Chapter 2-Getting to Know Him
Yukina's day was flying by it was already 4th period much to his dismay he had gym next. When looking over his schedule somehow he had completely missed the fact that he had Hell, um Gym. It's not like he's out of shape or lazy he just preferred not to get all hot and sweaty unless he was dancing. He hadn't even brought a change in clothes so there was no way in hell or on earth he was getting his ass on the gym floor. He walked over to Coach Simmons a man about his height that was muscular and lightly tanned, with his hair cut low. He politely explained his situation to the coach, who understood and let him sit out much to his joy. He spotted Lilium, who looked like she was looking for someone, on the bleachers and walked over to her then plopped down next to her. She looked up at him and smiled widely.
"Oh Yukina. Hi. I didn't know you were in my gym class." She laughed, and brushed her hair out of her face, and he noticed her eyes went to the left slightly just a hint of a movement but that's all he needed.
"Liar." He said in a cold voice then blinked and smiled at her. She hadn't heard him, so she just kept smiling.
"So why are you sitting out?" He asked her.
"I forgot to bring my gym clothes. I can be such an airhead." She giggled and he saw her eyes twitch just barely to the left again. His eyes narrowed slightly but his smile stayed in place. He glanced at her bag and could see a shirt peeking out. He almost snorted 'At least if you lie get rid of all evidence that indicated you were lying' he thought.
"What a coincidence and here I was thinking you'd sat out just for me." He said in a playful tone.
"Of course not." She chuckled, but her eyes twitched to the left again. Yukina licked his lips and he leaned into her ready to lead her on and call her a lying fuck whore when he felt someone staring at him intensely causing his skin to prickle. He quickly looked away from Lilium's expectant face to quickly search out the eyes that were staring and his pale green ones clashed with heated ocean blue eyes. He was startled by how smothering the tall boy's gaze was and it caused Yukina to blush again much to his confusion and then a shiver ran down his spine as he saw those eyes move between him and something else. When his eyes traveled back to Yukina his gaze was like liquid fire over Yukina's skin at the anger and Yukina looked over to see Lilium invading his personal space. He quickly scooted away and looked up then stopped. What was he looking for…approval? Why had he moved? Why did he care what the taller boy thought? The coach blew his whistle to gain everyone's attention and the boy turned away but threw him one last smothering look at him over his shoulder before he went to where the rest of the class was standing. Then he noticed Lilium was close again staring at his arm.
"What?" he asked barely holding his annoyance he just decided that Lilium was useful to him for information.
"Is that a tattoo?" She asked excitedly, but then again when wasn't she excited, and pointed at the chain on his upper forearm. He nodded his head and told her
"Yeah it covers my whole back and one of the chains happened to go around my arm." He explained bored then he smiled.
"Hey Lilium can you tell me something?" he asked her.
"Yes! Sure!" She quickly said. He debated asking her some rather rude questions but decided not to.
"Who's that?" He asked pointing at the tall teen as the class did laps around the large gym. His long legs allowed him to easily pass the others constantly without breaking a sweat. Lilium looked a little disappointed, and Yukina almost rolled his eyes must be because it wasn't about her.
"That's Dajan. He's Spanish, silent, cold, basketball captain and center. He's around 6'9 I think going from earlier on this year but I think he's grown an inch or two. He's…Why?" She asked her smile dropping and her eyes narrowing a little.
"No reason. He's just really nice." He said as he watched the boy run. His gaze was drawn back to Lilium when she started laughing so hard that he thought she was going to hurt herself. He stared at her curiously before looking at Dajan until Lilium got herself together. He turned back to look at her when she sat up and wiped tears out of her eyes.
"Are we talking about the same person? Dajan Torrez? The Tall, tan, Spanish, blue eyed, intense Dajan Torrez that I see over there running?" She asked. Yukina just nodded his head in confirmation.
"Don't know what gave you that opinion but the Dajan I know smacked a girl he didn't like for confessing to him with his locker door last year, He beat a guy so badly he got put in the hospital for flirting with his little sister two months ago, and he kicked the assistant principal down the stairs LAST WEEK. So what did he do to make YOU think he was in any since of the word NICE?" She asked him.
"He accidentally hit me with his locker door and he helped me up, he carried all my stuff, he took care of my nose bleed, cleaned my face up and bandaged the bruise on my face." Yukina told her simply listing it off on his fingers, " Oh and then he walked me to class and explained to my teacher why I was 40 minutes late." He added. Lilium stared at him looking like a gaping fish as she tried to formulate words.
"He must actually like you then he doesn't like anyone." That made Yukina's heart swell and he had to look away as he felt his face heat up, "Except-" He cut her off and pointed to a girl sitting by herself.
"Who's that?" he asked curiously and Lilium followed his finger then snorted, rolled her eyes, and flipped her hair over her shoulder.
