Dagger: Hi::waves::
Zidane: Konichi wa::waves::
Dagger: Um, Lizette's not here right now. She's been playing Final Fantasy 12 non-stop, and me and Zidane can't seem to get her off.
Zidane: She's glued to the Play Station 2.
Dagger: So…I'll just read what Lizette wrote for me to say. ::takes out short piece of paper from her pocket::
Dagger: Ahem, here's chapter 2 of Still Love to HATE You! Finally I updated quickly! And it's all thanks to my brother, not hogging the computer all the time. And-
Zidane::gasp:: LOOK!
(Lizette comes out of the living room, and walks up to Zidane and Dagger. The problem was, she had no eyes.)
Dagger: Oh my god! What-what happened to your eyes?
Lizette: Have you ever heard of the saying 'play video games until your eyeballs pop out?' Well…I played too much and…they fell out.
Zidane: Can you see?
Lizette: Nope…all I can see is…my imagination…
Dagger: …Zidane…call 911.
Zidane: Yeah!
(Zidane calls 911)
Zidane: Hello? Yeah, my friend played too much video games, and her eye balls popped out. …Who is this? Well, I'm Zidane Tribal. Zidane Tribal from the video game Final Fantasy 9? …What? …What do you mean I'm 'over my level?'
Zidane: …He hung up…
Lizette::sigh:: please enjoy Still Love to HATE You!
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Still Love to HATE You
Chapter 2: Joe: Dagger's Nightmare
Suddenly, the door bell rang. Dagger immediately heard her mother rushing to answer the door.
"Oh GREAT. HE'S HERE." Dagger said glumly.
"Who's here?" Clair asked curiously.
"…JOE." Dagger said, with MUCH distaste.
"Joe? Who is he again?" Clair said confused.
"Joe…my mother's boyfriend." Dagger said slowly.
"Oh! The sweet man that always gives you candy?" Clair said excitingly.
"SWEET? He is NOT sweet! He's a devil from hell that came here to marry my mother for the money!" Dagger said with rage.
Joe was Brahne's boyfriend. Ever since Mr.Alexandros died of in a fire, Brahne had been dating nonstop. Dagger's mother had been so desperate that Brahne and Joe had met online on a site called 'eHarmony.' Joe had also divorced his wife years ago, and he had 1 son, and 1 daughter. Even though Joe had been nice to Dagger, and given her everything she wanted, Dagger still despised Joe.
"He-," Clair began, but her sentence got interrupted.
"GARNET! Come down sweetie, Joe is here!" Brahne said from downstairs.
Dagger sighed deeply. "Well, are you going to accompany me while I say hello to 'the beast?'" Dagger said to Clair, opening the door to her room, and walking down the corridor, Clair following her.
"Dagger, be nice. Your mother loves this man." Clair said seriously.
Dagger ignored Clair's comment, and went down the staircase to the Living Room. She saw Brahne and Joe setting up the dinner table with Chinese food, laughing and talking.
Dagger walked to the Dining Room, not even eyeballing Joe. She walked up to her mother.
"Hello Garnet!" Joe said politely to Dagger, smiling. "How are you?"
Dagger ignored Joe, and started looking at her nails. Pretending that they were interesting at the moment.
Brahne sighed and looked at Dagger. "Garnet? Joe said something to you?"
"Huh? What? …Oh, hi Joe." Dagger said to Joe. She then looked down at her nails again.
"Joe bought us Chinese food for dinner! Isn't that sweet? You love Chinese food!" Brahne said to Dagger.
Brahne and Joe immediately started to take the Chinese food out of the bags, and started opening them on the table.
Both of them then sat down. Brahne looked at Dagger, still standing.
Dagger breathed in the scent of Chinese food. She sighed, and her eyes darted to her mother.
"Mother, may I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?" Dagger said quickly.
Brahne immediately gave Dagger a very upset look.
"What's wrong Garnet? You don't like Chinese food?" Joe asked.
"No. I gave up Chinese food YEARS ago! Looks like you got the wrong food!" Dagger told him, an attitude rising in her voice.
