Sheena sat up and swung her legs over the side of the bed so she was facing Sebastian. "Thank you." She said taking the envelope and opening it.
Zelos sat up and scrambled so he was kneeling behind her and looking over her shoulder. "Can I see?"
"No, it's my mail." Sheena said moving the letter so he couldn't get a good look at it. She didn't even get to read the first letter on the page and he was already bothering her.
"What's it say Sheena?" Zelos asked and reached around Sheena and snatched at the letter.
"Maybe I'd tell you what it says if you'd actually let me read it." She said in a rather irritated tone. She tried to push Zelos off of her with one hand and held the letter out of his reach with the other.
"I just want to see who it's from." Zelos said leaning on Sheena in an attempt to reach the paper. This ended with them both on the ground with Zelos sitting on Sheena holding the letter proudly.
"Get off of me you Idiot!" Sheena yelled and struggled but Zelos was heavier than her so it was to no avail. "Get off!"
Zelos simply grabbed a pillow that had fallen off of the bed when they had and covered her head with it to muffle her voice. Seeing as her arms were being held down at her sides in the tangle of blankets she couldn't do anything about it. Zelos then began to read the letter over the mumbles of Sheena's yelling. "My dear friend Sheena, I know I've barely been gone a day but I have a favor to ask of you. It appears that I'll be stuck on business a bit longer than I planned. My brother is already bored. I'll be sending him back to Meltokio in a day or so. I'm sure you won't mind looking after him.
Thank you. Love, Raine." Zelos stood up and then extended a hand to help Sheena up.
She grudgingly took it and once she was on her feet she snatched the letter back and reread it to make sure Zelos had actually read it accurately.
"I love how no one ever asks me anything. This is my house after all." Zelos complained.
"Well, I don't think Raine would let you take care of Genis." Sheena said and looked in the mirror at her horribly messy hair.
"Why not! I could take care of a child. I'd make a great father…" Zelos continued and pouted.
"Well, you do play with the children in town…" Sheena admitted reluctantly "But I'm not sure you would be able to do the important stuff. You wouldn't be willing to lose your beauty sleep to take care of a child. And anyway, you call Genis a twerp all the time and you two rarely get along well."
"Alright, so maybe I'm a little hard on the twerp but if there ever is an heir to the Wilder throne I would take full responsibility for it and take care of it without complaint." Zelos said proudly but then he gave Sheena a seductive smirk "But to become a father I would need to take a lovely woman as my wife. Perhaps you would li"
"Don't even start with me, stupid ex-chosen. I don't want to hear it." Sheena said after giving Zelos a punch to the face.
"I was just going to ask if perhaps you would like breakfast!" Zelos quickly lied.
"I doubt that sir." Sebastian said, reminding them he was still in the room. "And not to be disrespectful but it's already late afternoon and I have that picnic lunch packed just like you asked for."
"Picnic lunch?" Sheena questioned. "Zelos?"
"Well, seeing as this is our first day in a while that we are alone and have no plans I thought it might be nice to have a little picnic." Zelos said as if he was confident she would love the idea.
"No." Sheena answered simply.
"Alright." Zelos said calmly "If my favorite hunny won't spend just a little time with me I guess I could invite all my other hunnies over for a sleep over… tomorrow. Oh, wait, Genis will be here then. Well, I'm sure the twerp won't mind. Actually this might be a good thing. I'm sure my hunnies could make a man out of that little runt."
"Alright," Sheena gave in with a sigh "I'll go. Just no funny stuff." She warned him.
"See you downstairs in a few minutes." He said running happily out the door. He then stuck his head back in "Wear your traveling outfit." And then he was gone again.
The summoner sighed.
"Is there anything I can help you with, Miss Sheena?" the butler asked upon seeing the look on her face.
"No, thank you." She said and started to run a brush through her hair.
"Very well." He said with a small bow and left the room.
After a few minutes they met up in the living room. They were both dressed the way they used to dress on their journey.
"Lets get a move on. We should eat lunch soon or we'll spoil our appetites for diner." Zelos said holding his hand out to her "I have reservations."
"Zelos, I agreed to go on a PICNIC with you, not diner too." Sheena said crossing her arms over her chest "Deals off."
"Well, then, if you'll excuse me it looks like I have a party to plan. I hope Genis packs some nice pajamas…" Zelos said as if it was the most normal thin in the world.
"Alright. I'll do this for Genis." Sheena sighed again.
Zelos simply made a grabbing motion with his still out held hand. Sheena gave him her hand to hold reluctantly and he smiled. The swordsman picked up the picnic basked with his free hand and they were off.
"Can't we picnic somewhere else?" Sheena whined as Zelos spread the blanket out across the ground in Meltokio square.
"Nope, I like it here." He said with a smile.
Sheena plopped down on the blanket. She continued to complain as Zelos sat down next to her and started to take food out of the basket "Zelos… people are going to see us…"
No sooner had she spoke than a snobbly looking girl walked up to them. "Oh, fancy seeing you here, Chosen. Are you having a picnic?" She asked completely ignoring Sheena's presence.
"Yes, We were just about to eat so if" Zelos said politely but was inturupted.
"I would love to join you." She said happily sitting down.
"Actually, I was planning on it just being Sheena and I." Zelos said grabbing Sheena by the arm and pulling her into a playful embrace to which her only response was a low hiss.
"Her? I thought she was a servant…" The girl said with eyes wide from shock.
"Servant?" Zelos laughed "Sheena's no servant. She's a guest at my home and the love of my life."
"She's one of you hunnies?" She girl asked still shocked.
"No, She's my violent demonic bashee." Zelos corrected the girl and then smiled over at Sheena. Her hands were balled into fist and her teeth were gritted.
