Candy-canes and supreme amounts of adoration go out to my luvverly reviewers...merci bien :)
Raven's Wing: *cowers* im sooooorrryyy!! ... but hey, great minds think alike, right? (alex, did you just call yourself a great mind?? *sigh*) ...but yea, I know what you mean with having too many ideas! ACK! My problem is that I always have brilliant ideas right before I drift off to sleep and then I forget them come the next morning! ACK! Lol it's always healthy to be controlled by the muses...they're entertaining :) anyway - merci for the praise...key IS a stupid broad, isn't she? Oh dear... spot is always the bestest! SPOTTY BOY MY LOVE!!! Oh dear, ive had too much egg-nog...eep. Thanks again :) -
Rhapsody: oui, oui le francais c'est fantastique! ... lol that's such a lie! But what can I say, I love the language :) aaaaaanyway thank you so much for liking my story!! YAY!!! :)
Raeghann: of COISE I enjoyed the updates! but now I need more more more!!! :) Thank you for reviewing!!! :)
Shorty Carter: yay! Thank you for liking this!!!!! :)
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"EXTRA! EXTRA! Buy 'em here! Mayor's daughter seen out after dark with pirate! (AN: heehee I couldn't resist!) EXTRA!"
The crowd around her kept moving, ignoring her attempts to make a living. Today was not going well. Setting her heavy stack of papers down, she sighed. There wasn't enough change in her pocket to buy herself any lunch and her stomach was complaining. Making her way over to the entrance of a nearby alley, she sat down on a rickety crate and propped her feet up on her papers.
Any minute now the afternoon edition will be out and these'll just be old news.
She shut her eyes and let her head fall back against the cool bricks behind her. Visions of cool-eyed newsboys danced through her head and she let out a frustrated groan.
Why do I let him get to me? He's just a stupid boy...
But that stupid boy is supposed to be your best friend.
Why'd he get so mad, anyway? What the hell does he care if I'm Locks' girl? He's the one who told me to go find him, after all!
...but that's not what he really wanted you to do, and you know it.
"Bastard...I wish he'd just say what he means!" she muttered without opening her eyes.
"Talking to yourself, Key?" an amused voice startled her enough that she fell off the crate.
Great, exactly the person that I'd looooove to see right now...
"Fuck, Spot, don't sneak up on me like that!" she picked herself up off the ground, brushing vainly at the dirt on her pants. Meeting his eyes, she felt her anger disappear as she drowned in their grey-green depths.
"What are you doing here, Spot?"
Without breaking their stare, he smirked at her, "I was looking for Lock. I figured that you and lover boy wouldn't be too far apart."
She closed her eyes again, not wanting to acknowledge the pain in his. "Spot, what the hell is your problem with us? You were the one who told me to be with him!"
He gave a bitter laugh, "You're the one who lied to me."
"What?!"
His eyes darkened, pinning her to her place, and his voice was softly filled with equal parts of anger and anguish.
"You said that you weren't in love with him."
...why does he care?...
"I'm not in love with Lock!!"
Grasping his cane, he pointed it threateningly at her : "Don't lie to me, Key!"
Pushing it out of her face, she stepped right up close to him.
"Spot, see if you can understand me. I'm - not - in - love- with - Lock."
He raised an eyebrow at her.
"Right."
Lowering her eyes, she sighed.
"Jesus...why do you care so much anyway? He's supposed to be your best friend...shouldn't you want him to be happy?"
"You make him happy."
"Well, yeah, I think so...so can't you be happy for us?" His ever-shifting eyes seemed to soften at her words, as if something inside him had broken. He had lost the battle.
"You'd make me happy too."
Surprised, she glanced up at him in shock and realized that his face was mere inches away from hers.
"...What?!"
And just like that, he kissed her. She was flooded suddenly with all the emotions he had been feeling for the past few weeks. The regret, the anger, the jealousy...the love. It was electrifying. She could taste his sorrow and his joy as his lips pressed feverishly against hers. Her knees went weak and goose bumps rose all over her skin.
Why isn't it like this when Lock kisses me?
There were delicious shivers running down her spine and she had to stifle a moan as their tongues tangled together, tasting each others newly awakened passion.
...All this from a first kiss.
And then, as suddenly as it had begun, the spell was broken and Spot pulled violently away. Staring at her, her hair wild where his unheeding hands had tangled, her eyes heavy with arousal, her breathing erratic, he realized what he had just done.
As if it suddenly dawned on her as well, her eyes widened. With a horrified gasp, she whirled on her heel and ran, leaving behind her papers, her hat, and her best friend.
Watching her go, he couldn't help but smile through his self-disgust.
She kissed me back.
AN: It's beginning to look a lot like chriiisstmaasss...YAY!!! :) feel like gift-wrapping a review for me, just 'cause 'tis the season to be jolly?
