The next day Filia got up earlier then she had expected. All the night before Filia could only think about the little plan that her and De Tanga had set for two days time. She was so excited that she was having trouble sleeping.
What the two of them had planned was that De Tanga was going to pretend to be a man called Jared Welmir. And on their fake date they where going to go out to dinner and a moonlight walk over by the lake near town. There they were going to sit and talk and admire the stars. That roughly was the plan. Of course De Tanga had a few more little things he had planned for the date.
Filia sat down at her table having some morning tea and reading over the days mail. There wasn't much other then a few town notices about the upcoming events. As silly as it was Filia was kinda hoping for a letter from Val. She knew that it was silly for her to hope that she'd get a letter from him so soon into his trip but she couldn't help but be curious about what Val was up to.
Filia wasn't the only one whom had a bit of a restless night. Xellos had spent the night sitting on a bolder brooding over his thoughts. He had thought after that little stunt that he caused yesterday he had finally gotten Filia. But then she turned it all around with the knowledge of her upcoming date.
"A practice date? That's all I was to her?! Just some little guinea pig that she could test her rusty dating skills on?!" Xellos normally had a good check on his anger most of the time, but at this moment he couldn't control it. He was feeling all this strange and foreign anger built up and he didn't know how to deal with it. He was so angry that he wanted to destroy something really badly. But that was the thing he didn't know exactly what he was angry at. Was he angry with Filia? He didn't know he really didn't have concrete reason to be angry with her. He was feeling a negative emotion towards Filia but it wasn't one he recognized.
"What's wrong with me?"
"Good question Xellos, but would you like to tell me why you are sitting on a boulder in the middle of the forest?"
Xellos turned his head to glare at the person whom had just appeared to his left. De Tanga stood there brushing off his sleeve not even looking Xellos in the eye.
"What are you doing here?!" Xellos' tone was dark and cold. It take a genius to see that Xellos was in a good mood.
"My temper, temper. I take it you didn't have a good time with your date with Filia yesterday?" De Tanga looked over to his oldest friend with a mischievous smile.
"No I didn't have a bad time yesterday." Xellos mutter sounding much like a worked up and angry child pouting about something that they couldn't get.
"Oh so then you enjoyed yourself then?" It was taking most if not all of De Tanga's concentration to keep from laughing at Xellos. Never had De Tanga seen Xellos in such a state.
"Yes, I mean no um... Just shut up." Xellos went back to glaring at the ground.
"My, Xellos I have to say I've never seen you is such a bad mood. What's wrong? You can tell me. I'm your best friend." De Tanga said in a fake sugary voice giving Xellos a great big smile.
Xellos just looked up at him and grinned a ghost of his regular playfully evil grin, "That is... a secret." And Xellos phased off.
De Tanga just shock his head while chuckling softly. Though Xellos had attempted his regular annoying routine on De Tanga, it had lost all of its effect. Because it's hard to act all cool and savvy when you are angry as hell.
"Ah Xellos, Xellos. If you only could see how you are acting. Maybe then you'd understand what's wrong with you right now." De Tanga started to laugh his head off as he did a quick little skip jump before phasing out himself.
Filia was now completely dressed and finishing off her breakfast. Though her meal had been good Filia just didn't seem to care that much. She didn't live in a very large house but it seemed ten times larger without having Val around. She missed having the young ancient dragon around.
Perhaps she was too preoccupied with her thoughts, but she didn't notice Xellos when he phased into her home only a few feet away from her. It wasn't until Xellos cleared his throat that Filia realize he was there.
"X-Xellos? What are you doing here? I didn't even notice you come in." Filia said while motioning for him to take a seat at the table. He went slowly and sat down on the chair not taking his suspicious gaze of Filia.
"Xellos would you like some tea?" Filia said almost choking on her own fake sugariness. Until at least after her fake date with De Tanga, Filia had to pretend to be as nice as possible to Xellos. Even if it went lying through her teeth.
"..."
"Oh well then if you don't want some then I hope you don't mind but I'm going to have some -- "
"Who is he?" Xellos cut Filia short. He was glaring at her with his eyes opened and narrowed.
"Who is who?" Filia looked at him with genuine confusion. She had never seen Xellos acting like this before. Back in her mind she mentally smiled evilly.
"The guy that you are going to be going on that date with."
"I really don't see any reason in telling you his name when you wouldn't even know of him at all."
"Humor me." He said in an almost monotonous voice. Filia raised an eyebrow at him.
"Well if you must know his name is Jared."
"Jarred what?"
"Jarred Welmir. And if you are done this -- "
"Where do you meet him?"
"Why does it matter?"
"Just answer my question please Filia-dear?" Xellos gave her a forced smile. Filia wanted so badly to start laughing her head off.
"Well that is... a secret." Filia said mimicking Xellos' normal routine. Xellos facefaulted. Damnit... L-sama is this your way of punishing me? Xellos pulled himself from off the floor and was about to say something when they heard someone at the door.
"Now who could that be?" Filia mused out loud as she went to open the door. To her surprise it was delivery boy from the nearby flower shop.
"Are you Miss Filia?"
"Yes I am."
"Well I was told to deliver 'em flowers here to ya." The boy said handing her two very large bouquets of long stem roses. One bouquet was of red roses and the other was white. Filia gasped at the beautiful flowers. There was so many of them and they were all so pretty. "Oh and I was also told to give ya dis card too." The delivery boy said handing her the card. "I'll be seeing ya 'round Miss." He tipped his hat to her and walked off.
"Thank you." Filia closed the door and brought the flowers into the kitchen for some water.
"Who are those from?" Xellos regarded the flowers with obvious suspicion.
"I don't know. Let me see what this card says." Filia opened the card and read out loud what the small piece of paper said. "To my dearest Filia, I cannot hardly wait until our date tomorrow. I hope you are looking forward to it as much as I am. Love Jarred." Filia after reading who it was from almost slipped. But luckily she managed to refrain from laughing.
Xellos on the other hand was standing there staring at the flowers with both his eyes twitching at the corners.