Flowers and Chocolates

Part 2: Gillian & Mattea

"Isn't it awesome?"

Mattie nodded and took the box in her hands, giving a quiet sigh of relief as she did so. Thank God, Gill had actually listened to her for once.

She'd gotten her something normal. Just a normal box of chocolates.

Well, mostly normal. It was shaped like a chick—she wasn't sure where in the world Gill had gotten a box of chocolates shaped like a chick, but she figured it was better not to know—and it felt like it was half-empty. But still. More normal than she'd been expecting.

"This is really nice, Gill." She smiled, passing the box to one hand so she could reach into her backpack and pull out her Valentine's Day present for her girlfriend—a huge stuffed chick, because she'd known that getting Gill anything with sugar was a disaster just asking to happen. "And this is for you."

"Aww!" Gill squealed in excitement and then suddenly attacked her. "He's so cute!"

Mattie glanced around for a moment, rather thankful that no one they knew was watching. It was still so weird to be so...open about this. That she was dating another girl and everything. Of course—unfortunately of course—they still received plenty of the dirty looks whenever they did anything like this, but for the most part people were just ignoring them.

And Mattie was suddenly pulled out of her thoughts when her lips were suddenly covered by a mouth that tasted faintly of chocolate.

No need to question where the other half of her chocolate had gone.

"So," Gill questioned after she'd...unfortunately...pulled back, "You're coming over to my house tonight, right?" Her smile slipped into a slightly evil smirk. "I kicked Ludwig out of the house so hopefully he and Feli can actually get somewhere and Mutti and Vati are going out to some schmancy-dancy hotel, so we'll have the whole house to ourselves."

Mattie immediately blushed. "I—we shouldn't talk about something like this in the hallway..."

"We're not talking about anything bad~" Her smirk only grew more evil as she hissed out the last word. Making it sound much much worse than it needed to sound. "Unless you want to, of course. I don't mind telling everyone about what we do together. They'd be totally jealous about how awesome we are together."

And Mattie knew her face had to be beet red right now.

Which was why she was rather happy when she suddenly heard someone shouting something-or-other from down the hallway. Hooray for distractions. At least, she thought so until she actually heard what they were saying.

"Look, it's the sexy cop!"

"Oooh, Sexy Cop! What's he doing here?"

"Dude, why are there a bunch of speakers down there? Is he giving a concert?"

"No, I think those are for that mariachi band..."

And she knew that things were only about to get worse when she saw that Gillian had started grinning even more evilly than before. "Awesome! He's right on time!"

"Who's right on time for what?"

And Gillian completely ignored her, of course. Instead, she ran off down the hallway, pushing a bunch of people aside in the process, and then pushed her way to the front of the crowd gathering in front of one of the open windows. Leaning out so far that Mattie was terrified she was about to fall out.

"Hi, Leon!"

...what was she doing to this poor guy now?

"Gillian Beilschmidt, I am going to kill you for this."

"You can't kill me." And she was going to fall out of the window in about two seconds. Mattie hurried forward, apologising about a hundred times as she made her way through the crowd to stand beside her girlfriend. "You'd lose your badge if you killed me!"

"It'd be worth it." And Leon was standing down beneath the window, right next to a giant stereo speaker that was attached by a long extension cord to a blue truck which was just sitting right there on the quad.

There went her normal Valentine's Day.

"So guess what I did, Mattie?" Gill now turned to her, thankfully crawling back inside the building as she did so. "Since Tonio wouldn't let me use his mariachi band, I decided that I'd get Leon to sing for you! Isn't that awesome? 'Cause he can sing really awesomely!"

Oh God, this poor guy...

"Gill, that's really sweet, but I don't think..."

"Oh my God, Sexy Cop can sing?" And a bunch of the other girls now started leaning out of the window at this, shouting down at the poor man.

He was going to be mentally traumatised and it was going to be all her fault.

"Sing it, Leon!" Gill suddenly called down.

"Yeah, Sexy Cop, sing!" Another girl echoed.

Mattie felt like her face was about to spontaneously combust.

"Gillian, you never said I was going to have to sing in front of your entire school!"

"Yeah!" And that call came from the floor above. A very familiar voice. "Take it off!"

"Fuck you, Francis!"

And that was the moment that Mattie turned and fled.

A/N: Ha, like Gill would do Valentine's Day normally. Silly Mattie. Silly silly Mattie.

And how Gillian even got Leon to agree to this? She just asked Big Mike very sweetly if she'd ask Leon for her. And Leon cannot refuse his grandmother anything... Because the consequences would be more horrible than having to sing in front of a bunch of insane high schoolers in the most embarrassing setting ever.

Just think about that for a moment...

Also, the song he's supposed to/may sing? "Kiss the Girl" from the Little Mermaid.

And yes, he's got an insanely gorgeous voice. ;)