:) happy happy holidays :)
Raven's Wing: *cowers* im sooooorrryyy!! ... but hey, great minds think alike, right? (alex, did you just call yourself a great mind?? *sigh*) ...but yea, I know what you mean with having too many ideas! ACK! My problem is that I always have brilliant ideas right before I drift off to sleep and then I forget them come the next morning! ACK! Lol it's always healthy to be controlled by the muses...they're entertaining :) anyway - merci for the praise...key IS a stupid broad, isn't she? Oh dear... spot is always the bestest! SPOTTY BOY MY LOVE!!! Oh dear, ive had too much egg-nog...eep. Thanks again :) -
Rhapsody: oui, oui le francais c'est fantastique! ... lol that's such a lie! But what can I say, I love the language :) aaaaaanyway thank you so much for liking my story!! YAY!!! :)
Raeghann: of COISE I enjoyed the updates! but now I need more more more!!! :) Thank you for reviewing!!! :)
Shorty Carter: yay! Thank you for liking this!!!!! :)
******
"EXTRA! EXTRA! Buy 'em here! Mayor's daughter seen out after dark with pirate! (AN: heehee I couldn't resist!) EXTRA!"
The crowd around her kept moving, ignoring her attempts to make a living. Today was not going well. Setting her heavy stack of papers down, she sighed. There wasn't enough change in her pocket to buy herself any lunch and her stomach was complaining. Making her way over to the entrance of a nearby alley, she sat down on a rickety crate and propped her feet up on her papers.
Any minute now the afternoon edition will be out and these'll just be old news.
She shut her eyes and let her head fall back against the cool bricks behind her. Visions of cool-eyed newsboys danced through her head and she let out a frustrated groan.
Why do I let him get to me? He's just a stupid boy...
But that stupid boy is supposed to be your best friend.
Why'd he get so mad, anyway? What the hell does he care if I'm Locks' girl? He's the one who told me to go find him, after all!
...but that's not what he really wanted you to do, and you know it.
"Bastard...I wish he'd just say what he means!" she muttered without opening her eyes.
"Talking to yourself, Key?" an amused voice startled her enough that she fell off the crate.
Great, exactly the person that I'd looooove to see right now...
"Fuck, Spot, don't sneak up on me like that!" she picked herself up off the ground, brushing vainly at the dirt on her pants. Meeting his eyes, she felt her anger disappear as she drowned in their grey-green depths.
"What are you doing here, Spot?"
Without breaking their stare, he smirked at her, "I was looking for Lock. I figured that you and lover boy wouldn't be too far apart."
She closed her eyes again, not wanting to acknowledge the pain in his. "Spot, what the hell is your problem with us? You were the one who told me to be with him!"
He gave a bitter laugh, "You're the one who lied to me."
"What?!"
His eyes darkened, pinning her to her place, and his voice was softly filled with equal parts of anger and anguish.
"You said that you weren't in love with him."
...why does he care?...
"I'm not in love with Lock!!"
Grasping his cane, he pointed it threateningly at her : "Don't lie to me, Key!"
Pushing it out of her face, she stepped right up close to him.
"Spot, see if you can understand me. I'm - not - in - love- with - Lock."
He raised an eyebrow at her.
"Right."
Lowering her eyes, she sighed.
"Jesus...why do you care so much anyway? He's supposed to be your best friend...shouldn't you want him to be happy?"
"You make him happy."
"Well, yeah, I think so...so can't you be happy for us?" His ever-shifting eyes seemed to soften at her words, as if something inside him had broken. He had lost the battle.
"You'd make me happy too."
Surprised, she glanced up at him in shock and realized that his face was mere inches away from hers.
"...What?!"
And just like that, he kissed her. She was flooded suddenly with all the emotions he had been feeling for the past few weeks. The regret, the anger, the jealousy...the love. It was electrifying. She could taste his sorrow and his joy as his lips pressed feverishly against hers. Her knees went weak and goose bumps rose all over her skin.
Why isn't it like this when Lock kisses me?
There were delicious shivers running down her spine and she had to stifle a moan as their tongues tangled together, tasting each others newly awakened passion.
...All this from a first kiss.
And then, as suddenly as it had begun, the spell was broken and Spot pulled violently away. Staring at her, her hair wild where his unheeding hands had tangled, her eyes heavy with arousal, her breathing erratic, he realized what he had just done.
As if it suddenly dawned on her as well, her eyes widened. With a horrified gasp, she whirled on her heel and ran, leaving behind her papers, her hat, and her best friend.
Watching her go, he couldn't help but smile through his self-disgust.
She kissed me back.
AN: It's beginning to look a lot like chriiisstmaasss...YAY!!! :) feel like gift-wrapping a review for me, just 'cause 'tis the season to be jolly?
:) happy happy holidays :)