"Oh that's Amberlee no one talks to her except- Hey! Where are you going?" She asked him.
"To talk to her." He stated as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. He walked over and plopped down on the bleacher row below hers in front of her.
"Hey." He said.
"I don't need you to talk to me out of pity." She told him coldly.
"I didn't come to talk to you out of pity." He told her.
"What do you want then?" She asked looking annoyed.
"I just wanted to know if you liked Pierce the Veil." He told her smiling. She eyed him cautiously before speaking up.
"Yeah that's one of my favorite bands."
"Good." He stated and stood up on the bleacher. He slipped his headphones on and flicked through the music on his phone until he found the I Don't Care If You're Contagious Instrumental. He swayed to the beat waiting for his cue before he started.
"Bury Me in bedroom where I, I can sing you to sleep all night. Put me next to the open window, promise me a second time." He sung out and started being dramatic with the song. "Cause I don't want to leave without you buried by my side. I'd rather kill the one responsible for falling stars at night. 'Cause they fall all around me. The night can be deadly." He belted out and timed his movements with the beat. He put his imaginary microphone up to Amberlee and she giggle before he started back dancing putting the imaginary mic up to his mouth. He was unaware of everyone's attention on him.
"And they'll never take us alive. (Can you chase away the darkness?) To live in love and die. Last night she recited every reason she's fine. So we're heading there together at the same time, you sing while I drive." By this point everyone was staring at the two singing.
"Move like a fugitive tonight, Dance on Ambulance. 'Cause I would rather spend my life vacation in bed with you-" the coach interrupted him when his dancing became more sensual. Amberlee laughed and he instantly stopped seeing that the entire gymnasium was staring at him amused. He was getting wolf whistles and cat calls because of the last part, but it was Dajan's heated gaze that made him blush. The boy had a way of making him feel naked even though he was fully clothes. He quickly turned away, and started humming innocently as the coach started yelling at the students that the show was over. He chuckled at that and so did Amberlee.
"Good job. Nice to meet you I'm Amberlee." She told him.
"Thanks. I thought you needed some amusement you looked bored as hell." He told her then got this prickling feeling that someone was right behind him then he felt something brush across butt softly. He quickly turned around covering his ass and found Dajan looming over him. Yukina looked at him wide-eyed blushing before they narrowed and he breathed out, "Hentai." He swore the taller male looked amused.
"What language is that?" Amberlee asked and Yukina smiled at her and answered,
"Japanese."
"You're Japanese!" She said shocked.
"Why the shock?" he asked slightly offended.
"You're coloration is all wrong." She told him and he laughed.
"I'm Japanese and French. My brothers and I all take after our father's side. My mother couldn't get one of us to look like her to save her life." He laughed.
"Ah cool I took French for my ninth and tenth grade year you could help me brush up on it." Amberlee said excitedly.
"What languages do you know?" Dajan asked him curiously not that it showed much.
"I know English, Japanese, French, and Spanish." He told them smiling, then the two of them smirked at him.
"We both know three out of four of those." Amberlee told him. Yukina was about to comment but the coach let everyone know they had twenty minutes to change. Dajan got up so that he could get in a quick shower and change his clothes. Yukina unconsciously watched Dajan until he was at the locker room door, which is when he turned to Yukina and gave him coy smirk and licked his lips. Yukina bit his bottom lip at that and quickly turned back to Amberlee, who had watched the entire exchange, and smiled at her trying to will his blush away.
"So what do you think of Dajan?" Amberlee said with a knowing smile.
"Wha?! H-He's nice." Yukina told her and wanted to smack himself. The hell was he getting so flustered for he didn't stutter or blush. Amberlee watched him carefully and then her smile slipped and she sighed, shaking her head.
"That's kind of sad you don't even know." Amberlee groaned," This is going to be so complicated and I'm going to end up right in the middle of this."
"In the middle of what and what don't I know?" He asked her.
"You'll find out." She told him and she completely changed the subject to Lilium.
"So what's with you and the Chickidee up there? She's been watching you the whole time and you were up there with her earlier." Yukina looked confused until he saw Lilium at the top of the bleachers where he last seen her and he caught her gaze before he looked away and shook his head.
"Nothing." He told her.
"Didn't look like nothing I saw how you leaned into her earlier."
"Truth be told she was lying to me in my face and I was leaning in to make her think I was making a move then I was gonna tell her 'I don't like lying whores' that's all." He told Amberlee casually like he was telling her the weather for the day. Amberlee stared at him her expression unreadable.
"I know it was cruel but I really can't-" he was interrupted by Amberlee laughing.
"I would have loved to see the look on her face. The bitch preys on every new guy she thinks she can get something out of." Amberlee laughed.
"Really now? What about her brother?" Yukina asked curiously.
