Okay then peeps! This is the begining of the short stories okay! So tell me what you think!
Mistaken Matches.
Cleo frowned and looked up at the sky, the clouds above her also seemed to be taunting her as they floated above her auburn hair that was tied in a bun with hair sticks, the current of wind carrying them doing the same to her own hair and pulling a few strands gently across her tan face and tickling the nose underneath her brilliant emerald eyes.
She didn't notice a slightly older, and taller, Spanish boy doing the same thing. His dark hair falling in a casual elegance over his olive skin and dark brown eyes. They both crashed into each other, Cleo once more nearly falling over due to her light frame.
"Watch out." Antonio smiled as he caught her, another pink tinge swept across her cheeks in a flurry of colour.
"Looks like I have my own knight in shining armour." She grinned, wishing the blush to go away as he helped her up to her feet again.
"So... erm... Where you going?" He asked her hesitantly. She looked at him blushed a bit more.
"I'm just... walking I suppose." She told him, "I haven't got any plans or anything." She added, hinting strongly to him.
"Oh... well, do you want to go to the movies?" He inwardly cursed himself, why did he have to muck it up? He'd just offered to take her to the movies. Pedro would have swept her off her feet and taken her to some swanky restaurant and then for some romantic walk down the park under the moonlight.
He was too caught up in his own thoughts to hear what she said.
"Antonio? Are you okay?" She asked him, he blink and jumped slightly. She giggled nervously. "I said that would be great."
"Cool, err... I mean..."
Cleo giggled at him a swatted his head playfully. He looked shocked slightly before retaliating and pulling out her hair sticks, releasing the mighty wave of auburn hair that fell down to her waist.
"Hey! Okay, my pick for movies." She told him, snatching a hair stick and poking him the side with it.
"Fine by me." He told her, Please don't pick a chic-flick...
"How about The Ring?" She asked, "I know it's not in the theatre but we could rent it and buy some popcorn and soda and have it over in my hotel." She offered. He raised an eyebrow at it. "NOT in the dirty way." She told him, he nodded and brightened up.
"Sure. The Ring is my favourite horror." He told her. She brightened up.
"No way! I love it! Back in France, Lois bought the French dub and along with my vampire chronicles it's my favourite movie."
"Your like Ana, she has a thing about vampires as well." He told her, "You know how Kon has the whole fangs thing? She's completely crazy about it."
"Oh." Cleo felt a small wave wash her heart. She almost choked, was she jealous? Of course not!
I mean, she's a team mate of his! Just a very pretty, no, scrap pretty, gorgeous girl who he works very closely to every day on a close proximity. Oh, did I mention she speaks his mother tongue? And she's intelligent, elegant, she's graceful...
"Cleo?"
She was brought back to reality with a bump, literally.
She blushed slightly and he helped her up off the ground by Antonio, he looked slightly concerned.
"Are you alright?" He asked her, "You just erm... walked into the lamppost." He told her, she blushed heavier and looked away from his dark eyes.
And this isn't embarrassing...
"I, erm..." She tried to explain but found she didn't have one. "Erm... Antonio?"
"What?" He asked her, he blinked a found that he had his arms wrapped around her waist, her slender feminine frame pressed against his well built physique. Her hands flat on his chest clinging to the loose material of his t-shirt, both staring into each others eyes.
It didn't help when someone yelled 'get a room' at them. They turned a nice shade of scarlet and quickly got out of their embrace, shoving their hands into their own pockets and looking away from each other.
Now Pedro would have never had done something so stupid, or he would have at lest made the most of it...
"Cleo? It's over." Antonio told her warily. She looked at screen and saw the credits coming up. "I thought it was your favourite movie?" He asked her, slightly amused by her behaviour.
"It is." She said quietly. Glad that he was there. "Why is it that the Japanese version is so much scarier?" She whispered. He chortled slightly as she huddled back to his embrace.
"The Japanese must be harder to scare." He guessed, she giggled slightly as the last of the credits went across the screen.
The phone rang. Cleo screamed and fell onto his lap, her arms wrapped around his neck. She blushed again when she realized what she had just done and jumped off him. He was laughing at her, she glared and threw one of the sofa cushions at him.
She picked up the phone.
"Hello?" She asked quietly down the phone.
