#now i wanna study in order to be the best student in the class as i've always been in my whole life but i just don't know how to do anymore

[fyodorsushankaaa]

Why Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs

why am i crying over a video.

[zhaosbin]

what about fwb with gyuvin?? AND MAYBE HIGHSCHOOL AU!! like everybody thinks that you are just friends but in private it's something else..

ohhh i'm obsessed with this idea...THANK U ANON🫡

just friends — k. gyuvin

summary: to your peers, you and gyuvin were the best of friends...only you and gyuvin knew how far that friendship really went

reader: gyuvin x afab reader

warnings: fwb, dom!gyuvin, sub!reader, sex in a janitors closet lol, MINORS DNI

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the dreaded day had finally come...monday. to make this particular monday more bearable, you and your friend hanbin had decided to meet up at a cafe before school started. you both order a small iced coffee and sit down at a booth nearby for a few minutes.

"did you study for mrs. choi's exam yet?" your friend asked you curiously. you quickly snap your head to look at him.

"we had an exam?" you say with an almost terrified look on your face. your friend, being used to ur laziness when it comes to school, simply laughed at you and offered to help you study as he always did.

"maybe if you weren't so busy with gyuvin, you would've known" hanbin says while giggling. you roll your eyes at your friend. everybody knew you and gyuvin were best friends, almost inseparable these days. it didn't stop them from teasing you both about it though.

"i already told you, there's nothing going on between us. we're just best friends"! you semi shout while hitting hanbin with you bag.

of course, you didn't like lying to your best friend. but you couldn't exactly tell him you were fucking one of his closest friends, could you?

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you walk into your fourth period class exhausted. of course you got stuck with gym first period and had to go the rest of the day sweaty and tired. you take your seat next to your desk mate gunwook and you two casually talk about your days before the teacher comes in and begins the lesson.

unfortunately, the subject being taught right now was math. you couldn't care less about fractions and exponents right now. not when your phone was blowing up with text messages and calls. you knew right away who it was.

from: gyuvin 👹

y/n

y/nnnnn

can you come to the west wing?

please

it's important

answer me

from: y/n🫣

gyuvin i am literally in class

you were surprised when your needy "best friend" didn't immediately answer your message. putting your phone away, you went back to trying to figure out what ur teacher was even teaching.

a few moments later, a rather hard knock on the door snapped you out of your trance. the teacher looked annoyed until he opened the door to see his favorite student. kim gyuvin.

"im sorry sir, may i borrow y/n for a yearbook picture"? gyuvin says with a perfect smile on his perfect face.

you have to stop your jaw from hitting the floor. you cannot believe the nerve of this guy. the teacher, who absolutely ADORES gyuvin, immediately nods and motions at you to gather your stuff.

you both leave the classroom as gyuvin shoots the teacher a wave and another award winning smile. when the door finally shuts, you immediately slap his shoulder.

"are you crazy! what could possibly be this important?" you shout at him in the empty hallway.

gyuvin immediately pulls you to the closest janitors closet. he takes your hand and you look at him confused, until he places it on his very obvious boner.

"im sorry, i just couldn't stop thinking about being inside you again" gyuvin says casually like it's something normal.

you shake your head in disbelief, but you couldn't lie to yourself, just the thought of you making him hard was a huge turn on.

gyuvin could tell you were slipping into your submissive role already, the state he most adored you in. he placed a stray hair behind your ear and smiled at you.

"do you wanna help me out?" gyuvin asked with those beautiful puppy dog eyes. although u could tell he really needed this right now, you know he wouldn't force you into anything you didnt want to do.

instead of responding, you pull him in for a long and heated kiss. what started out slow and innocent turned into gyuvin shoving you against one of the shelves in the closet.

you gasp as your back hits the shelf. while part of you wanted gyuvin to publicly be yours, you couldn't deny how exciting it was having these secret sessions only the two of you knew about.

gyuvin moves from your lips down to your neck, being careful not to leave any noticeable marks there.

growing impatient, you nudge your knee against his crotch as he lets out a deep groan. gyuvin giggles at your lack of control and quickly gives in and lifts up your skirt. yeah, this was definitely his favorite part of the uniforms you guys had to wear.

he moves your panties to the side and immediately feels the wetness between your legs. you let out a sweet whimper, possibly one of gyuvin's favorite sounds in the world.

he slowly rubbed circles around your clit just to get you to relax a bit more. this only continued for a few minutes because he was simply too impatient. he needed to be inside you again.

helping him undo his belt, he quickly gets rid of his pants and throws them somewhere behind him. he then takes out a condom and rolls it onto his length, fingers fumbling due to his speed.

gyuvin gives you another sweet kiss as you feel him finally enter you. he groans at the feeling of your tight walls around his throbbing cock.

knowing the last time he was inside you was only two days ago, he wastes no time in fucking you mercilessly against the shelf.

your latch on to him and rest your forehead on his chest, his strong arms holding you up.

"fuck, you always feel so good around my cock baby" gyuvin pants almost breathlessly.

you moan in return, barely able to speak a sentence due to his cock hitting all the right spots inside of you.

trying to focus on something, you glance down at his hands. those veiny fucking hands.

as of gyuvin could read your mind, he wraps one of them around your throat. you knew it was game over for you.

"gyuvin i-im cumming" you're barely able to spit out before your orgasm shakes ur entire body. knowing you can get loud when you cum, he takes the hand that was around your throat and places it over your mouth.

"hold on baby, im almost done" gyuvin says as he kisses your forehead. he only manages to get a few more thrusts in before he's cumming with a deep moan.

he pumps into you a few more times before finally pulling out and helping you to stand. when you guys make eye contact again, you both let out a laugh. you couldn't believe this was your life.

after you both clean up the best you can, you exit the janitors closet together. when you step outside, you see hanbin standing on the other side of the hallway, a look of disbelief but also humor on his face.

"I KNEW IT!" he shouts loud enough for anyone passing by to hear. you and gyuvin look at each other and he grabs your hand.

"let's just make it official" he says with a look of adoration on his face.

[freakroth]

Young Love [chapter 1]

This is a chuuya x reader x dazai fanfic! yay>_<

Btw Y/N is afab Non-binary and uses They/them

Also Finnish Y/N 😼

I suck at writing fanfics but i'm trying best and if you wanna read the chapers i've made so far then they are on my wattpad:D

https://www.wattpad.com/user/Luka_LL

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~Y/N POV:~

Finally, after 13 long hours i'm finally in Japan to start my new life! it feels so good to finally get to start a new life away from my family and old friends or more like classmates since i can't think of any of them as friends anymore.

As i step out of the airport i sit down on a bench outside and call for a taxi to come and get me. as i wait for my taxi, i scroll through old pictures of me and my classmates, "..why can't i just be happy like i was back then..?" i mumble to myself.

after about 20 minutes the taxi comes and i go inside it.

"To (college name) please" i say in Japanese to the taxi driver and he starts driving.

while on the way i admirer the city of Yokohama.

"are you a foreigner?" the taxi driver asks me "ah, yes i am" i answer him "this is actually my first time traveling outside of Europa" i say.

"are you European?" the taxi driver asks me "yeah, i'm from Finland"(or whatever country your from) i answer him, and the driver only nods and keeps driving me.

When we get to the college i thank him and pay "bye have a good day!" the driver says before driving of.

"..i'm all on my own now.." i mumble to myself again as i start walking inside the building. while i walk to the principles office i see some people whispering to each other and i'm guessing they are talking about how i look so different from them, it wouldn't be the first time.

while in my thoughts i accidentally bump into someone "oh sorry.." i say, and hear the person huff "whatever" they say and walk way. 'what the fuck did i do' i think to myself. i watch as the ginger haired boy walks over to some other boy with brunet hair thats much taller then him 'that must be his friend or something' i think to myself again.

when i get to the principles office i knock on the door and wait.

"come in!" i hear a woman say from the inside.

"You must be Y/N! am i right?" she asks in a happy voice "uh.. yeah i am" i say back "you must be nervous" she says to me in a calm voice while i keep quiet "theres no need to worry, you'll fit in just fine" she says. 'yeah right, there were just some students back talking me, and i made someone mad, i'm defiantly gonna fit in' i think to myself "..okay.." i say

After she tells me about all of my classes she gives me the keys to my dorm "just know you're gonna have two room mates!" she says as i leave the room.

'Room number 567? that means its on the 5th floor..' i think to myself and start walking to the elevator.

theres a note on the elevator door that says 'out of order' 'great, just my lucky day' i think and start walking up the stairs.

once at the top i start panting a lot "jeez.. that was harder then i thought.." i say to myself.

"543.. 544.. 545.." i look at all of the doors trying to find my own. "here it is!" i say while i start to unlock the door.

"DAZAI WHERE THE FUCK IS MY HAIR BRUSH!?!?" is the first thing i hear when i open the door 'oh lord' "calm down dear, its just a hair brush" says the same brunet from earlier while getting choked by the ginger 'what did i just walk in on' "this is kinda kinky not gonna lie-" the brunet says before the ginger lets go of him. "perv.." mumbles the ginger before he sees me.

"who the fuck are you?" he asks and i freeze "oh! i think thats our new room mate chuuya!" the brunet says excitedly "oh yeah, we were getting a new room mate, thats why we had to clean the guest room" the ginger says in a bit calmer voice now.

i study the boys features carefully.. they are quite pretty both of them, the brunet boy has bandages covering his arm, legs and neck, weird.. the ginger boy has some cute freckles covering his face and one blue and one brown eye. 

"you just gonna stand there like an idiot or introduce yourself to us?" the ginger asks in an annoyed tone. 

"a-ah! i-i'm Y/N..!" 'FUCK WHY DID I HAVE TO START STUTTERING RIGHT NOW!?' i think while dying inside.

"i'm guessing you aren't from Japan, right?" the brunet asks.

"..yeah.. i'm Finnish.." i say.

"i can tell" the ginger says.

'what the fuck is that supposed to mean!?' 

"chuuya, i'm pretty sure thats offensive to say" the brunet says. "HUH!?" the ginger seems shocked. 

"by the way i'm Dazai Osamu" the brunet says " and this here is my boyfriend, Chuuya Nakahara!" he say happily. 

"you shouldn't say that we are boyfriends to them! what if they are homophobic, dumbass!?" Chuuya say in a more irritated voice.

"..its fine.. i'm also a part of the community.." i say an they just look at me. i start to feel pretty weird and think that they are jugging me. i feel like i want to cry but i hold it in as to not make a fool out of myself.

"follow me and i'll show you your room!" Dazai says happily and grabs my hand. i flinch a bit at the contact but don't do anything to not seem like a bother.

"heres your new room!" he says and pushes me into the room closing the door 'finally he left me alone,..' i think while looking around the room, its quite big, probably bigger then my old room back.. home.. i feel sad thinking about my "home".. it never really felt like a home or a safe place for me.. all i can remember are bad times from when my parents yelled at me and said they were gonna hit me.

i wipe a tear that was running down my cheek and start unpacking my stuff.

"..this is gonna be a long night.." i sigh.

(authors note: i'll try to update this as much as i can since i'm busy with school stuff:) there might be a bit of smut in the next chapter;

Please don't steal this (nobody is gonna do that anyway) and i won't post the next chapter for a while so just read it on my wattpad. it might take me like months to post more chapters since i might forget lol) 

[lizzieislife94x]

Professor Olsen (e.o)

LizziexFem Reader

Lizzie is your professor your the student of legal age ofc let's say y/n is 19 and lizzie is 25

GirlxGirl

If you want to request something message me and I'll happily do my best for you, feedback is appreciated so I know if you guys like these or not.

Y/ns POV:

"I'm up IM UPPPP!!!" I yell at my roommate as I roll out of bed she can be a fucking pain in the ass would 10 more minutes in bed have been to much to ask "y/n you can't be late you have professor Olsen's test today as do I so get your ass up and ready or I'm leaving without you" I moan and I get ready I really should get my fucking licence because this bitch is annoying me I love her really she's my best friend but when you wake me up rudely it pisses me off, I grab my bag and phone and head to the kitchen to get a bottle of water and turn to my roommate "ta da better seriously take a chill pill we still have 45 minutes we'll be there in plenty of time calm your tits " she rolls her eyes and grabs the car keys "let's go dickhead I'm not getting yelled at because you can't be bothered getting out of bed, maybe you like to be yelled at by pro Olsen because you wanna rail her and think it's sexy I on the other hand do not" I follow her to the car not saying anything this bitch really outing me I can't help but laugh as we sit in the car and I look over at her and she laughs as well.

it takes us roughly 30 mins to get to campus leaving plenty of time toget to class. As I walk in with my friend I take my seat at the front of the class if you knew how hot she was you'd sit here too "morning professor " I say with a huge smile as she turns to face us "morning girls great to see you here on time I hope your prepared for the test later" I let out a nervous chuckle "uh yeah totally professor Olsen" I mean I did study but got distracted by the thought of professor Olsen will I pass I have no idea as the day goes on we're almost at the end of the day and I get up walking over to her desk "done professor " I say handing my test to the goddess infront of me "thank you miss L/N please take a seat and try not to disturb the rest of the class" I nod and head back to my seat and start annoying my friends sending me into a fit of laughter "miss L/N that's detention stay after class one more sound out of you ill make it the full week"

she says in a series tone and I find myself in a flustered state that shouldn't have been as much of a turn on as it was fuck, I gulp and nod looking at her trying to hide my flustered state I slowly sink down on my seat keeping my eyes on my shoes after 40 minutes the bell goes and we all stand to leave as I'm talking to my friends a chill is sent down my spine "miss L/N where are you going take a seat you can see your friends later once your done here" I look at my friends who laugh and tease as I sit back down and the classroom empties slowly "professor Olsen how long do I have to stay" I almost whisper "until I say otherwise young lady now come over here and take a seat you can help me sort these tests into alphabetical order ' I nod and walk over taking a seat beside her and I start to sort the paperwork fuck this is gonna take forever I let out a huff "oh I'm sorry am I inconveniencing you miss l/n" she states with a dominating tone to her voice

"fuck..." I whisper clearly turned on and she raises her eyebrow at me unsure of her next words "miss l/n did that excite you" she asks sliding her pen into her mouth biting gently with a smirk "uhh I umm" she keeps her eyes burned to me "words y/n words use your big girl words" I gulp and play with my fingers "yes ok yes it did professor Olsen" she giggles and bites her lip "well maybe you can get out of detention a little quicker if you help me " I look at her confused as she sits back in her chair and spreads her legs and my eyes instantly snap to her spread legs "professor Olsen don't play don't start something you can't finish " I smirk licking my lips slowly "oh baby I never start something I can't finish now on your knees let's see if that tounge is good for something other than chatting during my test time" I let out a moan and drop to my knees crawling over to her as she pulls her skirt up over her waist as I run my hands up and down her thighs working to her panties I can see the visible wet patch in her panties I slowly run my finger up and down her slit over her panties earning a sexy moan from the older woman above me

"that feels...that feels good y/n" I bite my lip and pull her panties to the side sliding my fingers through her wet folds savouring the feeling of her wet cunt "don't..fucking tease me y/n" she almost yells and I smirk "I'm sorry professor Olsen" I slide my fingers inside her tight cunt and moan at the way she hugs my fingers so well and the moan she let out let's me know she enjoys it tooI start sliding my fingers in and out at a slow place as I latch my lips around her puffy clit swiping my tounge every few seconds just to hear the whimpers leaving her mouth "just like that baby fuck yes don't...stop" she breaths out as I up my pace of my fingers and moan against her clit as she grips my hair tight "shit that's the spot fuck y/n I'm gonna cum" I thrust my fingers faster until her walls squeeze my fingers signalling she's close to cumming I instantly pull my fingers out and slide my tounge in replacing my fingers as she pushes me further into her I feel her release all over my face and lap up every sweet sweet bit of cum she gives I slide my tounge out and look up at the older woman with her head back and thin layer of sweat over her head and face I smirk "was that good enough professor " I giggle slightly as she looks at me smiling "fuck yes I think...I need to...keep you back more often " I get back into my seat and bite my lip "maybe I'll just purposely get detention everyday"I stayed to help her with the tests and after an hour I bid my goodbye to the older woman excited for the following day of school for the first time in a long time maybe school isn't that bad after all.