"Oh… well…" The girl said in a confused tone "Perhaps you would like to join me for dinner tonight, Chosen?"
"Sorry, hunny." Zelos said squeezing Sheena tight "I'm taking Sheena out for dinner tonight."
"Well then, Sheena is a very lucky girl." The girl got up sounding frustrated "Good day, Chosen. Good Day, Banshee." And then she was gone.
"Now, that wasn't so hard was it Sheena hunny?" Zelos asked with a smile and released her.
"I hate this stupid deal of ours and I hate you." She said angrily and picked up a sandwich and started eating.
"Sheeeeena." He whined "You can hate me but you'll always be my favorite hunny."
"Why don't you ever leave me alone?" Sheena asked in frustration.
"Because you're beautiful and smart and gentle and a tough fighter and agile and flexible and well endowed and I bet you'd be good at" He was counting on his fingers when Sheena punched him in the face.
"Is that all you think about you stupid philander!" She said angrily. If she didn't have Genis's innocents on her shoulders she would have kicked him and went back to the house.
"No, I also think about how beautiful your eyes are and how they shimmer in the moon light. And I think about how your hair looks in the rain. And how my heart beats faster when you smile. And how you toss in your sleep" He started listing the things he liked about her, counting on his fingers again.
He was stopped by a slap across the face "That's for watching me sleep. You should watch what you say or you'll lose your good looks by dinner, Idiot." She took another bight of her sandwich.
"You know what I like best about you Sheena?" He asked pouring a glass of lemonade for himself.
"I'm not sure I want to know Zelos." Sheena stated wearily.
"That's it! You call me Zelos! That's my favorite thing!" He said happily taking a sip of his drink.
"Well, that was better than what I expected…. So, you like the fact that I call you Zelos? If every guy liked a girl just because she knew his name then"
"No, its not just that you know my name, it's the fact that you're not afraid to say it. Every one else calls me chosen or sir or master Zelos." He elaborated. "Of course our friends call me by my first name too but it's different."
"How is it any different?" Sheena asked tilting her head.
"Well, you're the only one who I could imagine laying on a beach under the stars screaming my name in pleasure while we" He was cut of by yet another punch to the face.
"Do you always have to be such a pervert! Genis said that you fought that man last night for saying thing like that but then the next day you say things like that yourself!" She said angrily "It makes no sense!"
"Well, It was different. He said those things out of lust!" Zelos countered.
"And what are you saying them out of? Innocence?" Sheena asked sarcastically.
"Love… some lust… But mostly love." Zelos said as if it was simple.
"Oh. Well that makes it alright doesn't it?" Sheena said sarcastically.
"Yes, It does." Zelos said seriously. "I'll admit, I would go to bed with any girl in Symphonia… But I only want to wake up with you, Sheena hunny."
Sheena crossed her arms over her chest. She looked away and didn't say anything.
"How about I make you a deal for tonight, Hunny? For me, no more flirting with other girls and I promise not to expose the twerp to any indecent things when he gets here, and for you no more hitting punching kicking or harming me in anyway and you go along with what ever I say." He suggested.
"No." Sheena scoffed "I'm not going to go along with anything."
"Well, then. Looks like I need to turn my house into a Harem before the twerp gets here…" Zelos said raising an eyebrow.
"Alright. I agree. But promise nothing too outrageous." Sheena said looking tired and annoyed.
"Deal. You have my word." He said putting out his hand. Sheena reached out and shook it. "Good. Now, let's get home so you can get ready for dinner tonight."
"I don't think I have a choice…" Sheena said reluctantly.
"Nope." Zelos said happily and packed up the food and the blanket. He stood up and held his free hand out to Sheena. She used it to stand up but to her surprise he didn't let go.
"Ok, I'm standing up. You can let go." She said trying to pull her hand away.
"Nuh-uh. It's not every day you have to be nice to me. I say we walk home holding hands." He smiled at her and pulled her closer.
Sheena sighed "Its going to be a long night…"
"I can only hope." Zelos said with a sly smile.
"Is it your mission in life to make me miserable?" Sheena asked a bit frustrated but not acting on it.
"Sheeeena… am I really that horrible to you? I mean, I'm not ugly or stupid or cruel…" He said with a pout.
"But you are perverted and annoying…" Sheena responded while rolling her eyes.
"Ow. Sheeeena." He whined in fake pain. "Your comments are like arrows through my heart."
"Oh you have a heart?" Sheena said in mock shock.
"Yes, and it's broken thanks to you." Zelos said with a small smile.
Sheena rolled her eyes again "You really are too much you know."
"I know." Zelos said smiling at Sheena. "You'll find a new dress in your room, I had it made specially for you. Wear that tonight."
"If I must." She said opening the door. Sebastian was standing in the living room.
"Master Zelos, Miss Sheena." She gave a small bow. "How was your luch?"
"Good, thank you Sebastian." Sheena nodded.
"Yes, it was good." Zelos agreed. He then squeezed Sheena's hand "You should go get ready. We can leave as soon as your dressed." He leaned down to give her a kiss on the cheek.
Sebastian's eyes widened. He pretended to dust the arm of a chair so they wouldn't see him glancing over.
"Don't push it, you stupid ex-chosen." She said and pulled her hand from his and headed up stairs.
"I love you too, hunny." He called after her sarcastically. When she was out of ear shot he looked sort of starry-eyed and smiled vacantly.
"You are going out this evening?" Sebastian asked snapping Zelos out of his daydream.
"Yes. I'm taking my hunny out to dinner." He said with a smile.
"Miss Sheena?" Sebstain asked hoping he wasn't stepping out of line and being to brazen.
"Of course. Oh, and later on if some strange things are happening just go along with it." He said before rushing up the stairs to his room.
"I don't get paid enough for this…" Sebastian sighed and walked off into the kitchen.