A/N: first of all, "I HATE EXAMS!!" Repeat after me ppl, "I hate exams!!"
now let us all throw massive rocks at exams. Uh.....Right, now that that's
out of the way...... I have about 5 days off before my next exam so I
thought I'd take some time in writing this chapter. I have serious writer's
block but I'm trying! Thank u all so much for ur support and patience with
me^_^
DISCLAIMER: zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZ = I've already said it a bazillion times.
WARNING: some swearing here0_o (and just for the record, I'm not a swearing person!)
CHAPTER 14- ESCAPE
Claire Redfield stormed out of the house, her face practically boiling and the colour of ripe tomatoes. If it wasn't for her immense anger she would have probably started crying, but this was a sort of pain beyond tears. It was the kind of pain where you had to get out quickly before you committed a crime you would forever regret. Or maybe not, since Claire had instantly wanted to strangle Ada with her bare hands, and knew she would instantly get over her regret and throw a massive party afterwards. Claire knew herself quite well, and she knew that at this level of anger she could easily lose self-control and so the only thing she could do was walk away.
'I gotta get out of here!' She thought to herself, trying to will her heart back to beating normally. What she just saw had now been placed as number one on her list of most traumatic experiences. 'I hate you Leon!! You no good bastard, son of a-" at this point Claire had used every single profanity she ever heard in her life, in every language, which were now lined up and being shouted all at once in her head.
'Who the hell does he think he is?! Kissing her like that. And in the middle of the living room for all to see! Is this his idea of getting me back for not listening to him the other day when he tried pouring his heart out about Ada? Well you've got another thing coming Leon. No one messes with my feelings like that, NO ONE!!' at that last thought, she kicked at a garden gnome which went flying across the yard and breaking one of Leon's front car window's.
Claire was too angry to feel any sort of guilt at this moment. 'HA! Serve's you right!!' she thought as she looked at her handy work. The damage wasn't enough to fulfill her needs and she had the sudden urge to get a shotgun and shoot the living daylights out of the car. It wouldn't change anything, but it would surely make her feel slightly better. 'Where are zombies when you need them??' she thought miserably as she hopped onto her motorbike. She turned back to her house and looked at the door expectantly once more; hoping that Leon would have the decency to run out after her and tell her it was all one big mistake. But that didn't happen. With a heavy heart, she started her engine and zoomed off.
Leon gasped in surprise as he and Ada walked out into the front lawn. His car, which was fine the day before, now stood before him with the front window smashed. He ran to it quickly to inspect the damage and found one of the garden gnomes sitting on the driver's seat.
"Shit," he muttered as he grabbed at the gnome and tossed it back to the grass. He let out an exasperated sigh as Ada jogged up to him with a look of concern.
She put a hand to her mouth when she noticed the smashed car window. "Oh Leon! What happened?" she asked, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I-I have no idea. It was fine yesterday," he said trying to think of a reasonable explanation for the assault on his car. "Maybe some drunk teenagers were running around last night and this was their idea of a sick joke," he suggested as he took a wooden stick and got rid of the sharp pieces of glass around the window's edges.
"I'll get the vacuum," said Ada running back into the house. She returned moments later with a small vacuum cleaner that was usually used for the car seats and handed it to Leon. He quickly turned it on and started cleaning the insides of the car from the small glass pieces that were scattered over the two front seats, and the floor underneath them.
"I guess we should skip the mall trip for today, huh?" said Ada, folding her arms in front of her.
Leon chuckled, "yeah I guess." He hadn't been in the mood of going to the mall anyway. Claire's image was now imprinted in his mind, and the way she had looked at him with so much pain in her eyes. He had only caught a glimpse of it, before her face was distorted into a look of disgust and annoyance. But the way she had looked at him in those few milliseconds had triggered a new feeling within him. It was absolute guilt, and he didn't even know why he would feel guilty over something like kissing Ada, since he was a single man after all. Yet he still felt as if he had betrayed Claire somehow.
"Leon?" interrupted Ada, causing Leon to spin around suddenly and look at her sheepishly. "Where you listening to me?"
"Oh, sorry I was just wondering about what to do with the car. Umm, what were you saying again?" he asked.
"I said, 'oh well there's always tomorrow,'" she repeated, blinking at him as he gave her a blank look.
"And?"
"Seriously Leon! I'm talking about the mall. What is UP with you today?" she said, getting annoyed at him quickly.