"You only have twenty-four hours to live.." An all to familiar voice crackled down the phone in French. Cleo growled slightly, her hazel eyes flashing.
"Phillip you idiot you terrified me!" She yelled down the phone.
"What? You had Mr. Lover boy over, you didn't even notice us come in. You made out yet?"
"Lois!" She whined, going pink. "Shut up!"
"What? You mean he hasn't made one move? That's almost as bad as Lois when it comes to girls."
"Yeah? Well not everyone sleeps with every girl he can you Hentai."
"And proud of it dearest sister. Hah, oh man, you should have heard you scream, comical I can tell you."
Cleo slammed the phone down and strode into the kitchen (which was separate). Antonio following her with a slight smirk on his lips. He had an idea on what was going on.
SLAP
"Baka! Shut up! You big fat Hentai!" She yelled at him. Phillip was sporting a huge red mark on his cheek; Francis was just smirking at them, sitting on one of the kitchen benches.
"And welcome to the family my dear boy. It's Antonio isn't it? Yes, allow us to introduce ourselves. We are two of Cleo's brothers..."
"From triplets may I add..."
"But most unfortunately our dear brother Lois is still training with Henry..."
"We would first like to tell you..."
"As our dear little sister's overly protective big brothers..."
"What you make one move she's not..."
"Too comfortable with..."
"And we'll make sure you..."
"Not only regret your actions most dearly..."
"But torture until the brink of death..."
"And most likely kill you."
"So don't hurt her." Francis and Phillip finished their small speech with a hint of foreboding, leaving Antonio slightly wary and Cleo mortified.
"Is this pick-on-Cleo day?" She asked faintly at them, her face scarlet for what seemed like the hundredth time that day.
"Nope, it's 28th August." Francis told her cheerfully. She glared at him as he jumped off the kitchen bench and Lois joined him.
"We're going out. Don't do anything we wouldn't do..."
"So you have pretty much a free rein."
"See yeh sis, Antonio."
Cleo had never wanted the ground to swallow her up as badly in her life.
Thank you, you two bakas, you just had to stuff your noses into my business didn't you? She found tears coming into her eyes.
"Are you okay?" She heard Antonio's concerned voice. She nodded slightly and looked up at him.
He smiled.
"Don't worry about the whole speech thing Cleo." He told her, she looked away again.
"They do it all the time..." She murmured quietly. She heard him chuckle slightly and felt two arms wrap themselves around her, cradling her soothingly.
"Relax, me and Pedro did the same thing to Tyson when we found out about him and Ria." He told her comfortingly. Cleo smiled slightly.
"Sorry." She whispered. He grinned and waved it off.
"Don't worry about it." He told her, his insides writhing with delight for cheering her up. "You want some ice cream?" He asked her.
"With maple syrup and chocolate sprinkle things?" She asked him.
"Sure,"
"Okay." She murmured, pulling out of his grasp and pulled on her boots, him pulling on his trainers (A/N: That's a sneaker for all you people who don't know what a trainer is) and checking to see how much yen he had in his wallet.
"Two double cones with maple syrup and chocolate sprinkles on." Antonio ordered, Cleo felt her eyes widen slightly as he exchanged his money for her favourite treat.
"Thank you." She told him, a smile on her face as he gave her the biggest of the two. He gave her a bashful grin as they both began to eat.
They both sat on the edge of a huge fountain that was situated smack bang in the middle of the huge park. Talking about anything and everything, both amazed how easy it was to talk to each other.
Ice creams were long gone and so had most of the people who in dwelled in the park.
Neither realized until Cleo spotted the sun beginning to set over the tall buildings of Bakuten, she had let out a gasped and couldn't stop talking about it, awed by the many colours that inhabited the sky at that time. A series of pinks, reds, oranges and yellow.
"Did you see it? It was incredible! Amazing!" She told him once more her voice elated at what she had just seen. She spun around and laughed again, quieting down considerably.
Antonio followed her gaze to the sliver orb surrounded by a thousand tiny sparks known as stars. On impulse he wrapped his arms around her as the two gazed at the marvel of nature known as the sky.
"We all fly as high as our dreams let us fly." Antonio muttered, quoting one of his cousin's favourite sayings.
