Fiona twisted and turned within her bed as dreams of that day continued to haunt her. She shot up in bed and immediately pulled her knees to her chest where she just sobbed all of her pains and sorrows since that day several weeks before then. It was now February and she just couldn't seem to get over any of it.
At school people would see a happy young woman who looked like she didn't have a care in the world. On the inside she was pained. At the risk of losing her own heart she got the one thing that she longed for. This kiss seemed to haunt her when she was awake and when she was sleeping.
'Stop fooling yourself Fiona. You are only going to make it even more painful for yourself if you don't just forget about it,' her mind mentally scolded her. She knew it was right but she didn't want to forget it. It meant a lot to her even if it was something that shouldn't have happened.
It was her first kiss. It was something very special to her because she was both glad and sad that Van was the one to take it from her. She loved him that was why she was happy that it was him but she was sad because it couldn't mean anything because he already had a girlfriend. She knew that she wouldn't mind if it happened again but only under the circumstance that the two of them could be together.
It was only wishful thinking for Fiona to think that Van would sacrifice so much to be with her. He would hurt his family, and probably himself by doing that. She didn't even give a care about Amy if that was to happen. For all Fiona cared, Amy could be hurt and she wouldn't care. That was how much she loathed Amy and vice-versa.
Van and Fiona had hardly been able to even talk to each other since the incident on their vacation. Amy and school was taking up almost all of his time since she seemed to remained attached to him since he came back from his vacation.
Fiona had a feeling that it wasn't just that though that kept the two of them from even being able to talk to each other. They both must have felt that it would be very strange to talk to each other since they ended up kissing one another.
As if to rub everything into Fiona face, tomorrow was Valentines Day. Like every year before now, she was alone. It was almost Amy's objective to make Fiona alone by making sure that every hated Fiona and loved herself. This year she found that she had someone to love on that day and yet it is impossible for the two of them to even be together.
Perhaps it was just a cruel joke of fate that she fell in love with an untouchable person. She couldn't help the way that she felt. She also held the hope that maybe one day it could possibly make her dreams come true but for now she remained alone like she had been for so many years.
School, it was so hard to look at since it was the day before Valentines Day. Love was in the air and it made Van feel sick to the stomach. Love, the word sent shivers into his heart at the thought of what it really meant to him. For him it meant Fiona. For so long he tried to deny it but ever since their vacation he had not been able to get her or the kiss out of his mind.
Many would think by just the looks of it that Van and Amy were the ones that were supposed to be in love. 'If only they knew the truth about my feelings for someone that is supposed to be an enemy of mine,' Van thought staring towards the ground as he walked on mindlessly through the halls not hearing the loud voice of his girlfriend calling for him.
"Van! VAN!" she screamed pretty much into his ear but she was not receiving even the slightest response. 'What the hell is wrong with him today?' she pondered getting annoyed that he wasn't responding to her. In the end she hit him upside the head sending him flying to get his attention. Her jaw dropped when he just got up and continued walking in his zombie state.
'Damn bug,' Van thought not even realizing that it was his girlfriend that had nailed him upside the head only a few moments ago. Suddenly laughter filled his ears and he turned to see Irvine and Moonbay laughing while looking at him. "What're the two of you laughing at?" Van asked raising an eyebrow in confusion.
At his response, Irvine and Moonbay only burst out laughing even harder than before. Irvine managed to stop laughing long enough to explain it to Van. "Your girlfriend has been trying to talk to you, actually more like yell at you and you won't listen and when she hits you over the head you walk on like nothing even happened," he managed to say before bursting out laughing again.
'Is that what that was?' Van asked himself turning around only to find his fuming girlfriend. 'Uh oh,' he thought before she grabbed his arm dragging him away. Van knew that he had to be ready for a serious yelling at for doing what he did. He just sighed and prepared for what was to come.
Fiona walked into school that day to find several people talking and giggling about something making her very confused. She saw Irvine and Moonbay and walked up to them. "Why is everyone laughing?" she asked making Irvine and Moonbay turned to look at her. They proceeded to explain what had happened and by the end of it Fiona was giggling a little as well. "He actually did that?" she asked in an amused voice.
"Yeah, it was just too priceless. It was almost as if he hadn't even noticed he had been hit upside the head," Moonbay said barely managing to contain her laughter as the three of them walked in the direction of their lockers. When they reached Moonbay's locker, Moonbay opened it up and quickly shoved something into it before closing it.
"What is it that you just put in there Moonbay?" Fiona asked earning from her two very scary grins from Moonbay and Irvine. 'That type of grin cannot mean any good,' Fiona thought backing away.
"Before winter break, Amy pretty much set up a challenge for us. We have every intention of following through with it. There is just one obstacle that is in the way of our plan and we need to have it removed," she said before walking away heading towards homeroom.
Fiona knew she was right about the grins. She really did need to be scared when she saw those grins. She followed after the two of them with all sorts of different images popping up in her mind.
Irvine and Moonbay quietly slipped through the halls carrying supplies that they needed in order to go through with the plan that they had been setting up for the last few weeks since they came back from their vacation.
They came to a stop in front a small office that was situated near the classroom of the teacher that it belonged to, Mr. Prozen. Moonbay gave a slight chuckle when she reached up and knocked on the door attempting to get the attention of Prozen on her and not where it should be.
In a way, Irvine was grateful that Prozen had taken over Dr. D's classes for the last few days because the old man was out. It gave them the perfect excuse they needed in order to get close enough to pull off probably one of the biggest risks that they have ever taken in their lives.
Moonbay started to go on and on about certain question that she was having trouble with and needed some help for them. Prozen may not like to give help accept for his favorite student Amy but Moonbay was persistent and would continue until he finally decided to help.
