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Return of a Princess (Nydie & Vena)

So after spending half my day feeling sick. I'm finally working on my post. >_<

Return of a Princess (Nydie & Vena)

Lmao! Tora is a pervert. @_@ Anyway, I have an appointment in an hour, so I'll post once I get back.

Return of a Princess (Nydie & Vena)

“She wouldn’t kiss you. She does have some standards.” Jocelyn scoffed at the very idea that her aunt would attempt to kiss him, and the very fact that he thought to mention it. Folding her arms across her chest, she shot a glare over at her classmate, her head shaking gently from side to side as if she could dismiss his words from having ever been spoken. “She won’t try to hug you again, not once Aidan warns her. You really can’t hold it against her. She’s happy that I brought someone home that she considers my friend. She’s been nagging at me since kindergarten to be more social.” Her face scrunched up at him in an instant, the slow shake of her head increasing. “We’re not friends, and this isn’t a slumber party. I wouldn’t even know what to do at a slumber party, I’ve never been to one.” Her aunt would probably allow Tora to spend the night if she asked, and that was a scary thought.

“Torture you? I’m fairly certain that is legal. Tony is torturing me on Friday. You know, stupid school dances and all that fun stuff. If I get tortured, so do you.” Jocelyn wasn’t in the mood to be playful, not that she ever really was. Whirling around on Tora, she pointed an accusing finger at him. “If you’d rather go deal with your family drama, there’s the door. Please let it hit you in the ass on your way out of it.” Her aunt might have been insane, but Jocelyn didn’t want to hear Tora bad mouthing her. She meant well, and she only had Jocelyn’s best interest at heart. She wanted to see Jocelyn be normal, which was why she pushed so much.

She began to question herself again, wondering why she wanted Tora at her house when he annoyed her to no end. She thought she was being nice, but now that he was in her house pestering the hell out of her, she was about to toss him out on his butt. “Yes, a virgin into kinky stuff. Because that makes a whole lot of sense.” Jocelyn cringed as Tora came closer, her instincts kicking in and forcing her onto her feet and away from him and her bed. “Stop thinking like that! You’re freaking me out.” She backed up away from him till her back crashed against her dresser, the few knick-knacks littered on top of it rattling around before stilling and remaining upright. Flattening herself up against it, she sighed heavily, motioning for him to move back away from her bed. “Behave like a normal human being and not the pervert that I know you are or else I’ll let my aunt go Missus Robinson on you.”

Jocelyn heard her aunt calling her name from the bottom of the stairs, and knew that it was time for dinner. Leaving Tora up in her room wasn’t an option; her aunt would have drug him right down along with her. “Come on, pervy. Let’s go eat before aunt Alicia comes up here with the camera.” She skirted around, giving him a wide berth. Once she reached her doorway, she rushed straight into the hallway and down the stairs, not giving him the opportunity to catch up with her. Dinner was going to be eventful, much to her dismay, and the only thing she wanted was for it to be done and over with.

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Jocelyn arched a brow when Tora entered her room, chatting away almost as much as her aunt had been. She thought that the two of them might have gotten along since they both liked to talk, and they both had a habit of not knowing when to leave her alone. If her aunt was younger, Jocelyn would have thought the two would make a perfect couple. ‘Too bad aunt Alicia isn’t our age, it would have been a great way to get Tora off my back.’ She thought to herself, smirking over at the boy as she thought of ways to pawn him off on someone else for the rest of the week. She still felt a bit guilty for it, but she didn’t know if she could handle him being at her house every afternoon after school. She had offered to let him come over on a whim, but now she was beginning to have second thoughts, especially after the way her aunt had reacted. ‘It’s going to be a really long week….’

“No, she just would have hugged you. She’s a bit….affectionate.” Jocelyn was nothing like the rest of her family, not when it came to touching. Aidan wasn’t nearly as bad as her aunt, but even he could be a bit too affectionate from time to time. She preferred the hands off approach, and that apparently made her an oddball with her aunt and brother. “And yes, that is exactly how she is. She has been pushing for me to make friends for as long as I can remember, and since I invited you over she thinks that we are friends.” Casting a glance out of the corner of her eye from where she sat on her bed, Jocelyn regarded Tora with a sharp look. “Do not even begin to think that’s the case.” She wouldn’t say that she and Tora were friends, or anything more than classmates to him, but she considered them at least acquaintances, which in her world was fairly high praise.