 AN: just a quick update to keep the book up to date also my anxiety has me awake so feel free to message with requests and ill do them right away feedback Is appreciated and welcome good or bad let me know if you enjoy them word count is 1.3k for this chapter  (who doesn't love a good ol professor Olsen fic)

[alienpossession]

Part 3: Spread a Little Wider (Jeff)

Aiden decided that its best to continue the construction of the house to not raise any suspicion. So he, Ricardo and Max decided to stick around in the property to also ensure the safetiness of the rest of their being while instructing the rest of the workers to go back into their respective after-construction life. Of course Aiden cannot let them leave without a handful of souvenir from the extraterrestrial world, and when they are ready, he set those infected puppet to the outside world ready to wreck a little havoc to the rest of the human population

Jeff White sidelined by injury in his sophomore year of university and his career simply never returned after that. In order to keep up the study despite losing his football scholarship, he worked in construction owned by his father's friend. Too bad the place that simply became the source that continued his uni life also ended his life as he knew it when the alien goo infected him just a couple hours ago. Now, he's more than ready to make the rest of his college friends turned into the same cause as him with the little help of the things stored in his massive carry-on

He lived together with some friends that has been living with him since freshman year. The rule is for upperclassmen to no longer use dorm facilities and since Jeff is in his senior year, he's clearly not eligible for dorm any longer. But he and his dorm-mate and 2 juniors managed to rent a rather decent house fitting for 6 college kids who all love to workout and have frequent guests so they have no complaint whatsoever.

Trent just finished his classes late into the afternoon at 5 PM when he arrived in the house, but it seemed a little quiet, except for the lulling yet deep baritone voice of what he recognized as Jeff's voice coming from the kitchen. So Trent decided to swing by and take a peek on what his bro's doing before headed to his bedroom

"Hey bro, meal prep?"

"Oh hell yeah, you wanna come and have a taste?"

"Hmmm, I guess it's not gonna hurt,"

But Trent came for a little surprise as Jeff turned around and shown him a rather stuffed belly while smiling awkwardly

"Glad I could share this with you bro,"

And just like that, Jeff grabbed Trent's head and then lodged copious amount of black slime right into Trent's mouth. The junior year student couldn't put up a fight as he eventually overtaken by the invading goo that quickly gained control of his body.

After the sloppy takeover/kiss from Jeff, Trent simply swiped the goo around his lips with his hands and give it a lick

"Umh so nutritious. Okay, now this makes the two of us. Shall we wait for the others or should we search them and give them a little surprise?"

"Don't you have a party to attend?"

"Oh yeah, Phi Kappa Alpha. But it's still tomorrow though. It's daytime pool party,"

"And who said that they wouldn't have a pre-game tonight? You know how Pike rolled. Infect the brothers before tomorrow's party and I'll wait here to get the rest of the housemates,"

"Sick, I like it,"

"What the fuck you two been talking about?"

A sharp and slightly terrified looking sound comes from the front of the kitchen. It's Gary's voice, and beside him, is Jae, the other two housemates,"

Jeff and Trent glared at the two smaller yet still muscular guy and decided that play pretend won't cut it, so they just simply do a full-front attack to the two that tried to run the quickest they can to exit the house. But the alien enhanced Jeff's and Trent's already insane physicality and stamina and that left both Jae and Gary subdued in less than a minute. The two writhed on the floor fighting for their dear life when both Jeff and Trent simply smiled wickedly and opened their mouth to let black shiny goo sludged down from their mouth to fill and overrun Jae's and Gary's system. Not long after that, the two also taken over by the alien sludge

"We should clean up. My girlfriend is coming,"

"And a nerd is going to tutor me,"

"Hm, the more the merrier. Okay then, Trent, change your clothes and go to Pike. Take control of as many frat boys as possible. You two take care of your own subjects and I'll handle the two housemates, sounds solid?"

"Totally,"

"Okay then, disperse,"

The alien inside Jeff runs the memory to really make sure what he spot in the human's memory was correct. And yeah, the two housemate left are two fucking muscle monster.

Well, he can certainly take them down, but this might be the toughest battle he will have to face so far

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Meanwhile, 10 minutes later, Trent is already standing outside Pike, ready to spread out a little blessings to the blissfully unaware frat bros of Phi Kappa Alpha

[angstlver101]

Forget Me

(Jacob Black x Fem!OC, 625 words)

Masterlist:

from pinterest @crxzents

Keep reading below or link to AO3!

The air inside the school felt thick, buzzing with the chatter of students as they flowed through the crowded halls. Aurelia weaved between them, her brown eyes scanning faces she recognized, but not the one she was looking for. 

She’d known Jacob Black her whole life—brown skin, long black hair that used to fall over his shoulders, and a laugh that made her forget everything else. But now, he was barely a shadow of the boy she remembered. 

He stood at the far end of the hall, leaning casually against a locker, surrounded by his new posse: two infamous troublemakers/upperclassmen and—of all people—Embry, the first of their childhood friends to pull away. 

Aurelia hesitated. Her feet froze, but her heart raced. She wanted to say something, anything, but she couldn’t meet Jacob’s eyes. The boy who once made her feel seen now felt like a stranger. And Embry—his betrayal cut deeper than Jacob’s. They’d grown up like siblings, spending holidays together while their single mothers worked late. 

The sound of the school bell snapped her out of her thoughts, and she hurried down the hall toward the exit.  

Walking past them, Aurelia was met with her ride home, Quil.  

With her absentminded steps and her vacant eyes, she managed to utter her first words of the day.  

“Hey Quil...” 

Usually, she would be ecstatic to see him, but as the days went by, it became harder and harder for Aurelia to bear “b-days” without him. It was one of those days when the duo was forcibly separated. Quil and Aurelia had the opposite lunch every other day. Without him, she was forced to wander the halls or head to the library, skipping lunch, unable to enter the lunchroom with them in it. 

Like the other days since Jacob’s and Embry's harsh dismissal of their friends, she practically tip-toed by the doors, hoping to make it to the library, a place where she could finally find some peace.  

In the library she would mingle with other friends and do some homework or spend time reading different books. Yet, it always felt like the longest thirty minutes in the world, no matter what she focused on, her break was always overshadowed by the hurt that lingered in her heart.  

Meanwhile, Quil sat in his math class, miserable out of his mind, drawing in his math notebook instead of taking notes. The numbers on the board morphed together as the voice of his teacher was drowned out by the ruckus going on outside. He much preferred subjects like history or any other social studies class and art classes—although he would never admit it.  

He was a nice boy, but he was frequently misjudged by others due to his frequent involvement in fights. They didn’t understand; they didn’t see the fights for what they were—a defense against the constant teasing, the comments he couldn’t just brush off. He too felt the repercussions of having no friends besides Aurelia. 

As the clock ticked past two, all he could think about was meeting Aurelia at his car. Maybe they could finally move past their old friends and begin to make new friends. 

As the car came to a slow stop in front of a red roofed wooden house, a soft voice broke the unusual silence.  

“You sure you don’t wanna hang out tonight?” Quil asked her quietly, not wanting to disturb his sensitive best friend. 

“We can order pizza, and my mom could ask your mom if you can sleep over” he added quickly  

“No, it’s fine, I have a shift at the diner, and I need to take care of my sisters since my mom’s working overnight again. But thanks again for everything Quil”  

[elfboyeros]

The Dead Man

Wanna Read More or start from the beginning: Hallows Academy Masterlist @karaboutmyart @jj-pines @lerenee

“Attention: All students are invited to the first séance in the dormitory today, Friday, September 8th, at 16:00. It will be taking place in the storage room off the common area on the third floor (Hall Romanov). Again, all students are invited to join. There will be pizza afterward.”

-Euphrasie Head of Student Residency

Amora and Loki walked up the stairs of the dorms, the American girl’s heeled flats clicking against the steps as she walked up to the third floor.

“Do you think it will be a success?” Loki asked looking over her shoulder.

“Hard to say, it depends on what you believe in,” Amora answered, following behind her, “I like to believe that ghosts are real so something like the séance could work. Do you believe in ghosts, Loki?”

“I do,” Loki replied softly, “Do you?”

“I feel like I have to,” Amora began as they reached the 3rd floor, “I mean with all the fae and creatures that wonder about in our everyday life, I feel like it would only make sense for ghosts to exist.”

“Why do you say that?”

“I mean if something that is so inherently magical and whimsical exists, couldn’t be possible that something that is so inherently supernatural and paranormal exists as well? It would be odd to have one without the other if the two are synonymous of each other,” Amora explained.

“You can Luther would be fit to have conversations for hours with the way you are thinking,” Loki commented as they reached the setting area on the third floor.

“What about me?” Luther perked up, from one of the couches after Loki said his name.

He sat on one of the beige couches watching Lance and Odysseus play a round of Mario Cart on the TV in the living space. The larger brother looked over the couch to look at his sister over the bridge of his glasses, “What have I done now?”

“I wasn’t saying anything bad,” Loki scoffed, “We were just talking about whether ghosts existed or not and Amora was getting very philosophical.”

“Will I mean the existence of ghosts is based on personal opinion, but it wouldn’t be impossible for ghosts to exist given that they are very magical—”

“Brother Bear, as much as I love you, I don’t wanna have this conversation with you, it will make my brain hurt,” Loki remarked, leaning against the couch.

“Who’s winning,” Amora asked softly, as she rounded to be closer to Odysseus and Lance as they sat in the middle of the 3 large couches that were all in a U-shape, facing the flat-screen TV.

“Odis,” Lance muttered.

“Technically it’s someone named Maverick, from Marquis Island,” Odysseus replied, “but right here in this room, it’s me!”

“Odysseus, does everyone call you Odis?” Amora asked.

“No, Only the Holloway siblings call me Odis.” He answered, “I don’t even know why they do.”

“Odysseus Odis,” Luther commented, moving his hands as if to put the two names into columns. “Sound similar.”

“SWEET WE’RE PLAYING MARIO CART!” A boyish voice exclaimed before an olive-skinned blonde male vaulted over one of the couches and landed beside Odysseus giving him a little nudge, “You should have told me, dude, so I could take you down a peg!”

“Solomon you were studying,” Odysseus chuckled.

“Honestly, Mario Cart is more important than studying for my Forensic Science class,” Solomon scoffed before looking order at Amora, “Hi, I’m Solomon.”

“Amora,” she replied, sitting down on one of the couches while Loki sat on the arm next to her. She remembers Loki vaguely talking about Solomon. Her British roommate said he was friendly, but he can be a bit of a jerk when his best friend is around.

Euphrasie soon arrived with pizzas and all the items she would need for a séance, after Calliope joined the group around the TV, sitting quietly and keeping to herself. Euphrasie waited a few moments for a few more students to arrive like Iphigenie, before beginning.

“Thank you for coming, for the first-ever séance at Hallows Academy,” Euphrasie began, “we are going to take this box of séance items to the storage room then we are going to try and talk with ghost.”

“Euphrasie, I love you, but I only came to get some pizza before I went to work,” Iphigenie remarked, stealing a slice of pizza from one of the boxes.

“That’s fine don’t work too hard,” Euphrasie replied, before grabbing her box and heading to the storage room with her peers following her.

“Isn’t it a little late for that?” Luther asked as she walked by.

“One of the closers got sick during their shift and I was asked to help close,” Iphigenie answered.

“Want me to come so you don’t have to do all the walking alone?” Luther inquired, as Cassiopeia made it to the 3rd floor while a chocolatey red-haired dude had his arm around her shoulder.

“No, it’s alright,” she replied, “Thanks for the offer though.”

The British boy nodded, as she turned to walk away, “Text or call me if you need any rescuing,” he added.

“Thanks, Luther,” Iphigenie replied before letting out a little “Excuse me.” While passing Cassiopeia and the boy she was on the arm of.

“Get rejected, Luther?” The boy laughed.

“Roux,” Luther sighed, clenching his fist while having to urge to punch Roux in his pretty football player's face, “Screw off,” he muttered before being the bigger man and walking away.

“Hey, Roux!” Solomon interjected, “You going to join us in the séance?”

“That sounds stupid,” Roux scoffed.

“I thought it sounded like fun,” Solomon muttered a frown forming on his face.

“Dude, I don’t care what you do, but it sounds so stupid, especially since ghosts aren’t really,” Roux retorted.

“Stick around and maybe you will change your mind!” Euphrasie exclaimed, poking her head out of the storage room as Luther entered.

Roux looked to Cassiopeia who had only stood beside him in silence while her boyfriend had his little exchanges, “What do you wanna do?”

Cassiopeia shrugged, “What would it hurt, ghosts aren’t real, right.”

“You guys coming or not!” Euphrasie shouted.

“Yes, Euphrasie, Jesus!” Roux huffed, entering the storage room with Cassiopeia.

“Who is that again?” Amora asked Loki quietly, while Euphrasie began setting up the séance.

“Roux,” the British teen muttered in a disgusted tone, “If you do anything I advise, let it be staying away from him.”

“He can be nice,” Calliope whispered, from her place beside Amora, “sometimes.”

“Calliope, he’s only nice to you because you are Cassiopeia's sister,” Loki mumbled.

Amora looked over at Cassiopeia, ever since their first meeting anytime Amora as seen the girl always in red, the cheerleader has held a resting bitch face, but now, when she is cuddled up to Roux, she looks so small against his large frame and so miserable. Yet, every time Roux’s at her, he looks at her with a loving gaze, and she only smiles one of those smiles that is clearly fake, although Roux seems to not notice.

“She’s unhappy,” Amora commented to herself, out loud.

“What?” Loki asked as Euphrasie finished setting up the séance, with the Ouija board in the middle of the group of students, surrounded by candles.

“It’s nothing,” Amora replied.

Euphrasie cleared her throat before beginning to speak, “Oh spirits of Hallows Academy, we all come to speak to you today within this storage room. If you wish to speak with us, give us a sign.”

There is a large moment of silence, teenagers all looking at each other, as if nothing happened, “You could like… knock something down… maybe blow out one of the candles,” Euphrasie muttered.

After Euphrasie spoke something fell in the corner of the storage room making almost everyone jump, then look at all the séance items in the middle of the circle they formed.

“C-could you blow out the tallest candle?” The dorm resident asked.

The tallest candle’s flame is then extinguished, making the students gasp. The sounds of whispers filled the room, voices layered over each other talking all at once in shushed tones around the teenagers, yet it seemed like Amora was the only one who could hear all the noise.

The overlaying vibrations made her head hurt, “Amora?” Calliope asked, seeing the American girl's discomfort as everyone else was focused on the ghostly happenings in the center of the circle.

Loki looked over at her roommate seeing her with her head in her hands and her eyes shut tight, “Lovely?”

The overlapping voices continued to get louder as Amora’s head continued to throb in pain. She then looked up for whatever reason seeing the blurry silhouette of some individual standing in front of her.

The silhouette then approached Amora, standing right in front of her, along with the overlapping voice which continued to get louder and louder accompanied by a buzzing sound.

“Do you all not hear the buzzing?” Amora mumbled, unable to properly focus on anything.

“Amora? What’s wrong?” Loki asked concerned.

She can’t hear Loki, however, as the voice around her and the buzzing is so loud Amora felt as if her whole body was vibrating. With squinted eyes Amora watched the blurry silhouette reach out to her with one of their fingers, pressing the tip of their extremity into the center of her forehead.

The American teenager is then on the floor, unconscious.

“Amora!” Calliope gasped, while Loki immediately fell to her knees, to help her roommate.

Everyone’s attention is on Amora and by proxy Loki, “What happened?” Euphrasie gasped.

“I-I don’t know,” Loki stammered out, pulling Amora into her arms, “She just collapsed!”

“It’s the ghost!” a random student shrieked.

“Dude, shut the hell up,” Solomon scoffed, “Is she alright?”

Luther made his way over to his sister, taking Amora from Loki’s arms and picking her up and off the floor.

“Do you know if she ate anything today?” Odysseus asked.

“Maybe she’s dehydrated,” Lance added.

“I’ll call the Nurse’s office and tell them you’re coming,” Euphrasie remarked pulling out their phone.

Loki and Luther left the storage room, heading to the Nurse’s Office in the main building, where Amora stayed well into the night. While in between the land of being awake and in slumber, it feels like she is being watched. Once she was out of the land of sleep, she opened her eyes, face with a man.

