AN: I have been told leaving it half finished was evil lol oh well here is the second part… the part with Bryan sorta bugs me but ehn… Thank you reviewers =) Review more!
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Chapter 11b – Anime, cuddling and becoming property
The next afternoon the four girls piled out of Liika's back door and across her back yard to the fence that divided her yard with Enrique's. Having practiced entry through the fence many times, Liika deftly lifted a section of the fence up and held it for the other three girls to pass under, before passing under herself. Jade, Emily and Mariah had seen how Liika entered Enrique's yard and house before so it wasn't at all surprising.
They quickly crossed Enrique's yard and entered through his back door –he was expecting them after all and Enrique's parents were gone for the weekend. Taking off their shoes they trekked into the family room in the basement where they were met with all the guys already arrived.
Enrique's family room, which actually was his rec. room as he was an only child and his parents used the living room, was a large fairly square room with light gray walls and beige carpet. A large window was situated on the wall directly across from the door, the drapes pulled fully across so no natural light penetrated into the room. A gray couch sat against the wall to the right with a matching loveseat on the side closest to the window, perpendicular to it. Beanbag chairs and pillows were strewn everywhere in front of a large screen TV and surround sound stereo system. Enrique was a spoilt brat, but they all knew this.
"Yo Iki, you're late!" Enrique called from where he was lounging on the couch.
The other boys were spread across the large room in various places. Robert was sitting on the other end of the couch from Enrique, his arm slung along the back. Rei was perched on the loveseat alone, while Lee, Max and Oliver sat on the three beanbags on the floor.
"Am not!" Liika replied sticking out her tongue.
She came over and bounced down on the couch between Robert and Enrique –though she was significantly closer to Robert, almost on top of him. Giving him a peck on the cheek, she cuddled against Robert's side, who smiled and wrapped his arm around her tightly.
Robert had been right in his assumption that they would get over their awkwardness quickly. In fact once Liika had gotten over her shyness she was very affectionate, and not afraid to express it in public, which took some used to on Robert's part.
Enrique made a face, gagging in distaste. "God, I don't think I like this Robert/Liika relationship thing. Not only is it grossing me out, my best friend gets spacey for no reason! I really need to find a girlfriend." He sighed, resting his cheek in the palm of his hand.
"It's a tough gig being single my man." Rei said, pulling Mariah into his lap and cuddling her. He would have kissed her thoroughly but there were other people in the room and he didn't want to be rude. It was hard though, he hadn't been able to touch her in almost a week!
"How would you know? You're not!" Lee said throwing a pillow at Rei who caught it before it could hit Mariah square in the face.
"Haha true! You know you could have a girlfriend if you wanted to Lee, I'm sure Chrissy Taylor would me more than happy to accommodate you!" Rei replied tossing the pillow back.
Lee grimaced. "I don't do cheerleaders, they're more Tala's type."
"Well, your time will come! In the mean time, you still have Oliver, Maxy, and Enrique to keep you company in the bachelorship!" Rei grinned, hugging Mariah closer, who giggled.
Liika grinned. "Not Maxy for long am I right?" She asked, winking at Max who blushed bright red and glanced at the blushing Emily, who chose to sit on a pillow beside him.
Emily glowered at Liika and looked ready to jump up and pound her into the ground –or at least try. Even if she could beat up Liika she would have to get through Robert first, who probably wasn't very inclined to see his girlfriend be beaten on. A soft hand covering her own and she looked over to see Max smiling nervously at her as he squeezed her hand. Emily smiled back, just as nervously, and turned her hand over to thread her fingers through his. Looked like another couple was born. Enrique groaned. "Soon I shall be alone! There are no dateable girls left!" He moaned, pouting even more.
The rest of the group laughed. "Jade's still left! Are you saying she's not dateable?" Mariah teased grinning at Jade and winking.
Jade, who had taken a seat between Lee and Oliver, rolled her eyes. Enrique made another face and replied. "Sorry -no offense Jade- but she's not."
