Chapter 4

Freed nodded immediately. "Of course, Laxus."

Laxus let Freed rest in his arms. "Will your sister mind?"

Freed's smile slowly faded from his face. "Uh… I don't think it's such a good idea to tell her…"

Laxus thought about it. "That's a smart move, but what if she does find out?"

"She won't!" Freed shouted.

"I don't know, there's a good chance she would."

"I'll never let her find out about us, I promise. Because I know what will happen if she did."

"And what's that?"

"She would get mad at me. She would be disappointed. I'm the amazing, mature older brother that she looks up to. There is no way she would still think of me in the same way. Besides, I have not even told her that I'm gay yet..."

"I understand. But that's going to make it a lot harder on us."

"As long as I can be with you, nothing will stop me from loving you."

Laxus blushed. "Alright then. Whatever you want, Freed."

Freed smiled back.

"Ever is probably almost back right now. You better leave."

"Good idea," Laxus cleared his throat and smirked. "I'll see you in class."

"You bet!"

Laxus waved Freed goodbye and ran back to his room where he collapsed on his bed and began hugging his pillow. He laughed to himself and repeated a few chosen words; "He's mine."

Freed heard the garage door open so he quickly pulled out his backpack from Friday and started working on his homework. Soon after, Evergreen walked into his room.

"Hey."

"Hello. How was your shopping?"

"It was great. I found this dress that would be perfect for a date with Elfman."

"Congrats."

"What have you been doing?"

"Oh, nothing much, Just homework and earlier I was practicing for the tournament."

"Huh. Keeping busy as always?"

"You bet."

Evergreen kissed Freed's forehead and left. Freed was happy to see that she didn't figure out that the P.E. teacher with the totally hot body was over here earlier.

After a few hours of studies, Freed changed and put his hair up, ready to go to sleep. Before, however, he thought of many tempting situations between himself and Laxus.

Days passed at school. Freed was glad the bullying in the locker rooms had only occurred once, probably because the students were scared of Laxus if they got caught a second time. Freed continued with great grades in his classes. One day, Bixslow brought up an interesting subject at lunch.

"Hey Freed," Bixslow said as he sat down.

"Oh, hi." Bixslow sat next to Freed at lunch every day, so this was no surprise.

"Hey, have you gotten a girlfriend yet?"

Freed felt a slight pink tinge come up to his face. "Uh, no. After all, it is only three weeks into the school year."

"Aw, come on, buddy. There has to be someone you are secretly checking out."

"No. I don't have time for such activities."

"Hey, listen here. I have a thing for that girl, Lisanna Strauss. I'm thinking about asking her out. If you got a girlfriend, we could have a double date."

"No thanks."

"Tell me why not. Please?" Bixslow grinned.

Freed sighed, he knew there was only one way out of this. "Fine. Do you promise not to tell anyone?"

"On my life."

"I'm gay."

Bixslow chuckled. "That explains it. Well, do you have a guy in mind?" Freed's face turned bright red. "Do you already have a boyfriend?"

Freed turned away. "I don't."

"Come on, Freed. You can tell me."

"I told you I do not have a boyfriend." Freed repeated, as he threw away the rest of his lunch and raced out the cafeteria.

Later that day, Freed was changing back into his clothes in an empty locker room after P.E. class when Laxus walked in.

"Oh hi, Laxus," Freed smiled.

"Hey. Do you need help with that?" Laxus looked at Freed struggling to button up his shirt.

"Uh… sure."

Laxus did up the buttons, his gigantic fingers gently passing over Freed's chest. Freed shivered slightly with each touch. Laxus had turned a slight shade of red from the contact with the young senior. When Laxus was done, Freed stood up awkwardly.

"Well, see you tomorrow Laxus!" Freed yelled as he ran out of the locker room, heading towards the black limousine parked outside the school.

When Freed got home that day, he checked his email for the first time in a while. Student Council President Needed stated the title of one email.

"Oh crap!" Freed thought. He had been on the student council ever since Freshman year and really had wanted the important position of becoming the President. He quickly looked through the requirements. A five page paper was due tomorrow!

Freed panicked for about thirty seconds then got straight to work. He typed and edited for about four hours, leading him to be done around seven therefore, not finishing preparing for the next school day and finishing homework until twelve forty five, and skipping dinner. Freed fell asleep fast, and had a hard time waking up the next morning.

"Five more minutes, okay Ever?" he mumbled.

"YOU IDIOT! WE WERE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE TEN MINUTES AGO!"

Freed scuttled out of bed and got ready, twenty times faster than usual.

Once Freed hopped in the car, hair messy and bags under his eyes, he made sure the Student Council paper was ready in his bag. At school, Freed ran to the main office and turned in the paper, one minute to the bell. A few tardy minutes later, Freed was sitting in his first hour class, Chemistry. Bored by the endless equations on calculating this and figuring out that, Freed fell asleep on his desk.

"Mr. Justine!" snapped Ms. Daphene.

"I apologize, I didn't mean to doze off…"

"You have a detention tonight."

Freed was so embarrassed. "Er… okay."

"I'll have a paper signed and given to you."

Freed ran his hand through his hair and went back through the dull textbook.

Freed was feeling miserable by the end of the day, and he still had a detention. He eyed the pink slip of paper the lady from the office had given him and hurried to the extremely large parking lot. Surprisingly, he found Laxus cussing as he was leaning over, pulling something out between the rocks of one of the many islands.

"Fucking office. Can't even hire a landscaper to take care of the grounds. No, instead I'm thrown out here like a piece of shit, made to work this trash for free!"

"Ahm?" Freed asked.

"Oh, hi Freed." Laxus turned around. "Sorry about my language."

"That's fine," he giggled.

"Here for detention?"

"Yeah…" Freed said quietly.

Laxus chuckled loudly. "What could the straight A student possibly get in trouble for?"

"Sleeping in class?"

"Huh. I don't think ya deserve a detention for that."

"Well apparently Ms. Daphene thought so."

"Well, you get to spend it with me, picking weeds. What could be better?"

Freed smiled. "A lot."

"Anyway, put on that other pair of gloves over there, you don't wanna get thorns in your hands, they are miserable if you are writing something."

Freed did as told and started picking weed after weed with Laxus.

"Ya know, I read your Student Council paper at lunch today."

"You did?" Freed looked up, confused.

"The teachers read them over. It was really good, I'm surprised you had that much passion about earning the President position."

"I have always dreamed of being the President. You get to be in charge of the whole school."

"Well, if you get President, I'll show you something secret," Laxus winked.

Freed blushed. "I hope I win it."

After finishing up the weeding, Freed bade Laxus goodbye and started to walk home, since he never called Evergreen about his detention.

That may have been an odd place to end the chapter. Oh well! Thank you for all the views, etc., etc. If anyone has really been wanting to write a Fraxus fanfiction, please do! I've read all of them that I've found and I can't find any more! And I anyone knows a really good one, please tell me! I love you all!