Chapter 12
"Lalalala!" I sang as I walked down the steps to the front entrance. I just left the guys who nearly pushed me down the steps cause they couldn't wait to see how my day went. Hell, I couldn't wait either... I am so excited! A date with the prince! AHH!
"Cindi!" I spun around and Prince Aden was walking toward me waving. "Are you ready to go?"
"Yup! But I don't have any armor." I told him
"Armor?" he looked puzzled for a moment then his expression changed and he looked like his light bulb was just turned on, "Ohhh, you must do Japanese type Archery! I've done it a bit too. Hmmmm," he smirked "Well this will be interesting. Today, I am going to teach you how to do European style Archery." he grinned mischievously and I smiled nervously.
"No problem. It's shouldn't be that much different...right?"
"You'll see." He said pointing a vertical finger in my face then, grabbing my wrist he dragged me behind him out the door. Before he grabbed me though, I saw from the corner of my eye that Kahea was watching from the top of the stairs.
She must be so jealous. She, out of everyone at the dance last night, tried the hardest to impress him. She walked elegantly, swung her hips, and all that stuff, but to no avail.
I, for some reason still unknown to me, was able to capture his attention, by stumbling on my own feet, pouring his own water on him, and babbling. O.o I like him. I really do.
Prince Aden kept a hold of my wrist/hand ()as he brought me around the back of the mansion, next to the artificial lake, through a labyrinth of bushes and we finally stopped when we reached a small arena, which had about five targets, a small stable filled with equipment for archery and three benches.
"You lied when you said this was just a hobby. Didn't you." I asked staring at the arena.
"I may have under exaggerated a few things." He grinned. That grin. I love that grin. #$! Stop thinking like that! I slapped my forehead, and he stared at me funny.
"Heh- uh it was a bug." I sweat dropped.
First he said that we were going to start out with an arrow that had a padded ball on the end. We would dip that end into a deep chalky powder, aim then shoot at the targets. (If you guys have seen Swan Princess, you'll know what I'm talking about)
It felt really weird holding an arrow, with that kind of weight on the end, with such a small bow. My Bows for my Japanese style archery are very long and almost reach the ground. This one was tiny—compared to them. Prince Aden was laughing at my cramped arms, but he stopped laughing when I aimed it at him a released. It hit him square in the chest, so he grabbed one of his arrows, held it by the end and swung at me, and he me in the ear. His chalk was blue and mine was red, so after our squabble, we were both polka dotted with each other's color. It was hilarious.
Eventually, after about an hour and a half, I was getting the hang of it, and I was hitting the target within the two middle rings. But I was still no match Prince Aden, who was getting a bulls-eye almost every time. The only time he didn't get it was when I pretended to sneeze and knocked his elbow. We also had another fun argument.
"Don't call me Prince anymore!" he spouted a few times "Or else I'll go back to calling you Miss Yuy."
"Ok, Ok! You win Aden, you win." I laughed. Aden, ...
He was about to promote me to actual arrows when we heard an unwelcome voice.
"Well there you are step sister." A chill ran down my spine, and the hair on my neck stood up. I didn't look at Aden, as I turned to look at the face I despised the most.
She was smiling evilly as she approached, coming out of the bushy labyrinth.
"What do you want?" I asked Kahea.
"Oh, I was just simply looking for you. I heard you were going to do some archery, and I wanted to tag along. I've always wanted to try it. But I didn't know the Prince would be here with you." She said the last sentence with spite.
"You've never-," I was about to say she never wanted to do archery, in fact she despised it, but I was cut off.
"Well, if want you want to," Aden began reluctantly "There's and extra bucket of chalk in the shed. I'll grab it for you." Before I could stop him, he was gone.
"Alright Kahea. What are you up to?" I growled.
"Oh, are you mad cause I interrupted your date?" she said in a child like voice.
"No, I'm just upset cause you're standing in front of me and I have to stare at your ugly hide." She made a move to rebuttal but she restrained her self because Aden returned.
"Uh- here you go." He handed a bow and padded arrow, and set down a bucket of yellow chalk. Kahea's eye's almost glittered when she saw the yellow chalk. Oh no.
She dipped the end of the odd arrow in the chalk and stood oddly trying to figure out how to hold the bow and arrow together. Aden went to help her. I spaced for a second, I didn't want to see her smile. Suddenly I heard
"Cindi watch out!" I turned my head and
Poof!
