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Plot: One of the bad kids(me) friends has some dealings with the mob/mafia. And it goes terribly wrong; how? He was wearing a wire for the Feds. Good kid(dreamer) happens to be in the wrong place at the right time, now they have it in for him too. There can be no witnesses! Will the bad kid(Rion) go and save his friend Damon? What will be come of the good kid(Alex)? Stay tuned! .... xD
Year: 2012
Place: School


Name: Rion Tural
Age: 18
Picture:

Name: Alex
Age: 16
Appearance:

The glass walls of the shower were steamed and the mirror fogged. You could hear the shower slide door opening, and hear water dripped upon the floor. The mirror vision was becoming clearer. An image of a person was soon reflected instead of being blank.

Rion left his hand on the mirror and looked at himself. He turned his head to the right and grunted disgustingly at his left eye. He cursed under his breath remembering parts of the day it happened. He was simply in the right place at the wrong time. You see, he was on his way to meet up with his client. And he didn't want to be late, so he got their earlier then he was suppose to. And to his surprise Rosch was there waiting, waiting for him. He raised his arm to signal but stopped mid motion when he rounded the corner to see he was sitting next to someone already. He worked his way over to the table. "Do you have it?"

He didn't look happy to see him, and the unsightly looking guy next to him didn't either. "Whose this Rosch?" The guy asked him and got up to stand one up inch from Rion, practically in his face. Rosch didn't say anything but just watched, trying not to lower his eyes. "Dude, back up." Rion told the man, but the man just ignored him. "Well Rosch?" The guy asked once more.

His memory skips...

Just as he was about to turn around and leave he heard someone yell his name. It was that one kid Jake, not that he really cared who he was. He merely moved out the way when the boy came running at him and shoved him into the dirt. "I can't believe you, your going to regret what you did!" He told Rion as he lunged at him from the ground and took him down.

There is a hole in his memory here...

Rion shook his head, causing droplets of water to fly through the air and splatter the mirror. He ran his hand through his brown hair. Remembering the horrible scream and the pain, the excruciating pain. Rion simply put on his eye patch, and some boxers to walk to his room. "I better get to school or else I'll be nagged to death again." He said as he walked to his room to put on a dark grey long sleeve shirt, ontop of that a black shirt that said Rehab Reject, the words sharing the same RE. On the back it said by his tail 'Intervention my Ass'. Slipping on a pair of loose black jeans, he walked down the stairs that were just outside his house. Once he made it outside he nearly tripped on his on feet, trying to not step on a flower. "What the hell! This better not be for Carly." He said as he crouched to look at the flower. "Oh, thats.. cool. It's mine now." He picked up the blue flower with red tips and straightened himself. He went back in the house and just waved at his mom and ran up the stairs to his room. Stashing the flower in the closet, in a vase. He turned around to see Carly in his room.

"Whatcha doin' ?" She asked

"Get out of my room." He told her.

"Make me!" she retorted, just as he was moving in she ran from his room calling 'mommy'. "She's lying, I didn't even touch her!" He yelled as he locked his door and walked outside to catch the bus just in time. He walked all the way to back where he usually sat, giving his buddies high fives.

Alex woke up slowly, his mother was sitting on the side of his bed with a smile on her face, "dear its time for you to wake up now. School will be starting soon." Alex stretched his arms and sighed, "alright mom, thanks." She nodded, kissed his forehead and ruffled his hair, "breakfast is ready down stairs, and the car is warmed up whenever your ready." With that she left the room, and Alex fell back into his bed with a smile. He didn't want to leave the bed, it was to warm, to comfy, he snuggled back under the covers, and prepared himself to go back to bed... except for the fact that he was already awake... and once he was awake, there was no way for him to get back to sleep. He sighed, and got out of bed, then stretched for real. He got dressed quickly, as he always did, and then went into his built-in bathroom, and brushed his teeth and hair. He'd taken a shower the night before as he always did, so he didn't have to dry his hair in the morning. He walked into his kitchen smiling, and kissed his mother on the cheek as she handed him his plate of two sunny side up eggs, four strips of bacon, a big pile of hash browns, and two butter milk muffins. "Mmm! Thanks mom!" Alex said as he dug into his meal. He had plenty of time, school didn't start for another 30 minutes. And he had a ride, he was fine...

Alex got to school with ten minutes to spare, just as the final bus pulled up to the school...

Rion didn't get off the bus when the rest of the kids did, he was too busy engrossed in a conversation. Which to him, was rudely interupted by the bus driver. "Excuse me, you kids need to get off the bus." The Goblin told them, in which prompted Rion to get up from his seat. His ears flattened and moved back. "We'll get off when we want." He growled and shoved the small bus driver on the floor of the bus. The Goblin scrambled up and out of the bus to the school.

