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Chapter 15- The Weirdness of the Fanel's!

Hitomi was staring at Van, not really knowing what to do. But, what if he did..

No, of course he didn't.

Hitomi thought hard.

'Well, if he did, it's not really that bad. After all, I did decide that I fancied Van before phoning him.'

Hitomi blushed at the thought of Van going all gooey on her.

"Found them!"

A voice startled Hitomi out of her thoughts, and she saw Van kneeling down on the floor with a large amount of paper in his hands.

Hitomi smiled at him, and sat down on the floor next to him.

"Yeah, um, just flip through them," said Van, suddenly quite embarrassed that a girl was reading some of his work in his bedroom.

"K," said Hitomi, flipping through the work looking interested.

Van looked over to where she had been standing, and saw his journal open on his desk.

He was sure that his heart had stopped beating.

'Shit!' he cursed in his head.

He walked over to it, and read through the page, hoping nothing embarrassing was on it. But surprise, surprise there was.

Van bit his lip as he looked over his shoulder at Hitomi.

'Crap, crap, crap!'

He quickly chucked the book over his shoulder, and it whacked Hitomi on the head.

"Oh my God I'm sorry!!" shouted Van, rushing over to her.

Hitomi clutched her head, and laughed at him.

"Are you alright?" he asked. "Do you have concussion or anything? Are you bleeding?!"

Hitomi stared at him. Since when did Van Fanel whack girls over the head with books, and ask them if there's blood flying everywhere?!

"No," laughed Hitomi. "No, I'm fine!"

"Are you sure?" asked Van urgently. "Should I call an ambulance or something?!"

"Van?" said Hitomi. "You whacked me on the head with a small book. I some how doubt that I have to go to casualty because of it."

"Um, yeah!" said Van. "Right, sorry."

Hitomi just laughed and shook her head at him.

"Sorta lost control of the book!" said Van, picking up the journal and shook it in his hand.

While slightly laughing, hoping that Hitomi would laugh a bit with him, he chucked the journal over his shoulder again, praying that she hadn't noticed.

But the book just hit the wall and rebounded off it, hitting Hitomi in the head again.

"Crap! I am SO sorry!" shouted Van again, clutching his own head with his hands.

Hitomi clutched her head again and laughed at him.

"It's alright!" she said.

"Stupid book!" growled Van, and he kicked it.

The journal flew across the room, this time whacking Hitomi in the face.

Her head flew backwards, and she fell backwards onto the floor.

"Jesus Christ!" yelled Van.

He picked up the journal, and threw it onto his bed.

He ran over to Hitomi and sat down next to her.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

Hitomi sat up.

"Yeah, I'm fine, I think!"

Her hand was covering the bottom half of her face, and Van drew her hand away. Her nose was bleeding, quite rapidly.

"Crap." Said Van. "Um, go in the bathroom, I'll be there in a minute."

"Kay," she said, laughing a little.

She walked out of the room, and came back at least 5 seconds later.

"Um, Van?" she asked.

Van lifted his head up.

"Yeah?"

"Which room's the bathroom?"

Van laughed a little, and got up to help Hitomi.

Hitomi sat down on a small chair next to the sink, while Van wet some tissue paper.

"Sorry about hitting you in the face and head and stuff," said van.

"That's okay," said Hitomi. "It's nothing compared to what my brothers do to me at home. Julien sits on my head and stuff when he doesn't get his own way."

"Ouch!" said Van. "Yeah, Merle can scratch and shout pretty good. My mum lets her get away with anything, because she's the only girl. I tend to side with Folken when we have fights, but he ends up leaving me because he feels sorry for Merle. Then when I'm left on my own and my parents find us all arguing, they take Merle's side and I get sent to my room."

Hitomi laughed a little.

Van turned the tap off, and began dabbing Hitomi's disfigured nose with the tissue. (A/N-When I say disfigured, I mean manked up because of the bleeding and stuff)

Hitomi blushed a little at Van's face being so close to hers. Concentration was written all over his face, and he was holding the top of her head with his other hand.

"Let's see then," he mumbled.

He put the tissue in a bin, and put his hands on either side of her head. Hitomi blushed A LOT.

"Perfect!" he said.

Hitomi didn't blush, because she was already 'blow up' standard on the blush-o-meter.

Van's face suddenly turned serious, and he leant towards Hitomi.

She thought that she REALLY WAS going to blow up.

'Oh God!' she thought. 'God, he's going to kiss me.'

'Well don't stop him!' said a voice in the back of her head. 'After all, you said yourself that you fancied him.'