"Nothing, jeez. Alright that's fine, we'll go to the mall tomorrow. I'm afraid to delay it any further anyway, since Rebecca's already stressed about her wedding as it is."
Ada gave him a suspicious look before smiling at him sweetly. "How about we go and get that car window replaced then?" she asked, moving to the other side of the car to get into the passenger seat.
Leon shrugged, "we might as well. Nothing better to do anyway," he said hopping into the drivers seat and starting the car after Ada got in next to him. He decided he would talk to Claire later on in the day, when she cooled down. Leon shook his head slightly, 'I will NEVER understand women,' he thought miserably.
AT THE MALL:
Claire ran into another men's clothing store, looking around for where her brother and Jill might be. She knew they would be at the mall today since they had planned it the day before, and although Chris complained a lot about how much he hates shopping and that they'd better finish soon, Claire knew he was secretly loving the fact that he would be spending an entire day with Jill.
'Jill, where are you dammit?!' Claire thought as she entered another possible store, Jill or Chris could have visited. She had spent the last two hours driving, and fighting her tears, but she knew that what she needed now was a friend to talk to. Jill, being the only person who knew both Claire and Leon well and was aware of Claire's feelings towards Leon was the perfect friend to talk to.
After another 10 minutes of running around the mall looking lost, Claire finally spotted Jill and Chris at the food court and gasped in surprise at what she saw. Although Chris dragging Jill to get something to eat was the most likely and unsurprising thing in the world, the fact that he now held her hand in his, and looked as though he was leaning towards her for a kiss was enough to give anyone, especially Claire, a heart attack on the spot.
Chris, the macho all man, ex pilot, gun extraordinaire, who usually gagged his way through romantic movies, and rolled his eyes every time Carlos sweet-talked Rebecca, was now looking at Jill all 'lovey dovey' himself. Probably muttering sweet nothings in her ear, since Jill looked like a giggling schoolgirl, with her face flushed in delight. The term, 'where is my brother and what have you done to him?!' suddenly came to mind, and Claire found herself growing hot in the face.
'What the hell is up with people shocking me to death today?! First Leon, now Chris, and they're both doing the last thing I could have thought possible!!' Claire thought as she continued to stare in bewilderment at Jill and Chris's table. 'Ok so I always thought Leon liked Ada. But I mean, kissing her smack front in the living room was not very expected. And now Chris is acting like some lovesick puppy, which in all of my years of knowing him, I had never seen done for any girl he dated!!'
Claire felt guilty at being angry with all of this. On any normal day she would have jumped in joy to finally see her brother and Jill together. She thought it was inevitable, once Chris would get off his high horse and finally break his pride by admitting how important Jill really was to him. But seeing it happen in front of her without warning was still a shock. She felt as if everyone in the whole world was now finally finding his or her soul mate and she was getting left behind. All she needed now was to turn around and find Sherry and some good-looking young guy, kissing by the video game store. Claire winced as she carefully turned around to see if that would happen.
She let out a frustrated sigh. 'This is so stupid......man I'm paranoid!' she thought and thought it was best to leave Jill and Chris in their little world and turned back to walk miserably out of the mall.
"Claire!"
Claire spun around quickly to find Jill and Chris jogging towards her. 'Dang! They must've spotted me as I was sneaking away,' she thought, flashing them a nervous smile.
Jill smiled back, looking just as nervous. "Claire, wha-what are you doing here??" she said looking over at Chris who's ears were now a shiny pink colour. He looked very occupied with staring at his shoes.
"I'm sorry you guys. I know I interrupted something special-" at this, Jill and Chris's heads snapped up and they looked at Claire with terrified expressions, "oh come off it you two! I knew this would happen sooner or later. And I'm happy for you both!" She said, forcing a smile as she hugged a surprised Chris and Jill. "Now, wipe those stupid faces off, you both look seriously retarded," she added.
They both laughed nervously and held hands, knowing that it was safe now since Claire already knew.
Claire couldn't help but grin, "You guys are so disgustingly cute! When were you planning on telling us?!" she scolded playfully.
"Well," they both said, then turned to each other and laughed.
"You go first," said Jill.
"No you," replied Chris.
"No I insist."
"No, please you go on ahead."
"Chris, it's YOUR sis!" yelled Jill.
"Ok, ok fine!" said Chris finally giving up. "It kinda just started today. About an hour ago actually, when we were looking at Jill's dresses and-"
"You see Claire, we haven't been hiding anything. I mean we just told each other today how we felt!" interrupted Jill, talking very fast.
