It had been 4 days since Emil had shown up at school. Just 2 days ago I explained everything to my friends about Seifer and my relationship. Well, I told them the story. Whatever. Roxas flipped out on me and kind of yelled at me. Then he turned on Seifer and I had to keep them away from each other. Once Seifer and I were alone we started laughing like maniacs. My mom had tried to talk me into admitting my feelings to Seifer a few times, but I flat our refused. What would that do to our relationship now? I really hoped that after this whole gang thing was straightened out Seifer and I could at least still be friendly rivals. Every day in 4th period Seifer would make me sit as far away from Emil as possible, and we didn't really get anywhere with out project. So I decided to take it home and just do it all. Of course Emil offered to come to my house and help me with it, and Seifer politely told Emil that if he stepped foot in my house he would rip his balls off and make him eat them. It also seemed like Seifer was showing more and more PDA everyday, just to piss Emil off. I started to feel like a possession.. but I wouldn't say anything to Seifer about it. I wasn't sure how his reaction would be but it would probably include Seifer reminding me that it was all an act, which I was beginning to think he was lying about. In just one school week Seifer had seemed to get extremely possessive of me. For example Olette hugged me once like she had many times before and Seifer had ripped me away from her and growled. Then he got this surprised look on his face, like he didn't know why he had just did what he did. I asked my mom what she thought of Seifer's feelings towards me. She smiled and left the room. Everything started to just fall into place. Seifer liked me, I was sure of it, but then he'd look at me, straight in the eye, and assure me that it was all an act. It was like he was killing me over and over and over again. I was confused, oh so confused. I got a headache if I even started thinking about it.
"Hayner. I know it's Friday, but please pay attention." The teacher said. I looked at her in confusion for a second wondering where I was. Then I remember I was at school, in last period.
"Yes ma'am. Sorry about that." I apologized. Mrs. Kirkland nodded and carried on with her lesson. I tried to pay attention. I really did, but my head was pounding. Plus someone threw a piece of paper and it hit my head. I looked at the desk to the right of mine and saw Seifer looking at me. I unfolded the paper and read it. Chickenwuss, you okay?Seifer's handwriting was so easy to read. Yet, it wasn't girly at all. It was just very clean. No, I have a headache. I wrote back in my messy handwriting and threw it back at him. He read it and scribbled something down before giving it back to me. Is that it? You seem to be getting a lot of headaches. Maybe you should go to the doctors and get checked out. It's nothing Seifer. Yes, it is something lamer. I'm worried. I'll talk to your mom about it. Why do you even care? It's not going to mess up the act. Hayner. I care about you. I'm not worried about the act. I know it won't be affected. I just want to make sure your alright. What's up with you Seifer? You care about me? HA! It makes you sound like you like me or something.It took him a few minutes to send the paper back, like he was unsure how to answer what I wrote. I was surprised what it said when he did send it back. Hayner, I do like you. Your not a bad person.I stared at the paper in disbelief. Seifer liked me? Does he mean that he likes me in the way I like him or does he mean as a friend? My mind reeled. I had no clue what to write back. Should I admit my feelings towards him? But what if he meant that he liked me as a friend? That would ruin everything that we had built up. I had to write something back. Your not so bad yourself Seifer. Of course your still an ass, but I like you somewhat also. I wrote back. When Seifer read it he laughed and the teacher sent him a confused look.
"Is there something funny about my lesson Mr. Almasy?" Mrs. Kirkland questioned. Seifer shook his head, trying hard not to laugh again.
"Nope. There's nothing funny about your lesson ma'am." Seifer replied. Mrs. Kirkland nodded back at him and continued on with her unfunny lesson. Seifer smiled as he replied.Your going to end up getting me in trouble! Anyways, you do know what I mean by like right? I blinked a couple times at the question. If I said no, then I would never understand what he meant by it, but also if I said no he would probably ask me what I meant by like and that might end badly. If I said yes, then I would have no clue what his feelings for me were. Ugh... I think I know what you mean by it.. What did you mean by it? I passed the note back to him. He read it and started writing his reply. Watching Seifer write is more entertaining then Mrs. Kirkland's lesson. That's sad. I thought to myself. What did you mean by it? I asked you first. Your just going to have to find out later chickenwuss. ; p I stared at his writing. Was he making fun of me? I couldn't decide. It's hard to tell what words mean when you can't hear the person behind them actually talking. I was going to answer but at that moment the paper was ripped off of my desk. My head shot up and saw Mrs. Kirkland reading the note. I shot a glance at Seifer who was staring at the note fiercely. If she decided to read it to the class people might realize that Seifer and I were not actually dating. That would be a bad thing... right? I mean we started this whole act so that when the time came it would be easier to lure Emil's gang to us. If he found out it was a trick, that wouldn't work anymore and he would stop coming after me. Wait, he didn't just want me to get to Seifer though. He wanted me because I was Seifer's. If I wasn't Seifer's, would he still want me like he did now? Mrs. Kirkland glared at me and Seifer and was about to say something but I interrupted her.
