Ashes to Cinders
Chapter Four: Jealous? Me? Bah, Never!
NONE of my character opions about anything are my own.
Also: READ THE DAMNED AUTHOR'S NOTE! IT IS IMPORTANT THIS TIME! :D
-Ethan-
Mel and I walked through the courtyard to the stables, both of us where oddly quiet…oddly enough!
Usually I am brimming over with random and stupid non-important things to talk about. But this silence wasn't awkward. It was a nice companionable silence.
Melanie kept looking at me and then grinning and looking away, and whenever I caught her looking she'd turn away and blush.
Wonder what her problem is?
I mean, is there something on my face?
Oh god! What if there is?
What if I have Mt. Everest of zits and I didn't know about it?
WHY ME?
When we reached the stables Melanie motioned for me to wait outside. I leaned against the door frame, nonchalantly and waited….and waited….and waited….and waited.
Finally Melanie came out with some guy. I looked at him skeptically. He had blonde hair and blue eyes. He smiled when he saw me and held out his hand. I retuned the smile with a nod of my head, already hated the guy! He dropped his hand to his side and frowned. Melanie wrapped her arm around the guy's waist and said
"Ethan, this is Adam. He manages the stables!" she kissed him lightly on the cheek.
Something intense ripped through me.
I clenched and unclenched my hand. It wasn't rage, because if it had been I would have socked him and been happy. No, this made me want to punch him and take Mel away.
But, I quelled the emotional storm…before I did anything rash.
"Hello." I said curtly.
Mel looked at me like: What? You never speak that formal! I pretended that I hadn't seen her puzzled look.
I watched the birds and the trees instead. At least they wouldn't take Melanie from me.
WAIT!! HOL D ON! BACK UP THE BUS! TIME FOR TOTAL EMOTIONAL EVALUATION!
Did I just say that the birds and trees were not gonna take Mel form me like ADAM!? HOLLYYYY mess!! We have a problem! I have officially lost it! I am watching birds and trees and thinking that they won't take Melanie from me.
Wait what? You say I had jealousy a second ago? Over my friend? Well….if Ihad it over Mel, then….
I smiled again and walked a little ways away. There was a girl who looked to be sixteen hanging up the wash. I walked over to her.
"Hey!" I said.
She turned around to face me, hands on her hips.
Her hair was cropped short, brushing her shoulders, and looked to me brown and or black(I am a guy and we are color blind! So put down that axe!) streaked through with blonde. So really you could argue that she had blonde hair and had dyed it with black and or brown. Her eyes narrowed considerably at me. I looked at them, green like my own. Only they had blue and brown threaded through them and a ring of thick black lashes surrounding her eyes, she was very pretty.
Perfect. I could just imaging that if I had a goatee or one of those sweet curly mustaches that I'd be stroking it, not like a cat though!
"What?" she asked sharply.
"Wanna do me a favor?" I asked he, giving her my most charming smile. She looked at me carefully and then said with a slightly glazed look on her face:
"NO." and turned back to the clothing. I sputtered, was I just turned down by a girl?
"What?" I whined. Okay I know, but I needed her!
"What?" she mimicked.
"Hey stop!"
"Hey stop!"
"I am serious!"
"I am serious!" I grinned, which of course she did too.
"I love you!" I declared.
"I love you!" she cried. I smiled as she flushed a brilliant red, which actually looked very nice against her copper skin.
"So, any one you want to et jealous?" I asked her. Her eyes flicked to where Adam and Mel were conversing.
"Ooh, Adam!" I said quietly.
"And you, your after El-Melanie" she said quietly(Well she actually hissed it!!)
"No!" I said, holding my hands up. "Listen I'll help you…" I trailed off, what was her name?
"Nicole." she said.
"I'll help you get Adam, Nicole." I said. She smiled.
"Fine, and I'll help you get Mel." she said back.
"It is not like that!" I exclaimed.
"Whatever." she said rolling her eyes. I smiled, lord oh lord did I wanta punch her.
"Alright, c'mon." I said, grabbing her hand. She stayed rooted in her spot.
"What?" I whined.
"You are doing it wrong, come here." she said.
I back tracked. She wrapped her arm around my waist and set my arm around her shoulder.
We walked over, talking about random things, so random I can't even remember what the conversation was about!!
"Oh hello!" I said, when we abruptly stopped in front of Mel and Adam. Melanie had removed her arm form his waist, while his still rested casually around her shoulders.
"Ethan?" Melanie asked, she looked confused, looking from me to Nicole.
The look Adam was giving me made me shudder. If looks could kill…I'd be DEAD faster than you can blink! I thought.