Moonbay had managed to get Prozen's back turned away from the door. That was the cue for Irvine to get started on his work. He carefully pulled something out of his bag and after making sure that no one was coming back to silently apply some glue to the edges of the door where it shut on.
He grinned when he finished still becoming completely unnoticed by Prozen. He knew Prozen would stay for hours in his office, which was just what they were expecting. It would be just long enough for their little friend to wake up and do its job. He took another box that was placed off to the side and kept it a good distance away from him while he placed it near the door but well hidden and opened the box up, nothing came out of it but Irvine knew the reason why.
Irvine gave the thumbs up to Moonbay when he finished and quickly ran away in fear of being spotted by Prozen. "Thanks for the help sir," said Moonbay putting on a fake smile although he didn't exactly help her.
"Whatever, just leave and don't bother me again," Prozen said turning back to his seat and sitting into it. He saw Moonbay leave the room and shut the door tightly before he once again got back to work on the stuff he was originally doing before Moonbay disturbed him.
Moonbay ran away from the class and met up with Irvine giving him a high-five before the two of them ran off back to their lunch bell so as not to be accused of anything before they got away with their prank. It was risky of doing this to a teacher but everyone in the school knew that he had it coming to him.
Prozen spent hours of working on papers in his office since he didn't have any other classes for the rest of the day. The disruption by Moonbay had sent him a little behind but he was intent on getting it done. He was growing tired and he knew that he needed to get something to eat but he planned on not leaving until he got all of his work finished.
A smell suddenly hung through the air and it didn't go by Prozen's nose. It was an extremely fowl stench. He suddenly heard the light tapping like little feet scurrying across the hard floor beneath him.
Prozen turned around when a small squeak was heard and his eyes widened at the sight that was before him. It was a skunk staring up at him with its beady eyes. He backed away slowly towards the door so that the skunk wouldn't get smellier.
He reached for the knob and turned it while pulling on the door but much to his surprise, the door was stuck. No matter how much he pulled on the door, it remained stuck into the frame almost as if it was glued in. He was trapped between a glued door and a stinky skunk.
The skunk suddenly turned around and lifted its tail towards Prozen and he did the first thing that came to mind as an extremely fowl stench covered the air, he screamed at the top of his lungs hoping that there was someone nearby that could help him.
Moonbay and Irvine sat in the back of their classroom bored out of their mind as they tried to listen to the English teacher talk about famous playwright and some of the stories that they created. They didn't feel like listening to the explanation about Oedipus Rex by Socrates. The guy killed his own father and married and had children with his own mother, which they both found very disturbing and also extremely sick.
What the two of them really felt like hearing finally came when a loud yell was released all through the halls. The sound was like music to their ears, as they both knew the source and the reason of the high-pitched yell.
The class upon hearing the yell immediately got up from their seats and crowded around the door after the teacher left the room to check out the source of the noise as well.
The two of them walked up to the door and pushed their way through in order to see or smell in their case the final product of their brilliant idea. And there he came down the hall with the janitorial staff following closely behind him meaning that they had to pry the door open in order to get him out of the skunk inhabited room.
To say the least, he looked absolutely furious. He glared at students that crossed his path and stopped to look at the two of them as if say that he knew that they were the ones that did that. Unfortunately he had no proof except for the fact that Moonbay had come to him for some extra help but he figured that wouldn't be able to work.
People all around him held their noses shut while he gave off the odor that the skunk had bestowed up him. Both students and teacher alike were doing the same thing with plugging up their noses and backing away from him so that they didn't end up getting the smell upon them.
When Prozen was all gone, Irvine and Moonbay turned towards each other and gave a secret high-five so that no one else would be able to see them and then know that it was their plan. The only person that they wanted to know was standing pretty much right next to them. They turned and gave a smirk that only Amy could see before they walked back to their seats.
Amy knew just like Prozen did that the two of them had to be the ones that were the cause of the incident with Prozen. She also knew that the attack was an indirect way of saying that there was some sort of war with her. She knew something like this would happen since winter break. 'You're on,' she thought glaring back at them. She was already forming a way to get back at them for what they did to Prozen.
Irvine and Moonbay still had on their grins all the way through to lunch that day knowing they got the best out of one of the worst teachers and got away from it without getting in the least bit of trouble.
Fiona was a bit scared of them considering they had the guts to pull something like that on a teacher. She didn't care that it was Prozen but a teacher was something that she knew they shouldn't pull that sort of prank on. Now Prozen was out of school for the day trying to find any sort of way to get that horrid smell off of him and his clothes.
"Now it is time to get down to business Moonbay. The only obstacle is out of the way so let us commence with going after our true target," Irvine snickered sneaking a peak in Amy's direction since she seemed completely oblivious to the plans that the two of them were making for her.
Little did the two of them know but Amy was also making plans since she knew that the prank on Prozen was an indirect attack on her. She also had a plan that she knew would pay them back for all that they had done to her. That had to wait till later though when she could work on it sometime after school. For now she was focused mainly on the two of them.
"What do you think Van? How should I get them back for what they did to Prozen since it was obvious that it was a statement towards me," said Amy holding her chin in thought. She didn't notice Van rolling his eyes at her or the rest of the table doing the exact same thing.
Van just sighed. "I could really care less what happens," Van decided to admit the truth and take the consequences that his girlfriend was going to dish out to him. He was thrilled that that had happened to Prozen for all of the times that he had given Van detention.
