An Orphan's Life

Disclaimer: Not mine, too lazy to specify. Read first chapters.

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"Elysia, what are you wearing?"

Elysia frowned in confusion and looked over at Caterina. They were unpacking their things and putting them away in the dressers next to the beds. "What do you mean?"

Caterina motioned at the clothes Elysia had on. "I mean that."

Elysia frowned more. "You mean my clothes?"

Caterina made a face. "Duh! Are you seriously going to wear that out to lunch?"

Elysia stared at her more confused. "I thought that's what you're supposed to do when you go outside. Wear clothes."

Caterina sighed and walked over to Elysia's bed, picking up her bag of belongings. "That's not what I meant." She pulled out a shirt. "That orphanage had no taste whatsoever."

Elysia watched her as she went through the bag. "What do you mean? It's just clothes."

Caterina looked at her in surprise, then shook her head. "Elysia, Elysia, Elysia. You just don't get it, do you?"

Elysia crossed her arms. "Obviously not." She looked over to the door that separated them from Theo, praying he would come out and say something.

When they had found their room after the fight between Caterina and Theo, she had mentally slapped herself for thinking that Caterina would get a regular room. The "room" was actually a good-sized suite, and once Theo realized that, he immediately went to the other room and closed the door, declaring he was going to sleep and any disturbance would mean death.

But as much as she prayed, he didn't walk out.

Caterina was examining all the clothes. "Why are these ones different?" She held up the shirt and jeans that Theo had lend to Elysia the morning after they met.

Elysia frowned. "Why does it matter?"

Caterina shrugged. "Just wondering." She looked at her watch. "Go ask Theo if he's coming. I'm starving."

Elysia made a face. "Did you not hear him when we got here? No disturbances!"

Caterina nodded. "I know. Why do you think I'm sending you?"

Elysia's jaw fell open. "What?!"

"Oh, don't start that. He won't get mad. Well, not at you anyways."

Elysia stared at her in shock, then gave a sigh of defeat. She walked over to the door and took a deep breath, before opening it. She walked in, getting a bit fearful when she saw that the room was extremely dark. She left the door open, but it slowly closed, stopping just a few millimeters from the wall.

She frowned when she noticed a hot tub to the side. *Figures he would claim this room first! * She shook her head, then froze when she remembered something that Theo had said.

"I sleep in the nude."

Ha had said that so casually then, and now, here he was sleeping, with Elysia nearby.

She slowly looked over to his bed, hoping that he was just kidding. She quickly covered her eyes when she saw that the blanket he had was halfway on the floor and that whatever body parts it wasn't covering were indeed not clothed.

She let out a squeak, not wanting to have to see this. "Theo…Theo?" She squeezed her eyes shut and inched towards where she figured the door would be. She cleared her throat loudly and groped the wall to find the doorknob. "Theo! Wake up!"

She heard him shift around and gave a sigh of relief. "Good. You're awake." She was about to uncover her eyes when she heard him begin to snore. She made a face and turned, positive her sense of direction was right and that she was facing the hot tub.

She uncovered her eyes and cursed her mother for not giving her survival skills. She was facing Theo.

But, thankfully, the blanket covered him more than he was a few minutes ago.

She took a deep breath and walked over to the bed, praying that he didn't move or do anything else to cause the blanket to fall all the way to the floor. "Theo!"

Theo opened his eyes slowly and looked around confusedly. When he noticed Elysia standing awkwardly nearby, he fixed on her one of his glares. "What do you want?"

Elysia was about to answer, when Theo sat up and swung his legs over the edge of the bed, causing the rest of blanket to fall to the floor. She gasped and averted her face, so that she wouldn't see anything, and covered her eyes with her left hand, saying quickly," Caterina wants to know if you want to go out and eat lunch with us."

He made a face at her action and said slowly, "No. I don't feel like lunching with that girl."

Elysia nodded and turned to the door quickly. "Okay. Just wanted to know." She was about to make her escape, when she heard him say her name. She closed her eyes and turned back to face him, getting a bit uncomfortable. "What?" she squeaked out.