With dark burgundy-brown hair, dusty pink skin, and heterochromatic eyes staring down at the blonde girl, left eye purple right eye pink. He had a tea-green glow to his whole body as he floated above her as she lay in bed.

Amora looked at him with wide eyes before he gasped, “You can see me!” The man remarked.

Her eyes got even wider, as the floating man above her put his hand up, “Please don’t start screaming!”

She obviously started screaming, which woke up Loki who was sleeping in a chair, “Amora! What’s the matter!” Loki exclaimed, coming to her side.

“DO YOU NOT SEE THE MAN FLOATING IN THE AIR!”

Loki paused and blinked, looking in the direction that Amora was pointing in as she screamed, “Lovely, it’s a dream, breathe.”

Amora stopped screaming, huffing out breaths and staring down the name as she snickered in the corner, “Go back to sleep, yeah, you’ll be better in the morning,” Loki remarked, affectionately rubbing up and down the blonde’s arms.

All she did was nod, sinking back into the bed she was in, as Loki took her place in the chair next to her, she could feel eyes on her. Not Loki’s, no she’s kind enough not to intentionally stare. No, it’s the eyes of that man, covered in a green mist, staring at her from the corner of the room.

And he continues to linger the next day, from the moment Amora woke, to being let out of the nurse’s office, to getting back to the dorm, he’s there with his 5’10 stature to the way he floats behind Amora at a good distance. He is just there, and the fact that it seems that she is the only one who can see him, Amora can only believe she is going insane, and she’s only been at Hallows Academy for a week.

“Gah,” Loki sighed, looking at her phone, “Lance wants me to come to his dorm.”

“Go, I’ll be fine,” Amora muttered while sitting in her bed.

Loki stood up from her bed, fidgeting a bit, “If you need anything text me okay.”

Amora nodded, before watching her leave their room hesitantly. Once alone, Amora pulled out her laptop and typed into the search bar: seeing people that other people can’t see.

Multiple articles, and definitions of hallucinations along with what could cause them waterfalled on her internet browser, “Chickadee, this isn’t a hallucination,” the man stated, “Put in Cobalt Thornton.”

“How do you spell all that?” She asked, before shaking her head.

“C-O-B-A-L-T T-H-O-R-N-T-O-N.”

When typing the name into the search bar, the top result was an obituary and an article from 15 years ago.

Tragedy Has Befallen Solostica: Hallows Teacher Found Dead

Solostica News Channel One Editor: Suzette Levi Writer: Nicolette Heri-Louis

Found deceased in his small home, on March 23rd, in the early morning, Cobalt Thornton, a Pre-Calculus teacher at Hallows Academy and a Solostian born and raised. Known as Mr. Thornton by all his students and Mister Blue by close friends and family. Respected for his passion for the field of mathematics, and tolerated for his stubbornness, it is shocking to find out that a well-respected man, who seemingly has no enemies, had been murdered.

Thornton’s death is undetermined as of this report. This case is a top priority according to law enforcement, Although Thornton’s wife, Primrose, stated at the funeral:

“The only thing that the sergeants have told me was that he couldn’t be cremated. Cobalt wanted to be cremated, that was his only wish! They won’t update me on his case, I don’t know how he died, but it must be made sure that he can’t be cremated, they're a joke!”

Cobalt Thornton is survived by his wife Primrose Mero-Thornton and his daughter, He was buried in Solostica Grand Church, yesterday, March 26th.

If you have any information about the death of Cobalt Thornton, contact Solostica Detective Matias Prescott at 020 9734 2648 or ask for him at the Solostica Supervise Office.

Below the article is a picture, of the same man that was now haunting her, yet less green, “So what? You’re a ghost?” Amora scoffed, looking over her shoulder at the ghostly man floating next to her.

“You honestly believe I am a figment?!”

“I am center I don’t believe you are actually a ghost, that you are actually haunting me!” Amora fought back.

Cobalt sighed, moving to the door, “There are plenty of old yearbooks around this campus, so why not go find one from before I died,” Cobalt suggested motioning to the door.

Amora sighed, staring at the article open on her laptop screen and then at the back at the ghostly man at her door, “Your little friend in orange might be able to help you,” Cobalt commented.

The American girl sighed, getting out her bed and heading out to find Euphrasie. Remembering that their room was on the 3rd floor, she made her way to Hall Romanov, knocking lightly on Euphrasie’s door where she could hear whispering before the door opened.

“Oh hey, Amora, how are you feeling?” Eurphrasie asked.

“I’m okay… I guess,” Amora replied, “I actually wanted to know if there were any old yearbooks I could look at.”

“How old we talking?”

“15 years or older,” Amora answered.

“Uh… Oh yeah! There are a few in the entertainment center from around that time… I think,” Euphrasie replied, “Come on I’ll help you look.”

“Thanks.”

The two seniors walked to the setting area in the 3rd hall, devoid of people now in time in the day.

“Why do you want to look at old yearbooks?” Euphrasie asked, opening the entertainment system shelving units.

“Something for my history class,” Amora answered, as the dorm resident pulled out a few yearbooks.

“Nice save, chickadee,” Cobalt noted, from his ethereal place around her.

“Thanks,” Amora muttered after Euphrasie handed her the small stack of yearbooks.

“If you need to borrow some just send me pics of the news you take so I know where they’re at,” Euphrasie stated.

“Got it.”

“Have fun,” Euphrasie chirped before heading back to her dorm room.

The chipper student had handed Amora some older yearbooks, that didn’t have Cobalt in them, as the pages were in black and white and from over 50 years ago. The last one she looked at was one from exactly 15 years ago, and thankfully in color flipping to the staff page and looking in the T’s their Cobalt sits, looking like the ghostly man that is sitting next to her, albeit less green. Even after finding him in the staff pages, Amora continues to flip through the yearbook, discovering a memorial page in the back of the yearbook dedicated to Cobalt.

“You’re actually dead,” Amora gasped.

Cobalt chuckled, with his legs crossed as he sat on the sofa across from her, his head tilted as his cheek rested against his fist, “I have no reason to lie about my mortality.”

Amora huffed, taking the yearbook she had in her lap with her back to her dorm room after putting the others away. She spent the next few hours at her desk, searching the web for answers about ghostly hauntings while making small talk with Cobalt.

“Okay! It says here that ghosts haunt those on the moral plain to so to curve boredom, and they are still on the moral plain because something is preventing them from ascending to the afterlife,” Amora explained.

“Ah, I have unfinished business,” Cobalt remarked, “…Yet I don’t remember what I would have left unfinished besides my entire life!”

“Mhm… do you remember how you died?” Amora inquired.

Cobalt thought for a moment standing in the middle of Amora’s dorm room, “I… don’t remember…”

“Someone says that if you help a ghost figure out how they died or tell them how they died this may help them ascend,” Amora read aloud.

“That sounds like a plan to get me out of your hair and free of this school, but how do we do that?” Cobalt pondered.

“Solomon,” Amora mumbled.

“Solomon?”

“He’s a classmate, he said yesterday he was studying Forensic Science.”

Amora got up from her desk and headed out of her dorm room if she could correctly remember Odysseus and Solomon were roommates, if she just went back upstairs hopefully, he would be there.

“Hi! Anore!”

Maybe she didn’t have to go back upstairs, as when she got to the stairwell, she heard Solomon’s voice yell something that sounded like her name behind her. When she turned around Solomon began to approach her, dressed in a nice dark suit.

“My name is Amora, but hi,” she said.”

“Ha… My bad, I know it was something like that, but I wanted to know if you were okay, ya’ know after yesterday.”

She looked at him confused which made him frown, from what Loki said and the fact that she didn’t know him why is so concerned? “Hey, don’t look at me like that!” He whined, “You went down yesterday like out of nowhere!”

“We barely know each other.”

“I can still be concerned! That’s a normal human emotion!” Solomon retorted.

“Well thank you, but I’m fine,” Amora articulated.

“Sweet!”

Solomon was about to ascend the stairs before Amora stopped, “I need to ask you something.”

“Okay, shoot!”

“How could I find out someone died?” She asked.

“Well, if it's someone recent the funeral home would have the records, my uncle owns the funeral on the island, I can look up whoever you need next time he needs my help,” Solomon answered.

“What if it’s someone older?”

“Mhm… the coroner's office might… can I ask why?” Solomon expressed.

Amora thought for a second, “It’s for one of my classes, I need to do a report on someone who died on the island, and the person I can’t find a cause of death online. I was wondering if I could find it from somewhere in town.”

“If it's someone from a long time ago, it should be recorded at the coroner’s office because that guy doesn’t get rid of anything, but he’s on vacation until next month… sorry, you may just have to say the death was undeterred in your paper.”

“Damn, okay thanks anyway Solomon,” Amora sighed.

“Glad I could help.”

Amora mopped back to her dorm, defeated, flopping onto her bed, unaware that Loki was in her own bed, “Overexert yourself?” she asked.

“No,” the American girl groaned.

“What’s wrong?”

“There is this thing I need, and the place I need to get it is going to be closed for the next month,” the blonde griped into her pillow.

Loki chuckled, “You could steal it… just break in and steal it,” she joked.

Amora lifted her head out of her pillow, looking over at Loki seeing her sit in her bed, her headphones around her neck as she read Shiley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Amora giggled at the thought. Her in her coquette fashions breaking into the coroner’s office just to get the records on the weird-ass ghost that keeps floating around her. She had only been at Hallows Academy for a week, and she’d not only been bullied and housed with Loki but been touched by a spirit and now talking to a ghost.

Although it’s not a bad idea… breaking into the coroner’s office.

“Chickadee don’t even think about it,” Cobalt muttered, watching Amora look up the address for the coroner’s office while Loki was in the bathroom.

“Do you want to ascend or not?”

“It’s a nice thought but we can wait a month and just ask for my records.”

“We? Ha! There is no we can wait!” Amora exclaimed, before turning to look and point at him, “You can wait because you've been dead for the past 15 years, I thought I was hallucinating this morning, I would much rather have you gone sooner rather than later.”

Cobalt hummed, “Will, I’m tied to this campus, so if you are going to get into serious trouble, I can’t help you.”

“That’s fine,” Amora mumbled.

The plan: wake up early on Sunday morning, go to the train station and get on the first train which would be mostly empty, enjoy not having Cobalt waking you, go to the coroner’s office, find the back window (which would thankfully be to the records room) thanks to images online, and take a brick and throw it through the window praying that the place doesn’t have a security system.

One had made it to the window and had a brick ready in hand the next morning, she discovered the window was open slightly. With the brick now in the grass, Amora pushed open the window more so she could squeeze her body in.

Once in the small records room, she stood still and waited before she exhaled. Thankful that no security alarms were going off. “His last name is Thornton,” she muttered to herself, attempting to find the filing cabinet marked for the T’s.

Once she found the cabinet, she searched for what felt like hours for the last name Thornton, her eyes beginning to hurt from the light coming from her phone and having to look at such a tiny print.

Thornton C.

“FINALLY!” Amora exclaimed, before covering her mouth, pulling the file out of the cabinet, and shutting the drawer quietly.

She only wanted to take pictures and then put the file back and attempted to as she sat the file down and opened it, but before she could even snap one picture it sounded like footsteps were approaching the records room.

Not wanting to take her chances Amora closed the file and made a B-line for the window she came in, leaving it the way she found it before dashing toward the train station and heading back to campus.

Returning to her dorm room, Cobalt was the only present, “Glad to see you aren’t arrested,” he commented.

“Thanks for the concern,” Amora replied, “I got your file!”

She sat next to him on her bed flipping open his file, seeing a simple report listing information she already knew along with this suspect time of death, yet the one thing she searching for was the cause.

Cause of Death: Undetermined

“WHAT!” The two of them shouted.

Amora’s eyes continued to scan the document seeing a note at the bottom.

It is very possible that Thornton died of a heart attack, yet to do not feel confident in stating that as fact given his age and health history. So, his death will continue to be labeled as undetermined and his death will be labeled as murder.

Cobalt sighed as Amora groaned, “I’m sorry,” she mumbled before lying on her bed and facing the wall.

She pretty much stayed like that until the following day, mostly because she had class, giving a basic “I’m fine,” response whenever anyone, mostly Loki, asked if she was right.

Cobalt was ever-present following her through her classes, he doesn’t bother her, in terms of speaking or standing/floating near her, yet her knowing he’s around is a huge distraction for her.

When she entered her Trigonometry class she took a seat in the back next to Iphigenie greeting her with a small “hi,” before laying her head down on the table.

“I see you are very smart, I’m impressed,” Cobalt praised as the bell rang.

Amora groaned softly in response as her teacher began by greeting the class before getting started.

“…Lily…”

Cobalt's voice sounded much softer than Amora had heard in the past 2 days, he sounded so broken, so sad. Amora raised, looking at Cobalt and seeing him staring at her Trigonometry, before realizing that the two of them looked similar, with the color of their hair and eyes being identical.

If Amora was closer, she could probably tell that they had similar features, yet she is more focused on the fact that Cobalt got closer to her standing in front of her as she taught.

“My sweet little girl… you’re all grown up…And you are a mathematician!” Cobalt laughed, “My baby, I had no idea… Oh, Primrose must be so proud of you!”

He placed himself behind her desk, seeing all the nicknacks that littered her desk including pictures of herself and her mother, a woman with a darker complexion with graying violet hair, and chocolate eyes.

“Rosey… I’m sorry I left. I didn’t mean to… God, my girls, my beautiful girls. I hope you know I love you both so much, God, why did things happen like this? I wish I was actually here, with you, Bethy,” Cobalt lamented.

“Amora,” Iphigenie whispered nudging her shoulder making the American girl look over at her, “Are you okay?”

“Uh?” Amora asked quietly.

“Amora, are you crying?” Iphigenie questioned.

Amora touched her cheek, damp and covered in her tears, no doubt caused by the dead man in front of her lamenting to his daughter as if no one could hear him.

“M-my,” she stuttered out with a frog in her throat, “My eyes are just watering bad.”

Iphigenie is smart enough to know that the girl next to her is lying, but if Amora wants to lie, why not let her?

It’s going to be a living hell if this continues… This is linked to Cobalt. It’s not only strange just having him around, but Amora can’t just leave, she was coming around, slowly coming to like being a Hallows Academy, and now she’s a physic! This is like a waking nightmare, and it is going to continue to extensive agony if Amora continues to force Cobalt to watch his daughter teach every time she’s got Trigonometry while he stands in his purgatory.

She’s got to help ascend… it is the right thing to do.

What could go wrong? She just has to figure out how he died, right?

[shzmluvrs]

I had the request screenshotted, but I lost it in my gallery after deleting a bunch of stuff for storage space and can't find it, sooo... my fault, shawty😗.

~ Star✨️

Unexceptable

(but not for the reasons you think, don't trip)

Prompt: Study date turned movie night? I think, yes. Except, obviously, it's not a date. You guys have established that within yourselves multiple times over the period of being assigned this project. So then, why does it feel like a date? And why didn't you think about doing the unthinkable before you did it? Why would you- Oh, nevermind, he liked it.

Timeline: Post S!:FOTG

TW/Content:⚡️These bitches gay. Good for them. Good for them⚡️Cursing⚡️Mentions of struggle/confusion with identity and sexuality⚡️Mentions of death (in a jokey way, you'll see/be able to tell the context, don't worry)⚡️Billy being maybe slightly OOC?? But also maybe not

Reader: Male! He/Him/His Pronouns! LGBTQ+!

Requested By: @bansheecries

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Before the teacher could even call your name, your hand shot up into the air. She stared at you behind her glasses, unsure of whether or not she should bother before inevitably doing so.

"Yes, (Y/N)?"

"Can I work by myself?"

Normally, the sudden attention of all of your peers would make you want to gag and recluse. But, you were willing to ignore it this time, seeing as working with some random classmate you didn't even get to pick seemed a lot worse.

"Well, honey, it's a group project. You can't do all of that work on your own."

'Oh, yes, the hell I can...' Was your thought to her innocent attempt at persuasion. On top of the anxiety working with a stranger caused you, you also knew that if you were stuck off with the wrong people, you'd most likely end up doing all of the work anyway. And get a lower percentage of the credit.

Screw that.

