Kitsune Royalty

Chapter 3: Dinner with the New Neighbours

"See you at school tomorrow." Cas waves.

"Bye." We all call out.

When I arrive home, mum is at the table staring out the window.

"What is it mum?" I ask, trying to see what she's looking at.

"Don't worry. It's only the new people."

I had forgotten about them.

"Okay, if you need me I'll be doing my homework." I start to walk to my room when she suddenly stands up.

"We should invite them over." She says, starting to put on her jacket.

"Come on Clary; you're coming with me." I groan, I needed to finish my homework! Desperately, or I'd be answering to my teachers. Not fun.

"If you come, for dinner we can have roast chicken." She knows I love roast chicken, and I perk up.

"Quick, they're walking through their door," I say, worried they would disappear into their house, and my beloved roast chicken deserted.

We run/walk over to them, and I notice there's a boy that looks like he's the same age as me, with messy brown hair and mesmerising golden eyes. He's wearing a black jumper and faded jeans.

"Hello, you must be our new neighbours," Mum says excitedly, nearly jumping up and down.

I stare at the boy, and he stares back.

"Yes, I'm Marlee. Well... I'll let my son introduce himself." Frankly, I think the boy is absolutely gorgeous, and he sighs.

"Hi, my name is Ashton, what's your name?" Ashton asks.

"Clarissa," I mumble. We stare at everything but each other, and I am blushing tomato red, while mum and Rene are talking about moving and plants.

"Isn't this lovely Ash, Rene and Clarissa have invited us to their place for dinner, roast, your favourite." I only just stop myself from gaping at Ashton... he likes roast!

"Come on inside. Dinner will be ready in an hour." Mum chirps. We enter the house, and I gather the courage to talk to Ashton.

"So, what school are you going to?"

He thinks for a moment and says,

"My mum says I'll go to the same school as you."

I look at my lap uncomfortably; there's only one thing that could turn this situation around. My friends.

"I'll be right back," I say to Ashton and hurry over to my 

"Can Kristan come over?" I think about calling Nora, so I add her as well

"and Nora?" She thinks for a while, and the timer goes off for the gravy. Mum grabs it and says, "Well... I think so... okay."

"Thanks."

"Can you please set the table, and make sure you include Ashton in the conversation, okay." She hands me the cutlery.

"All right." I finish setting the table.

I run over to my phone and call my friends.

Kristan squeals, delighted I have a new neighbour that's a boy. I roll my eyes. Nora apologises that she can't come in a nasally voice, she has a cold and will back at school in a day or two.

I smile, knowing Krissy will be so excited when she sees Ashton for the first time.

"Clary's friends are coming to dinner tonight, and the chicken has a few minutes to go," Mum says to our guests.

I spot Ashton in the lounge room, I straighten up and walk in.

"Um, do you know anyone at the school?" I sit down.

"No." Okay... I breathe deeply and gather up the courage to ask him the question.

"If you want you can sit with me." My voice shakes a little; I hope he doesn't notice.

"Thanks." He says gratefully.

"So who are the other new students?" he asks.

"Ezekiel, Maya and Chase," I can't believe I didn't remember Ariel, "Oh, and Ariel."

He searches for something to say.

"That's good."

There's a knock at the door, and I rush to open it, "So is he cute? Can I see him? Tell me everything!

Are you guys together? Is he coming to our sch-" I cut Kristan off with one look of annoyance.

"Come in and I'll meet you in my room."

She smiles and skips into the hallway, and on her way says a quick hello to my mum. "I'll be a while," I apologise to Ashton, "you can do whatever you want." I don't give him any time to respond.

I rush in after Krissy, shutting the door after me, she sits on my spinning office seat, and I sit on my bed.

"So..." I start, we stare at each other awkwardly.

"What about this? I ask a question, and you say yes or no?" She asks. I nod, she spins over and over again while speaking. 

"Is he hot?" I struggle to answer.

"Next," I demand.

"Fine, I'll come back to that one." She knows I won't answer so she rolls onto the next question.

"Is he coming to our school?" Nodding, I say slowly, "I think so. And he's going to sit with us as well." Her eyes grow wide.

"OH MY GOD!" Krissy screams, I shush her.

"I don't want my mum knowing I'm not talking with Ashton."

She fans herself with my book, "Good, you answered my next question," I shift into a more comfortable position and roughly grab my book from her hands.

"Stop being such a drama queen," I tell her, through gritted teeth.

"What does he look like?" She spins on the chair.

"You can see for yourself, soon." Krissy spins, groaning.

"Clary you know I hate suspense." She pretends to swoon; I roll my eyes.

"Then go see him."

As soon as we get up, I hear footsteps and the door swings open.

Krissy gasps, I cover her mouth.

Ashton looks at us funnily, "Your mum told me to get you and your friend, dinner's ready."

As he walks away, I feel Kristan slump against me.

"Oh, my goodness. He's so hot!" Krissy whispers and I nod my head in agreement. As we walk to the table, I notice the only seats left were on either side of Ashton.

I groan inwardly while my friend grins at me. She happily takes her place to the left of Ashton.

I shuffle over to my seat.                                                                             "This is the best roast ever!" Ashton exclaims, mouth full. I stare at him, ensnared by his mesmerising golden eyes. I quickly look away, but not fast enough to avoid Krissy raising her eyebrow at me. I feel heat work it's way to my neck, so I concentrate on eating.

We all chat about school and mum asks if Ashton knew anyone, to which he replied no. At the end of dinner, Kristan leaves and wishes me luck on my 'relationship'. I scoff, denying liking him.

She laughs and says goodnight. Then Ashton and his mum start to leave.

We wish them a good night. I run up to my bedroom and look out the window and see that he is waving at me, smiling. I wave back, my heart doing backflips.

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*A/N*

Hi,

So new chapter of Kitsune Royalty up because I was sick today. Hope you like it and I'll see you next chapter. Don't have time to wrte a proper A/N so bye! PLEASE COMMENT / VOTE

~Tara