She was immediately in his face with a hold on his shirt. He didn't even seem the least bit taken back by her actions as if he knew exactly what was going to happen to him. "What the hell do you mean by you don't care? They did that only to show that they weren't afraid of going to extremes," Amy yelled at Van causing many people in the cafeteria turn their heads to look at her. She straightened up a little and let go of Van's shirt and sat back down in her seat.
"I think I speak for many when I say that I am a bit glad that that happened. He may be nice to you but he is not really all that nice to the rest of us," Van said taking a sip of his milk.
"So you are taking their side?" Amy yelled standing up this time and getting right into Van's face completely unfazed by the amount of people that were looking in their direction this time.
"I am not saying that. I am just saying to do what you want but leave me out of this because I don't feel like getting involved," Van said before he took a bite of the pizza that he had gotten for lunch.
"Traitor," Amy muttered under her breath but Van had heard it loud and clear and was smirking about it. "Oh well, I don't need your help anyways. I am sure that I will be able to handle everything by myself without the need for your help," she said taking a seat with a groan.
"I just suggest that you don't go overboard with all of this because it could very well end up getting you in trouble as well as them if you were to do something very serious and get caught. They may not have because there was no proof, it could be different later," Van suggested in a tone that didn't seem all that much like his normal one. In reality he was trying to protect his friends because he knew that Amy could go a bit overboard when pushed too far and this seemed like one of those times.
"What exactly can anyone do to me?" Amy asked looking towards Van with a bit of a skeptical look in her eyes. "I won't get into any trouble, but I thank you for worrying about me," she said with a smile that she only seemed to have for Van.
"I doubt that. I think that that might have been another motive for doing what they did to Prozen, get him out of the way so that he wouldn't be here to get in their way. That along with your thoughts of why it was that they did that," Van said trying to figure out what his friends actually had planned for his girlfriend. It was quite clear that they hated her, so he thought it would be amusing to see how this day was going to turn out.
"You shouldn't give them that much credit. It almost makes them sounds kind of smart which they aren't if they actually think that they could take me on," Amy bragged with a proud smirk on her face that made everyone at the table including Van groan out of frustration.
'She will never learn. Most of the time she is way too arrogant for her own good. She's stubborn though and I would put it past her to make things bad for them,' Van thought feeling back for his friends.
Fiona walked into her class shortly after lunch had let out. Neither Irvine or Moonbay was in this class, which Fiona didn't really like, but she did have Van in the class but unfortunately Amy as well but they were seated on opposite ends of the class so she didn't worry too much about her.
Shortly after Fiona took her seat in the class, Van came walking into the room with an emotionless mask on his face. Fiona could tell that he was very unhappy. That was how well she knew him, so nothing could really surprise her as to what he did most of the time.
For once she was surprised by his actions because since he had to pass by her desk in order to get to his own. When he passed by her desk, a note fell onto her desk without any sign from Van's demeanor that he was the one that did it. Fiona wouldn't have even have know if she hadn't seen him do it. Luckily nobody else seemed to have noticed at all.
Picking up the note carefully, Fiona opened it up to find a letter from Van and by the looks of it, Fiona could tell very easily that he was slightly nervous while he was writing this. Fiona guessed that it was because he thought Amy would be looking over his shoulder. The note said:
Hey Fiona,
I suggest that you be especially careful until the end of the day. Irvine and Moonbay's stunt against Prozen has really set Amy off and she vows to avenge him. You might want to warn Irvine and Moonbay because she knows that it was the two of them that did that.
I want you to do me a favor Fiona. I want you to stay out of whatever it is that Irvine and Moonbay try and do for the rest of the day or you will also get involved in Amy's revenge. Just to make sure cough once if you will stay out of it and twice if you won't.
Van.
Fiona looked slightly up and off to the side a little into Van's direction to see him staring in her general direction. Although she wasn't planning on getting involved in what Irvine and Moonbay were planning, she figured that she might as well just make Van a little more secure about it.
Fiona gave a short cough and she saw Van's smile before he turned his attention elsewhere in the classroom so as to show that he did not have any attention placed on Fiona. It was just in time too because a second later, Amy came walking into the classroom and she did not look the least bit happy.
"You aren't still planning anything are you?" Van asked once she took a seat next to him. A chill went through Van's spine when she turned to face him with a smile placed upon her face.
"I will let them have their fun today but tomorrow, every one of them will suffer from what I have in story," she said with a slight laugh that filled Van with such dread because it was almost an instinct that he knew that things were going to be far worse than he had originally thought.
"Alright, we have been complete idiots," Moonbay admitted while her and Irvine sat in their class being bored out of their mind by the teachers lectures. "We had everything planned out up to what we did to Prozen but we never got any ideas about what to do with Amy," Moonbay spoke silently so as to not be heard. Since her and Irvine had every class together, they were able to get more time to plan things out but they ended up forgetting that one important detail.
"How could we have skipped the most important detail of our plot?" Irvine wondered going through his head all of the hours that the two of them had spent thinking up the prank that they had used on Prozen and how to get away without too much suspicion turning to the two of them.
The two of them continued to just stare off into space not even bothering to listen to their teachers lecture when Irvine suddenly had an idea for what it is that they could do. "Hey Moonbay. I just got a brilliant idea. Come here," he said as Moonbay leaned closer and he whispered into her ear.
Moonbay had to bite the inside of her lip in order to keep from laughing out loud about his absurd plan. She had to admit that it was kind of cheesy but she also knew that that would make it even better when the two of them attempted to pull it off. "That would be good and humiliating for her to fall for that," Moonbay said chuckling softly so that the teacher didn't hear their conversation. To say the least, Moonbay thought that the plans for the prank were close to flawless but she knew they would have to attempt it in order to be able to find out.
