I hope you like this one, I'm not sure if I should change the rating I know that I'm putting in swear words, and I was wondering if anyone out there would want to help me prof read. Most of my writing is done really late at night and I'm trying to write this really fast.
Kaleena ran threw the door of her family's home stopping just inside the door her hand on her knees panting, her mother turned to look at her saying, "You didn't need to run child, your twenty-two now it's alright to be late for dinner some time at your age. Was it some man that kept you I would so love to see you get married some time soon? Why just the other day I was talking with Tanya and she was telling me how her youngest was getting married soon and."
Kaleena cut her off saying, "Why is it that just cause I'm not married you think it's the end of the world I mean mother it's the 60's women don't need to just go out and get married." Walking over to the table she added, "Did you save me any dinner or do I have to go out again?"
"We did save you dinner," said her father sitting in a chair next to the fire, "and I for one was worried about you it's not like you to be this late for dinner."
Grabbing a plate of food Kaleena said, "I know I had no intention of staying so late." She paused not really wanting to say what she was going to say but knowing that if she was going to really go through with this she had to start it now. "I ran into an old friend I hadn't seen in a few years and we lost track of time, you know how it is sometimes? You just start talking," or fighting she thought but didn't say.
"Oh who is he?" her mother asked.
"She didn't say it was a he," her father said in that overly protective way that fathers do.
Kaleena threw food into her mouth giving herself a moment to think of how to go on, after she had chewed it for far longer than necessary she said, "He moved to Persopolis about five years ago."
"See I told you it was a he."
Kaleena gritted her teeth slightly not wanted to go on, "I was thinking that maybe I could invite him over for dinner one of these nights. He hasn't really had a good home cooked meal since he left here."
Her mother over joyed all but screamed, "Yes." and her father just looked her over not really sure how to take what she had just asked. To him she was either not wanting to tell them that she liked this guy or she didn't like him and was forced to do it, but he leaned more toward the first.
That night after everyone had gone to bed Kaleena snuck out her window like she had done many times before only this time it wasn't to go sell something or even to try and find something. This time she was going out for a reason she didn't want to, she was going to talk to Luke, to tell him that he was coming over for dinner tomorrow. Although she was in heavy debate over telling him that her father was planing on having her brothers come that night as well. The one thing above all others that drove her nuts about her family was the fact that they really wanted to marry her of (except dad that is) but if they even got a hint that she MIGHT like someone they did every thing in their power to drive him off.
She made her way into the back room that she knew so well and sat down deciding to wait for Luke instead of getting him herself, that way she would have plenty of time to think. It wasn't long though before Luke came in he look as though he was ready for bed and she guessed that he had no clue that she had come or that she would. He didn't even notice her sitting in a chair next to the fire till she spoke, "Have you lost some of that instinct of yours I could have killed you and run off by now?"
He look at her for a moment before saying, "I'm not dead yet and what are you doing here? You should be at home sleeping."
"Your not my mother, and I'll have you know I come and go as I please, I just don't always tell people I'm leaving," she said with a smile.
"That still doesn't answer what your doing here?"
"I thought I'd come and tell you that your having dinner with my family tomorrow," she got up and headed for the door looking over her shoulder she added, "I'll even be nice and warn you that my brothers are coming too." and with that said she walk out the door and headed back to her house and to bed.
Luke groaned slightly as he climbed out of bed, he hadn't drank so much last night that he had blanked out but he did have a nasty hangover. Walking over to the desk in the corner of the room to get the stuff he used for hangovers he was shocked to find Kaleena sitting in the chair behind it. "I figured I might as well get in all the annoying you that I can since I'm sure it wont be long before it gets harder but don't think for one moment I wont be thinking of ways to make your life miserable."
He groaned again then said, "What are you doing here?" and then realizing that he wasn't dressed he quickly threw on a pair of pants.
"Didn't I tell you all ready I'm annoying you, I mean if you can't handle me there's no way you will ever be able to handle my family," she said hoping that he would think this to much work to go through and say that it was over.