"Seifer! I need to talk to you. Right now." I said, jumping up and grabbing my stuff and heading out into the hall. Seifer followed me closely. Once we were alone in the hallway I started explaining my thoughts to him. " I think Emil wants me because you have me and not him. So if he found out that we aren't together, do you think he would still come after me?" I ended. He thought for a second.
"Hayner... you might be right about that. I can't risk it though! What if he comes after you anyways if he find out? We can't risk this getting out okay? From now on, even if we're passing noted, we have to make it sound like we're going out." Seifer said to me. I nodded in understanding. "Now let's go get that damn paper back before she reads it." Seifer said, marching back into the room. I chuckled a bit and followed him. The moment I entered the room I heard her reading the note.
"Yes, it is something lamer. I'm worried. I'll talk to your mom about it." Mrs. Kirkland read. Seifer snatched the paper away from her.
"Thank you." He said and walked back out of the door. The whole class stared at me. I stared back. A few seconds later Seifer came back into the room and grabbed the back of my shirt and started dragging me out of the room. Once we were outside the room he let go of me and started walking down the hall towards the front doors. I followed after him quickly. We walked out of the school and down to the Sandlot where we sat on the same bench we sat on together the first time. Seifer turned towards me with a serious look on his face.
"Let's get to know each other a little better." Seifer stated out of no where. I tilted my head to the left and shrugged my shoulders.
"Okay sure. Who goes first?" I asked. He thought for a second before answering.
"I'll go first. Where's your dad?" He asked.
"Dead. Where's your dad?" I asked back.
"He lives in Hollow Bastion with my mom. Why do you and your mom look nothing alike?"
"My mom isn't my biological mom. I don't know who my biological mom is. She's dead too. I was put into Twilight Town Orphanage when I was 4 years old. I don't remember my parents at all. My mom right now adopted me when I was 6. She was the Therapist at the Orphanage and just took a liking to me." Seifer didn't say anything. "Why do you live here if your parents live in Hollow Bastion?"
"When they moved my Grandma lived here. She wanted a family member to take care of her, so I volunteered to stay here. Then when my dad found out I was gay he disowned me and my mom was to afraid to stand up to him, so when my Grandma died a few years ago my mom just sent me some money and I got myself a job and an apartment and I've just lived here ever since." We were both quiet. Our life stories weren't the happiest. "Anyways. What's your favorite food?" Seifer asked, changing the subject off of family. I was okay with that. I knew what I wanted to know.
"Chocolate." I answered back truthfully. Seifer looked at me.
"Seriously?" He asked. I nodded. He shrugged and laughed. "So that's why you would always watch me eat chocolate bars." I nodded again and laughed.
"I'm actually addicted to chocolate. My mom has forbidden me from eating any until I'm able to control myself around it." I laughed again. So did Seifer.
"Now I know." We just kept laughing, at what, I'm not exactly sure. Maybe we were just glad that at this moment we could just forget about all of our troubles and focus on meaningless things. Or we were just crazy which was always an option. After what had to have been 5 minutes we stopped laughing and just sat there smiling at each other.
"Hayner... I don't know why we ever became rival in the first place." Seifer admitted.
"I don't know why either.." We looked each other in the eyes, our breathing still a bit heavy from laughing so hard.
"I don't want to be rivals anymore." Seifer said. I nodded in agreement. Seifer stuck his hand between us. "Friends?"
"Friends." I said taking his hand in mine and shaking it. We both smiled.
"SWEET." I heard Fuu yell. Rai laughed and Seifer and I both looked at them. They were just walking into the Sandlot.
"Oh shut up." Seifer yelled at them, but then he laughed. Rai and Fuu were now right in front of us and the atmosphere around us suddenly turned serious.
"PLAN?" Fuu's voice changed just the slightest, indication it was a question.
"You already know about Hayner and I. Now all I need to do is get Emil a little more infatuated with Hayner. Then we'll wait and see what he does when I do something extreme with Hayner right in front of him. I want him to make the first move." Seifer explained. My eyes widened when he said extreme.
"So we should be ready for a big fight soon, y'know?" Rai asked. Seifer nodded.
"Um, excuse me." I squeaked a bit. Seifer looked towards me and he smirked.