"We have study hall next bell so I think that would be the best time for us to get everything set up. Just get the supplies and I will set everything up," Irvine ordered before turning back to the front of the room so that the teacher wouldn't see them talking if he looked up.
"You know, I really have to thank Fiona for some of this idea," Moonbay said while her and Irvine stood away from their little trap to watch the action unfold. She saw Irvine turn to her with a confused look on his face.
"What do you mean by that? Fiona hasn't given us any help in this. She doesn't want to even get involved for Van's sake," Irvine said wondering what part of it gave Moonbay that sort of idea. It was his idea after all with Moonbay changing a few things here and there to spice it all up.
"I almost forgot that you weren't here for Fiona's first day. You should have seen what she did to Amy. It was just priceless. Amy was badmouthing off to Fiona and the rest of us and Fiona actually dumped milk on the top of her head," Moonbay said while trying and yet failing to hold in the giggles that were threatening to come out at any moment. The memory was just too good for her not to laugh at.
Irvine covered his mouth with his hand to hold in his laughs as well. "Never got to hear any of that. Although I never really thought that Fiona had that sort of spirit within her back then. She almost always seemed so laid back. I can understand now with all that Amy has been putting her through," said Irvine getting his laughter under control and turning back to the trap only to see Amy coming down the halls with Van following a short distance behind. It was obvious that she was dragging him around because he did not seem all that happy to be there. "Here she comes," he giggled waiting for the finale.
Amy was walking towards her locker and stopped when she saw this monstrous contraption around it. "How lame can they get? Pranks don't work if the person having it pulled on them knows all about it. I try and open my locker and it pulls the string on the bottom dumping whatever is in the bucket at the top on top of me," she said examining the trap.
Irvine had to bite the bottom of his lip to keep from breaking out in laughter. She actually had the basic idea of it all down but she had one small little detail wrong which she was soon going to learn was a mistake for overlooking.
"Come on Van. I don't even need to go to my locker right now anyways. I will just call the janitors to remove all this junk from around it," she said with a smirk walking around it all to try and get to the other side. That was where her ultimate mistake was. She failed to notice that there was soap all over the floor right by the locker. As soon as her foot hit it, it slid out from under her causing her to fall down with her head hitting the rope. The next thing that she knew, she was covered in a few gallons of milk.
Amy laid there in shock for a few seconds trying to comprehend what it was that had just happened to her. She got up angrily when she heard a rage of laughter coming from around the corner and knew it was the cause of her problems for the moment.
When Irvine and Moonbay saw Amy get up off the floor and suddenly come charging at the two of them they quickly got up and made a break for it only to run into the solid chest of the one person they didn't want to run into right then, the principal.
The principal stared down at the two of them with a glare that sent most students who he gave it to cowering. It didn't quite have that effect on the duo. He looked up at the milk soaked Amy and then back to the two of them. "What do the two of you have to say for yourselves?" he asked still glaring.
Moonbay was at a loss for words. She didn't think that they would even be caught for their pranks. She had dealings with the principal before and she wasn't afraid of him. "Um... got milk?" she asked giving a cheesy smile.
"You know. I'd say that overall we got off easy for what we did to Prozen and Amy since we only got a weeks worth of detentions," Irvine said cracking a grin at the thought that the two would never look the same to anyone ever again.
"Only the two of you would be glad to get something like a detention," Fiona muttered from a few steps behind the two of them. Things hadn't gone her way because Amy was actually accusing her for the stunt that was played and also that tomorrow was Valentines day and for yet another year, she was all alone.
"Oh come on Fiona," said Moonbay dropping back and wrapping an arm around Fiona shoulder and giving it a squeeze. "I am sure that you can't honestly look us in the face and tell us that you didn't enjoy what happened to both Amy and Prozen. We would both know that you are lying," Moonbay said cracking a grin before letting go of Fiona and walking back to Irvine's side. "Besides. You need to cheer up. Tomorrow is Valentines Day. Maybe there will be something for you and Van," she said with a grin just trying to tease Fiona.
"No!" yelled Fiona suddenly breaking off into a sprint and running full speed away from the two of them. It didn't take long for the two of them to follow in pursuit of her. It was unlucky for them that Fiona also happened to be one of the fastest women in the school.
It took a while but Irvine and Moonbay managed to catch up with her. She ended up running all the way to the park and she looked like she was about to start crying. "What's up Fiona? Why did you suddenly run away when I just said a simple statement? I didn't think that you would take it so seriously," Moonbay said trying to catch her breath.
Something seemed to click inside of Irvine's mind and he wasn't able to stop himself when the next sentence escaped from his mouth. "Did something happen Fiona?" he asked in a quiet voice but she managed to hear it just fine. He was shocked when he saw Fiona nod her head to his question.
"Oh my god," Moonbay said shocked by Irvine's question as well as the response to it. She only meant it as a simple statement to tease Fiona. She didn't actually think that something had happened between the two of them. She walked forward to Fiona and kneeled down before her. "What happened Fiona?" she asked softly looking deep into Fiona's crimson eyes to make sure that she wasn't lying.
"During the trip that I took with Van and his family. The two of us made a serious mistake and we kissed each other," Fiona spoke so quietly that it was almost impossible for them to hear her but they managed to.
It was obvious that Fiona wanted to forget about it because she knew that she was only setting herself up for heartbreak if she didn't. Van was with Amy and would remain that way for a while because her lousy father bound him to her through blackmail. Moonbay knew that Fiona loved Van deeply but she didn't realize that things had managed to go so far.
"I realize that you would have liked it under different circumstances and I know why it is that you reacted the way that you did when I brought that up. I am sorry about that," Moonbay said staring towards the ground feeling bad for Fiona.
