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Thanks to you all soooo much! cuddles and throws skittles!! I would also like to thank aoi-hitomi chan for her advice-apparently it worked! Love you all!! Now, without further ado, here's chapter 3 of 'Rebellious'!
Disclaimer: oops…sorry I haven't put this up for the first two chappies, but here it is: I do not own Escaflowne or the characters. Other characters that aren't in Escaflowne are mine, but I shall inform you of when that happens. So please, do not sue me-uh…I didn't do it, you can't prove it and uh…THE SHEEP ARE LYING!!!! Ahem...yeah…no suing me, 'k?
Chap 3- at Van's house.
"Tell me again where you live, Van?" Hitomi asked as they cruised down the streets in her silver jaguar convertible. She didn't come from a rich family or anything, mind you. The reason why she was able to afford to buy a Jaguar is that she had been saving up her money ever since she was 10, when she first laid eyes on a Jaguar. Let's say it was love at first nearly-hit-by-a-car. (For those of you who didn't understand that, the first car that almost hit her was a jaguar. She's been in love ever since)
"Just down there..." Van replied pointing down the street. "Stop. This is it." Van said. Hitomi stopped the car and Van casually walked up to the front steps of his 'house'. Meanwhile Hitomi just sat there, mouth hanging wide open.
"Uh... you comin' hitomi?" Van asked staring at Hitomi strangly.She just nodded dumbly, mouth still wide open, and stepped put of her car, eyes never leaving the house- no mansion.
"Y-y-you l-live h-here?" Hitomi stuttered, her eyes finally gazing at Van. "Umm...yeah... my mom's sort of a doctor, and well... you get the picture. Come on in." Van invited as her opened the door for hitomi. She stepped in and gasped. The interior was even more gorgeous than the exterior, if that was even possible. Rich wooden floors, beautiful paintings hung everywhere, a giant chandelier hung in the center of the living room. Beautiful ceiling-high cabinets were in the room. Some containing pictures, artifacts, books, or other knick-knacks. In all, it was stunning and gave Hitomi a very warm and comforting feeling.
"You like?" Van asked grinning at Hitomi's face. "Well, come on, I'll show you my room, but warning- it's not as pretty as the rest of this place." Van said as he led Hitomi to his bedroom.
"Where's your mom, van?" hitomi asked as they climbed the spiral staircase.
"At work, and my sister's probably still at school since Dillandau's fire didn't spread to the other building. Actually, i heard the teachers say it didn't even spread out of the classroom. Weird that they let us go. Guess they were scared that Dilandau might burn something else…" Van replied. Hitomi laughed at his last comment.
"Yes, that would scare them." She replied. Soon they were in front of Van's door. "Well, here we are" Van said as he opened the room. As soon as Hitomi stepped in she gasped.
"Oh. My. GOD!!!!!" Hitomi screamed. Van was right; his room was definatly NOT like the rest of this mansion. Clothes everywhere, posters of random rock bands cluttered the walls. Boxes remained unpacked, his bed was unmade, and his desk was bombarded with random CDs, paper, pens, etc.
"Uh... i told you it was messy..."Van said looking at hitomi's reaction."We can stay downstairs if you'd like-"
"I LOVE IT!!!!" hitomi interrupted; clearly she wasn't listening to van.
"Y-you do?" Van asked looking at Hitomi as if she was mental.
"Of course!! It's just like how i would like my room to be if i could decorate it the way i want to!!" Hitomi replied gazing at the room she was in. "I love it!!! I wanna move in with you!!!" she squealed, jumping on Van's bed like a little girl.
"Well, there is a guest room, but i doubt your parents would let you stay." Van said watching hitomi's reaction change from excited, to disappointed, to somewhat of an upset look. "Uh, hitomi, what's wrong?" Van asked.
"Nothing- it's just, never mind, anyway- you say there's a guest room?" Hitomi said trying to change the subject.
"Hitomi...what is it you are trying to avoid?" Van said in a warning voice. "sigh, allright...well, the thing is its 'parent' not 'parents'." Hitomi explained.
"oh... i'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, i'm like you... i only live with my mom, my dad left us and committed suicide." Van said gently. "Oh! Well, my dad died due to heart attack." Hitomi said.
"Well, i guess we have some thing in common, huh?" Van said trying to cheer up Hitomi's mood. Apparently it worked, because Hitomi gave him a huge smile,
"Well, you said you came from Astoria, ne? No wonder you live in a huge house, you have to be wealthy inorder to live in Astoria..." hitomi said.
"Yeah, well i don't like to really brag about it..." Van said rubbing the back of his neck, sheepishly.