"It's fine, I just really wanna work on my own." You attempted twice, and the teacher still wouldn't buy it as she offered up a compromise.

"How about you just work with a partner, instead? There isn't enough to make equal groups of four, anyway, so... uhh..." She scanned down her list of student's names, stopping when she was satisfied with her choice.

"Billy Batson. You two can work together!"

You couldn't and didn't even look in his direction, not wanting to see whatever reaction it was that he had to this bit of information. You also refused to look in order to hide your own response, absolutely sure your body would just rat you out with the glowing red of your cheeks or the nervous shake of your hands.

Although, you supposed that this was what you deserved for being picky in the first place. Now left with the unavoidable predicament of working with your year long hallway crush, you figured you might as well make the best of it. Besides, you didn't even know if he was...

If he was part of...

He didn't even give off that vibe if you were honest with yourself. And you couldn't draw on whether or not he'd, at the very least, even be an ally. What would crush you is if he wasn't. And what would kill you is if he was in the community and just not into you.

So your "best of it" was essentially just getting free, extra eye-candy, at the low, low price of doing some lame school project.

What could go wrong?

"Now, class, I want you all to really focus on working through this over your weekend! It's due Monday afternoon, and not a minute later, so I don't wanna hear any 'Oh, I didn't have the time...!' excuses!"

"Hey..."

You practically jumped out of your seat at the sudden greeting, not even processing that it was Billy's voice until you looked up to meet his emerald eyes.

God, had he always been that tall?

"Yeah, what's up?" Was your painfully played off "nonchalant" response, as if you weren't literally scrambling to gather your loose items together and hold eye contact at the same time.

"I know we could just do this online, or whatever, but I've never really been good at the whole research thing... so, d'you wanna just hang and do it at my place?"

You could only stare, like a deer caught in headlights at his invitation that had ceased any movements you were making to a full stop while the class continued to chatter in their boisterous cliques and groups.

"Huh...?"

"The project." Billy clarified, hoping he wasn't being too quiet for you to hear. He was aware of his tendency to pose as a little distant. Maybe even shy. But with you, he hoped to possibly strive for some sort of friendship outside of his siblings and goddesses (a.k.a. Anthea, unknowingly to the average citizen, of course). He was never around in a single place long enough to actually form a connection, and now that he had been, he figured being partnered up with one person rather than thrusted into a group seemed to be more his speed.

Plus, Billy was intrigued with you enough as it is, always catching your eyes staring into his before you'd quickly look away. Or whenever you'd pass him, there'd be a sudden tension he couldn't place that was gone just as fast it came. Weird, at first, which was what anyone would think. But later on, as spoken...

Intriguing.

"Oh, yeah. Sure, I can do that." You nodded, flushing away any previous anxieties while Billy's lips pulled into the tiniest of smiles.

"Cool. Just meet me outside when school let's out, we'll just walk."

And with that, he was heading back towards his desk, leaving you to anticipate the future events of this afternoon.

The bell rang. Last period...

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It came and went, all thirty minutes of your eighth period class spent with your heart pounding outside against your ribcage and your palms sweating. You would've wiped the denim from your jeans away if it were possible, given how many times you'd run your hands against them. You couldn't even focus on the lesson, repeating in your head all of the things you could and should say and do.

Reminding yourself to act "normal" whatever that truly meant. It was times like these you struggled the most with being at peace with your identity. Technically, you were out. But it wasn't like everyone knew that, nor cared. And for those who did care, it was usually in a negative aspect that left you feeling isolated and abnormal.

But at the same time... you could be thinking about this all too deeply. It was just a harmless crush, and you knew nothing was likely to come of it. You relaxed yourself as you walked through the halls of Fawcett Central, knowing that whatever was meant to happen would. And that it wouldn't happen if you couldn't handle it.

Deep breaths. In, and out...

"Oh, so you're definitely (Y/N)...!"

You were taken aback by such a statement. Was it... obvious? Then again, who else would you be? But still-

"'Sup." You greeted with a head nod, the boy coated in blue returning it with an excited grin and a knowing point. You recognized him but couldn't place his name. A frequent target of the fraternal Breyer twins, the kid who was friends with superheroes, has a whole YouTube account dedicated to The Human Powerstorm...

"Y'know, Billy's been talking about you non-stop, and honeslty... I thought you'd be-"

"Shut up, Freddy..." Billy demanded though his teeth, sending his brother a nudge to the side.

Oh, there it is. That was his name.

. . .wait, what? Thought you'd be what...?!

"What, dude?! I was just gonna say I thought he'd be taller."

Oh, okay.

"We're the same height." Billy grumbled once more, rolling his eyes while you continued to stare. He stated a fact you didn't even realize, always having just assumed Billy was taller than you. But you supposed, now with the both of you standing, you were about the same height. Ideal for hugging.

You shook your head at the last thought, an intrusive one that made you grow hot at just the thought. Instead, you played it off as amusement, adding a shrug and a chuckle along with as you spoke up.

"It's fine, dude. It could be worse. We could be getting mistaken for sixth graders."

There was a pause in the air, the brothers staring until Freddy's smirk grew into a genuine (and... unique) laugh.

"I like this guy!" Was his announcement, throwing an arm around your shoulders. "I totally get why you two got paired up, now."

"Right..."

Billy seemed a little less than enthusiastic about the statement, but only because he'd wished Freddy would remove his arm from around you. He didn't know you like that, and he was already praying things wouldn't be awkward. Especially with his family.

Not that... Billy himself knew you that well, either. Regardless, he stared daggers and was only back to feeling content when Freddy finally dropped it and turned the conversation to the both of you rather than simply bombarding you with a million different questions.

Not that you minded, simply enjoying the walk to their house and seeing this as an opportunity to make new friends, get closer to more people. Certain people. Plus, Freddy's constant sly jokes eased your nerves, making it easy for you to use them as a launchpad in talking to Billy. He was happy to reciprocate whenever he could, but still remained somewhat reserved.

Neither you nor Freddy could truly place why, exactly. But it didn't last long as you approached their large home, yourself gazing up at it while the brothers entered ahead.

"Fair warning, my siblings are... I dunno, they're insane. So just, like... ignore them." Was Billy's slightly ominous warning, which left you to laugh in the slightest in understanding.

"Sure thing."

Your one instructed task to ignore his family was something you failed at almost instantly. How could you when one was cushions deep into the couch, yelling at his switch? Another hurriedly sweeping piles of confetti under a rug in hopes for her mess not to be seen. Two more arguing who gets to pick the next song while Freddy was quick to join the chaos, wandering in between them as if he were the true mediator of the bunch.

And then, the oldest two adults in the house, which you assumed had to be the parents, came into view in hopes to reorganize the child-ridden living room. The perfect chance for Billy to slip you by and upstairs to his room. No one noticing, no one stopping the two of you and causing a scene about the whole ordeal...

"C'mon, let's go." The brunette whispered, eagerly letting you walk ahead as if he were almost trying to push you up the steps.

"Oh, hey, kiddo! How was school?"

"Billy, who's your friend?"

Shit.

"Oh, he's-... We're just partners for a school thing, it's...not a big deal."

Rosa didn't believe that not one bit. Well, the school project made total sense, but the way she watched her son fidget around you nervously and refused to make eye contact, for fear of showing off the red glow of his cheeks, made it evident his feelings resided in hopes of being much more than "school partners".

Victor, on the other hand, thought nothing of it. Elated at the fact that such a partnership could breed new grounds for a potential friendship outside of someone already living in the house. He just needed to instill some much needed confidence and encouragement into his son, and all would be well.

"Ah! I remember those days...!" Victor sighed fondly. "You boys just let me know if you need any help. I happen to know my way around a marker and some glitter, courtesy of Darla."

"Dad, no, please..." Billy began, Darla peaking her head from around the corner of the den at the mention of her name.

"It's just research, we'll be fine."

"I actually... don't mind glitter..." You spoke up with a smile, already amused with the dynamics going on around you. But a quick glance in Billy's direction made you shrug, his joking glare meeting your (E/C) eyes, causing your opinion to change.

"But just research is fine, too."

"Of course." Victor nodded, turning and gesturing towards the boy in blue. He had regretfully gotten himself in the middle of Pedro and Mary's playlist argument, trying his very hardest to play "Keep Away" with the iPod held high above his head and waving it around wildly to avoid snatches and grabs. It was only when he heard his name that he paused, Mary taking the opportunity to yank the device away as he stared.

"Freddy is the one you go to for that. Or Mary, but I think she's busy."

"Well, good thing he has me." Billy retorted, a murmur that was laced with irritation and yet still caused the heat to rise to your cheeks. If you were already this flustered at simple and more than likely meaningless words and slight glances, you didn't have a clue as to how you were going to make it through the next couple of hours.

But, you weren't really left with much of an option, Rosa swift to intervene as she ushered you two away and up the stairs.

"Why don't you two just go on and get started. I'll just check on you later and bring snacks or something, okay? Okay, have fun!"

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Though Billy thought "fun" was near impossible given the circumstances, he wasn't shocked at the fact that your presence was making this all a little more bearable.

A lot more bearable, quickly discovering and admiring how efficient you were with your half of the project. Researching and rewording information seemed to be an ease for you, so much so that you were even able to multitask. Holding an entire conversation with Billy about something completely unrelated while leaving him to focus on the more visually appealing, creative bit of the presentation.

Of course, bliss would never last for as long as he'd hoped, Freddy consistently trying to barge in and join in on the bonding or offering uneeded advice. To both of you, on what should go where and what should be said about your school project. And to Billy, separately, his brother having already assumed the most intense of interests you could have in another person; a crush.

Or when Rosa would pop her head in, ever so curious as to what the two of you were up to, seeing if you were hungry and whatnot. As well as to shoot Billy knowing glances and encouraging thumbs up.

He would brush away the both of them, further amusing you and raising your hopes up in the matter that maybe Billy wasn't just eyecandy. That maybe you really did have a chance, if you played your cards just right. But, you also figured maybe right now wasn't the time. The circumstances incorrect.

'Just work on being his friend, first.' You thought. 'Don't blow it before you even have a chance.'

Even with such self-instruction, it was still hard. Hard to just want to be Billy's friend when everything that happened between the two of you insinuated more. At least, that's what you thought whenever your hands would lightly brush up against one another's. Sharing a pencil and notebook, or simply just because you were sat too close to one another.

Or when when one of you would enthusiastically keep the side conversation going, and then hurriedly look away to avoid such intense eye contact. Shy, the both of you, even though there was seemingly no reason to be. You even found it endearing when Billy would go through the trouble to kick Freddy and Rosa out of the room, away from the scene. Rejecting their offers of snacks or help, just for him to turn around and ask/say things like, "Are you hungry? I could get you something real quick." "Oh, don't worry, I can do that, you don't have to..." right afterwards.

"What, is that a band or something?" Was his next question. Although, this one wasn't as endearing and silly, or grounds for a new topic. No, this one... this one shocked you. Visibly.

"No, it's not a band!" You exclaimed through a chuckle of disbelief. "It's a movie! You've...never seen 'Stand By Me'?"

"No...?" He answered, more in tone of a question while your jaw dropped further to the ground, if possible.

"Never??"

"...Should I have?"

You disregarded it, the both of you now chuckling awkwardly seeing as he wouldn't be able to understand your reference anyway. And yet, you were curious to know what he had seen. Maybe you two would have a familiar favorite in common. Prerequisite for a friendship to thrive, of course. Totally not you just wanting to know everything about him.

"IT?"

"It, what?"

"No, the movie." You laughed. "IT."

Billy looked away, thinking for a moment and then answering the moment his green eyes shifted back to you.

"Didn't that just come out not that long ago?"

"What? Dude- No." You sighed. "First of all, it dropped in 2017, so no, it didn't just come out. And second, I'm talking about the original one. You know, Jonathan Brandis, all of them..."

"I don't... keep up... who?" Billy stammered, urging you to explain a little deeper.

"Seth Green... Tim Curry... these are well-known people, man."

Apparently not, silence clouding over the two of you as Billy shrugged lazily, smiling to himself, wishing he had a clue what you were talking about. Although he enjoyed hearing you ramble, he wished he could participate a little more. Harder than he thought, realizing he never spent much time on pop culture until, what...? Late fifteen?

He couldn't be blamed for that, could he? He was new to this. He only had three years of experience being an actual, semi-normsl teenager!

"Okay, fine, whatever." You huffed, mocking offense to his uncultured ways. "There's no way you haven't seen 'Breakfast Club', though."

"Uh, way." He sassed with another awkward chuckle, leaving your eyes to go wide in incredulity. "What is that? Do they have a club where they talk about breakfast? Like-"

"No, it's about-... Oh my god, bro, do you live under a rock?"

Sharing a loud laugh, both at his words and the ridiculousness of not having seen (in your opinion) such a masterpiece, you threw more to the table in rapid fire. Lightning round.

"Back To The Future."

"Nah."

"Gremlins."

"Mm-mm."

"Honey, I Shrunk The Kids."

"Sounds lame."

"Ignoring that. E.T."

"That's the one with the kids and the bikes, right? With that alien?"

"Yes!" You hissed in excitement. But seconds after, it struck you. You had to be sure...

"Wait, was it on Netflix?"

"Yeah."

You huffed. E.T. was not on Netflix.

"That's 'Stranger Things', Billy..."

"Nuh-uh." He shook his head. "Mary and Freddy are watching that together, and I refuse to give in to the hype. It wasn't a show, either. It was a movie."

"Earth to Echo..." You sighed, and he nodded quickly, giving an excited point and a smile in your direction.

"Yeah, that's it!"

"Dude..." You trailed, pinching the bridge of your nose before throwing out one last suggestion. He had to have seen this one.

"Goonies."

"Okay, now you're just making stuff up." Billy smirked, turning his attention back to the laptop while noises you couldn't even name if you wanted to left your lips.

"...!! You're literally wearing a shirt for it! Like, deadass merch on your body, right now."

Billy looked down, tugging at his gray T-shirt and looking almost shocked to see the word 'Goonies' written in its iconic font.

"I... just liked the pattern, man. I didn't know it was a movie."

And when he looked back up to meet your narrowed eyes, filled with a sudden determination he could recognize from the many times Freddy or Darla possessed the exact same look... he knew he was in for it.

"Unexceptable."

The laptop was whisked away from his arms into yours, your fingers expertly moving at a fast pace to Google, typing in a website you used to pirate watch movies for free. He watched, intrigued when you typed in the name of the movie on his shirt and hit play.

"What about the project?"

"Trust me, your knowledge on some of the greatest teen films of all time is much more important than some random facts on ancient Greece."

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You were right, Billy found, having thoroughly enjoyed 'Goonies'. As well as 'Karate Kid', 'Super 8', and right now, half of 'Weird Science'. He also noticed another fact, one of which he voiced to you under the light of the computer screen. The only light in the room, minus some coming from the hallway through the cracked door, seeing as the sun had gone down.

"You're really into the whole... eighties scene, huh?"

"Eighties, nineties, early two-thousands..." You trailed, your eyes glued to the screen as Billy's returned.

"I fuck with it." Billy nodded in approval.

"You'd better." You scoffed, playfully nudging him with your shoulder. "These are literal works of art, I don't know how you missed them."

"I wasn't alive when half- No, all of these came out, (N/N)."

You felt the heat rise from your chest to your cheeks at a sudden nickname he had given you. It was the one thing that had finally brought you out of your nostalgic trance, seeing how nighttime plagued the room and how close you two had remained for so much time. Reminiscing on moments that had happened mere hours ago during the other movies. Deep dive talks, laughter, even more light touches you fought yourself to ignore.

Even now, your leg pressed up against his. Should you move it? Had it always been there? Maybe you shouldn't move it if it's been there the whole time. It'd be sudden and weird. Or maybe your leg up against his was already weird, and he was just being polite about it, not saying anything.

Oh shit. You hadn't said anything, either.

"Yeah, well, neither was I, and I still found a way."

"That's 'cause you're weird."

Your head whipped towards him at such a nonchalant statement, and though your brain was screaming at you to play it off in some way...

...Ignore it, act like you didn't hear it, take it as a joke...

"In a good way." He added swiftly, meeting your eyes that were full of offense, but now softening into flatterment while all that left you was a small, "Oh." sound.