"Why are you avoiding looking at me?"

Elysia bit her lip and slowly looked at him, forcing her eyes to focus on his face and not wander down anywhere. "What are you talking about? I'm looking at you right now."

He frowned, then held back a smile as he realized what she was doing. "Are you afraid you might see something?"

Elysia stared straight into his eyes and said as truthfully as she could," No. I'm just…" She sighed and narrowed her eyes at him. "You jerk."

He laughed and shook his head. "I only sleep naked at the circus, you know. I have manners."

She nodded, annoyed that he knew what she was thinking the whole time. "Thanks for the newsflash. I better go now. Bye." She took a step toward the door, but stopped when he began to talk to her again.

"What's the rush? Come sit down." He smirked and patted the spot next to him.

Elysia felt herself blush, and she immediately cursed herself for doing so. She smiled weakly and shook her head. "No, I'm fine here. I'll just-"

"What's the problem? All I want is for you to sit down and talk for a while. There's no harm in that, now is there?" He smiled, not bothering to hide the mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

Elysia didn't want to, but she knew if she didn't he would make her anyways. She sighed and slowly walked over to the bed. She sat down quickly next to him and stared straight ahead. "What do you-aaaggghhh!" She screamed when he pulled her on top of him and kissed her cheek. She pulled away and ran out of the room screaming, while Theo laughed.

Caterina raised an eyebrow as Elysia brushed past her, slamming the door to the bathroom shut, and looked at Theo. "I'm not even going to ask." She looked at her watch to change the subject. "So, you aren't coming?"

Theo crossed his arms and looked away from her, trying to stop laughing. "No."

"Well, I guess that's good. I decided to take Elysia shopping. You wouldn't enjoy that."

Theo raised an eyebrow. "Shopping? What for?'

"Have you seen the clothes she has? They're too horrible to even look at. And I don't think your mother's clothes are going to last that long with her."

Theo looked at her quickly. "How'd you know that those were-"

"I grew up with you. I'm not dense you know." She sighed. "I better go pull her out of the bathroom. We need to go." She turned and walked out, but stopped and looked at him for a second. "Be nice. I don't want to deal with your childish acts again." She then walked out, closing the door behind her.

Theo stared at the door, then rolled his eyes. "I don't need to listen to her. She doesn't know what she's talking about." With that, he closed his eyes and went to sleep, dreaming, for some weird reason, about his mother.

"Elysia, what the hell is that?!"

Elysia closed her eyes in frustration and slowly faced Caterina, wondering what was wrong this time.

They had yet to eat, Caterina insisting that they shop first for some decent clothing. And Elysia was getting more annoyed at every store they went to, not liking the rude employees and uncomfortable dressing rooms. She was trying to find the point to why the heck anybody would want thirty people to watch them get dress and decide if what they were trying on looked nice. It made her a bit glad that she hadn't grown up with a rich family.

She smiles as sweetly as she could at Caterina, hoping she was hiding her contempt well and asked," Yes, Caterina?"

Caterina, who didn't seem to know what modesty was, marched over to Elysia and snapped her bra strap. "What is this?!"

Elysia frowned and looked down at the strap. "What do you mean? Don't you learn that kind of thing during puberty?"

Caterina rolled her eyes and turned to find a salesclerk. "You know damn well what I mean. That is not a proper undergarment. Makes me wonder if you even have the right size underwear on… Pete! Where the hell are you?!"

Elysia blushed at the last comment as a short, and obviously gay, man approached them. He clapped his hands together and looked at Caterina questioningly. "Yes, madam? What is it?"

Caterina pointed at Elysia. "See that? Go get her the right kind of bras and underwear. She needs whatever you have."

He smiled and looked at Elysia, who tried to cover herself as best as she could, despite the fact that he was not going to check her out anytime soon. "What size is she?"

Caterina glanced at her and tilted her head. "Isn't that your job?"

Pete nodded and walked over to Elysia. "Arms up!"

Elysia did as she was told, not liking the tone of voice he used. Her eyes widened when she felt his hands reach around her.

