Lionblaze has a Shadow
Part 13 : Resention Convention
"Why am I always so comprehended?" Lionblaze wailed. Hollyleaf rolled her eyes, clearly annoyed.
"I'm not comprehending you," she sighed. "I'm just confused why you deliberately stomped on my grilled cheese."
"I didn't!" Lionblaze cried. "It was an accident for crying out loud!"
Hollyleaf resentfully threw her stepped on sandwich in the garbage. "Well if it was so accidental, then you can accidently make me a new one."
"BUT THERE IS NO MORE CHEESE!" Lionblaze yelled/whined.
"OH THAT'S SUCH A SURPRISE!"
"HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO MAKE A GRILLED CHEESE WITH NO CHEESE?"
"AW JEEZ I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE GO BUY SOME?" Hollyleaf shouted as loud as she could. Lionblaze took an exceptionally large breath to shout back, but stopped when he realized Hawkfrost had walked in with a disgusted look on his face.
"Are you aware I could hear you halfway down the street?" he snapped.
"Hollyleaf was shouting at me," Lionblaze said.
"I was not!" Hollyleaf screeched.
"Your hurting my feelings and creating a hostile environment for Hawkfrost," Lionblaze retorted, making Hollyleaf storm out of the room. After she was gone, Lionblaze stood there for a moment wondering why Hawkfrost was just standing there staring at him.
"Um, can I help you?" Lionblaze said at last.
"No," Hawkfrost snapped, then stormed his way out of the kitchen. Lionblaze watched him angrily stomping his feet.
He's so freaking weird.
Meanwhile...
Jayfeather couldn't figure out where all the glitter came from. It was on the table, up the walls, even in the sink. Jayfeather walked around the house, then rolled his eyes when he found the source of the problem. There was a huge statue of a cat sitting on the dining room table, completely covered in green glitter. Jayfeather remembered seeing the thing last week at a thrift shop. He also remembered inwardly hoping that Cloudtail wouldn't see it, because he knew he would buy it. Suddenly a pair of cold hands covered his eyes, tearing Jayfeather from his thoughts.
"Guess who," he heard Cloudtail say.
"Firestar?" Jayfeather joked. Cloudtail let go of his face and Jayfeather turned around to look at him. "So how was shopping?" he asked. Cloudtail was holding some plastic shopping bags, and to Jayfeathers dismay he didn't see a fruit loops box sticking out of one.
"I got stuff for dinner," Cloudtail replied, pulling out a box of hamburger helper.
"I love hamburger helper!" Jayfeather grinned.
"That's why I bought it," Cloudtail said, then leaned over close to Jayfeathers face. Jayfeather nearly had a heart attack. He hadn't kissed Cloudtail since that spontaneous moment in his car a few weeks ago. At the very last second, in that moment where Cloudtail was so close he could feel his breath on his face, Jayfeather ducked down to tie his shoe.
"These stupid things are always coming untied," Jayfeather mumbled. Cloudtail stood there looking at him for a few more seconds.
"I bet they do," he said at last, then proceeded to the kitchen with his food. When he was gone, Jayfeather collapsed backwards onto the couch, mentally swearing at himself for his awkwardness. He lay there fuming for a few minutes, and looked up when Cloudtails head poked out of the kitchen door.
"Did you see the statue?" he asked.
"It was kind of hard to miss."
"I know right! I saw it in a window today, and just had to buy it!" Cloudtail said happily. "Do you like it?"
"Yes," Jayfeather lied. Cloudtail grinned even harder. "You're such a bad liar," he sang, before going back into the kitchen. Jayfeather noticed that his heartbeat was going triple the speed it was earlier. Do I seriously get this flustered by just talking to him? Jayfeather thought, frustrated. He did some breathing exercises to calm himself down, and they did nothing but make him even more anxious. Abandoning his breathing exercise, he pulled out a cigarette. If this doesn't work, then im gonna hit something, Jayfeather took a big puff off the smoke and blew it out his nose. When he was about halfway done it, Jayfeather was very relieved to find that his heart rate had gone down.
"You did a really good job," Jayfeather stuck the last bit of pasta in his mouth. "You cook way better then Hollyleaf ever did."
"Well I sure hope so. She kinda sucked," Cloudtail replied. Jayfeathers eyes drifted over to the green cat statue, wishing that Cloudtail would move it somewhere else.
"Did you want anything else to eat?" Cloudtail asked as he got up from the table.
