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"What exactly are you doing, Xavier?" Erik growled at the girl whose wrists was in him. "Getting yourself into trouble with the likes of Shaw?"

"He didn't do anything to me!" Charlotte said back, letting herself being led by Erik to the resting benches, away from the crowding rink.

"Yeah, right. Because Emile's doing all the dirty work for him," retorted Erik, and sit down on one of the benches, huffing from anger. Charlotte took a seat beside him.

"Come on, it's not that bad," said Charlotte, ignoring the numbing pain on her wrists. "They just want you to go back, that's all."

"I won't," said Erik darkly. "I hate my father. I hate that school."

"What about your mother? Think about her, Erik." Charlotte continued.

"She's dead," replied Erik blankly.

"Shi... I'm sorry, Erik." Charlotte apologized.

Erik just hummed in response.

"So... Thanks for saving me back there," said Charlotte, smiling sheepishly. Erik cleared this throat.

"It's not like I could let a girl get harassed and bullied by Shaw and his underlings under my watch," muttered Erik, looking away from Charlotte, focusing on anything but her.

"You're so nice, Erik!" Charlotte exclaimed, hugging Erik from his side, sending blushes rushing up to his face. He nodded, and waited for Charlotte to let him go. Passing teenagers looked at them, some with a smile on their faces, but most of them just stared as if they were witnessing a proposal.

"So, are you planning to go back to school?" Charlotte asked, finally letting go of the slender male. "I'm not helping Shaw or anything, it's just that... I've heard about the rumours regarding the Principal's son as well, and I didn't know that..."

"You're in my school as well?" Erik asked, interrupting Charlotte. "Strange, I've never seen you before."

"Which class are you in?" Charlotte inquired.

"The first class. But I'm absent most of the time, so don't bother checking me out." Erik said, waving his hand as if to swat Charlotte's thoughts away.

"So you're the one who was sitting beside me?" Charlotte asked. "I mean, since that you're absent, and the seat to my left is always empty and whatnot..." She pouted, casting her eyes downwards, as Erik's eyes lit up in interest.

"Beside me?" Erik asked. "For all I could remember, the one sitting on my right is..."

"Logan. He... How should I put it? He volunteered his seat for me a few months earlier when I first moved here, and terrorized himself a seat in front of me." Charlotte said, musing over her memories. "I remember he mentioned something about 'saving the best prey for the better predator'. What does that mean, Erik?"

It's one of Logan's games again, grunted Erik. What exactly does it take to make him know that he's already famous and charming enough to pick any girl in school as his girlfriend? I'll need to ask him to stop dragging girls into these pointless little games.

"It's nothing," Erik smiled. "Logan is just being friendly, that's all. Everybody respects him."

"Oh, that explains why nobody never picked on me." Charlotte let out a small grin, relishing the memories between herself and Logan. "He walks me around the school, and even accompanies me and Raven during recess! Raven doesn't really like him. She says he was a bad influence and I should be careful. But he's really nice, Erik! Logan always got the bad kids under control." grinned Charlotte at that, and Erik dreaded to think about anything that Logan had done to get Charlotte's full trust and attention.

He was going to win back all of it to himself, anyway. He won't let such an innocent girl like Charlotte get absorbed into Logan's dark fantasies. The thought is just horrifying. Hell no.

"Fine. I'm going back tomorrow," Erik voiced. "But only to warn Logan to stay away from you. I'll be away after that, so don't get your hopes high."

Charlotte smiled, smooching Erik on the cheeks while repeatedly firing her thanks.

And sure enough, Erik never missed a day of school from then onwards.

END~

Yeah. Sort of crappy, but maybe it's just the little voices in my head.

Reviews to tell me how it was? :D

~Velonica Sushi