"Oh great, look hes going to tell the principle haha." Lee laughed, and the others followed suit. Rion watched as he ran inside, and sighed. "Let's get going, I can't get in anymore trouble." He said as he walked to the front of bus, and made sure his friends were coming stepped off and headed across the lawn. Since they had few minutes before actually started him and his face could go smoke. They walked, pushing people when they were in the way and walked around the school.

Rion nodded at the rest of the group that was already there. "Hey, let me hit some of that." He leaned against the wall and took the cigarette, bringing it to his lips. One of these days, I'm going to stop. I'd like to keep my lungs pink. Lowering the cigarette and blew out a steady steam of smoke out his mouth.

Alex met up with his friends, smiling as usual. Many people joked that there wasn't a moment in the day when you wouldn't catch Alex smiling, that it just didn't happen. And for the most part that was true... but there were times when it was just him, up on the roof, behind the school, in the old library, that he let himself stop smiling. But now wasn't the time or the place, as people swarmed around him, saying hello, asking how his weekend had been, how his mother was, his father. He is bombarded for the full ten minuted before class finally started, and he sat down and got his notebooks out. Five minutes into class, he glanced up with the rest of his class, as the door opened again and a group of boys walked in all laughing and pushing each other. Alex watched and his heart started speeding up as he pushed through the group with his eyes, looking for the one kid in school that interested him. Rion had been in the same class as Alex for as long as he could remember, and had always been the odd one out, until some other boys had moved into town and they had started hanging out. Alex remembered that day very clearly, remembers watching those boys walk in for the first time together, and how he wanted to smile extra big that day, to see Rion laughing with friends. He was snapped back from the past as the teacher slams the door closed behind the boys, causing them to turn. "Late again boys? What's your excuse this time?" She stands as tall as she is able to, trying to make herself bigger then she really is...

A burst of laughter can be heard from the side of the school. They were having a contest to see who can blow smoke out the longest, up till now the reining champion when they first met Rion, was Damon. Damon watched in Awe as Rion kept going till he just ran out of breath. Rion bent over to catch his breath then looked up into Damon's eyes in triumph. Damon growled, and walked up to him. "You going to say something?" He told him in mock anger, he just couldn't be mad at him. Rion was the coolest kid he knew, stratch that the second coolest, besides himself. They all burst in laughter, Rion did too. "I'll catch you guys later, come on guys" He motioned towards the ones who were on the bus with him. Engrossing in yet another interesting conversation. On their way to class, Caal said "Dude, that was so sick! You should have seen Damon's face when you kept going" He laughed, and Rion stopped and posed by the door, before he opened it. They just started to laugh even harder, they entered the classroom pushing and shoving why they laughed. To be honest, to those drugees in class they would think those four were on something. Something they wanted, something they wanted to feel.

You could hear a door being shut closed through the laughter, it died down as the teacher spoke. Lee just looked at her and laughed walking down the isles to his seat in the back, followed by Caal after he mocked his fear of the teacher by cringing at her height; he was the shortest of the group. Castor looked at the teacher in annoyance and ignored her question, he didn't have to answer her, no where in the rule book did it say you had to answer to anybody. Rion gave her a sly look, "If you really want to know, I'll see you after school." He winked and walked to the back where the rest of the kids were not before he caught Alex looking at him. Sure everyone else was watching him, but the way he looked at him just stood out from the rest.

Alex quickly looked away, and he knew that his face would be reddening right about now... He crossed his arms over his desk, and burrowed his face into them. 'Calm down, calm down,' he pleaded with his heart, as he counts the still quickening beats. He was trying to take deep breaths, to slow his heart rate, along with his blood flow, so that his face could drain of the redness that had quickly creeped up to his hair line, and hopefully not into his ears...

The teacher came over to him, and he felt a hand land gently on his arm, "Alex, sweetie, are you alright? Do you feel ill?" He heard the voice, but didn't look up... He'd never faked sick before... but he knew that his face was still red, and if he looked up sick... well then that was a lot less embarrassing then looking up with a blush... "I- I'm not feeling to good..." He mumbled into his arms. "Oh dear, here, look up hun, let me feel your face." Alex paused, but pulled his head up, and the teacher pressed the back of her hand to his forehead, "you poor dear! You're burning up! Here, I'll write you a pass, and you go see the nurse." Alex nodded, afraid to back out now, but he also knew that the nurse would just send him back with a note of clean health... But he'd gotten himself into this mess, so he was just going to have to deal with it... He sighed and walked to the front of the room, got his note, and slowly left the room... He walked slowly, on his way to the nurses office...

