Disclaimer: I don't own KND and none of the characters of the cartoon. (... again?). Like I said, I just own the DCFDTL mother (she will appear in this chapter, yuppy!) and Nadine's friend Amanda. And sorry about the late chapter (I had a lot of school exams this week and I also had a terible writer's block!). Please, enjoy the fic!
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Operation: P.I.C.T.U.R.E.
Problems
Involving
Complicated
Teenagers
Unable to
Release
Emotions
Writing Operative: Ukiby3000 a.k.a. KibyMoon
Chapter 5: The School of Love
Initianting Transmission...
Love (n.) 1. Strong affection. 2. Cupid.
3. Loved one.
Back to the present time...
Two months after the beginning of classes, the DC and the KND were now good friends and they often visited each other's houses. It was good for the DC to have real friends for the first time in their lifes.
One of those days, in a pretty Thursday afternoon of May, Kasen was passing by Abigail's house. He knew that was her house, but he never went to there. So, he decided to pay her a surprise visit. She probably wouldn't think that he was flirting with her or something.
He knocked at the door and just had to wait for some seconds for someone to open it. A tall, old man was the one who answered. He had dark skin like Abigail, and was lot older. He was wearing a pair of brown pants, a white shirt and a pair of dark shoes. He had really few hair and had a white beard.
"Hello young one! What do you want?" the man said with a warm tone in his voice.
"Hi, I'm Kasen. I'm... I'm Abigail's friend. Is she at home?"
"Oh yes! She's upstairs. I'll call her," Then, the man turned to the stairs and shouted: "Abigail, honey, one of your friends is here. It's a boy called Kasen."
"Tell him to come up dad," Abby answered from the top of the stairs.
"OK!" then the man turned to Kasen and said: "You heard. You can go up. Abigail's bedroom is next to the stairs. It's the first one on your left."
"Thank you!" the boy answered politely and went upstairs to Abby's bedroom. When he reached her bedroom, he knocked on the door and waited. But, the person that answered wasn't the one that he was expecting.
"Hey Kasen! Good to see you here!" a smilling Nigel said, standing at the door. "What brings you here?"
"I was just... hmm... passing by," The other boy said, blushing a little and looking down. "So, where is Abby?"
"She went to the bathroom. Oh, how rude of me! Please, come in. Have a seat." The bald boy said pointing at Abigail's bed.
Kasen entered and sat on the bed. Nigel sat by his side, still smilling warmingly.
"So, what are you and Abby doing?"
"Nothing at all. We were just chating, listening some music... You like punk-rock?"
"It's my favorite style."
"Well, it's Abby's favorite too, but I think you already knew that, once you are really close."
"Yeah, I knew it. Your style?"
"Well, for me that thing of classic and brit rock is awasome! That guys from the past kick ass!" Nigel said that last line with a really heavy accent and lots of happiness on his voice. With this, Kasen was managing to give a little smile, even still imagining that Nigel and Abby were more than friends. And this, for him, was a big problem.
Then, Abby appeared at the door and said: "Looks like you too are getting closer. Abigail likes it," She entered and threw herself on the big cushion on the floor. She grabbed a remote control that was laying on the floor and pushed 'play' while pointing it to the stereo. A Ramones CD started to play.
"So Kasen, what brings you here?"
"He was just passing by," Answered Nigel before the other boy could talk.
Nigel looked at Kasen, smilling. The brunette boy was the only one that wasn't smilling that much. When he realized that Nigel clothes (a white shirt, a black tie, a pair of black pants and black shoes) were cooler than his own (a black t-shirt, a pair of jeans a white old pair of sneakers), his smile almost faded away. But, he maneged to keep a little, shy smile on his face.
"Hey, are you doing anything this weekend?" asked the girl. They both said 'no' and she continued: "Abigail's father is planning to go to the beach. You want to go with us?"
"Well Abby, you know that I really don't like beaches," Nigel said with a disgusted look on his face.
"And you Kasen?" the girl asked.
"Hmm... I don't know..." he mumbled. He couldn't say that he would like to go with the other boy there watching.
"C'mon boy. It's gonna be good for you!" Abby said.
"Yeah! Go man!" Nigel said in agreement.
Kasen then found it very strange that the bald boy was letting him go to the beach with the girl that he was supposedly dating. Then, something hit him: they weren't dating! So, he found there a little hope to start something serious with Abigail, so he said: "OK! Why not, right?"