"Ah! She is a size-" Pete cut himself off and smiled at Caterina. "Well, that's not my business to discuss. I will return in a few minutes." He left quickly, avoiding Caterina's looks.

Caterina put her hands on her hips and looked over at Elysia. "It's so hard to find good help these days… Well, what are you doing standing there with your mouth wide open? Get dressed so we can eat!"

Elysia frowned and pulled her shirt on, not understanding Caterina's behavior. "What about-"

"Don't worry about that. The store is sending all of the stuff to the hotel. Theo just has to sign for it and … well, let's just say I haven't let him get away from not going to lunch with me." She smiled at Elysia, slightly scaring Elysia. After a long pause she clapped her hands together, somewhat like Pete did, and said, "Well, let's go!"

She walked out, Elysia reluctantly following.

Elysia slowly chewed her hamburger as she watched Caterina inhale her food. She had never seen anybody eat spaghetti as fast as Caterina did and not choke in the process. It also surprised her that Caterina could eat so fats and so much. She found herself staring at a completely different person, the rude and jealous girl from a few days ago nowhere in sight. Elysia was beginning to believe that the shuttle she and Theo were on had crashed and that she was actually dead. Caterina's behavior was causing a lot of reality problems.

As she listened to Caterina jabber on about some meaningless stuff, she happened to glance over to the side at the passerbys, and nearly choked on her hamburger.

A blonde girl was walking by, her green eyes beyond familiar to Elysia. She looked over at Elysia and Caterina and paused in her walking, obviously recognizing Elysia.

Or so Elysia thought.

Elysia knew this girl, or did at one point in her life. Nobody could ever forget someone like Jennifer Silverman.

This was the girl who had been the closest to a friend Elysia ever had at the orphanage.

Elysia watched as Jennifer walked over to their table, smiling at Caterina. "Caterina! My, it's been so long since I've seen you! How have you been?"

Caterina stared at Jennifer confusedly then smiled as she recognized her. "Jennifer!"

The two hugged as Elysia watched silently.

"How have you been, Jen? You look so grown up!"

"Oh, well, daddy let me join his company, so I've had to take on a more mature appearance." Jennifer smiled some more, not even looking in Elysia's direction. "He didn't think I was smart enough for the job, so I had to change my appearance a bit to prove to him that I was. Or, at least, looked that way."

Caterina laughed. "Now, how old are you again? The last time I saw you, you were thirteen and had braces. I can't even remember how long ago that was."

"Eighteen, Cat. She's eighteen. Same age as me." Elysia stared at her food, not even bothering to look up at them. If they weren't doing it to her, then why should she?

That's when Jennifer recognized her. She stared at Elysia, then stopped herself before Caterina noticed. She cleared her throat and smiled faintly at Caterina. "Well, I have to go. My lunch break ended an hour ago. I'll call you later okay?"

Caterina frowned a little at Jennifer's sudden change in behavior. "You have my number?"

Jennifer walked away, waving her hand. "Oh, well my dad knows people. We'll find out one way or another. It was nice seeing you again. Bye." She hurried off, glad to make an escape.

Caterina shrugged and sat back down. "Strange girl, that Jennifer Groff." She looked at Elysia, not noticing that Elysia was out of it. "You done?"

Elysia stared blankly aw Caterina, then nodded when the question processed in her mind. "Uh… yeah. Let's go back to the hotel. I… I'm tired."

Caterina nodded and finished off her food. "Okay."

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A/N: Well, what d-ya think? I know, I know. Not worth the long wait. SORRY! I didn't realize it took that long for me to update. Hehe… I've been having a bit of a writer's block. I hope I didn't scare away all of you who reviewed and stuff. Um, anyways, I kind of made this longer than I expected, but that's okay. Don't worry. Elysia will see Wufei eventually. I'm just trying to figure out what to with her and Theo. Which reminds me. Since this story is doing better than I thought it would do, I'm thinking about writing a sequel to it. But it's up to you nice people out there to tell me that you would read it, 'cuz I don't want to screw things up or anything. So, just R&R and tell me what you think, and I'll see you all in the next chapter. Bye for now! ~_^