"I like being aro- Hanging out with you. You're-... It's cool. Like, I like you, y'know?"

Billy fixing his words to sound more... "acceptable" didn't at all change the meaning of them. Not when his tone was filled with complete adulation for you. When he could barely push it out in more than a whispered volume, and certainly not when his eyes were blown as they scanned each and every feature on your face. Not shamelessly, though. It was more of a subconscious act that he couldn't help, now that he was finally given the chance under less than preferred lighting.

You couldn't miss any such signals if you tried.

"I like you, too." You responded, your lips curving into a tiny smile with attempts to find the words that matched his own. To convey everything you wanted to tell him and more, because you knew "I like you" just isn't enough. It was too vague, too... simple. It could mean everything, but it could also mean nothing. And, natrually, you wanted it to mean something.

Something like...

. . .

Something like not regret, even though that's what you felt immediately after you had pushed your lips onto his. If anything, you hadn't thought you could scramble away from someone faster while seated in a chair (at least, not without falling on the floor) until you did it successfully, just now. Regret festered into shame in mere seconds, and word-vomit was coming up, and out of your throat before you could stop it.

"Fuck, dude. Shit, I'm so sorry, I don't know why I-... I mean, I do, but it wasn't- I should've...asked? I don't know, I just, I-..."

"No, no, no, it's fine, don't worry about it."

'Don't worry about it? Was that a gold thing or a bad thing? As in, just forget it ever happened? Impossible, nope. This whole thing is ruined forever, there is no "forget about it," that's. . . Or like, as in it was cool and he wanted it...? Or, at least, liked it, I don't know. Oh my god, I'm gonna kill my-'

Billy clearing his throat brought you out of your head, and back into the deafening silence that caved over the two of you. Torture, really, the only word you could find to describe the whole ordeal until you found yourself apologizing again.

"Billy, I'm sorry that I-... Y'know..."

"I told you, it's fine." He shrugged, having not even taken his eyes off of the screen. Not... the best sign, although it became clear he had more to say as he looked down into his lap.

"I've, um... never been kissed before. So I just..." He laughed. "Was I any good?"

"You... What?"

Well, now you were just hopelessly lost, aside from being a hopeless romantic. Billy could practically sense the cogs turning in your head, from one, "Did I just steal his first kiss?" cog, to the "Wait, he's gay, too?!" cog, to the-

"You knew??!" Billy laughed at your exclamation, watching as you covered your face and shook your head in full embarrassment. Your repetition of the words going muffled by your palms.

"Oh my fucking god, you knew..."

"If it makes you feel any better," Billy started, gently prying your hands away in order to see you. Or to show off those stupid adorable dimples he had whenever he smiled. Probably both. "Not right away."

"When'd you clock it?" You asked, curiosity getting the better of you as he moved himself so that he was back to being as close as possible to you.

"Right after 'Super 8'."

"Damn."

You thought you would've relaxed by now, free of the feelings, free of the closet, and the emotional turmoil that came with both. But with Billy's palm against the side of your face, bringing you in for more light pecks, you thought that maybe you'd slip into a heart attack or grow faint with how dizzy you were.

"OH MY GOD?!"

Scratch all that. It was now all back to panic and stress again as the two of you actually fell out of your seats this time trying to get away from each other, quickly looking towards the door to find Freddy's eyes near bulging out of his skull while Rosa struggled to keep her mouth covered with her hand. Hiding a wide grin.

"SORRY, sorry, our bad, we'll just-!" Victor stammered, throwing his hand up in an awkward wave, trying his best to shut the door with his wife and Freddy in the way.

"We just wanted to check in, carry on...!"

"We didn't see anything!" Rosa nearly squealed, having clearly seen everything as Pedro was quick and last to add, "You're gay, too?!"

The slam of the door triggered your burst into laughter, Billy struggling to pull himself together.

"Dude, you-..." Your gut laughs cut you off, practically gasping for air in between each giggle while he could only shake his head, glaring at the floor.

"I'm gonna kill my-"

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Idk bout y'all, but I love this fr. Like... I kinda sorta maybe based it off of a friend's experience (not to a T, I actually changed up a lot), but I still think that makes it all the more genuine.

Plus, a lot of the writing/thoughts are thoughts I've had my damnself dealing with my own sexuality and identity and whatnot (I'm Bisexual and Polyamorous), so it really just...

I'm proud. Of myself, of this imagine, of you all out there who are proud to be who you are, and I want you to know that you aren't alone. Because even if you only have one person on this planet who supports and loves you, just know that it's me (and Moon, ofc, so that's technically two).

DMs are always open, happy pride month, and I love you all so, so much🫶🏽💞.

~ Star✨️🏳️‍🌈

Back to Master List

[diaborodevil]

“Lycanism

A disease that is becoming more widespread as the months go by all we currently know about it is that it effects mammals exclusively mostly those found in the order Carnivora but is also extremely potent to humans causing a frightening metamorphosis into a beast adequately known as lycans which are more mysterious then lycanism itself but the goverment has two branches that can help us out the exterminators that protect us and the researchers who study lycanism now raise your hand if you want to be an exterminator”

We see class full of raised hands except one student

“Sebastian why aren’t you raising your hand”

“We barely know anything about lycanism I say we need more researchers”

“What do we need to understand lycans are bad there numbers should be decreased”

“Problems aren’t meant to be solved by violence”

“This one is”

“That is enough class is over Sebastian please stay a bit”

“Uh what did I do wrong”

“Nothing it’s just your right this world needs more people like you so never lose that will to learn okay”

“I won’t I promise”

00:07:08

“Geez you are a weirdo do your parents know you want to be a researcher”

“Yes there proud of it there both researchers do your parents know you have a death wish”

“My parents do care if I’m exterminator or researcher uh let’s talk about something else wanna go eat”

“No no thank you I only like 10 bucks on me”

“Don’t your parents give you 90 for a day”

“Yeah but I I got more important things to spend my money on”

“Really like what”

“It’s a secret”

“Oh come on I’m your best friend”

“Hence why I won’t tell you you can’t keep a secret even if your life depended on it”

“Cmon if it’s this important I can keep it”

“Even if it changes the trajectory of your life and current beliefs”

“Wow it is serious I’ll do my best to keep it”

“Okay my place backyard about an hour”

00:07:07

“Welp I’m here what is the big 80 dollar secret of the rich smart kid”

“Frank jay smithson do you promise to take this secret to your grave”

“Oh this is really serious well Sebastian I don’t know your middle name connory I promise to keep this secret into the after life I wouldn’t even tell god”

Sebastian looks around and opens the door to a shed frank could see movement of something his brain couldn’t quite identify then Sebastian flipped a switch turning a light on and frank saw it a dog in a child’s dress trying its best to walk on two legs

“”

“I knew I’d regret this please stay calm I can explain this”

“How how can you explain that this doesn’t make any sense oh am am I awake”

“Uh where where to begin I I was walking Sera through the woods when small lycan bit her I kicked it and brought Sera home but my parents told me they they told to kill her but I I couldn’t I just couldn’t”

“Why why couldn’t you”

“I raised her since she was a puppy I I couldn’t so I hid her in the shed and kept taking care of her but then I noticed her changes”

“So you thought this would be a great start at being a researcher”

“No but as she changed I noticed that there were more then physical changes”

“Like what”

“Sera this is frank do do you remember him”

“Yes he’s nice like you”

“”

“So I guess your gonna tell someone get me in trouble and who knows what will happen to Sera”

“”

“Well I I guess it’s over”

“Uhhh no I’m not gonna tell anyone it’s just hard to wrap my head around it but I trust you you’ve been my best friend forever I’ll stand by you”

00:05:11

“So anything new with Sera”

“She’s been talking better and picking up words quicker and “

“And”

“She she has thumbs now it it doesn’t make sense bones muscles tendons it’s it’s all so strange”

“Welp I don’t get it but even though things are crazy things are starting to seem less crazy in the world it’s it’s nice”

00:05:05

“Where have you been”

“Out”

“That isn’t a good answer”

“I’m going to room”

00:04:22

“I don’t trust him”

“It’s his life he can do what he wants with it”

“No he’s up to something and it probably isn’t good so I got cameras and I hid one in his uniform”

“You better be right about this”

00:00:01

“This has been a strange week but since lycanism started I think this has been my best week”

“Hmm hopefully things can go back to normal”

“Can they wait is that a”

“That’s the little freak whose been hiding a lycan”

“Dad what are you”

“You told him”

“No I didn’t I don’t know how he found out”

“Sir calm down kid I’m going to need you to step away from the lycan”

“What’s going on what are you doing”

“We have been told that your son has been harboring a lycan so we came to take”

“Sera sera it’s okay calm down ah”

00:00:00

“Sir your going to want to hear this”

“What is it”

“There’s reports of lycans attacking people in large numbers”

“All of you evacuate to the nearest shelter”

Everyone else leaves leaving frank and Sebastian alone

“Hey are you okay we gotta go”

“I I can’t”

“Come on I’m sure we can convince them to let sera in”

“It’s not that it’s”

Sebastian raises his arm showing a spot where Sera accidentally bit him

“If I go there with a lycan bite they’ll kill me so I can’t go with you”

“When this blows over even if it does I’ll find you”

“Why”

“Your my best friend my only friend so I’ll find you even if you turn into some giant freaky lycan I’ll find you”

-60:07:08

“Brief me on this mission sir”

“On this supply route about half the supplies goes missing so we suspect there might be bandits involved”

“Huh is that”

“What”

“Oh it’s just that I believe that’s the school I used to go to”

“WELL I need you to survey the are to see where the bandits are hiding so you might have some time for nostalgia go”

-60:07:07

“Huh it’s been forever since I’ve been here to think things were normal at one point where did the time go hmmm it’s been five years and I haven’t found him should I give up no he wouldn’t so time to get back on track”

Then suddenly something hits frank in the head

“Wha what was that uh”

Something else suddenly hit his head

[toomanyoneshots]

Smart Enough - Dean Forester X Reader

You rushed out of class as soon as the final bell rang, sweeping up your books and papers into your arms and slinging your backpack over your shoulder. You made sure to hold your papers tightly against your chest, hoping that nobody had seen your grade on your AP Psych test. Sure, people said that a C was an average grade, but it certainly wasn’t for you. Your entire grade knew you as the future valedictorian, who regarded a high B as unsatisfactory. But a 73? You knew it was only because you hadn’t had enough time to study properly, what with the pressure of school mounting as the semester was about to enter its frenzied finale, but that gave you no comfort. You were struggling to keep your eyes dry, desperately taking deep breaths to calm yourself down, though the worry about your grade was suddenly supplemented by worries that people could hear you. As soon as you exited the classroom, you did your best to blend into the crowd of students filling the hall and get out of the school as soon as you could. But of course, you couldn’t escape the one person you least wanted to see you like this: your boyfriend Dean.

“Hey, wait up!” Upon hearing this, you looked back and made eye contact with him, before turning back around and speeding up, hoping to lose him in the sardine can that was the hallway of Stars Hollow High School. You couldn’t bear the thought of him seeing you about to break down, a drop of water away from the surface tension breaking as a single tear rolled down your face. But alas, you couldn’t lose him and he soon grabbed your shoulder, turning you around to face him. Your face quivered as you looked him in the eyes and started sobbing silently. He pulled you into his chest and looked around before pulling you into the janitor’s closet, closing the door firmly and locking it. He rubbed your back to comfort you and kissed the top of your head as tears streamed down your face, staining his hoodie. You both stood still for a moment as you calmed yourself down, wrapping your arms around him and pulling him close to you. He pulled away and sat down against the wall, pulling you down so you were straddling his lap, and pulled your head back into his chest, setting all your papers and books on the ground.

“Do you wanna tell me what’s wrong?” He asked softly, using his thumb to wipe the tears from under your eyes. Your fading sobs got louder as you grabbed the test paper and held it up up for Dean to see. He took it from your hand and held it up to his eyes, struggling to see in the dark. After a few seconds, he set the paper back on the pile and tilted your chin up so you were facing him, before leaning in and kissing you softly.

“Babe, it’s just a letter on a piece of paper. It’s nothing to worry about, I promise.”

“It’s a C! That’s almost a D which is almost an F!”

“It’s also almost a B, which is almost an A,” he said, kissing your forehead. “Babe, you have a 99 in this class. One test that you didn’t even flunk isn’t going to drop you to a B.”

“I don’t know, it just feels like I’m not smart anymore,” you said, as the magnitude of your tears decreased somewhat.

“Babe, you’ve made all As since you were five years old. You’re the smartest person in the school. And no matter what, you’ll always be smart enough for me.” You looked up at him, the final tears falling off of your face, before leaning in to kiss him.

“It’s going to be okay,” he said, kissing you before pulling away and looking into your eyes. “I love you.”

“I love you too,” you replied, kissing him and sniffling. You took a deep breath and tried to smooth your now-frazzled hair out, before picking up your papers and getting them in order. You cracked the closet door open, looking around to make sure nobody was watching. You saw that the hall was empty by now, so you slipped out and flashed him an “okay” sign, waiting for him to close the door behind him so you could both leave school.

“Hey,” Dean said. “How about some ice cream? My treat.”

“Ice cream would be great,” you responded, standing on your tiptoes to kiss him. “Thank you.”

[bandersnatchcrumplesnort]

Same!

I find myself getting less and less ambitious the older I get.

When I was graduating high school I wanted to do great things and be super famous and change the world.  Now I just want to hang out and not bother anybody.

[genshingarbage]

Call His Name.

Xiao x Reader / Scaramouche

Was feeling a bit angst like so this post is a result of it, all things considered my life is great right now lmao so the need to write something so dark is just because I'm born evil sorry guys, warning, this has a very dark twisted Scaramouche in it, he is nothing but a bad guy in this, so if you don't wanna see that then maybe don't read this post. - Mod Diluc

"How many times have I got to ask, disobedient scum." His voice was laced with an undying anger, more a last warning then a question leaving his lips.

Another swift and hard kick aimed at your lower abdomen left you heaving, a sharp inhale of air being choked out by another painful coughing fit.

Your hand weakly shook down to press against your aching stomach, your body littered with bruises and cuts now, dried blood stuck to your every wound that this monster had carelessly inflicted upon you.

"My patience is running thin." His voice bellowed out again, the irony to speak of patience when the man failed to have an ounce of it, it didn't leave you without a dry chuckle escaping your cracked lips.

Which of course, he heard all too clearly.

The sound of shuffling as his foot lifted up- you knew already to tense for the impact. The fact he hadn't held back this whole time meant you knew better than anyone now to severely brace yourself.

Eyes squeezed shut tightly awaiting for another harsh hit to land against you. Waiting, and waiting. Then you felt it, a cold sensation against your cheek, it sprawled across the entirety of your skin, allowing goosebumps to rise with such haste.

Your eyes shot open and every breath filled with nothing but disbelief to what be displayed before you. Crouched down you could see the intricate design of his clothes more clearly now; through one eye at least, somewhere through the beating he'd given your left eye too much swelling and left it blood shot. Your vision was too blurred to look through it anymore.

His hand was stretched out, touching your skin, you wanted to reel back in horror, in disgust. But the look in his motionless eyes left your blood running cold, your body was on standby, unresponsive to your pleading to create space between you and him.

His abuse you'd been able to handle as of so far, but this sudden act of gentleness, such a mercy he was incapable of giving, you knew for sure. It was all an act, and the fact you knew this is what made his hand carefully caressing your cheek all the more chilling, all the more terrifying.

Your heart was trying to break through your ribcage now that you was sure of, beating so fast and hard, your breaths had been sounding uneven and erratic the moment he'd closed the gap between you two. Why he was just crouched there, studying your battered and broken form with such a monotone expression was beyond your capability of understanding right now.

"I see now." His voice shattered the eerie silence that had been filling your body with anxiety from the get go. He sounded so detached, so distant. Not here.

His eyes had glazed over all the scars, cuts, bruises, all the horrible trauma he'd call art. A sudden click of his tongue made you jolt ever so slightly, it was very sudden, an very small, but he felt it.

With an exasperated sigh he lifted back up, the sounds of his hands clapping against his knees in the process, acting a kin to a teacher checking a student who'd fallen in his class.

"Stand up." He ordered.

You let out a soft whimper, the thought alone making your muscles burn and ache.