"Don't be Moonbay. You didn't know about it so it can't be your fault. I just wished to forget about it unless Van and I could be together without all the secrecy," Fiona said calming down a little since she felt like crying before. Thankfully, by telling the two of them her secret, it seemed to lift a huge burden off of her chest. Yet, at the same time, the burden was still very present.
"What the hell do you mean you still won't help me?" yelled Amy at the top of her lungs when Van had once again declined her offer to get revenge upon Irvine and Moonbay for what they had did. "They have humiliated me in front of the entire school and yet you still decide to remain neutral?" she continued to yell.
"Think about it the way that I do. As long as I remain neutral then they can't set their sights on me," Van said trying to put a little logic in his girlfriends head. 'I am pretty sure that Irvine and Moonbay won't do anything to me anyways. I am still not going to get involved in this war of theirs,' Van thought rolling his eyes which wasn't noticed by his girlfriend.
"Remaining neutral won't help in the least if you even associate with someone in this dispute," Amy said with her temper continuously flaring. 'Believe me on that,' she thought although she decided not to share with Van since it was obvious that he was not planning on joining in anytime soon.
"Fine! Whatever! Do what you want! It is obvious that you don't care what happens to me in any of this," she said. She figured that maybe a guilt trip would be enough to convince Van to join her side.
"Ok," he said and held back the smile when he saw her jaw nearly drop to the floor. "It doesn't mean that I don't care though. Like I said, I will not get involved so please just drop the subject," Van begged not even looking at her as the two of them walked down the road.
The two of them came across the park with Amy pulling Van by his hand and just by chance, Van managed to catch sight of a certain blonde and she didn't really look all that happy. It looked like she had been crying actually. Unfortunately, Amy had seen her as well.
"Look at that pathetic human, if she can even be called one. She looks pathetic with her eyes all red like she had been crying," Amy said laughing at Fiona's misfortune. Amy didn't even seem to realize that she was really making Van angry because of her insult to his secret friend even if she didn't know it.
Van free hand clenched into a fist at his side as she mocked his best friend, and as much as he was still reluctant to admit it, the woman that he truly loved. He managed to keep his anger under control but it still did piss him off a rather great deal to hear her talk about Fiona so lowly.
Amy started to pull Van away and Van took a quick look in Fiona's direction in time to see her look up at the leaving couple with pain filled eyes. For some reason, in the pits of his heart, he seemed to know that it was really him that was the cause of the pain that he was seeing. He never wanted to see that look on her face, ever.
Van closed his eyes to block out the sight of her pained face so that eh wouldn't act upon his desire to comfort her and just allowed himself to be dragged away by his girlfriend.
Fiona silently walked into her room later in the day feeling a little bit better after her talk with Irvine and Moonbay. The pain was still there but now she felt as if she would be able to bear it for just a little bit longer if she needed to.
Fiona nearly jumped in surprise when she realized that there was already someone in her room, Van. Her mother hadn't even told her that he was even in the house when she walked in the door, which she found a little curious. "Hey Van. What are you doing here?" she asked taking a seat on the bed that Van had been sitting on when she walked into the room.
"What? Is it wrong for me to come by your house anymore?" he asked with a small chuckle but it almost faded when he remembered the look he had seen on Fiona's face earlier in the day. "Is something wrong Fiona? I saw you in the park and you didn't look all that happy. Did something happen to you?" Van asked placing a comforting hand on Fiona's shoulder.
'Yes, you made me fall for you,' she thought sadly. "No, I am just not having all that good of a day. It is just that the thought of once again being alone on Valentines Day has made me a little depressed. Nothing to worry about," said Fiona with a smile although it did falter slightly when she spoke of being alone.
Van wished desperately to be able to give her a reason to be happy on a day that was meant for couples. He wished for nothing more than to be able to give her all the love that he wished that he could give her even if it meant fully admitting that he loved her.
"Well, there is no need to be sad because I am here to make it all go away. At least for one night," said Van holding up a movie that he was aware was Fiona's favorite. It was something that he was used to doing. Showing up so that the two of them could just enjoy the night playing games or watching movies.
Fiona's face brightened up almost immediately at the thought of going through her favorite pastime with Van. It allowed the two of them to have at least a little bit of time together. It was especially great when their time together was very scarce because of his girlfriend. "That sounds great!" Fiona said happily putting on her best smile.
Van slowly walked over and sat down on the bed right next to Fiona and slowly wrapped an arm around her shoulder while the movie started. The two of them had no problem with this type of position for them because they felt too comfortable just being by one another. They had done this so many times before even when they were unaware of their true feelings for one another. Besides, it was only the two of them at the moment and that was all they really wanted.
Long after the movie had ended, Van found that he was still very awake. He looked at Fiona to see that she was already fast asleep with her head resting comfortably upon his shoulder. He couldn't help but allow a smile to cross his face. 'Fiona is a one of a kind woman. The type I had always dreamed of having,' Van thought finally admitting to himself what he had already known but refused to accept, that he was in love with Fiona. 'It is too bad that I can't give her the type of love that she needs though. I am stuck with Amy and at the rate this is going, I will be stuck with her forever,' Van thought sadly while softly stroking Fiona's cheeks.
Van was so caught up in staring at her that he almost didn't hear the light groan that came from Fiona's mouth. He quickly pulled his hand away from her face so that she wouldn't know what it was that he had been doing before she woke up.
Fiona's eyes slowly opened to see that now blank television. "Over already?" she asked disappointed that she missed the end of the movie. It was then that she felt what it was that she was laying on. She looked up very slightly to see Van's smiling face. She gave off a small smile before laying her head back upon his shoulder. "Just a little while longer," she mumbled closing her eyes and falling back into her wonderful dream world.