Dagger walked to the refrigerator and took out the bread. Clair walked next to Dagger, and looked at her making the peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
"Dagger, stop being so rude." Clair whispered to Dagger. "Joe is trying his very best for you to stop holding the grudge against him."
Dagger simply ignored Clair, and continued to make the sandwich. "Well I'm going to keep holding the grudge until Joe leaves me and mother alone."
"GARNET!" Clair hissed. "Your mother loves this man! At least show a little bit of respect!"
Dagger had finished making her peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and put the peanut butter, jelly, and bread away. She then grabbed her plate, and headed to the Living Room.
"Garnet? Where are you going?" Brahne asked.
"To my room of course. It's the only place where I can actually be alone." Dagger mumbled, as she walked up the stairs with her sandwich in hand.
Dagger walked to her room and shut the door. She took a deep breath, and sat down on her desk, in front of her computer.
I can't believe mother likes this man. Dagger thought. Is she really that desperate?
Suddenly, Dagger heard a whistle from her computer. This immediately got Dagger's attention, and she looked up at the screen. Zidane had IMed her.
OtterActor says:
Hi. What's up?
Dagger smiled and started replying back to the message.
Foreveryourcanary says:
Nothing really. The fact that I got humiliated in front of the whole school on national television, and Joe came over, then no. Nothing 'new' happened.
Otter Actor says:
I'm sure it's not the end of the world. You just had a bad day.
Foreveryourcanary says:
A bad day that's going to haunt me for the rest of my life. :(
Otter Actor says:
I bet that the trip to Rome tomorrow will help you lighten up your mood.
Foreveryourcanary says:
…Maybe.
Suddenly, Dagger heard a scream coming down from the Living Room. But it was not a scream of horror. It was a scream of joy.
Foreveryourcanary says:
I have to go. I heard my mother screaming from downstairs. Maybe Joe finally told her that he's been cheating on her.
Otter Actor says:
Let's hope that happens.
Foreveryourcanary says:
Love you.
Otter Actor says:
Love u 2.
Dagger immediately shut the computer off, and ran downstairs, curious on what was happening.
When Dagger got halfway down the stairs, she saw Joe and Brahne talking excitingly. Clair was standing beside them, looking at them with a proud expression on her face.
"What's happening?" Dagger asked.
Brahne and Joe immediately stopped talking and looked up at Dagger.
"Garnet! You can not BELIVE what Joe asked me!" Brahne said, trying to catch her breath.
Dagger looked at Joe and Brahne in horror. She knew where this was going, but she feared of knowing the answer.
"W-What?" Dagger asked slowly.
"Joe asked me to marry him!" Brahne told Dagger.
Dagger eyes widened, and she gasped in horror.
"No!" Dagger screamed.
"Yes!" Brahne said.
"NOOOO!!!!" Dagger screamed, running up to her room and slamming the door. She slammed it so hard, that pictures shook on the wall.
Dagger fell on her bed, looking up at the ceiling.
I'm not going to that wedding…Dagger thought. On that day, I'll be in morning.
A few minutes later…
A knock came on Dagger's door. Dagger's head rose from her pillow.
"Who is it?" Dagger asked.
"It's your mother." Brahne replied from the other side of the door. "May I come in?"
Dagger sighed and walked to her door unlocking it. "Yes."
Brahne opened the door and walked to Dagger's bed and sat on the edge of it. Dagger stood in front of her.
"Oh my god, please tell me that you said no!" Dagger blurted out. "You're making a big mistake!"
Brahne sighed miserably and looked up at her daughter. "I said I'd think about it."
"What!?" Dagger screamed. "What is there to think about?"
Brahne just kept quit, staring at her daughter.
"Joe is not your soul mate!" Dagger told her.
"He is my soul mate. And besides, if I say no, then I'm going to have to spend years looking for another man to get married to." Brahne told her daughter.
Dagger blinked. She could not believe that her mother had just said that.
"…Why are you so desperate?" Dagger asked.
"Oh Garnet…it is so easy for you to judge." Brahne told her, sadness in her eyes. "You haven't had to go through life alone with a daughter. Nobody to turn to for help. I-I'm not complaining, I've made my bed! But I have been going through it alone for a heck of a long time. You are the best thing that's ever happened to me. And in the blink of an eye, you'll be grown and gone."