"Yeah well, so you have any other siblings other than your sister?" Hitomi asked.
"NO!" Van said a little too loudly and quick. 'Folken left us, I'll never consider him as a brother ever again' Van thought.
"Folken?" Hitomi asked.
"What?" Van asked startled. 'I didn't say that outloud, did i?' he thought. "No, you didn't" Hitomi said smiling.
"What on Gaea-"
"I can read people's mind." Hitomi said simply, as if it were normal.
"You can what?" Van asked, not sure if he had heard her correctly. ""Read people's minds" she repeated. I don't know where i got it from; I've been able to do this since I was born. I'm also gifted to locating things that are hidden, and taro cards- those I can read pretty accurately. Nothing special. But anyways, now you have yet to answer my question. Whose Folken?" Van cringed. He had hoped that she would have forgotten about that.
"Alright. Folken is my ugh- older brother, but I do not consider him as a brother anymore."
"Why?" Hitomi asked, curious as to what could have made Van despise his brother so much.
"Because, he abandoned us right, when we needed him the most. After my father left, Folken betrayed us and left for god-knows-where, never to return. So now, I had to take the burden of being the strongest for mom and my sister, Merle. I became the man of the house, and I'm not old enough to be handling this sort of responsibility. I mean what if something happened to mom? What would i do with Merle? She's only 13 for cryin' out loud!!" van screamed holding his head in his hands. He suddenly felt something warm around him. He looked up to find Hitomi kneeling next to him, her arms draped around him like a blanket of warmth.
"I'm sorry..." she whispered.
"Its ok...let's talk about something else, ok?" Van said gently.
"Okay!" Hitomi agreed.
Varie opened the door, and found Van's backpack by the stairs. 'Hmm… that's odd; Van shouldn't be home for at least another 2 hours…' Her thoughts were cut off when she heard some giggling. 'Van doesn't giggle…. And that sounded like a- gasp female!!' Varie quickly hurried up the stairs to van's room. 'I can't believe it! Van has a female in his room!! It's been so long…since he's made friends…'
"Van? Are you in there?" With that she opened the door to find…Van and hitomi wrestling on the floor, Hitomi attempting to beat Van with a pillow. An overly flufflery pillow…
"Oh! Hey Ma'…hehe… didn't know you were here…when did you come and where's Merle?" Van asked seeing his mother in the doorway, leaning on the frame, smirking.
"Uh... hey Mrs. Fanel, what's up?" Hitomi said as Van got off her. If it was any one else one would think they were doing who-knows-what.
"Well, Van, to answer your question: Merle's at SCHOOL, where you should be." Varie said sternly.
"Well, the thing is ma-" Hitomi cut him off.
"I can explain Mrs. Fanel" She said.
"Oh? You can now? Oh and it's just Varie, Darling." Varie said with a smile.
'Varie? She never lets anyone call her that, and why is she smirking at me like that?' Van thought as he looked at his mother with a confused look. "Well, you see the thing is, I have a friend. And let's just say he's sort of a umm…how should I put this? Ah… he's a.. pyro." Hitomi said.
" A…pyro?" Varie asked, her eyebrows raised.
"Ya, and uh… well, uhh… hesortofhadapyroattackandalmostsettheschoolafireinchem!!!" Hitomi said in one breath.
"I'm sorry dear, I didn't quite follow you. Repeat what you said, please?" Varie asked sweetly.
" He. Sort of. Had. A. pyro attack. And. Almost. Made. The. School. Go. Up. In. flames. During. Chem.." Hitomi said slowly. Varie's eyes widened,
"Oh dears! Are you two okay?"
"Yeah, it was just a small little flame, but they closed school for the rest of the day" Van said trying to reassure his mom.
" Well, since you two are here, would you like to help me make dinner?' Varie asked. Van was about to protest when hitomi said
"Sure! I love cooking, especially baking. C'mon Van ,let's go!" With that hitomi sprinted down the stairs.
"My, she cooks, she's polite, she's obviously a rebellious one, like somebody else I know, and she's cute. Van, I've got to hand it to you, you have great taste in women." Varie said smiling at her son.
"MOM!!! We're only friends, sheesh, I met her today, how can you possibly think me an' her were… datin'?!?!?" Van screeched.
"Hush van, hush…anyway, I never SAID you guys were dating, I merely just said that you have great taste in women. I could have meant that as 'female friend' YOU'RE the one however said that you two were dating…" Varie said grinning.
"Uhh…Ahhh…ummm, i-I should go help hitomi with dinner, yeah dinner." Van said as he ran downstairs, face beet red.
'Yes….she must be special if she could break through your heart…' Varie thought as she gracefully climbed downstairs.
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