"More than a Friend"

Poshpuppy27: I decided to discontinue 'I'm a girl, you're a boy'. Don't ask me why though. I'm busy with 'When HE came'. So I just decided to do a two-shot (chopped into 4 chapters). Yup, something simple. Haha. Plus, I'm having fun playing a guessing game. And I'm pretty busy with my personal life. So…Read and Enjoy! R & R!

Summary: "I like you" he said confidently. Rosette smiled widely and said "Yeah, I like you too". Chrno couldn't believe his ears and beamed at her. "Of course, I like you. You're my best friend". With those words, his world crumbled. How can he convince her that he likes her as 'More than a Friend'? Chrno's POV.

Die-normal

"Die"-talking

Die-thinking

Disclaimer: Don't own. Never said. Never will.

"More than a Friend"

Chapter 1: Confession Plan number 1

It was all getting out of control. I couldn't control my feelings that well…Not at all… When she comes near me, my heart beats twice as fast as before. I couldn't look at her in the eyes directly at all! What the hell was wrong with me? Something was wrong…VERY wrong.

"Chrno!"

I groaned and shifted to face the wall of my room. It was dark blue. Very simple, like its owner. That annoying voice…That annoying voice which keeps on repeating in my head all over and over again…Ugh…Why can't she just keep quiet?! Oh yeah, because I'll miss her voice if she does that.

Chrno, as I was called, curled into a ball and put a pillow over my face. I breathed loudly, anticipating the sounds that were coming next. And as I predicted, I heard muffled footsteps, a crash, and then a loud cussing voice. I smiled at that. The footsteps were coming nearer now, louder and louder. …and so was the beating of my heart. I mentally began my countdown.

3…

2….

1…

"CHRNO!!!" the door slammed opened, and a beaming sunshine colored haired with the prettiest ocean blue eyes entered the room. Said girl giggled mischievously and came towards me. I pretended to ignore her. Yeah right dimwit, as IF you could.

"Wake up sleepyhead" a sweet voice whispered into my ear. I could feel the heat and the reddening of my ears up to the nape of my neck. Involuntarily, I shuddered. I could hear her chuckle at my pathetic reaction. I moved towards the wall and curled into a ball, pretending to sleep.

"Come on Chrno! Wake up; it's like 2 in the afternoon! How could someone like you sleep until that time?! Really! Your band mates won't like it one teensy weensy bit!" she snickered. To hell with my band mates! I just want to sulk here, yet an annoying angel is here.

"Ku-ro-no", she whined. I grunted angrily and turned to her side. A girl with a creamy complexion, big blue eyes with long eyelashes, pinkish cheeks, and plump lips welcomed me. I gasped.

"Geeze Sleepyhead, you looked like you saw a ghost", she laughed. I scowled at her.

More like an angel. "More like a monster" I said, smirking. Her cheeks reddened in anger and she tackled me in my bed.

"WHY YOU!"

"ROSETTE!!!"

"TAKE THAT BACK!"

"Geeze Rosette, it was just a nickname!" I teased.

Rosette Christopher, my childhood friend. Ever since their family moved next to ours when I was six, we became friends. She was very friendly and very…straightforward too. Memories of our first meeting came back to me.

=Flashback=

I came running through our backyard just now. I came all the way out here to get away from my evil eight year old brother and his saliva loving mongrel mutt.

"Stupid brother", I said angrily. I sat down the grass and huddled my knees near to my chest. Tears fell from my eyes and I bowed my head until my forehead touched my knees. I didn't even notice the sounds of footsteps that were approaching me.

Tap. Tap. TAP.

Someone was tapping my shoulder.

"Go away!" I shrugged the tapping finger away.

Shake. Shake.

Again, someone was shaking my shoulder.

I impatiently slapped the hand away. Geeze! Can't they leave a sulking boy alone?!

"HEY! THAT HURTS YOU MORON!" a girl's voice shouted. The next thing I knew, I felt a huge lump on my head.

"WHAT THE HECK?!" I yelled back at her. I looked up to see a girl about my age, with yellow orange hair that was kept in pigtail braids, with angry blue eyes and clenched fists. I gasped again. And I just stood there…Dumbfounded. At five, mature for my age, I felt what was called 'puppy love'.

WHAM!

"OW! WHAT THE FREAKIN HELL STUPID GIRL?!" I screamed, extremely annoyed. The girl smirked at me. She folded her arms across her chest. "For yelling your lungs out on me."

"I wouldn't have to SHOUT at you if you didn't bother me in the first place!"

"Oh…I DO have a name you know".

"Like I would ask anyway" I rolled my eyes at her. Sheesh, what an idiot. They were right. Blondes were dumb (A/N: No offense for the blondes out there!)

SMACK!

"Ask and you shall receive" her smirk widened. I scowled at her. "Fine then your majesty, who the hell are you?!"