"That's the spirit!" Nigel said giving a soft slap on Kasen's shoulder. He smiled warmly and filled his hearth with hope once again.
At the DC's new mansion...
"UNO?!"
"Yep! He's such a sweetie! I can't take my eyes off him while I'm at the school's corridors."
It was Nadine and her friend Amanda at the phone, gossiping about some random subjects that leaded to crushes.
"And, did you say anything to him?"
"No... I just know him for two months. I can't do this with a boy that I don't know for a longer time. I don't even know if he's dating or not."
"So, you need to find it out by yourself if you want to win this battle! Oh, wait a sec."
"OK."
"Mom came with the pizza! I'm gonna eat now! See you tomorrow! Bye!"
"Bye!'
Nadine hanged up the phone and laid on her bed. She started to dream awake while looking around her new bedroom.
She looked at the fine painted pink walls, the white wardrobe with mirrors on their doors, the shelves full of teddy bears and little sculptures of animals made of crystal, the little bedside table with three drawers and with a lamp shade on the top of it, where she liked to keep her diary, her rock CDs and some other personal things, the stereo on the corner with a couple of CDs laying by it's side...
Her bed was white, made of wood, with two pillows on the top of it. Covering the mattress and wrapping the pillows, a soft blue fabric with a flower pattern.
The girl sighed in happiness and, opening one of the drawers of the white bedside table, she took off a little digital camera from there. She turned it on and started to pass by the photos until she found the one she was looking for.
It was a pidture of Nigel trying to solve a Chemistry exercise, biting the end of his black pencil.
For her, that picture was extremelly perfect. The colors, the expression on the young british boy's face, the lightining... Everything was as perfect as her secret crush portrayed on that picture.
She hugged the little object and said to herself: "I'm really in love with him. I hope he likes me too someday," And, with this, still hugging the camera and with a soft smile on her face, she closed her eyes and tried to sleep a little.
When Kasen got home, the first person that he saw was his brother Donovan, that was at the kitchen, making a sandwich.
The kitchen was really huge, with all in white, except the alluminium sink. The floor was all covered by black and white tiles arranged like a giant chess board.
"Hi bro'!" Kasen said sitting on a chair.
"Hi," Answered the taller boy with his usual lack of emotion on his voice, still doing the sandwich.
"Is anything bothering you?"
"Of course not Kasen. I'm always like this, you know."
"Hmm... I don't know... Your emotionless voice looks different."
"What the... Kasen, get lost!" Donovan said putting away the things he used to make his little lunch.
"I don't want to get lost now," The brunette boy said grabbing an apple from the fruit bowl that was on the table. He gave a little bite in it and continued: "C'mon, open your hearth to your brother. You know you can trust on me."
"I don't have any problem Kasen. How many times I need to repeat this?"
"I know what is your problem. You have a crush right?"
The brown haired boy froze and blushed a little. His brother didn't see his blushing, because he was with his back turned to him, eating his lunch. Kasen gave another bite on his apple and continued: "Just as I thought. Most of times, you always say something, but, when you really don't know what to say, you stay in silence. Specially when one of us is right. She, tell me, from where is she? Probably not from the school. And I want to ask you: how do you survive on a school without any girl? Where you'll find someone? Well, except you..."
Kasen stopped and started to look at the ceiling of the kitchen. He gave another bite on his apple, and waited for his brother to say something. And that was exactly what he did.
"Except you?" he asked turning to his shorter brother, shacking a little.
"Can't conclude it by yourself? That boy's school killed all your brain-cells or what?"
Donovan knew what was the ending of his brother phrase, but he didn't want to say it. He crossed his arms, took a deep breath and said: "I didn't lost my brain-cells yet, Kasen my brother. I know exactly what you're talking about."
"Good to know. So?"
"So what?" he asked trying to keep himself cool.
"Are you playing with me Donovan? Because if you are, better stop with this, because I don't wanna play today."
"Why all this sudden interest on my private and sexual life?"
"I don't know. Just curiosity," The brunette boy said finishing his apple. He rose from the chair and threw the rest of the fruit on the garbage. Then he hugged his brother and said: "Guess who has a date??"
"You?"
"You are RIGHT! I'm going to pass all the weekend out with the girl that I like! This is just so great that I want to pass all the night with you petting your skinny body!" the shorter boy said trying to put his right on his brother's pants.
"Let me go!"
Despite Donovan was taller than his brother, the brunette boy was stronger than him, once that he had joined to a football team two years ago, just after he had took off his braces.