He smiled at her having a pretty good idea of what she was thinking, then threw his hand over his eyes as his head started throbbing again. Kaleena just stared at him for a few minutes before sighing and sliding a jar of nasty smelling mix over to the end of the desk and closer to him, he grabbed it and pulled the cork out drinking the nasty stuff in one chug, immediately his headache lessened. "Don't you have work to do or something?"
"Nope."
"Are you going to bother me all day?"
"Maybe don't know depends on my mood."
"Why are you doing this?"
"Think about it a little and we wont have to get into this stupid question game, let's just say that it all comes down to the fact that you have never told anyone that the whole truth in your life and I doubt you started with me. In other word I know you left things out and I'm going to bother you because of it."She smiled then added, "I don't even really know if I ever want to know the whole story, but it give me a good reason to annoy you so," she stuck her tong out at him.
"I have very boring plans for today."
"That's fine I don't have any till around noon."
That caused him to groaned again this time not cause of his head but because of the fact that the sun had only just risen about a half hour ago. "Mithros help me, this is worse than before I left, woman." He was cut off by a knock at the door. They both looked at each other something felt wrong and they both knew it, without even waiting Kaleena went out the window and crouch under it so that no one could see her.
Luke went to his desk and grabbed one of his knives before yelling, "Come in."
When the door opened it was a big man wide as he was tall dressed like a noble there was a big greasy stain on the front of his shirt and his cloths were well worn in they might have once been nice but now they were no more then trash that no one would buy. His breath came out in short wheezes and when he spoke he sounded squeaky. "Where is she?" He wheezed, "where is that bitch? I know she's here she's always here." Then realizing that he had never seen the man in front of him before he said, "I don't know what kind of beef you have with her but I get her first."
"And what's she done to you?" Luke asked watching the man closely.
"She sold me this," he held out a small stone about the size of a coin, "She said that it was a magic stone, but she lied. There's no magic in it."
"Why do you say that?"
"Cause I can't get it to work."
"That doesn't mean anything, your not even a mage are you?"
"No but," Luck cut him off.
"No buts, if your no mage you can't say that it isn't magic, so get out can't you see that a man is trying to relax in here?"
"Oh I'm sorry isn't this er office?"
"Not any more," when the man left Luke came over and leaned against the window sill and said, "You sold a man a pebble," he stated it as a fact.
Kaleena stood up and shrugged, "Like the fat ass knew any different. I sold it to him over a month ago."
He raised his eye brows saying, "You did it on purpose?" Then realizing that he didn't want an answer he said,"Never mind. How are you supposed to be keep everyone happy that way if it starts getting out."
She cut him off saying, "He's not really one of my customers, I just did cause I felt like it. I mean he wants it so that he can live longer, no one can go out there and cheat the black god and I'm not about to help him. I told him what he needed to do is stop eating so much and get outside every now and then. Anyways he's stupid enough to come here himself, that should tell you everything."
"Fine, whatever. You can just stay out there," with that said he closed the shutters on his window.
She gave a humph then let herself out the back gate and headed toward Liadan's, when she got to the front gate of the large building Selena one of Liadan's girls said in a rather gruff tone, "Where's that spell already? We've been waiting forever Kaleena."
Kaleena pulled a small roll of parchment out of her purse holding it up, then she walked through the gate and headed in toward Liadan's office. She walked into the office with out even knocking flopped down into a chair next to Liadan's desk and put her feet on it crossed her arms over her chest and waited for Liadan to speak.
"Please take your feet off my desk," she didn't even look up from her papers.
"Is that any way to talk to someone who just brought you this," she threw the small roll of parchment on the desk.
"You got it, you have no idea how much you've just made my girls happy." Liadan said looking up at Kaleena.
"That's good, just be careful with it, that the original."
Liadan got up and put the parchment in a small box over the fire place, quickly locked it and put a spell on the box. "Thanks are you still mad about the whole Luke thing?"
"Yes but what can I do about it, I know you were all afraid of how I would react and I can't really blame you. He's going to have a heck of a time tonight."
"What are you talking about?"
She gave a somewhat evil smile and said, "He's coming over for dinner tonight, so that we can get this thing going, and my father is having my brother come too."
