Can I Keep You? Chapter 10
By: *Tracey*
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Keoko-sama:
you think I give too much away? O.o I didn't mean that in the end, I wrote it before
I actually started the chapter ^^; Whoops.
Jason
M. Lee: Blooper? Blooper? Where? ((Looks wildly around last chapter))
Noooo! Where?? O.o bad Tracey, bad!
Anyway, thanks for the reviews, and on with
the story!
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"Relena,
are you ready? Your party is going to be here soon!" Hilde called from Relena's
room, through the bathroom door.
"Hilde,
I am not coming outside looking… like… like this!" Relena's voice
hissed through the door in agony. "I feel like an idiot!"
"You
are an idiot for letting Hilde pick out your dress, Relena," Duo piped up, from
where he was sitting on the bed. Hilde glared at him, and watched as he just
shrugged back at her.
"Relena,
just come out, please?" Hilde asked. "Come on… I promise we won't laugh."
"Promise?"
"I
swear on my reputation that if I laugh, I can fall down the stairs to the party
and make a larger idiot out of myself than you," Hilde pledged.
"Fine,"
Relena finally said, and pushed open the bathroom door. Hilde and Duo promptly
burst out laughing. "You guys!"
Hilde
fanned herself and gasped, "sorry – but you have to admit, it's pretty funny!"
Relena
sighed and turned back into the bathroom, readjusting the low-cut dress. She
was dressed up like a saloon girl in the 1800's, and had on the frilly
hairpiece. "Do I really look that silly?" She finally sighed.
"Very,"
came Treize's voice, as he appeared behind her in the bathroom.
Relena turned to face the
transparent ghost. "Am I authentic?"
"How
should I know? I wasn't alive at the time," he huffed.
"Come
on…" Hilde pressed, teasingly.
"Fine!"
Treize snapped. He turned back to Relena, "You look wonderful – like a
showgirl."
Relena
blanched and Duo burst out laughing again. He was dressed as the guy from Scream
(what else?). Hilde had on a playboy bunny outfit, but it was toned down a lot
more. When Relena asked her what she was being, Hilde replied, "Bridget Jones's
in that one scene where she goes to the party."
Relena
didn't know what she was talking about, since she never saw Bridget Jones's
Diary.
Millardo
appeared in the doorway, knocking. "Relena, they're arriving and looking
awfully scared." He turned to Treize. "Got the trouble-makers out of the house
tonight?"
"Yes,"
Treize replied. "They're head-hunting with the Bloody Baron in England."
Millardo
forced a smile. "Right then… um, ready Honey?"
"Ready,
Millardo," Relena replied, and she and her two best friends left her bedroom,
jumping with excitement.
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"Ouch!
Dorothy, cut it out!"
"Stop
complaining, Quatre, this is only for fun. After all, not everyone lives in a
big, scary mansion like Miss Relena Darlian," Dorothy's voice said, breaking
the still of the night. She had climbing in through one of the downstairs
windows, and Quatre was helping her up.
"Dorothy,
we shouldn't be doing this," Quatre said, a little shakily. "This place is huge.
A lot larger than your estate, and we don't want to meet any – err – guests in
the house."
"Quatre,
you prat, they aren't any ghosts in here. It's a legend. A myth, to keep people
like us out," Dorothy said, using her most logical voice.
Quatre
sighed and nodded. "Okay. Fair enough. I believe you. Now, can we do something
else and go to the party?"
"NO!"
Dorothy hissed, turning around to face him sharply on the ledge to go inside of
the house. "I will not let Relena Darlian, the new girl, better me! I will
show her how pathetic this party is and what a loser she is!"
"Right,"
Quatre said, a little bored of hearing this before. "Dorothy, I just want to go
to the dance. Okay?"
"No,
it's not okay!" Dorothy snapped. "You're coming in here with me."
She
reached over, and grabbed the edge of his windbreaker and pulled him inside the
house after her. They window shut with a sharp snap!
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The party was in full swing once Relena got downstairs. Duo
was supporting a protesting Hilde, who was still rubbing her nose. She had
tripped on her way down the stairs out of Relena's room.
"Relena, thanks for letting us use this place for our
Halloween party!" Mr. Jameston, her first-period teacher said, smiling.
"Everyone's enjoying themselves – I guess this place isn't really haunted after
all!"
"Nope, not at all," Relena answered him, a trace of a smile
on her lips. She glanced back at Duo and Hilde, who had reached the bottom of
the stairs, and shook her head as she watched Hilde smack Duo with her hands
for helping her down.
"Relena," a voice said. Relena turned to see one of
Dorothy's supporters, the girl with the bushy hair, ask.
"Yes…?" Relena trailed off.
"Catherine. Catherine Bloom," the teen introduced herself,
and Relena shook hands with her. "I want to warn you."
"Warn me?" Relena repeated, stupidly.
"Yes; Dorothy is planning something to ruin your party. She
was talking about it to us and only broke off when Quatre came up to her.
They're in it together, I'm sure of it," Catherine stated.
"How can I trust you?" Relena asked, narrowing her eyes.
"Dorothy could've asked you to say that to me."
Catherine shook her head. "I know you can't trust me – I'm
her 'friend'. But you need to believe me here, that I'm saying this on my own
will."
"Cathy!" a voice called, and Relena and Catherine turned to
see the girl with the pink-red hair, the girl with the coiled hair, and once
with jet-black hair beckon her over.
"In a second, Mariemaia!" Catherine called, and waved, over
the music.
Relena rose her eyebrows. "Mariemaia?"
Catherine shrugged. "She's got weird parents. Named her after
her Grandmother. Her Grandfather died a long time ago. He lived in this house,
actually. She doesn't like coming here."
"What's her last name?" Relena asked.
"Khushrenada. Listen, Relena. You need to believe me, okay?
Bye!" Catherine said in once breath, and disappeared into the crowd. It was
only until Relena had reached the food table when she remembered the name.
Khushrenada! That's Trieze's last name! Relena
thought, and looked around for the ghost. Not seeing him, she excused herself
from the party and began to look around.
What's going on here? Is there something about this
family's past that I really don't know? Relena thought. Well, whatever
it is, I need to get to the bottom of it before I tell Heero about his past!
Or, well, show him, but… whatever. I need to know Treize's family past… in
order to make sure I know the future of this house. Something tells me Faye and
Dibs will be back…
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Disclaimer: I don't own
Gundam Wing. I don't own Bridget Jones's Diary [even though it was a great
movie] and I don't own the movie Scream, either. The Bloody Baron belongs to
Joanna K. Rowling, and he's the Slytherin ghost.
Have a nice day.
I also don't own that. That's from Coyote Ugly. Dammit…
what do I own?