* cant .s.t.a.y. here [leo]

[KIARA TESS LYONS]

* if you've got better things to do ,

Shopping was definitely a tiring business. Sure, it was certainly very fun but it wore you out. Lugging all of those heavy shopping bags around could be a very difficult task and wondering into each and every store and trying things on only to decide you don’t really like it any more was just annoying. Still, it was fun, very fun. It was around three in the afternoon and most people were starting to leave the shops after having lunch. They all carried their large bags full of clothes and accessories and were heading home to maybe watch a movie or be with that certain someone that they love. Young Kiara was doing neither. She was not in hell going home, seeing as there was a slight possibility her dad might be there and she was avoiding him indefinitely. However she was not going to be with that certain someone because there really was no one that fit that category for her. Instead she was simply meeting up with a friend. He was a close friend and they had been for a while but of course she knew full well that he was taken. Whilst he tried to avoid that fact she knew that at some stage he would have to marry his best friend and of course she would be at the wedding. If she was not invited to the wedding she would hunt him down and maim him, which he knew full well.

Kiara and Leo had met through their fathers. Kiara’s father, Benjamin did various legal work for whatever company it was that Leo’s dad worked for. She never really had payed attention to that kind of thing, more because it bored her and she really could not care less what it was that her father did. Although she was always trying to get her father to notice her and to actually be around for something, she had decided a few days ago that she was just going to give up…maybe. He was always cancelling their plans and really in the last few weeks with everything going on and screwing up her adoptive mother was the only one she could really rely on. Leo had been wallowing in his own misery over his best friend Nala and so he had also been too busy to see her. But she had finally managed to catch him off guard and had arranged to meet him at the best place in the world to go after a major shopping trip. They were meeting up at none other than Clean Cups.

The limo pulled up just outside and Kiara looked at the little café style place. Her driver walked out and opened her door for her. “Thanks Rick,” she grinned as she stepped out onto the pavement. “Tell Claire to put all the clothes and shoes where they should be and I’ll call you when I need to be picked up.” Smiling at him she turned and walked into the little café. Looking around she didn’t see Leo anywhere so she went and sat down at one of the table in the far corner. It was a nice little place, one that she had been to on numerous occasions. Checking her phone she wondered just how long he intended to make her wait but of course she did not really mind. She hadn’t seen him in so long that it had stopped mattering to her a few minutes ago. Instead she sat calmly at the table, eyeing off a few of the more good looking waiters while she waited for her friend to show up.

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T A G leo
C L O T H E S click
L Y R I C S shiny magazine by jet
N O T E S she's such a little rich girl}

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[LEO SIDNEY PROUD]

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won't let nobody hurt you *

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,350,true] Leo was fairly certain that Christmas shopping was once an ancient form of torture. You had to fight your way through hoards of grabby mothers with their screaming children to try and find the perfect present for your loved one or no matter what you have for them during the year is wiped and the amount of how much you love said person is only measured by the Christmas present. It was ridiculous really. Leo liked to think he treated his loved ones as well as a could all year round but if he failed to get his mother a heartfelt Christmas gift he was a lousy son. Since when was that fair? It was way too much pressure for Leo. Considering everything else on the young man’s mind. It was his father that used to organize his mother’s Christmas, so now the job fell on Leo. Him being the man of the house. It was a title he’d never asked for, but one he was forced to fill in far too many aspects of his life. Growling under his breath, the young man pushed away the cashmere scarf the sales girl had been showing him. Sure it had felt soft and luxuries, but a scarf? It still kind of rated on the lame scale, and besides his mother probably had a dozen just like it. It wouldn’t exactly be special at all. Shaking his locks, the young man denied the shop assistant the opportunity to help him find another option, muttering that he was late to meet a friend anyway and that she really wasn’t being much help. Sure, he was kind of being rude to her, but his mood didn’t exactly lend to being polite about these things. Turning his back on the shop attendant, the young man strode out of the store in a huff, and into the snow. Re-buttoning his coat, Leo tightened his own scarf around his neck. Shielding his flesh from the cold. The little boutique he had been in wasn’t too far from clean cups, so he was just going to walk it. He probably should have gotten a cab, it would have been faster, since he was already late, but he did need the time to clear his mind. The young man didn’t exactly want to go into his lunch date with Kiara in a foul mood. Kiara was like a younger sister to him. Their father’s had worked together. Of course, that was on Mr. Proud’s more legal ventures. In fact, the young man wasn’t sure if Kiara’s family was aware of what his own was involved in under it all. It was one of those ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ situations. He’d known the little blonde his whole life, and the young man felt responsible over her. Leo knew Kiara’s dad wasn’t a great man, so she needed someone to protect her didn’t she? Leo had taken it upon himself to be that protector. He wasn’t sure if Kiara liked his over-protective nature at times, but the two were rather close none the less. And he had been too busy for her lately, which wasn’t nice. Pulling a smile to his features, Leo paused at the entrance to the cafe. Taking a few moments to breath, and make sure is smile wasn’t so strained that she’d pick it up as being fake in an instant. He was happy to see Kiara, that wasn’t the problem. He was just so weighed down with pressures and stresses, that it tended to make him a tiny bit moody at times. Though mostly he just liked to pretend everything was happy-go-lucky and he had no issues at all. He usually succeeded in this mission to push his worries aside and not deal. Pushing the door open, Leo stepped inside. Loosening his scarf as he looked around. Spotting the blonde quickly, Leo moved over to her. Opening his arms out to hug her. “Sorry I’m late...” C O U N T, 660 N O T E S, i'm so so sorry this took so long!

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