FASH: Sorry that this chapter is a bit late, it's the end of the year and I'm working on my ISUs and my homework. So if you'll please forgive me, and then we can have some candy! YAY! (cough) Anyway, let's go! I'm not sure if Taylor's going to find the book yet or not, so the chapter will just unfold… Slowly.
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Hiro opened the creaky door and slowly flicked on the light switch of their mother's old room, Taylor coming in behind him, the room hadn't had anyone in it for a couple years, their father used to regularly clean it, but once he started working more and more often, he just didn't have the time, and there was no way Hiro or Tyson would dare enter the room, they were kids and they strongly believed that her room was haunted by something.
Everything was covered in a thick layer of dust, and it smelt like an old cellar, definitely haunted.
"Well, we have to look through her chest… Right?" Hiro asked as he slowly made his way to the other side of the room where a huge oak chest lay, sadly, when he tried to open it up, he found he couldn't. "It's locked." Taylor frowned. "So, get an axe and chop it up." "You can't possibly be that disrespectful towards our mother Tyson." "Our beloved mother made me a girl!" Hiro had nothing to say after that, so he just sighed. "Let's just look for the key." "Whatever."
They had searched high and low through every crevice of the room, trying to find a key, any key, preferably the one that went with the chest, but at this point neither of them cared much. It was after noon and Hiro was about ready to get the axe.
"Maybe mom would know-" "DON'T even ASK for me to go BACK to ask mom WHERE THE FUCKING KEY IS!" As intimidating as Taylor was, Hiro didn't flinch. "No… I'll go ask her." Taylor let out a sigh of relief. "Alright, and while you confront our psycho mother, I'm going on a walk!" She happily rushed out the door, leaving a cloud of dust in her place. Hiro just sighed. "Now then, how the hell am I going to get the information out of mother?"
Taylor was very slowly trudging through the park, her mind filled with questions. Would she be able to change back? If not, how the hell would she live on? If so, would all the annoying 'bachelors' leave her alone, or would 'psycho mommy' come after her and change her back? And more importantly, were any guys that had crushes on her and she could actually hold up a conversation with, gay? Hmmmm… That was a tough one. A glimpse of orange caught her eye and she turned to see the twins Julia and Raul practicing their stunts. 'Now there's a couple of people really in tune with each other, then again, they are twins.' Taylor sighed wistfully. 'I wish I had a twin.'
"HEY! Tyson- or Taylor, or whatever the hell you go by now, come over here!" Julia yelled, you see, Julia knew her brother very well, seeing as they never could keep anything from each other, and therefore, she was very good at reading her brother. Raul never was very good at keeping secrets, and he was about as easy to read as a book meant for preschoolers, at least he was to Julia, so when she found out he had a little crush forming on Taylor, well, I'm sure we all know what's going on inside her head. 'I have the greatest idea! Taylor and Raul will thank for me this later!'
Taylor slowly made her way over to the twins, something about the way Julia was grinning really freaked her out. 'Geez, she can be really intimidating when she wants to be.'
"So, Tyson, Taylor, Miss Grainger-" "Taylor's fine." "Alright then. Well, I was just thinking…" Julia scooted closer to Taylor. "That while in Spain you really seemed to enjoy watching me and my brother perform…" Julia began to circle Taylor in a manner not too unlike that of a shark circling its' prey, her smile could be mistaken for a sharks' as well. "And I thought that Raul would definitely love to teach some of the moves we do! In fact, we were just discussing this!" Raul made a muffled sound and Taylor really doubted that Raul knew more about this than her, although Julia did have a point, she really did think that what they did was cool, and she would really like to learn how to do some of their moves, hell, she could probably use something that she'd learn in a beybattle. But Julia sounded, well, kind of evil, and Taylor just knew there'd be a catch, not that she really cared, how bad of a catch could it be?
"Well? Would you like to train with Raul or not?" Julia sounded a little pissed off and Taylor just nodded, Raul let another weird noise to escape his throat and Taylor sent a worried look in is direction, it sounded like he was choking. "Are you okay?" Raul went red. (Say that ten times fast!) "Fine. Just fine."
"Alright! I'll just leave you two lovebirds to nest!" Julia said as she skipped merrily along that path, somehow, she just looked even scarier hen she was happy.
"…." "….." "………" "…. So then, are you going to teach me something, oh great sensei?" "S-sure." "Aw, you're so cute." "……" "Alright! Let's do this!"
Forty five minutes and two exhausted teens later Taylor had finally managed to balance Dragoon on the tip of a stick that she had found and she was happy about that, so when Julia came into her line of vision Taylor was suddenly left wondering if she should have just ignored Julia and kept on walking.
"Alright! You've had some time to learn with Raul, but now it's time we discuss the 'price.'"
"Julia, it's fine, I really l-liked teaching T-Taylor." Raul managed to stutter out, but Julia just ignored him.
"And the price is, a kiss."
There was silence for a moment before Taylor spoke up. "You do mean Raul, right?" "YES I DO MEAN RAUL!" "Okay." Taylor blushed a very becoming shade of pink, much like the one that was adorning Raul cheeks, as she slowly leaned up and placed a kiss on his soft lips. She pulled back blushing even more and babbled something about having to go home before her brother thought she had been kidnapped and quickly made her way out of the park.
"Don't you love me!" "…." "You're so cute when you blush!" "I...I…." "I was only expecting her to peck you on the cheek, but the lips! Wow! I bet she likes you!" "….." "Well don't go thanking me or anything sheesh."
FASH: AW! I couldn't help it, Raul is so cute! - The finally pairing probably won't have him in it, but I can just fool around till then. And I'm finally narrowing down the list of who I want Taylor/Tyson to be paired up with in the end, yay!
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PS: Because of my increased 'workload' I'm now updating every couple of days.