He rolled his eyes, looking fed up, as if you were behaving like nothing more than a bratty child to him.

Without warning he bent down, tightly grabbing your already damp matted hair into his fist, balling it tightly and secure. Standing back up and yanking you onto your feet followed by a shriek of pain.

"Come now, you haven't lost your legs yet, use them while you still can." Was all he said as he positioned you back to standing up as best as your body could muster. What he said sounded like advice but it was definitely a foreshadowing warning.

You stood there, wobbling, swaying side to side ever so slightly. Your head was in excruciating pain, so dizzy, so unbalanced. The ground wouldn't stop moving around you, your breathing was still hard and heavy, a slight bubble kept making itself known in your breathing. No doubt your insides had taken a battering too, blood trying to rise out from some high probability of internal bleeding.

"Look at me." He ordered again.

You didn't want to obey, of course you didn't, every thought in your head was that of curses and insults being thrown right at that porcelain skinned Harbinger.

But what good what that do you? Except lose your legs huh?

So reluctantly you lifted your disoriented gaze at him; blurred and unfocused you could only know it was him by that obnoxious signature hat of his faintly being read by your one good eye now.

"You believe there is a way out of this don't you?" His hands crossed over one another against his chest. The sound of amusement evident in his villainous voice.

"You believe you can somehow survive long enough to not have to resort to what I was so kindly requesting from you-" He gave you a curt up and down scan before shrugging. "Before you made me lose my temper of course." He finished with a scoff.

You didn't reply, in all honesty you couldn't. You were at a loss for words, a loss for any coherent thought over this matter now. But he was right, you were still hopeful that if you just bared through this long enough, something would happen to help you. Something that wouldn't involve putting him in danger.

Another click of his tongue quickly pulled you away from your thoughts however.

"I know you can talk brat, this stubborn behaviour of yours isn't doing you favours and it's only exhausting my last straws of mercy." His arms tensed with an underlining lace of frustration toward this situation. Good. Like hell you were ever gonna make this easy for him.

After a few more painfully slow seconds of silence he closed his eyes lifting his head and sighing out slowly, his hand raising to pinch the bridge of his nose.

"I'll try this one last time." He let the words roll out slowly, indicating his dying patience now.

"Call, for, him." He ordered.

You stood there, the pain in your body was becoming unbearable from being forced to stand still, the dizziness was growing stronger by the second, the aches, the burning of your cuts and the stinging as the wind blew across your tattered clothes. Your dried blood itchy and uncomfortable, your sweat making you damp and your hair a matted mop of mess. You were clearly the loosing opponent in this fight, you didn't even have a vision to help what feeble fight you'd ever had, but you knew as long as you didn't say that one word, that one name; you were winning.

When it was made apparent that even now you wasn't going to submit, the colour in his eyes somehow managed to darken if it were even possible. He came toward you without a sound, you tried to back up but you fell instantly onto your behind, a grunt escaping your mouth. You were in so much pain and your body just wanted to succumb to the injuries now.

He closed in fast, the look of sheer anger and fury burning in his eyes, locking a fistful of your hair in his hand again he hoisted you up aggressively till your knees were being scuffed and scraped against the cold concrete, looking down at you with nothing but disgust.

"I've been too soft on you, that ends now." Is the last thing you heard before the cackle of lightening fizzed against your ear, and before you could protest you were cut off by your own blood curdling screams, electro pulsed through your body with an uncontrolled ferocity. Your skin felt like it was burning alive, your chest tightened and your heart ached, it felt like a heart attack was going to be your final feeling before death finally made you its own.

He stopped after a few seconds, but for you, it felt like hours, steam danced off your body, your skin burning hot, your eyes red with blood, your hairs on your body stood up with fine accuracy, the smell of your fried flesh hit your nose and you instinctively gagged. Your consciousness began to fail you but he roughly shook you in order to keep you there with him, present in the pain.

"We've barely begun my beautiful plaything, let me hear those screams again." He mused against your ear with a venom spilling from the tongue.

It continued for what felt like eternity. The sharp zaps coursing through your blood burning everything in its wake. Leaving you on the near brink of death, everytime you thought he'd finished he start up again. It overwhelmed your mind, your muscles and your senses, all you could make sense of now was pain and agony. Your body was soon to give up entirely whether he wished for it too or not.

Tears finally began to make there way down your cheeks, rushing down fast, dropping onto the concrete, the flesh of your knees long since cut and bruised with blood drying there now too. Another work of art against the canvas that is your skin, that's how Scaramouche would observe it anyway.

He looked down at your face, through the steam; through the hazy fog of purple that had been conjured from his electro. To see your pupils wider than ever; a clear sign you were on your last legs. The crazed smile painted on his face made you sob more violently, made you want to throw up all the remaining contents in your stomach, you dry heaved next to his feet and he scowled at you. Forcing your eyes back up at him.

"Don't even think about it trash." Was all he warned. He couldn't care in the slightest over the pain you was feeling, over the hurt you were going through right now. He physically wasn't capable of it. Besides to him you'd asked for this, had you just obeyed him sooner he wouldn't have had to go to such drastic measures: not that he's complaining, he likes to indulge in his darker fetishes sometimes.

He bought his hand to your face and wiped away your tears onto his thumb, letting it slide against his tongue. A delighted groan escaped him as he done so. He was enjoying this more than he'd previously realised, he could get use to having you as his plaything back at his camp, it would be a good way for him to release his frustration. Pleased with the thought he bent down ever so slightly and leaned right into your reddened ear.

"I think I'm going to keep you around with me for a bit longer. Your kinda growing on me you piece of dirt." He spat it out with such hatred. For how could something so weak and pathetic have such a pretty face and such pretty eyes. He got excited thinking about how he'll soon remove the light from those sparkling eyes, carve more of his artwork into your skin, into his canvas. He'll make you beautiful, his type of beautiful.

You screamed out in sheer fear now, this is not what you'd planned, you just wanted death to take you now. Anything! You refused to let your fate fall into his hands; refused to become his plaything. He looked down at your wailing form, your fragile broken spirit was heavenly to him, pure ecstasy. A devil's grin came across his face as he saw your resolve melt before him, saw your stubborn attitude falter and break. Then he finally got what he wanted.

"XIAO!" You screamed it at the top of your lungs, you cried it out with every last splinter of energy you had left in you. This isn't what you wanted, but you'd failed your other options, Scaramouche truly was a dark and twisted monster, a demon.

You felt it then and there, the shift in the wind, the change in the atmosphere, he was coming.

Scaramouche closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, overly joyed with the current position he found himself in. Looking down at you one last time, he merely scoffed and threw you to the floor harshly. You'd done your job for him now, once he's dealt with the Yaksha boy you'll be his free reward from all this effort.

He stood there, dead still, waiting slowly, patiently, all senses fired up and on edge. He wasn't a fool, he was privy to how well the adeptus had been trained in the arts of combat. Then suddenly the wind picked up abruptly, howling and whirling around like an untamed beast, the wind mixed the fog and caused a swirling haze to blanket over both you and the Harbinger. But he was far too prepared for such a trick, then cutting through the fog and wind like a blade against butter a flash and spear hurdled toward Scara.

A flash of purple and he was gone, you were left there alone now, the wind making your tattered clothes ripple as your hair danced wildly. So cold, so alone, so frightened.

Before you could process you heard the sound of something literally materialise behind you, you began to shake violently as you couldn't believe he'd won so quickly, was Xiao okay? Had you called him to his death... was this all your fault.

You flinched hard when you felt hands snake around your wounded body but then your breath hitched, you could tell from the careful, tender yet awkward embrace it was him, the way the wind didn't chill you anymore, and that soul crushing loneliness disbanded, it had to be him. You turned your head fast and was met with that all too familiar mask. Your heart couldn't help but flutter, for he was the one sign of hope you'd received through this entire ordeal.

"Xiao..." Your voice was barely a whisper, tones of disbelief laced all within it.

He simply nodded at you, his expression unknown for the mask conceiled it. His arms still round you protectively, then faster than you'd ever be able to process he lifts his hand and creates a harsh gust of wind which redirects an incoming bolt of purple electricity that was previously aiming straight for you both, it gets forced elsewhere and cracks somewhere distant against the top of a roof.

You can't see the scowl on Xiaos face but the way his head dips ever so slightly you can tell he's beyond angry. His grip on you loosens and your heart begins to sink, but you know he needs both hands to fight, so weakly you shake your body up to be half propped to see what lays behind the fog.

The faint glow of purple, murky thanks to the wind and fog but still prominent creeps closer, the sounds of lightening cackle and crisp all around; you'd think a thunder was due any moment. But no, this intense power and suffocating presence is thanks to Scaramouche, and Scaramouche alone.

A laugh can be faintly heard, before it picks up in its audibility, still low to the ground Xiao spins round once fast like a bullet and just like it was never there the wind dissipates with the fog, the surrounding environment revealed to you yet again. The blanketed fog finally being swept clear, you feel like you can breath properly again, that is untill the once murky clouded figure of the dreaded Harbinger is now on full display, walking slowly towards you and your now protector Xiao.

"Hate to break up the pathetic little reunion, but that right there." He growls as his finger aims to your weak self, electro cackling from the tip of his finger. "Is property of the Fatui Harbingers now, Yaksha." He finishes with a twisted dark smirk.

Staying low to the ground on purpose Xiao doesn't flinch, doesn't move a muscle, merely remains solid still, tense and alert. The suspense as Scaramouche comes to a halt himself and the stare off begins is stiffling to you. You would've started to believe time had frozen then and there from how silent and still the world became around you three, until Xiao is the first to make a sudden burst toward Scaramouche.

Spear aimed and ready to pierce he lunges forward with accurate precision, however the Harbinger was well known for many reasons; one being his knowledge when it comes to battles, he spins on his heels fast, twirling sharply, causing Xiao to fly past him, his spear catching the Harbingers uniform and tearing a small piece of his delicately woven sleeve.

He doesn't have time to be angry, he'll worry about it once the adeptus boy is dead he tells himself to remain focused, turning to aim his hands at Xiao whose already mid turn about to lunge again, electro blasts from his hands creating a glow of purple that coats across his skin and dances along the concrete floor beneath him.

Xiao flies into the air dodging the electro with ease, but unfortunately for him that is just what Scaramouche aimed for. A Cheshire grin on the twisted boys face is all you see as his hand raises up and he calls out with a tone doused in mockery.

"It's alot harder to dodge when not on solid ground, Yaksha!"

The electro comes cascading from his hands like a never ending fury from within. He's right, it is harder for someone to dodge when falling through the air, but he seemed to forget one very important thing, Xiao was a master in the skies, a shadow that's forever illusive.

Xiaos feet seem to bounce off the air as if he was running and bounding along the ground still; Like stones that ricochet the ripples of water when thrown at perfect angles. The look on the Harbingers face is nothing but frustrated shock. You can't help but be in awe at how Xiao moves so gracefully, such raw talent and skill.

Your face full of admiration doesn't go unnoticed as a pair of deep indigo eyes catches your expression. His lip curls in anger as he faces you, how dare you be looking so safe while still in his presence. Did your pretty self forget that you belong to him now? He glances at your eyes fixated on the Yaksha, and though still royally pissed off that you think you're safe in his presence, your pathetic hopeful look gave him the perfect idea to finish this fight.

Xiao swivels in the air as he sees the attention is no longer on him, but on you. You couldn't possibly tell from so far down but up here where its just him he can freely show worry and concern.

Scaramouche closes in on you at an uneasy pace once again and just like before you cowar slightly as he approaches. Instinctively you raise your hands and wrap them around your sore fragile self.

"No..." the softest of sounds escapes Xiaos lips without him realising as he sees your life going back into danger.

He can't help the rage that boils inside him so quickly as he begins to saw down through the skies, like a falling star picking up speed dangerously so.

"My darling pet, it would almost seem as if you're rooting for the other side-" the words drawl out his mouth in what you can only assume is to suppose to feign hurt.

He grabs your face, squeezing your chin in his grasp forcing your tired eyes to be entranced by his own, burning with a fire inside that only fans more and more out of control.

"But we all know that's not true, right?" He tilts his head expectantly at you, as if he was really awaiting your response.

You swallow down hard, your throat suddenly feeling so dry, so itchy, your chest now possessing that horrible tight sensation yet again.

You open your mouth ever so slightly daring to allow words to whimper from your mouth-

Smack.

Before you could even blink your against the cold concrete yet again, your face pressed hard into the rough stone. He'd lifted his hands from your face and slapped you before you'd even let a word out.

It stung and your eyes watered so much now, you were so fed up with this, but you couldn't help being afraid. Weakly you begin to pick yourself back up, or at least try too. Your arms shaking, your body feeling so heavy now.

You couldn't explain it, but no matter how many times he hit you down, you simply just refused to give in, to submit to him. So no matter how tired you was, how incredibly strained you felt, you started to lift up again, maybe it was your adrenaline, or your need to just survive, but you wouldn't stop trying to defy him.

Xiao was still racing down from the high above skies, he hadn't realised just how high up he'd been pushing himself to keep avoiding that Harbingers devastating electro attacks, but with every passing second his fury and rage kept growing. His resolve slowly beginning to fade, his sensible attitude dissolving, all he could see in his sights was nothing, nothing but, you.

You feel yourself get forced to stop lifting, a gentle caress grazing upon your scalp again, but it wasn't comforting in the slightest, it gave that same spine chilling feeling from before.

You screamed out when he yanked your hair hard like before and slung you around his body like a broken doll, placing you infront of himself, forcing you to be on your knees, angling your head to look up. One hand coiled in your hair, the other pressing the back of your head in a very odd angle.

"Look at that. Look at him." He ordered, and so you did, seeing the small dot that is Xiao slowly becoming bigger, and gradually coming back into focus as he nears you both, speed like a falling meteor.

"Isn't it beautiful to see?" He sighed to himself, your face painted with confusion. Did he not realise that Xiao was closing in to deal a deadly attack? Was he truly that unhinged now...

"Nothing makes me happier than to see them fall apart, loose what they hold so close to them." He kept going and you could do nothing but be forced to listen and watch your protector close in like a predator.

"I think I'm too merciful for my own good." He groaned lowly, and for a moment your breath hitched as you felt the cackle of lightening against the back of your head, that same heart wrenching fizzle sound burning your ears.

"At least the last thing that will kill him is those precious eyes of yours, seems rather fitting mmh?" He asks you with the full intent of not getting a reply. Then it hits you, what dark sinister plan he's conjured up. Your heart begins to race and your breath notches up in pace a couple hundred times over. This couldn't happen, no, it can't... not what he's planning, it can't possibly be what he's actually planning...

"His eyes really are only on you my pet, how sweet, makes me sick to my core." He growls lowly, Xiao was far closer now and was nearly in reach. Scaramouche made sure to keep your head aimed at his encroaching target that is the Yaksha.

What you orginally thought, was in fact the reality Scaramouche had planned out to do. Using your eyes, he has the full intent to fire lightening through your skull, frying you in the process and making the electro beam out from your eyes and hit Xiao head on. Two birds one stone kinda deal, he's nothing but efficient after all.

His grin grew more maliciously as the electro began to fizz and cackle louder from the back of your head now, sweat dripped from your forehead, so frightened and scared that words couldn't leave you. You wanted to scream at Xiao to turn and run, to leave now while he still can, but you were just so afraid... how useless you really were in the end...

"Smile my dear, its the grand finale of this little show after all, and what a performance it has been." He chuckles dryly.

Xiao having lost all control of his stable thoughts continued to barrel down at you both, and just as he got into right vicinity his eyes widened behind his mask, finally catching sight of the position you were in, on your knees in front of that deranged Harbinger. Being made to watch as he comes diving down, it is barely noticeable but to an Adepti the slightest things can be spotted from so far away, and that's how he manages to lock into the slight colouration of purple glimmering from behind your head.

You were trapped and had no way out of the position you were in, and for reasons he couldn't clearly explain he felt him getting too close was only gonna further worsen your position right now. So without thinking he hisses beneath his breath and is gone in a sudden haze of black and teal fog. Having teleported while in midair.

The Harbinger let's out an inhumane snarl from under his lips, and for a brief second you're utterly relieved that Xiao was able to pick up on something at least, even if it only was a little awry to him. He has no idea how serious that quick thinking decision really was right now...