Chris raised an eyebrow, "I thought *I* was talking here," he said.
Jill giggled and hugged him with one arm, "I'm sorry, continue."
Chris coughed lightly, "SO, as *I* was saying," he gave Jill a joking glare, "Jill was picking out a bridesmaid's dress and so she was trying a bunch on, and well she looked absolutely gorgeous and......"
Claire looked on anxiously, "and???"
"Well I dunno, I kinda just realized I had to tell her how I felt, because it was plastered on my face anyway, since I was staring at her drooling and all," Chris continued, causing Jill to laugh and recall the earlier events.
She had been standing in front of him wearing a light blue dress, which accentuated her curves, and went flowing all the way down to her toes. A very typical bride's maid dress, but it had left Chris staring with his mouth open for quite a while till Jill had to walk up to him and slap his face back to reality and out of his little 'Lala Land'. She asked him if he liked the dress but he was speechless. She stood closely to him trying to figure out what he was trying to say, and after a long amount of stuttering Chris had given up, and decided to kiss her instead. He was never good with words anyway, and was known as a man of action. This had taken Jill by surprise but she eventually melted into his kiss and wrapped her slender arms around his neck, walking backwards into the changing room and out of sight. When they finally broke from their heated kiss, no further words had to be spoken, since it was quite obvious what they felt for each other.
"So go on!" said Claire.
"Yeah, so I..... told her," said Chris sheepishly, knowing that he didn't do much talking in the process anyway.
"And here we are," continued Jill smiling up at Chris.
"And that's it??" asked Claire looking somewhat disappointed.
"That's all you need to know young lady," Chris answered in a fatherly manner.
"Give me a break Chris," she said rolling her eyes.
"Umm, so Claire what where you doing here?" asked Jill, watching Claire's face fall and seeing a heart broken expression replace her former smile.
"I was gonna buy some.....new trainers," lied Claire. She wasn't about to ruin Jill's so far, perfect day by pouring her own problems out on her.
"Claire, I don't think that's the reason. And for the record you have always been the worst liar ever," said Jill moving up to Claire. "So what's the real reason?"
Claire's eyes began to water as she recalled her own day and she fought her best to stay strong and keep a straight face, but it was too late as both Jill and Chris noticed.
"Claire?? You ok sis?" asked Chris, looking very concerned as he grabbed onto both her shoulders to look at her face. This didn't help the situation at all and Claire looked away wiping at her eyes. Jill looked worried now and glanced at Chris.
"I'm......I'm just so happy for you guys that's all," said Claire laughing at her own lie as more tears streamed down her eyes.
Chris looked very confused since his sister was never the emotional type, but decided to leave her alone.
"Chris, is it ok if I stay with Claire? We've ordered the dresses and the tux so......" she looked at Chris meaningfully and he understood that it was best to leave the girls alone now.
"Oh yeah! Sure, I was getting real sick of this mall anyway. Have fun you two, and I'll see ya both tonight," he said, leaning over and giving Jill a kiss on the cheek, then turning to Claire and kissing the top of her head.
"Bye," said Jill, smiling at Chris as he waved at them and ran off.
Claire wiped at her eyes once more. "I'm so sorry Jill. I really didn't mean to come in here and screw things up for-"
"shhh, it's ok," said Jill soothingly, leading Claire by the hand to one of the tables. "Now tell me, what happened? Cause I only know that look too well, and I KNOW that its not tears of happiness you're crying," she said, handing Claire some tissues from her hand bag.
Claire blew her nose silently. "I hate Leon," she muttered flatly.
Jill's eyes grew wide, "oh no," she muttered under her breath. "So what happened?"
Claire looked as if she would burst into tears once more, and was going through some kind of internal struggle to keep herself under control. "He.......he kissed *Ada*," said Claire, purposely spitting out Ada's name venomously. Her face now also showed a great deal of anger.
Jill now gasped in shock, and her eyes almost popped out of her head. "He didn't!" she said as more of a question than a statement. But it didn't look like Claire would be joking at a time like this.
Claire nodded, putting both hands on her head. "I feel like such an idiot! Crying over some......some.....GUY!" she said this as an insult. But to Claire it was insulting to her pride to be crying over a man. She had always found girls like that silly and sentimental, and now she was doing the same thing and turning into one of them. "I can't help it Jill. It hurts.....a lot."
