Gizel coughs profusely as they end up at the front of the school. "Warn a girl before you do that." She says, waving the smoke away. "I'm zorry. I didn't mean to do that. I mean, I meant to leave, but I didn't mean to hurt you." She shakes her head. "I'm fine, don't worry. It's just not the best feeling. I feel as if I've been sucked through a vacuum." She looks down to find Kurt's tail still wrapped around her. Her face grows red. "Um, Kurt, your tail." She points to the blue appendage. "Oh, my apologies." Kurt releases her. "By zhe vay, vhat about your purchases? Vhy did ve not bring zhen back vith us?" They start to walk into the building. "Because I'm having them delivered to the mansion. I didn't think we could carry all of them back without some struggles. Why do you ask?" Kurt holds up his hands in some form of surrender. "I vas just curious." Gizel giggles. "You act as if I'm going to attack you."
"Vell, you do seem to not like me. I know that you're going zhrough zhings, and I just don't vant to make them vorse." Gizel sighs. "I wish your friends could be as upfront as you are. But I suppose they're still getting used to seeing me." She stops and turns to look at him, eyes cast down. "Um," her lips quiver with an unasked question on them. "Never mind, I'll ask you later. Beside, you've got training to do, right? Well, see you later!" She laughs awkwardly and retreats into her green house.
She gives a large sigh when she locks the door behind her. "Idiot." She mutters, rubbing the scar on her back. "You're the most pathetic thing to grace the Earth." She hears a squeak come from a lily on one of her tables. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you there." She sits in front of the lily. 'You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. I'm just a plant and I know that there are worse presences on this Earth than yours. In fact, I quite enjoy yours, and that blue boy's.' Gizel giggles. "Well I don't know about that. But I do know that Kurt is a good guy. So I'll try to pass on the complement." The lily seems to nod. 'If you don't mind, could you give me a drink?' It asks. Gizel stands to get it the water when another voice pipes up. 'Don't do it!' Gizel turns to see a queen's wrath starring at her. 'How can you think to trust her?' It asks. 'She's going to throw us out! Or worse, poison us!'
"That's not true, I'm not going to do either of those things. I'm just going to plant all of you outside, the inside has always been for tranquility and the outside for beauty." Gizel tries to make her case, but the plants start to scream, 'LIAR!' She covers her ears until it gets to be too much. "SHUT UP!" She cries. "You are my plants. I will do with you as I wish. In fact, cleaning house starts now." She grabs an arm full of plants and heads into her back garden. Setting them in a line on one of the stone benches she starts planting. The queen's wraths get planted so they grow up the archways, and the others get put together in the surrounding ditch Gizel made when she ripped the fountain out and sent it flying outside her little box. When everything was said and done, she looked back to that little lily and asked, "Would you still like that drink?" It nods and Gizel quickly waters all the plants.
Her new plants, piano and hammock wouldn't arrive till the next week. So in the meantime Gizel occupied herself with small things like books, movies, eating, gardening, talking to Kurt, and sleeping. Speaking of Kurt, strangely, whenever the blue boy appeared in her thoughts, they always ended with her getting close to him in ways that her Auntie would have frowned upon. "Gizel!" Kurt calls. "Your zings have arrived." He had this big, goofy grin on his face that Gizel just had to giggle at. "Alright, I'm coming." Gizel hops off the library couch and runs to collect her things. "What do you mean the bill is in my name?" Gizel hears the Professor ask. "Look I just deliver, if you don't want to pay up, take it up with my supervisor." Gizel turns to face a familiar boy. "Percy?" She asks.
The boy in question turns, confirming his identity. "Percy!" Gizel runs to the older boy and he picks her up with a spin. "Gidget!" He cries before bringing her in for a hug. "I didn't think I was going to see you til the festival!" The Professor clears his throat. "I'm glad you're all reacquainted, but what is all this, and why did you put it under my name?" Gizel sighs. "Right. I thought this would be my reimbursement for everything you've put me through. Especially since I'll be staying perm entry after the twenty third." She turns back to Percy. "Don't tell Auntie." Percy nods. "Great, now could you help me with all this?" Percy nods again and picks up all the packages at once. "Zuper ztrength." Kurt mutters, secretly jealous of this Percy.
"And I ripped out this ugly fountain, and that's where the piano is gonna go." Gizel praises herself as they walk to her greenhouse with Kurt trailing behind them. "Well, I saw the fountain on my way in. You sent that thing flying. Makes me wonder if you were cheating when we'd play baseball in the backyard." Gizel lightly hit him. "I never cheat. Unless I want to." She gave him a wink that made Kurt's blood boil. "So, are you bringing any friends to the festival?" Percy asks as they enter the greenhouse. "Maybe," the door closes, locking Kurt out. He almost gave up, until an idea sprung into his mind.
