I'm fighting the world... and I've lost

[mely]

[date: third feb]
Kyli rested her head against Charles' shoulder. There were very few other people in the common room, and with the fire glowing with dying embers, the whole room seemed very peaceful. She sighed gently and snuggled closer to Charles, as he ran a hand through her hair.

Across the room, the portrait swung open, and Meally clambered through, in animated discussion with the ickle girly clan.

'oh mi lawd - you're kidding?'
'she said what?'
'He kissed her!?!?!'

[heehee, the gossips are born]

Kyli buried her face into charles' shoulder. "sssh," she said giggling, "don't let her see me!"

Charles grinned, "It's alright she's gone now" he laughed, and Kyli re-emerged. Neither said anything for a while, lost in thought, content just to be with each other. Kyli was gazing at the fire, Charles was steeling himself.
'ask her'
'but-'
'ask her'
'but-'
'you're going out!!! Just ASK HER!'
'but-'

Charles took a deep breath, fully remembering why he hated Valentines' Day. He was such a wimp... "Kyli-"

"You know, she's been acting so weird lately" Kyli murmured, blissfuly unaware of the important moment that she'd just ruined. Charles tried not to show his frustration, "who?"

"Meally" said kyli, vaguely, as if it was of no importance, and yet there was nothing more important [read it a few times, it might make sense]. "Y'know, she actually told me that she didn't think I should hang around with Sei..."

Charles shifted uncomfortably; despite the casual tone, he felt strangely in the wrong. He was glad that Kyli continued before he was forced to speak.

"said she thought he was dangerous... imagine!"

Charles felt compelled to say something, "well, he is, y'know, quite, unstable..."

The change in the atmosphere was subtle, barely noticeable, but Kyli's voice was slightly tenser when she spoke next. "What do you mean?" it betrayed nothing more that an easy question. on the surface. Charles gave an uneasy shrug. "well, I mean, all that business with the common room, y'know..."

"I can't believe you're saying something like that about our friend" the tension was rising in Kyli's voice.

"Friend?" Charles asked, eyebrows raised suggestively. Kyli looked outraged, "what is that supposed to mean?"

"well, it's just, you do seem to spend an awful lot of time with him..." he said, carefully, acutely aware that he was treading on a minefield, but also wanting to get his point across.

Kyli glared at him, "revising, doing homework. helping him. With school stuff" she said, deliberately, her voice lined with contempt at his suggestion. Charles too felt his temper rising, "helping him?" he scoffed, "for goodness sake Kyli, he practically thrashed you in our mid-term assessment"

Kyli sat up, drawing away from him so that his arm fell awkwardly from around her shoulder, "I cannot believe you are still going on about this pathetic idea of us two together" she said, loud enough to attraction the attention of a few nearby third years. Charles turned red. "look I'm sorry Kyli" he said hastily. Kyli glared at him. "yeh, you should be - dragging up this pathetic nonsense. I thought you'd grown out of this!"

There was a pause, and Charles stared at his feet, still reluctant to grovel, but not wanting to set off any further mines "It's just..." he tried uselessly, "well, you have to admit that, he does seem to come up in conversation quite a bit"

kyli was incredulous, "because you bring him up! You and your stupid ideas"

"not this time" Charles pointed out, calmly, but he was burning inside.

"oh for crying out loud Charles" Kyli half yelled, "would you stop acting so bloody suspicious!"

[erm, que Sei maybe?]

[.magnarock.]

Sei was walking in to the common room whilst all this was going on, but had fortunately not heard his name being mentioned. He was feeling a mixture of joy and sorrow; a) he had definately not been bottom of the class in the mid-terms, but b) the first years seemed to be hiding from him and giving him strange looks.
Seing Kyli and Charles, he walked over to the two whilst talking.
"Hey guys." He said with a smile. "Those mid-term assesments were pretty tough huh? Thankyou again, so much for helping me Kyli."
He stood, feeling a little awkward before an idea struck him and he carried on with it quickly, enjoying the sudden surge of cheer and social[ness?] "You could probably do with a bit of Kyli's amazing tutoring Charles, I saw you only just beat Kik overall."

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Kyli stood up, and started to say something, spreading a fake smile across her face, but Charles beat her to it,

"You stupid, smarmy, full-of yourself git!" he snapped, springing forward towards Sei, and raising his fist. In the next instant, sei was sprawled on the floor, clutching his nose and -

"omg is that blood?!" Kyli pushed past Charles frantically, and knelt over Sei, watching in horror at the thick crimson stain spreading across the carpet.

