Chapter 5
The ruby orbed girl had headed to the back of the store to try some things on, when she had interrupted something. Looking from the dark haired male to...Kentin, her jaw went slack & just stood there, shocked. 'Ah i'll be right with you miss~
Just cleaning up', the dark haired man said as he went over to the 'Kentin-like Manequin' and took it under his arm, moving it.
Wait a minute...
That was just a...Mannequin?!, Brooklyn thought disappointed as she waited for the man to let her into the change room.
Before he got back, a familiar siliver haired man appeared from the change room, wearing Kentin's clothing. 'I don't know Leigh, it doesn't seem like girls would love this kind of thing on a guy~', the silverette said adjusting the wrists of the sweater when he finally looked up, stunned. 'Oh no Lysander, a lot of people are really going for nerds this time of year. Isn't that right Brooklyn?', Leigh asked as he came out of the shadows of his shop grinning. Brooklyn looked back and forth from the silver haired stunned man to the black haired grinning one.
They were...brothers?
'U-Uh I wouldn't necessarily say~', Brooklyn started to say, but stopped when a camera flashed from somewhere beside her. Looking to her left, she saw a dark haired woman with black hair & tanned skin taking shots of Lysander in his Kentin outfit. 'Yep, work with me Lys~
Yeah just one more', she said, grinning when she was done. 'All right, finished! Thanks Leigh! See you next week!~, the woman said as she went to the front of the store, leaving.
'I'll just go take this off now~', Lysander said after the awkward silence as he quickly turned back into the change room. Brooklyn didn't really no what to do at that point, so she just turned to the dark haired man that was Leigh & tapped her foot. 'So my brother & yourself go to the same school', Leigh asked her as he started cleaning some of the clothes up. Brooklyn watched him for a few minutes before realizing he had asked her a question. 'Ah well yes. Of course we go to the same school, there's only one in this town..
Ah how do you know my name?', Brooklyn asked, not really feeling like shopping anymore. Leigh stopped cleaning up for a minute and looked at her. 'Well considering your friends with Castiel, it shouldn't be hard to figure out, right? But then again, my brother talks about you quite a bit too~', Leigh said chuckling as Lysander bursted from the changeroom, flushed. 'If you wouldn't mind keeping things to yourself LEIGH, maybe THEN you wouldn't have girlfriend troubles', Lysander said as he turned to Brooklyn, sighing. 'Come on, i'll walk you home~', Lysander added on as he walked ahead of ther girl, making her run to him to keep up~
'You know you don't have to walk me home.
I can walk home by myself', Brooklyn said, her arms crossed and pouting at Lysanders back as he continued to walk in front of her. She could hear him sighing the whole time they had walked together from the shop till now. 'It's dark out, and ladies are more dire to be attacked at night alone', Lysander said as he quickly stopped, making Brooklyn bump into him. 'Hey what's the big id~', Brooklyn started to say but was shut off when Lysander had turned around, covering his hand over her mouth. 'Come on, hold my hand okay?', Lysander whispered to her as she glared at him. 'Just trust me'. Brooklyn nodded reluctantly, wanting him to take back his hand & wanting to go home bad enough. Grabbing Lysander's hand, the two walked to Brooklyn's house the rest of the way there, holding hands.
From the next street over, a red haired delinquent could be spotted...
The next day, Brooklyn had just entered the school when a strange girl with a microphone & huge recording device appeared in front of her. 'Hey! Hi! You're Brooklyn right? I'm Peggy; i'm in charge of the school newspaper!', Peggy stated grinning as her blue eyes locked unto Brooklyn's red ones, making the girl a bit scared. 'Uh yeah hi~' 'Great! To get the the point, I heard that you were at Leigh's shop yesterday with my sister. What can you tell me about it?' 'Uh what do you mean?' 'Did you discover anything? Anything weird happen last night?' 'Don't you think that if anything happened, your sister would've told you?' 'Well yes, but I need someone in the student body to be a witness of sorts for the paper. So?' 'Well nothing odd happened..if that's what you mean' 'Really? I hope your not hiding anything from me Brooklyn, because I will find out if you are' 'Well good for you then~', Brooklyn finished off, but started to hear some voices from the student council room so she had stopped chatting with Peggy and went to see what was going on~'
Just as Brooklyn was about to open the door the the S.C. room, the principal exited, making Brooklyn side step her and here what she said. 'NATHANIEL I'M WARNING YOU FOR THE LAST TIME! If this isn't settled quickly, it won't be an hour of detention for you, but definite expulsion from the high school!', the principal yelled crazily as she stormed down to her office.
'Ah, you were there? You heard everything right?', Nathaniel asked Brooklyn after crazy face left...
Nathaniel had ended up admitting that someone stole some important documents from the teachers lounge, and that he was being blamed for it considering he was the only student with a key to it. But, his key had disappeared, so when he was questioned by the principal, Nathaniel had stated that his had gone missing. Someone had stolen his key, AND the documents, and he was being framed for it. Brooklyn didn't like this blonde haired golden eyed boy very much, but she felt a tad bit guilty for him, so she decided to help him discover who had stolen these things, & why...
