Disclaimer: I do not own Code Geass.
Summary: C.C. is a lazy and gluttonous girl who only cares for pizza. And Lelouch is the man that may fall for her, ahem, charms.
Green Silk and Golden Orbs
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Chapter 1
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The night was cool when it approached. The dinner party was still filled with guests, nobody had went home yet. It seemed like people were multiplying in the lovely mansion-esque home. And in contrast with the cool outdoors, inside the house, the atmosphere was quite warm. So warm, that C.C. excused herself to get some well needed fresh air. That and some drunk man, young and old, started to flirt with her. Didn't they know she was partly taken?
In her hand wasn't a usual slice of pizza but a cup of some apple cider. She didn't drink wine or anything alcoholic. Her father wouldn't allow his daughters. Anyway, C.C. had thought wine or anything like it tasted like medicine. Don't tell her father she's tasted the beverage though. Anyway, C.C. understood why her father forbade her and her sisters alcohol.
She was quite surprised to learn that she wasn't the only one that decided to freshen up on the terrace.
Lelouch looked over his slumped shoulders as she approached, setting her drink and elbows against the banister of the balcony.
He scowled mentally. "Are you here to harass me again?"
"Harass?" C.C. blinked, pretending to be an innocent girl. "Why would I do such a thing. I'm such a pleasant person, I'll have you know Lelouch."
This time, Lelouch scoffed at her blatant lie. It surprised him that C.C. could say such things with a straight face. Then again, she was a strange girl. Doing things out of the norm was already expected from her.
C.C. neared him, making Lelouch feel slightly uncomfortable. He didn't enjoy it when people, especially strange girls, invaded his space. Her hands reached up and began to slide upwards against his chest.
"What are you doing?" Lelouch jumped away once her slender fingers reached his chin. He was surprised as well as violated.
"See, boya, that's what harassment is," C.C. explained. "What I said to you earlier was more so playful teasing. You were the one that called me a 'Witch' if I remember correctly."
His fingers pinched the bridge of his nose in sheer annoyance. "As long as somebody feels like they were being harassed or violated, it's harassment."
"Are we back to our English lesson again, Lelouch?"
"Shut up."
"My, your temper is surely a nasty flaw you have." Her arrogant tone continued to tease Lelouch's sense of hearing. "Have you ever considered anger management classes?"
Lelouch slanted his purple eyes towards her, clearly frustrated. "Do you not know what 'shut up' means?" C.C. opened her mouth to speak but Lelouch cut her off, tired with her clever answers. "Don't answer that."
"If you're going to court me, you're doing an awfully bad job at it."
"I'm not courting you, C.C.!"
"I suggest you take some classes for courting women as well as anger management classes," C.C. continued to speak, further aggravating the young man.
At his breaking point, Lelouch closed in on C.C. and placed both his arms on either side of her, trapping her in. Was he trying to scare her like this?
"You're really irritating," Lelouch spoke, voice manly and stern.
C.C. didn't falter when she felt Lelouch's hot breath against the tip of her nose. She was hardly affected by his close proximity.
"That's why I'm a Witch."
"Older Bro-" Nunnally called out for her older brother but couldn't finish when her very own purple eyes fell on the two on the terrace. She blushed at the sight. "Oh, sorry if I interrupted anything!"
"Wait, Nunnally!" Lelouch shouted, pushing himself away from C.C. as he tried to explain to his younger sister what was really happening. But she was already gone. Lelouch turned around to glare at the green haired woman.
"Don't look at me as if it was my fault," C.C. said. "You're the one that decided to invade my personal space."
Lelouch groaned frustratedly. "I bet Nunnally is telling everyone that she saw you and I kissing. Great, now rumours about you and I are spreading. I really dislike rumours."
"Well," C.C. began, her voice sort of trailing. "Whatever Nunnally is telling them wouldn't be rumours if they were true."
"What are you saying, C.C.?"
And before he knew it, C.C.'s thin yet moist lips were on his. Lelouch tried to pull away but C.C.'s grip on his head was much stronger than he had assumed. Adding to that, Lelouch's strength was not his strongest point. The kiss was anything but pleasant. Lelouch wouldn't even consider it a kiss, just their lips touching roughly against one another.
"Oh, Nunnally, you were right!" Euphemia's squeal was giddy. "They are kissing! I have to tell Mother and Father!"
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"So, C.C., how good of a kisser is Lelouch?" Shirley asked as she lay on C.C.'s bed while the older girl was drying her hair after the shower she had just took.
C.C. and Kallen looked at Shirley, wondering why she suddenly became interested with Lelouch's kissing abilities. C.C. kissed many of her previous suitors before, trying to scare them, but Shirley never asked C.C. to rate them. This was a first.
"We just smacked lips," C.C. replied coolly, back to towel drying her green locks.
"Were his lips soft?"
Kallen rolled her eyes at her orange haired girl. "Shirley, do you have a crush on Lelouch? You barely know him. You didn't even speak to him yet."
Shirley gasped in mock shock. "What? No, I don't like him! He just seems interesting."
"Why are you blushing then?"
"I am not!" Shirley whined under the intense gaze of her red-headed sister. "Oh, don't look at me like that, Kallen! You were blushing too when Lelouch kissed your hand! I just find him cute."
Kallen scoffed in a manly fashion. "It's not everyday a guy kisses part of my anatomy. So, when instances like that occur, I happen to blush fairly easily."
"Same goes for me!"
"Whatever. The reason who blushed is because you like Lelouch."
