Heyyyy y'alll!!!! Thanks soooo much for the reviews!!!! Love you all to death and back again!!! Anywho, as for my personal life, I have a music test tomorrow, which I am going to flunk miserably! Why? BECAUSE I AM NOT MUSICALLY TALENTED!!! Ahem…yeah, so as I was saying, I'm about to flunk my music test. Fun, ne? On the good side, I have a four day weekend! God bless thanksgiving. Oh! I also had part I of my physical fitness exam at school today. We had to do crunches for 1 minute. I managed to do 87. Not bad, I guess. Except, now my scar hurts (I had my appendix removed last year, and now I think I have scar tissue developing so it hurts like hell). That's all for now. Onto the reviewer's list:
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Now, onto chapter 8 of 'Rebellious'.
Chap14- confessions
Disclaimer: ok, ok, fine. I give up. Clearly bribing the big guys in the suits will not get me any closer to owning Escaflowne…must resort to plan B: tantrum. begins to have one. Bangs, floor and wails "lemme own Van! Lemme own van!" big scary dudes carry me away. p…failed again, so no suing me.
Hitomi woke up to the smell of pancakes. The sweet aroma made her smile as she opened her emerald green orbs. Of course, her orbs were only to be met by Merle's giant blue ones, staring down at her.
"HI!" merle perked.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" hitomi shouted, falling out of the bed, landing with an 'oomph', dragging merle with her.
"Well, finally you woke up sleeping beauty" a male's voice teased.
"Van?" hitomi looked behind merle to see van in the doorway grinning like an idiot. Merle walked off of Hitomi and went to van.
"Hey, good job merle!" van said as he gave his little sister a pat on the head.
"Our bargain?' merle asked holding her hand out. Van sighed.
"Oh, fine! Here ya go." Van said, tossing her a bag.
"Thank you!" she squealed. Hitomi looked like she was about to kill van. "Uh, I'd better leave you two alone. Merle said quickly, running out of the room. Van turned pale. Even though he was 'her angel', that didn't mean she couldn't hurt him.
"Why. You. Little. ARRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!" hitomi lunged at van, pinning him down to the floor. "WHY THE HELL DID YOU SET YOUR SISTER TO WAKE ME UP LIKE THAT!?!?! EVER HEARD OF COMMON CURTESY?!?!" she bellowed.
"Well, uh- I t-tried before and, well... you punched me. So I sent merle, she can wake up the dead if she wanted to." Van said.
"i-I...punched you?" hitomi asked.
"Yeah, smack on the cheek." Sure enough, there was a lovely bruise forming on van's right cheek.
"Sorry…" hitomi said, grinning sheepishly as she let go of van, and plopped herself next to him on the floor.
"What was it that you gave merle, van?" hitomi asked.
"Uh…somethin' some guy kid gave her, think the name was marmarou or somethin'" van said casually.
"m-marmarou?" hitomi asked, the evil glint returning to her eyes.
"Yeah- uh is there something wrong?" van asked.
"Yes…marmarou's my brother." Hitomi said, teeth clenched.
"WHAT!??!" Van screamed.
"Yeah..I'm gonna kill him once I get a hold of him…I'm supposed to be the first." Hitomi said, not realizing van was still there.
"first to what?" van asked.
"Oh! Uh, uh….to uh you know have a girl/boyfriend." Hitomi said flushing. "Oh really? What makes you think there dating?" van asked amused.
"Van. I know my brother. He just doesn't give gifts to any random girl, he actually hates the female race. So him giving your sister a gift, means something." hitomi said seriously.
"Ah. Well my sis doesn't seem to know yet, so they aren't really an item yet, so there's still time for you to find someone." Van said seriously.
"What are you talking about van? Do you realize how long it would take for me to find someone. Besides I want my relationship to count for something…" hitomi said.
'Hitomi face it. You have the hots for van.' Her heart said. Hitomi shook the thought out.
"What about you van? Have you found someone?" hitomi asked.