Jocelyn shrugged her shoulders in response to his question, but knew without even thinking it over that her aunt would most certainly be treating Tora the same way at dinner. “Maybe. It depends if I feel like stopping her.” Jocelyn could easily get her aunt to stop with any interrogation if she wanted to, but she was tempted to let Tora squirm a bit under her aunts barrage of questions. It would serve him right for getting her detention and not letting her get any sleep in class earlier that day.

His next question gave her pause, the corners of her lips dipping into a frown when she thought over how to answer. She didn’t want to say she felt bad for him, that would imply that she had some type of feelings for him, and getting that out of her would be harder than trying to yank her teeth out. Her shoulders hefted in another shrug, her answers far too personal for her to blurt out the truth. She knew what it was like to have stress at home, those days came quite frequently when her aunt went to visit her mother in the loony bin. “I was being nice for a change. You know, trying to earn some good karma. You’re free to leave whenever you want to, I’m not going to chain you to the bed if that’s what you were hoping.”

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I didn't disappear! The holiday knocked me off schedule. Once I finish dinner up I'll get a post up. :)

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“Again?” Aidan asked when he caught sight of Tora, and Jocelyn shrugged her shoulders. “He said he’s got drama. I figured I’d be nice and cut him a break.” Jocelyn wasn’t certain she was doing it out of the goodness of her heart. She was curious about Tora, or more accurately, about how she felt around him. She didn’t feel the usual sense of repulsion she felt around the rest of her classmates, and in spite of his less than charming personality, she didn’t mind him being around. She actually talked to him which was more than she could say for everyone else with the exception of Tony, her aunt and her brother. Casting a glance she watched as Miss Dominque stared at them, something in her seemed to shift, not anything concrete that Jocelyn could put her finger on, but something subtle that she barely noticed. There was a flicker, just an instant when it looked as if the woman standing in front of her had a set what looked like butterfly wings on her back, her straight black hair turning into a mess of bright red curls. The image held for a split second before the woman returned to normal, a mischievous grin on her lips which she pressed her index finger to in the universal gesture to keep quiet. Shaking her head, Jocelyn blinked her eyes believing that she was hallucinating.

“Joc, what’s wrong with you? You look like you’ve just seen a ghost.” Snapping back to attention, the girl glanced over at her brother, shaking her head but giving no verbal response. She had no clue what type of answer she should give him. What could she say? ‘I just thought I saw my teacher grow wings.’ Would have had her locked away in a padded room quicker than she could blink, and she didn’t kid herself that she saw it. She was positive that it was her imagination playing tricks on her, and that was exactly what she would continue to believe. “Nothing.” She finally responded, flashing a strained smile at her brother. “I’m fine. Just annoyed that I had to sit through detention, that’s all. Is aunt Alicia pissed?” Aidan shrugged his shoulders and pulled the car into drive once Tora was seated in the back seat. “Nope. I told her you got in trouble for talking and she’s over the moon. Expect a party when you get home.” Jocelyn groaned and sank further into her seat, already dreading going home.

The ride home was quick, too quick in her opinion, but before she knew it they were pulling up into the driveway and getting out of the car. Her aunt Alicia was on the porch the moment that Jocelyn stepped out of the car, and Jocelyn knew she wouldn’t stand a chance of avoiding the woman’s hug. Trudging up the stairs, she stood there as Alicia threw her arms around her shoulder and embraced her tightly. “Jocelyn! I should be lecturing you for getting detention, but I am too happy to care about that right now.” The older woman paused as she looked over her shoulder at Tora, the smile on her face spreading out into a grin. “A boy! You brought a boy home! This is a surprise.” Her aunt nearly rushed forward to hug Tora, but Jocelyn stopped her, grabbing a hold of her arm before she could move. “He’s not my boyfriend aunt Alicia, he’s just some annoying boy who need a place to hang out while he’s got family drama going on.” Alicia looked disappointed for only a moment before she brightened up again. “Well, he’s still a friend or else you wouldn’t have brought him home, and he is a boy, so technically he is a boyfriend.”

