The Zodiac Story

A Little Closer

Leo's POV/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

I shake my head. "Woah.... sorry... I uh, kinda zoned out for a bit there...", I say, with an akward smile. Suddenly, the door opens again! "Ey Vee (dats pronounces as the letter V), you seen candy anywhere? I need to talk to her.", Scorpio questions. Taurus scoffs. "How dare you?! After what just happened you're just gonna barge in here and ask her something? No 'hey virgo, sorry 'bout what happened.' or nothing? Seriously?", Taurus asks in an outrage. "Tch...... I haven't got time for this. Have you seen her or not?", he asks n an irritated tone. I scowl.

It's kinda hard to try and see the good in a person when they're acting like a total doushe ...

"No.... I haven't....." Virgo mumbles. Scorpio sighs. "Thanks anyway Vee...", he grumbles. Then, without another word, he leaves. I look at Virgo. "What's his problem?", I ask. "Insensitive piece of shit...", Taurus mutters. "Teo-" "Seriously! How much more of an asshole can you be? Just struts right in and starts shit!! Son of a b-"

WACK!

Taurus and I both whip around. Taurus's face was bright red on one side and Virgo's and was raised and she had tears in her eyes. "Don't say those things....", she cries. Without another word Taurus stood up and walked out, just like that. Once he leaves she bursts into tears. "Sh , sh..... it's ok.....", I comfort her as I slowly stroke her hair. " I-I..... Don't like it wh-when he says th-thos-se things!!", she whines. I sigh heavily. " Yeah....." I trail off. She looks up at me and smiles sadly. "uh..... You know wh-what? Why am I-I crying so much? Heh....... just like..... Like a little...... Little 16 year old........ just like I'm supposed to?, ", she pauses to sigh and I don't interrupt her, " Ya know.... I honestly hate letting people see me cry, I hate it. Yet I still do it....", She looks up at me, " Leo...... How old are you?" (That was a really frickin' long sentence!) MY eyes go wide and I'm sure my face became bright red. "uh......" I stall. "Don't worry, you couldn't possibly be younger than me, a sixteen-year-old..... forever....", she frowns. I sigh and fess up.

"fourty-five...... I'm..... fourty-five...", I mumble. Her eyes grow wide just as mine did before. "Really?! Dang! You're so stinking young!!!", she gasps. I frown. "H-hey! You're 16!" She laughs. "I don't age though! I stopped at 16 silly! In actual years I'm 82!", She cries, rolling on the floor in laugher. My ears flatten against my head. "Why'd you ask me anyways?! Just to laugh?!", I whine. "Kinda, yeah!", he says, still laughing. I growl, but then that turns into a soft sigh. "As long as you're okay now I guess.", I say with a smile. "Yeah.... I'm okay now, you don't have to waste your life with me anymore. I need to go fix a new outfit.....", she says in thought. "Woah, you make your own clothes?! I thought the council just gave everyone something to ware...", I trail off, lost in my own thoughts of the council. "They do, It's just they didn't have anything for 'Virgo' so they let me ware what I usually wore.", she says with a beaming smile on her face. "oh, okay, I guess I'll leave you to it then.", I say as I stand up. "Okay see ya Leo!", she waves. "See ya!", I smile as I close the door quietly. I laugh t the encounter that just befell me and start to make my way to the stairs.

Except..... Some.... strange noise stopped me. "Huh?", I whisper and turn toward the noise. I cock (haha very funny) my head to the side when I see where it was coming from. It was coming from a certain someone's room. "Oh~?", I purr. I creep closer to the door that housed the meanest dude in the entire house: Scorpio.

"Well, lets see just what you're doing shall we, hmmm?", I whisper. Then, in one clean motion, I open the door as quietly as I could.

Scorpio's room was similar to Candy's, what with the sand floor, and the environmental walls and such, except his was a desert instead of a beach. "wow....", I mutter. That's when I notice a figure, lit by the light of the artificial sunset, in what looked to be a tent, but most likely was a bed. The only reason that I noticed that it was there, is because it moved, then I realize, that I wasn't exactly quiet.