I was rudely awoken this morning by Zol, who was pounding on my door.
"Get up. You have school today." He shouted through the door. I groaned, and then got up, brushing my long black hair behind my ear, but not before I noticed a single, silver hair sticking out of the bunch. I pulled and plucked it from my head, keeping my heritage a secret.
"I need to dye my hair again..." I said. I pulled on a black trenchcoat, put my backpack on my shoulders, and flew out the window. I landed a few blocks from the bus stop, in an alley, where I retracted my wing and just walked out. When I got there, Elena was waiting for me, looking in no direction, however. She looked in my direction when my boots started to make clopping sounds on the ground, and she started to walk in my direction. She gave me a hug as soon as we were close, which I returned.
"I'm glad you came." She said, holding close to my body as we walked back to the bus stop.
"I'm glad too. So, how did you sleep?" I asked her.
"I slept great. No nightmares, and I think that I saw you in my dreams..." She said to me, kissing my neck. I chuckled, and then walked her back to the thing. I stood there, her under my arm, keeping her safe. After a few minutes, the bus came, and Elena and I took our normal seats in the back of the bus. I had my arm around her, and she was snuggling into my side. I smiled, and she did as well.
"I didn't ask you how you slept...so how did you?" She asked me.
"Long and hard, like a dick." I said, joking with her, which made her laugh and give me a playful slap.
"Haha...so how did you really sleep?" She asked me after that.
"I slept fine...I was dreaming of you, until Zol woke me up, that is..." I said, pulling her closer to me, which made her snuggle into me more.
"That's fun. I think that after school, I'm going to try to learn how to see without my eyes." She said to me.
"That sounds weird and hard. I'll help with what you need my help with." I told her.
"Thanks, Dak." She said, giving me a kiss on my chin.
"That's my chin again." I said, leaning down a bit to kiss her mouth.
"At least I was close..." She said after we parted.
"Close only counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades." I said to her, which made her laugh.
"Where did you come up with that?" She asked me.
"I don't really know. It just came to me one day." I said, blocking a paper ball aimed for Elena's head.
"Nice block, Sephiroth 2!" An idiot said to me. I promptly flipped him off, and then returned my attention to Elena.
"Hey, fuck you!" Elena shouted in the direction of the idiot.
"That's my girl..." I said, giving her another hug.
"I know..." She said, wrapping her arms around my waist. When we got to the school, the Principal was waiting at the bus stop. As soon as we got off the bus, we walked up to us, which weirded me out.
"Are you Dak Moss?" He asked me.
"Yes..." I said to him.
"And I believe that this is Elena Tsung?" He asked her.
"Correct..." She said to him.
"I've come to inform him that we've changed his schedule. Now, his schedule is also your schedule.
"Seriously?" I asked him.
"Yes." He said, his cracked sunglasses hiding his current expression, but I could tell he wasn't smiling.
"Thank you Mr. Zahhak." Elena said, and we walked off. "I can't believe that your schedule got changed." She said as she walked with me to class.
"Obviously they didn't want me to ruin their reputation." I said to her. We walked into the first class, Biology, where the teacher looked at me quizzically. "Mr. Zahhak just transferred me in here." I said to him.
"Ah. Well, it's glad to have you. I'm Mr. Nitram, and I'll be your teacher." He nervously said.
"I'm glad to be here, Mr. Nitram." I said.
"Please, call me Tavros." He said.
"Okay, Tavros." I replied.
"Come on, Dak! We have to go to our table!" Elena said, pulling me by the arm and successfully navigating around sharp corners until we met at a table near the back.
"How...did you...?" I started to ask her when she interrupted me.
"After you've been around a place for a few times, you learn the way, even if you're blind." She said to me, then sitting down in her seat without dilemma.
"Wow..." I said to her.
"I know. So, let's get ready for class." She said to me. Around that time, a girl with a clip on blue tail and a cat-face beanie skipped into class.
"Good Meowrning Mr. Nitram. Isn't it a pawsitively purrfect day today?" She asked him.
"It sure is, Nepeta." He replied to her. She smiled, then looked at us.
"Who are you supurrsed to be?" She asked me.
"Dak. I'm in here now." I said to her.
"Yep. Now I can snuggle with my boyfriend anytime I want..." Elena said, wrapping me in a large hug.
"Oh! So you two are boyfurrend and girlfurrend? Isn't that pawsitively adorable?" She exclaimed, jumping up and down, then taking out a drawing tablet and a computer.
"Um...what are you doing?" I asked her, curious to her current actions.
"I'm updating my shipping wall! Whenefurr I see a new couple, I like to add them to my wall." She said, then resuming her drawing. I shrugged, and got out some paper for the class. After a while, all the other students fell into place. Tavros started teaching about the different genomes and such, which I knew all about. However, I didn't really pay much attention to the class, as I was more focused on Elena and her beauty than the subject. I was pulled out of my love daze by a ringing, which was the bell sounding for the end of class.