She raised her fist again but I dodged it easily this time. "Did you include in your request to be polite, O fistful one?"

"Ha-Ha. Pipsqueak" she remarked sarcastically. Pipsqueak?! I rose instantly and saw that we had an inch or two height difference. I felt so inferior. I was angry about my stupid brother before, now, I was angry about my height.

"Fine then, name?"

"Rosette Christopher, you?" she smiled at me. At that moment, anger was washed away from me. I mean, how can she just forget about what happened now?! How can she just smile and NOT hate me?!

Though I seem to be so angry with her at that moment, full of hatred and annoyance at this pestering girl, I answered her. "I'm Chrno. Chrno Sinner."

And just like that, I forgot my anger.

I forgot the reason why I was angry in the first place.

=End of Flashback=

"Oh…Now you're sleeping with your eyes open? You're still half-asleep, see?! Dummy!" Rosette poked my cheek. I just realized that I was having one of those flashbacks as I stared into space. Man, I am more than pathetic. I'm a loser.

"I'm awake. But I'd rather be asleep if you're the first thing I have to see this morning" I explained, trying to stop myself from smiling. On the contrary, I would love to wake up early in the morning if you're the first person that I will see.

"And why is that?" she raised a skeptical eyebrow.

"'Cause you're a monster who stomps noisily into my room every morning and wakes me up with that loud inhuman voice you have. Plus, when I open my eyes and I see your face…I think I'm still having my nightmare. It creeps me out" I pretended to shudder. Actually, I dream of you every night.

"How mean" she pouted. Adorably, I might add.

"Eew. You're acting girly and cute! Oh my gawd!" I pretended to cover my eyes out of horror, and then slid under my blanket. I heard her curse me, I laughed at that. A few seconds later, I felt a warm hand grab my leg and then forcefully pulled me out of my blanket. We were at the edge of the bed, dangerously close to falling.

"ROSETTE!"

"PIPSQUEAK!" she exclaimed as she tickled my foot. I unexpectedly laughed out loud. She kept on tickling me until I was crying…while laughing, of course. I couldn't survive any longer. "DANG IT…ROSETTE! STOP…S-STOP...P-LEASE…" I managed to say in between gasps of laughter. She just smirked nastily at me.

Damn, she's downright evil.

"Make me" she taunted. I narrowed my eyes into slits and inwardly smirked. In one flash of a movement, I flipped her over and I grabbed both of her wrists with one hand, and then I pinned them above her head. I grinned mischievously at her startled face.

"Oh no you don't"

"Oh YES, I WILL"

"CHRNO!"

I tickled her sides unmercifully. Being her childhood friend for eleven years, I knew where her weak spots are. And that is definitely a humongous advantage for me, knowing her likes and dislikes.

"KU…RO…KURONO! HAHAHAHA! STOP! STOP IT!"

"Make me" I taunted her. I kept on tickling her until she too, was crying because of laughing so hard.

"Ku…Ro…No..." she giggled.

"Uh-uh Uh! Beg first"

"Pssh. Yeah right, me? The Great Rosette Christopher? Beg to pipsqueak?" she scoffed. Rosette gave me her infamous death glare (that didn't work on me since she overused that on me) and growled.

"Let. Me. Go"

Uh-oh.

Normally, when Rosette's voice dropped to hat voice dangerously, that means that she's seriously pissed about something. And that wasn't exactly good news for me.

"Chrno."

"Hm?" I stupidly asked her. Oblivious to the fact that she was practically exhaling hot air through her nose and her ears, I was too distracted thinking that she was so pretty when she was mad. Damn, what love can do to you can sometimes be a problem.

The next minute, she flipped me over. But that action caused the both of us to fall off the bed. And once we fell on the wooden floor, she fell on top of me. In short, we were in an awkward position. Me lying on my back flat on the floor, with her straddling my hip. Me blushing and her sweating. Yes, a very cliché teenage scene.

"Why you!" she screamed.

"WAIT! NO! ROSETTE! I COULD EXPLAIN---"

Before I could even finish that sentence, she pinned both of my wrists the same way I did hers. And then her hands teasingly stroked my face, traced my jaw line, and then went down my neck. I stiffened. Kami! She was so unfair!

She had that smug look on her face yet again.

"U-unfair. R-rosette! Y-you k-know tha-that…" I stammered, not completing my sentence. I mean, how could I when she kept on stroking my neck with her forefinger back and forth?!

My best friend leaned closer to me, so close that we were only a few centimeters away and that I could feel her hot breath on my face. I shivered. She went down to my neck and blew softly. I clenched my jaw and stiffened.

"R-rosette. Don't.

"Why should I?" I could hear the smile in her voice.

She continued her previous actions. Snuggling into the crook of my neck, she blew into my neck one too many times as well. The next thing she did surprised me.

