Chapter Three---Attraction
Fujin awoke with the sunlight accosting her pretty eyes. Yawning, she smiled a bit before she realized exactly what she had done the night before. Or more precisely, whom. Shooting out of bed, taking the blanket with her, she stared at the blonde in horror as he woke too.
"..W-what? What happened? You'd better not be waking me up because you saw a rat." Fujin mentally rolled her eyes. Rats she could handle. Seifer sat up and quirked a brow at her.
"What? You just going to sit there and stare at me all day?" Still Fujin said nothing, but she did giving a half hearted menacing glare as she put some clothes on.
"Fujin, what's wrong? Talk to me." It wasn't a request and Fujin was not one to have things demanded of her. So, she slammed her drawers shut and yanked them open and slammedthem shut again just to be ornery.
"Come on, please just tell me what's wrong? Was it last night? It was great...well, I thought it was--" Seifer was cut off by a pillow to the face and Fujin slamming her way from the room.
"Well, that went well."
Fujin found her way into the gardens and consequently to an old, mostly dead, rose garden with a dried up fountain. The rest of the gardens were gorgeous, but this one seemed to have been long forgotten. Fujin sighed and sat on the bench, looking out at the early morning sun. What was she to do now, in a marriage she couldn't undo, was most likely expected to produce children in, and forced to endure the company of a man she didn't even know? Life was going awfully well for her right about now.
"There you are. Got me running all over looking for you---" Seifer's little rant stopped as he sat beside her and looked at the garden.
"Its used to be beautiful, you know. All kinds of exotic looking roses and ground cover plants. Birds always nested her in the spring and sometimes we even got fox kits and deer running through here." Seifer's eyes went all nostalgic and Fujin felt a sort of pity for him so she touched her hand and gave him a smile.
"Do you like gardens? Well...working in them?" Fuujin nodded. It had been a favorite hobby of hers, just her and the flowers with no one to bother them.
"If you want...you...could work with this one...I mean...its not much now...but I mean whatever flowers you wanted...anything at all really, I'd get you...and this could be yours...you're own garden I mean. If you want." Seifer was rather adorable when he was stumbling over his words and trying to be all chivalrious. Fujin smiled and nodded.
"You would like that then?" Again she nodded and kissed his cheek. Maybe he wasn't so bad after all.
A.n: woot! I like this one!
Sorceress Fujin: As you wish -hands you chapter on a silver platter- lol
Becca: Shiny eh? Ok well here is more of teh shiny-ness. -huggles edgar- yay!