Oh oh! Did you hear that? Student body president in the hot seat! This would make a great headline! I can't wait to find out more about this case!', Peggy said from behind Brooklyn after Nathaniel had left. 'You'd honestly embarrass someone like that Peggy?', Brooklyn said to her, a bit angered. 'It makes for a good story', Peggy said not even one tad remorseful and left, probably to uncover more dirt...
After Peggy walked away from Brooklyn, the purple haired girl decided to check up on the plant life in the Gardens, considering today Jade wouldn't be there...
Entering the Gardens, Brooklyn saw that for once she wasn't alone in there, besides Jade & Iris being in there. Brooklyn saw a purple haired girl with a grey dress with purple trim around It on her hands & knees, digging up the dirt. The girl hadn't noticed Brooklyn enter, so the ruby orbed girl slowely walked up to the girl & noticed she had a large green portfolio beside her. Brooklyn cleared her throat, making the other purple haired girl startle & look up behind her to see Brooklyn standing near her, waving. 'Ah, hello there. I'm Brooklyn~', Brooklyn said as Violette stood up, slightly smiling. 'Hello. I'm Violette', the girl said as she picked up her portfolio. 'You wouldn't have happened to see any keys around here would you?', Brooklyn asked her as she looked around. 'No sorry, I haven't noticed anything~', Violette said looking down. Brooklyn thanked her & said that they should chat some time, to which Violette smiled a little bit more and agreed, saying that they should eat lunch together...
Bumping into Lysander, Castiel, & a few more people in the hallways, Brooklyn didn't get anymore information out of them than she did when she had tried coaxing her little sister Codi to stop wearing pink.
Sighing, Brooklyn decided it was time for lunch, so she went to the gardens and sat down near a cluster of trees, opening her lunch to find the sushi left over from last night's dinner & waited for Violette.
Soon enough, Violette had come & sat down with Brooklyn, surprised that Brooklyn liked sushi. 'Why would you be surprised Violette? Sushi's good', Brooklyn asked the girl as Violette turned a bit red and said that sushi was her favourite food, but never saw anyone else eating it besides her here. Smiling, Brooklyn decided that they'd share her lunch against the protests Violette made. So the two purple haired girls spent their lunch getting to know eachother under the sunlight & shade...
'Hey Brooklyn, what's that shiny thing over there?', Violette asked sipping some water as she pointed to something glinting under one of the rose bushes. 'I don't know, i'll go see~', Brooklyn replied getting up and going over to the bush. Putting her hand out, Brooklyn grabbed something hard & brought it out to the sunlight. It was Nathaniel's key.
Turning around, Brooklyn smiled and told Violette she'd come right back, but she had to give Nathaniel his key back first. Smiling as well, Violette nodded her head as Brooklyn ran off the find Nathaniel...
Finally finding the blonde man wandering the halls with a worried expression on her face, Brooklyn showed him the key, making him smile and asked her to go to the teachers lounge with him. Nodding, Brooklyn walked with him towards the teachers lounge, bumping into the principal twice, and then a third time when the crazy woman again thanked the girl for saving he dog.
Getting rid of crazy face, Brooklyn waited nervously as Nathaniel quickly opened the door to the teachers lounge and told Brooklyn that she had five minutes to try and find any evidence of the thief in their. Nodding her head, Brooklyn quickly started looking under the couches, around the coffee maker, & near the moldy sandwiches in the mini fridge for any sign of someone sneaking in there.
Soon, Brooklyn started hearing Nathaniel's voice saying to hurry up, and then the principal's voice asking him why he was here. Scurrying under the couch, Brooklyn tried as best as she could to hide herself well enough so that the principal wouldn't find her. Opening her eyes to see the principals gramdma shoes hear her face, Brooklyn backed up a bit & felt something hard in her hands. The girl squinted at the item that was in her hands.
A bracelet
Clutching the bracelet with her hand, Brooklyn took deep even breathes to calm herself so the grey haired woman wouldn't hear her breathing.
Finally, she left, allowing the ruby orbed girl to breathe out in relief & hurry outside to Nathaniel...
The Student body president had left her there in the T.L. alone, Brooklyn found out once she had gotten into the S.C. room where Nathaniel was chatting with some brunette that needed a haircut.
He had turned around and asked her how she wasn't in trouble, but Brooklyn didn't say anything to him, angry about him leaving her there. But she did end up showing him the bracelet, which made him gasp. The brunette looked at the bracelet too, & said in her annoying voice, 'Hey Nathaniel isn't that~' 'Yes Melody, it's Ambers', Nathaniel had said trying to grab for it but didn't succeed.
Smirking, Brooklyn hurried out of the room, going to find Amber and confront her...
Melody huh...
What a dumb name.
