Warnings - Mild violence & Sebastian just basically being a super creep


It was hot, children were screaming, and Sebastian was trying to figure out a way to kill himself with the various seemingly random objects strewn on the desk in front of him. Just another average summers day. It was so hot that Sebastian could feel the sweat running down his face and sticking his shirt uncomfortably close to his body. Mei Rin had refused to install an AC in the ticket booth since "it didn't get hot enough". Not hot enough my ass, it like a billion degrees in here, Sebastian thought begrudgingly. He was 100% sure that she did it on purpose, since she spent most of her time in her office, which just happened to have an AC. But despite his complaining Sebastian couldn't deny that he did enjoy working at Red's Water Park. He wasn't exactly a fan of large crowds or the sun, but he did get to eat as much ice cream as he wanted when he manned the kiosk. What else did you really need anyway?

Because it was roughly a thousand degrees outside, the park was especially busy today. He'd been stuck at the ticket booth all morning, despite being rostered to change to lifeguard duty two hours ago.

"Have a nice day," Sebastian said with an overly fake smile to the family he'd just served. He sighed deeply as soon as they were out of sight and peered around to look at the line. Although still long, it was much shorter now, much to Sebastian's relief. He called next and a blonde boy, slightly younger than Sebastian, bounded up to the counter, a darker haired boy in tow.

"Two student entries please!" The blonde said excitedly, looking over his shoulder at the other boy. The other boy wore an eye patch and looked like he was about to murder someone any second. Sebastian observed him curiously. He was kind of… cute. His eyes were a deep blue, and were framed perfectly by his dark hair. His skin was incredibly flawless and pale. He was almost mesmerising. The boy's gaze suddenly snapped up to meet Sebastian's, making the staring teen blush slightly. Sebastian looked back at the blonde.

"Did you want to go on the slides? It's $3 extra per person," Sebastian said mechanically.

"Um, I dunno. Do you want to go on the slides Ciel?" The blonde said, turning to look at the murderous boy behind him.

"Hell no," Ciel spat, in a perfectly refined English accent. Sebastian felt himself weaken slightly at that adorable accent. He was perfect. The blonde let out a high-pitched laugh and turned back to Sebastian, a wicked look in his eyes.

"We'll take the slides then," He said with a grin. Sebastian smirked and glanced to confirm the enraged look he'd guessed Ciel would have, before busying himself punching in the entrance cost into the ancient cash register. He collected the money and got out two of the red wristbands they were using that day.

"Do you want me to put them on for you?" He asked, trying to find and excuse to feel Ciel's porcelain skin. Don't worry it wasn't creepy they asked everyone… who was under 8 years old. Whatever.

"Yeah sure," The blonde replied, thrusting his arm out for Sebastian. He quickly secured the band around his wrist, and looked hopefully at Ciel. The boy stared for a bit, before rolling his eyes with a sigh and sticking his arm out. Sebastian smiled as he brushed his fingers lightly over Ciel's soft skin as he moved the band over his delicate wrist. He moved slower, trying to draw out the time he could touch Ciel, and even pretended to have trouble with it. Ciel gave him an annoyed look when he had finally secured it around his wrist. Sebastian shot a weak smile at the boy.

"Have a nice day," he said blissfully as he watched the pair walk away, the blonde practically skipping. Sebastian watched them as long as he could, wanting to see Ciel for as long as possible. As soon as they were out of sight he jumped up. He rummaged around the atrociously messy desk and pulled out the "back in five" sing with a triumphant yell. He slammed it down in front of the window, hardly noticing the family already there, and raced off to the back of the booths. A door stood on the back wall with a metal plaque above it, reading "Supervisor". He slammed the door open like a crazed man, and spotted Mei Rin behind the desk, in the middle of eating her spaghetti.

"Wha-?" she mumbled through the pasta in her mouth.

"Mei you have to let me go on lifeguard duty, I am begging you!" Sebastian almost screamed at her. The bespectacled girl looked at Sebastian, stunned, with her fork still half way to her mouth.

'What?" she repeated, dumbfounded. Sebastian groaned.

"I swear to god Mei just let me do this one thing!" he pleaded. She stared at him for a while longer, making Sebastian almost give up. He knew it was pointless asking her. But then finally she spoke.

"Yeah, whatever, fine," She said tiredly, "Just tell Finny to man the booth."

"THANK YOU, YOU ANGEL!" Sebastian yelled, running over and pulling Mei into an iron grip.

"Yeah yea whatever, just go already you idiot," she sighed, wriggling out of Sebastian's arms.

Sebastian had only qualified to be lifeguard this year, since he'd been too lazy last year. He hadn't realised how much better it was to be on lifeguard duty. Since actual incidents were pretty rare, most of your time was spent in the cool lifeguard booth, or roaming around the pool and yelling at children. You got to wear a cool uniform too. It was perfect for Sebastian.