Claire's shoulders began to shake slightly and Jill guessed she must have started to cry again. She moved her chair closer and wrapped two arms around Claire's shaking shoulders. "I know sweety, I know," she said trying to comfort her as much as possible. She only just realized that they were sitting in public, and some heads turned curiously in Claire's direction from nearby tables. Claire obviously didn't care that anyone was around them watching her cry.
Jill turned her attention back to Claire, trying to make some sense of Leon's actions. She personally had always thought that Leon held strong feelings for Claire and not Ada.
"Claire, maybe it was Ada who kissed Leon and not the other way around?" she said, hoping that this would be the case.
"He kissed her back! It takes TWO to tango Jill, and he looked as if he was bloody well enjoying it from where I was standing!" replied Claire looking angry. "you know what? I'm an idiot.....and idiot and a loser, cause for the last 3 years I've been laying around DREAMING of that......ASSHOLE, sad excuse of a man, so that Ada can come in and get I've been trying to get in only a couple of weeks! I mean seriously now Jill, am I that unattractive? Or do I have to be boring, reserved, and speak with absolutely no facial expressions like some robot so that Leon notices me. Or maybe it's tattooed on my forehead, or some Neon sign above my head which says 'DANGER, DO NOT APPROACH!'" She let out a deep breath then continued, "Look at me! Look at what I've turned into. And you know what's even more pathetic? I'm actually sitting here CRYING over him! He doesn't even deserve that! What he deserves is a good punch on the nose and a good kick in the nuts! Fine he wants Ada? FINE, he can have her! But he's frickin out of his mind if he thinks I'LL ever give him the time of day!" Claire took another short break from talking and blew her nose loudly, looking determined to not cry ever again.
Jill, during this entire time, just looked at her and listened carefully, and although she had some sudden urges to laugh at Claire's attitude and the fact she was speaking so loud in the middle of the food court she was ale to contain herself. She surely wouldn't get a chance to put her own two cents in any time soon since Claire obviously had a lot to get off her chest. Just then a new song started to play over their heads.
'Have you ever loved somebody so much it makes you cry
Have you ever needed something so bad you can't sleep at night
Have you ever tried to find the words but they don't come out right
Have you ever
Have you ever.......'
"DAMMIT, this song is not helping one bit!!" yelled Claire a little too loudly causing more heads to turn.
"Umm Claire maybe we should go to that nearby park and talk there??" suggested Jill, hoping to calm down the raging Claire, who looked as though she wanted to destroy the radio and music systems in the entire mall. She also definitely didn't want to get on her bad side at this moment of time.
"Yeah let's go," Claire quickly agreed, "I don't think I can handle listening to any more of those soppy ass songs anyway."
Minutes later, Claire and Jill were greeted by the warm sun, and Claire sighed putting both hands into her pockets. The warmth of the sun on her skin seemed to calm her down a bit, but that only lasted till she saw Leon's car driving by, with his window fixed and Ada sitting next to him.
She knew he noticed her, as she caught the surprised look on his face as he passed her by, but this only made her angrier.
"Did you see that?! He was sitting next to that fuckin bitch!! See, he doesn't even care, that-" Claire looked as if she was searching hard for a bad enough term for Leon, and Jill could have sworn that if she wasn't holding Claire, then she would have sprinted after the car or something.
"I believe you Claire and I understand totally, but let's just calm down now."
"Calm down? CALM DOWN?! I won't calm down till I beat the shit out of both of them!" Claire shouted as Jill tried leading her to the park.
Jill exhaled deeply. 'This is gonna be one very long day.' She thought.
A/N: I didn't like this chapter that much, coz it seems so boring and it drags on, but I knew it had to be done. I'm sorry I'm not really putting too much light into the Jill/Chris relationship, but this fanfic is mainly about Leon and Claire and so it'll revolve around them and what happens around them. I also suck at describing dresses and such:p I know nothing about fancy dresses or dresses in general so forgive me! And about Claire's feelings....I hope I portrayed them well. It's hard to keep her in character, and I don't really picture her being the miserable lovesick girl who's suicidal. She seems more like a person who would turn feminist when she's hurt:p Anyways I hope u guys liked this chapter nonetheless. Tell me what u think and leave a review! And plz, give me suggestions on whatever u might want happening, it's always a great help^___^
SO WHAT NEXT???: Well, we'll be goin back to Leon, and we'll see how long Claire will be able to avoid him. The wedding is getting even nearer, and all shall be revealed soon:p
'Have you ever' is Brandy's of course:p I didn't know of a good song to choose but I thought this one suited well, and I thought it would be hilarious for it to start playing at that moment and just make the day even worse for Claire:p I'm evil.....I know^_^
DISCLAIMER: zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZ = I've already said it a bazillion times.