Scaramouche can't help but grow rapidly irritated and throw you against the ground again. He turns to you, realising he can't sense the Yaksha anymore. What was this adeptus playing at? He was in no mood for anymore games that was for sure.

"Where is he." He growls at you, to which you only cough and heave in reply. Sprawled across the floor like an abused toy with a temperamental child as its owner. He lifts his hand up to you and the electro cackles once again.

"Very well; if I can't kill him, I'll settle with taking what he holds most precious to him." He clicks his tongue lazily after the words leave his mouth. He wasn't about to go back empty handed from all this, that's what he thought until he glanced up having felt the undeniable presence of someone all to familiar.

His eyes lock with the figure, the man stood upon one of the roofs, his shouldered cloak swaying in the wind, his deep ginger hair dancing gently across his deep crimson mask. His daggers resting either side his waist, the water droplets running down onto the tiles of the roof beneath him from the hydro formed weapons.

Scaramouches eyes narrow, he couldn't be sure but was that fool really challenging him right now? Or did the ill mannered brute have news to report. Eitherway the lower ranks presence had put a damper on the mood, he growls lowly not allowing his eyes to leave his so called colleagues form for a second, a thousand words pass in a single glance between the two Harbingers. The cackling stops and before you can even lift your head back up Scaramouche is gone.

Your sight finally begins to leave you slowly, and using what ounce of strength you have left you tilt your head up; your matted hair dropping around your face and clinging to your sweat and blood in a very ungracious manner. There you see him, you couldn't mistake that silhouette for anyone else; Tartaglia.

Standing there for a second longer than needed he looks at you scanning you, and as quickly as he appeared he turns and drops off the roof silently, disappearing.

Alone, tired, cold, frightened.

You hear voices growing louder somewhere, distant, so very distant.

"Y/N!"

"Miss Y/N, please, stay with us."

"We gotta get her somewhere safe fast, Xiao get her to Wangshu Inn fast!"

So many voices, all sounding so familiar... oh, that gentle embrace again? It feels so warm around your body, such tender care...

Such a pity you passed out before you could see who the voices came from.

Three Days Pass.

Your eyes open slowly, fluttering against the sun light that beams at you. It's blinding and painful, your eyes still far too sore for such a sudden intrusion.

You hear the sound of curtains pulling and the strain on your eyes relax, the room now a more dim colour. Your vision blurs for a second before finally things come into focus again.

Your heart stops for but a second when you're met with those golden eyes glaring at you from a slight distance.

"Xiao..." You whisper more to yourself than to anyone else.

His expression looks so stern, so angry, so scary...

But when your own face shows the slightest of fear. His expression softens instantly.

He doesn't dare move closer to you, not because he doesn't want to, but because he simply doesn't know what to do once he does.

You lay there, sore and achy, bruised and cut, but your wounds have been tended to expertly, bandages and plasters as well as stitches now engulf your skin, but you're in a soft warm bed with cosy silk cotton pjamas on.

You gave yourself a gentle once over and hummed in thought to who could've done this, it looks like it was all done with care and consideration, was it Ganyu? No... her stitches look different.

Mr. Zhongli perhaps? No that doesn't seem right either.

"I did it all." His voice breaks through your rushing thoughts and you look at him wide eyed, unintentionally of course, but it was a shock to hear.

"Y-... you did this for me?" You question back to him.

The way your voice falters and sounds so weak doesn't go unheard by him, he scolds himself mentally yet again before continuing.

"Yes, it was the least I could do, for not having been able to save you." He says it so harshly, but you can't help but feel like the harshness is for himself more than someone else.

You go to sit up and before you can even speak he's beside you gently pushing you back down. You look up in shock again, he's touching you so willingly now too?

The look you give makes him break from his sudden actions too, a faint dusted pink adorning his face as he clears his throat and steps back again.

"Don't..." He starts loud but his tone dies down increasingly so.

"-move so quickly. You need to heal." He finished awkwardly, and you can't help but smile gently. Something you didn't think you'd ever be able to do again.

"Thank you Xiao, but I'm okay don't worry." You say it as sweetly as you can but it inevitably falls on deaf ears.

"Xiao, what do you mean you didn't save me? Of course you did." You begin your long lecture for how could he not realise without him you would've died several times over?

"I know what you're thinking right now Xiao, and I'm telling you now, stop it. You saved me back there. Because of your fast thinking, he couldn't do..." You feel it... the cackling sensation, the fizzing sound. You whimper involuntarily and Xiao tenses uncomfortably. He wants nothing more than to embrace you, to make you feel safe again, the anger seething under his skin right now isn't going to help anything and he knows that, but by archons he can't help it.

Despite the terrifying images coming back into memory you continue.

"He couldn't do what he planned, which would've resulted in both of us dying... you left to get help didn't you?" You look at him expectantly.

His face turns away but he nods ever so slightly anyway, answering your question.

"You played it smart Xiao, and because of that I'm safe. I'm here. I'm breathing. I'm... still able to see you." You add truthfully at the end which causes another blush to flush against his face.

You giggle uncontrollably at his reaction. To which he grunts at, but you see it, that small smile creep onto his face.

You feel yourself relaxing finally again. His presence always has this effect on you. Making you feel so warm and safe, so happy.

But it ends when he finally moves closer without clouded thought this time. His hand comes out, faltering in its movement slightly before he forces himself to follow through.

Gently stroking your cheek now, it's different to when that vile Harbinger touched you. You feel the affection; the care and love.

Trying to get his words and emotions across through such a complicated action to himself he opts in resting his forehead against your own. Both your eyes closing.

"You had me so worried..." He finally speaks out.

You sighed gently in response.

"Why didn't you call me sooner?" He asks out, and it sounds so pained that it hurts you. For its true... why didn't you call him sooner?

"I... I didn't wanna put you in danger." You find yourself voicing your thoughts aloud before you could give a second thought.

"Y/N..." He says it in a tone that has your eyes opening and you're suddenly lost for breath when your eyes are met with his glowing back at you.

"I gave you the right to call me for that reason alone, for to me, you're worth throwing my life into danger over." He confesses it with a blush apparent the whole time. Which makes you unable to hold back your own blush.

"Next time... don't wait so long okay? If... if something like this ever happens again, please..." he means every word. So you can't lie to him.

"I... I'll try too..." You whimper softly back to him and he let's his thumb rub against your cheek lovingly, unknowingly.

You were a dear friend to him, maybe more, but for now, the only thing that matters is keeping you safe.

You giggle as a thought brushes across you. To lighten the mood you joke.

"I feel I held my own back there pretty good, for a visionless person after all." You mused playfully.

The look he gives you makes you suddenly feel tense though for he lifts back up and smirks at you.

"Visionless?" He questions in a playful tone, something you were definitely not use to, but savoured the odd moments they came about.

Your brow raises in confusion and he grins wider as he pulls something out from his pocket and chucks it at you.

Catching it on reflex your hands encase around the item and you look up at him.

"What?" You question back at him and he merely crosses him arms awaiting your reaction to what's in your hands.

Glancing down you open up your hands, your eyes widen, your heart beating fast again. A vision... an anemo vision... in your hands...

"It appeared beside you when you passed out. While in my arms. Just as I went to bring you back here, Ganyu ordered me to fix you and Zhongli said he was going to start looking into that Harbinger as he has connections that will get him answers." He began and while he explained you caressed the item in your hands, still filled with disbelief that you'd been granted one...

"It appeared upon your chest Y/N. Right above your heart." He spoke with such absolute surety.

"Anemo, the Archon of that element stands for freedom Y/N. The right to make your own choice. Something you did during that horrific ordeal must've spoken to the Archon as he watched over." Xiao spoke like he was guessing, but unknowingly to you, he knew very well why it had been given to you, for not that you'd ever know, but he was more well acquainted with the Anemo Archon than he led on.

"I... I... ha-..." You couldn't speak anymore and he simply chuckled.

He leant back into you and caressed your cheek before stroking your hair.

"Rest Y/N. You need it. I'll check on you shortly okay?" He said before disappearing, allowing no room for protest from you.

You let the vision rest beside you, on your bedside table, still in shock. Your mind going into overdrive now.

One thing was for sure as sleep slowly claimed you that night.

You were gonna be much more prepared the next time that Harbinger showed up.

Xiao would make sure of it.

See its not so bad lmao, I made it go all fluffy in the end! So it's more angst... with fluff and happy ending? I dunno. I just had the earge to write about Xiao because his banner has just been out in the game. So I'm sorry for the random xiao post but meh, I take any opportunity to write when I can now because my brain is so lazy most days. Hope you enjoyed it a bit atleast! - Mod Diluc

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draco malfoy x reader | smut |

warning : professor!draco 🥵 reader is of age! and you can make up draco's age whatever you wanted.

y/n waited nervously in her class, she was early than the others and it makes her sitting alone in the class.

she had exams last week but she didnt really study for it and that was the exact reason why she was nervous today.

if she got a bad grades her parents would make sure to threatened her.

she looked up from her desk as a loud footsteps walking into the class, she found the youngest and the hottest teacher in hogwarts staring at her deeply, a smirk formed onto his face making her gulped.

"morning, miss y/n" she gets goosebumps when she heard his deep voice calling out her name.

"morning professor.." draco’s smirk get wider as he saw her body tremble in her seat, only his voice and she already like that.

"why so tense, miss y/n?"

"nothing, professor.." she replied, staying her gaze on her desk, trying so hard not to look up at him and get herself in more embarrassment.

draco clicked his tongue around his teeth making her turned her head at him instantly.

he raised his eyebrows at her sudden action.

but when he was about to taunt her more, the door burst open by the students filling the class one by one.

>>>>>

"miss y/n." she looks up at her professor as he called her name, her body jolted out at his voice echoed in the room.

"yes, professor?"

"come here, please." she gets up from her seat nervously, all her classmates already interrogating her by their eyes.

"care to explain to me why you get a P for my subject?" she swears she almost passed out at his intonation.

"i- i'm sorry professor, i wasn't study-"

"great, meet me after class, you need to fix your grade" y/n unknowingly rubbed her thighs together when draco said that, she secretly hoped he doesnt noticed that.

but he did and thats why he was trying to hide his smirk.

"yes professor, i'm sorry" she took her test and made her way back to her seat. hell, he's so intimidating.

>>>>>

after the class ended, y/n being the only one who stayed in her seat.

she sighs and stares at draco's back who was still cleaning the board.

"well, which part of my subject that you dont understand, miss y/n?" draco said as he takes a seat in front of her desk, opening her book.

"its the draught of living death potions, professor." she was trying her best to not let her voice getting shaky.

draco nodded and begin to explaining the subject to her, his fingers were pointing at her book.

but all she could think now is about the tension filling the air, and the more she stares at his fingers the dirtier her mind gets.

his hands-

merlin, even his hands are so hot. the veins decorating his arms suited him so much, and his long fingers are the perfect size to reach her spot when they're going inside her cu-

no.

y/n shook her head in disbelief at what she just imagined in her mind not realizing that draco has stopped talking.

"lost in your dirty mind, princess?" draco chuckles as he sees her cheeks heated in embarrassment, his eyes turned dark as he examining her face.

shit.

she forgot he has legilimency.

"i-"

"sshh.. i see you're not as innocent as the others think of you, yeah?" she gulped at his question, her face was flushed as the thick tension filling the room.

"no answer hm? tell me y/n, what is it that you want?" he rose up from his seat moving to stand beside her, looking down at her.

"tell me whats going on inside your dirty mind" he tilted her head to look up at him, his thumb running on her bottom lip making her shuddered.

"i- i want you, professor.." y/n said quietly not be able to look into his eyes much longer.

"want me? for what?"

"i want you burying yourself deep inside me, professor" she slapped her hand over her mouth and her eyes widened at what she just said.

"filthy little thing." draco chuckles lowly before moving down his hand and grabbed her throat.

"earn it." she nodded at him before her hands shakily unbuckled his belt and his trousers letting it falls down to his ankle making draco gripped her throat tighter.

she pulled down his boxers making him hissed when his semi hard cock hitting his lower abdomen.

she quickly wrapped her hands around his length and squeezes him tightly causing him to pull on her hair.

"dont play with me if you dont wanna face the consequences." she nodded before spitting on his cock stroking it with her hand making him groaned.

y/n wasted no time and pulled him all the way in her mouth moaning when his tip hit the back of her throat.

she starts to fucked him in and out of her mouth. her hand pumping on what she couldnt fit in her mouth.

she pulled out for a second to rest her jaw then she swirls her tongue on his slit making him groaned and bucked his hips. she gagged instantly when draco pushed his cock back in her mouth, tired of her teasing.

"you look so fucking filthy, y/n. sucking your professor's cock now, hm?" she let out a moan to answer him making him whimpered at the vibrations.

one of her hands gripping on the back of his thigh pushing him deeper down her throat as she continues sucking him. her other hand playing with his balls giving them attention too.

"fuck- gonna cum down your throat til you choked out, shit- y/n" he moaned out loud as he shoots his thick cum down her throat, y/n swallowed instantly moaning at the taste. some of it dripped down onto her chin but she quickly wipes it and cleans it.

"get up" she obeyed at his order, now facing her professor at the same level.

draco leaned into her face and capturing their lips together kissing her roughly as his hands roaming around her body.

"get on your desk." she immediately throw away all her things on her desk and get on top of it, like he asked.

"you're my good girl, dont you?" he asked as he stands in between her thighs, his cock rubbing her inner thigh making her clawed on the desk underneath her.

"yes prof-"

"its draco" she nodded as she starts to unbuttoning her shirt showing him her clothed breasts.

"yes draco, i'm your good girl" she said seductively and taking his hands in her guiding them to her breasts.

"please, touch me draco.." draco squeezes her breasts in his hands and snatches her bra off of her making her winced, now she was exposed in front of her professor.

"such a pretty tits, all mine?" he twirled her hard nipples in his fingers, pulling and pinching it making the owner hissed in pain.

"yes, all yours draco.." with that draco latched his mouth onto her left nipple as his hand playing with the other one.

"mmh.. yes draco.." she tugged at his blonde locks as he continues assaulting her puffy nipples.

draco plopped out her breasts of his mouth, her nipples now red and swollen.

he gives her a smirk and he pushed her skirt up to her stomach, taking off her panties placing it in his pocket.

"souvenirs." he grins cheekily at her confused face.

he suddenly inserts his fingers into her, stretching her out a little bit making her breath hitched.

his fingers pumping her faster and when he curls them inside she screams his name out loud.

her legs spasmed when she feels her high approaching her, she dug her nails on his shoulder deeper.

but before she could reach her high, he abruptly pulled out his fingers making her cried out as her aching cunt clenching around nothing.

he quickly shoved his fingers down her throat letting her tasting herself, he moaned when he sees her sucking on her fingers delicately.

pulling her hips closer to him and lining up his now hard cock again on her entrance.

"now be a big girl and lead me into you." y/n whines as a protest but she quickly grabbed his cock and pushing it inside her.

she wrapped her legs around his waist and bucked her hips to get him deeper inside her and finally all of him was inside of her. they both throw their heads back in pleasure.

"you act so innocent yet here you are, burying my cock deep inside you." y/n moaned at his words starting to fuck herself on him.

"i'm not innocent draco, for you i'm not.. please just fuck me already" draco chuckles devilishly at her attempts to bounce on his cock.

"cant even fuck yourself properly, such a dumb girl" he gives in to her, snapping his hips forcing his cock hitting deeper inside her and starts to thrusting at steady pace.

"oh my god.. yes yes please feel so good.." she moans loudly, her body writhing on the desk. she propped herself on her elbows to support herself as she rolled her hips to meet his thrusts.

"so fucking tight baby.. never felt this good before" draco praised as he pounding harder into her, he guides her hips with his hands to meet his thrusts making both of them moaning louder.

her eyes rolled back when his tip brushed her spot, he noticed and pounding into her spot over and over again making her seeing the stars.

"draco please.. i'm so close!" y/n wrapped her hands around his shoulder to pull him closer and kissing his lips to muffled her screams as the coil tightened in her stomach.

"cum on me, you- pathetic- little slut" draco snapped harder leaving no space between their bodies.

his hand slapping and pinching her clit making the girl squirmed letting the coil snapped through her body. her legs are shaking and her vision blurry.

her body burns when she realized she just cummed hard on her professor's cock, she looked down and see that her juices coating him. then looking up at him making eye contact.