A cloud of yellow dust clouded around my head as my nose began to hurt again. You see, the thing I hate most about stepsiblings you hate... is that they can be your worst enemy, and they know you weakness... your other worst enemy... your allergies. Unfortunately for me...I'm allergic to yellow things. Sometimes its citrus, but sometimes is things containing yellow dye, that can absorb or saturate your skin. Yellow chalk unfortunately does that to me. When I run into my allergy, I get a really bad rash all over my body that looks like the measles. It's so embarrassing. Before the chalk dust could clear I could already feel my body breaking out.
"No, no, no!" I mumbled. The dust cleared and I felt hands on my shoulders.
"Are you alright?" Aden looked at me and I knew I had a big yellow dot around/on my nose. "Oh my god! Are you all right? What's on your face?" he looked me so worried. I couldn't answer him though, what was I suppose to say ' oh yeah, by the way, I'm allergic to yellow things'? yeah right!
I ran.
There wasn't really much else I could do. I just wrenched away from his grip and ran toward the lake. "Cindi!" I heard behind me, but I didn't stop. I ran along the shores, then around the mansion, I didn't stop running until I got to my room and fell on the bed, crying.
She knew exactly what she was doing! I can't believe her!
I sobbed into my pillow for about 30min before I composed my self. I went and took a shower to take all the chalk off of me, off my skin and out of my hair. When I got out, I still had the rash all over my body. My face looked terrible. My eyes were puffy, and the rash made it look worse. I wrapped my self in a towel and ventured out into my room, where all of my clothes were. And I got dressed. It was only 1:00 so maybe the rash would disappear before the dance tonight. Then I heard voices outside the main bedrooms door. (Did I mention the guest room daddy and I were in was a two bedroom room?) I heard Daddy and all of his friends talking outside of the room, then the door opened and shut, and the voices faded away.
"Cindi?" Dad called.
"I'm in here," I mumbled. He cracked the door open and saw me sitting on the edge of my bed with my head down.
"What's the matter sweetie?" he walked toward me, and I looked up at him. He looked kind of shocked, I don't think he was expecting to millions of red dots on my face.
"Remember my allergy?" I asked him simply
"Yellow things right? What happened? You usually know how to steer clear of yellow things like that."
"Yeah I do. But I wasn't expecting to get hit right in the face with yellow chalk." I growled. He asked me how it happened, but I didn't want to tell him however I eventually told him the whole story.
"Why don't you go to the hospital wing and ask for some cream to maybe make it go away faster." I fought with him about that too, cause I didn't want to leave the room, but I eventually had no choice and I ventured out into the hall.
It took me about -oh- 30min to find the blasted hospital wing. Apparently our rooms aren't hidden well enough from us so they have to hide the hospital wing in a place NOONE will find it. The nurse was able to give me some cream, and like she said the rash started to disappear after I put it on.
Oh, just in time for the ball tonight It was already 5:00pm when the rash was completely gone. I was dressed in a sapphire gown, which fell straight to the ground. It's wasn't tight, or poofy, it was just right. I was wearing a simple necklace that had one sapphire jewel hanging from a silver chain. Daddy gave it to me for my 15th birthday. It was the only present I got that year, so I treasure it. I wore my hair down this time, and curled it under.
When I looked in the mirror, I looked at my self and noticed how much my icy blue eyes jumped out at me.
There was a knock on my door, and when I went to open it, there was a note taped to the door. I peeled it off, closed the door and read it.
Cindi,
My brother wants to dance with you again tonight. But he wants to dance with you last because the final dance is always the longest. (And the sweetest, in my opinion.) He also hopes that you are feeling better, what ever happened this afternoon frightened him, and he sends his best wishes.
See you tonight
LilyI smiled to myself. He was worried about me sigh well of course he was worried...anyone would be worried if some one just ran off like I did. The voice in the back of my head was saying.
Another knock came to the door, and this time it was the guys.
"Are you ready for another night at the Ball Cindi-rella?" David said his joke a laughed at himself. I smiled at him, after all the crap I took today of course I was ready!
"Yes David. I am."
Wheet-whoo! (anyone read RESERVoir CHRoNICLE Tsubasa? Vol. 3?) that was tough writing. But mainly because I wrote in such a short span of time. Hope you enjoied the chapter. Let me know what you think! Thank you bow