WARNING: some swearing here0_o (and just for the record, I'm not a swearing person!)
CHAPTER 14- ESCAPE
Claire Redfield stormed out of the house, her face practically boiling and the colour of ripe tomatoes. If it wasn't for her immense anger she would have probably started crying, but this was a sort of pain beyond tears. It was the kind of pain where you had to get out quickly before you committed a crime you would forever regret. Or maybe not, since Claire had instantly wanted to strangle Ada with her bare hands, and knew she would instantly get over her regret and throw a massive party afterwards. Claire knew herself quite well, and she knew that at this level of anger she could easily lose self-control and so the only thing she could do was walk away.
'I gotta get out of here!' She thought to herself, trying to will her heart back to beating normally. What she just saw had now been placed as number one on her list of most traumatic experiences. 'I hate you Leon!! You no good bastard, son of a-" at this point Claire had used every single profanity she ever heard in her life, in every language, which were now lined up and being shouted all at once in her head.
'Who the hell does he think he is?! Kissing her like that. And in the middle of the living room for all to see! Is this his idea of getting me back for not listening to him the other day when he tried pouring his heart out about Ada? Well you've got another thing coming Leon. No one messes with my feelings like that, NO ONE!!' at that last thought, she kicked at a garden gnome which went flying across the yard and breaking one of Leon's front car window's.
Claire was too angry to feel any sort of guilt at this moment. 'HA! Serve's you right!!' she thought as she looked at her handy work. The damage wasn't enough to fulfill her needs and she had the sudden urge to get a shotgun and shoot the living daylights out of the car. It wouldn't change anything, but it would surely make her feel slightly better. 'Where are zombies when you need them??' she thought miserably as she hopped onto her motorbike. She turned back to her house and looked at the door expectantly once more; hoping that Leon would have the decency to run out after her and tell her it was all one big mistake. But that didn't happen. With a heavy heart, she started her engine and zoomed off.
Leon gasped in surprise as he and Ada walked out into the front lawn. His car, which was fine the day before, now stood before him with the front window smashed. He ran to it quickly to inspect the damage and found one of the garden gnomes sitting on the driver's seat.
"Shit," he muttered as he grabbed at the gnome and tossed it back to the grass. He let out an exasperated sigh as Ada jogged up to him with a look of concern.
She put a hand to her mouth when she noticed the smashed car window. "Oh Leon! What happened?" she asked, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I-I have no idea. It was fine yesterday," he said trying to think of a reasonable explanation for the assault on his car. "Maybe some drunk teenagers were running around last night and this was their idea of a sick joke," he suggested as he took a wooden stick and got rid of the sharp pieces of glass around the window's edges.
"I'll get the vacuum," said Ada running back into the house. She returned moments later with a small vacuum cleaner that was usually used for the car seats and handed it to Leon. He quickly turned it on and started cleaning the insides of the car from the small glass pieces that were scattered over the two front seats, and the floor underneath them.
"I guess we should skip the mall trip for today, huh?" said Ada, folding her arms in front of her.
Leon chuckled, "yeah I guess." He hadn't been in the mood of going to the mall anyway. Claire's image was now imprinted in his mind, and the way she had looked at him with so much pain in her eyes. He had only caught a glimpse of it, before her face was distorted into a look of disgust and annoyance. But the way she had looked at him in those few milliseconds had triggered a new feeling within him. It was absolute guilt, and he didn't even know why he would feel guilty over something like kissing Ada, since he was a single man after all. Yet he still felt as if he had betrayed Claire somehow.
"Leon?" interrupted Ada, causing Leon to spin around suddenly and look at her sheepishly. "Where you listening to me?"
"Oh, sorry I was just wondering about what to do with the car. Umm, what were you saying again?" he asked.
"I said, 'oh well there's always tomorrow,'" she repeated, blinking at him as he gave her a blank look.
"And?"
"Seriously Leon! I'm talking about the mall. What is UP with you today?" she said, getting annoyed at him quickly.
"Nothing, jeez. Alright that's fine, we'll go to the mall tomorrow. I'm afraid to delay it any further anyway, since Rebecca's already stressed about her wedding as it is."
