Wasn't I Supposed To Be The Side Character?

Will pulled Fiona outside with a fierce tug surprising her at the force he had used. As the door closed she finally noticed she was hand in hand with Will. As if he was a snake, Fiona snatched her hand back from his grasp and kept a little distance from Will. Will let out a smile at Fiona's reaction, he was enjoying the private time they now had so he didn't want to be too forceful when pursuing her just yet. He had time.

"Do you want to play in the tree?" Will asked pointing a dark elm in the corner of the backyard. Fiona eyed him carefully, earlier she thought she saw Will eyeing her giving her a feeling of danger but she truly couldn't explain it. Not one that threatened her life but definitely that had something bad in mind of her. She looked at him in the eyes but all she could see was an innocent gaze that stares back at her.

"Okay" she replied. She was feeling a little bored as she guessed her mum wanted to talk with Will's mother for a while. Although she didn't want to leave her mother alone for long. It felt like she would end up with an old style arranged marriage if she gave her mother enough time. She recognised those eyes that twinkled when her mother was interacting with Will.

Will lead the way through the backyard, although it was not huge it was easy to spend hours outside. A large elm was in the corner, it's branches bowing to the ground and it leaves thick. Will had already raced ahead and was resting himself on its trunk. In size comparison he looked incredibly small to it.

"Can you reach the top?" Will asked with his now trademark smile. Fiona nodding, feeling that it was more of a competition her deteination to one up rose with her as she stood next to him at the base.

"Go!" Will shouted startling Fiona from the noise. He ran at the tree and leapt off the trunk with a flip onto a branch. Soon he was leaping branch and climbing the tree at a rapid pace leaving Fiona to drop her jaw at the sight. Seeing she was still at the start line, she tried to grasp a low hanging branch and pull herself up. Slowly she followed the branch back to the base of the tree balancing with her arms out to get closer to the upper branches in arms reach. In comparison to Will she felt very clumsy and slow. Will was watching below as Fiona struggled to catch up to him, he was already swinging his legs in joy at having already made it to the top.

'I should start my training again. My base is already so good, and if I practice my old moves surely I'll be even better than I ever was' Will thought to himself mentally making a note of it as he patiently waited for Fiona to climb up next to him.

Fiona was heaving and gasping as she finally made it to a neighbouring branch facing towards Will. Her face was flushed and was already scowling at Will.

"How did you do that?" Fiona asked trying to control her breathing. Out of anyone she knew, she didn't want to look like she put effort and struggled when it came to this boy grinning at her.

"Watched too many Kungfu Movies" Will replied straightaway. Fiona was dumbfounded for a moment at the sheer audacity of this boy.

'If you got ninja moves by just watching Kungfu then I should surely be able to fly by looking at TV shows' Fiona said spitting venom at Will in her mind. She didn't say it outloud, who could respond to something that stupid.

"Doesn't that mean you know martial arts as well?" Fiona said tauntingly trying to irk Will hoping it would cease his jovial expression. Will just kept grinning, a sparkle in his eyes that slowly grew Fiona's worries.

"Of course. But not everyone is good at it" Will responded. To answer her potential next question of showing her he leapt down the branches and was already on the ground. Fiona was pissed as she pouted at Will. 'Bastard of a child' Fiona cursed continually in her mind as she struggled getting down and made her descent slowly. As she climbed down and placed her foot down on one of the branches below, she lost her grip and fell. Her body twisted horizontally as she saw the ground rushing up to her. Closing her eyes she tried to shield herself with her arms so as not to injure anything major when she would bounce off the ground.

Just before she expected the impact, Fiona a pair of arms catch her midair. Peeking open her eyes she was face to face with Will holding in a classic princess carry.

"So did you want to fall in my arms or am I just lucky?" Will asked letting out a laugh. Fiona blushed and hit him in the c.h.e.s.t, as Will let her down she was still subjected to his laughed. She seriously contemplated on hitting him again.

'What the hell, he's a self proclaimed Kungfu expert he shouldn't mind' Fiona laughed inwardly at her excuse as Will had his back turned to her. Sending out a kick at his back she was sure it would give a memory of never messing with her. Then Will moved to the side smoothly and effortlessly dodging her strike. it was so natural she thought it was just down to bad luck he turned around just then.