Jocelyn scoffed but ducked inside to let her aunt do her thing, knowing that she wasn’t going to hear the end of it. Alicia of course made way for Tora to enter, instantly asking a million question. “And what’s your name, dear? You’ll have to excuse Jocelyn, she rarely brings people home. I don’t believe she knows how to make a proper introduction.” Aidan chuckled as he moved past the two and into the house, heading straight into the kitchen to grab himself a snack. Alicia ushered Tora into the house, following the same path that Aidan had taken. “And of course you must stay for dinner I want to hear all about how you and Jocelyn met, and your family, oh, and…” Aidan finally intervened, nodding for Tora to head up the stairs to escape his aunt. “Aunt Alicia, I think he and Jocelyn have homework to do.” She paused, looking at Tora and then at Aidan. “Of course, of course! Go ahead up to Jocelyn’s room. We’ll have time to chat at dinner.”

Aidan quickly moved to give Tora a light push toward the stairs. “You may want to get up there now while you have the chance, or else she’ll spend the entire time bugging you.” Aidan returned to the kitchen to keep Alicia distracted in order for Tora to make his escape, deciding that asking her to make him something to eat would keep her occupied enough to leave Tora alone.

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Jocelyn managed to sit silently through detention, letting out a rather loud sigh of relief the second she was granted freedom. She bolted straight toward the door the minute the teacher dismissed them, and would have been happily on her way home if Tora hadn’t called after her to stop. She paused, folding her arms across her chest to stare at him as he talked about how he was falling behind. Jocelyn sighed heavily, pondering whether or not she should actually help him out. She really didn’t hate him, that was too strong of a word to describe what she felt. The problem was, she couldn’t put a finger on exactly what she felt about him. She was curious why he asked her to help him when she wasn’t exactly the ideal student herself. Even she could see through his excuse, and the skeptical look on her face would probably tell him exactly that.

“Let me get this straight. You’ve been here all of what, two…three days? And you’re asking me, little miss C student for help?” A brow crept up toward her hairline, shaking her head slowly. “I would have bought you wanted to learn my recipe for fried chicken more than I believe that line, Tora.” Debating whether or not to give him her number, Jocelyn began to move forward waiting to see if he was going to follow her around. When he didn’t, she turned back to him, motioning to him to follow. “Well, come on.” Jocelyn believed that there was something going on with Tora that he didn’t want to go home, and after how she had treated him the previous day, she felt guilty about chasing him out of her house when he was trying to avoid the very place she chased him off to. That was her assumption at least, she had no idea if she was right or not.

She began to move again, this time wasting no time getting to the exit of the building only to sit down on the curb to wait for her brother to pull up. “Look, you obviously got something going on, which explains why you are such a pest. You need attention, I get it. So, you can come home with me. But, if you give my aunt the idea that we’re dating, I’m going to have to hurt you, and I mean really hurt you. I’ve spent the past four years telling her that I’m not interested in dating, and bringing a boy home isn’t going to help with that.” She didn’t understand what he was going through, but if it meant keeping him quiet and from bothering her in class and getting her into more trouble, she could deal with him coming to her house after school for a few days, at least until he grew bored and decided to find somewhere else to go. She’d give him till the end of the week to get tired, then she’d tell him to find somewhere else to hang out.

Not too surprisingly Miss Dominque found her way to the front of the building, waving cheerfully over at Jocelyn. “Get into trouble again, Jocelyn?” The woman looked over at Tora and flashed a smile. “And apparently you brought company along with you.” Jocelyn shrugged her shoulders, muttering a quiet response under her breath. “He is the trouble.” The teacher arched a brow at her, leaning in as if she were trying to catch what Jocelyn was saying. “What was that dear?” Shaking her head, Jocelyn tried to smile, not sure why the teacher always seemed to always find her no matter where she was in the building or outside of it. She had an uncanny ability to track Jocelyn down, and Jocelyn wasn’t sure exactly what to make of it. “Nothing, Miss Dominque.” Jocelyn replied, letting out a relieved breath when her brother’s car swung into the parking lot. “Aidan’s here.” She announced as if Tora couldn’t see the car for himself.

