Sorry for the delay with this story! No I have not abandoned it, I have been having computer issues. Hopefully in the end this story will have been worth the wait. Anyways, that's the end of this short Author's Note. Without further ado, enjoy!


Roderiech pulled into the school parking lot. He was still a bit early, but it was a good way to avoid Elizaveta, at least for the time being.

He pulled into his usual parking space and took out his phone to pass the time. He wasn't even there for five minutes however, when a sleek black car pulled in next to him. Roderiech glanced over curiously, never having seen the car before, but in the end turning back to his phone. So what if someone new parked there? He didn't pay any more attention to the vehicle until it honked loudly. Only then, did he put his phone down and look over at the car.

It was by all means a nice car, it probably belonged to someone who had a lot of money. The black car honked again, and he realized it was directed towards him. Roderiech begrudgingly rolled down his window. The other car did the same. A tall blonde man who seemed familiar sat there, looking rather uncomfortable. "Hello. Did you need something? Or were you honking just to annoy me?" snapped Roderiech.

There was some faint whispering on the other side of the man before the blonde spoke. "Yeah, I just wanted to say zhat..." There was a pause and more whispering.

Roderiech couldn't make out any words, but it made the German boy blush. He turned to whoever was in the driver seat. He seemed to disregard the fact that the driver was trying to stay hidden, being so loud that Roderiech could hear him. "I'm not saying zhat bullshit to someone I don't even know! Why don't jou say it to him if you really want to!"

There were a couple snickers from the driver before they sighed in defeat. Although Roderiech was fairly certain he had never heard the drivers voice in any way before, but yet it still sounded oddly familiar. "Ok then..." He said rolling the window back up and taking his phone out again. That had certainly been... strange.

There was a tap on his window a few minutes later. He rolled it down with an agitated sigh, not looking up to see who it was. "What do you wa-" Roderiech stopped. He had finally decided to look up and had found himself staring deep into stunning crimson eyes that made his heart start pounding.

The now recognized albino tilted his head slightly before smirking. "Aw, did I scare you?" He said referring to Roderiech's startled look.

N-no... I'm fine" Roderiech shot back quickly as he recovered from he shock. "You should stop bothering me!"

Gilbert shrugged, amusement glittering in his eyes and showing in his always cocky grin. "If you say so, my irritable little prince!"

Roderiech's eyes widened at the nickname and he scowled, trying to think of a response. Before that could happen, Gilbert spoke again. He quickly shifted topics to something else. "So, you remember yesterday? When I said I had no pen?"

"Yes, what about it?" Roderiech said as he looked away, seemingly annoyed and wanting Gilbert to go away.

"Wellll, I forgot my stuff again today and my brother there," he said as he motioned toward the blond in the other car, "Won't let me have one of his pens. I know you said no yesterday, but I am determined to get you to say yes!" Gilbert was smiling and upon closer examination, a hopeful gleam was visible in his eyes.

"No." Roderiech stated in a flat tone.

"But why not?"

"Because you are an obnoxious jerk who needs to learn how to take responsibility for their things and their actions." The words were sharp and full of scorn. The shock, but more importantly the hurt, was visible on Gilbert's face.

"Oh... Ok then. I guess I'll leave you alone..." He had the look of an injured animal who had been kicked and treated poorly.

Roderiech held his tongue. He had the sudden urge to call out for him to wait, or stop, something to get Gilbert to stay. An feeling to not let him go. It took all his self control not to say anything.

"Oh, one more thing." Said the German, turning around. "Unblock my number when you think I'm good enough for you." He spat out the words with a cold anger masking the hurt in his eyes.

Roderiech had felt his hopes soar when Gilbert had first turned around, but they plummeted again. After he spoke Gilbert had quickly swiveled around and gone back to his car.

Roderiech sat there in his car as he watched the black vehicle next to him drive away. When it was out of sight, he quickly picked up his phone. Moments later the number was unblocked and he shot him a quick text. He suddenly saw the time and realized he would be late for class if he didn't hurry. Roderiech sighed and quickly gathered his stuff before leaving the car.

It was that time again. Time for the class Roderiech shared with Gilbert. The class where he sat right next to him. He had been dreading this since their earlier conversation. He was expecting to be ignored at the least. That wouldn't be too bad. Everything would go back to normal.

Roderiech was of course one of the first ones in the classroom. Only a handful of students were there already. He took his regular seat and waited.

In a few minutes class was starting and he found that Gilbert was still no where to be found. This confused him... Even though he had only started talking to him yesterday, he had seen him always show up to class.

He looked at the time in the room and sat up straight and dignified. He would just have to wait it out. He had more important things to worry about than some idiotic German.