Laidan laughed, "Good luck to him, did you get it set up that way on propose?"
"Kind of," she shrugged, "well in the end he'll have to meet them all anyway, it just one of my pay backs for this after all he still owes me. I'm going to go up to my office, and thanks for letting me use the place."
"No problem, I'm glad to help."
Luke was sitting in his a chair in his room thinking when a cloaked man came in without even knocking Luke was no his feet before the door was all the way open, but relaxed when he realized who it was. "So how are things going?" Ask the man.
Luke smile, "good, very good, and thanks for helping me with this."
"Not a problem, your doing me just as big a favor. I didn't know who I could get to do this, after all it not just anyone who could pull this off.."
"So is that all you wanted to know?"
"I was wondering if you could speed things up a little we're beginning to run out of time."
Luke was standing just a little bit before Kaleena's families home waiting for a moment trying to gather his thoughts about what was about to happen. Kaleena walked out of the house and looked down the way at him rolled her eye then walked over to him. "You wanted to do this, so you have to come, so get your ass moving all ready."
Luke looked at her for a moment before grabbing hold of her arm and moving toward her house, "Just act like we're a couple, got it."
"Fine just act like you can handle my brothers then."
"Why do you say that?"
"Oh you'll see," she said walking through the door. "Mother, father this is Luke," she said snuggling into Luke's side, "Where's Jeremy and Thomas?"
"They're out back I'll go get them," her mother said heading out the back door.
Her father looked Luke up and down several times before saying, "When was it that the two of you met I don't recall Kaleena ever talking about you?"
Luke smiled and replied with, "I'm sure she didn't but I'm sure that she pined away the nights where no one would know. We met five years ago at the bakers we both wanted the same loaf of bread." Kaleena wanted to role her eyes but was save from having to have her father play twenty questions with Luke by her mother coming in with her brothers.
"Luke this is Jeremy and Thomas," said her mother pointing to each one in turn, " boy's this is Luke, be nice."
"Shall we eat?" asked her father when this wife had finished speaking, as he gestured toward the table.
Dinner was going well enough Kaleena wasn't really speaking unless someone spoke to her but that wasn't really out of character for her, she was a little bothered though by the fact that her brothers really were behaving themselfs and for that fact so was her mother. She had been expecting her mother to be driving her and Luke nuts with questions about the two of them, and her brothers to be trying to drive them a part. It was bothering her so much that she finely said, "Jeremy could I speak with you outside for a moment?"
"Um, sure," he said getting up and walking outside, Kaleena fallowed him when they were outside he asked, "What?"
"Why are you and Thomas acting so," she paused looking for the right word when she couldn't think of a better word she said, "nice."
"What do you mean, we're acting like we always do?"
"No, your not! You hate everyone that I have any interest in, why aren't you trying to drive him away?"
"Well I guess unlike everyone else you guy really go good together, and we don't really have a problem with him. Why aren't you happy, your normally yelling at us to stop it now your yelling at me cause we're not?"
"I'm just thrown off, it's not the way I planed you to act."
Jeremy's brow bunched, "Is something wrong, your acting weird?"
With a sigh Kaleena answered, "No it just not normal, you can go back in I'm going to stay out here for a few minutes."
Jeremy gave her a weird look then walked back inside, Kaleena walked over to a bench in the back yard and sat down. With no one around her mask of happy cheerfulness fell and a some what sad appearance over took her. Maybe it was the stress of what she was now doing or maybe she was lying to herself about something but whatever it was it all hit her at once and she started to cry.
After a good ten minutes and no Kaleena, Luck excused himself and went outside to look for her. He found her sitting on the bench she wasn't crying any more but she looked really sad still. He walked over to her and asked, "Are you all right?"
She looked at him unable to lie or come up with any good reason for why she was in such a state so all she said was, "go away."
"What's wrong?" he asked with genuine concern.
"I just want to be alone for a few minutes, alright?"
"Is it cause of us?"
"No, yes, maybe," she heaved a sigh then added, "I don't know. Just go away."
Standing up he grabbed her hand and said, "I'm sorry," and walked off her hand sliding out of his as he walked off.