"Unless we are a chicken." Cleo said back contemplatively, not averting her gaze from the sky. Antonio gave the back of her head a bemused look. "Chickens can't fly." She added as an after thought.
Without a warning Cleo yawned, turning around and nestling into his shirt again.
"Tired?"
"Henry got us up at the crack of dawn again." She murmured sleepily. "He's evil" Antonio chortled and started to cradle her in his arms again.
"Cleo... Cleowillyougooutwithme?" He asked her quickly, she looked up into his eyes.
"Huh?"
"Will you go out with me?" He asked her again, his heart was thudding almost painfully fast, scared in case she's reject him. She giggled and kissed him lightly on the lips.
"Of course." She whispered, yawning slightly again.
Antonio could have shouted out with glee but decided against it. Mainly if his team captain found out he was acting like a fool she'll kill him.
Stuff Nina.
"Woohoo!" He yelled, causing her to jump slightly. He spun her gently around in a circle causing her to squeal slightly, first with surprise and then with something else. It seemed like his question had poured energy into her because she started laughing along side him.
He hugged her again and kissed her gently on the lips; unfortunately over balancing and falling into the huge fountain behind them. Both were completely soaked through but it didn't seem like they noticed. They both started tittering again, almost hysterically, unable to get out of the fountain for laughing.
His hands found hers and gently intertwined them; kneeling in the fountain with their hair plastered to their soaked scalps as once more their lips bumped into each other, sending shivers down their spines and causing the soaking hair on the back of their saturated necks to stand up.
Cleo felt her pocket start to vibrate, she jumped right out of her skin and answered it. Antonio beginning to kiss her neck tenderly. By some miracle it still worked, otherwise she would have been in BIG trouble.
"Hello?" She asked, barely stifling a giggle as she did so, batting Antonio away before he could distract her further.
"Hey Cleo. Listen, when are you getting back? It's past midnight you know." Phillip's words made her 'eep' slightly as she checked her watch.
"Unless you're sleeping over lover boy's place. Which may I say Henry's peeved you're not back. Something about training tomorrow."
"Ah crap I forgot! Oh... shit..." She sighed and Antonio pulled her into his chest, beginning to kiss her neck again. "I'll be back soon." She told him glumly.
"That's the point. Francis wants to know if you've made out yet." He added, Cleo growled at the voice in the phone and turned it off.
"Don't say you've got to go now..." He murmured, kissing her again amorously, nipping her bottom lip as though begging to enter. She pulled away regretfully.
"Sorry, I've got practice in the morning and I really want to stay here with you forever but the longer I stay the more likely I won't be able to get up in the morning and then I won't be able to come and see you as soon as possible." She said in all one breath.
He gazed into her eyes again, those amazing hazel eyes with hints of both brown and green flecked in them, infinite pools of never-ending adoration.
And they were all his.
"Come on then." He said, helping her stand up and wade of out the shallow fountain along with helping her out. "You're on the same floor as me aren't you?"
"I think so."
They both walked up the hotel, his arms wrapped protectively around her waist as they reached her hotel door.
"I'll see you tomorrow." She whispered shyly. He bent down and kissed her lightly on the lips, innocent and sweet.
"Yeah, tomorrow." He murmured, she smiled quietly as walked down the corridor into his own room, her small smile suddenly turning into a huge grin as her face turned the colour of her hair.
She opened the door and walked into her room.
Inside Phillip and Francis were playing video games with Lois watching them half-heartedly; Henry was no-where to be seen. She tried to sneak out into her bedroom without them noticing.
She thought her parents had been bad; they were nothing compared to her three older brothers – well mainly Phillip and Francis, Lois didn't seem to mind much.
"Where have you been young lady?" Phillip cried out, throwing her arms around her and hugging her tightly.
"We were so worried!!" Francis continued in a high pitched squeal, he was obviously putting on in mock imitation of their mother's.
"Worried? You were playing video games!" Cleo protested with a slight scowl.
"Ah my little Cleopatra, they were merely to pass the time of our constant worrying." Phillip told her airily.
"After all, you could have been raped or anything during those seven hours away from our sight."
"Or even worse, started a relationship with someone you met on the island hmm?" Phillip raised an eyebrow at her as her blush reappeared on her face.
