Chapter 2 – Arthur's diary

The bell had shortly rang for break after Merlin had fled from the sixth form common room when Gwen stumbled upon him sitting on a bench underneath the canopy by English. She could see that her friend had something on his mind; Merlin always seemed to pull that adorable wide eyed look when something was bothering him.

"What's up Merlin?" Gwen asked as she sat down beside her best friend.

"Arthur" Merlin whispered.

"Not him again, Merlin you seriously need to get over this crush of yours, I'm sorry to say but it's never going to happen."

"No, I don't mean, I uhh."

"What then?" Gwen asked, running through her mind what the dark haired boy was on about.

"It doesn't matter."

"Tell me Merlin, please Merlin" Gwen begged.

Merlin sighed as he began his story of bio class and Arthur's wandering hand.

"Why did he do that?" Gwen asked knowing Merlin would have no clue what so ever why the blonde had stroked his leg in such a suggestive manner, though before Merlin had a chance to even ponder over her question the third of their trio waltzed over with a gleaming grin spread across her porcelain face and sat beside them.

"Hay Morgana" Merlin and Gwen both said together.

"Are you alright Merlin, I just overheard what Valiant and his band of wankers did"

Merlin sighed, great everyone probably would have heard by now that he was the basis of some practical joke.

"Merlin just told me what happened, though he doesn't know why?" Gwen answered instead.

"They were playing nervous" the raven haired girl explained "God my brother's a right prat hanging round with those pricks all the time."

Merlin yet again sighed; it didn't help his situation that one of his best mates was the step sister to the gorgeous yet pratish Arthur. Every time they went over to Morgana's Arthur would be walking around just in his shorts as their boiler had exploded a couple of months ago leaving the house like an oven, their dad hadn't bothered to pay to have it fixed yet, so yeah being Morgana's friend came at a price of having to see the handsome blonde more than usual, though deep down Merlin was quite happy about the extra shirtless time he got to watch Arthur. Merlin smiled widely as a half naked Arthur popped into his head.

"Merlin! Have you even been listening to what I've said?" Morgana shouted at the boy, shaking him out of his oh so perfect thoughts. Merlin just stared blankly at her trying to think what she could have been saying. Morgana sighed in annoyance, about to repeat what she had just told Gwen.

"I was saying last night when Arthur was out I went into his room to look for the 'Breaking Benjamin' CD I lent him, but instead I found something even better" she smiled evilly while Gwen and Merlin eagerly waited for her to tell them "I found his diary!"

"His diary!" Merlin spoke, not sure he had heard Morgana correctly. Gwen just sat there with a shocked open mouthed expression on her face.

"Yep" Morgana smiled "and guess what it says about you Merlin?"

"You read it!" Merlin queried knowing the answer was obviously going to be a yes, its Morgana for pity's sake.

"Ok, so your more interested in the fact that I invaded his privacy rather than the fact that your in nearly every single diary entry?" Morgana shook her head and rolled her eyes.

"Every single entry" again Merlin queried with a hint of shyness and wonder.

"Well that got your attention at least."

"Tell us Gana, what's Arthur wrote abut Merlin?" Gwen now questioned.

Morgana was quiet for what seemed like eternity trying to build up the suspense, Merlin didn't know why; it just all probably said about how much Arthur liked to bully Merlin and examples of such events.

"He fancies you!" Morgana squealed as Gwen's face turned to shock; Merlin just raised an eyebrow.

"Haha very funny Gana, what did he really write" Merlin liked her answer but he knew she was only kidding.

"All right then" Morgana spoke as she retrieved a thick red leather bound book from her bag, written on the cover was: Arthur Pendragon's diary, KEEP OUT!

"You took it!" Gwen widened her eyes as Morgana opened the book to a random page and began to read out a passage.

"I can't stand it any longer, today I just wanted to stand up and walk right on over to him and snog his face off! God why does he have to be incredibly hot, with his dark glorious locks, high piercing cheek bones on that pale elegant face and those overly large ears that look good enough to eat. Grrrrr, I wish he would just exchange schools already so I can't get distracted anymore or have these fits of crazy obsession moments when all I can think, eat and sleep is bloody Merlin Emrys."

All the way through Morgana had tried to do an impression of her step brother, voice and body language, as she read out the passage to her mates. When she had finished both her and Gwen were squealing to their hearts content in comparison to the now too quiet blushing Merlin.

"Who would have thought, the mighty wannabe Prince Arthur was in fact the bloody closet Prince of the homosexuals" Morgana joked which in turn brought Merlin out of his silence. The three friends were sitting there laughing their socks of nearly falling of the bench when Gwen's boyfriend Lancelot came over.

"What's going on?" he asked, intrigued.

"Read this" Morgana passed the diary over to Lancelot and as he read it his eyes bulged out of his skull, when he came to finish the paragraph Morgana and Gwen could no longer hold it in any longer so began their laughter all over again.

"Oh my god!" Morgana shouted, stopping her fit of hysteria. The others all looked at her and immediately recognised the expression on Morgana "I have a brilliant, no an amazing plan. After lunch we got double film studies, we get to go out and record for our film right."

"Right" the other three said in union.

"Well then, were gonna play a little game on Arthur, were gonna play nervous!"