Disclaimer: I do not own Chrno Crusade
Oh and please excuse me if I describe the drunk behavior wrong. I've never been drunk before. x)
Chapter Eleven...
"Rosette, WAIT!" Chrno's cry echoed through the empty hall, and several heads stuck out from classrooms on all sides. Rosette though, ignored them and kept walking away, not even turning around to look at Chrno. Still lagging behind her because of her headstart,
Chrno kept trying to make her stop.
"Come on Rosette...at least listen!"
"Seriously! Don't get so worked up about nothing!" Rosette's pace quickened.
"Well I just thought that the song was some kind of...trap..."
"Stop following me."
"Rosette stop being so stubborn! I just-"
"I HAVE TO USE THE BATHROOM!" she shut the girl's bathroom door in his face, and the hallway became completely quiet again. He hadn't even noticed that they were headed for the bathrooms.
Chrno leaned his back against the wall next to the door and sighed deeply. Would this girl ever cool down? One minute she was all bouncy and high and the next, she's threatening you with your life or making you feel like the biggest jerk in the world.
How did she DO it?
Chrno groaned, trying to make the extremely quiet hallway seem less quiet.
"Rosette..." he called. "Come out, I need to talk to you...you can't stay in there forever.
Silence.
"FINE. I'll just talk to you like this then."
The door to the girl's bathroom remained closed.
"Look, I'm SORRY if I OFFENDED you...but did you really have to make that scene in the caf? I mean...that dream was kinda weird that I'm sure you heard about...and I'm still not sure if I actually enjoyed it or not...so can you forgive me and pretend this never happened...?"
After a moment of no response and still silence, Chrno put his ear up to the door and struggled to listen for something.
He heard the running of water, and then the flush of a toilet, and he could've SWORN he heard gagging noises.
Rosette then came out, looking pale and sickly.
Chrno stood there staring at her wondering if she was about to puke all over him.
"That food was gross."
"What?"
"That disgusting food really didn't agree with my stomach..." Rosette shut her eyes, clutching her stomach.
Chrno continued to stare...did that mean-?
"You didn't hear anything I said in the past three minutes, did you?" Chrno asked numbly, shaking a bit.
Rosette opened her brilliant blue eyes and shook her head at the distressed teenager.
"Great..." he remarked sarcastically, but quickly noticed Rosette turning paler and covering her mouth.
"Ohhhhh my god, Rosette get in there!" and Chrno shoved the sick girl into the bathroom and took her to a stall,
where he held her hair back the whole time.
"Well, Ms. Christopher, your temperature is normal, I'm sure it's just a minor bug, just keep lying down." The nurse assured her in a nonchalant voice and waddled over to her desk to record Rosette's visit.
The rather large woman looked over at Rosette who lay on the small, uncomfortable bed looking exhausted and Chrno who let his head hang back on the chair he was sitting on by the bed.
The two had staggered into her office, the purple haired boy mumbling about vomit and it's smell and the blonde just plain old sick.
After they had placed Rosette on the bed, the boy had rushed to the bathroom and puked himself. No one was there to holde HIS hair back.
Before she knew it though, both teens had conked out in their uncomfortable positions on the bed and chair, making the nurse chuckle to herself.
A relaxing silence filled the small school nurse's office, and the old lady contently filled out paperwork, looking over at the sleeping teens every other minute.
However, the silent was ruined, when a student, the same age as Chrno and Rosette, stumbled in.
"Helloooo Mizzzz Nurss..." the boy slurrred, losing his balance slightly.
The old woman looked up from her paperwork asnd sighed at the drunken teenager. She pointed her pen to a seat, commanding the boy to sit down.
"Drinking again on campus, are we, Mr. Finnigan? I'll have to notify your parents and the principal again, you know." This happened a lot with this particular student, and the principal would not be surprised to hear this.
"Awwww Nurzz, don be like dat..." the teen's eyes slanted and he leaned dangerously over the side of the chair.
"Muh teacher..sented me herrrre fer some reason I dunno..." the boy looked around, as if wondering where he was.
The nurse sighed again, and put down her pen to get up. Just as she was about to leave the room, she turned around to the poisoned teen.
"Don't you DARE do anything stupid, Mr. Finnigan. Don't even MOVE. I'll be right back!" and with that, the woman walked briskly out of the room.
The silence from before, quickly filled the room again after she walked out.
The teenager who had just entered, looked over at the other two patients, hoping to figure out who they were through all of the blurriness.
One had purple hair, and was sitting upright, asleep on a chair. A blonde girl, who looked very pretty, layed on the bed.
He looked around checking if someone was coming, and walked over to the bed, as carefully as he could without toppling over.
Man, he had drank a LOT.
The girl lying down on the bed, seemed very pretty. Why was she on the bed. Why wouldn't she talk to him.
The curious boy tried to focus and see her face clearly. But it was too blurry. His face got closer and closer, as he tried to focus his vision on her face.
"Hullooo..." At that moment, Chrno woke up from his restful slumber and saw someone getting dangerously close to his Rosette.
His??
"Hey you!" he warned the newcomer. The intruder looked over at the awakened Chrno.
They boy squinted a moment at his face, then Rosette.
"Heyyy...you're thozzzze two people who were fightin' durin' lunch..." he pointed at Chrno's face, delighted he had identified them.