"No he's just a dick to everyone." She told him and turned to look at the locker room to see if Dajan had come out yet.
"So how'd you meet Dajan?" Amberlee asked. Yukina blushed and pointed to the bandage adorning his nose.
"He accidentally hit me in the face with the locker, then he helped me stop the bleeding which took 30 minutes, and after that he helped me clean myself up. Oh also he walked me to class and explained to the teacher why I was late." He told her and Amberlee smirked. She had a feeling that the locker hitting him in the face wasn't an accident Dajan had been in a bad mood this morning, but she was surprised that he had regretted it and tended to the injury he had caused. If it wasn't obvious before it was obvious now Dajan had a crush on the oblivious singer sitting next to her. Seriously he could read people like a book as far as she could tell yet he couldn't figure out he, himself, had a crush on Dajan or that Dajan liked him. She really wanted to beat him with her textbook right now. She noticed Dajan had come out with a towel around his neck and a bottle of water in his hand. Yukina stared as he came up the bleachers and Amberlee noticed his eye twitch. She wondered what his problem was but soon found out.
"What are you a child can't you even dry your hair properly you could get sick. Sit down." Yukina huffed and Dajan stared at him before sitting on the bleacher row below Yukina's and leaned back in between the shorter boy's legs. Yukina started carefully drying Dajan's hair keeping it from tangling and when he was done there was two minutes left in the class.
"Too bad your hair looks like who did it and why." Amberlee snickered.
"I got out the shower in a hurry and didn't comb my hair because the dick I live with told me that we were gonna be late." He growled. He gasped as cold water made contact with his hair and dripped down.
"My turn." Dajan told him and Yukina had to sit on the same seat in between Dajan's leg because the basketball player was too tall to lean over Yukina since he was so much shorter. Yukina sat pouting as Dajan was surprisingly gently in drying his hair. Amberlee handed Dajan a brush so he could detangle Yukina's hair after he was done drying the singer's hair, but the bell rung.
"Dammit." Yukina and Dajan breathed. Only to find out they had the next class together, Geometry Honors, and their teacher was absent leaving a substitute who didn't give to fucks as long as they didn't fuck or destroy anything. Dajan sat in a desk and Yukina sat between his legs so that he could finish drying his hair. He closed his eyes relaxing at the gentle touches and then the gentle tugs of the brush through his hair. He sighed when Dajan was done and just sat there a while longer since he was so comfortable. He could feel Dajan looking at him but when he opened his eyes Dajan was leaning over him and he was really close. Yukina squeaked before he scrambled away and sat in the desk in front of Dajan since the desk in front of Amberlee was taken by a really light skinned boy with pale blonde hair and the desk were in groups of four. Amberlee was talking to the boy even though his head was down. Amberlee looked up and smiled before saying in a teasing voice,
"Oh you lovebirds are finally done." Yukina blushed and quickly began to protest. Amberlee jst ignored him and Dajan had a smirk on his face that had Yukina itching to smack it off,
"This is Alrik." She said and the boy lifted his head up slowly. Yukina could already tell that the boy was lazy. The boy had freckles everywhere his face, neck, and arms was all Yukina could see but they were all covered in freckles. The boy stared at him with aqua green eyes and he was reminded of his older brother Astor because of the curly blonde hair and the freckles.
"Hey. I'm Yukina." He told the other boy.
"Yo." The boy replied and he had a European accent that Yukina couldn't place. "Before you ask I'm Teutonic and Black." The boy told him in a bored voice. Yukina shrugged and the boy stared at him and then said, "You look Asian but you look European also so I have to ask." Alrik muttered between yawns.
"I'm Japanese and French." Yukina told him with a laugh as he dug through his backpack. He looked confused and muttered, "How did this get in here?"
"What?" Amberlee asked and he pulled his PS Vita out of his backpack.
"Must have been when I hid it from my brothers." He thought out loud.
"What game do you have in there?" Alrik asked and suddenly looked wide awake. Yukina looked in and told him,
"Demon Gaze."
"That's a new one I haven't got yet. Is it good?" He asked.
"Find out for yourself." Yukina said and handed him the PS Vita. Alrik looked so happy that Yukina would have thought the boy just got laid. Amberlee laughed and said,
"He's gonna love you forever now this boy is the ultimate gamer. He plays any type of game to decide if it's worthwhile or not."
"I have all the new and old game systems."
"Like what?" Dajan asked.
"From the original Gameboy to the PS4" HE told them.
"Can I come live at your house?" Alrik asked looking at him like he was in love.
"Sure I got three extra bedrooms." Yukina laughed.
"Don't you have to ask your parents?" Amberlee chuckled.
"Why would I? I don't leave with them." He told them.
"Why?" Dajan asked.
"A little incident occurred and they made me move out." He said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.
