1st February
14 Day's until Valentines Day and everyone was counting down. The girls were practically floating on excitement and there wasn't one lad that was close to taking anti-anxiety pills. Of course there were the few that wanted to stab (or bite) everyone else for not shutting up about it, pretty much everything was normal. Out of all the soulmates though there was, of course, one girl who was less enthusiastic about the holiday than her partner.
"Keller, don't be such a spoilsport. You always have to be awkward." Galen moaned at her as he turned the calendar over.
"Don't you call me awkward Galen Drache!" Keller yelled at her soulmate. Normally he would have retreated by now, but not today.
"Please Keller. We don't have to stay long. Just show up." Galen said pleadingly.
Keller glared back at him. "You say now, but what about when we get there then someone starts talking to us, then the next person and the next and so on so forth. We'll never get out of there."
"Don't be such a kitten." Galen muttered under his breath.
"Oh, so now I'm a kitten. It appears you forgot one tiny detail. I may be a kitten but kitten's have exceptionally good hearing." Keller hissed at him before throwing open the door and pounding down the hallway.
Galen bit back a sigh and wandered into their kitchen. She'd be back. A loud knock on the door had Galen hesitantly wander back through again to open it. He knew that it wouldn't be Keller, it was definitely too soon. On opening the door he saw that it was Delos.
"Hi." Delos said, "Can I hide, um, I mean hang out here for a while."
"Sure." Galen said, slightly confused.
Galen moved out of the way and Delos walked straight to the sofa and flopped down. Galen shut the door and sat down next to him.
"Maggie is driving me crazy. All this and that about Valentines Day traditions. It's all she talks about. I had to get out of there." Delos said in a rush.
I think I'm having the opposite problem. If any even mentions Valentine's Day to Keller again I'm afraid that she'll rip their head off." Galen said, barely containing his laughter.
"I thought it was Keller that stormed past angrily muttering about killing anyone who is excited about the 'festival of love'" Delos said.
Galen shook his head. "She can be such a drama queen sometimes. I'm surprised she wasn't talking about it being 'a commercial stunt to get sad people to buy worthless junk that will be thrown in the trash the next day'" Galen answered, laughing properly this time.
"What did you do to have her in such an angry state." Delos asked him.
"All I did was try to convince her to come with me to the Valentine dinner that Thierry's organised for everyone." Galen said, seriously this time.
"I take it she didn't want to go." Delos said, smiling.
"She may have been a little negative but she'll come around." Galen replied.
"How do you know?" Delos asked.
"If I can't convince her all I have to do is tell Hannah." Galen said, chuckling.
They both dissolved into laughter and after a few minutes Delos said bye and went to hide out with someone else.
About 10 minutes after Delos had left a slightly wet Keller came back through the door. From behind her hair she looked up at him but before she could say anything she sneezed. Galen couldn't help laugh and he just grabbed a towel and strolled over to her. He took her jacket and wrapped the towel around her shoulders as she sneezed again.
Poppy answered the door and Delos was stood there looking rather sheepish. "Hi. Is James here."
"Yeah, hang on. James." Poppy called. She opened the door a bit more and invited him in. Delos stepped through and Poppy offered him something to drink.
"No thanks. I won't be long." Delos answered politely.
Poppy smiled at him and then left him to wait in the living room while she went and tipped James out of bed.
A thud and a ouch later James came through wearing a pair of jeans and a cotton top that was on backwards. Delos raised an eyebrow and James looked down at himself. He laughed nervously and shrugged his shoulders.
"What brings you here?" James asked.
"Hiding from Maggie." Delos said.
"Perfectly understandable. Have a seat." James said taking the seat opposite.
Delos sat down and James asked, "Why are you hiding from her?"
"She won't stop talking about Valentines Day." Delos said, keeping a close eye on Poppy in the kitchen.
James followed his gaze and laughed, "Don't worry, I'm sure Poppy won't say anything."
"Hmm, I know, guess I'm just a bit paranoid at the moment. She won't stop talking about it and I have no idea what to do." Delos said, hanging his head.
James laughed at him again. "Dude. Chill. It's easy. Just do something nice, spend some money and kiss her goodnight."
"Delos don't you dare listen to him! He hasn't got a romantic bone in his body and Maggie will kill you if you just 'do something nice, spend some money and kiss her goodnight'" Poppy called out, mimicking James almost to perfection. She strode into the living room and glared at James.
He shrugged his shoulders and Phil, their smoky grey kitten, jumped into his lap. Poppy turned away from James to face Delos who was looking more and more nervous by the second.
"First thing's first. Calm. Down. Everything is going to turn out alright, you just need a little help and luckily for you I know a lot better what a girl wants on Valentines Day than James ever will." Poppy said.
"Hey." Protested James from behind her. She ignored him.
"What we need is to find out the sort of things that Maggie likes." Poppy said, smiling this time.
"I can be romantic." James protested and Poppy ignored him again.
Delos looked at James and mouthed sorry before turning back to Poppy and start talking about Maggie.
James threw his arms up in the air in defeat and grabbed his jacket before opening the door and slamming it behind him. Being ignored by Poppy and Delos this time. He stormed through the mansion with both hands in his pockets.
When he eventually paid attention to where he was going he wandered into the kitchen. It was deserted and he hadn't had anything yet. Taking his hands out of his pocket he opened the door to the fridge.
"Aaah!" He yelled.
Ash climbed out of the fridge, unable to breathe from laughter. Quinn slipped out from behind the door that James had opened and tapped him on the shoulder. Causing him to yell again. Quinn and Ash were clutching their sides, tears in the corners of their eyes from laughter. James scowled at the pair of them which just caused them to laugh even harder. He rolled his eyes at the pair of them and just walked back out of the door. Unfortunately for him though they followed him and Ash put his arms around James's shoulder. James grimaced at him but didn't stop walking.
"Aw, what's wrong cousin?" Ash asked, not doing very well in stopping laughing.
Quinn was laughing just as hard as before and Ash was trying hard not to look at him. James didn't say anything; he just started to walk a little faster. Ash let go of James and said, "What's up, lost your sense of humour."
"Maybe we can find it in the fridge." Quinn guffawed.
James and Ash both rolled their eyes at him but Quinn was to busy laughing to notice. "What are you guys doing for Valentines Day?" James asked seriously.
Ash and Quinn immediately stood still and looked at each other silently. "Well." Ash said.
"Um." was Quinn's reply.
"Gee, thanks guy's, I don't know why I didn't think of that before." James said sarcastically.
"Why are you stressing over Valentines Day anyway." Quinn asked.
"Poppy said that I haven't got a single romantic bone in my body. Me!" James said.
Quinn and Ash looked at each other and then back at James. "Sorry but I think I'm on Poppy's side here." Quinn said.
"What! I saved her life! I gave up everything! I put myself in danger to save her!" James shouted.
"It's not the same thing. Sure that showed how much you loved her but can you honestly say that you're a fan of serenades, candlelit dinners and skywriting." Ash said.
"Are you some sort of closet romance reader or something?" James asked and Quinn snickered.
"What are you doing for Rashel then." Ash asked Quinn.
"Hey. I thought we were talking about James here." Quinn said hurriedly.
James and Ash rolled their eyes. James opened his mouth to say something else but just as he was about to a frazzled Morgead came racing past them shouting, "I didn't mean it." Over and over again. He was closely followed by a furious Jez holding a snakewood fighting stick and her wild red hair streamed out behind her.
"Morgead Blackthorn! You worm!" Jez screamed at him so loudly it could've woken the dead.