'I will give you all of the time that you can possibly want Fiona if it was only mine to give,' Van thought while stroking her hair again when he was sure that she had once again fallen back into the world of dreams. Sometimes he was really curious as to why it was that Amy hated Fiona with such a passion. The rest of the school population as well as some of Amy's own friends didn't seem to have the even the smallest problem with Fiona. Most even accepted her as a friend. Yet Amy held this grudge that Van knew would never go away.
Van continued to stare down into Fiona's closed eyes and he saw a smile cross her face. He was kind of curious as to what it was that she dreamed about. 'It couldn't be me,' he thought sadly he thought closing his eyes as well and falling Fiona into sleep. It was a comfort for him even before he knew of his feeling to be able to do this and he didn't care of what consequences he would have because of this though.
Fiona's dreams were those of what she had always wanted in the world. Many considered her selfless but there were times that she wanted to be selfish. This dream was one of those dreams. She found herself standing in the middle of a place with all of her friends and family standing all around. Van was right in the center of it all and he approached her with a smile before leaning down and capturing her lips in a sweet kiss.
That was always what she had wanted, to be able to have Van out in the open and not have to have this sort of secret friendship with the ones that she was growing to love even more with each day that passed. She had to continuously remind herself however that this was only a dream and that she shouldn't get lost in something that wasn't reality. In reality Van was with Amy and he would remain that way. No matter how selfish the woman was, Van cared for her too much and wouldn't leave her.
Fiona slowly opened her eyes back to reality with a small smile and also a frown that she couldn't help but make when she thought of her situation. She noticed immediately that Van was still there sleeping by her side with his arm around her waist and she decided for once that she would be selfish and just allow herself to remain that way for the rest of the night.
Amy had stayed up late into the night without a second thought working on the plan that she was going to use to get back at them for the humiliation that they had dealt her earlier in the day. She planned to show them just how much they had done it by showing them a taste of their own medicine.
She grinned as she typed fast upon the computer that was located within her room. An evil chuckle escaped her mouth when she finished and looked over the product meant for her revenge. 'Yes, they will definitely pay,' she thought as he lips curved upwards into a smirk.
Van walked into the school the next day feeling kind of happy yet at the same time a little bit depressed. The time he spent with Fiona the previous night had been the best time he had had in a long time. Even if it had only been to just sit back, watch a movie, and just remain close to her. Now he was back to what he was starting to consider hell. He knew what it was that he wanted but he knew it was unattainable.
'I am in some really serious shit,' he thought since the image of Amy popped up into his head. If she ever found out the truth about Van and his feelings for Fiona, her worst rival, she would be devastated. He had no wish for that to happen no matter how much she tends to nag at times.
Van came to a stop in front of one of the soda machine and put in a dollar before he pressed the button for his favorite drink. It popped out a few seconds later and he picked it up and walked down the hall towards his locker with only taking a few sips of the drink every once in a while.
It was either he was being a bit paranoid, or a lot of the students were staring at him with a kind of a malicious stare like they were angry at him for something. He had no idea what it was all about because he didn't remember doing anything at all to piss anyone off for the past few days. That is if you didn't count making Amy angry by not joining her in the prank war.
They continued to stare at him while he walked down the halls towards his locker and he was really starting to feel a little bit uneasy. He also noticed that there appeared to be a rather large amount of trash littering the ground and the garbage cans and they appeared to be of the exact same thing but he was unable to see what it was.
Van took a sip of his soda as he bent down to pick up some of the many papers that littered the floor. Turned it around so that the front was facing him and he immediately spit out all of the soda that he had yet to swallow when he saw what it was that was on all of the papers that were all over the floor. He now understood immediately why it was that people were glaring at him; it was because of the saying, guilty by association. 'She's has gone way to far!' Van thought running around trying to find his girlfriend.
Fiona walked into the school with a bright smile on her face. Just the thought of last night seemed to give her a strange type of hope that she could not explain. They had done stuff like that multiple times before then. She wasn't quite sure as to why it was that now should have been any different.
The smile almost dropped from her face when she noticed that people were staring at her with sympathetic looks that made it look like someone had died. They were making her feeling uncomfortable like something bad had happened. For some reason, a part of her told her that she did not want to find out what it was that was making people give her these sort of looks.
Fiona came to a stop when she saw that Irvine and Moonbay were running towards her. She waved towards them but they appeared in a hurry and also it looked like the two of them were very troubled about something. "Hey you two. Is something the matter? You don't look all that good," Fiona said looking over their troubled demeanor.
"Get out of here now Fiona!" Irvine ordered catching his breath. He didn't even bother to say hello to her and he was now barking orders at her. This was definitely peaking Fiona's curiosity as to what it was that was going on.
"What's going on?" Fiona asked now getting very worried because she knew that whatever it was that had even the two of them worried that much had to have had something to do with her and she did not want to learn what it was since the two of them were not ones to be easily troubled.
Irvine turned around a second and him and Moonbay seemed to be discussing something that they did not want Fiona to know anything about. She just decided to give them the privacy that they wanted and tried her best not to listen in on their conversation. She felt something hit her ankles and looked down to see a piece of paper. She picked it up to look at it and almost immediately froze in place.
"Well if it isn't the woman of the hour," came Amy's voice. Without even looking at her, one could tell that she had a smirk plastered on her face for what she had managed to do.