"Do I want to know?" Alrik asked.
"Naw. I'm not telling anyway." He told them.
"So can we come over?" Amberlee asked and they all looked at him expectantly.
"Sure but I'm not allowed to drive so I have to wait for Ryoma."
"I can drive you." Dajan told him.
"Sure. Don't you have basketball practice?" He asked.
"All club activities were canceled today." Alrik explained as he stared intently at the game.
"Ah. I just remembered I need to go grocery shopping." He sighed.
"What's the problem?" Amberlee asked
"I'm making Ryoma pay, and he has the card."
"So get it from him." Dajan told him.
"Fine you guys are intent on making me go with you. I'll go get the card from Ryoma and I'll meet you guys Sheesh." Just as Yukina agreed the bell rang dismissing them to lunch. Thankfully they were allowed outside for lunch but first Yukina had to make a detour to warm up his food. The others went and got their lunch from the cafeteria. It turns out that the food was quality but of course Yukina preferred his own lunch from home. When they were seated outside at the table beneath the weeping willow tree then everyone was curious about Yukina's lunch.
" I have rice with, a variety of sushi, octopi shaped wieners, and sweet dangos since you're all so curious." He told them.
"Did you make that?" Amberlee asked.
"Yeah I do the cooking in the house." He told them. He was lifting his sushi to his mouth with his chopsticks before Dajan grabbed his wrist and redirected the sushi to his own mouth. Yukina stared at the basketball player in shock.
"Really?! Are you fucking kidding me, Dajan?" He snapped and turned just in time to see Alrik and Amberlee still a piece of sushi each for them.
"Stop!" He scowled and shielded his bento.
"No need to be so stingy." Alrik told him as he went back to his own lunch as well as the other two. He sighed in relief but as he was trying to eat his sushi again Dajan leaned over and ate his sushi again. He was busy yelling at Dajan as Amberlee and Alrik devoured the last four pieces of his sushi. He turned back to his bento and found his sushi had disappeared and the other two were innocently eating their own lunches. His eye twitched and he glared heatedly at them.
"Are you fucking serious right now who does that? You didn't even leave me one piece." He growled at them.
"I didn't do that." Alrik told him as he munched on his sandwich and picked up the game while he was chewing.
"Amberlee really, dude." He told her.
"Don't know what happened to it." She told him as she went back to her lasagna.
"So my fucking food just waltzed away." He told them and shook his head. He looked at Dajan who had finished his lunch and was looking at him expectantly. He ended up splitting his lunch with Dajan. The basketball player wouldn't eat it unless he feed it to him much to his embarrassment and he reluctantly complied for some reason he couldn't explain. When he was feeding Dajan the little fake octopus then Lilium came skipping over.
"Ah there you are Yuki Ryoma's been looking for you." She told him. His eyebrow twitched and he glared. Who the fuck gave her permission to call him Yuki? He hated that name unless someone in his family was calling him by it.
"If he wants me he can come find me." He told her coldly and she looked taken aback.
"Who's Ryoma?" Amberlee asked
"Haven't you been listening he's the person I've been living with and he's my-" Yukina was interrupted by Ryoma's voice calling him.
"Yes." He said turning to the redhead.
"I've been looking for you." He told him.
"So I've heard." The singer replied. Ryoma glared at him before rolling his eyes.
"We need to go grocery shopping and we need to buy dishes. We only have to ones we needed for you to make the simple lunches you made today."
"I know that Ryoma. I need the card these mofos want me to let them take me around and come home with me." Yukina told him.
"No." Ryoma told him bluntly.
"Ciaran did you just tell me no." Yukina asked in a cheerful voice but the threat was clear to Ryoma.
"Eh heh I was just kidding sheesh no need to get so serious." He said pulling out his wallet and handing Yukina the card.
"Thanks. You know I love you right?" Yukina laughed, and put the card in his wallet missing the way that Dajan's eyes narrowed as soon as the words left his mouth.
"Yeah, Yeah. The feelings mutual I'll see you at home." Ryoma said as he walked off. Lilium lingered and Amberlee glared at her.
"Is there something you need?" Amberlee asked and Lilium looked at Yukina. Yukina just looked at her before turning back to Dajan, who at some point had sat right beside him. Their shoulders were brushing and he was glaring at Lilium.
"Yukina told me earlier lying whores aren't his type." Yukina choked on the peach drink he was taking a sip of at the blunt statement. Lilium got wide-eyed and was about to say something but the bell rung and cut her off. She turned on her heels and stormed away.
"Damn Amberlee that was harsh." Alrik told her laughing but his eyes never left the game screen as they got up.
"I have economics next." Yukina told him.
"So do I." Dajan said as he picked up both their things. Amberlee and Alrik waved by to them as they walked in the opposite direction of Yukina and Dajan.