The four boys started whispering in the back about tomorrow night when the teacher was talking to a student up front. Rion looked away from his friends to see what was going on, his ears twitched towards the two to see what they were talking about. It seemed like Alex was sick, Lucky guy, he has a get out of jail free card. thought Rion. The whole class watched as the teacher diagnoised Alex with a fever, a few kids by the windows started whispering amongst each other, Rion turned his head to find out they were talking about Alex and him being sick, something about hoping its nothing serious or contagious, he wasn't really sure. Because Mrs. Huseberry was still talking to Alex. Rion watched as he got up from his seat and sighed, slowly leaving the room. Did Alex not want to get out of class? Rion sure would love to just get out of class. Sometimes he just didn't understand that kid.

Caal watched the whole scene with indifference, while Castor watched on intrigued. Lee just turned to face Rion, knowing the other two would be listening. "So you stopping by the shop tomorrow to get it done?" Rion turned from the closed door to look at Castor and nodded.

"Yeah, I just need to stop by my house and get it, you sure your sister knows what she doing? Don't want her messing up this handsome body of mine" He smiled, "The ladies love their men unscarred... well the not creepy ones anyway" He added as this nerdy Sprite with thick glasses looked at him, He half smiled and looked away, shivering. The boys all laughed, "Man that girls been eyeing you since she came here." Lee commented, thinking if only she had contacts or got better lens, she'd be alittle less ugly. Castor and Caal snapped their heads back towards them, Castor putting his hands up on his head pointing his index fingers out. Caal put circles around his eyes and looked at Castor.

"Oh Rion! I liked you the since the first time I laid eyes on you!"
"Oh Jasmine, I didn't know you felt that way too, I like you too."
"Oh Rion! Come here my little kitty!"

They started to make kissy sounds, and Lee laughed, but Rion just started at them. "Whatever, guys. Besides we all know Lee likes her." Lee shrugged and denied it. Caal and Castor burst out in more laughter as Lee looked at the other side of the room, while Rion just shook his head.

Alex went straight to the nurses office, ready to be yelled at. He knocked on the door, and poked his head into the room, his ears twitching. "Hello?" He called out, into the darkened room.
"Hush!" He heard a harsh voice whisper back. Then a small, slightly chubby lady walked out of the darkness, making Alex jump. "There are two students lying down with stomach problems, don't just go yelling into random rooms." Alex's ears went down in embarrassment, "sorry," he muttered, looking down. The nurse crossed her arms, and glanced at his face, "what's wrong with your face boy?" She asked, then stepped forward, completely out of the dark room. Alex felt himself re-redden at how easily she had seen his blush.

"I - uh, I have a fever." He mumbled and held out his note. The nurse snatched the paper out of his hand and quickly glanced it over, then she recrossed her arms, "no you don't." She said simply, and Alex's face fell. But before he was able to open his mouth, the nurse held her hand up, "but you do have a stomach ache... if ya want." The big nurse winked at him, and her grim face lit up a bit with a crooked smile. Alex's eyes widened, and he nodded quickly. With his nod, the nurse stepped aside, and led him to one of the empty beds. "You have forty minutes to feel better. When that time comes, if you don't, then we can work something out." Then she left, walking back through the open door, which was pulled closed by the parting woman.

Alex closed his eyes, and prepared to fall asleep... until he heard a voice call out from the darkness. "Hey, dude, are you asleep?" The voice came from the bed behind him, so he rolled over, and whispered back, "no, not yet."
"Good, this place is hell without someone to talk to, but its better then class." A quite laugh filled the darkness, "which class you ditchin'?"
"Science, and how do you know I'm ditching? I could truly feel sick."
The laughter came back, "yeah, and thats why you came with one symptom, and stayed with another." Alex felt his face flush again, and was glad for the darkness. What was wrong with him today? Normally he didn't do things like blush, in fact, he couldn't remember the last time he had blushed before today... He bit his lower lip in thought, and felt his ears twitch on the pillow.

