Brave frontier couples #6: Michele and Lodin. P. will change.
Michele's P.O.V
I was hurling my axes at the training dummy, causing it to nearly split in half. "Yah!" The dummy was cut down. I grinned and left, that was one less dummy. Lodin was watching me. I gripped my axes tighter, too bad I couldn't cut down that dummy. He smirked and said in that annoyingly high voice, "Satisfied?" I grinned at him, and threw an axe right next to his head. It quivered an inch from his ear. "Now I am." I said. He looked at me in shock, than horror. He ran away, ducking his head at every sound the wind made. I laughed at walked to my house, the one I shared with Ruby. She was gone. Probably out with Dion, the lovebirds. Rinon was there, waiting for me. She was one of my best friends. The other was Yuura. He and I saw eye to eye when it came to Lodin, and he loved teasing Lodin as much as I did. "Did you split another dummy?" Rinon asked. I nodded. She grinned, "How many is that now? Eleven?" "Fourteen." I said. She threw her hands up. "I'm just glad I don't pay for those." "We don't pay for them," I said, "We build them" Rinon shrugged. "Well," she said, "Lance wants me to come with him to some sort of carnival in Vriksha." "Don't tell me you excepted his request!" I moaned. She blushed. "Rinon, what did I tell you? He's in love with Selena!" I stated. "Than why did he only invite me?" She countered. "Maybe he hasn't invited anyone else yet." I told her. Rinon muttered something and left. I felt bad, but I knew I was right, Lance loved Selena. Rinon wanted to be loved like that, she saw Dion and Ruby and knew that that was what she wanted. She claimed that she was the only one without a love. I of course told her that I didn't have one, but she said that that didn't count, I never wanted one in the first place. I told her Medina didn't have one either, but Rinon said that Medina secretly loved Yuura. Yuura of course knew, but delighted in playing dumb. I finally told her that maybe Lance would love her when they went to whatever they were going to to. She perked up instantly. That was one thing I liked about her, when she was down, it was easy to get her spirits up. I grabbed my axes and stowed them into their sheathes on my belt. I was done for the day.
Lodin's P.O.V
I made it back to my house, making sure that no more axes were being hurled at me. I shared a house with Quaid, and also Yuura. I liked Quaid, but Yuura reminded me of Michele to much. I decided to play volleyball with Selena and Lunaris, against Griff and Roa. That made it three against one, so Kafka joined Griff and Roa. Roa ignored her, as she did him. Those two probably loved each other on the inside. Griff was an expert, and their team beat us. We played for about two hours before Roa said he was done, and then the teams disbanded after that. I talked with Lunaris for awhile about different sword techniques, than she left and I headed home. Quaid wasn't back yet from Feeva's, and Yuura was teaching Medina the right way to pet a Gloomy. I left for Michele's house, so maybe I could tease her a bit before I went off the bed. I heard someone crying. It was Alice. "What's the matter, Alice?" I said gently. She smiled at me and made a place for me to sit. "It's just...just that I never seem to be able to get the hang of friendship right. I accidentally cut Eze's arm when we were training together. He got real mad and told me that was why I had no friends, because I always kill them." I cursed Eze under my breath. Couldn't he see that Alice was a little young to be a master sword-smith already? I cut my master quite a bit when I first trained. And besides, she was way better with a scythe then with a sword. "Ignore Eze, he's always like that, even to Vargas sometimes. I think your a better scythe master than a sword master. And you may not think you have friends, but I'm here, aren't I?" Alice smiled at me. "Thank you." She whispered. I nodded. "If Eze acts up again, just come get me or Vargas. We'll set him straight." I chuckled and ruffled her hair. I couldn't help but feel like a big brother when it came to Alice. Alice hugged me and left. What I didn't know was that someone had been watching me from they're window as Alice and I talked. I went off to bed.
