Rosy Cheeks

arguings; 1.12

Dedicated to @ruevian because yesterday she absolutely made my day with her votes and comments!
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Unedited filler with a surprise in it :-)
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The day before the boy made one of the most life changing decisions of his life, started out rather interestingly.

The girl, while waving her hands in what appeared to be annoyance, was talking (or maybe arguing) with the more rambunctious friends of hers. Her soft features were twisted with an expression the boy had never seen before, and he smiled when she threw her head back and laughed abruptly.

He heard her conversation before she had even caught sight of him. And it was one that had him more confused about her than before.

"Nobody else says it like that!" She exclaimed to the girl beside her, pushing a large chunk of hair away from the front of her face.

"Yes they do! Ro-" her friend began, while giggling.

"For the fourth time, that's not a valid excuse! We've asked like thirty people other than ourselves and one person says is like you!" Pale Eyes teased, giving her friend a gentle nudge.

"Oh shut up," the friend replied, suddenly reaching out and grabbing someone. "Hey, is it pronounced care-a-mel or or car-mul?"

The victim of the grab knitted his eyebrows together, but tapped his chin as if in thought. After a bit of thinking, he answered, "Car-mul."

Pale Eyes raised her eyebrows at the friend who now walked a tad angrily away from the guy. The girl followed after her friend, giggling on her way. Then her eyes met the boy's, and her smile widened but her tiny frame froze.

Her friend noticed her sudden anxiety and snapped her gaze towards the direction the girl was looking, then smirked and grabbed the girls hand with hers. She pulled Pale Eyes' toward the boy and looked down at her. "Why don't you ask Rosy Cheeks the question you had for him?" Her friend suggested slowly, raising an eyebrow.

The girl blushed brightly and raised her shoulders the way she always did when she was embarrassed. Her light eyes peered up at the boy as his nose scrunched.

"Rosy Cheeks..? What.. Oh never mind." The boy mumbled, running a hand nervously through his short hair. "Question.. I mean.. You have a question for me?" He asked, directing his attention fully towards the girl.

The girl stood silently for awhile, squirming under Rosy Cheeks' gaze.

"I.. Uh, I suppose I do." She whispered, so quietly the boy hardly heard. Her friend nudged her. "I mean. I do. Have a question for you." She said louder.

Her arm went up to twist a strand of hair with her finger uneasily, then she cleared her throat gently. "Do you.." She started slowly. "Pronounce it as car-mul or.. care-a-mel?"

The boy's worries dissipated quickly as he began to laugh, the laughter that the girl had become rather familar with. The sound of it made her smile and blush harder.

"I was expecting.. a much less intense question," he managed to get out between his laughs. Then he tilted his head and held up a finger.

The girl's friend was bouncing on her toes in anticipation of his answer, along with the girl herself. When his answer finally came, the girl let out a shout of triumph.

"Car-mul." The boy replied.

"No!" The girl's friend cried out, letting out a loud sigh of defeat. "Is everyone in this school illiterate?"

The boy and the girl both turned to each other and laughed. "There's nothing wrong with saying it different." Rosy Cheeks said their friend. "But.. care-a-mul sounds rather odd to me."

"See!" The girl exclaimed, "this kid gets it!"

The boy smiled widely down at her, then his body went completely rigid when a pair of tiny arms wrapped around his waist, and a head covered with dark wavy hair rested against the middle of his chest. She was hugging him.

And then, with his body losing it's tenseness, he pulled her a little closer to him and placed his own, toned arms around her delicate shoulders.
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Bella's note: You're going to like the next chapter! (Maybe ;-) )

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