"Hello?" The voice came back after a while, "dammit, did you fall asleep?" the boy sounded angry, and Alex considered not answering, but after a few seconds, the silence became to much for him, and he whispered back, "no, sorry, just thinking."
"That pretty strange," a different voice called out, this one sounding slightly female, "a boy who thinks."
"Oh shut up Sabrina, you're so annoying!" The first voice growled, there was the sound of a hand striking a mattress, and the girl squeaked in surprise.
"What's going on?" Alex asked worried, eyes straining to see through the darkness.
"Nothing," the female voice, belonging to Sabrina, called out. "Just Brian being a brute again."
The male, presumably Brian, grumbled, but didn't protest.
"So, whats your name? Who are we sharing this drab nurse's room on this fine day?" Sabrina asked.
"Um, my name's Alex." He called back, "I'm a junior."
"Ohhh! How cute!" Sabrina sighed, "juniors are so adorable!"
Alex heard the squeak of a mattress, and then the bottom of his bed was disturbed by another person crawling on to it. There was a sudden electronic blue light coming from the edge of his bed, and he saw the face of a very happy blond girl before the light snapped off.
"Hey, I'm still here you know!" The angry voice of Brian called out, before his mattress to squeaked in protest as he stood, then the whole bed squealed in anger as he dragged the bed up against Alex's. Alex felt his mattress bounce, as Sabrina moved across to sit on the other bed. Alex heard what he suspected to be a kiss, then they were talking. He tried to keep up as best as he could, but both of the other kids talked so fast, that he had trouble keeping up. He answered the questions that were asked to him, and gave his opinion when he was asked, but other then that, he just sat, smiled and nodded. Finally after twenty minutes or so, he gave up, and moved to a different bed, putting a little distance between the couple. He laid down, and closed his eyes again, thinking that now he could sleep... but no more then a minute later, sounds of frantic kissing and loud breathing could be heard from the other side of the room.

Alex's eyes opened wide, and he quickly stuffed his pillow over the side of his head to block out the noises... but it didn't take very long for him to give up. He got up from his bed, told the couple that he was feeling better and leaving, then quickly left the room. He found the nurse once again, and told her that he was feeling much better, and even asked not to be sent back to the medical room. She looked up at him in surprise, then grinned with knowing eyes, "they at it again?" and at Alex's nod she barked out a laugh, "those two... they're here at least once a week, with stomach aches at the same time... little brats." She shook her head, the grin still in place, then she pulled Alex's note out of her pocket. She signed off on it, and handed it back. "Make sure you check the time before you go back to class kid." She called out as he started to walk away. Half way down the hall, Alex remembered to check the time on the paper. Confused, he glanced up at the clock... the time was wrong on the paper... he turned around to return to the nurse, when he realized that it had been no accident... the time on the paper gave him the extra ten minutes that she had promised him. Alex laughed, put the paper in his pocket, and decided to spend his time in the bathroom. He was still nervous about being out of class when he wasn't supposed to be, but it gave him a strange sort of thrill, knowing that he was breaking the rules...

He sighed and leaned against the sinks, examining himself in the mirror. His face was no longer tinted red, but he knew that it was just one wrong comment away from lighting up once more...

Rion didn't even know Mrs. Huseberry was talking until she called him out. He snapped out of it and looked up at her. "What?"

"You do know that we have a lab today, don't you Mr. Tural?"
"Yeah, whatever."
"Let's see you whatever this, I will pick your partners. I want you two to a group, you may make your request but there is not guarentee." She told them and wrote names down in a hat she borrow from a student and shook it around, walking down and up the aisles. "Man this is a load of..." He looked to see the teacher right next to his desk. "..crap." He looked sideways until she left and stuck his tongue out at her. Lee's face looked pale, but Castor and Caal seemed estatic. "What's wrong man?" Rion asked him, but Lee just showed him the paper, it said Jasmine on it. "I'm sure it couldn't be that bad, besides we have an odd number, maybe you should pick the last student before she assigns him." Lee just nodded and watched as the teacher came to the last row and stood before Rion.

"Well, here goes everything." He reached in and gingerly move his hands around till he felt a piece of paper and pulled it out, his ears twitched once, then twice. Then glared at the teacher, She set me up! Throwing the paper at the wall he turned towards his friends. "Well Lee it looks like you get to take Tony, so you won't be alone with her." At the sound of the boys name, the kid looked up and waved at Lee. It wasn't that bad, since Lee and him were friends when they were kids. So he'll have someone to talk to.

Castor looked at Rion, "Hey, I got teamed up with Caal. It sure does sucks to be you two right now." Caal shrugged and rest his head in his palms, his wolf-like ears lowering alittle as he solemnly paid attention to Mrs. Huseberry as she told them what was expected of them. Rion didn't even pay attention he was too busy designing tattoos on a piece of paper. Quickly finishing his ideas, he put them in his bag and stood up. "I'll be back later guys" and promptly went to the front of the class to open the door when Mrs. Huseberry called his name. "Where are you going young man?" Rion looked at her from his back. "I'm going to Restroom, you wanna come?" He asked, and left the class to leave her seething and blushing slightly. Fixing his shoulder strap backpack he pushed the bathroom'd door open to see Alex inside by the mirror. So he lied and was ditching class, I knew it. That sneaky little cat.

"Your sick huh?" He asked walking over to him and leaned on the sink not far from him, and looked in the mirror as well to adjust his eye patch.