Fiona putting her weight behind the kick lost her balance and fell over on the ground, causing her to nurse her sore behins. Looking up ,Will was all smiles as if it never happened but she could see the mischievous look he was giving her.

"Is something wrong?" Will asked politely with an innocent smile. Fiona now knew for sure he was faking his sincerity and felt irritated at being played a fool.

"You little" Fiona sounded under her breath and gritted teeth, she got up again and tried to land a punch on him as she swung her arms with force. Will moved his body sideways and she missed again. Fl.u.s.tered Fiona kept throwing punches everywhere and anywhere in the hopes that she could land a hit and knock that smug grin off his face. Will kept moving backwards and avoided her hits keeping them close to his body as if they posed no threat.

Sticking his foot out, Fiona had her legs caught up and fell onto the ground. Tears of frustration Welles in her eyes as looking up she saw Will finally dropped his facade.

"Ahh, I can tell you that won't be enough" Will grinned. Pouting Fiona got off the ground and brushed the dirt off her shirt and pants.

"Well Mr. Kungfu master, tell me how I can get my hands on you" Fiona said angry at being toyed with. Will let out a laugh seeing how Fiona was. It was like an animal that you kept its toy just of reach to play with. To anwswr her he came close.

"Sure if you don't mind me reaching out to you" he responded with a wink. Fiona was baffled by this flirtatious ten year old.

"More teaching" Fiona instructed ignoring hisnattitude. Will gave a shrug and became serious gesturing to follow, both went behind the tree out of sight from the household.

"Well if you truly wish to be a Kungfu master then you must start with the basics" Will started instructing as if he was truly a teacher. Fiona although taking the whole thing as a joke only nodded at his words.

"Concentration is a must and hard work is needed" Will continued as he could easily see Fiona rolled her eyes at him.

"Firstly do a horse stance first" Will said demonstrating first how it should look. Fiona decided to play along and squatted with her knees and held herself there.

It didn't take long for Fiona to start sweating as her legs trembled and wobbled under the effort. After 30 seconds she fell on her back.

"This is bullshit!" Fiona said with frustration, reliasing she said this outloud she immediately covered her mouth, praying that Will didn't hear. Will looked her over and tried to hold himself back from reacting.

"Well if you can pull off this for 10 minutes you'd be at the start lin" Will said as he took his stance to semonstrate. Fiona looked on as she watched Will bend his legs and hold himself with barely any effort. Remembering his words on concentration she let a naughty grin. 'I'll show you yet Will' 

Fiona got off the ground and circled around Will a few times. He only gave a confused look at seeing her circling him much like a bird hoping to catch something. Out of the corner of his eye he watched enjoying Fiona was staying close to him. Suddenly Fiona threw herself at Will and shoved her whole body at him. But as a surprise in turn he didn't budge an inch. Irritated, Fiona kept shoving at Will from random directions or trying to catch him off guard making him laugh from her efforts.

"It's useless" Will said as he smiled. Fiona them ce up close and tried to shove at him from the front with a push of her arms.

"Like I said it's…" Will turned quiet suddenly as Fiona gave a peck on his cheek and ran back to the house. The shock made Will fall over onto the ground and clutch his cheek from the action. 'The bloody little vixen' Will thought inside giving his freshly smooched cheek a rub. But he could only smile since she initiated for the first time. Seeing that she had disappeared back to the house, he could only assume that it was time to say goodbye.

After entering the home from the back door he could see Auntie Veronica and Fiona were already at the front of the house ready to leave.

"Bye Will, call to come over anytime" Auntie Veronica said with a smile. Fiona was silent and looked like she wanted to run away at any moment.

"It's our p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e, we hope to see you around again" Will's mother said giving a short wave and a beaming smile. It looked like their chat went well Will thought. Soon the visitors left and his mother asked a few standard questions about his sleepover with Fiona and her parents. Smiling at his mother he only responded with short words and retired to his room with a grin from his victory if the day. 

As the door closed his face dropped and any sense of happiness or emotion disappeared taking on a serious apperance. Crouching under the bed he reached for his new phone he had hidden away from fear of questions from his mother. Pushing in a bunch of familiar numbers he was finally using his new phone after an effort and a half to get it. The phone clicked as it was anwsered.

"E, give me the address for tonight to meet the boss"