A/N: Sorry no updates, I was gone all weekend. Got burned, but the beach wasn't cold for once. Anyway, more iseult, I ask? Or do I already have people hating this fic? Just wondering…
I'm Not Iseult
Tenth Chapter: Celena
Allen looked angrily at his sister. "What. Do. You. Mean." He said, his anger barely withheld.
Celena trembled, but didn't back down. "I mean it. I'm moving out."
Allen's hand snapped out. Celena winced, waiting for it to hit. It didn't. A very familiar voice dryly remarked, "First you attack my girlfriend. Now you're hurting your own sister?"
Dillan, who had twisted Allen's hand behind his back, smiled at Celena.
Celena blushed faintly, but nodded, and ran to get her bags. Aidana, Celesi, and Hitomi followed, smiling and nodding to each other.
After Dilandau had the pure joy of beating Allen unconcious, he turned to his best friend. "You like her." It wasn't a question or an observation, it was a statement. Dillan nodded. "Yes, Lan. I do."
Dilandau threw his head back, and laughed. "Of course. Aidana'll set up a double date for the four of us. Where she'd send us so it would be easiest to spy I don't know. What do you think?"
Dillan didn't even pretend to think. His answer was instant, as he knew his sister so well. "Dance party. She dies to embarrass me."
Aidana came back downstairs, smiling. "Don't you mean 'live'? Live to embarrass you?"
Dilandau got uneasy, unsure of how much she'd heard. Dillan didn't even flinch. "No, you would die, if you thought it would embarrass me enough."
Aidana rolled her eyes, switching the duffel she held on her shoulder. "Uh huh. Whatever, lying boy." She pecked Dilandau's cheek. "Besides, I think you'd rather rip my new beau's head off than kiss yours."
Dillan flushed in anger. "I have my reasons for hating Fanel."
Aidana shrugged her shoulders, carrying Celena's stuff over to Celesi's place.
"Now, you two, listen. I want you both to be good, and I'll sneak into your room tonight to talk."
Hearing a sound, they both turned around, to find Hitomi in Dilandau's arms. All three sighed, and walked away from the make out couch, unaware of Gaddes' hurt expression as Celena kissed Dillan goodbye.
School Monday morning was brilliant. Hitomi came up with her own prank. She got the others up at dawn, and they went through every room, switching the schedules from english to japanese and japanese to english. (their school's an exchange school, and has half their classes in english for the students who want challenged.)
Hitomi sat, looking like the image of innocent perfection when Dilandau and his crew walked in. They all sweatdropped, seeing the three troublemaking females looking innocent. "Spill it. What'd you do?"
Mischevious smiles appeared, but they refused to say anything.
In drama, Hitomi sat, painting props. As the door opened, she realized Hadley had entered. Hitomi panicked. Not that she was now so worried about her lines, but because she really did not want to play Iseult. The resemblences to her current life were either too correct or incorrect for her to do it. But that wasn't what the coach was going to say.
"Hitomi, Allen's transferred in. Celesi and Aidana refuse to help, and are mad I'm even asking you. But as Allen's playing the replacement Tristan—" Hitomi had begun viciously attacking the canvas, fiercely determined. Coach Hadley sighed. "You didn't know that Van transferred, did you?"
Hitomi kicked the paint can. "No! And I'm not going to be Iseult with Allen as Tristan. And I'm not going to dump this on Celesi or any of the others, either."
Celesi walked in, her white hair newly streaked with lightning blue, which brought out her icy blue eyes. "Well, I'm glad you agree I can't face Dilandau in this play again."
Aidana, her hair also dyed, except brown with red streaks, which also matched her maroon eyes and fiery personality. "Why not just have Allen as the king? They'll only have three scenes together. I don't see the big deal, 'Tomi."
Dillan walked in, slapping both upside the head. "Idiots. Dying your hair to match you fic."
Celesi and Aidana blushed, but began methodically beating him into the floor with their shoes.
Hitomi, ignoring the scene, turned back to Hadley. "I..I'll do it, if he's not Trystan."
Hadley hugged her, tears in her eyes. "Oh darling, you don't know how I've waited for this day, to see you play the part you were born to! The stars shine on our meeting—"
Dilandau took the sweatdropping Hitomi from the teachers arms. "Uh huh. You might want to leave 'Tomi alone. She doesn't like gay women. She's straight."
Hadley straightened, furious of the insult. "You, you DARE call me gay? Why, you insufferable, never ending painful excuse for a—"
Hitomi walked out, sighing in Dilandau's arms. She didn't have to deal with this, not today.
Maybe tomorrow with Allen, but not today.
When Hitomi got home, she was surprised to see her father. "Daddy?! Did work end early today?"
Her father shook his head silently.
Hitomi realized with horror that the house was covered in tissues. She slowly turned to her mother, apalled by what she knew she would see.
As suspected, Mrs. Kanzaki held a soaking handkerchief to her eyes, which never stopped raining.
The icing on the cake was Sakura screaming that she couldn't leave her bestest best friend Syaoran behind.
On the calendar, three dates were circled. Hitomi identified two as the end of Sakura and her school year, but the one a day afterwards had no mark. It was just a red circle.
Hitomi's voice hid the thousands of emotions raging through her. "We're moving again, aren't we?"
A/N: Kukuku…I am soo evil today. I just got brain dead, and that was the first idea I got. I needed another paragraph for length. Anyways, reading through my chapters, I realize how sketchy they are. Maybe I should just stop now, and stop insulting escaflowne by fanficcing it. Now's the time for flames, people, while I'm indecisive. Oh and will Dilandau or Aidana take this sitting down, you ask? You know Dilandau well enough I'm sure. Aidana's screaming something behind me which I won't type out.