Ada gave him a suspicious look before smiling at him sweetly. "How about we go and get that car window replaced then?" she asked, moving to the other side of the car to get into the passenger seat.
Leon shrugged, "we might as well. Nothing better to do anyway," he said hopping into the drivers seat and starting the car after Ada got in next to him. He decided he would talk to Claire later on in the day, when she cooled down. Leon shook his head slightly, 'I will NEVER understand women,' he thought miserably.
AT THE MALL:
Claire ran into another men's clothing store, looking around for where her brother and Jill might be. She knew they would be at the mall today since they had planned it the day before, and although Chris complained a lot about how much he hates shopping and that they'd better finish soon, Claire knew he was secretly loving the fact that he would be spending an entire day with Jill.
'Jill, where are you dammit?!' Claire thought as she entered another possible store, Jill or Chris could have visited. She had spent the last two hours driving, and fighting her tears, but she knew that what she needed now was a friend to talk to. Jill, being the only person who knew both Claire and Leon well and was aware of Claire's feelings towards Leon was the perfect friend to talk to.
After another 10 minutes of running around the mall looking lost, Claire finally spotted Jill and Chris at the food court and gasped in surprise at what she saw. Although Chris dragging Jill to get something to eat was the most likely and unsurprising thing in the world, the fact that he now held her hand in his, and looked as though he was leaning towards her for a kiss was enough to give anyone, especially Claire, a heart attack on the spot.
Chris, the macho all man, ex pilot, gun extraordinaire, who usually gagged his way through romantic movies, and rolled his eyes every time Carlos sweet-talked Rebecca, was now looking at Jill all 'lovey dovey' himself. Probably muttering sweet nothings in her ear, since Jill looked like a giggling schoolgirl, with her face flushed in delight. The term, 'where is my brother and what have you done to him?!' suddenly came to mind, and Claire found herself growing hot in the face.
'What the hell is up with people shocking me to death today?! First Leon, now Chris, and they're both doing the last thing I could have thought possible!!' Claire thought as she continued to stare in bewilderment at Jill and Chris's table. 'Ok so I always thought Leon liked Ada. But I mean, kissing her smack front in the living room was not very expected. And now Chris is acting like some lovesick puppy, which in all of my years of knowing him, I had never seen done for any girl he dated!!'
Claire felt guilty at being angry with all of this. On any normal day she would have jumped in joy to finally see her brother and Jill together. She thought it was inevitable, once Chris would get off his high horse and finally break his pride by admitting how important Jill really was to him. But seeing it happen in front of her without warning was still a shock. She felt as if everyone in the whole world was now finally finding his or her soul mate and she was getting left behind. All she needed now was to turn around and find Sherry and some good-looking young guy, kissing by the video game store. Claire winced as she carefully turned around to see if that would happen.
She let out a frustrated sigh. 'This is so stupid......man I'm paranoid!' she thought and thought it was best to leave Jill and Chris in their little world and turned back to walk miserably out of the mall.
"Claire!"
Claire spun around quickly to find Jill and Chris jogging towards her. 'Dang! They must've spotted me as I was sneaking away,' she thought, flashing them a nervous smile.
Jill smiled back, looking just as nervous. "Claire, wha-what are you doing here??" she said looking over at Chris who's ears were now a shiny pink colour. He looked very occupied with staring at his shoes.
"I'm sorry you guys. I know I interrupted something special-" at this, Jill and Chris's heads snapped up and they looked at Claire with terrified expressions, "oh come off it you two! I knew this would happen sooner or later. And I'm happy for you both!" She said, forcing a smile as she hugged a surprised Chris and Jill. "Now, wipe those stupid faces off, you both look seriously retarded," she added.
They both laughed nervously and held hands, knowing that it was safe now since Claire already knew.
Claire couldn't help but grin, "You guys are so disgustingly cute! When were you planning on telling us?!" she scolded playfully.
"Well," they both said, then turned to each other and laughed.
"You go first," said Jill.
"No you," replied Chris.
"No I insist."
"No, please you go on ahead."
"Chris, it's YOUR sis!" yelled Jill.
"Ok, ok fine!" said Chris finally giving up. "It kinda just started today. About an hour ago actually, when we were looking at Jill's dresses and-"
"You see Claire, we haven't been hiding anything. I mean we just told each other today how we felt!" interrupted Jill, talking very fast.
Chris raised an eyebrow, "I thought *I* was talking here," he said.
Jill giggled and hugged him with one arm, "I'm sorry, continue."