Once he was done hugging Mei Rin, Sebastian ran excitedly from the office to the change rooms, where he kept his various uniforms. He changed quickly into his uniform and sprinted to find Finny. He found his asleep in the booth, as usual, his binoculars resting on his chest.

"Hey, Finny! Wake up!" Sebastian said, hurriedly shaking the blonde awake.

"Wha- what?" Finny mumbled tiredly, rubbing his eyes.

"Mei said you're on tickets for the rest of the day."

Finny stared at Sebastian, befuddled. He looked like a kitten that just woke up. Slowly, he registered what Sebastian had said, and with a groan he got up. He gave Sebastian a small wave as he made his way to the ticket booth, bumping into the doorframe on his way. With a grin, Sebastian grabbed the binoculars on the desk and began searching for Ciel. Okay so maybe this was kind of creepy, but wasn't it romantic as well? Like love at first sight or something. Alright, so probably not, but that didn't really worry Sebastian. His first priority was to find Ciel. He couldn't get that piercing blue eye out of his mind. The kid looked like a male version of Snow White for god's sake. Scanning the pool, Sebastian started to get worried. He couldn't see them anywhere. Maybe they were on the slides? If that was the case he'd never see Ciel. Bard was on the slides today, and trying to swap with him was dangerous. Sebastian had lost quite a bit of money and almost his car that way. Thank god Mei had been there to slap some sense into them both. While he thought, Sebastian's gaze suddenly landed on a pair. The blonde and Ciel. Sebastian's mouth curled into a smile as he watched the blonde jump around Ciel, splashing water at him. Ciel still looked as murderous as ever. Maybe today wasn't going to be so bad.

xxx

It was hot, children were screaming, and to top it off, Ciel was pretty sure the lifeguard was stalking him. Not that he could focus long enough to confirm his suspicions, since he was too distracted by the idiot splashing around beside him. Alois had been diving beneath the water and jumping up again, in turn splashing water in Ciel's face, for the past hour. Ciel hadn't even wanted to come here at all. He despised the heat. The pool was basically a bath. He preferred to spend the summer alone in his room with the AC on full blast. That, apparently, wasn't an option for Alois.

"You could have asked literally anyone but me," Ciel groaned when Alois finally decided to stop his inane splashing.

"Whatever, it's more fun this way, I get to see you suffer," the blonde said with an evil smirk. Sometimes Ciel wondered why he was even friends with this idiot.

Ciel looked around tiredly, and his gaze yet again rested on the dark haired lifeguard by the other side of the pool. The guy had sold them their tickets this morning and got a little weird when he put Ciel's wristband on. He kept unnecessarily brushing his fingers over Ciel's arm. On top of that, he'd appeared at the pool in a lifeguard uniform not minutes after he'd served them. He kept hanging around them even though they'd moved several times. It was kind of creepy.

"Hey Alois," Ciel said wearily, "see that guy over there?"

"Who?"

"The lifeguard."

"Yeah, what about him?" Alois asked curiously, eyeing the lifeguard.

"Don't stare at him!" Ciel hissed, pulling Alois to look back at him. He looked back to see if the guy had noticed them staring. It seemed okay, the guy was just kind of standing there, like lifeguards do.

"Ugh what?" Alois groaned, "do you like him or something?"

"God no," Ciel said, "it's just… do you think he's been following us?"

Alois hummed in thought, and looked back at the guy. Slowly, he shook his head.

"I can't say I've noticed, why?"

"I don't know, I just get the feeling he's been following us. He sold us our tickets this morning and then he suddenly appeared here basically as soon as we got in the pool. He was acting kind of weird when he put on my wrist band too."

Alois though about it for a moment, his chin resting on his arms again.

"Maybe he likes you," He said with a wiggle of his eyebrows. Ciel wrinkled his nose. He didn't really like the idea of that. He had to admit that the guy was pretty good looking, but he just creeped him out. Alois looked at him, curiously, before he abruptly shuffled closer to Ciel, eyes lidded.

"Hmm, well maybe if I give you kiss he'll back off?" he said with a wicked grin,

Ciel groaned in annoyance as Alois moved his lips to his neck.

"Ew, stop being gay," Ciel said, trying to push the blonde away.

"Come on, you know you love it," Alois teased. Ciel gave him another weak shove.

"You are such an idiot," Ciel grumbled when he was finally able to detach the leech that was Alois from his neck. That, however, didn't stop the blonde.

"Seriously, Alois, stop being weird, we're in a fucking pool. There are children around," Ciel said. Alois was now sitting on his lap, with his arms draped around his neck.

"Aw, why you being so cruel baby?" Alois mewed. The blonde stuck his tongue out and was about to drag it over Ciel's neck.

"What the fuck?!"