Jade laughed and waved her hand dismissively. "None taken, be assured the feelings mutual!" She said smiling.
"Bleh. Can we just make with the anime here. Oh and by the way Iki, thanks for telling me you invited Rei and Max, your just lucky I, being the wonderfully gifted man I am, had the foresight to prepare for them!" Enrique said, getting up and walking over to the entertainment center and turning everything on.
"Yeah, yeah whatever! Just remember why we're having this party eh? Heh, I didn't even know the rest of you liked anime, beyond Mariah, Jade, Em and Max that is." Liika said.
The boys shrugged. "Hey some of its not bad, I'm always willing to watch something new!" Rei replied.
"Me too." Added Lee.
"Actually I have liked anime for a long time. I find it much more relaxing and less depressing than real-life TV." Oliver's soft voice said as he smiled.
"Wow, Oli that's cool! You just went up ten cool points in my books!" Liika grinned winking at the green haired young man, earning a smile back. "What about you Robert? I didn't think you would be the type to like anime." Liika asked, tilting her head up to look at her tall boyfriend.
Robert shrugged. "I'm not usually. But since you like it, I will try it." He responded, looking down at her.
"Wai! You're such an awesome boyfriend!" She exclaimed hugging him tightly and leaning up to give him a short kiss on the lips.
Robert smiled and ran a hand through her hair as she settled back down against him. He was rather lucky, for all she was loud and brash, she was caring and could be quite sweet at times –not to mention utterly adorable.
Liika wasn't beautiful in societies standard of beautiful. She was much to short, and where her body was thin, she had a rather small chest. Her face was round and pixie like but she lacked the chiseled features most women that were termed 'gorgeous' had. She did, however, have a cutesy look and once you got to know her charm, which contrasted greatly with her almost violent personality. Robert was just as happy she wasn't supermodel material. She was normal. And that's what he wanted.
In their group the two that were most 'model like' were Mariah and Jade, though only Mariah chose to flaunt her beauty. Her and Rei made a good match, as Rei had the looks to be a male model.
While Robert's thought were straying they had decided on an anime to watch, he didn't much care what one it was, though he thought he heard something like Inuyasha or something. As they began to watch it he understood why they had all agreed on this particular series. It had the romance and cute guys for the girls, and the humor and fighting for the guys. Robert had to admit, it wasn't that bad and Liika seemed to be enjoying it so he settled himself in for the long haul; they would apparently be watching anime until late hours of the night.
Early Monday morning Liika and Enrique wandered down the almost bare hallway to their lockers. Liika yawned, tears coming to her eyes. Damn it was too early.
Enrique didn't look much better. His face was pale, his eyes dark and half closed, full of sleep. His hair obviously hadn't been brushed that morning as it was stuck up all over his head in varied directions, and his uniform was soiled and wrinkled. All in all he had the look of a freshly unearthed zombie.
They came to their lockers then and Enrique moaned, banging his head against the red metal surface. "It's too early, Iki, too early!"
Liika yawned again while opening her locker. "Tell me about it. I guess it didn't help that we stayed up until three Sunday morning then slept all day… I couldn't sleep last night." She said unzipping her backpack.
Enrique opened his locker and started transferring binders from his locker to his bag. "Me either." He muttered.
She glanced at him and rolled her eyes. "You didn't do any of your homework did you Eny?" She asked, propping a hand on her hip and looking down at him as he leaned inside his locker.
The blond stood up straight and grinned sheepishly at her. "Nope! Didn't even take my books home." He replied laughing.
"You shouldn't be laughing Eny, Ms. Haori will have your ass for this. Do you want to repeat junior math next year?" Liika demanded frowning at him.
"Calm down Iki, it's only one weekend! I'll do all my homework tonight, I promise!" Enrique placated her, holding up his hands in submission.
Narrowing her eyes she replied, "You better, I'm coming over to check! No better yet, we're going to your house right after practice and I'm going to watch you do your homework! Or I'm telling your mom that you haven't been doing your homework!"