"No thanks," Jayfeather got up from the table with his plate too. When he put it in the sink, for the first time that day he noticed the bottle of wine sitting on the counter. "Did you get this today?" Jayfeather asked.
"What?" Cloudtail turned around. "Oh, that. Yeah I bought it when I was in town."
"Did you buy the lightest one in the store?" Jayfeather said after he read the 2% alcohol content label.
"I like the taste of it!" Cloudtail said defensively.
"I bet I'll be falling over after one sip of this," Jayfeather said sarcastically.
"You're so cute when you think your witty," Cloudtail shot back.
"You're so cute with soap in your hair," Jayfeather was on a roll.
"That doesn't even make sense-" Cloudtail reached up and touched his hair. "Oh," he said when he found the soap.
"Told you so."
"Jayfeather, why are you so reluctant to be around me?" Cloudtail suddenly asked. Jayfeathers face turned red. "What do you mean," he muttered.
"What I mean is I can't even talk to you without your face going red or you getting flustered over nothing," Cloudtail said.
"I'm just an awkward person," Jayfeather mumbled.
"You just need to relax," Cloudtail said. "Just stop caring."
"But I care about you."
"I mean stop caring about how you act in front of me."
"I can't! Jayfeather cried. "Your just so goddamn attractive!"
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"I look at you and forget what I was thinking about and worry I'll mess things up and ugh I don't know it's hard to explain," Jayfeather said miserably.
"You're so incredibly sexy," Cloudtail said. "I fucking love you. The things I would do to you if you'd let me..." Cloudtails voice trailed off as he realized what he had said. "I didn't mean to say that," he grinned. "But I did, right? And look - I'm not getting embarrassed." Jayfeather didn't say anything.
"I love you Jayfeather, and I know you love me. Why are you so determined not to make a commitment to me?"
"Because I'm a virgin," Jayfeather said in a more miserable voice than before.
"And your point?"
"The point is, that I don't know what the heck I'm doing when it comes to that kind of stuff!"
Cloudtail sat there thinking for a minute. "Don't look so sad," he said when he saw Jayfeathers face.
"I'll be sad if I like!" Jayfeather said.
"I've been with a lot of people, and I know how you feel."
"How could you possibly know what I feel? You're the exact opposite of me," Jayfeather got up from the couch. "I'm going to watch TV in my room for a bit. Goodnight," Jayfeather stomped out of the room. Cloudtail sighed and got up to pour himself a glass of wine. He could here Jayfeathers TV flipping through the channels, he obviously didn't know what to watch. He could hear him coughing too, it sounded as if he had a cold. Cloudtail poured a cup of juice and picked up a movie that was sitting on the table that he had rented a few days ago. He carried them to Jayfeathers room, and quietly opened the door. Jayfeathers head shot up, surprised to see him. "Here," Cloudtail gave the juice to him. "You're throat must be sore, I can hear you hacking from the other room. And I don't know if you like Criminal Minds, but it'll give you something to do," Cloudtail handed the movie to Jayfeather, then walked out of the room.
Lionblaze chucked three cans of beans into his cart. They bounced off the milk jug and landed on the carton of eggs. Lionblaze thought he heard some cracking but didn't care. Eggs were supposed to come out of their shell anyway. Lionblaze hated shopping, because everything was so confusing. There were like six brands of eight varieties of four different companies. Lionblaze picked up a can of Chunky Peanut butter and Peanut Butter: Chunky and carried them over to a depressed looking kid stocking a shelf.
"Ahem," Lionblaze cleared his throat. The kid looked over at him. "What?"
"I was wondering if you could explain to me the difference between these jars of peanut butter," Lionblaze held out the jars. The kid looked at Lionblaze like he was retarded.
"Dude, it's the same freaking thing."
"Why are they in different packaging then?" Lionblaze asked. The kid just rolled his eyes and walked away.
Not very good customer service, Lionblaze thought. He threw both the jars into the cart to save himself the work of choosing one. He looked down at the next item on the list, which was a watermelon. This was the first thing that Lionblaze knew where it was located, so he charged the cart as fast as he could. He rammed a table of cakes over and accidently ran over a card display on his way there. Lionblaze picked up the first melon he saw and crunched it in the cart right over top of the cereal boxes. Im done! Finally! Lionblaze walked over to the checkout stand and started unloading all his stuff. He accidently dropped the watermelon though, and it splattered all over the floor. The cashier glared at Lionblaze as he kicked it all under the chocolate bar stand. After everything was paid for, it took Lionblaze half an hour to realize that he had forgotten to buy more cheese.