Irvine and Moonbay turned around at the moment they heard the voice and froze when they saw Fiona looking at one of the papers that Amy had been giving out earlier in the day. They had tried to get Fiona to leave so that she wouldn't have to see what it was that was printed upon the paper. "You sure have a lot of nerve to pull something like this!" Moonbay yelled out walking up threateningly towards and unfazed Amy.
Fiona eyes were glazed over and her body quivered at the sight that she witnessed upon the paper. It was a picture of her. The thing that was bad about it was that it was of her that was forged so that it made her look like she was some sort of slut or more precisely, a prostitute. Her body wasn't her own, where it was usually nicely filled in, the picture had it sagging and she wore more makeup that she would ever wear. It was clear that Amy had made it and was also clear that it was forged but that didn't stop the thought that someone hated her so much as to go through with such a horrible thing so as to make her life hell. At the top of the paper it had a heading saying, 'Would you want this for Valentines day?'
"Amy!" Van's voice yelled through the halls and she turned around with a smirk plastered on her face as she saw Van running towards her with on of the papers in his hands. "What the hell is this?" Van yelled shoving the paper into her face but froze when he saw that Fiona was also looking at it as well. His heart twisted in agony at the look that was on her face.
"Do you like it Van? I stayed up all night working on it," Amy stated proudly without an inch of remorse in her voice to show that she didn't had any bad feeling weighing on her conscience for what she had pulled.
Van was beyond furious. He didn't care what the consequences for his actions were later but he knew that even Amy couldn't get away with something like this. "No! I don't!" he yelled into her face surprising everyone in the halls. "No matter who it was that you did this to, you have no right to humiliate anyone in that sort of way!" Van yelled at the shocked Amy.
"Just whose side is it that you are on Van? Because it is very clear that you are obviously not on my side," Amy yelled back. She was not happy that her own boyfriend was against her on this. "Besides, they deserved it after what they did to me and Prozen," she continued to yell into Van's face.
"Even in terms of pranks this is stooping very low Amy! I am speaking on behalf of everyone that goes to this school. Take a look around you. Do you see anyone that is at all happy about what it is that you did?" Van asked pointing his hands around and Amy's eyes followed to see many people glaring at her with extreme anger within their eyes that made Amy shiver.
Amy just shrugged her shoulders and turned back around to see the shaking Fiona. What? Are you going to cry about this now?" she asked still with no remorse in her voice despite the yelling at she was just given.
Moonbay rolled up her sleeve and stepped forward to give Amy a piece of her mind or at least a piece of her fist. "You think that you were right in all of this?" Moonbay asked incredulously. "Fiona had nothing to do with what Irvine and I did. She actually chose to remain out of it!" Moonbay yelled taking more steps forward. She was surprised however when she couldn't even get the chance to get to her.
Before anyone could even figure out what had happened, Fiona swung around fast and did the last thing that any of them even suspected her to do. She punched Amy very hard in the side of the face and sent her flying into some lockers where she fell into unconsciousness. She then broke out into a run leaving the school all together and ran down the road with her face in her hands while she cried out her pain.
Van sighed before looking towards his girlfriend. 'Can't say I didn't warn her,' he thought before turning towards Irvine. "Can you take her to the nurses office? I have something I need to do," Van said before running down the halls the opposite direction that Fiona had gone.
Irvine didn't even have to ask to know that he was just going to a different door out of the school so that he could talk to Fiona without alerting anyone as to what it was that was going on between the two of them. Irvine knew that Van wanted to follow right after her but he still had to keep up appearances for his family.
Van ran out of the school as quickly as he could and looked around but he found no sign of Fiona anywhere in the area. He didn't have a clue as to which direction it was that she had fled in but he was determined to look and find her at any cost. She was hurting right now and it was just something that he could not stand to see. It hurt him more than any physical injury ever could.
"Did you see that?" Van heard someone saying to one of their friends. "Wasn't that Fiona? She looked like she was crying when she ran out of here in the direction of the park. Not that I could blame her after what I saw Amy do to her," the person said completely unaware that Van was listening in on the conversation.
That was all that Van needed to hear before he launched himself in the direction that he had heard the person speaking of. He hoped to god that the person knew what they were talking about and that Fiona was actually there.
He ran all the way there but he found the park to be completely deserted at this time of day. "Damnit! She isn't here!" Van growled going over the entire park without a sign of Fiona even in it. He was about to turn around and continue his search when he saw Moonbay approaching him at a fast pace.
"Did you find her Van? I am not having too much luck," she said trying to catch her breath once she had managed to catch up with Van. She had done a lot of looking along the way but she didn't see Fiona anywhere.
Van was about to respond when his ears seemed to pick up a very slight sound. He also thought that it might have been more than that almost as if he knew that it was her. He saw that Moonbay was about to talk but he held up a finger to shush her and followed the sound of crying to its source.
When Van reached his destination he didn't see anything but he still heard the noise. He then looked up and gave a sad smile. 'No wonder I couldn't find her, she wasn't even on the ground,' Van thought staring up into a tree where he noticed the blonde hair of Fiona's.
Van was glad that he was an athletic person because that made it all the easier to be able to climb into the tree. The sight he saw made his heart plummet into the deepest regions of his chest. There sat Fiona with her knees up to her chest crying her eyes out. She hadn't seemed to notice him yet. He slowly moved towards her, which alerted her to his presence and made her look away. "Hey Fiona," he said sadly sitting on the closest branch that was to Fiona.
For some reason, she just couldn't seem to be able to face Van. She just felt embarrassed for crying like that in front of him and everyone else. She would never be sorry for what she did to Amy though. Amy had humiliated her and she deserved what it was that Fiona gave to her. "Why did that have to happen Van? I didn't even do anything and she did that," Fiona said trying her hardest to keep her voice under control.