"Huh? What happened?" I asked her.
"Bell rang. Like it always does." Elena said to me.
"O-oh... right..." I said, earning her giggles. We then moved on to the next class.
After three classes, I got really tired of a few people. One of the guys in Elena's classes seemed like he was stoned, and stayed stoned. He had a lot of shaggy hair, and he had on clown makeup. Another guy in there had colored lenses, and a lisp. And in the last class, we had to deal with a girl who kept eyeing my throat.
"Uh...can I help you?" I asked this girl in a skirt.
"Your blood...smells...delicious..." She said, causing me to back up nervously. She noticed this, and then quickly said, "Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I have a habit of doing that..."
"Really..." I said to her.
"Yes, now, where are my manners? I'm Kanaya." She said, holding out her hand.
"Dak..." I replied, holding out my hand, shaking hers.
"Yes, well Dak, I believe that we will become good friends, seeing as how I'm already friends with Elena." Kanaya said.
"You are?" I asked her.
"Yes, I am. Often I help her out with her outfit in Gym... Oh dear god..." She said to me.
"What?" I asked her.
"You may want to go help your girlfriend. She's about to get hit on by one of the biggest nerds in the school." She said, pointing to the guy standing in front of Elena. I immediately stormed off towards them.
"Hey pretty lady...howw's about you spend some time wwith me?..." The idiot said to her when I walked up to him and punched him square in his weird accented face. "Hey man, wwhat's the big idea?" He asked me, rubbing his face.
"Nobody. Messes. With. My. Girlfriend." I told him, putting Elena behind me.
"Howw is somethin that fine wwith you? She deservves a REAL man." He said to me.
"And you think that you're the one to fit the bill, Chuckles the Ass Clown? Or should I notice the cape and call you Harry Potter.?" I said to him.
"Pretty big talk comin from a bipedal SLUG!" He said to me.
"Pretty big talk coming from a bipedal BITCH!" I said without missing a beat. He looked at me for a moment, then ran off, going "NYEH!" at the same time.
"Wow. You are the first person to stand up to Mr. Ampora." Kanaya said.
"OH MY GOD, THAT'S WHO WAS HITTING ON ME?!" Elena screeched out before rubbing herself, trying to get his essence off.
"Honey, relax, I took care of that Atoma-ton-of-fun. Anyway, if he's a giant nerd, why does no one stand up to him?" I asked Kanaya.
"His family is rich. He belongs to one of the wealthiest families in town. The top two being Elena's and Feferi's, of course." She explained to me.
"Oh. So that's why he thought he could make a pass on my girlfriend." I said to her.
"Like hell he will! I wouldn't go out with that guy even if he was the last guy on earth!" Elena said, briefly looking for my arm, finding it, and holding it for dear life. I smiled, then held her close.
"Thanks for warning me Kanaya." I told her.
"Not a problem, Dak." Kanaya said to me as the Gym bell rang, signaling the time to go get dressed back in our normal clothes and get ready for the busses. "Don't worry, Dak. I'll take care of Elena." Kanaya said, removing my girl from my arm and starting to walk her to the girl's locker room. I went to the boy's locker room, where I saw Ampora again.
"Oh. It's you. The loww life scum that's draggin dowwn that fine piece of ass knowwn as Elena..." He said to me. I resisted all urges to punch the lights out of him, and was about to fail when a really scrawny guy punched him in the side of the head.
"SHUT UP, AMPORA! HE HAS JUST AS MUCH RIGHT TO DATE HER AS YOU DO TO STAY AWAY FROM HER!" He yelled at him, causing the geek to turn heel and run away, sobbing.
"Woah...thanks man..." I said to the guy. He looked at me with red eyes, then sighed.
"It's alright. Eridan's just a Fuckass." He said to me.
"...I'm Dak." I said to him, holding out my hand, which he shook.
"Karkat. Karkat Vantas." He said to me.
"...uh, Karkat? Why are your eyes that red?" I asked him, pulling my clothes on.
"I'm an Albino. They have no pigment in them." He said to me.
"Oh. That seems cool." I said, pulling my Gym shirt off from under the larger shirt I had specifically so no one could see my wing.
"Why do you change under that weird looking shirt?" He asked me.
"...something on my back that I'm ashamed of..." I said to him.
"Oh, I get it." He said to me, then stopped talking about it, which was good with me. As soon as I finished getting my stuff out of the locker, I turned back to him.
"Well, I'll see you Karkat." I said to him.
"Later, Man." He said to me.
After a while on the bus, we went back to Elena's house to do our homework. Which quickly got discarded for a large makeout session. She and I got close to making love again, with her staying straddled on me for a few minutes, but only for a few minutes.
"N..no...Dak, not yet..." She said, frowning. I got out from under her, and hugged her.
"It's alright, Kitten. I understand completely." I said to her. She smiled at me, and gave me a light peck.
"...can we still cuddle?..." She asked me. I smiled, then kissed her.