"Yes chickenwuss?" He asked. I cleared my throat and took a deep breath.
"What do you mean by extreme?" I questioned. His smirk grew and he threw his arm around my shoulders. He brought his mouth close to my ear and I could feel his hot breath on my skin. I shivered involuntarily.
"Don't worry about that chickenwuss, you'll like it." He whispered into my ear. My breathing increased along with the size of my eyes. Seifer pulled away after about a minute. "You smell like chocolate chickenwuss." Seifer said and then laughed. I blushed and looked down. Rai was smiling at us like he had some sort of inside knowledge, and Fuu? Well she had a tiny smile on her face, which surprised me slightly. I knew she could smile, I just didn't know what kinds of things made her smile. Seifer was still laughing. I glared playfully at him and punched him in the arm. He smirked back at me and growled before tackling me. We rolled around on the ground for a while, playfully hitting each other and trying to pin each other. We were laughing like little kids. All in all we were having fun. It was really really awesome. Finally Seifer managed to pin me to the ground. He held both of my hands above my head and straddled my waist. We were both breathing heavily again, but we were still laughing slightly.
"I like this position chickenwuss, don't you?" Seifer teased me. I tried to fight off a blush, but it won in the end. I started to struggle against Seifer's hold, but it was no use. He wasn't going to let me go so easily.
"Seifer." I growled at him. He just smirked at me.
"Stop moving around chickenwuss." Seifer said, leaning his face close to mine, successfully making me stop struggling against him. "Good." He praised and licked my ear. For a second I forgot where I was, I forgot that it was all an act, but that second passed and everything came back to me. I was in the Sandlot, pinned to the ground, with Seifer above me kissing my neck like a hungry animal, and it was all an act. I felt sincerely sad. None of that slightly sad shit. I felt like someone had just ripped my heart out and cut it into pieces right in front of me. This whole week, I had let myself hope that maybe, just maybe his factions meant something else and it wasn't just an act to him. I was stupid, that was the wost thing I could have done. I felt my eyes start to water and my lip started the shake. I was fighting a losing battle with my emotions. Salty tears slipped from my eyes and ran down my cheeks. Seifer stopped everything he was doing and let me go. He stared at me in bewilderment and wiped the tears off of my face.
"Hayner?" He asked softly. I shook my head and bit my bottom lip. Seifer climbed off of me and pulled me into his lap. He wrapped his arms around me and started stroking my hair.
"This is all an act." I whispered to Seifer. He froze all his movements like he was surprised by what I said.
"Is it?" Seifer whispered back after he got over his shock. I gasped. "I know that I always say that it's all an act, but is it really?" Seifer continued on. He pulled away from me and looked me in the eyes. "Tell me Hayner. Is this just an act to you?" He asked. I stared at him wide eyed, not sure what to say. I opened my mouth to answer, but nothing came out, so I shut my mouth again. I tried to talk again and once again my voice failed me. I shook my head then, since talking was out of the question. I looked down and shook my head more fiercely, just to make sure he saw my answer. I couldn't continue acting like it was nothing to me.
"Hayner." Seifer said softly. He pitied me now didn't he? "Do you love me?" He asked. I looked into his eyes, but didn't answer. What would he do if I told him that I did love him, and yes, I did love him. I had fallen for him hard. He took my face in his hands and asked me again. "Hayner, tell me. Do you love me?" I took a deep breath and shut my eyes tightly.
"Yes." I whispered. I heard an intake of breath and tears began to slip from my eyes again. He hated me now. He would throw my to Emil happily and stop caring. Not even my mom could stop him from hating me now.
"Hayner." Seifer said and pulled me into a bear hug. I opened my eyes. He was hugging me? "You love me. That's such a relief." Seifer added.
"What?" I asked, totally confused. What was going on? He was hugging me not pushing me away or beating me. He was saying that it was a relief that I loved him and not yelling that he hated me.
"Hayner. I love you too. " Seifer whispered in my ear.
"Really?" I asked joyfully, tears now forgotten completely. I felt Seifer nod. I laughed a little. He loved me. He actually loved me. I'm pretty sure I was going into hysterics once I started laughing like a maniac. Seifer pulled away and smiled at me, but his eyes looked confused. "Sorry. Sorry." I said in between laughter. He started laughing with me, which just made the whole situation worse.
"You two are crazy, y'know?" Rai said, which just made us laugh harder.
"Insane." Fuu corrected. Yeah. I'm pretty sure we were insane, but that was okay now. We were happy. At that moment, all that mattered was the fact that we loved each other. Nothing could have ruined that moment.
~~Author Note~~
I think I'm going to end up redoing this chapter.. I probably will.