"I've been trying to ask, but it's been... difficult. Especially with Kurt." She starts to set up her plants and Percy puts her piano where the fountain used to be. "Who's Kurt?" Percy asks. "He's this... guy I happen to be friends with. He's real nice too. And... He's.... Well..."
"Gizel!" A voice calls out. Gizel looks up to see Kurt flying right for her. "Kurt!" She cries, forming a net with the leaves of the nearby trees to catch him with. "Kurt, are you okay?" She asks, rushing to his side. "Never better fraulein." Kurt says drowsily. "Oh Kurt. Who did you upset? Who would do this to you?" Gizel asks frantically. "So, this is Kurt." Percy says. "Got to say, I'm not that impressed. His skin paint is pretty cool though." Gizel rolls her eyes as she helps Kurt to a seat. "You dummy. He's naturally like this." Percy's eyes go wide. "Whoa, really? He looks just like I imagined that demon from Grammy's story." Gizel gave a soft smile. "Yeah, me too." Gizel went to brush some hair out of Kurt's face when he bolted up right.
"Vhat happened?" Kurt asks. "Well. You came falling from the sky and nearly took out Gizel." Percy synopsizes. "Oh, vight. I couldn't get through your vront door, and I tried to teleport in, but zhat didn't work either. So I had Jean catapult me over zhe vall." Gizel giggles. "Kurt. There's this magical thing called knocking. Maybe I should install a doorbell." Kurt smiles. "Vell, I also vaunted to meet your... Guest." Percy lifted a brow. "Oh, she's never told you about me?" He crosses his arms. "Well that's rude, Gidget." Gizel sighs. "This is Percy, my pompous and narcissistic cousin. Though I spent so much time with him, people thought we were more like brother and sister." Kurt gave a small sigh of relief. "Hey, Gidget, imma head out now. See you at the festival." Percy winked before leaving Gizel with Kurt.
"Vhat festival?" Kurt asks. Gizel gives herself a face palm. "He wasn't supposed to tell you. But my Auntie's hometown holds a Pumpkin Festival every year, and I was going to ask if you and your friends wanted to come with me." She gives a small huff. "Percy always does this to me." Kurt nods. "Zo, can I give you my answer now?" Gizel looked shocked at him after a moment of thinking she nods. "I vould love to accompany you to zhis... Pumpkin Festival." Gizel felt a blush grace her face. "Well, it's on the twenty third, so this coming Sunday. I was going to leave Friday and it is Wednesday now, so you'll need to ask the others and the-" Kurt put a finger to her lips and gave a small laugh. "You vorry too much fraulein."
"I can't help it. I want people to like me, but I know I'll never live up to the image my double gave you." Everything went still. It was the first time Ginny had been brought up since their mall escapade. "You should never zhink like zhat." Kurt takes her hand in his with a reassuring smile. "But-" she starts to talk but cuts herself off with a sigh. "Yeah, I guess you're right." She looks from their hands to his face. "So, do you think they'll come?" Kurt nods enthusiastically. "Of course. Vell, at least I know zhat Peter vill come for the prizes and Scott ez alvays trying to vind an excuse to leave zhe school. Zo I imagine I can get zhem to get zhe girls to agree as vell."
"Oh Kurt!" Gizel had a large smile on her face as she gives him a small hug. "You're to sweet to me." Gizel blushes as she pulls away, hearing the plants give wolf whistles. "Uh, well, before I leave," Kurt scratches the back of his neck. "Would you mind playing a song for me. I love the piano." Gizel nods and sits on the piano bench. "Fair warning, I only know one song by heart." She sets her fingers down lightly onto the keys and takes a deep breath. Her fingers move to create the intro for 'Your Song' by Elton John. Gizel can help but start to sing. Her aunt had made her play this song so often it was engraved into her head. "It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside." She starts out soft, fearing how she may sound to Kurt. But Kurt sits beside her with his eyes closed, swaying to her song. "I'm not one of those who can easily hide. I don't have much money but boy, if I did I'd buy a big house where we both could live."
She starts to loosen up and by the time she finishes the song, Kurt's asleep on her shoulder. Gizel giggles. Using the surrounding plant life she easily moves him to the hammock. She snuggles next to him and finds comfort in his arms that she rarely found in things anymore.