"Of course." I said to her. She smiled, then pulled at the covers under us, We got under there and immediately clung to each other. She lightly gripped the sleeves of my shirt, which was a long sleeved Tee with the sleeves red, and the rest white, and the decal of a broken record. I smiled, and held her close, the decal of an Atom on her white shirt coming close to the one on mine. "...I love you..." I said to her.
"...I love you too, Dak..." She replied, lying her head on my chest. We stayed like this, practically falling asleep, when I heard a knock on Elena's door again. I woke her up, then went over to open it, to see Elena's father again.
"It'll be about five minutes before dinner. come on." Tseng said to me.
"Yes sir!" I said to him, closing the door and informing Elena. She and I repacked our books in our bookbags, then went down for dinner. Upon getting there, I saw the dinner of chicken, with a side of macaroni and cheese. "Woah...simple food tonight..." I said to Elena.
"Yes, we often like to mix it up for our meals. Just because we're wealthy doesn't mean we don't eat like normal people often." Elena's Mom said to me.
"Oh..." I said to her. Elena hugged my arm, and we both sat down in the chairs that we sat in yesterday. Tseng and Elena's Mom took their seats as well, and we started to eat again. We sat in silence for a while before Elena's Mom broke it.
"So, Dak, what happened in School today?" She asked me.
"Not much. I had my classes switched to Elena's and I punched a guy in the face." I said to them. Tseng and Elena's Mom both looked at me with shocked expressions on their faces, so I decided to elaborate. "He was trying to hit on Elena, but I stopped him. He apparently thought that I was scum dragging her down. He honestly thought that since he was rich, he was a better guy for Elena." I said to them.
"But no one can tear me away from Dak. No matter what." Elena said, hugging me. I smiled, then hugged her back. We then ate the rest of our dinner with Elena's Mom and Tseng talking about their work, and before I knew it, I had to go to train with the Fusion Swords.
"I'll be back soon, Elena." I said to her, giving her a peck on the lips before I left.
I walked into my house after practice, still needing to learn how to combine the blades faster, and I got confronted by her again.
"Why is it that you always insist on staying out extremely late and you still refuse to accept what your role is to this world?" She asked me.
"Why is it that you act like an uptight bitch?" I asked her, going up to my room.
"She won't help you at all, you know! That whore will leave you, and then I'll be the only-" She was saying, until I silenced her by forcing her into the wall and holding my arm at her throat, pissed off at her.
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT HER! SHE WOULD NEVER LEAVE ME AND SHE'S NOT A WHORE! YOU'RE THE WHORE! I HATE THE FACT THAT YOU ALWAYS TRY TO FORCE THIS SHIT DOWN MY THROAT!" I yelled at her. She only smirked, then said something sickening.
"What are you going to do? Cut yourself again? We both know you're too much of a pussy to take a life, and you won't even have the balls to take your own. Coward." She said to me. I backed off her, then stormed up and locked my door. I grabbed a dufell bag, then started packing clothes inside it.
"She wants me gone? I'll give her gone." I said to myself, finishing packing. I slung the bag over my shoulder and flew out my window, going immediately for Elena's house. I landed outside her balcony, then tapped her window as she was brushing her hair. She turned her head around towards the sound, not knowing who or what made it. "Elena. It's me. Come to the sound of my voice." I said to her. She followed, finding the door handle with her hands, opening it, then bringing her arms close to her, trying to keep herself warm, due to the fact that she was wearing a black nightgown.
"Dak? Why are you here? Come in, you'll catch your death of cold." She said to me, stepping aside so I could. After entering, I closed the door, and hugged her close.
"Elena...I just had a fight with that bitch...and I need your help..." I said to her, bringing her hand to my wrist. "...she was about to make me do it again..." I said to her. Elena then pulled me close to her, and tried her best to soothe me as I explained what happened.
"Ssh...it's okay..." She said to me as she rubbed my head while we were seated on her bed. "She can't hurt you now...you did the right thing by coming here..." She said to me.
"...I don't want to go over there again...but I need a place to stay..." I said to her. I heard the door creak, and when I saw who made it, I was amazed.
"You can sleep here tonight, but tomorrow, we're putting you in a guest room if you have to stay again." Said Elena's Mom.
"T..thank you, ma'am." I said to her. She smiled, welcomed me, then left.
"Come on Dak, go ahead and get into some sleep clothes and we can go ahead and sleep." Elena said to me.
"B..but..." I started to say before she cut me off.
"What, afraid that the blind girl will see you?" She said to me. I said nothing for a moment, then grabbed my bag.
"Alright, I'll change, but you should keep your hands to yourself..." I said to her. She nodded, and I backed up and quickly changed out of my clothes. I pulled on a pair of pajama bottoms and a black hoodie that I always slept in, and got in the bed beside Elena. She wrapped her arms around me, and I did for her.
"Goodnight, my big teddy Bear..." She said to me. I smiled, then kissed her forehead.
"Goodnight, my adorable Kitten." I said to her, before we both fell asleep.