FASH: Poor Keely, forced to shop, but at least she met Karrie.
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"No, absolutely not! I refuse!" Mariah had suddenly dragged her into a swimming suit store and threw a rather skimpy looking black bikini into her face, telling her to try it on.
"Come on Keely, you need to have a swim suit during the summer." Mariah pleaded. Keely just crossed her arms and glared. "It's not summer, it's months from summer, why get something now." She stated rather than questioned. "Because, you'll just have to come to the mall again later then." Lee said from behind Keely, who turned and glared at him. 'He just wants to see me in a skimpy outfit, what happened to the guy who was purring last night?' Keely frowned, trying to hold back a smile at how the guy was so cat like. 'Well, if he only wants looks, I suggest he get someone else to be his toy.' Keely narrowed her eyes and stormed off.
Lee sighed, that didn't turn out the way he wanted. 'God, this isn't good.' No, it wasn't.
Instead of exiting the mall, Keely went back to the gothic/punker store called Dark Haze. "Hey Keely, come back for that tongue ring?" Karrie asked from the counter, Keely sighed and shook her head, Karrie's normally blank face held a hint of concern for a moment. "Hey what's up, got boy troubles or something." Keely looked at her and Karrie smirked. "It's with that guy who dragged you out of the store isn't it?" Keely nodded her head. "Aw. Well, don't worry, every girl has troubles with a guy once in a while, either their to dense to know you like them or are to perverted to care about anything but your body, or they just don't like you." Keely nodded and Karrie gave her a look, as if she was assessing her, and after an awkward moment of silence. "You need to get out more." She grabbed Keely's hand and began scribing her phone number on it. "You are one of the few non-perky people I've met in this town, and you're definitely not a poser, so just call me if you ever want to hang out, believe it or not there are some people in this town who couldn't care less about gossip, popularity and clothes." Keely took a look at her hand and gave a genuine smile. "Thanks." She said as she walked away, slightly disbelieving that there were non preppy people other than her and Karrie in this town.
She had gotten back to the house before anyone else, the door was looked, but who needed a door when there was a slightly open window. Keely quickly grabbed her stuff and began making her way to the front door, but stopped and scribbled Mariah a note, telling her that she couldn't stay at her place any longer, and then she left.
Mariah opened the door. 'Wait a minute, I locked the door when we went out.' She quickly entered, looking for any signs of a burglary, but instead found a note. "Dear Mariah, I have to go back to my apartment, I don't want to bother you the whole weekend long. See you later, Keely." Lee had come n just in time to hear the note being read. 'Why did she go off?'
During the next few weeks, Keely basically ignored Lee, she still talked to Kevin and occasionally to Mariah, but a lot of time was spent with Karrie and her friends. With Keely included there were four in their little rebellious group, Keely, Karrie, Maya, who seemed to love getting detentions and it was her hobby plotting way to destroy the school, and Star, who was eerily quiet and creped even the toughest people out with her harsh stares.
"Why doesn't she talk to me?" Lee had demanded from Kevin one day, who just shrugged. "Maybe you did something to insult her and you just don't know it." Lee thought back, did Keely think of him as some pervert who just wanted her for her looks? That might make sense considering how insecure Keely seemed. 'But how could she forget that night? Didn't she see the compassion, understanding and love in my eyes?'
"Maya, I do not like Lee!" Keely said angrily. "You keep telling yourself that." The brunette replied with a smirk. Ever since Keely had become part of this little 'group' she had felt so much more accepted than she ever had been, but there was still one thing missing, the love of someone who wasn't family or friend, of Lee. Apparently the three others in the group were very good at reading people, and even Keely's strongest masks couldn't withhold under their eyes.
"Anyways." Karrie interrupted, stretching lazily on the ground. "Now that school's done for another weekend, what do you guys want to do?" Nobody came up with any suggestions. "Not everyone at once." Karrie said sarcastically and the group smirked. "Well, if no one is going to do anything, why don't we do nothing, together." Maya said in a rather over dramatic way as she flung herself on the ground. "Sure, sounds good to me. Keely said from her place up in a tree, they were on the edge of the forest ordering the town.
"And we can all plot ways to get Lee and Keely together." Maya said enthusiastically. Keely frowned. "How many times have I told you, I . Do. Not. Like. Lee!" She heard a cough from Star, who pointed behind her, Keely slowly turned around....
Lee had just finished practicing in the forest, although he could barely concentrate, it had been a while since Keely had talked to him, a long while, not since the mall and now it was only a month till school was over, he began waking back out of the forest when he heard Keely's voice say something that nearly broke his heart. "I . Do. Not. Like. Lee!" He was now in sight of the other three girls and he watched as one of them pointed to hi and Keely slowly turned from her place on a low branch to face him. "Keely." He said, a little harsher then he should have, because Keely winced at the tone. "We need to talk." She seemed unwillingly to do anything. "Now." Keely looked desperately towards her friends who just shrugged and then she looked fearfully back at him. Lee was shocked at the look in the girl's eyes, fear? Why was she afraid, of him? 'I will get to the bottom of this.' He thought in determination as the girl who had pointed him out before was now walking over to Keely and whispered something in her ear, Lee narrowed his eyes at the girl, who just smirked back as three girls, all dressed in black began to slowly walk away, but pause not to far from where they were before, obviously keeping an eye on him.
Keely had watched as Star came up to her and was shocked when she poke softly into her ear. "We all know of your feelings Keely, no matter how hard you try and hide them, but remember, we are always here for you." Keely watched as her friends walked a small distance away, and turned nervously towards a certain black haired neko-jin.
FASH: What'll happen next chapter? A neko-jin is a humanoid cat, just incase you didn't know.