A/N: I'm just using a generic Candy character for the girl, and for simplicity's sake I'm just going to call her "Candy".

~ Starfish ~

"But I don't WANT to stick a spider on Lysander!"

"Do you have a better idea?"

Rosalya had a stubborn streak a mile wide, which Candy had witnessed during the incident with Leigh, and she knew that she wasn't going to get out of this if she admitted to not having any ideas.

"Um… let's look for tide pools…?" She put forth hesitantly.

"Tide pools?" Rosalya repeated, nonplussed.

"Yeah, like little scooped-out areas of rock near the tideline that fill with seawater," Candy said, feeling a little more confident now. "We can find a crab or a starfish…"

"A starfish? But he would know one of those didn't just crawl on him on its own," Rosa argued.

"A crab, then!" Candy snapped, exasperated. "I'm going to find one!"

She stalked off in a huff, leaving Rosalya behind.

Finding a starfish was relatively easy. Finding Lysander was a bit tougher.

He was sitting on the beach, watching the waves. She snuck up behind him and tried to drop the starfish down his shirt, however…

Lysander noticed she was there at exactly the wrong moment.

"What do you have there?" he asked, frowning.

"Uh, um, a starfish!" she stammered, blushing, as she tried to think of something to say that wouldn't make her look completely stupid. "I was just coming to show you. Isn't he cute?" Her question was punctuated with a nervous giggle.

"Yes, very cute," Lysander replied, sounding unamused. "Now let's put him back in the ocean, where he belongs."

~end~

A/N: Now accepting requests/challenges for future chapters. It can be a pairing, a specific event, or a general theme.

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