"fuck- you're a mess, gonna cum inside your tight cunt, stuffing you up full with my fucking cum- holyshit-"

he came to a full stop with her name left his lips as he spilled all of his warm thick cum inside her, spraying all of it into her filling her up like he said.

draco stay inside her for a few minutes, both of them are still catching their breaths and he pulled out of her gently as he softened.

he looked at her flushed face before cupping her cheeks and reconnecting their lips again. the kiss lasted a minute before they pulled away to redressing themselves.

"i'll change your grade. but in all seriousness, study harder, baby" y/n melted at the nickname he gave her, pecking his lips one more time.

"of course, thank you professor" she shots him a wink before leaving the class, making him blushing madly.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

i dedicate this to @angelic-bitxh cuz we have a deal of sharing ghost pics 😊🤝

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[izicodes]

I posted 326 times in 2022

That's 306 more posts than 2021!

196 posts created (60%)

130 posts reblogged (40%)

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I tagged 240 of my posts in 2022

Only 26% of my posts had no tags

#programming - 205 posts

#coding - 197 posts

#comp sci - 157 posts

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#computer science - 121 posts

#100 days of code - 102 posts

#studying - 102 posts

#software developer - 88 posts

#python - 73 posts

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#i said no to doing computer science at university but now i have a module all about computer science

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Calling all computer science/programming blogs!

Hello everyone! ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ

I have been getting dms of people wanting to follow other blogs like mine where I post my progress with programming / experimenting with different programming languages / tips and tricks / resources etc but they can't find them easily soooo I am making a post to reach the blogs these people want to find!

If you post about anything in the list belong, please reblog or comment your blog's @ so the right people can reach your blog:

programming a language

computer science

relevant memes

general talk about either subject

provide resources

student in any of the subjects

do challenges with computer science e.g. 100 days of Code

I just want this to reach as many people so our lil community within Tumblr can grow! Have a lovely day!

563 notes - Posted April 15, 2022

#4

Python Official Roadmap | Resource ♛

* means extras you could learn to enhance yourself

The intent of this guide is to give you an idea about the Python ecosystem and to help guide your learning if you are confused.

Also, please note that the list below is exhaustive, and the items are listed in no particular order. You don't need to learn everything listed in the picture, however, knowing what you don't know is as important as knowing things.

Link to the official site: Python Developer Roadmap by roadmap

-- > must add, the information is from roadmap.sh, but I just put it together in the image

676 notes - Posted April 27, 2022

#3

Python 3 Cheat Sheet | Resource ✎

Link to source: Python 3 Basic Cheat Sheet

1,608 notes - Posted April 20, 2022

#2

Build Your Own X | Resource ✿

GitHub is literally the best, what the fuck? ヾ(･ω･*)ﾉ

Anyhoo! This GitHub repository contains a list of tutorials that will guide you to build almost anything in web development using a range of programming language that best suits you!

Let me give you an example:

I click "Game" in the table of contents, it jumps me to the Game section. I wanna use C# so I pick a random C# game tutorial e.g. C#: Learn C# by Building a Simple RPG and it takes me to the site where someone made a whole project page with step-by-step guide to help build that game!

See the full post

1,666 notes - Posted April 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

800 free Computer Science classes | Comp-Sci Resources ♥

800 free Computer Science classes you could take online right with video lectures!

Link: GitHub - Developer-Y/cs-video-courses: List of Computer Science courses with video lectures

I found this link in a tweet and found the site very helpful! Take full advantage comp sci learners!!!

Have a nice day and happy programming ♥

1,711 notes - Posted April 16, 2022

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[tahdashi]

# akaashi as the supportive college bf !

a/n: bc i’m scared for school to start >:(

series masterlist <3

✫ brings you coffee

8 am classes are unfortunate, but seeing your boyfriend first thing in the morning most definitely makes up for it. you take your seat and set up your laptop as you wait for the lecture to begin. groggy souls flood into the lecture hall — not a single one with a sparkle in their eyes. you feel a warm hand on your shoulder (one that you could recognize anywhere, anytime) and turn around to see akaashi looking dashing as ever. he places the cardboard carrier with two cups of coffee on the desk in front of him, slipping his backpack off right away. he smiles at you as he places the hot coffee on your desk. wordlessly, he takes a sip of his coffee and nudges you to drink yours. of course, he has your order memorized. maybe 8 am classes aren’t so bad after all, especially when the flavorful coffee and love from the boy next to you provide all the warmth you need to feel alive.

✫ studies with you in the library until you've both completed your work

you’ve been sitting in the library with akaashi for over an hour now. the quiet clacking on keyboards and whispers from those around you fill your ears. you look up to see akaashi diligently working on his assignment, his glasses slipping off his nose slightly. you push them up gently, and he looks up at you. catching your wrist in his hand, he takes the opportunity to rub his thumb on the back of it.

“how much work do you have left? i only have this reading left,” he says. “but it’s like a thousand pages.” you laugh as he exaggeratedly rolls his eyes.

“i’m almost done with this problem set. look at it. why do i need to draw out 40 different chemical reactions?”

now it’s his turn to chuckle. he looks over at your work and sees that you’ve put a lot of effort in your work. even though you complain, which he’s well aware of, you always do your best, and akaashi loves that about you.

“you got this, angel. and once we’re both done, we can get bubble tea at the food truck. how does that sound?”

you nod, and he gives you a thumbs up for further encouragement. akaashi smiles to himself as he highlights his reading in an obnoxious yellow color — he’s proud of himself. he always knows how to motivate you and reward you for your hard work.

✫ walks you to your classes

without fail, the one thing akaashi always does for you is walk you to your classes when he’s free. whether it be rain or shine, or even if he has an exam to worry about that day. you love walking hand-in-hand across the scenic campus, but he loves it even more. he takes this time to ask about your day, to talk about his classes, to complain about the dining hall food or how loud his roommates were being. he feels refreshed when he takes in the crisp air and lets out all of his worries. and when you two finally reach your building, he lets go of your hand, places his palm on your head gently, and pats it affectionately.

✫ rubs your back after a long study session

“hey, you’ve been working on that for a while. what is it?”

you look to see your boyfriend peering over at your papers curiously. his eyes are tired, and you can tell that he hasn’t been sleeping well. it’s exam season — the most daunting time for a college student.

“hm? oh, i’m working on the practice exam my professor gave us.”

his mouth forms an ‘o’ shape as he gets up to stand behind you. his hands find their way to your shoulders as he looks over your head to look at the lengthy math problems in front of you.

“those look hard.”

“no kidding, keiji. i’m so nervous for this exam,” you tell him.

sensing the uneasiness in your voice, he starts to massage your shoulders. his hands work through knots that have tightened as you spent hours crouched above your desk.

“wanna take a little break? you’ll feel better if you do,” he drags out the last word knowingly.

when you say yes, he places his laptop in front of you and plays the show you two are watching together. his hands don’t leave your shoulders, the knots in your back loosen up. his hands are warm, skilled, and gentle. and after a while, when you sigh in relief, akaashi leans down to press a long kiss to the top of your head.

[miekasa]

iced tea

+ pairing: levi ackerman x reader

+ genres and warnings: college au, levi is the best not yet boyfriend au, erwin would definitely be an insufferable project partner to have but you gotta love him au

+ summary: there are three rules of night class. come on time, come prepared, and come with snacks. you forget about rule number three. luckily, levi’s there to save the day.

There’s only one appeal to signing up for a three-hour night class, and it’s that you only ever have to muster up the will to attend once a week. It’s a sacrifice, but it definitely cuts down on the temptation of skipping like you would a normal, one-hour section course. Just one and done.

Plus, you have Erwin with you in this class. Is he a little bit of a professor’s pet and consistently overly chipper every class despite knowing he’s about to endure 180 minutes of lecture? Sure, but at least you don’t have to suffer alone.

Really, it’s not as bad as it sounds, especially if the course is interesting enough, or easy enough, and luckily for you, yours is both. Not to mention, your professor is brilliant, actually entertaining, and does her best to keep the class engaging—she’s funny in the dorky, lovable professor kind of way. And she gives you short, ten to fifteen minute breaks at every hour mark just to make sure everyone doesn’t completely lose their minds.

It’s a commitment, but you’ve grown to actually enjoy it. As long as you follow the three rules of night class: come on time, come with your notes prepared so that you don’t get upstaged by Erwin, and come with—

“Fuck,” you curse, watching as Erwin pulls out one of his many, tiny, organic, boxed juices. The ones meant for children with soy sensitivities that Erwin claims are packed with more nutrients.

“What’s up?” He questions, more shocked than concerned, at your sudden profanity as he sets his juice box in the right corner of his desk.

You pout. “I forgot to bring snacks.”

Come on time, come with your notes prepared so that you don’t get upstaged by Erwin, and come with snacks. Those were the only three rules of night class, and you’d completely forgotten about the most important one.

“Oh,” Erwin grins, pulling a chocolate bar from his lunch bag and taunting you with it, “Sounds like a you problem.”

You snatch a piece from the top corner, stuffing part of it into your mouth to spite him; but you regret your choices as soon as it melts on your tongue.

“What the fuck—is this mint chocolate?” you complain, swallowing the rest of the sweet with disdain.

“Yes it is,” Erwin huffs, grabbing the remaining stolen bit from between your fingers and popping it into his mouth, “And it is delicious.”

“You’re an actual menace to society.”

Erwin crinkles his nose at you, “A menace to society with snacks for the next three hours.”

His comment makes you groan, albeit a little dramatically, and you slump back in your chair to debate your options. Class doesn’t start for another twelve minutes; you could try and run to the student center quickly to buy some last minute snacks, but the line was probably already lengthy with students of similar trains of thought, meaning you���d be late if you stuck it out, which would leave you violating rules one and three tonight. Erwin makes you sit in the front row with him, and you were not willing to take the late walk of shame with an armful of snacks in tow.

You could wait it out until the first hour break, but they’ll probably be sold out of anything good by then, not to mention the race to beat out the line again. If you played your cards right, you could order food during class and time it so that it was delivered during your break, but that was risky.

Alternatively, you could try and sprint to the concessions stand near the library, but going there and back was so much further away than the student center; you’d probably end up late, too.

“Hey,” you call to Erwin, refraining from rolling your eyes as he sets all six thousand and twenty eight of his colored pens on his desk for the evening, “Is Hange still on campus?”

“No, they have work today.”

You groan. Why did Hange have to be so responsible and good with their time-management skills. They was your last hope. Unless—

“Do you think Levi will bring me Starbucks?”

“Probably,” Erwin shrugs, humming to himself; but then he thinks it over, replying again with a knowing smirk on his face, “Actually, definitely. If he’s still here, but he probably is. You know him.”

You pout, the possibility of Levi being home is high, but so is that of him being cooped up in his favorite library. Either way, he would likely be studying right now, and you’d hate to disturb him, but desperate times call for desperate measures. 

[sent 6:47pm] you — leeevaaaaaaaaai are you still on campus

[received 6:47pm] leeevaaai — yes — why, what’s wrong

[sent 6:47pm] you — uwu — wanna bring me something from starbucks before class — i have my 3 hour lecture today and i forgot snacks :—( — and erwin won’t share his organic $1500 whole foods gummy bears with me

[received 6:48pm] leeevaaai — i told you i don’t like the smileys with the noses, they’re ugly — should you even be drinking coffee this late, you’ll be up until the ass crack of dawn

You scoff audibly, and Erwin takes this as an invitation to peep at your screen. Your comment about his snacks does not go unnoticed, as bitterly munches on his (yes, in fact, organic and gluten-free, as if it being mint flavored wasn’t criminal enough) chocolate bar.

[sent 6:48pm] you — that’s RICH coming from you mister

[received 6:48pm] leeevaaai — you’re being awfully rude to someone you expect to buy you a $7 drink

[sent 6:48pm] you — hehe sorry i loooove you leeevaaai — venti iced chai latte — light ice

[received 6:49pm] leeevaaai — do you think i don’t know your overpriced starbucks order by now

[sent 6:49pm] you — uwu :—)

[received 6:49pm] leeevaaai — but you’re getting a grande, i’m not made of money — and it’s punishment for sending another ugly nose smiley

[sent 6:49pm] you — un-uwu

“I don’t blame him,” Erwin chuckles, scrunching the wrapper from his now finished bar between his fingers.

You flick him away, ignoring the turning heads of your classmates as Erwin’s pens fall in the aftermath. It’s seven o’clock on the dot when your laptop pings loudly with an incoming message from Levi—and a subsequent groan from Erwin, who breeches your personal space once more to press the mute button on your keyboard.

[received 7:00pm] leeevaaai — where are you sitting

[sent 7:00pm] you — front row to the right — erwin’s idea not mine

Levi spots Erwin’s bright blonde hair before he sees you, scoffing to himself as he makes his way to the front of the room; a tray with three Starbucks cups, and a plastic bag in tow. Erwin sees him first, too, waving at him as he crosses from the left side to where the two of you are seated.

“Aw, Levi, you brought me one!” Erwin all but squeaks, reaching for one of the other drinks with grabby hands after you take your iced drink from the tray.

But Levi pulls one hot drink from the tray for himself, and pulls the remaining one out of arm’s reach. “As if,” he grumbles, bringing his own cup to his lips. 

“You’re the best, Levi,” you smile, sticking your tongue out at Erwin. Levi only offers you a small nod as acknowledgement. He extends his left hand now, the plastic bag sliding off his wrist and onto your desk, silently.

Confused, you lean forward, setting your drink down to open the contents of the bag. Inside, there are two granola bars, a bagel, cream cheese, some kind of sandwich, and a small Nutella to-go cup with mini breadsticks attached. When you look back up at Levi, he simply shrugs, sipping on his drink again while a light pink dusts over the tips of his ears. 

“You said you forgot your snacks,” he explains, “I knew you’d text me the whole time, bitching about how Erwin wouldn’t share his zero-calorie lemon rinds if you didn’t have your own.”

You take note that the chai he brought you was, in fact, a venti, and not a grande like he’d threatened, and that the granola bars in the bag are not only your favorite flavor, but from your favorite brand, too; and you find yourself smiling as you decipher the very clear message underneath Levi’s less than poetic words.

“What’s in the other cup?” Erwin asks, pointing at the remaining drink. Levi carefully lifts it from the tray, and sets it down on the other corner of your desk, a safe distance away from your laptop.

“Tea,” he says shortly, “So you don’t lose your mind after inhaling your coffee.”

“This is tea, too. Chai is tea, Levi.”

“Tea without milk or six kilograms of sugar,” Levi corrects you, “Or ice.”

“Iced tea is tea, you know.”

Levi doesn’t respond to that with anything but a glare. You smile at his stoicism. Erwin thinks the whole exchange is kind of weird, and wonders where you possibly get the gall to make fun of his taste in snacks when you can’t even realize you’re in love with a man who refuses to identify iced tea as a valid form of tea. 

“I better go before she starts,” Levi speaks, a single hand referencing to your professor behind him, who looks just about ready to begin class for the evening, “Call me when you’re done, I’ll drive you two home.”

“Oh, you don’t have to, Erwin and I usually take the b—”

“Brat,” Levi cuts your words short, “Call me when you’re finished. I’ll be in the library.”

You throw daggers at him with your eyes, but your resolve is waning, once again, as you closely read at the implications of Levi’s promise. You accept, and Erwin is more than happy for the free ride.

Levi hums. “And eat the bagel before the Nutella.”

“You’re annoying.”

“I’m a saint,” Levi deadpans, placing the palm of his hand on the top of your head affectionately, “Call me.”

He walks away before you can debate again, just as your professor speaks into the microphone to grab everyone’s attention. You scrunch your nose, hands flying to your hair to smooth out the aftermath of Levi’s playfulness, before opening your notes for the evening.

“You’re really dense aren’t you?” Erwin asks, one eyebrow raised, but the overall look on his face is more than fond, “It’s kind of cute.”

“Huh?” you question, cheeks stuffed with food as you bite into your bagel, “Dense about what?”

Erwin shakes his head, turning back to laptop with an exasperated expression, the fondness in his eyes fading quickly. “Hopeless,” he mumbles, “The both of you.”