"I'm gonna pet you, all night long!" Kasen sang, while laughing, still trying to have success with his 'plan', while his brother was trying to get rid of him the way he could, without success too.
"Kasen. Stop bothering your brother," Said a feminine voice from the door. They both looked at it and saw their mother. The brunette boy asked, without unwraping his arms from his brother's body: "Hi mom! What are you doing here?"
"I'm just passing by to check if you aren't doing any madness. And I was right with my prediction."
"What you predicted?"
"That you were going to bother your brother like always. Now, let him go."
Kasen unwraped his arms from his brother and said: "We will finish this later love!" and holding his laugh, he said, kissing his brother cheek: "See you two soon!". And then he went to his bedroom to check what he was going to take to his weekend with his beloved Abigail.
"So," Susan asked going to the refrigerator to grab a bottle of water, "Is he annoying you too much?"
"Not that much. There are days that he jumps on me when I'm studying or when I'm concentrated in something. I also had been attacked at night by this psycho," Donovan said sitting on a chair. "If anyone sees him doing this, nobody will say that he's the same boy that he's at school. So calm, quiet and shy..."
"Don't worry Donovy. That will pass soon. That's just because you are now having a lot of freedom that you didn't have before."
"What did you call me?" the boy said with a puzzled look on his face.
"Donovy."
"Why did you call me like this?"
"Oh, I heard Miette call you like this sometimes and, since you seem to don't mind..."
"Well, I DO mind about it. I don't like when she call me like this. But I said this to her so many times that I already gave up."
"Donovan, Donovan... You look like your father when I met him. You look like your father before he started to act strange."
At the school, at the library...
"Can you lend me your eraser?"
"Sure!"
Hoagie and Miette were doing their Algebra homework together. Since the girl was having some problems with this subject, the boy offered to her his help. And it was going very well.
"Hmm... What I do to calculate the value of 'b'?" Miette asked with her sweet tone of voice. She was wearing a dark jeans skirt (the same that she was wearing when she saw Hoagie in the school for the first time), a pink halterneck top and a pair of black and pink All-Stars.
"It's really simple. You just need to put this value you found here and then..." Hoagie was an excelent teacher. He was wearing his usual pair of brown pants, his white shirt and a pair of white sneakers. Very simple, compared to the girl's clothes.
On the top of the wood desk of the library, lots of books, pencils, pens, one eraser, two pencil cases, one blue and other black and two knapsacks, one red and other grey. There was also some ripped paper in one of the corners of the table, just waiting to go to the trash can.
"Understood?" Hoagie said finishing his explanation.
"Ev-er-y-thing," the girl said, pausing between the syllables of the word. She smilled at him and took her notebook from his hands. "Thankx for helping me!"
"That's nothing. I'm here just for this."
Then the girl, trying to fool with Hoagie: "Just for this? And I was here, hopping for a kiss..."
The boy looked straight down and focused all his attention on the book that he was reading. He was trying to hide the deep blushing on his face from the girl. Then, she started to laugh and said: "Did you actually believe? C'mon, I don't know you for so long to ask you to date with me. Relax, OK?" she said starting to solve another exercise from her homework. Hoagie was still focused on his book, with his cheeks a little bit red.
By the end of the afternoon, Nigel was going back to his house, when he saw someone at the door of his house.
"Fortunately I came," He thought with himself. "There's nobody home today, 'cause my parents went to a trip."
He came closer to the person and asked: "How can I help you?"
The person said, without looking at him: "Nigel Uno?"
"Yep?"
Some seconds of silence passed between them and in this time, Nigel looked at the person standing next to him: it was a girl with thin body, medium height, wearing a pair of jeans shorts, a black tank top and a pair of black sneakers. Because of the precarious light of the end of the efternoon, he couldn't guess the color of her hair, but he saw that it was divided in two big pigtails. One thing was for sure: her hair was really long.
"Don't remember me?" she asked turning to him. Even with the low light, he could saw that she was wearing glasses and she really looked familiar.
"Well, to be sincere, not much. Any clue?"
She looked deep in his eyes and said with a childish tone on her voice: "Nigy!!"
"Li... Lizzie??"
"Good guess!"
"What are you doing here? Weren't you in another state?"
"Right Nigy! I WAS. I'm back!" she said with a big smile on her face. Then, hugging Nigel, she said: "Now we can be together again, like in the past! Oh Nigy! This is so romantic!"
And then Nigel stood there, without action and without something good to say.
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