Alex's ears went down in surprise as the boy that he had just been thinking about walked into the room. "I - I was..." He stammered, and felt his face flush again. Quickly, and hopefully before Rion saw his face, he turned the sink on cold, and stuck his head under. He closed his eyes, and let the water run over him, his ears twitching in annoyance. "W - what'd I miss?" He asked to change the subject...

"Did I scare you wimp?" He laughed, and tried to fix the piercings in his ear and listened to the boy stammer, he must have for him to sound like that. When Rion was about to look at Alex again and say something but he quickly looked away and dunked his head in the water he turned on. "...Didn't have enough time to shower at home?" He shook his head and looked back in the mirror not before he noticed Alex's ears twitching. "Oh uh, nothing much just Mrs. Bumkill assigning us lab partners." He spit at the mention of her, and looked Alex, "Going to to Ace this lab too nerd?" Looking in his bag he pulled out an eyebrow piercing and stuck it in his right eyebrow, it was a nice silvery black color.

Alex pulled his dripping head out of the water, face still bright red. "I took a shower, I was just trying to cool off." He glared at Rion for a second, then angrily turned the water off. "Assigning us lab partners? Why don't we get to choose?" Alex leaned against the sink, and rung his hair out, the red of his face in stark contrast of his white hair. "Is it my fault that those labs are easy? It doesn't make me a nerd if I pay attention in class..." Alex quickly fell silent, thinking that to Rion, it might. "Well if you struggle with them, why don't you pick a different lab partner other then Lee all the time? He isn't very good at labs, you know that." Alex finally gave up wringing out his hair, and just messed up his hair, flinging the water out in random droplets towards Rion...

Rion turned and returned with a venemous narrowing of his eyes. Who does he think hes glaring at? His mom? He turned to look at Alex and sighed "Yes, assigning, and how would I know I'm not her. Probably doing it to piss me off." He grunted at the last sentence and watched as Alex tried to wring his hair out, taking note of the bright red face. He must be really sick or his angry or possibly his blushing. For which I have no reason why... He thought. "I guess its not your fault if their easy to you, but yeah it does make you a nerd heh." Picking up his backpack he slid it on his shoulder and looked back at Alex. "Struggle? I choose not to do them, I find them... pointless. So I see you noticed Lee sucks too eh? But it doesn't matter. Besides who else is there to pick? You? Pffft." At that last part Alex had messed up his hair, which caused water droplets to fly almost everywhere. Rion was just close enough to get hit by a few. He closed his eye and his brow twitched along with his ears. He slowly opened his eye, getting up and and personal in Alex's space. "You better watch it, boy."

As Rion got closer, Alex forgot to breathe. He'd never been this close to Rion before, or anyone really. Surprising himself, he kept his glare up, he looked right up into Rions visible eye and laughed quietly. He couldn't see his face, unwilling to glance over to the mirror, but he was pretty sure his blush was gone. He could feel all the blood rushing out of his face, to his heart, which was beating faster then it ever had, the adrenalin making him feel weird... like he could do anything, take any risk... and never have to think about the consequences. "What should I be watching? Are you worried about me?" His smile turned slightly mocking, and he was so surprised that these emotions were coming out, that the smile fell and the glare straitened out, his face becoming almost impassive again, except for the surprise in his wide eyes, and the blush returning to his face. "I... I'm sorry, I'm not sure what just possessed me to do that..." He couldn't hold Rion's gaze anymore, and his smell overwhelmed him. He looked down and pressed himself against the sink sitting behind him, his face getting redder, pretty sure that he was about to get hit for the first time in his life...

Rion couldn't believe, Alex was actually standing up to him, its not that no one ever has its just that Alex himself never did to anyone much less him. A few others had stood up to Rion's antics... they never tried again afterwards. Rion's glare soon turned deadly when Alex spoke again. He watched as Alex's face became passive once more and pushed himself against the sink. Rion followed suit and slammed his hands on either side of his face, the one landing on the mirror cracked. What a classic, nerd stands up but has no backbone. He thought as he saw Alex's face redden. "Sorry? Haha, you don't know what possessed you, yeah right." Rion moved his hand from the wall and touched his index finger to Alex's forhead, pushing his head back so he had no choice but to look at him. His face softened and lowered his head to be level with the others. "Oh yes, I'm worried about you. Wouldn't want you to ruin that pretty face of yours." He said in a soft voice with a slight mocking undertone. Messing up the boy's hair before back away from him.

While he was messing with Alex he was cooling down, he couldn't start anything lest he go to an alternative school, or Juvie. Just think where he would be right now if he proceeded to beat up the kid or do anything harsh to him. He sighed, Alex sure did pick the right time to do something when he couldn't do anything about it. Fixing up his ruffled up hair, and his clothes he walked out of the bathroom and back to class. On his way back he felt a tingling in his hand, he looked at it to see it was cut. Examining it he pulled out a few shards of glass, tearing one of his sleeves off and wrapped it around his hand. He looked up at the clock to see class was almost over, but knowing the teacher, she will find a way for him to do that lab before its over, if not he would be staying after school. Sighing he opened the door and sat in a an unoccupied table, and waved at his buddies, before slouching in his seat and ignoring the teachers gaze.

