a strange look. "It is very rude not to reply!" she told him.
"Triton Bloom." a woman came out into the ring, the same one who threw the knives at him. "Is there something we can help you with?" she asked.
Sydney throught for a little. "No, there...actually there is!" she replied.
"Yes..." the woman became rude.
"I'm doing an assignment for my university that'll help me stay there and I was hoping if I could interview you two, if that is possible?" she asked politely.
"No, I'm sorry we don't give information about ourselves!" the woman started to walk off.
"I won't ask questions about you, but about your job, that's all!" Sydney said.
The woman turned to look at her, and narrowed her eyes. "What kind of questions are we talking about?" she asked.
"Questions like: 'when did you begin working for the circus?' and 'do you enjoy working here?'" she replied, only knowing that she would lead them to answer other questions. She then looked at the man named 'Triton'. "Is that okay with you?" she asked him.
He replied with a nod. The woman also gave a nod and walked off. "Great! I'll be here on wedensday [A/N: It's monday!] at 12, that's okay, right?" Sydney asked. Another nod. "Thanks again!" she said before she hopped Natalie on her back and left the tent.
Natalie was dropped off on time, so Sydney left to go back to campus just as soon as Natalie was in bed. Sydney arrived and crashed in bed, only to find that there was someone there. She knew this was one of Sheryl's doing. She yelled out her name, and she came out of the washroom.
"What?" she asked rudely.
"Get this piece of shit of my bed now!!" she yelled at her. Sheryl woke the person and they left queitly. Sydney stormed to the closet to get new sheets. She did her bed quickly and changed her clothes. She finally rested on the bed, falling asleep fast. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ (the next day at around 8 a.m.)
"Who comes to talk business at eight a clock in the morning?" she asked herself sitting at the breakfast table. She shoved her fork in the eggs and strenly dipped them into her mouth.
"Come on, Lindsay, I want you to welcome my guests, they are very important!" her father popped his head in the kitchen, already dressed. He was expecting people that will provide him with supplies for the new store he was opening. To Lindsay's knowledge, the Winner family has been involving with the distribution of products for a couple of years now. One of them was going to come to her father and negotiate about the prices that they were being sold for.
She mummbled some words, and kept on eating. "Fine, I'll be right there, father!!" she said sarcastically.
"Lindsay!" he yelled, knowing that she was sarcastic. She got up and stomped her way to her room. She slowly got dressed on purpose and headed downstairs. She was too late, the people have already arrived. 'Oh No!' she thought to herself. She noticed a man standing at the door, waiting for something. She approached him quietly.
"Are you waiting for something?" she asked.
He didn't bother to look at her. "Yes, my friend," he replied.
"Friend?" she was puzzled. "Are you one of the many secertaries that the Winner family has?"
"No, I'm just waiting,"
"I could escort you to where they are, if you want me to?"
He gave her a head shake indicating "no".
"That's fine, I'll be on my there now!" she said walking off, leaving alone the mysterious man with weird hair. She heard footsteps approaching her. A blonde man walked by her. She turned around and found the blonde man handing the mysterious man a piece of paper. She shrugged and kept on walking. The blone man caught up with her.
"I'm sorry I didn't say 'hello' earlier. My name is Quatre Raberba Winner, and hello!" he said with smile on his face. His hand was out. She took it and shaked it.
"Mine is Lindsay Smith, Mr.Smith's daughter, hello to you too!" she said. "Who was that man?"
"He's my friend, Trowa Barton, he helps my crew to pick up all the products shipped in, and since they are all on a break, (thier day off) he volunteered to pick it up for me," he replied.
"Ah, thanks for clearing it for me!" she said with a smile and they both walked into her father's office.
She was there for one purpose, to be taught how to negotiate, but her mind was somewhere else. She was thinking about the attractive man who's called Trowa as Quatre said. The argument went on for hours but she couldn't concentrate on it.
She heard the door bell, and all the butlers were on a break too, so she excused herself to go open the door. She pulled on the handle and saw the attractive man from before.
"Yes?" she asked politely.
"Could you please give this to the blonde man inside?" he said handing her a small peice of paper.
"You mean Quatre?" she asked, and recived a nod. "Okay, sure, would you like to come in so you can give him instead?"
Without saying anything, he walked in, and waited for her to go call Quatre. She stood for a few seconds looking at him and left to call Quatre. Quatre walked into the large entrance, while Lindsay stood at the door and peeked through. Quatre took the peice of paper that Lindsay took as the address for where the shipment was sent. But she ignored all and stared at Trowa. He seemed irristable to her. He had such fine masculine features and wore a tight turtle neck and jeans that bore parts of his body [A/N: the chest, hentais!!! But you could get dirty and think the other part :P].
As soon as she saw Quatre approaching, she rant to the room nearby and shut the door. She waited till Quatre left in the her father's office so she can storm out to go talk to Trowa. She did so, and was too late, becuase he had already left leaving her in dust, which the large truck left behind it. She coughed and walked in. Angry that she didn't get to talk to him, she left for her room. Once there, she looked out her window and began day dreaming. JASMINE MAXWELL-YUY: HE HE HE...I MADE LINDSAY SUCH AN AIR-HEAD, AS SHE WOULD PUT IT!!! BUT HEY, YOU'RE IN LOVE ALREADY, AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, CUZ HONEY, I WON'T CHANGE IT!! HA HA..TOO BAD, SO SAD!! AND I MADE SYDNEY SO MEAN!!! HE HE HE...I'M SO EVIL!! YOU KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING, I WAS HOPING THAT I COULD MAKE "THE SWEET EVERAFTER" FOR EACH OF THE GUNDAM BOYS!! WHAT DO YA THINK?? AND IF YOU WANT TO HELP, WRITE IT WITH ME!! WELL, ME HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY, JA NE..