A/N: Sorry this is a day late ;
Anyway, here are my answers to your reviews!
Pooch -- Yes, yes. You'll find out. It may take awhile though.
Fuoco Annerito -- Yes, Rosette is an empath. And I'm glad that you liked my other ChronoCrusade fanfic!
MisoGirl -- What she picks up depends on how strongly his feelings are at the time that she touches him.
Sister-Rosette-Christopher -- Eh-hehe. This is a day late... Sorry.
raspberrysorbet -- Well, yeah, that would have usually been Rosette... But they never showed Chrono being in that sort of situation, so I figure that I have a bit of leeway there...
tegan new -- Well, I have updated, so here you go!
l2uly -- Thank you!
anime-freak -- Aion will show up later.
Lyra the Sorceress of Scholars -- Sorry, but won't double space. I'm learning to be a novelist, so I can't afford to do that since I could end up doing it in my novel. And that would be frustrating since I would have to go over all of it and fix it -- especially since I double space in my novel to show when one scene ends and the other begins.
Now Rosette was what most teens would call lucky. Why? Well, because she didn't have an alarm clock that made annoying sounds to wake her up. Instead she had one that played songs straight from her iPod. A Christmas present from Shader last year.The last song she had set to be used for her alarm faded out. Then 'I stand alone' by Godsmack started playing loudly, making her – and everyone else in the house – jump half out of their skins. Rosette fumbled with the snooze button for several seconds. When she finally shut the thing up she breathed a sigh of relief.
Ctanna turned her attention away from the stairs and to her purple haired son who was innocently eating his breakfast like nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
"Chrono, you didn't." She said flatly.
He looked up at her with an innocent, 'what?' look on his face and said, "I figured it would get her up..."
His mother gave an exasperated sigh, but didn't berate her son for his actions since Helen didn't seem to mind at all.In fact she – and Joshua and Sebastian – seemed to be finding it fairly funny. Ctanna doubted Rosette was going to find it as amusing as the others did.
The reason Chrono had decided to make certain Rosette got up in the morning today was that it is the first day of school and – in the teens mind – it was about the only other effective way to get her up without the use of a cold shower. Which was absolutely out of the question because she had a penchant for wearing white cotton nighties, and he just was not gonna go there. She would murder him, and all others – minus Azmaria – would crucify him. In what order he wasn't sure – it would probably depend on who got to him first.
"Owowowowowowow!"
Startled, everyone looked over to see Rosette grinding her knuckles into Chrono's skull. Sebastian's and Ctanna's jaws hit the table. They had never seen anyone attempt do something on the order of an attack without Chrono's reflexes kicking in and the poor person getting seriously injured. They didn't know what to make of this, or how to react. On the one hand it was good that he could relax that much, but on the other if he got attacked for real...
"WHY DID YOU PUT THAT FRIKIN' SONG ON MY IPOD?" She demanded, still grinding her knuckles into his poor skull.
"To wake you up!"
"There are other ways of waking a person up!"
"The only other one that would have worked is a cold shower!"
"THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN PREFERABLE!"
"Not if your nightie went see through it wouldn't!"
She stopped grinding his head and placed her fists on her hips.
"And why not?" She asked dangerously.
He started to answer, but she continued.
"You don't think I have an attractive body?"
Everyone – except Azmaria, who was just confused by her sister's questions – choked. Not entirely because they were surprised, but mostly because they were trying not to laugh at Chrono's plight. Said teen looked over pleadingly to his mother. Who smiled. Uh-oh. He realized to late that she had not necessarily been the best choice to help him.
"Of course he wants to look, honey." She assured to Chrono's horror, "He's seventeen."
Someone shoot me now... Please. Chrono thought even as he wished the ground would open up and swallow him whole.
"I suppose your right..." The blond girl conceded to Chrono's profound relief.
He decided that the only way she could have mood swings like that was if she was PMSing.
As she sat down he noticed that she was blushing.
"Well, sweetheart, it looks like you're going to be on time for once."
The girl stuck her tongue out at her mother and started inhaling her food. The twins stared for a moment – still not used to seeing a girl actually eat like that – then shook their heads and finished their own food.
As soon as the teens and Azmaria were out the door and on their way to school the mothers – unable to contain it any longer – burst out laughing.
"I can't believe you actually said that!" Helen exclaimed.
"Neither can I! And I can't believe she asked him that!"
"Neither can I!"
As they walked to school Rosette trailed behind the others and tried not to stair at Chrono. She was feeling a bit embarrassed about the incident at breakfast. She had still been half asleep when she had asked him those questions. But what she was really embarrassed about was the fact that she had felt reassured and then disappointed when his mother had said that he would want to look – because of his age. She sighed and shook her head.
"Rosy-Posy!" Shader's voice singsonged behind her, snapping her out of her daze. The hyperactive girl came bouncing up to her and draped an arm around the blond's shoulders.
"You sure are up early, Rosette!"
"Yeah. I guess so..."
"And out of it." The other girl added with a giggle before skipping over to Sebastian.
"Heeey Seebaastiaan."
Shader had stopped acting like an absolute idiot – much to her relief – whenever she was around the red-head a little while ago.
"And how are you today, my fair lady?" Sebastian asked the bubbly girl with a dramatic, sweeping bow. Said girl giggled and blushed, curtsying as best she could with her jacket and said, "I am well my dear lord."