'Yes, but I said that I was being stupid after that, didn't I?'

'Yeah, you keep telling yourself that.'

'And what's that supposed to mean?'

'Never mind! Get back to the present you fool! Look, he's like 1 inch away from you!'

'Oh God!'

Hitomi's brain was right. Van was going to kiss her, and she wanted to kiss him back. But she couldn't.

'Kiss him!'

Van's eyes fluttered shut.

'Go on, kiss him! You know you want to!'

One of Van's hands went to the side of the chair to support him.

'Smooch, smooch, smooch! Look at him! Look at his gorgeous face! Kissssssss himmmmmmm!"

'FINE THEN, I WILL!'

Hitomi closed her eyes as well, and their lips were millimeters apart when-

"Hey, happy campers!"

Dilandau and Daniel burst through the door, and Van and Hitomi quickly pushed each other apart.

Dilandau bounced around the bathroom, while Van stood up quickly and slightly coughed.

Hitomi sat on the chair and fiddled with her fingers. Daniel just stood there, grinning from ear to ear.

"Hey, we're not interrupting anything, are we?"

Hitomi went a violent shade of red just when she had lost her previous volcanic lava color. Van just nervously laughed.

"N-no!" he stuttered while giving a cheesy fake smile. "Of course not!"

Daniel raised his eyebrows.

"Hm....yeah, whatever!"

Dilandau was nearly forgotten, while he was being stupid in the background.

He was in the bath tub at the moment (A/N-With his clothes ON!! Sorry girls!) And singing into the showerhead.

"Burn baby, Burn! Burn, baby burn!" he was singing, while everyone in the room raised their eyebrows. "You can be by Bunsen burner, you can be my naked flame. Woooooooooooooooooooooooo!!"

Daniel slightly nodded his head, and walked over to Dilandau.

They all thought he was getting into this WAY too much.

Daniel started to try and pull the showerhead away from Dilandau, but he clutched onto it, and started to sing a different tune.

"Oops I did it again! I played with your heart got lost in the game, baby, baby! Come on, sing with me girls! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!"

Everyone sweat dropped.

'And to think,' thought Hitomi. 'I kissed this guy!'

"Come on Dilandau!" said Daniel, helping Dilandau out of the bathtub. "I think you've had to much to drink.

"Um, lets go downstairs," suggested Van.

The others agreed, and Van went into his room before going down the stairs. He came out with all of his stories.

"There you go, Hitomi," said Van, smiling at her.

"Thanks," she mumbled.

Van looked at her worried, but thought nothing of it. When they got downstairs, they all got their pajamas out of their bags, and queued up outside the bathroom.

Seeing as Hitomi was the only girl, they all decided that she should go in first. She was in there for 2 minutes at the most, when she heard banging on the door, and complaints from the boys, groaning at her to get out.

She came out in her sweet little cloud pajamas, looking much more innocent than she actually was.

Dilandau gave no surprise when he came out in his silk black pajamas with flames creeping up them. He also had a matching dressing gown and slippers.

Daniel went in next, and came out with plain dark blue pajamas. Funnily enough, Hitomi had never actually seen her brother in his night wear.

Van came out wearing black pajamas. Hitomi couldn't believe that she was looking at one of the most popular boys in school wearing pajamas.

They all dumped their clothing in the living room, and started to play very strange games.

They started off with a game when you put a sleeping bag upside down on someone, so their head was where their feet should be. The person then runs around the room, looking for the other people, who mock and tease them.

Dilandau was in the sleeping bag first.

They were all running around, when Dilandau got stressed out when he couldn't find anyone. He just ran around like an idiot, until he just ran straight into a wall, and knocked himself out.

Van couldn't have been happier when Folken came in, and asked him to fetch a glass of cold water and pour it on Dilandau's face or head.

Shame was, that Dilandau woke up practically seconds before Van was going to soak him. Dilandau spluttered and chased Van around the house, while Folken was trying to calm everyone down, but soon gave up as he found it pretty entertaining.

Dryden, being the little money-grabber that he was, started taking bets. Millerna bet that Van would win, Allen bet that Dilandau would win, and Daniel bet that Dilandau would win too.

Hitomi decided not too bet, as the person who she didn't bet on would get stressed out.

"Aren't you betting?" asked Folken, smiling at her.

"No," she said, smiling back.

"I would if I were you."

"Why?" asked Hitomi.

"Well," said Folken. "See Millerna over there? Well, she's rich. She's putting in 65 dollars."

Hitomi raised her eyebrows, happy that she could get information from Folken.

