(A/N): Hey Guys! So, I wrote most of this (the first eight hundred words) in Home Ec. today. Yeah, we had a relief teacher, so we had to start this new assignment, you picked one of the topics listed (I picked vegetarianism because it just seemed easiest), and I finished a full hour before anyone else (seriously, my two best friends still weren't finished at the end of the lesson). My best friend, Sarah, read the end of the last chapter, because I was having trouble writing this one, and she suggested, "He should faint, and wake up in hospital, and his mum will come in and be like, 'what the hells going on'!" And then, I told her this. "His mum's abusive." "...oh." Was her reaction. Yeah, so that was fun. They are so crazy though. Crazy loud, too. Maloney was in Maths, as he always is, but this lesson was okay, I guess, I finished three pages of a worksheet on ratios, so I call that a success.

I wrote the last two hundred words when I got home, but then my laptop stalled and I lost it, so then I had to write the last two hundred words again. Trust me, it was much better the first time.

Someone said they wanted to see Leo's reaction to the kiss, so here it is!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine, Shari, Nicholai, Brooke and Mia.

Leo

Elaine. And I. Had. Kissed!

I sat, doing what was probably described as brooding, on the roof of the Ellwood Manor. I stared out over the forest towards the girl I had left in her own backyard, wringing my hands. It had been an accident, but we had kissed. Something inside my chest squeezed, and I tugged a piece of my hair slightly too sharply, feeling both anxious and nervous. What did she think of this? Did she hate me now? I didn't want to lose our friendship over this stupid crush of mine but… it had been an accident. It wasn't like I had just leant down and kissed her, straight on the mouth; she had fallen onto my lips. I just had to hope she wouldn't think too much of it, that she wouldn't figure out that I like her. And that she wouldn't tell Lily.

Oh god, if Lily knew, she wouldn't ever let me live it down. I doubted Elaine would tell her though, for exactly the same reason I didn't want her to know. Lily, though I loved her dearly (as a friend!), she could be a rather big gossip when she wanted to be. Or even when she didn't want to be. I don't think either one of us wanted Lily hounding us, or the whole school, possibly the whole world, knowing that we had accidentally kissed! Even if she hated me after this, she wouldn't want to embarrass me in front of the whole school like that, because that's the way Elaine was. She was a private person, who didn't like attention, but she wouldn't let even an enemy be embarrassed publicly. It was like, her biggest rule. To her, embarrassment, or unwanted attention, were almost worse than looking weak, another one of her pet peeves. She hated having attention drawn to her, both good and bad, most likely because of the scars she bore as a result of her brutish father.

I heard almost silent footsteps inside the house, a level below me, and I knew it was Shari, practically stomping, seeing as I usually wouldn't be able to hear her if she didn't want me to- one of the perks of being a full-vampire, I guess. She slid open a window on the level below me, and I watched as she skillfully pulled herself onto the roof, both graceful and effective. I bet you, if I had done that, I would look like a drunk baboon compared to her. Of course, full-humans would like a dead baboon, being moved by ants. Slow and unpleasant.

"Hey," I murmured, almost silently, knowing she would hear it perfectly clearly, as would my father, from where he sat at the dining table in the kitchen.

"What's wrong?" She asked bluntly, sitting down next to me and wrapping her arms around her legs as if to shelter herself from the wind, even though there wasn't any- and it wouldn't have bothered her if there had been.

"Nothing," I muttered, somewhat darkly, turning my head slightly to avoid looking at her.

"Ah, I know that look. You just got rejected, didn't you?"

I raised an eyebrow at her, startled into looking at her. "Kind of. Elaine and I… we kissed, by accident. I ran." Shari stared at me for a few minutes, but I turned my head away again after the first.

"And? What did she think of this?" I shrugged.

"I didn't exactly stay around long enough to know."

Shari rolled her eyes, and punched my shoulder, a little too forcefully for my taste. "You should have-" I cut her off with glare, facing her again.

"Hello! State of panic here!" I exclaimed, and crossed my arms over my chest again even though the night was warm, and I wasn't angry with her, really.

"Sorry," She mumbled, staring at me again. "So, how do you feel?" I raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?"

She grinned at me, and elbowed me in the side lightly, teasingly. "You just kissed your crush, you should be happy! Celebrate, Judy!" I rolled my eyes at her, setting my crossed arms on my knees and resting my chin on top. Yeah, I definitely looked like I was sulking.

"I did not! We accidentally kissed! Don't try to-" She cut me off again, beaming.

"Still! Celebrate, mister broody-pants!" With that, she pulled me from the roof, dragging me inside the house to the kitchen where my father was waiting. "Leo got his first kiss!" She announced, and I turned blood red.

"Shari, I swear to god-"

I was cut off again as my father pulled me into a tight hug. "I know, I heard every word!" He exclaimed, and I groaned as my head was forced against his chest.

"Uh, if you did, one: Way creepy, and two: You would know that it was an accident!" I exclaimed, pulling out of my father's arms to glare at them both.

"You still kissed!" Shari sung, dancing around us, and I glared at her harder while my eyebrows rose in disbelief.

"She tripped, and fell onto my lips! Completely accidental, not cause for celebration!" I growled, crossing my arms over my chest and locking my jaw as a symbol of determination and defiance.

"Leo, son, you don't have much cause for celebration anymore, so why not take advantage of this?" My father pointed out, and my gaze softened slightly while I thought it over, quickly and thoroughly.

"No," I muttered, and started to head towards the stairs, towards my waiting bed.

"Where do you think you're going?" Shari questioned, sounding somewhat smug as she grabbed the back of my shirt.

"I know that I'm going to sleep now." I turned to glare at them after shrugging Shari's hand out of the material. "And you two aren't ever going to bug me about this again," I told them darkly, pointing a finger between the two of them, eyebrows raised so they would get the point. My father simply nodded, while Shari pretended to zip her lips to keep herself quiet.

"Good," I stated, and stomped up the stairs somewhat childishly- but hey, I wasn't even thirteen yet!

(A/N): So, what did you think?

Gosh, I make Leo seem like an ass.

This chapter has had edits made to it on 9/2/24 - just some formatting things to make it SLIGHTLY less of an absolute eyesore.