Grinning, the both straightened and – arm in arm – started walking towards school again. The others shook their heads and started walking to school again as well. No matter how many times they saw the two do strange things like that in the middle of the sidewalk they would never get used to it. Though it was kind of entertaining...
To the teacher – the same one that had been teaching Rosette's math class last year – Hell had frozen over, the Angels were singing, the trumpets blaring and a parade needed to be organized – because Rosette Christopher was early for class.
The poor teacher tried to get out something intelligible, but the only thing she could manage was incoherent, random sounds. A gasp from behind made the teens turn around – to see a very busty girl with long, red-brown hair about Rosette's age standing in the entrance way, eyes wide, the rest of the class waiting behind her. She whirled around (hitting a few people in the face with her hair) to face the crowd of teenagers. Stepping aside she pointed an accusing finger at Rosette and announced "She's early for class!" like it was some kind of crime.
Everyone rushed in and surrounded the blond asking if she was, or if she was having, problems at home. That stopped abruptly when a girl demanded "Did those two hotties come with you?" while pointing to Chrono and Sebastian.
"Er, um, yes." Rosette replied.
"Are they available?" Another girl asked after a quick glance at the twins.
"Uh-well, eh... Ask them!" Rosette finally finished exasperatedly.
The girls all looked over at the boys who nodded, Chrono hesitantly, his brother just calmly. They were immediately swarmed by the available girls of the class, all of them trying to give the twins their phone numbers and get their's in return. Chrono's and Sebastian's backs were pressed to the walls as the girls started pressing to close for their comfort. Shader's back was suddenly pressed to Sebastian's chest as she shielded him from the overly excited girls and did an amazingly accurate impression of a hissing cat. When the other girls backed off Sebastian wrapped his arms around Shader and exclaimed, "That was so cute!" With a broad smile that nearly made all the other teenaged girls in the room swoon. The bespectacled girl blinked several times in surprise.
Sebastian turned his regard to the other girls.
"As you can see, my dears, I'm spoken for."
Shader melted. Then jumped half out of her skin at the sound of someone wearing heavy boots landing on the teacher's desk off to her right. She looked over and saw Chrono half crouched on the desk. His eyes had a strange, intense, wild look in them, a look that tugged at her's, Viede's, Genai's and Rosette's memories and set off alarm bells. The formally swarming girls tried to approach him again, not understanding the danger they were in. The schoolroom door slammed open loudly enough to catch the attention of everyone in the room.
"You, girls!" The blond and blue eyed man yelled at the ones surrounding Chrono, "Leave him alone!"
Rosette was the only one to disobey the principal. She went over to her purple haired friend and took his arm. His head snapped around to look at her and – the wild look immediately vanished. Shakily, he climbed down and stepped so close to Rosette that he was less then half a foot away from her. Normally such close proximity would have her freaking out and blushing like crazy, but he was shaking, pale and sweating like when they had been trying to teach him how to swim, so she was to concerned about him to notice how close they were.
"Chrono, are you alright?" She asked quietly.
"No." He answered just as quietly.
"Since he doesn't seem to like being surrounded by people," The principal said, "Maybe his seat should be at the head of the class."
The rest of the morning went more smoothly and quietly. Though the students did talk about Chrono's little "out burst" quite readily.
Chrono looked around the cafeteria, in search of his friends and brother. Not seeing them he sighed and started looking around for a place to sit. He found himself to nervous to sit at any of the crowded tables. He shifted from one foot to the other uncomfortably, unsure of what to do.
"Hey, look it's the freak! You know, the one that had a panic attack in math class, jumped up onto the teacher's desk?"
"Oh, my, GOD! He really does have purple hair! What a freak."
Chrono turned around, his expression neutral, to see three guys standing behind him with condescending looks on their faces. Chrono regarded them for several moments.
"What are you staring at freak?" The leader of the group said stepping froward and posturing like an idiot.
"A bunch of morons." Chrono replied, turning his attention back to looking for a place to sit.
"Excuse me?" The leader asked incredulously.
Chrono ignored him, deciding that he was not worth the effort. The leader looked at his friends with a disbelieving, 'no one does this to me' smile on his face. He sized up Chrono from his position behind the purple haired boy and, deciding that Chrono was easy meat, sauntered over to stand next to him. When Chrono continued to outwardly ignore him the guy took a shot at his tanned face – and had his fist caught in a tight grip that he discovered he couldn't pull it out of.
Still holding the fist, Chrono gave his would be opponent a withering glare before letting him go. The guy wisely ran away. His friends followed and the other students applauded. Hearing that applause the purple haired boy jumped half out of his skin and looked around to discover that the entire cafeteria had been watching. He finally spotted his brother's bright red hair all the way in the back corner. He didn't need to see his face clearly to know that he was relieved that the bully hadn't needed to go to the hospital.
Chrono made his way over to his twin trying to ignore the stares following after him.
"Arrrrg! I can't believe Miss. Kate gave us homework on our first day!" Rosette exclaimed.
A/N: Well, that chapter was longer then normal... Anyway, sorry about Rosette's OOCness just after she woke up.
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I'll start writing as soon as I can, but for now I have to turn the computer over to my father, so ja ne for now!