Finding the blonde bimbo in the home class room, Brooklyn stayed near the door & listened to what she said. Amber was telling her friends how Brooklyn had found her bracelet in the Teacher's Lounge, & how Brooklyn was going to tell everyone that it was herself that had stolen the documents. The purple haired girl smirked at this, and revealed herself from the shadow, throwing the bracelet on the desk all cool-like, totally out of character. 'That may be so, but your brother didn't deserve the blame for that Amber. You're such a spoiled brat~', Brooklyn said smirking. Amber glared at her, taking a few steps forward, but stopped, looking behind Brooklyn. 'Eh?'. 'Don't even think about it Amber. Just calm down', Lysanders voice said as he put his hands on Brooklyn's shoulders, forcing the girl to back away from the classroom. What does he think he's doing?! Now's the perfect change to get her back!, Brooklyn thought fighting back against his hold, but Lysander held firm to her as he led her out of the classroom & away from, now, the siblings quarreling. 'Oh...
How long was Nathaniel standing there?', Brooklyn asked Lysander as he let go of her shoulders, but trailed his finger down Brooklyn's shoulder to her arms, elbow, wrist, and then took her hand & kissed her palm, making the girl blush & glare at him. 'A while m'lady, but no worries. Nothing broke out~', Lysander said smiling as he let go of her hand, walking away.
...
What thefu~!?, Brooklyn thought as she continued to watch Lysander walk down the hallway
There was one last thing Brooklyn had to do, and that was to find the documents, now known to be the exam answers. Going from hallway to hallway, Brooklyn was about to give up when Castiel had turned the corner & scowled when he saw her. 'Hey! You...
Ah wouldn't happen to know where~' 'No I don't, so don't ask me alright?', Castiel said interrupting her with a glare. Brooklyn had never seen the male so mad before. 'What's up?', Brooklyn asked him walking towards him. Castiel just shrugged. 'Since when were you and Lysander going out?', Castiel asked nonchalantly but angry still. The ruby orbed girl blushed and looked away. 'W-We're not! We've just started talking that's all', Brooklyn said as she looked up too see Castiel grinning at her. 'All right. Good enough for me. Oh, & here~', Castiel said handing her a black notepad with green stripes down the middle. Brookyln looked at him questionably, but Castiel interrupted her look. 'It's Lysanders. Go give it to him when you find the exams okay? He's probably looking for it~
Oh, & check the end of the hall', Castiel said smirking as he walked into a classroom, shutting the door with his foot.
Strange man, Brooklyn thought as she hurried to the end of the hall where the exams where.
Giving the exams to Nathaniel, Brooklyn sighed as she closed the door to the S.C. room. It was the end of the day, and she hadn't seen Lysander or Castiel anywhere. What am I supposed to do with a guys notepad? Spy on him with it? I already know a big secret~
Brooklyn thought as she turned to go to the Gardens to pick up her backpack, when she heard a familiar annoying voice. 'Hey! Wait right there!', Amber yelled out ticked off as she stormed up to Brooklyn. It looked as though the blonde bimbo was about to murder someone, and that someone was~
'All of this is YOUR fault! I hope your happy! I've been suspended for a week! You better watch out, or you're going to regret it when I get back!', Amber threatened Brooklyn.
The purple haired girl glared at the blonde. 'You're the blonde brat that had to cheat to somehow appear smart! This has nothing to do with me bitch!', Brooklyn growled at her. Amber glared at her in subtle surprise. 'Wh-What?! Watch! You're going to regret this right now!', Amber screamed as she raised her arm to hit Brooklyn.
Brooklyn grabbed Ambers wrist & glared at her. 'DON'T. YOU. DARE. HIT. ME. BITCH!', Brooklyn yelled at her as she slapped Amber twice, hard. So hard that Amber had ended up falling backwards unto the floor. 'Y-You'll regret meeting me Brooklyn! You'll regret it!', Amber screamed as she stood up drunkenly and scurried out of the school, holding the side of her face.
Yeah that's right. You don't mess with Brooklyn...
But I already regret meeting you Amber, Brooklyn thought as she smirked at Ambers fading person.
Getting her backpack from the Gardens, Brooklyn walked to the front of the school with Violette, listening to the quiet girl talk about how Brooklyn was a hero at the school, the only person who's ever stood up to Amber like that. Brooklyn just grinned & denied it, saying that anyone could've done it. Violette shook her head and said that they should meet in the Gardens again tomorrow. Waving goodbye to each other, Brooklyn remembered Lysander's notepad.
Well, it's not like he'll know if I open it~, Brooklyn thought when a shadow came from above her. 'Hey Brooklyn, have you seen my notepad? I don't know where I put it~', Lysander asked her as he came up from behind her, frowning. Brooklyn sighed as she handed it over, making Lysander look at her surprised. 'Now don't think I stole it something. Castiel gave it to me before, saying that you forgot it in the courtyard~', Brooklyn said as she started to walk away, missing the smile that was on Lysanders face.
From across Sweet Amoris High, a long haired silverette girl with golden orbs was watching the scene with teary eyes...