"Shut up, I'm tired" She managed to stumble, both boys' faces lit up.
"Why I do believe our dearest younger sister has a boyfriend Phillip!"
"And so do I Francis! I say, it looks like we'll have to beat the crap out of him if he comes one step to close to you in our sight."
"Gah! Shut up! I'm going to bed!" She yelled at them managing to storm out of the room and slam her own door without them joking around at her own expense. Lois looked up at them mildly.
"You shouldn't do that you know." He told them. Phillip shrugged and jumped back onto the couch to continue his game.
"Keh, its funny watching her squirm." He told him lightly.
"You have to admit it's amusing watching our little Cleopatra get flustered over someone." Francis added equally as casually.
"You two are mean."
"We know."
LunaRavenCroft: Hey hey meh peeps! I'm not going to say much here apart from thanking kick-flare to get my butt into action and updating. I WAS going to yesterday but I was kicked off the internet. Okay then, on to my reviewers!!!
Diamond Core: (calms down Diamond Core) I'm glad you liked it! I thought it was a bit of an anti-climax but hey! Never mind, I'm VERY glad you liked it! Though trust me. You'll have forgotten about them by the time they're reintroduced! You think? I must admit I fell in love with the title of it! Why I'm always High. You have to admit it's kinda cute!
Moonlit Destiny: Hm… Well maybe you're not meant to get the role of Osiris, and who said Black Dranzer was out of the picture? If you look back you'll find he wasn't destroyed. (Shifty eyes) Hehe, I love Kai too! He's so mysterious and generally stunning. Lol. I'm a huge anti-yaoi. It's just wrong!! (Shudders) You like my accent? Hm… That's strange, Canadians do have an accent, and you probably won't be able to distinguish it unless you pick up another accent.
Ms. SoUrPuSs: Your story is cool! Heh, I'm glad you like it, I'm so worried in case no-one likes my new twist but you love everything I throw at you! It's great! Heh, I get far too distracted, you know this week I've wrote about 100words for meh story? Terrible I know, (this one has been done earlier on, like at the beginning of October)
Blackdranzergurl: When I get round to it I will, I'm honestly sorry but I REALLY need to get myself sorted out again, (I've just had meh holidays now schools back!)
Bloody-Shadows: Heh, cousins aren't that bad, well, half of mine are evil little imps from beyond the seventh hell, but the others aren't too bad… (Gulps) please don't cry! I hate it when people cry it's awful!
Kausi-chan: Yes, very O.O isn't it? Heh, you'll understand one day I hope…. (That's if I ever get round to writing it… jk)
Wreckless Spirit: Thank you! It's for my sequel, which may I add with most likely is a spiritual/mystery, Heh, I did the Cleo/Antonio one first because everyone couldn't wait for it!!! I'd love it if you can help with getting more. I'd love that!
DarkZero313: Oh good, I'm writing that one at the moment. I hope you'll like it!
Heart of Friendship: Oh-my-gosh! That is SO sweet of you! I feel SO very much honoured that you have been inspired by lil old me!! Urgh, I hate writing for the English, it's got dead lines and things and we have to write so much in a certain context, urgh. Don't worry about your Inuyasha story, I have a love/hate relationship with this story, i.e. I love it too pieces but I hate having to write it ALL up and plan everything and keep notes and things on ALL my OC's. (Trust me, there's about fifteen in the first part ALONE!) If you need names then just ask and I'll give you the URL's to my own name lists. I LOVE the Kai x OC pairing, or a Kai x Hil pairing! But you've got to be careful about our OC, I mean some in some stories the girl is some overconfident new girl with a bad past (like an abusive dad or was raped or something) who gets on the wrong side of the 'popular' girls. And steal Kai's heart right from underneath the sluttiest popular girl in the school – too many of these, those girls are a type of Mary-sue you know. Heh, I'm getting carried away here, you need any tips or anything just ask because I'm all full of them!
Kick-Flare: See? Isn't I a good girl? I updated, late I know, but I still updated!!!
Semi-stories things:
Finding Phoenix,
The Case of a Mini Hentai,
Inside the mind of women,
Why I'm Always High,
If you have anymore just tell me and I'll write on if I find it appropraite (sp?) for my story line as well.