Dagger slowly looked down at her feet. She ran out of words to say. It looked like her mother was going to win this fight.
"And Joe's a sweet guy. Maybe he'll be different then the others…I don't want to wind up alone."
Dagger suddenly avoided eye contact with her mother. Brahne then looked at Dagger for a long time.
"Is this about your father dying in the fire?" Brahne asked. "Do you miss your father?"
"Mother, please stop! Stop playing the 'emotional game' with me. Because it's not going to work!" Dagger said quickly.
"I'm not playing anything! We just haven't talked about your father in a long time." Brahne told her.
"It's not really a great topic to talk about…" Dagger mumbled.
Dagger's father died in a fire when Dagger was a little girl. Her and her father got along very well, and Dagger loved him very much. …Until the fire came, and he died of the lack of oxygen. A few weeks later, Brahne found out that a man named Stephano DiMera had caused the fire. Stephano DiMera had a grudge on the Alexandros's family for ages. But Dagger didn't know why. And she never asked either.
"Remember when your father went off to Peru when you were a little girl, and he promised to write to you?" Brahne reminded her.
Dagger slowly nodded her head.
"Weeks went by, and your father didn't write to you. I remember that you got mad because you thought that your father didn't love you anymore. But when he came back, we found out that the letter that your father wrote to you got lost in the mail. Do you remember that?" Brahne asked her.
Dagger nodded her head.
"Now didn't you feel guilty that you accused your father of not loving you anymore?"
"Yes." Dagger mumbled.
"All I'm asking you is to give Joe a chance. I know it's hard to welcome a new father when your trying to get over another one." Brahne told her. "But at least give him a chance."
Dagger nodded slowly and looked up at her mother. "I will try."
Brahne smiled and kissed Dagger on her forehead, getting up from Dagger's head.
Suddenly, Dagger saw something peeking out of her mother's pocket.
"Mother? What's in your pocket?" Dagger asked.
Brahne looked at her for a minute, and then pulled out a mini microscope. It looked like a golden spyglass.
"This?" Brahne asked.
"Is that a golden spyglass!?" Dagger said shocked, looking at it in her mother's hands. Spyglasses were very expensive in many stores. They cost a fortune, and Dagger had always wanted on. But Brahne never let her buy one, since they were so expensive.
"Where did you get it?" Dagger asked her mother.
Brahne's eyes immediately darted somewhere else, avoiding her daughter's eye contact.
"Oh, I just got it…somewhere. I-I don't remember where I got it exactly." Brahne told her.
"May I look at it?" Dagger asked.
"Um…no!" Brahne said, putting the golden spyglass back into her pocket. "I'll let you see it…tomorrow."
"But tomorrow I'm going on my trip to Rome! I'll be in Rome for 2 weeks!" Dagger told her.
"Well…then…then…you can see it before you go to school tomorrow!" Brahne said, heading to the door.
Dagger was about to say something, but Brahne interrupted her. "Well, you should go take a shower, and then go to bed. It's getting late!" Brahne said.
And with that, Brahne shut the door in front of Dagger's face.
Questions immediately started buzzing around Dagger's head. Why did her mother have a spyglass? They were very expensive, and she always said to never buy one. Was her mother keeping a secret from her?
Dagger immediately shrugged it off and grabbed her pajamas, heading to the bathroom.
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Lizette: That's the end of chapter 2!
(Dagger looks at Lizette curiously)
Dagger: Hey! Your eyes are back!
Lizette: Yeah. They grew back.
Dagger: …Eyes can grow back?
Lizette: I guess so.
Lizette: Anyway, please review the story! I'll try to update as fast as I can! I hope you liked the chapter!
Zidane: I wuved the part with me and Dagger.
Lizette::stare::
Lizette: Oh, and one more thing, congratulations to Fantasy Starlette! She was the first reivewer for my story! throws confetti
Zidane: ...Who's Fantasy Starlette?
Lizette: You know what, I'm not gonna get into this with you again.
Zidane: Seriously, who is she?
Lizette: REVIEW!
Zidane: Who is she?
Lizette: WILL YOU SHUT UP!?
Zidane: Eep! runs off into a corner