Michele's P.O.V
That was so sweet! Lodin really is like a big brother to Alice. Before I knew what I was doing, I knocked on Lodin's door. " Yes?" He said as he opened the door. Than he gulped when he saw me. "Can I h-help you?" He asked. "I just wanted to tell you how sweet you were talking to Alice like that, Lodin." I said. He blushed. "Oh, yeah, thanks." I quickly realized what I said and blushed too. "Bye." I said and shot off. I can't believe I just said that to...to Lodin! Oh no, was I going soft? My heart had just melted when I saw Lodin and Alice though. I knew that this wasn't weakness, it was just...sisterly affection. Not love. But my conscience nagged me saying, 'Since when have you had 'sisterly affection' towards Lodin?' I gulped. It would be home in the morning, I told myself. I went to bed. But I lay awake for hours, thinking it all over. I heard Ruby come in after one A.M. She was giggling and climbed into bed. I fell asleep later.
Morning. I forgot all about last night until I saw Lodin. He blushed when he saw me, as did I. I saw Yuura look back and forth, putting two and two together. He grinned and nodded, like he'd been expecting this for awhile. I sat next to him and Rinon. Rinon was chattering away about the carnival and stuff, but I was kinda zoned out. Yuura was grinning evilly, probably putting some matchmaking plot together. Yuura turned red when Medina tripped over the foot Eze stuck out, and landed in Yuura's arms. She blushed furiously, instantly apologizing and getting out of his arms. Eze gave a high five to Emilia, than winced as Yuura smacked him on the head with his staff. I laughed and went to hack up my daily dummy, but Lodin was already finishing the job. "Nice," I said to him, "But work on your posture more, and that face. You gotta mean it!" He screwed up his face, but only succeeded in making himself look stupid. I snorted and gave him more advice, this time he got it right and hacked at the dummy with all his might. It split in two, both ends shooting away from each other. He looked at me as if he expected praise. How childish. I nodded and left.
Lodin's P.O.V
After she left, I sat down to think over last night and today. Did Michele like me? I quickly banished the thought. Nah, Michele only like Rinon and Yuura. I couldn't help but like her, she was so warlike for a girl. She was pretty too, and strong. Her blonde hair made her red eyes stand out like rubies in sand. She had a fiery red dress, which made her look dashing. I grinned and imagined myself sharing a kiss with the hotheaded war girl. I made up my mind, time to tell Michele what I thought of her. Even if she killed me. I went over to her house and knocked. "Just a moment!" I heard. Ruby opened the door. "Hey Lodin. What brings you here?" She said. "I'm looking for Michele." I told her. Ruby smiled, "Michele isn't here, but I think she went to the arena." I nodded. "Thanks Ruby." "Anytime." I left toward the arena, Michele was there alright, beating the stuffing out of a combat dummy. I gulped, imagining the dummy as me when I told her my feelings. Nevertheless I proceeded. "Michele?" I called. "What?" She grunted, hacking off the arm of the dummy. "Can you...can you come here for a second?" She obliged, luckily leaving her axes in the dummy. "Yes, can I help you?" I nodded. "Michele, I must tell you something." She raised an eyebrow. "Yes?" She said again. I gulped, now or never. "Michele, I... I never told you before, b-but l...l lo-love you." Whew! That was hard. She blushed. "Oh." She picked up her axes. I dove underneath the stands. But Michele just left quickly, still blushing. I shook my head. What did I do wrong?
Michele's P.O.V
I ran to my house. "Ruby!" I said. "What?" She replied. "Lodin...Lodin just expressed his love for me!" "Why, that's wonderful!" Ruby said. "No it isn't, I don't know what to do. I do like Lodin, but I don't know if I love him!" Ruby grinned. "Of course you love him, Michele! You're blushing, which means you do love him!" "No it doesn't!" I said scathingly. Ruby grinned again. "Claiming you don't is also a hint! Oh Michele, I knew this would come!" I gulped. Did I really love Lodin? In my heart I knew Ruby was right. I went outside and looked for Lodin. He was in the arena still, muttering, "Nice job, Lodin, you just scared her away." I hurled my axe. It quivered right next to his hand. He whirled around. "H-hey Michele. S-sorry ab-about before. I... I didn't know you weren't, uh, in lo-" I stopped him with a kiss. Then he was kissing me back, and after I whispered in his ear, "You coward." He grinned shyly. We walked hand in hand back towards his house. I saw Yuura and Medina in a dark corner, kissing. Haha, knew it.