Keeping my gaze with Adam, I leaned down and pecked Nicole on her cheek. She tensed under my arm, and pinched my side- hard. I smiled to hide my grimace of pain as she continued to pinch and twist my skin. I finally pinched her back and she let go.
Mel looked from me to Nicole with a helplessly confused look on her face, that made my heart wrench. Must've ate something weird at breakfast…
"Ethan?" she asked again, like she wanted me to explain.
I shrugged.
"Nicole?" she asked, looked to said person.
Nicole just scooted closer to me and batted her lashes.
Adam was looking at her with a helplessness that would have made even the toughest man's heart ache…too bad, I didn't care.
He was way to close to Mel for my liking.
Wait what?! Not again! -groans-
I HAVE EMOTION PROBLEMS! WHO IS THE DUMB BASTARD THAT INVENTED JEaLOUSY, AND DENIAL? HUH? STEP FORWARD RIGHT NOW SO I CAN GIVE YOUR EARs A GOOD BOXING!
Hahah, boxing ears…haha, funny -sigh- back on track! Boxing ears! Hehe.
Nicole held his gaze with something like defiance.
Melanie straightened up and smiled, looking at Nicole. Her eyes flicked to me quickly, pain and something that looked and awful like "you'll rue the day you did this Ethan!" look was there-Note to self, lock all of the doors when I go to sleep, or learn to sleep with my eyes open!! Mel, for some reason, strikes me as the kind of girl that can pick a lock with a pin…
"Hey, Nicole?" Mel asked sweetly.
Aww, that's nice, they are getting along! Victory dance!
"Yes?" Nicole responded, as sweet as Mel.
Okay so girls- is it bad if you talk to each other in sickly sweet voices?? I wouldn't know, 'cause us guys when we fight we just go, "I'm gonna kill ya!" and then have at it! So, on girl fights, not so sure about it.
"Lets have us a little talk, hmm?" asked Mel, walked by Nicole and grabbing her arm and dragging her away.
"Oh yeah sure, ask and then give me no say in the matter!" Nicole said as Melanie dragged her a good way across the courtyard.
They stopped and started to gesture madly and whispering. I stood next to Adam.
"Are they fighting?" I asked. He looked at me funny.
"Well, I should think so." he said. I smiled, this ought to be funny.
The girls voices started to get louder as they shouted over each other and their arms and hands were gesturing madly and then at the same time they shouted the only word that Adam and I heard, and could not being to understand:
"…MINE!" they stood looking at each other their fist clenched at their sides, eyes locked.
I walked over and stepped in between them
"Now girls, no fighting, I mean, I know that I am THAT good looking, but c'mon! Yhere is enough to go around." they both turned on me, faces livid.
"Bad luck Ethan!" called Adam with a laugh.
I didn't take my eye off the two loons in front of me.
"What?" I shouted back. All I got in reply was a:
"Five, four, three, two," the girls started to smile maliciously, "and one!" and then they attacked me!
Shouting and punching, yeah punching! And lemme tell all of snickering people goin'- girls can't punch! Yeah they can! And it hurts like hell!
"Okay! Okay! Leave me alone! My god!" I shouted, but they still attacked me.
I got up of the ground and started to walk away. but both Harpies attached themselves to each of my legs so that I couldn't walk.
"What did I do?" I asked. They didn't responded, just stared up at me viciously.
"Oh okay, silent treatment, that works both ways."
I twisted and sat down next to them. They scooted so that they were sitting beside each other and looking at me. I studied each one carefully.
Mel was livid. She wanted to beat me up, badly. I think something along the line of tying me to the back of a horse crossed her mind.
Nicole looked oddly passive. She just wanted to go away. Sighing she got up and went back to the laundry where Adam joined her.
I smiled. Hopefully things would work out for them.
I almost vomited. I sounded like a girl!
Oh lord oh lord oh lord!! Help me!
I stared back a Melanie. I hate being quiet it annoys me!
"So," I started, "How long is this gonna last?" I asked her, putting my finger tips in a temple. She just glared.
"Can I talk about random things with-out getting punched again?" I asked her. She sat there glaring.
"Okay then…I pissed off my step brothers," a questioning look flashed in her eyes, but was so brief that I could have imagined it, "so Mildred sent me out of the house." glaring."I have no where to go, and she never told me what time to be home." glaring.
"Could I stay here?" more glaring.
"Aww c'mon Mel! Don't be like that!" I whined. Even more glaring.
"Uhhh, please? I'm sorry! What did I do anyways?" more glaring, so icy this time I shuddered. (but i must admit, that was a horrible apology!)
