.:Rain Clouds:.

--Chaptire III--

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"...So... remind me as to where we are going again...?"

A sigh.

"We're going to town to buy Alice some new clothes!"

Gil glanced at Oz who shrugged, his emerald gaze dancing with amusement.

"...Then why do I have to come along?!"

Sharron turned to face him with a glare from her usual mischievous pink tinted chocolate brown eyes.

"You're coming because we need someone to carry the bags."

"You're horrible."

The woman just laughed, waving his stab away. She turned silently to glance at Alice who sat next to her, head being supported by her hand as she looked outside of the carriage window. The cute petite girl whose father had hated her enough to try and kill her and everyone who opposed in that fire.

It was horrible. She didn't deserve it.

Her knowing gaze traveled to the young Bezarius heir, smiling when she saw that his gaze, which was usually empty as he daydreamed about God knows what, was fixed entirely on her...

And not in a pervy way.

"Oz are you really going to stay with this barbarian of a woman?!"

The blonde boy turned with a grin, just in time to see Gil get smacked in the head with Sharron's fan.

"Well someone needs to protect the women."

"Coming from a 15 year old! The hell!"

The said 15 year old chuckled lightly as a whole fleet of throw pillows hit Gil's pretty face.

"A 15 year old who could probably protect us better than you!"

"How so?!"

"I'm sure Oz wouldn't try stopping a fight by pointing a gun at a person!"

Gil gritted his teeth.

"And how many times has my gun saved your ungrateful butt?!"

THWACK

"You don't point the gun at the person who's holding the damn hostage!!"

Alice turned from her position, blinking as she watched the comical idiocy of the two as they fought. She always thought that there was more to the Sharron woman than met the eye, and here she was... beating Seaweed Head to a pulp with her fan.

"Damn! You're still sore about that?! It happened almost a year ago, you crazy hag!"

"...Uhm... Gil... It happened two weeks ago."

THWACK!

"Whose side are you on?!"

Gil yelled to his best friend who chuckled with that boyish grin of his.

When they finally rolled into town a good five minutes and 15,000 brains cells lost for Gil later the group had gotten out and stretched, yawning as they looked around the bustling town.

"What time would you like us to pick you up at, Lady Sharron?"

Oz turned to watch their conversation before turning to Alice who stood with wide eyes at the sight before her.

"...daddy says that... no one should see me... so... I stay here..."

His fists unconsciously gripped tight around the watch that lay in his pocket, the same watch that served as a reminder of her when their visits stopped five years ago.

She had grown and changed... so had he.

From the carefree smile and laugh she had been able to show him on that first day they had met in that damned tower, the way her amethyst eyes glowed as he read books to her or the happy blissful look she would get as she played for him on the grand piano in her so called room.

He knew it was gone.

Her eyes... after a whole week of grief and silent pain, she had sat there on that couch with him as they both listened to the problems of Glen Baskerville. Her damned bastard father.

Who knew what he had done to her in the five years that he had been forbidden to see her.

Locked up in her tower...

She smiled that sad smile of hers now.

The blank and empty looks she would give him sometimes.

And yet... she still refused to cry in front of him.

"Alright! Let's go!"

Sharron's voice shook him out of the thoughts that would plague him almost every night.

She was his fiancee whether she knew of it or not.

He would be there for her and do his best to return her to the same smiling Alice that he grew to love.

"What store first, Alice?"

The petite girl smiled a small smile to the woman who had adamantly told her to call her 'Big Sister'.

"Uhm I don't know... I haven't... been to town..."

Sharron frowned instantly.

Her rapture like gaze looked around until she saw a display window that held mannequins dressed in cute frilly dresses.

"Ooh! Over here!" She grabbed both of Alice's hands tightly, smiling. "Big sister Sharron will take care of you, don't worry!"

The petite girl held a look of pure confusion as she turned to Oz with wide eyes before being dragged away into the store with the two males following suit.

"Welcome to Daerion's! Where we make your dream dresses come alive!"

The man behind the counter, obviously handsome, was wayyy to sparkly for his own good. Sharron hit it off with him instantly, she grinned as she talked to the man, both glancing at a fretful Alice who was starting to have second thoughts about being in this particular store.

"I have the perfect thing!"

The petite girl blinked as she was suddenly dragged away once again, weaving past the many dresses that hung on racks in the bright colored pastel store. Meanwhile, Oz and Gil sat on chairs placed near the front of the store bored out of their minds with the occasional pleading from Alice and the evil cackles-- ahem... giggles? Of the pure evil woman they had grown to know.

"Forget this, I'm getting dinner."

Oz watched as his friend stood, leaving the store as he grumbled to himself leaving the fifteen year old to sink in his chair while staring at the clock on that wall with hands that moved ever so slowly.

"Okay! Presenting... Drum roll please!"

The store owner who stood nearby grinned as her tapped his fingers on the nearest rack in a fake drum roll with Oz watching with intrigued emerald eyes.

"Alice!!"

Sharron jumped to the side taking the curtain that separated the dressing room from the whole store. She squealed happily at her work while the store owner gushed happily at his dress put on the perfect model, Oz just stared with wide eyes.

There she stood, a shy smile on her blushing face.

She was wearing a dress, a pearly pinkish color that brought out the slight magenta hues of her amazing amethyst eyes. The dress accented her figure, hugging her petite frame, but it still managed to have the flowy loose look to it. A bright red ribbon was tied around her waist with a red hairband in her silky dark brown hair.

He just couldn't stop staring.

And the rosy blush on her face was quickly rising when she realized that he wouldn't look away anytime soon.

"Oi! The carriage is here and-..."

Alice's amethyst eyes turned to Gil who stood there holding their dinner, he studied her before sighing.

"For a stupid rabbit, you clean up well."

Sharron's vein popped, Oz blinked out of his stupor, and Alice tilted her head.

Was that a compliment?!

Gil sighed as Sharron started beating him with the bags of clothes she had bought for the girl, after saying goodbye to the store owner who had actually burst into tears when he took in his handmade perfection that fit the amethyst eyed girl so well. They had walked back to the carriage with smiles on their faces as they readied themselves for the long ride home.

Oz glanced at Alice who sat across from him, his eyes burning this image of her into his memories for hopefully forever, she caught his gaze this time and smiled that small smile of hers.

He grinned back.

This wasn't over.

These peaceful days are not meant to last.

As they rode out of the town, Oz glanced out the window at the dark shadows that were everywhere. One moved with speed as crimson red eyes met his for a brief moment before disappearing. The boy stuck his head out the window to search but to no avail, gritting his teeth silently.

This was so far from over.

That's it.

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Chapter trois ahaha

Did this at 4 in the morning so you better be grateful!!!

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