"Yeahhhh...are you drunk? You're Michael Finnigan aren't you? The one who drinks on campus..."
"Thatsa me!!"
"Well...could you get away from-"
A movement by "Michael" interrupted their pointless conversation and made them realize that Rosette was waking up. She opened up her eyes to see a stranger's face right by hers.
"GETTOFF!!!" she pushed him off the bed, causing his vision to swirl and spin. He fell back on his butt, feeling dizzy.
Chrno looked over at the irritated Rosette and blushed, remembering their current arguement/problem.
That's right. She hadn't heard his apology before.
Oh well. He couldn't worry about that now, because before he had realized it, Michael had been inviting the two to a party at his house that night.
"-trying tooo get EVRYWUN tuh come...sooo do yuh guys wanna?" the boy waited for an answer like an excited child.
Rosette stared at him suspiciously.
"Will there be alcohol?" she asked, her eyebrows raised.
"You bet!!"
"We're coming." she grinned at the boy and he smiled lazily back. Chrno sputtered.
"Rosette. Don't tell me you're going just because of that! 'Sides, we're underage!" Rosette shrugged at him and looked around the room.
"Come on Chrno, live a little...by the way, why are we in the nurse's office?" she asked.
Chrno sighed, deciding to push the party problem away for now.
"Well, when you were walking away from me, you locked youself in the bathroom and started puking everywhere while I became sick to my stomach myself.
Then, we staggered back here and you just conked out from exhaustion on the bed, and me from basically, disgust." Rosette widened her eyes.
"Oh yeah! Now I remember...and I was walking away ...why?" she asked, knowing perfectly well why she had been angry with him.
"Uhhh...well...yah see..." Chrno stammered, leaning back on his chair, as Rosette leaned back on the bed waiting for an answer.
Meanwhile, Michael, the still drunken boy, stood there, nodding every now and then as if he was in the conversation. Of course he wasn't REALLY listening. He just didn't want to be left out is all.
"Well for now, I'll forgive you." Rosette smirked to herself as she changed her shirt, on the phone with Chrno.
After giving his whole speech on how sorry he was, his uncertainness, and how he couldn't control what he dreamed, Rosette had apparently forgiven him for the time being, but now she was thinking about the party they had been invited to.
"So Chrno, are you going to that party that Finnigan guy invited us to?"
"...you better not go Rosette."
"Why not? 'Cuz I'm an 'attractive young woman' who has no boundaries and has a high chance of getting dateraped?"
"You probably didn't know how easy you are to read, Chrno."
"Well then, if you already know, DON'T GO! Michael's parties always get pretty wild."
"Wilder than me?"
"...Please Rosette."
"Aww you're such a party pooperrrr..."
"Better safe than-"
"Hey! I have an idea! Would you let me go if I promised to stay by your side? You'd protect me right?"
"...you never listen to me. Besides, even if I'm with you, that won't stop the wildness of the party."
"PLEASE? With you and your big muscles, you can-"
"FINE. WE'LL GO. As long as you promise to do just that...and stop trying to convince me to do stuff with that fake flattery..."
"Gasp!! Whatever you say, Chrno!!! I LOVE YOU!!! AND I LOVE PARTYING!! WHOOOO!!!!"
There was a click, and the dialtone rang through Chrno's ears.
He placed the phone down on it's receiver, sighing,
What had he done?
Excited for a fun night, Rosette hung up the phone without sayong goodbye.
Homework can wait, she thought as she looked over at her abandoned backpack on the bed.
She bounced over to her closet, wondering what she would wear. Not something heavy, because of the strange hot weather. Looking over her bright and exuberant clothes, she picked a ...bright... and... exuberant outfit ...and layed it on the bed.
The clock said that she would probably go in two hours. She had plenty of time until then.
Looking around her room, she saw a picture of Dave, Nick, Keith, and herself...the band, on her nightstand. That reminded her of the upcoming concert. The concert was so close.
A week away. She hadn't talked to anyone of them since two or three days ago when she left Keith behind at a practice.
And as if responding to her thoughts, her cellphone rang, waking out of it's two day hibernation of silence,
She picked it up, wondering who was calling.
"Hello?"
"Hey sis."
"Dave! Sorry I haven't call or anything I-"
"He did something bad this time, didn't he?"
"What?"
"You and Keith. We haven't seen you guys for a few days. And me an' Nick are getting worried."
"Well...we're just kinda having a conflict right now is all, it can't be helped."
"Is that it? A 'conflict?' Sis, I'm not stupid. I know how aggressive Keith can be...I just don't want this to affect the concert in anyway...and I also wanna know if you're okay."
"..."
"You don't have to tell us anything now...but if things get too much for you to handle, me and Nick are here for yah. Okay, Rosette?"
"Yes. Don't worry. Me and Keith are okay."
She snapped her cellphone shut, hanging up on the second person that day.
Sighing, she flopped back onto her bed, and stared at the ceiling.
We're okay. We're just DONE.
Ohhhhh next chapter is gonna be good...(I hope!) And I also hope you all remember Nick and Dave...Nick, the quiet drummer guy...and Dave...her brother.
(she was adopted and that was her inherited brother)
But no one forgets Keith... -.-
Next chapter: Party!!!!! (and a bit of drama)