C.C. flopped down on her bed, her golden eyes looking at the high ceiling of her room. "Can you two argue in another room?"
Shirley inched closer to C.C. "Then tell Kallen to stop teasing me about Lelouch."
"You wouldn't be so bothered if you didn't like him," C.C. pointed out, winning the conversation for Kallen, technically.
Shirley remained silent, defeated. At times, it was difficult being the middle sister. Her two sisters had quite a bit of attitude, one was cold and the other was tough. It was hard on her being the soft spoken one.
"I just think he is cute," Shirley insisted.
Kallen rolled her eyes at Shirley's obvious denial. She turned back to C.C., who looked like she was falling asleep already.
"Were his lips soft, C.C.?"
C.C. opened one eye to peak at her younger sisters' faces that crowded above her on. They were curious since this was the only time they had found the guy C.C. kissed to be remotely attractive. Also, they have never kissed the opposite gender.
"Yes."
Shirley squealed in delight while Kallen smiled, letting the girl inside of her to slightly take over her emotions.
"And they tasted like cinnamon and chocolate."
"I bet your lips tastes like tomato and cheese."
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Lelouch slammed his cellphone down on the table of the cafe he was spending his afternoon in. Calls had been pouring in all morning, asking him about his 'hot' night with the rumoured unattainable girl.
Thanks to C.C. and her weirdness, everyone at the dinner party became aware that the two kissed. On her behalf, C.C. claimed since Nunally had already thought they were kissing in the first place, when they weren't, everyone would think they were anyway. So, C.C. just decided to make any rumours true. Lelouch did mention he hated rumours. All the stories spreading about them now were true, not gossip at all.
"That guy over there is really cute," a female waitress gushed. "I wish I was his server."
The other waitress scoffed. "Don't bother, he's already taken by the eldest daughter of the Celeste family."
"No way! Are you serious?"
"Yes, they were making out at the Celeste dinner party last night. My cousin attended since her boy-friend is the son of a famous Judge."
Standing up immediately, Lelouch angrily spoke, "She's not my girl-friend!"
"Oh, so that kiss meant nothing to you, Lelouch?"
The voice behind Lelouch gave him chills. Honestly, he felt his spine shiver when the voice had spoken with its' normal tone of sheer arrogance. Lelouch didn't know whether to be angry at the moment or scared.
With C.C. most people felt a different array emotions.
"I would have never pictured you to be a player," she continued on much to Lelouch's dismay.
As the waitresses began to whisper amoung themselves, giving Lelouch's dirty looks now and then, Lelouch grabbed hold of C.C's forearm and pulled her away from the cafe and from nosy eyes. He took them far from the public, near his car parked on the side of the road...
"What are you doing here?" Lelouch hissed beneath his breath. "Are you out to get me?"
"I was just taking a stroll when I noticed a familiar raven haired boy that kissed me last night."
"Kissed you?" Lelouch was in utter shock. He couldn't control the volume of his voice. "You kissed me!"
"Tomato, to-mah-to."
"You really are impossible, aren't you C.C.?"
"No," she said, voice trailing. "I'm a Witch."
Lelouch found himself chuckling oddly. Ever since he had called her that last night, C.C. wasn't affected by it and she kept using it to refer to herself. She must really like the nickname. It did suit her perfectly, in Lelouch's opinion.
An awkwardness fell on them. Sure, they've bickered quite a bit for strangers and they even kissed. Other than that, they hardly knew anything about one another.
"Say, Lelouch, why are you courting me again?" C.C. asked. "Did your parents promise you anything if you were to marry me?"
"I'm not courting you..."
She laughed and it echoed in Lelouch's ears. "You can say that all you want but I know a suitor when I see one. My father only introduces me to males if they are suitors. He wants me to marry already."
"Must be hard to fall in love with somebody like you," Lelouch muttered.
"Why don't you tell me."
"Shut up."
"Anyway, you didn't answer my question."
Lelouch sighed. "My sister, Euphemia wants to get married next year to my childhood friend, Suzaku. But the rule in my family is that, since I'm the eldest I have to marry first before she can."
"So, you're doing this for your sister and best-friend?"
"Yeah."
C.C. smiled at him, probably her first genuine smile she had given him since they met almost twenty-four hours ago. Once again, Lelouch felt his heart beat a few moments quicker than normal.
"Even if you do have a quick temper, you are quite the lovely older brother and best-friend."
"Thank-"
"But you are a horrible suitor. Euphemia may have to wait several years before she can get married."
Lelouch hissed. "Why you-"
"I'll see you around, Lelouch," C.C. bid Lelouch farwell, cutting him off in the process.
"Wait!" Lelouch called out. "Where are you going?"
C.C. turned to look at him with blinking gold eyes. "I'm leaving before people starting talking about us again. You hate rumours, right? I'm doing you a favour."
Lelouch looked around. A few people were passing them, taking a few glances. The waitresses were still chatting amoungst themselves, probably about the pair. No matter what Lelouch did to try to escape gossip, it always managed to sneak up on him.
"Do you want a ride wherever you are going?" Lelouch found himself asking, surprising himself and C.C. in the process.
"Oh, could you have fallen for my charms already?"
"Shut up," he muttered audibly. "If I let a Witch freely wander the streets, the village folk might come and try to burn you alive. I'm doing you a favour."
C.C. smirked at Lelouch before approaching the midnight coloured car. The door was already open, Lelouch was a gentleman that way, even if she wasn't his favourite person at the moment.
"Where do you plan on going?"
"Pizza Hut."
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