She decided that she would also bet, and put in 25 dollars for Van.

Folken joined in, putting in 35 dollars for Dilandau.

Hitomi looked at him, surprised.

"Aren't you gonna bet for Van? He is your little brother."

"Nah," said Folken, looking at the fight before their eyes. "I've fought Van lots of times. He has weak wrists."

"Oh."

Dryden was screaming things at Van, as though he was in the army or something.

"Come on, you fool! Don't go there! He could easily punch you! Whoops! Too late! Look, go round behind him! No watch out for his leg-ouch!"

All of the boys around them gave a "Oooooh" and a "Ouch" with a pained look on their faces.

Dryden started shouting again.

"Yes, that's it. Now this time, duck and kick! Remember that! Right, go in front-no, no! Not that way! Yes, that way! Right, now try to listen to me, and stop! No! Watch out for his fist! Kay, right! Get up and go round the front! Yes! No!! Whoops! Sorry, my mistake!"

Van just looked at Dryden and put his middle finger up at him.

He turned back to Dilandau, who looked completely deranged.

He charged at Van, who moved out of the way.

"Yes!" Shouted Dryden. "He's got the hang of it, guys!"

Hitomi thought that Dilandau was getting into the fighting too much. Van looked as though he was just playing around, but Dilandau looked as though he wanted to burn the whole house down.

He charged at Van and put him in a headlock.

He started to laugh like a maniac, while Van was hitting him on the back for air.

"Oooooooookay!" said Allen. "I think that's enough, you guys!"

He approached Dilandau with great caution, and grabbed the arm that he was suffocating Van with. But immediately backed off when Dilandau turned to face him, with the words 'Touch me and Die, bitch!' practically written all over his face.

Dilandau then let Van go, and Van straightened himself up. Just in time, to be smacked in the face by Dilandau. He fell to the ground, pretty much screwed.

Folken, Allen and Daniel all whooped.

Hitomi got off her place on the sofa, and crouched down to help Van.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"I will be," said Van smugly.

"What do you -?"

Van swiftly swung his leg into Dilandau's feet, and knocked him to the ground.

Dilandau fell flat on his back.

Millerna, Dryden and Hitomi cheered.

"Against the rules!" shouted Folken.

"But no body mentioned any rules!" argued Hitomi.

"Well..eh.DAMNIT!"

Everyone laughed at Folken's stupidity.

"Aw, crap!" he shouted. "It's really late! Come on, you guys! Bed! Now!"

Everyone groaned, and moved into their separate rooms.

Daniel and Dilandau got into their sleeping bags, and Hitomi went to get her pillow.

She began to read a bit of Van's stories, and eventually Daniel and Dilandau fell asleep.

After a while, Van came up to her.

"Hitomi?" he said.

"Yes Van?"

"I'm just going to get a drink. I'll be back in a minute"

"Kay."

Hitomi got into her sleeping bag, and wriggled around a bit to get comfortable.

The lights were off, but she could still see in the dark, as the kitchen light was on and the door was open.

The words 'fire', 'burn' and 'die' were being mumbled under Dilandau's breath as he slept, which made Hitomi quite nervous as she was sleeping next to him.

She could hear Van shuffling around a bit in the kitchen, and her thoughts about what she read in his journal lingered in her mind.

'Could Van like me?' she asked herself.

'Of course not!' said another voice.

(A/N She's getting voices in her head now, is she? -.-;;)

She decided to sleep on it, and she started to fall asleep. She closed her eyes for a while, and she then heard Van come through.

She heard walking, then silence.

Hitomi suspected that Van had got into his sleeping bag, and fallen asleep. But why could she feel that someone was standing near her and watching her?

She decided to keep her eyes closed, and assumed it was just a weird feeling. She felt someone kneel next to her, and someone's lips catch her own.

It was more of a long peck, until the person drew away.

"Goodnight, Hitomi."

She heard rustling, and then silence.

Hitomi's heart was beating wildly.

Van had just kissed her.

She opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling. What should she do? Should she ask him about it?

She looked over at Van, who wasn't asleep. He had his hand behind his head, and he too, was staring up at the ceiling. For a second, his eyebrows furrowed together, and he began to turn and look at Hitomi.

She quickly closed her eyes, hoping that he thought she was asleep.

'Van Fanel kissed me!' she thought, smiling as she fell asleep.
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Hitomi's eyes fluttered open, and she stared up at the ceiling. She heard clatters in the kitchen.