"Yes." Van said smiling softly. Hitomi's heart dropped. She felt like crying. "But, I don't think she knows. And I don't want to spoil our relationship by telling her. She's had a hard life…" van trailed off.
"Do I know her?" hitomi asked.
"I would think so." Van replied.
"Can I have a clue?" hitomi asked.
"She calls me her angel." Van whispered soflty. Hitomi's eyes widened. Was van implying that he…liked her? "And I want her to know that I love her dearly and I'll wait for her, until she's ready." Van said looking at hitomi. "No need to." Hitomi said. Van stared at her.
"What do you mean?" van asked.
"What I mean is that I think she's ready for you." Hitomi smiled soflty. "Hitomi, i- I." van pulled hitomi into a sweet kiss. His tongue found its way into her mouth, tasting her, earning a moan from her. Van deepened the kiss, pushing hitomi onto the ground. But he suddenly pulled away from her. Hitomi looked up at him, confused.
"What's wrong?" hitomi asked.
"Nothing. Listen." Hitomi listened and sure enough, she heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
"Van? Hitomi? Breakfast is ready if you guys are ready!" varie called from outside.
" 'kay mom!" van hollored. "c'mon, we'd better go." Van said. So the couple left together, hand in hand.
When they arrived into the kitchen, van stopped. So did hitomi. In the kitchen was a man hitomi had never met before. He was tall, had blue hair, and sliver/blue eyes. But his face and bone structure was just like van's.
"Folken." Van spat out. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Now, now van. Is that anyway to greet your brother? How about a hug? I haven't seen you for so long." Folken smiled warmly and tried to hug van, but van pushed him away.
"You're not my brother folken." Van said bitterly.
"VAN!" varie scolded. "You know your father's death hit folken too, it's not his fault. I say we leave the past behind us and move on." Varie said sensibly.
"So this is your bro, huh?" hitomi said staring at folken. Folken turned to her and notice she and van's hands were still held like glue.
"Yes, I am. It's a pleasure to meet you Ms…" folken said.
"Kanzaki. Hitomi Kanzaki." Hitomi introduced herself.
"Hitomi. Nice name. Van, how come you didn't tell me about your girlfriend? She seems like a keeper to me" folken asked, trying to make van forget that he was angry at him.
"Because you are not important enough to know, besides what business is it of yours to know? Huh? You don't care about anyone except yourself!" van screamed.
"Van, hush..c'mon, clam down…lets just head to school, ok?' hitomi said gently stirring van to the door.
"But, it's a Saturday" van said.
"I know." Hitomi whispered.
"Remind me again why we're here, hitomi?" van asked.
"Because, I go here when I need to clear my head all the time, and you seriously need to clear your head." Hitomi said. She had led van to a special place in the park. It was hidden by some trees and bushes, so it was her little own private sanctuary. There were sakura flowers everywhere, and a small lake. There were other different flowers and plants as well. She and van sat on the grass by the river and just stared into the distance. At least hitomi was. Van was looking at hitomi. Hitomi caught sight of his stare.
"What is it?" hitomi asked.
"Thank you." Said van still staring at her.
"For what?" hitomi asked.
"For being so kind to me…and for bringing me here and for just sticking by me…" van whispered.
" It's ok van. After what you did for me, it's the least I could do. Besides what type of girlfriend would I be if I didn't stick by you?" hitomi joked. But van's face remained serious.
" I love you." He blurted out. " Hitomi smiled. That was the second time he had told her that.
"I know. And… I love you too." Hitomi said. Van smiled. She loved him! Van felt like jumping for joy and doing the Russian jig. Instead he did the romantic thing. He pulled her into a long, sweet kiss. They only broke when the lack of oxygen was becoming too great.
"c'mom, I think my head's cleared up." Van said standing up.
"Okay, let's go back to my house. I want you to meet my mom, although I warn you- she's a duplicate of Barbie." Hitomi warned. Van laughed.
"Ok, let's go."
Moi's domain:
Yay! We have a couple formed!!! And gaspo what's this? Folken's back? gasps oh dear, what shall happen next? Well, you know the drill: you'll only know if you review! No flames please!
Ja ne,
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