The boy's locker room of Monster High was so humid it had fungi growing on the walls. The cracks were large enough for tentacle-monsters to slide into. It was also slimy and dank, just like a normie high school.

And like healthy young men do, there was 'silver shined' in the showers.

"Done are we, Gorgon?"

It was late afternoon and Deuce thought he was alone. He hadn't heard his friend Aston walk in. Nor did he see him in the mirror; but then again, steam fogged the mirrors and the gorgon's vampires. Also Aston was a vampire, but that wasn't the first rationality Deuce came up with to his interruption.

"Dude, how long have you been standing there?" The gorgon asked as his thumb rubbed his sunglasses clear.

The fangs on Aston's lip showed better when he smirked. "Fear not, I wasn't watching. I came in the moment before I heard you finish your gentlemen's delight."

The shower was turned off so Deuce grabbed a towel. "Delight? That's too precious to describe what's on my mind right now."

The nude gorgon pushed past his fully dressed vampire friend to get to his locker.

"I find 'precious' to fit that little stone girl quit well." Aston said as he checked for dirt under his nails.

A little guilt dripped into Deuce's mind as he opened the locker door. "You mean Rochelle? Yeah, she's cute ghoul, cool to talk to, great athlete…"

"I hear an 'however' coming along."

Deuce slide on his pants as he confessed; "I think she's a beautiful ghoul, I really do, but I don't think I'm going that way."

He says this after talking to the girl about her weak long-distant relationship." Well then, Mr. Fickle, whom was the subject of your sticky day dream?" The vampire asked.

The gorgon had unashamed smile wide on his face. "Honestly? The new girl."

Aston looked away from his nails to give a chilly look of disbelief. "The new girl? Are we talking about the same monster whom bellowed in your face with no sane indication of why?"

"The one with the bright eyes, sweet curves and cinnamon breath? Yeah, that's the one." Deuce said as his snakes went through his shirt's head hole.

"Deuce, I have accused you of being many things in the past but shallow was not on that list." Aston had experience with the older monster the new girl resembled. Apples don't fall far from the tree- they hit the ground and become rotten.

"I know it's stupid, dude, but I'm not just into the paintjob. The V8 included is crawling under my scales-" The gorgon continued to smile, "And I mean that in a very good way."

"Holy René Ace, what could this ghoul have possibly done to make you go all weak in the tentacles?" The vampire found this so tragic it was almost funny.

"Well, after the first, loud encounter- which I chalk up to her having a bad day at the new school- turned out we had mad science together and she had this smooth wise-ass comment to Hack's disbelief on her knowing stuff- I swear, it was like hearing Ghoulia moan. I mean, if Ghoulia cut people with words accompanying a really mean, really hot glare." The snake-hawk styling boy told his bloodthirsty friend.

"Brattiness is a turn-on for you?" Thank Rene Ace I never brought him home to meet my sisters, Aston thought as he pulled on his collar.

"She wasn't bratty, she was just…headstrong, ya know? No second guesses, she just said what she wanted." The admiration in Deuce's voice was so sugary; Aston felt a cavity eroding his fangs.

To push down the nauseating gooey mood Aston had to tease with -"I'm not always pleasant to you. Will you confess that you think of me during your private times as well?"

"You wish. Since you're begging for all the details I'll tell you exactly what I was thinking about. Clawd's still living it up on Die Trying so I had the dudes practice stuff and on the other side of the court were the Fearleaders. Apparently Toralei's became captain since I last checked them out. (Deuce shrugged as he found his glove) Anyway, I watch new girl walk in front of the nekos, and as she does I'm realizing mini-skirts have nothing on sleek pants. Then the hot ghoul apparently asked for a tryout to join the team cause she played a badass song on the speakers and started dancing like a classy hooker not unlike an early ReAnimahana."

"Wow. Fickle, shallow, easily impressed; where were you when I was enjoying the early days of hedonism?" Aston chuckled. It hurt when Deuce punched his arm but the vamp still chuckled.

"Dude, she chose a Bone Kovi song! A classic song I would've never guessed a daddy's ghoul-looking babe would pick out. There are layers under those bandages."

The gorgon had finished dressing, he wasn't at all embarrassed with his quick infatuation or his bloody's teasing. Deuce actually appreciated the mocking because he knew he'd do the same if on the other side.

"Layers you're just itching to unwrap." Aston poked as they left the locker room and walked in the halls.

There was a comeback Deuce had in his mind but he was distracted when the right moment came.

Aston followed Deuce's stare to the new girl walking down the hall. In his fifteen hundred and seventy years, Aston had seen plenty of stupid men fall in love for bad reasons. It wasn't until that day that Aston considered his scaly friend to be stupid.

"Ghouls are like stars; you can't count how many there are." The vampire said, at least so he knew it was in the air.

"Yeah, and the sun's hot and better than all of them put together." The gorgon said, snapping his finger to cool down his excited serpents.

"You're a poet. I'm mortified." The vampire said as he watched the new girl was about to walk into the Cutie Pie Bunch.