Chris coughed lightly, "SO, as *I* was saying," he gave Jill a joking glare, "Jill was picking out a bridesmaid's dress and so she was trying a bunch on, and well she looked absolutely gorgeous and......"
Claire looked on anxiously, "and???"
"Well I dunno, I kinda just realized I had to tell her how I felt, because it was plastered on my face anyway, since I was staring at her drooling and all," Chris continued, causing Jill to laugh and recall the earlier events.
She had been standing in front of him wearing a light blue dress, which accentuated her curves, and went flowing all the way down to her toes. A very typical bride's maid dress, but it had left Chris staring with his mouth open for quite a while till Jill had to walk up to him and slap his face back to reality and out of his little 'Lala Land'. She asked him if he liked the dress but he was speechless. She stood closely to him trying to figure out what he was trying to say, and after a long amount of stuttering Chris had given up, and decided to kiss her instead. He was never good with words anyway, and was known as a man of action. This had taken Jill by surprise but she eventually melted into his kiss and wrapped her slender arms around his neck, walking backwards into the changing room and out of sight. When they finally broke from their heated kiss, no further words had to be spoken, since it was quite obvious what they felt for each other.
"So go on!" said Claire.
"Yeah, so I..... told her," said Chris sheepishly, knowing that he didn't do much talking in the process anyway.
"And here we are," continued Jill smiling up at Chris.
"And that's it??" asked Claire looking somewhat disappointed.
"That's all you need to know young lady," Chris answered in a fatherly manner.
"Give me a break Chris," she said rolling her eyes.
"Umm, so Claire what where you doing here?" asked Jill, watching Claire's face fall and seeing a heart broken expression replace her former smile.
"I was gonna buy some.....new trainers," lied Claire. She wasn't about to ruin Jill's so far, perfect day by pouring her own problems out on her.
"Claire, I don't think that's the reason. And for the record you have always been the worst liar ever," said Jill moving up to Claire. "So what's the real reason?"
Claire's eyes began to water as she recalled her own day and she fought her best to stay strong and keep a straight face, but it was too late as both Jill and Chris noticed.
"Claire?? You ok sis?" asked Chris, looking very concerned as he grabbed onto both her shoulders to look at her face. This didn't help the situation at all and Claire looked away wiping at her eyes. Jill looked worried now and glanced at Chris.
"I'm......I'm just so happy for you guys that's all," said Claire laughing at her own lie as more tears streamed down her eyes.
Chris looked very confused since his sister was never the emotional type, but decided to leave her alone.
"Chris, is it ok if I stay with Claire? We've ordered the dresses and the tux so......" she looked at Chris meaningfully and he understood that it was best to leave the girls alone now.
"Oh yeah! Sure, I was getting real sick of this mall anyway. Have fun you two, and I'll see ya both tonight," he said, leaning over and giving Jill a kiss on the cheek, then turning to Claire and kissing the top of her head.
"Bye," said Jill, smiling at Chris as he waved at them and ran off.
Claire wiped at her eyes once more. "I'm so sorry Jill. I really didn't mean to come in here and screw things up for-"
"shhh, it's ok," said Jill soothingly, leading Claire by the hand to one of the tables. "Now tell me, what happened? Cause I only know that look too well, and I KNOW that its not tears of happiness you're crying," she said, handing Claire some tissues from her hand bag.
Claire blew her nose silently. "I hate Leon," she muttered flatly.
Jill's eyes grew wide, "oh no," she muttered under her breath. "So what happened?"
Claire looked as if she would burst into tears once more, and was going through some kind of internal struggle to keep herself under control. "He.......he kissed *Ada*," said Claire, purposely spitting out Ada's name venomously. Her face now also showed a great deal of anger.
Jill now gasped in shock, and her eyes almost popped out of her head. "He didn't!" she said as more of a question than a statement. But it didn't look like Claire would be joking at a time like this.
Claire nodded, putting both hands on her head. "I feel like such an idiot! Crying over some......some.....GUY!" she said this as an insult. But to Claire it was insulting to her pride to be crying over a man. She had always found girls like that silly and sentimental, and now she was doing the same thing and turning into one of them. "I can't help it Jill. It hurts.....a lot."
Claire's shoulders began to shake slightly and Jill guessed she must have started to cry again. She moved her chair closer and wrapped two arms around Claire's shaking shoulders. "I know sweety, I know," she said trying to comfort her as much as possible. She only just realized that they were sitting in public, and some heads turned curiously in Claire's direction from nearby tables. Claire obviously didn't care that anyone was around them watching her cry.