"Oh, okay, you wanna play that game do ya?" I asked her, glaring, and a slightly triumphant looked mixed in.
"You're on!" I said. Even more glaring.
I didn't talk.
I waited
and waited
and waited
and waited
and waited
and waited
and waited.
Finally it had been like four hours of silence in the same position.
Nicole and Adam had gone for a ride, talking animatedly amongst themselves.
The sun had sunk below the tress and the courtyard became blood red and orange and a light pink in the sunset.
And then the silence was broken.
Melanie's stomach growled. She grimaced and clutched at it.
I fought the urge to laugh, but then my stomach growled.
We looked at each other and fell into a hysterical fit of laughter. I am talking like tears, clutching your tummy, and rolling around on the ground laughter! Finally we sat up and whipped the tears from our eyes and cheeks.
"Fine." she said, hiccupping a little.
"Alright! I win!" I cheered. She glared and I quickly shut up.
"You can stay here," she said, "Wait for Adam to get back and tell you where you are gonna sleep," she smiled maliciously.
"I should learn to sleep with my eyes open shouldn't eye?" I asked, making a horrible pun, but she laughed.
"Yes, you should."
We herd pounding hoof beats and then Nicole and Adam came riding in the courtyard. Adam reigned his horse and got off of it. He walked over to Nicole and offered his arms to her. He helped her down, off of the horse. Once she was on the ground he wrapped her in a hug and kissed her.
I smiled watching the scene.
I reached out to find Mel's hand. I pulled her to my side and whispered in her ear,
"We sorta helped them have a happily ever after." I said. She smiled and looked up at me.
"Now I wonder if you'll get yours and I'll get mine." she said. I brushed a lock of hair away from her face.
"Of course you will." I whispered. She smiled and blushed, but it was hard to tell in this light.
"Now, Ethan, we must work on your manners, especially if you are planning to get the princess." she said with a laugh.
Of course just like her, ruining the moment
"Oh, I have plenty of manners!" I said, bowing and motion her fore-ward. She lightly curtsied and went ahead, only to trip on my outstretched foot. She stumbled, but caught herself.
Just like me to help ruin the moment farther!
"Ladies first?" I asked with a smiled. She flustered and the put her had fore-ward.
"Five second head start." she smiled.
"Oh shit!" I took off toward the kitchen with Mel close at my heels-damn the girl can run! We ran into the kitchen and fell into seats at the table, panting heavily.
"Well, looks like I am a girl." I said.
"Indeed." Mel panted. I smiled.
"Your turn to get dinner, my dear husband." I said evilly, giving the last word a sneer.
"Sure thing, my charming and beloved wife." replied Mel, copying me.
I grinned and she went to find some food laying around. She brought back two massive steaks.
"Whoa! That is massive!" I said. (I like to point out the obvious. In case you haven't noticed)
"Just eat! Your stomach is giving me a headache." I grinned an looked down at my stomach.
"Shush!" I said, putting a finger to my lips. My stomach just growled loudly. Nothing ever listens to me!
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A/N Long one commin' your way guys! Okay so first order of business: Nicole did not see this chapter until I post it! Can you tell the difference? We are still trying to figure out what we should put her stuff in! it is between bold italic and or italic! lemme know what you think!
Okay so number two: I have a poll up on my home page: go and check it out, and vote!
Third: I need help with the next chapter. What would you like to happen? And also, send me dress designs for obvious reasons! Via e-mail or review please! Fourth: Welcome back my readers that have stuck with me since chapter one. And welcome new readers!
Fifth: thank you to Disney Princess3, Lady Zarobiti, and Thai Libre for the encouragement, and the ideas on how to make this story better! I love you guys and thanks!!
And Sixth the biggest and bestest thank you to my unofficial beta Nicole(yes Nicole in this chapter is modeled after her, and she will be popping up much more often!) who made this story and without her it would be garbage! THANK YOU NICOLE!
And as always, the friendly reminder: any ideas or anything that you want to see happen? And come backs, dises, burns, characters, event that you want to see? Well shoot me it in a review or e-mail and I'll pop it in the next chapter! Peace my people! (and I warned you that it was going to be lonnnggggg!!) :D:D
OH AND LETS NOT FORGET ITEM NUMBER THREE! HMMM? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GONNA HAPPEN! SO IT IS UP TO YOU GUYS!! YOU KNOW HOW TO CONTACT ME! PEACE MY PEOPLE! AND THANK THANK THANK YOU NICOLE, FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR ASHES TO CINDERS!!