Moving straight to the passenger side door, she popped it open waiting to see if Tora was tagging along or not. She heard her brother question her, but she shook her head, not wanting to explain that she had invited her classmate over for the afternoon, at least not in front of the teacher. Miss Dominque as nice, but she was starting to freak Jocelyn out by always following her around and sticking around whenever she was alone. Sliding into the passenger seat, she closed the door and told Aidan to wait until Tora got into the backseat. She was going to have a hell of a time explaining what was going on to her brother once they got back to her house, and hoped that he would transfer the message over to their aunt so she wouldn’t get the wrong impression. Jocelyn ducked into the seat, trying to hide away from the teacher who was still watching her and Tora closely, although why she was staring at Tora, Jocelyn couldn’t figure out. The only thing that she knew was that there was something off about the teacher, and she wanted some distance before the woman did something crazy.

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Jocelyn managed not to choke the life out of Tora once they were assigned detention, although that was because she knew there was no way her aunt could forgive her an assault charge if she ended up in jail. “He wouldn’t have been pissed off at either one of us if you would have let me sleep.” She muttered grouchily, not even bothering to hide the fact that she was annoyed. “What is your fascination with talking to me anyway? Don’t you have any friends that you can bother and molest?” True, he had only been at the school for one day, but Jocelyn knew he had to have encountered someone else that he could pester besides her. A part of her actually liked the attention, even though she couldn’t really understand why, but that certainly didn’t stop her from trying to push him away as much as she could. She didn’t need the hassle that Tora brought along with him, and talking to him was already starting to get her into her fair share of trouble, which she did not enjoy in the slightest.

The rest of the day went by just as slowly as her morning, each class equally as boring as the one before, and she spent half of her time trying not to fall asleep in practically each and every one of them. She was glad that Tora was only in one of her other classes, and it was easy for her to avoid him when she was too busy finishing up her drawing to take notice of him. By the time the end of the day rolled around, the only thing she really wanted to do was crawl into her bed, pull the blankets up to her chin and sleep through the rest of the year, but she was stuck in detention, and there was no way in the world she could risk skipping it. Mr. Gervias would be on the phone before she even reached her house, and her aunt would have driven her straight back to school and made her serve out extra time just to spite her.

Making her way back to her Chemistry classroom, Jocelyn shot a dismayed look at Tora, rolling her eyes at his attempt to engage her in a conversation. “Has anyone ever told you that you’re a pest? If not, let me be the first to share that bit of information with you.” She made her way back to their shared table and sat down, dropping her backpack onto the floor beside her chair. “And no, I did not miss you. In fact, if I ever say that I do you should have me committed to the first psychiatric ward.” Jocelyn rested her head back on the table, burying her face into her folded up arms. No sooner did she get comfortable did the teacher enter the room, instantly telling her to lift her head up and sit up right. ‘Bite me you old perv. Don’t think I didn’t see you trying to peek down Sarah’s shirt earlier. That’s probably why you’re telling me to sit up, freak.’

“Now then.” Mr. Gervias proclaimed, peering over at Tora and Jocelyn. “You two are to sit silently for the next hour. If I hear a peep out of either of you, you’ll be back here tomorrow afternoon.” Jocelyn rolled her eyes in annoyance but said nothing at all. She wasn’t about to spend two days in a row with their annoying teacher and her even more annoying classmate, so she remained absolutely silent. Her mind however, could not remain silent no matter how hard she might try to make it that way. Unfortunately for her, she had no clue that while she thought to herself, those thoughts were going straight into Tora’s mind. ‘I swear, I have no idea why I’m like talking to him. He’s getting me into trouble. Sure he’s kind of cute, but he’s still annoying. Wait…did I really just think he was cute? What the hell is wrong with me? He’s like one of those little talks with the annoying barks, cute to look at as long as he keeps his mouth shut.’

She kept her eyes locked on the front of the room, not wanting to give their teacher a single reason to keep her in detention any longer than that afternoon. As she sat, she began to let her thoughts drift back to the previous night, and why she hadn’t slept, everything that she was thinking still being sent into Tora’s mind. ‘I should talk to Aidan. I bet he was messing with me last night. But how in the world did he pull my hair and get back into his room so fast? Maybe I pulled my own hair? No, that’s not right. But if it wasn’t Aidan, and I didn’t get it stuck in the headboard did I dream it? It doesn’t matter. I just hope it doesn’t happen tonight, I really need some sleep.’ The remainder of detention she thought up random things to try to keep herself occupied, everything from what she would do when she got home, to stopping by the mall that weekend to get a new pair of shoes. Unfortunately for her, everything that went through her mind also went straight to Tora, although luckily for her, aside from the ‘cute’ remark there wasn’t much that he could hold against her.