Van carefully reached out and brushed aside some hair out of Fiona's face so that he could get a look at her beautiful face. Her eyes were puffy and red from all of the crying that she had been doing and there was also great sadness within them. "I honestly don't know what drove her to do something like that Fiona. She had no right to do that whatsoever," Van said quietly. "Come on Fiona. Lets get out of this tree before one of us falls out and gets hurt," Van said holding out a hand for her.
She looked at it sadly for a second before taking it and they both got out of the tree. They took a seat at the base of it. Fiona looked up to see that Moonbay was there as well but she left quickly saying that she was just going to leave the two of them alone for a while.
Fiona was shocked when all of a sudden Van grabbed a hold of her waist and pulled her upon his lap. She didn't even seem to struggle and just relaxed into his embrace enjoying what she could have even if just for a little while. Suddenly she just started to cry once again within his embrace.
Van was shocked when she started to cry because he had thought that she had managed to stop. He shouldn't have been all that surprised though, what Amy did was something that many would have a bit of trouble trying to get over. "There, there Fiona," Van said allowing her to sob into his chest. He softly stroked her hair in a soothing manner hoping to calm her down.
"I am so tired of this Van!" she said still crying. She finally looked him in the face and saw the confused look upon his face meaning that he didn't understand. "I always get seconds compared to Amy. She does something bad and you can't do nothing more than be mad at her," Fiona said as she buried her face within his chest.
"That is not completely true Fiona. There are many things that you have that Amy does have. It is those things that make her so jealous of you. That is what drove her to do what she did today," Van said continuing to stroke her hair. 'One of those things is my heart,' Van thought staring at her with a loving gaze.
"I don't care about all of those things Van. I could give those up and as long as you are by my side I would be happy. I have a very big problem with that Van," Fiona said making Van look at her with a questioning look. She swallowed what nervousness she had left. Even if it left her with heartache she had to get this off her chest. "I care for you too much Van. I want to be selfish and have you for myself!" she yelled before her lips were suddenly shushed by Van's in a sensual kiss.
It was something slow yet filled with more passion than any of them had ever felt. When Fiona felt Van's tongue against her lips asking for entrance she immediately opened up for him. His tongue probed her mouth and clashed passionately with her tongue. It was something they didn't want but they were forced to separate for much needed air. It seemed to short for the two of them and they wanted more.
Fiona was about to speak but Van put a finger over her lips to quiet her. "I don't want to consider this some sort of mistake Fiona. I don't want to consider the other one we had a mistake either. It may be wrong for me, someone who has a girlfriend, to say this but my feelings for her aren't as strong as the ones that I have for you. Fiona, I..." he said but Fiona placed a finger over his lips mimicking his way of quieting her.
"Don't say something like that right now. If it is what I think it is that you are going to say then please don't say it unless you can without regret. For now though, please let me enjoy what I have with you," Fiona said stealing a small kiss from Van.
The small kiss wasn't enough for Van as he pulled Fiona in as close as he could. In a way he was grateful that Fiona had said what she did because even if he told her that he loved her, he was stuck with Amy and could do nothing about it. Her concerns made him love her even more. With that thought he brought her in for another long and passionate kiss.
After what happened between her and Van earlier in the day, Fiona felt like she could go through anything life had to dish out to her. She went back to school with her head held high and people seemed to admire her for her courage in being able to come back after what happened.
Amy on the other hand was totally pissed with her I-don't-care attitude. She was even more pissed about the possible shiner that Fiona had given to her with that punch, If it hadn't been for makeup, many would have been able to easily notice it and that was something that she didn't want.
Fiona didn't even care what Amy had to say to her after that though. She had the greatest thing in the world, Van's loving feelings. 'He told me that he even cared about me more than he cared about Amy. I wonder if it is actually possible for him to love me in the way that I love him,' Fiona thought but she had something good for now with him and that was all that she would want.
Fiona was now walking home from school with a bright smile on her face thinking of all the things that could happen between her and Van from now on. cars flew by her as the people that owned them headed home for the day. Irvine and Moonbay were starting their weeks worth of detention now and she was stuck going home alone since Amy ended up dragging Van around for the rest of the day as well so that he could listen to her complaining.
Fiona slowly lifted a hand to her mouth as memories of the kiss continued to come back to her. It was the most wonderful thing that she had ever felt in her life and it made it even better that Van was the one that gave it to her. He was almost like a thief. He had stolen her very first kiss and most of all her had stolen her heart. She no longer cared about what would happen because she would spend what time that she could with Van and never regret any moments with him from now on.
Before she realized it, she was already far away from the school and in a rather deserted area even if it had a lot of cozy looking houses all around. The place was very beautiful and she could help but smile even more.
Fiona knew that if given the chance that she would gladly live the rest of her life with Van. That was only if he could get himself free from Amy's father's control. Somehow, Fiona had a strange feeling about the subject, almost as if something was seriously wrong with it all.
She didn't know why but she had this feeling that Amy had something to do with it as well. It was almost like she had absolutely nothing to worry about her actions with Van like she knew that she would never lose him. She was also very possessive of him and refused to let him do anything without her.
Fiona shrugged off the thought because she really had no proof about any of what she was thinking. She hated her but Van still cared about her. So Fiona wasn't going to start accusing her and end up making Van angry at her.
The sound of a car approaching Fiona caught her attention but she didn't pay too much attention to it because many cars came by. It sounded like it was going faster than it should have been though and it was coming closer and closer to Fiona. Fiona slowly turned around to see what the driver was doing but she didn't get the full way around before she felt herself get hit by an extreme pressure and everything went dark all around her.