Fuel The Fire

Ethina

Something tragic happens in the Davis' household and Kristina feels really guilty. Ethan is getting these strange feelings that confuse him about Kristina. She's just a friend. Right? Kristina knows he doesn't like her like that so why is he acting so strange? TWO-SHOT! Ethina. Merry Christmas!

"Well, girls, let's get unpacking!" Alexis says happily.

"What little stuff we have left." Kristina mutters angrily.

Kristina walks into Kelly's after drying the remaining tears and forcing a fake smile on her face.

FlashBack

"Ooh, look at 'Krissy'! Did ya hear she burned down her house now? Phht, lying about Kiefer and now burning down her own house? This brat is mental!" A girl snickers to her friends as Kristina walks through the halls at school.

"That hot Ethan dude had to save her, again! She probably did it on purpose." Another girl scoffs to her friends. Kristina fights the tears stinging her eyes.

'this isn't fair... I didn't do it...' Kristina think,

"She should burn in hell for everything she does... Then again, she did burn for a while..." A ditzy blonde says jokingly to her friends.

Yes, life was defanately not fair.

"Wipe that fake smile off your face and tell me what's bothering you." Ethan says, coming up behind Kristina. And this is exactly who Kristina was dreading seeing. She's still working out her feelings and Ethan being here isn't helpful.

She noticebly sighs and that confused Ethan. She always likes to talk to him; what's different now?

They walk to their usual table and she finds it harder to hold back the tears. Sometimes it's so hard to keep it together around him.

"So, what's up?" Ethan asks curiously.

"It's just some... girls at school again." She says hesitantly. She's trying not to seem desperate to him. He made her feel so young and she hated it. She wasn't some desperate little girl and she wants him to know.

"Oh, if that's all!" He exclaims sarcasticly.

She rolls her eyes and continues, "They said some things about me causing the fire on purpose just so you'll save me."

"Well, that's stupid. Who would burn down a house just to have someone rescue them?"

"I know, right!" Kristina says enthusiasticly. She realizes her excitement and decides to tone it down. She's not desperate. "It's so dumb." She grumbles.

"What're you gonna do?" Curiousity overpowers Ethan when he hears Kristina's upbeat mood change to sad once more.

"There's nothing to be done. I'm just gonna suck it up." Confidence is the key.

"You shouldn't have to."

"Be that as it may, it's what I have to do. I'm a big girl, ya know."

It was almost like Kristina didn't say that. It was like her mouth just moved. Kristina didn't talk. Some strange thing was causing that statement to fall from her mouth. Kristina wouldn't say something like that. She would ask him to help.

Ethan has a look on his face of, ahha. The look doesn't go unnoticed by Kristina, so she says, "Just stay out of it. Look, I gotta go. I'll see you later." When did Krissy get so polite to him?

"Krissy, wait!" Ethan tries to call to her, as she walks out the doors.

When did he become the desperate one? For a moment he wonders if he said something then realizes that she's been acting this way since the hospital. When did she start acting different?

"I do care. I've invested too much time in you to not care."

"Is that what got her so upset?..." Ethan mutters.

"What got who upset?" Johnny asks, taking the seat Kristina was previously seated in.

"I'm such an idiot." Ethan groans, throwing his head backwards.

"Well, that's nothing new... But what'd you do this time to do it?"

"I said something stupid." Is the great Ethan Lovett being sheepish? Probably not.

"Again, nothing new." Johnny says, chuckling. Something about messing with Ethan is just so entertaining.

"I told her I've invested too much time to not care. I let on that the only reason I care about her is because I've invested too much time!"

"Ooh, you screwed up big time man... Now, who ya talkin' about?"

"Kristina, Johnny! Krissy!"

"She's fragile, man. She probably took that pretty hard."

"I know that, Johnny." Ethan almost growls. He's frustrated. Right when he starts to realize he likes her-probably more than he should-she hates him, and it's all his fault!

"Yeah, Ethan. Johnny's right." Molly says in her usual chirpy voice, yet this time a little more serious.

Ethan groans in reply. He doesn't need some kid meddling in his love life. Wait, isn't that one of the things he said when Kristina would interfere.

"She still likes you though, ya know." Molly, again.

"I agree. Kristina liked you just a little too much to stop that quickly. She isn't like that. She doesn't give up on someone because a new piece of meat came along."

"So... what should I do?" Ethan asks. He can't believe he's asking a kid, and a man with worse luck in women than him, advice on what to do.

"Win her over. Do something that'll make her heart flutter! Like... Give her lots of roses and flowers! And a ring-" Molly starts gushing out random things that most girls consider a fairytale ending, when Ethan stops her.

"Woa, I don't want her thinking I'm proposing!" Ethan exclaims nervously. Marrige? Ethan had never thought of it. Since his and Maya's didn't end so well, he hasn't thought of it since.

"Well, you could do a nicely cooked dinner and... give her a puppy?" Johhny suggests, almost confused.

"Seriously? A puppy? I think, I'll think of something myself..." Ethan says, standing, and walking away from the table, his mouth slightly more open the before. A puppy?

~The Next Day~

Kristina sat by herself in the cafeteria. No one wanted to sit with the freak that burned her house down.

She heard laughter evertime someone passed the table and it made her so angry! Who are they to judge her?

"Attension! Everyone!" She heard a familar voice shout. She looked up from the plate she was playing with her food with and seen it. Ethan Lovett standing on her table.

"Ethan, what're you doing?" She couldn't handle anymore embarrassment. She would always get so annoyed when people would say they'd die of embarrassment, but this? This is way to embarrassing to not use that medaphore.

"I just want everyone to know, my name is Ethan Lovett! I'm the one that saved Kristina from the fire! Also, she did not start it! She's a sweet girl." He pauses looking at Kristina. Kristina notices the fact that he didn't call her 'a sweet kid' but called her a girl. "Which is why... I'm asking her to be my girlfriend." He knew she'd say yes but that didn't fix the nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach.

A chorus of wolf whistles and clapping (some booing, also) errupted in the room, as if they hadn't just been laughing at her a couple of minutes earlier.

Kristina felt like she was going to be sick. It was obvious what he was doing; making an apearance at her school to stop the cruel talk of her fellow classmates. "Let's not make his efforts futile", thinks Kristina.

"S-sure." She stutters nervously.

"Ethan!" Kristina yells, walking into jakes, where she knew Ethan was. She was so angry! Because now when they break up, she's gonna look even worse!

"Woa, what?" He asks, taken back. Shouldn't she be all sunshine and flowers?

"Thanks for what you did, but it wasn't nessasary. Now when we," She pauses to make airquotes, "-break up, I'm gonna be even more made fun of!"

"Why would we break up?" He asks, confused.

"It was really sweet that you would ask me out in front of everyone so they'd stop messing with me, but it's gonna be worse now!"

"Woa, woa, woa, I didn't ask you out so you'd look good. I asked you out so we could date."

Kristina's mouth falls open slightly. He wanted to date her? If being crushed meant he would want her, she would've gotten, well, crushed, a while ago!

"You wanna date me?"

"No! I wanna date Molly. Where's your sister?" He asks sarcasticly, looking over her shoulder.

She runs closer to him and kisses him. "Yes."

"Yes, what?"

"Yes, I'll be your girlfriend."

And with that, they kiss once more.

END

A/N

Please, tell me you liked it! I didn't really know how to finish, but I think it ended pretty cute! I hope it wasn't too OOC.

(Finished on 2/25/2012)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Trinity Out

Peace!