Ciel turned around in surprise. A tall bespectacled man was advancing on them, a mixture of rage and disgust painting his face. Alois stiffened, before scrambling off Ciel's lap.

"Shit," he whispered.

"What? Who is that guy?" Ciel asked in a whisper. Alois ignored him an stepped out of the pool. Alois raised his arm to wave at the man and gave a cheery smile.

"Hey Claude!" He called.

What?

xxx

Sebastian had the feeling Ciel was catching on. For most of the morning Sebastian had been pretty inconspicuous, sticking to staying in the booth or keeping his distance when they moved and he had to follow them. But as the day wore on and Sebastian most likely had suffered from some sort of heat stroke, he got more daring. He began moving closer and closer to them, finally ending up at the opposite side of the pool from them. He had his sunglasses on so he could stare at Ciel with out seeming as creepy, but he was probably still pretty creepy since Ciel began shooting him strange looks, as though he'd caught him staring. For a while Ciel seemed to ignore it, but now Sebastian wasn't so sure. He noticed Ciel begin to whisper to the blonde kid, while looking back at Sebastian every now and then. And then the blonde guy turned around to stare at him for a while. Okay, so they definitely caught on, Sebastian thought silently cursing himself. Sebastian felt himself begin to turn red, as he turned to walk further along the pool side, away from the whispering pair. He decided to actually start doing his job and scanned the pool. He instantly saw at least 6 stupid ass kids he'd have to yell at. A grin of glee spread across his face, he adored yelling at children. But before he got the chance to shout something mildly abusive at the kids sprinting up and down the deck, a familiar yell from behind him registered in his ears.

"What the fuck?!"

He turned to see the blonde kid scrabbling off of Ciel's lap? What the shit? Were those two dating or something? They did seem pretty close, but Sebastian had just assumed they were friends.

Sebastian shook his head and focused back on what made him turn around. Standing by the opposite pool edge, positively fuming, was none other than Claude Faustus. Hannah lingered behind him.

God, what the hell is that asshole doing here? Sebastian though, his brow furrowing. The blond got out of the pool, and walked over to Claude, obviously trying to calm him down. Despite being fairly close, Sebastian was still too far away to hear what they were actually saying. Ciel got out of the pool too, standing beside Alois. Claude turned his attention towards Ciel, and yelled something at him. Ciel looked tiny next to Claude, who had at least foot on him. Besides, looking at him, Ciel couldn't be more than a freshman, which didn't compare well against college student Claude. It was probably a good idea for Sebastian to step in.

"Hey guys, what's going on over here?" Sebastian called as he jogged towards the group. They all turned around, a look of recognition dawning on Claude's face.

"God, trust you to be here," Claude spat," Stay out of this Michaelis."

"Claude, can you just calm down? We were just messing around," the blonde said, ignoring Sebastian. Claude frowned, and turned back to him. Sebastian gave Hannah a questioning look, to which she just shrugged.

"No I cannot just calm down, Alois. I thought we were dating," Claude said, the hurt evident in his voice. The blonde, who Sebastian assumed was Alois, rolled his eyes.

"Jesus Christ. All we've done is make out in the back of your car a few times, we're not dating," Alois huffed. Oh shiiiit, Sebastian thought, watching Claude. His face was a mixture of fury, hurt, and most of all, betrayal. Claude wasn't exactly as confident as he looked. The guy had some pretty massive self-esteem issues. He looked like he was about to hit the poor kid. Sebastian sprung into action.

"Whoa, man, calm down. You don't want to do anything stupid," he said, slowly taking a hold of Claude's shoulder, "just take a walk, cool off."

Claude's gaze, which had been laser focused on Alois, snapped to Sebastian. Slowly, he raised his hand and grabbed Sebastian's wrist, wrenching his hand from his shoulder.

"Stay out of shit you know nothing about," Claude hissed, looking more and more angry by the second

"But Clau-" Sebastian began, before something hard hit him in the face. It took him a while to realise what had just happened. Evidently, Sebastian didn't get punched in the face very often. Bringing his hand to his face, Sebastian stumbled to the side. He felt a trail of wetness begin to run down his face, pooling uncomfortably at his lips. Blood.

The shock began to wear off and Sebastian started to notice the yelling, but what he noticed most was the small hand on his back.

"Are you alright?" A soft, British voice said, impossibly close to his ear. Sebastian smiled, probably a mistake with all the blood gushing out of his nose, but he didn't really care. Maybe that punch to the face wasn't so bad after all.


A/N - Thanks for reading, I hope you liked it! I decided to change up how I format my fics since my old one all had quite short chapters, so I thought I'd merge what would be two chapters into one! I'm trying to work on my flow and pacing in this fic since they're something I've been pretty crappy with. Constructive criticism is welcome (it'd really help me out if you told me what you think and maybe how I can improve in these areas!) Thank you again! xx