"Oh yes, that's right, run off to him like you always do" Charles spat, fuming. Kyli turned to face him, eyes flashing dangerously. "how dare you you self-centred creep! You've just bloody punched him for fu[zz]s sake!" she yelled. Charles drew himself up, "well he bloody deserved it!"

"are you OUT OF YOUR MIND?!" Kyli screamed, standing up and turning her back on sei to unleash her fury on Charles, who was currently just as angry, "you're behaving like a jealous toddler!"

"I HAVE GOOD REASON TO BE JEALOUS!"

"NO YOU fu[zz]ing DON'T! IF YOU HAD THE SLIHGTEST BIT OF TRUST FOR ME, INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO EVERY STUPID PRATTLE OUT OF ELSIE'S FAT GOB THEN YOU WOULD KNOW THAT!"

"HOW CAN I TRUST YOU WHEN EVERY MINTURE YOU'RE RUNNING OFF WITH THAT PEICE OF-"

"DON'T BLAME ME JUST BECAUSE I HAVE FRIENDS!"

"AND I DON'T?"

"NO, BECAUSE YOU'RE A PATHETIC, BORING IDIOT AND NOBODY LIKES YOU!"

Kyli's voice was feeling hoarse from the shouting, and she gulped, trying to hide the pain of her dry throat. Tears welled in ehr eyes, and she placed her hands on Charles' shoulders, shoving him hard. It didn't make much diference - he was too well-built - but hell, it felt good.

[.magnarock.]

Sei was completely gobnose-smacked at Charles' outburst, and then at Kyli's. He didn't dare speak in case someone else started shouting; silence was always the best plan when people argued. He attempted to slow the ebbing crimson stream coming from his nose without making to many sudden movements.

[mely]

Charles glared at her, and there was a few minutes of frosty silence, "well I guess it's always good to have an honest opinion" he said icily. Kyli met his glare, wishing she could feel guilt atwhat she'd just said, but instead finidng on anger, "plenty more where that came from too, if you don't quit with the childish insinuations"

"childish?" Charles half-snarled. Kyli's mouth twisted furiously, and she itched to start yelling again. But she controlled her temper. "i'm not even going to rise" she said primly, asserting her superiority.

"Well it's that just peachy" Charles said bitterly. There was a moment's pause as the two of them glared at each other, neither wanting to break the frosty silenced restraining them.

[.magnarock.]

Sei had managed to inch away from the explosion which seemed fairly impending and was now being helped to his feet by a concerned looking Tobi who had gone to get a book from the bookshelf across the room.
In a moment of sheer tact, Tobi did not raise his voice, merely his eyebrows with a quiet whisper of "Ouch," before taking Sei off to the boys bathrooms to clean the blood off of his shirt and attempt to subdue it.
[the blood, not the shirt lol]

[mely]

Kyli and Charles remained locked in a duel of expressions, hatred streaming from every line of their faces with such force that, if looks could kill...


And in the next instant, they moved towards each, in unison, and Charles wrapped his arms around Kyli, drawing her towards him. "Oh gosh Kyli, I'm so sorry" he murmurs, as Kyli nestled into his shoulder tears streaming down her face. although she cannot tell why. She She shakes her head, whispering through her sobs, "no, I'm sorry, sorry - I didn't mean - sorry..." Charles draws her tighter in the embrace, and then ksises her , and again, and again until they are trapped in a blurred moment of crying, and kissing, and crying, and kissing.

At length, they break apart. There is a crimson stain on the carpet where Sei had been lying, and Charles feels a pang of guilt at the sight of it. Kyli gives a small laugh, almost a giggle, and Charles cannot help but grin back. The look on her face is priceless, irresistable.

"should we go and see what's happen to Sei?" He murmurs, Kyli shrugs. "i you want"

And just like that, there is a shift, somewhere in the grand scheme of things. And is appears to Kyli as if, somehow, there is a change in their relationship. A deeper bond, a deeper trust. As if nothing, and no-one, can come between them.

[mwhahahaha *evil grin*]
[and dyou, can someone please tell me if I'm spelling sorry right - I've written it so many times that it loks wrong]

[.magnarock.]

[it's completely correctly spelt. curse them and their... moochyness!]

[.magnarock.]

[what does the picca say, lol. im doing the devon sei thread atm ^^]

[cenizobelle]

[lol! u've spelt sorry rite! ^^]