Love Shows Up at Your Door

Sometimes…Love shows up at your door-
"I'm serious." Hikari-Graeae hissed at her sister.

"Come on." Hadrea begged. "He's new. He needs a room. Just until he can move in with Thatch & Zane."

"No!" Kari repeated. "Griffon, I will not share my room with a guy."

The auburn haired girl groaned. "I was hoping you would go for it."

Her twin slowly turned around, her accent becoming thicker as her temper rose. "Hadrea Griffon Yin Moore, what the hell did you do this time?!"

Griffon chuckled sheepishly. "He's already waiting for you in your room. His name is Grant Briers, he's from the other side of town. He's been trying to get into this school for a while."

"How do you know all of this?" Kari asked, stopping just outside the front doors to their boarding school. "Griffon…"

Griffon shrugged & walked past her sister. "I met him when Thatch took me to that awesome new restaurant over break. His family owns it."

Kari sighed & pinched the bridge of her nose. Sometimes the fourteen-year-old acted like she was four, even if she was the smartest kid in their school. She just couldn't follow rules. For most of their first year at the school, people thought she was a  guy. Then, she was a punk, still is. Her sister constantly got in trouble for uniform violations, not to mention beating people up. But she has a good heart all-in-all, like helping out people when they needed it.

"Why can't he stay with you & Aria?" Kari wondered, finally following her sister. "It was your idea."

"We can't. Aria has major issues with him." Griffon stated in an exasperated tone, her accent thinning out into an almost American one. "Who would think that the drama geek would have a culinary expert as a cousin…and they would disagree on so many irrelevant things. I'll have to work on that later."

The two went down the walk before veering left to the boarding house. "They'll get over it, just don't interfere this time."

"But I fixed things between Thatch & Zach." Griffon argued. Kari shot her a warning glare. "I think I'll let them make amends on their own this time."

"Good girl." Kari pulled out a roll of LifeSavers & tossed one at her. "Here's a treat."

Griffon caught the candy, but glared at her sister. "I'm not a dog!"

"Sure you're not." Kari cooed, patting the girl's head.

Griffon swatted her hand away. "Stop it!"

"Fine, fine." Kari pulled out her room key & unlocked her door. "Look, I'm only joking. You ought to know that by…" Kari swung the door open & stared at the guy sitting at her desk. "Wow!"

The boy turned around & stood up. He took Kari's hand & shook it lightly. "Hello, you must be Hikari-Graeae. I've heard a lot about you from Griffon." He greeted in the usual British accent, as was expected in their part of the U.K. (Forgive me if I get this wrong, Geography hates me.) He had sandy blonde hair & rich brown eyes. He was out of uniform, just like the twins, wearing a black turtleneck & khaki cargos.

"And you must be Grant." Kari replied with a small nod & smile.

Griffon pulled her sister away & smiled. "Well?"

"I guess it won't hurt." Kari agreed, looking back at Grant. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get acquainted with my new roommate."

Griffon laughed & rolled her eyes. "And to think you didn't want a roommate." She strolled out of the room before the other redhead had a chance to retort. "I knew she would fall head-over-heels as soon as he showed up at her door."