The Lethal Princess (Completed) Wattys2015 Winner

This Means War . . .Bitch!

Song: Brandy and Monica - The Boy is Mine

"Avril, Avril wake up, wake up, wake up!" Someone's light body was on top of me, yelling at me in a way too cheery voice for in the morning, while shaking me simultaneously.

"What." I grumpily mumbled, angrily slapping them on what I presumed was their arm since my eyes were still close.

"Ow!" The feminine voice yelped, but hey it was their fault. They had ruined my sleep. A sleepy Avril is a mean Avril.

I opened my eyes and saw Mist the happiest I had seen her all week. Seeing her like this, made my tiredness miraculously vanish and I looked up at her, feeling a small smile slip on my face. Her hair was curled to perfection, cascading softly down her shoulders, and her brown eyes that had been sadly dull all week had the sudden spark in them that I had seen before.

"Guess what today is?" She beamed, excitedly beating her hands on my arm.

I looked at my arm flatly. I was still a little tired and cranky and did not appreciate the repeated slaps to my arm. In fact it made me even more crankier so with a frown, I pointedly moved my arm away from Mist's assaulting hands. Looking back up at her. "Uh I don't know. A school day."

She shook her head, smiling brightly and brown eyes glowing. "No but I'll give you a hint. The schools are closed because of this event."

"Labor day?"

"Nope."

I snapped my finger. "Oh Presidents day?"

She looked at me annoyed, slight confusion morphing her face clearly not knowing the American school's off days. "Ike's Golden Princess ball, dumb dumb", she gently rapped her knuckles against my head, acting like she was knocking on it.

"It's not like I keep tract of shit going on here", I replied, grumpily sitting up as Mist moved off of me and by my side.

"Ohh someone is grumpy, why so?"

"Ohh someone is happy, why so?" I mirrored, tiredly scratching my hair which no doubt looked horrible.

She smiled at me. "I'm happy because today my brother is going to find his kindred spirit, the Golden princess. Love is in the air today!"

I was surprised that she wasn't all down in the dumps because she had lost her kindred spirit. No, instead she seemed genuinely happy about her brother finding his kindred spirit. That thought made me a little less grumpy. I mean the only reason why I was grumpy was because I knew for a fact Belladonna was going to be his kindred spirit. It's what everyone said after all.

So today, there was no reason to be happy in my opinion. Today I would lose all my hope in Ike and I ever being something. No matter how infuriating or no matter how annoying I found him, I couldn't help but like the guy. Even if he was currently with Belladonna, I couldn't help but have hope for him and I in the future, but today my hope would finally be squashed and stomped on. . .yippee.

Huffing in indignation, hating the sad truth, I frowned at Mist. "Why is there going to be a ball when everyone know the girl is going to be Belladonna?"

She shook her head at me disappointed. "Just because people think doesn't mean they know. Only Selene does. We never know, the Golden Princess could maybe even be you", she playfully scolded me, waggling her finger.

My heart jumped at that outrageous guess, feeling a little bit hopeful but I made sure my face didn't portray my true feelings. If I let my feelings show and Ike turned out not to be my kindred spirit, at least I could deal with the devastation by myself and wouldn't have to see the pitying stares from anyone.