Enrique's eyes widened and he shook his head frantically. "You can't do that! I'll do it, I swear! Just please don't tell her!" He wailed, dropping to his knees and gripping the edge of her skirt.
While she was a sweetheart and loving mother, Enrique's mom was known to be a bit of a tyrant when it came to homework and school activities. She was all for him joining the beyblade team and wanted him to join drama as well (she felt he was an excellent actor, to which Liika agreed), but Enrique refused, saying he just wanted to skate and blade. Her only son being a skater drove Amelia Sattiay insane.
Liika smiled and patted her friend's blond head. "Don't worry, as long as you get it done, there will be no need will there be?" She said sweetly.
Enrique sighed with relief and brought himself to his feet once more, sticking his tongue out at Liika in the process. His best friend could be just as big of a tyrant as his mother!
"Well I'm done, are you? I'd like to get to homeroom a bit early so I can look over my math notes for the quiz today." Liika asked closing her locker.
The blond's eyes widened comically and he sputtered, while closing his locker. "We have a quiz today??? Since when?!" He wailed.
Liika started at Enrique flatly. Didn't he ever pay attention? Not being able to hold it in, she voiced her thoughts. "Don't you ever pay attention in class? Ms. Haori told us three times in class on Friday!"
Enrique wailed some more and sluffed down the hallway towards their homeroom, Liika trailing just a bit behind. "I pay attention! But Ms. Haori is sooo boring! My mind start's to stray!"
"Sattiay, you have the attention span of a knat."
The new voice startled the two teenagers and the looked ahead of them to see a boy that they hadn't noticed before leaning up against the lockers.
The boy was of fairly tall stature, about 5'8 or 5'9, but his build was very stocky. He had wide shoulders and a broad chest. His pale hair hung fringed around his face and his pale lavender eyes were half closed as he smirked at them.
"Bryan! Back from prison camp so soon?" Enrique inquired innocently, tilting his head to the right.
The boy snorted and stood up straight, walking towards them. He stopped directly in front of Liika who blinked with surprise. "Ha, ha, you're as funny as ever Sattiay. Can it." The boy said, tossing a glare at Enrique. He then looked down at Liika and smirked, running his thumb over her cheek. "Has Sattiay been taking good care of my woman?"
Liika finally blinked out of her daze, rolling her eyes and taking a step back. "How many time's must I tell you that I am not your…woman?" She asked, eyeing him dubiously.
Bryan Wakeman had been hounding her steps since middle school, insisting to everyone and her that she was his, woman as he termed it. Everyone pretty much ignored him, but he was part of the reason she had not had a boyfriend before Robert, as he was the biggest bully at Bakuten high. However, for all his bulliness, and his assumptions, he wasn't a truly bad guy. Just a bit overzealous, of course she never was sure whether he was just doing the whole thing to bug her or if he actually liked her and didn't know how to express it.
The pale haired teen's smirk grew and he stepped toward her once more, rounding her so that he trapped her against the lockers, his hands on either side of her head. If she had been any normal person she would have been cowering in fear. Bryan was not small by any measure. But she wasn't, she had been here before. "You say that every time, but I know you don't mean it. You are very much my woman." He said, his lavender eyes narrowing slightly.
"You haven't heard Wakeman? You're woman's been claimed by someone else." Tala's sneering voice said from beside them.
"What?" Bryan demanded, turning his head to the side to see Tala standing in the middle of the hallway.
Tala smiled and shrugged, continuing down the hall. "Come on, I'll fill you in on what you missed on the way to meet up with the guys."
Bryan growled and stepped back from Liika, "I'll see you later woman." He barked, following Tala.
Liika sighed in relief, it was really to early to be dealing with Bryan. She really wished she knew he was coming back so she could have been better prepared…. Wait a sec… if Bryan was back then that meant… "Bryan, where's your sister?" Liika called before the boys got too far down the hall.
Before Bryan could answer –even though he didn't look like he was going to, a perky voice chirped from the opposite direction, "I'm right here!"
Liika squealed and whirled on her heels. Riley was back!