Alex finally let himself breathe again when he was sure that Rion was gone. He let the breath that he was holding slowly escape past his lips, his whole body slumping as he relaxed. Suddenly, he was on the floor, his relaxing frame had pushed all his weight onto a foot that had been resting in a puddle of water, and he slipped, smacking his head as he fell. Alex got up slowly, wincing as he rubbed the back of his head. He felt restless, and his fingers twitched, some of that earlier adrenalin coursing through him. He turned back to the sink, and spit some blood out, blood that was there from his bitten lip in result of his fall. He looked up into the mirror as a small drop of blood dribbled down his chin, he grinned at himself and saw his red teeth, the blood still welling up in his mouth. He spit again, then went into one of the many stalls and grabbed a wad of toilet paper. As he returned to the mirror, he slowed, surprised at what his reflection showed...

He looked crazy! And not the 'wow dude, that looks crazy!' kinda crazy, but the 'slit your throat in your sleep, and laugh as you die kinda' crazy. His hair was wild, sticking up in all directions, from the multiple messings, his eyes were wild and wide, and now there was blood dripping down his lip. He quickly pulled the wad of paper across his mouth, smearing and removing the blood, and fixed his hair, pulling it down evenly around his head. "There," he mumbled to himself, "now you look slightly more normal." He went over to the sink, releaning against it. He closed his eyes, and spat still flowing blood occasionally, just trying to calm down, so that he could last for the rest of the day. Finally the blood stopped flowing, and he re-opened his eyes. He couldn't do it. Couldn't go through the rest of the day with a smile on his face, and Rion on his mind. He had been trying to forget about the older boy, trying to distract himself while his eyes were closed, but to no avail. Finally, he checked his watch and realized that it was the exact time on his note.

He sighed, checked his pocket for his note, and took one last glance in the mirror, 'I wonder if he really thinks I have a pretty face...' he wondered absentmindedly. Then, he turned quickly for the door and walked out, before his face could redden any further then it already was.

Alex made it back to the classroom in record time, hurrying so that his head didn't have time to realize that he was cheating his blush by pumping blood through his heart. He didn't know if it was working now, but it had worked before, so why wouldn't it? He walked quickly through the door, just as the bell rang signifying that lunch was starting. All the students stood at once, and began to pack up, but as Alex walked over to her, she called out to Rion, and told him to stay and finish the lab. Then she turned to Alex, and took his note with a smile and turned all motherly when she told him about his fever, and how the nurse had been reluctant to let him go, but had upon his request. He heard Rion snicker behind him, but ignored the other boy, and allowed the teacher to mother him for a few seconds, feeling his forehead, patting his hand, even giving him a hug. When she dismissed him, and excused him from the lab that they had done today, he politely requested if he could stay, and finish the lab up with Rion. The teacher was surprised, "why would you want to do that?" She asked before she could think.

Alex felt sad and slightly angry at her patronizing tone of voice, but he forced the smile to stay on his face. "Because, I don't want to miss out on any educational experience that is offered to me." He felt the sour words leave his mouth, and knew that his father would be proud of him if he heard his 'excitement over education,' his father was a college professor and always complained that he didn't care enough about school. The teachers face lit up, and she smiled at him. "Alright Alex, you can stay." She lead him over to where Rion was sitting, looking mad as hell, and she leaned down and whispered something in the older boys ear. Which made him look even angrier.

Alex sat down next to Rion, and as the teacher walked away, she called out, "don't forget to restart the lab Rion, help Alex understand as best as you can." Then she left the room, out to get lunch. Alex looked sheepishly at Rion, "you don't have to start over. I stayed to help you if you needed it, I've already done this lab with my dad a hundred times before... Just take it as a sorry for being a jerk, and a thank you for not beating the crap out of me..."

Rion watched everyone proceed with the lab, he and his friends made a few exchanges of jokes when they had time. Otherwise Rion just ignored the lab and waited for class to be over. One of his classmates was walking to the front of the class to get more supplies when he tripped on his shoe laces, and Rion bursted out laughing. He didn't hear the kid say anything to him. Until one of his friends were getting all dramatic. "What, what did you say?" And thats what caught his attention and made him look at the kid, until he scurried off back to his desk with the supplies.