She wriggled out of her sleeping bag, and checked the time. 10.51

She looked down, and slightly laughed at the boys' sleeping forms.

Dilandau had his arms and legs EVERYWHERE, and was slightly drooling. Hitomi could still hear him mutter 'Fire' and 'Burn'.

She looked over at Daniel, who slept relatively normal. Then she looked over at Van, whose arm was where Hitomi's head had been, and his mouth was also open.

Hitomi wanted a camera more than anything in the world at that moment.

She heard another clutter in the kitchen, and assumed that it was Folken. She walked quietly in there, and saw Van's mother humming to herself and putting the pots and pans in the cupboards.

She turned when she heard a small noise made by Hitomi.

She smiled.

"Oh, hello dear," she said in a soft voice.

"Hi," said Hitomi.

"It's Hitomi, isn't it?"

"Yeah," said Hitomi. "Hitomi Kanzaki."

"Okay then. Would you like a cup of tea? I was just making myself one. We might as well talk or something, seeing as those slobs won't be up until about 12."

Hitomi slightly laughed and agreed to have some tea.

Mrs. Fanel and Hitomi sat around the counter, and sipped their tea.

"So," said Mrs. Fanel. "Van seems to like you a lot. He's told us an awful lot about you."

"Oh, wow," said Hitomi softly. She'd never had a parent tell her that their child likes her. It was usually the opposite.

"I would like to meet your mother," said Mrs. Fanel. "Ifs she's anything like you, she should be a very nice woman."

"Oh, thank you," said Hitomi. "My mother.um.. died a few years ago."

Mrs. Fanel looked outraged with herself.

"Oh, I am so sorry!" she said. "I didn't mean to put my foot in it or anything. So, is it just you and your brother and father at home, then?"

"Um.. no," said Hitomi. "My dad died a few years ago too. It's just me, Daniel and my little brother, Julien."

"Oh, I am so sorry!"

"That's okay."

Mrs. Fanel looked at Hitomi, and took a sip from her tea.

"You don't have to keep on calling me Mrs. Fanel, y'know. Call me Varie."

"Um.okay."

Voices could be heard in the next room, and they didn't sound very much awake.

"God, what's the time?"

"11.10"

"Urgh! No! It's too early!"

Shuffled footsteps were heard, and Van was the first to emerge, his hair even more messy (If that's possible), and rubbing his eyes.

He gave them an 'I am half-asleep, please kill me know' grin, and sat down on one of the chairs around the work-surface.

"Good morning," said Varie. "Sleep well?"

Van just mumbled.

"That's good."

Obviously over the years, Varie has picked up Van's early morning language, one of the rare gifts that very few mothers can understand. (A/N My mum can't understand me- but then again, on a weekend, I don't see the light of day until at least 12.00 in the afternoon.)

Daniel and Dilandau came through and sat down, also looking terribly rough.

Folken, Millerna, Allen and Dryden were obviously sleeping in, as they usually had to get up early for college.

"Cooked breakfast?" asked Varie, smiling at the teenagers.

Van grunted.

"Okay, I'll just make that all for you now."

Hitomi thought that Varie was some kind of super-mum.
When they were all full with food and ready for the next day, they couldn't decide what they wanted to do.

Daniel, Hitomi and Dilandau were talking in the living room, when Varie called Van over.

"What?" he asked.

Varie smiled a bit.

"If your father wants to speak to you over the next few days, just go to him, okay?"

Van couldn't help but be a bit suspicious.

"Why?" he asked slowly.

"He just wants to talk to you about girls and things." She said simply.

A look of horror passed by Van's face.

'Oh God!' he thought. 'Please let me die before my dad gets home or needs to talk to me!'

"There's no need to look so scared!" said Varie, shaking her head and smiling.

'Yeah,' thought Van bitterly. 'Not if what Folken said is true.'

He quickly muttered something that his mother could understand as 'whatever' and hurried off to talk to his friends.

When Hitomi and Daniel arrived home later on in the day, Daniel stated that he was too tired to do anything, and went off to bed. Hitomi was then left to wait up for Julien. (When I say wait up, I mean that she's too tired to do anything, and she can't be bothered to wait until he came home.)

While she waited, all she could think about was the little kiss Van had given her the night before.

'Why did he do it?' she thought. 'And what he wrote about me in his diary. It all seems kinda weird.'

She sighed to herself.

Dilandau was a pretty cool guy. She wondered why Van and him disliked each other so much, but she decided she could wait till Monday.

Hitomi closed her eyes, and went to sleep, hoping that Julien hadn't forgotten to take his key to his friends.
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