Jill turned her attention back to Claire, trying to make some sense of Leon's actions. She personally had always thought that Leon held strong feelings for Claire and not Ada.
"Claire, maybe it was Ada who kissed Leon and not the other way around?" she said, hoping that this would be the case.
"He kissed her back! It takes TWO to tango Jill, and he looked as if he was bloody well enjoying it from where I was standing!" replied Claire looking angry. "you know what? I'm an idiot.....and idiot and a loser, cause for the last 3 years I've been laying around DREAMING of that......ASSHOLE, sad excuse of a man, so that Ada can come in and get I've been trying to get in only a couple of weeks! I mean seriously now Jill, am I that unattractive? Or do I have to be boring, reserved, and speak with absolutely no facial expressions like some robot so that Leon notices me. Or maybe it's tattooed on my forehead, or some Neon sign above my head which says 'DANGER, DO NOT APPROACH!'" She let out a deep breath then continued, "Look at me! Look at what I've turned into. And you know what's even more pathetic? I'm actually sitting here CRYING over him! He doesn't even deserve that! What he deserves is a good punch on the nose and a good kick in the nuts! Fine he wants Ada? FINE, he can have her! But he's frickin out of his mind if he thinks I'LL ever give him the time of day!" Claire took another short break from talking and blew her nose loudly, looking determined to not cry ever again.
Jill, during this entire time, just looked at her and listened carefully, and although she had some sudden urges to laugh at Claire's attitude and the fact she was speaking so loud in the middle of the food court she was ale to contain herself. She surely wouldn't get a chance to put her own two cents in any time soon since Claire obviously had a lot to get off her chest. Just then a new song started to play over their heads.
'Have you ever loved somebody so much it makes you cry
Have you ever needed something so bad you can't sleep at night
Have you ever tried to find the words but they don't come out right
Have you ever
Have you ever.......'
"DAMMIT, this song is not helping one bit!!" yelled Claire a little too loudly causing more heads to turn.
"Umm Claire maybe we should go to that nearby park and talk there??" suggested Jill, hoping to calm down the raging Claire, who looked as though she wanted to destroy the radio and music systems in the entire mall. She also definitely didn't want to get on her bad side at this moment of time.
"Yeah let's go," Claire quickly agreed, "I don't think I can handle listening to any more of those soppy ass songs anyway."
Minutes later, Claire and Jill were greeted by the warm sun, and Claire sighed putting both hands into her pockets. The warmth of the sun on her skin seemed to calm her down a bit, but that only lasted till she saw Leon's car driving by, with his window fixed and Ada sitting next to him.
She knew he noticed her, as she caught the surprised look on his face as he passed her by, but this only made her angrier.
"Did you see that?! He was sitting next to that fuckin bitch!! See, he doesn't even care, that-" Claire looked as if she was searching hard for a bad enough term for Leon, and Jill could have sworn that if she wasn't holding Claire, then she would have sprinted after the car or something.
"I believe you Claire and I understand totally, but let's just calm down now."
"Calm down? CALM DOWN?! I won't calm down till I beat the shit out of both of them!" Claire shouted as Jill tried leading her to the park.
Jill exhaled deeply. 'This is gonna be one very long day.' She thought.
A/N: I didn't like this chapter that much, coz it seems so boring and it drags on, but I knew it had to be done. I'm sorry I'm not really putting too much light into the Jill/Chris relationship, but this fanfic is mainly about Leon and Claire and so it'll revolve around them and what happens around them. I also suck at describing dresses and such:p I know nothing about fancy dresses or dresses in general so forgive me! And about Claire's feelings....I hope I portrayed them well. It's hard to keep her in character, and I don't really picture her being the miserable lovesick girl who's suicidal. She seems more like a person who would turn feminist when she's hurt:p Anyways I hope u guys liked this chapter nonetheless. Tell me what u think and leave a review! And plz, give me suggestions on whatever u might want happening, it's always a great help^___^
SO WHAT NEXT???: Well, we'll be goin back to Leon, and we'll see how long Claire will be able to avoid him. The wedding is getting even nearer, and all shall be revealed soon:p
'Have you ever' is Brandy's of course:p I didn't know of a good song to choose but I thought this one suited well, and I thought it would be hilarious for it to start playing at that moment and just make the day even worse for Claire:p I'm evil.....I know^_^