Bored again already, he started carving random things into the table, til Castor threw some kind of purple goo at him. He fell out his chair onto the ground, everyone started laughing. Grabbing it out of his hair and his face he looked around to who did it and saw Castor acting all innocent. He threw it back at him, but he ducked so it hit Caal. Then all of a sudden all different kinds of goo was flying all over the place. The Teacher took refuge behind and under her desk. Once it was out of everyone's systems, and Mrs. Huseberry knew she was safe, she ordered everyone to clean up before the bell rings or they're staying after school for detention. Rion just stood there as everyone else cleaned up just in time for the bell to ring.

Grabbing his backpack, excited to go to lunch he was just about to skip out of there like a little kid. The teacher called out to him so, he slowly walked back to his seat and sat down, slouching all the way into the chair til he was practically laying in the desk. Noticing Alex for the first time at the door he looked away and waved his friends bye. Placing his hands on his desk clasping them together he watched as Mrs. Huseberry's demeanor turned all motherly on Alex, he couldn't just help but snicker when she said how the nurse was reluctant to let him go and he had a fever and what not. Haha, I guess the bathroom is the new nurses office. He mentally laughed to himself, just watching her hug him and do all those things a mother would do.

After awhile it just made him sick to his stomach. But when Alex spoke up about wanting to stay and finish the lab with him, his face features changed dramatically. He looked like a bum who just had his fries taken; He was pissed. He barely listened as they exchanged more words, all that was in his head was he was missing his lunch just to do the lab, WITH Alex. He mentally mocked Alex saying 'Because, I don't want to miss out on any educational experience that is offered to me.' He watched as the teacher's face lit up and she lead Alex over to him. Then he glared as the teacher walked up to him and whispered into his ear. Something about Alex staying and being nice or whatever, he didn't really understand her he was mad, and she made him even angrier now he looked like he wanted to kill somebody.

Rion looked over at Alex as he made hes way over to him to sit. He just stared at the teacher as she told him to help Alex and redo the lab. How? He wasn't even paying attention, and he was pretty sure Alex didn't need any help, he could figure it out by himself. "Why?" He interrupted Alex , but he just kept talking and explained why in the process. What does Alex need to be sorry for? Rion didn't understand, if he did what Alex did he wouldn't be anywhere near being sorry. He just grunted as Alex indirectly said 'thank you'. "Whatever, I'm not doing this stupid lab, what do I need to make this for? Its not going to help me out in the near or far future. And if you did this lab a hundred times why don't you just do it, and keep your grade up? You don't need to help me or need any help." He turned slightly away from him and sighed and just stared at the supplies, he slid his finger on the rim of the beaker and made it whistle.

It made him think about his Dad playing the glass harp...
Hes eyes lowered to the table while he now absentmindly played with the beaker, thinking about how his Dad will never play again.

Alex shrugged while setting up the lab, "fine, I'll just get it over with." He started pouring the chemicals together while listening to Rion's fingers sing over the beakers. "Hey, you're pretty good at that," he commented as he turned the bunsen burner on and put the beaker full of liquid and chemicals on top of it, before finally turning to Rion. "We have ten minutes or so before this is done. How did you learn to do that?" He asked pointing to Rion's still moving fingers...

Rion heard Alex speak but he wasn't really listening, he was lost in his thoughts. Time passed slowly as Alex filled a beaker with chemicals and place it on a bunsen burner after commenting on what Rion was doing. Rion's fingers just kept moving, but when Alex's hand came into view in the corner of his eye he looked up and at him, his fingers stopping. "Huh? Oh... that..." He removed his hand from the beakers and placed it on his lap under the table next to the hurt one. Sitting up straight he replied "It's nothing.. really." He let a pause hang in the air before he said something else. "My Dad taught me how, when I was younger. I thought it was really cool when he played for me and my mom." He looked away from the beakers and the table to Alex. "But, one day, he..." He trailed off and looked at the beaker on the bunsen burner. "When did you do that?" He asked, not knowing when Alex did it, much less how. While Alex wasn't paying attention to him, he wiped the tear that would have escaped if he kept talking about his Dad. Soon the chemicals in the beaker started to react in an interesting way, it made Rion lean forward alittle to get a closer look.

Alex turned back to the beaker when Rion asked about it, he grabbed some tongs, picked up the hot beaker, and swirled around the contents a few times, as it began bubbling. As the chemicals calmed down, and the foam turned back into liquid, Alex set it back down. Then he turned to Rion and grinned, "looks like we both got our talents from our fathers." Alex turned down the burner to a low simmer, "my father is kind of a jack of all trades professor." He turned and smiled at Rion, "he knows pretty much everything about everything, and he passes down as much as he can. But he gets pretty hard to listen to... and even harder to talk to." Finally the liquid mass in the beaker was solidifying, turning into the rubber that it was supposed to, "quick," Alex said, one hand over the temperature dial, the over over a bunch test tube things full of colored liquid, "what color?"

