As you wish.
I logged into second life immediately I found that I had an unending number of offline messages… What the hell was going on? I opened the first message… next week it was Valentines day. That explained the hearts flying around everywhere over my head. As I deleted a gazillion messages Gui bounded over catching me off guard and knocked me down as he flung himself on me. I lay on the floor with his form on top of me, strangely I didn't feel crushed.
"Gui," I growled dangerously. He stared into my eyes innocently.
"Yes my lord?"
"Get off me."
"As you wish," Gui replied brightly, getting up off me. I grabbed his arm using it to pull me up then quickly brushed myself down and looked around.
"So, it's valentine's day next week, whoopidoo." Gui stared at me strangely.
"Your royal highness Prince, why are you so unenthusiastic about such a celebration of love?"
"Because everyone is THROWING themselves at me rather than actually finding someone to love!" I growled, marching off towards my chambers to hide from everyone. He just stood there staring after me.
I got into school the next day everyone seemed to already be making preparations, there seemed to be pink and red hearts and ribbons on every wall, locker and desk. I slumped into my seat in one of Gui's lectures, disgusted and sickened by the decorations. My stupid twin sat down beside me.
"What's up Xiao Lan?" he asked looking at me worried as I slammed my head down onto the desk.
"All these stupidly sickening disgusting…" He just laughed at me.
"Is there someone you secretly like?" he asked. I raised my head giving him the death glare.
"Who is it?" he asked, I could imagine him, ears perked up, sat there like a little puppy staring at me with big eyes begging for a bone… or in this case, new information with which to blackmail and torture me endlessly. As I glanced around I noticed Gui walk in looking very distracted meanwhile all the girls were staring at him with hearts for eyes. I suppressed the urge to laugh, and couldn't help thinking, "Ha! Now you know how I feel with millions of PM's when I log in. Luckily for you all you have to put up with is students that go to this university, I have to put up with millions of second life players!"
While Gui got side-tracked once again, talking about his beloved Prince, I spent my time productively building the perfect paper aeroplane which, at the end of class, I then proceeded to lob at the back of his head as I walked out the door.
I sat down at my desk at home, I was surprised Gui had enough concentration to actually give out homework, he'd been so distracted I thought he might forget. Damn why couldn't he! I slammed my head against the desk just as Yang Ming walked into the room.
"Sis' if you keep doing that you'll give yourself brain damage," I shot an icy glare at him and he quickly ran off whining something about dinner.
I logged into second life, finally! Next thing I knew a blur of purple was making its way toward me. In a split second I realised it was Gui and quickly managed to side step his attack. So instead he flew straight into the wall behind me. I looked down at him meanwhile he looked up confused.
"Most handsome lord Prince?" he muttered staring up at me, obviously expecting me to beat him as per usual. I just laughed and turned on my heel he sprang up and ran after me.
"Prince, may I talk with you for a moment?" he whispered in my ear, I hadn't realised he'd gotten so close so quickly and I jumped away.
"What about?" I asked. He just blushed a little pushing both his index fingers together and staring at me innocently.
"Can't you just PM me?" I asked.
"I can but I still want to do it away from other people." I rolled my eyes and nodded.
"Wanna go down to the kitchen?" I asked after mulling over all the possibly good places we could hide away and talk.
"Wouldn't your chambers be more appropriate?"
"Yeah… but people would ask questions about you being there, and nobody can ask questions if two individuals are just found together in the kitchens… Especially since I gorge myself all the time."
"Good point," he replied.
"To say you're a university professor with an IQ of 200, you don't seem to be particularly bright," I grumbled as we made our way to the palace kitchens.
I sat down with a mountain of food beside me. Gui sat opposite me, but decided it would still be better to PM me, he didn't want people eaves dropping or so he said.
"So what's this all about?" I asked eating a few biscuits to start off with.
"Prince, I want to meet you in real life." He stared at me, begging.
"I don't think that's a good idea…" I replied avoiding looking at him by stuffing my face with some buns.
"But I want to spend Valentine's Day with you… or at least to be able to take you out or something… that is if there isn't anyone you like in real life…" I considered it for a second, but it just wasn't a good idea, I guess I sort of liked him but he… he was gay right? And I didn't want to ruin this perfect view of me he had… or destroy his feelings and crush him by revealing to him that I was a total lie.
"Please!" He pleaded.
"I'll think about it," I replied eating some more. He just smiled at me, seemingly please that I'd at least said I'd consider it. He began talking openly to me.
"One of my students threw a paper aeroplane at the back of my head earlier." I suddenly felt guilty but tried not to let it show.
"It was really well made I spent about half an hour playing with it throwing it down corridors when all the students were gone, I honestly feel like such a child sometimes it's unbelievable…"
Huh? My attempt to annoy him had actually caused him to have fun. That was not fair.
"I never really learnt how to make paper aeroplanes…" he muttered, "I tried to once but it ended badly." I burst out laughing.
"Professor you are such a big kid sometimes," I burst out, the covered my mouth just as quickly, as he stared at me eyes wide with disbelief, I then proceeded to quickly gather food and exit the kitchens in a flash before he could grab me and interrogate me. Damnit Xiao Lan look what you've gone and done! I thought as I ran as fast as I could to anywhere he mightn't find me. I got a few peculiar looks off people as I ran through the palace but that didn't matter I needed to go hole up somewhere and ignore him.
Next day I sat in class making another paper aeroplane after successfully copying down all my notes from the board, when I noticed Gui caressing an aeroplane sat on his desk and staring at it intrigued… it was that one from yesterday. I was just about to slip the one I was making under the desk when he looked up and noticed it, I glared at the desk as a furious blush spread across my face.
"Feng Lan, please stay behind after class," everyone turned to look at me, seeing the paper plan on my desk they all rolled their eyes at me.
After class everyone left smirking at me as I had to stay behind. I wondered what stupid thing he was gonna do. Give me a detention? Give me a lecture on how inappropriate it was to be making projectiles in class? Ask me-
"Feng Lan did you make this one as well?" he asked. I nodded uncertainly… after his story last night on Second Life I wasn't sure what he was going to say.
"Did you throw it at me?" I nodded sulking.
"Why?" I just shrugged silently.
"Can you teach me how to make them?" he asked smiling at me. I couldn't refuse…
We sat at one end of the corridor with a pile of paper aeroplanes and we threw them one by one down the corridor seeing who could get them the furthest. It was really fun… until Li Tian came around a corner and was hit by one of our aeroplanes, he looked up from the paperwork he had in his hand and stared at us for a second, looking very confused as myself and Professor Gui were blushing furiously. Gui quickly stood up straight staring at the floor looking incredibly embarrassed.
"Nurse Li Tian I, I must apologise, our behaviour- Li Tian just laughed, then said the most unexpected thing.
"May I join you?"
So I spent my evening instead of studying, throwing paper aeroplanes down the corridor with Wolf-Dage and Gui the bard…