She kissed me softly at the right side of my neck. I stiffened and a shudder rippled down to my spine. Oh my gawd, what did she just do?!

"Aah…R-rosette" I moaned. I heard that and…there was no mistaken that she heard that too. How did I know? She just abruptly stopped, as if something made her pause or distracted her.

"Ah! I'm…Uh…I'm sorry…" I said, ashamed.

Rosette just stared at me with those deep blue eyes of hers. And then she flashed me one of her heart-stopping smiles. Oh shoot, there goes my heart again, beating violently against my chest. "CHRNO! CHRNO'S A BIG PERVERT!

The familiar tingling sensation of blood rushing to my cheeks once again came back to me.

"AM NOT!"

"YOU ARE!"

"AM NOT!"

"YOU ARE!"

"AM NOT! IT'S YOUR FAULT! YOU KNOW HOW I…err…FEEL WHEN IT COMES TO THAT SPOT!"

"YOU ARE! 'CAUSE YOU JUST MOANED SEXILY WHEN I KISSED THAT AREA IN YOUR NECK!"

I swear I felt my jaw drop open.

No way in hell! Did I just hear her say 'Moan' and 'Sexily'? Oh gawds! Help me!!!

She smirked triumphantly. Not only because of that reason, but because of another reason as well. The one that was just going to tell me. "Or is it…because you're just terribly sensitive in that area?"

My eyes widened at her revelation.

How did she know that?! I blushed again. I looked away, and then I suddenly took interest in my alarm clock. Holy cow! It was 3:15 pm. I opened my mouth to tell her that I'll be on my way to see my band mates already when something wonderful happened.

The door slammed open, once again. And a lone figure stood there, with a hint of surprise at his poker face. Who was it? My dearest brother, Aion Sinner.

"Oh, my. Can't you at least wait until everyone is asleep? And can't you volume your voices down?" he asked us nonchalantly, inspecting our…inappropriate position.

"Don't you know how to knock?!" I retorted indignantly. He just made a face at me and turned to Rosette. "And you Miss Rosette? I knew you were aggressive, but I never imagined that you'll dominate my younger brother" he then let out a low whistle blow.

Rosette gave him a puzzled glance. "A…What? Dominate your brother?"

I groaned uncomfortably and rolled my eyes. "Rosette, don't listen to that idiot. And Aion, knock it off. Don't you have anything else better to do? Like multiply, or make pigs fly?"

"Hmm. Whatever" he said and walked away. I smoothly transferred my attention to my charming childhood friend who was still straddling my hips with an adorable confused face. Gawds, it was like, everything she did was adorable! Why?!

"Rosette", I coughed, "Uhm…Can you like…Get off me? I need to go and see my band mates. I think I'll take your advice and go and see 'em. I need to talk to them about something as well". Rosette just shrugged in return and stood up. She made up my messy bed while I muttered a "Thanks" and went over to my closet.

I was so immersed with my thoughts as I took of my shirt that I forgot that Rosette was there. That was the reason why I felt that someone threw my pillow at me. "Huh?"

"MORON! I'M A GIRL YOU KNOW?!" she blushed slightly. Now, it was my turn to get confused. "Why? You already saw my chest for how many years now?" I told her. She just glared at my wall as I continued to change my shirt to a simple Red and Black striped long sleeved shirt.

"Sorry about that Sette. See ya later!" I said as I pecked her cheek swiftly, an old parting tradition of ours since we were five, and ran down five blocks from my home. It was the home of my close friend, Shader; she was a girl and the drummer of my band as well.

"Hey Shader" I greeted her as I comfortably sat in one of her chairs. She acknowledged my greeting with a nod. "So! What's up Chrno?"

"Uhm…See…I have…Certain…Problems with Rosette" I murmured gauchely. She grinned at me and vigorously nodded as if she understood my whole problem with that measly teensy weensy little sentence. "I understand you"

"What? How can you understand? I haven't even finished telling you the whole story yet!"

"Fine then. Tell me everything"

"Well…Sometimes, I can't look at her in the eye. When I hear her name being mentioned, or when I'm with her, my heart beats….loudly. I dream or think about her constantly, and I miss her every single second she isn't with me! What the hell is wrong with me?!"

"Duh?! You love her Chrno. Not like. LOVE" she happily explained. I gaped at her idiotically. But with great relief, I understood. I buried my head in my hands.

"The problem is…How will I tell her?"

Shader pondered on my question for one moment and suddenly held both of my hands. "I got it Chrno! Now I know!"

"What?!" My eyes widened with anticipation. She went closer to me and whispered it all to me animatedly. I sat there, listening quietly.

At last, I had my Confession Plan Number 1.

Poshpuppy27: And done! Uh-oh! What could that plan be! Ahahaha! Read it and Review. I'm too damn sleepy to type anything further. So…Just wait for the next chapter. I'll finish this fic quickly so I can go back to "When HE Came".

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