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“Yes, I’m apologizing to you. Don’t get used to it.” Jocelyn snapped at him, trying not to make anything about the way he received her apology. She hadn’t thought she had been too rude to him the night before, but then again, she was too tired to remember much of anything from that time. It felt like a lifetime ago, but time was playing games with her and she knew it. At one point she could barely remember what class she was supposed to be in, but after a few minutes thought she ended up figuring it out without making an idiot of herself. “I really didn’t mean to chase you out of the house. Aidan got on my case about it, which is why I’m apologizing. “ She knew there was a bit more to it than that, but she wasn’t about to admit that she actually felt guilty for how he had left. He was actually one of the first people to actually talk to her, and she knew she should try to treat him a bit nicer than she was, but it was rather difficult to actually do so when she was used to how she treated everyone else.

Gradually she began to doze off as the teacher began talking, the sound of his voice as effective as a sleeping pill in her already exhausted state. She couldn’t for the life of her even remember why she hadn’t slept the night before, but it didn’t matter once her head fell onto her arms and her eyes closed. She felt her body relax even in the awkward, hunched over position she was in, and within seconds she was on her way off to sleep. She couldn’t recall a time in her life when she had ever been as tired as she was, and there was absolutely no fighting the heaviness of her eyelids once they finally closed. Her mind was completely silent for the first time in days, and she was happy to accept that she would probably get detention for falling asleep in class.

And then Tora decided to intervene, much to her dismay. The words could have easily been ignored, but the jolt of electric that shot up her leg when he poked her thigh wasn’t as easy to overlook. Bolting upright in her seat, her eyes swung over to him, a scowl etched on her face. “The only thing I would dream about doing to you is wringing your scrawny neck.” She hissed in a whisper, reaching over to slap his hand even though he had already removed it from her. “He wouldn’t even notice I was asleep if you weren’t over here broadcasting it.” She kept her voice as low as she could, but she still managed to earn the teacher’s notice, his eyes glaring in her direction. She feigned an innocent look, her finger pointing straight at Tora. “He’s molesting me. I was telling him to keep his hands to himself.” She watched as the man shot Tora a stern look and the moment that he turned away she smirked slyly over at her classmate. “Ha. Looks like he’s more pissed at you than he is at me.”

Mr. Gervias looked back over at their table, clearing his throat loudly to gain both her and Tora’s attention. “Jocelyn and Tora, since you think it’s funny to disrupt my discussion, perhaps you’ll find it funny if I disrupt your plans after school. One hour detention for both of you. I expect you to be here ten minutes after the bell and not a second later.” Jocelyn glared at the man heatedly, giving only a single nod of her head to show that she heard him. When his attention turned back she turned her glare onto Tora, growling softly under her breath. “See, now you got us in trouble. I could have gone home and taken a nap. But now I have to sit here with Mister Germass watching me.” She didn’t want to think about how mad her aunt was going to be that she had gotten herself into trouble again, but she could easily handle that. All she had to do was say it was for talking in class, and her aunt would be absolutely tickled pink; she never got in trouble for talking. If she was talking, that meant she had a friend, and that was all her aunt got on her case about.

Jocelyn remained quiet for the next few minutes, at least until the sound of squeaky shoes in the hallway drew her attention. Peeking out the small window of the door, she saw two students walking down the hall with posters and rolls of tape in hand. It was after a few moments she realized exactly what they were doing and a loud groan vibrated in her throat. Yet another cheesy school dance that she had forgotten about, only this time she wasn’t going to be able to escape it, having promised Tony that she would go with him after he pestered her for over a week about the last one. Slouching down in her seat, Jocelyn covered her face with her hand, mentally wishing that the day from hell she was suffering through would be brought to an end. Between detention, and the reminder of some dance she didn’t want to go, she couldn’t even begin to imagine how her day could get even worse.

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