Rion watched as Alex swirled the beaker around a few times, watching the foam turn into liquied he was impressed. Knowing him, he would have blew up the whole classroom, but Alex sure enough, knew what he was doing. He felt a tinge of jealous for just a moment but it faded away too quickly for him to recognize it for what it was. "Jack of all Trades eh? He sounds... cool" he leaned back in his chair before looking up at Alex to see him smiling. He is always smiling... he thought. Alex Always Smiling..well not like twenty-four seven but.. yeah you get the idea. Getting ready to say something, Alex abruptly said 'quick'. Rion ears jumped forward as he watch Alex move quickly to put a hand over the dial and the other hovering of a test tubes what looked to be full of colors. "Uh..uh blue" He said quickly, unable to actually think of a color. He just said whatever word popped up into his head.

The edge of Alex's lip twitched higher, when Rion said blue. His favorite color. His hand darted out with just a glance, and he grabbed the vile with the blue liquid, with an experienced hand he swished it around a few times, then poured it into the beaker on the bunson burner. At the same time his other hand began to move, slowly inching the temperature down as the two liquids became one, then his hand went back to the colors and grabbed an indigo liquid, again swishing it around, before adding it to the mixture. Alex was fully concentrated on the vile in front of him, everything else becoming a blur of nothingness. Finally, Alex clicked off the burner, and picked the beaker with the tongs again, moving quickly over to the sink, he knocked a plastic bowl into it, then poured the still solidifying contents into the spinning bowl. When the beaker was empty, Alex set it to the side, and picked up the bowl, swirling it slowly as the blue blob splashed with indigo cooled.

Once he was satisfied that it was cool, he set down the bowl and stuck a finger into it to feel the temperature. He grinned, "perfect," he said and scooped it up in his hand. He stretched out the goo between his two hands as far as he could, when it didn't snap, he brought it back together and balled it up. He stepped back to where Rion was and handed him the ball. "Try to break it." He said with a grin, knowing that the goo wouldn't break, the molecules were too stubborn to be pulled apart...

Watching as Alex picked up the blue, followed by a indigo, purpleish color he swished the colors together with the now gooey mix in the beaker. When Alex left the table to go to the sink, Rion quickly followed to watch him knock a bowl into the sick and pour it in the bowl. He looked like a kid learning the secrets of how to make chocolate candy inside a factory. It seemed, finally when Alex was satisfied, he stopped swirling the bowl around and stuck a finger inside. Rion half expecting it to still be hot was surprised when the boy just said 'perfect'. Rion cocked a brow and looked at him. "What do you mean perfect?" As he watched him scoop it up and stretch between his hands, then put it back together and roll it into a ball. "Try to break it? Do you mean pull it apart?" He grabbed it from Alex and just threw from hand to hand and examined it. Slowly pulling it apart but not too far, a light bulb went off in his head. He picked up Alex's hands and placed half of it in his cupped hand and slowly walked to the other side of the room and just laughed. It was pulled pretty thin and yet would not pull apart.

"Well there is always a fire proof way to separate it, just cut it." He started to wiggle it through the air and just watched as it moved in a waving motion, this one seemed better then the ones his classmates hand made, maybe it was just like Alex had said... Perfect

Rion walked back to Alex and took it from his hands wrapping it back around itself, and make sure it was in a ball.. well as much as it was going to get. "Do you think I can make it stick?" He asked as he grinned and looked up at the ceiling then back down. Once he looked up and picked a spot throw it up, he chunked it and it stay there for awhile. "Guess I can--" He was interrupted by it falling down on his head, and since it wasn't water it didn't splash, it just laid their like a pizza dough on his head. He looked at his nose to see it slide slowly down, he couldn't help but laugh.

Alex shook his head laughing, "I guess you could always cut it.Alex called out, "wait! It's elastic but-" he couldn't get the words out in time, and Rion threw the ball up onto the ceiling. Alex stepped forward, and tried to pull Rion out of the way, but he wouldn't budge. And then it fell. Alex snickered and covered his parting mouth, with his hand, as a huge burst of laughter was about to explode out of him. But as soon as Rion started laughing, Alex gave up holding it in, and began to laugh as well. "I- I tried to warn you!" he said between laughs.

When they had both calmed down, Alex pulled a chair over to the sink, then grabbed Rion's wrist and pulled him over to the chair. "Here, I'll get it out for you," he said still chuckling, "it may be stretchy, but not sticky. Though it will stick to fabric, and to hair. And once it does, the stretchy, unbreakable part kicks back in, so its almost impossible to get out. Even with washing... um... we might be here a while..." He warned, as he pulled the first large piece up from Rion's face and collecting it in his hand...