~Lucas' Side: Begin~
The very next day I went to visit the Speech Club with Shulk, only thing was I couldn't find him anywhere. It wasn't all that rare for him to be gone somewhere though, usually a girl tries to bring him to her friends to pull off that fake boyfriend thing or sometimes somebody would ask him to join them in a game. I'm kind of used to walking alone.
Lucky for me Ness just so happen to find me.
"Where are you going?" Ness asked, holding a sketchbook.
"Speech and Debate club room remember?" I said. "Have you seen Shulk?"
He started to walk next to me.
"Not anytime you haven't seen him," he replied. "Perfect for me I suppose."
"What?" Perfect for him how? Does he not like Shulk or something? Heh, that'll be a first! Even his petty jealous enemies loved him.
He patted my shoulder.
"I'm kidding I'm kidding!" he said. "Let's be off shall we?"
I nodded awkwardly.
"Er... yeah..."
He walked ahead of me, his hands stuffed in his pocket.
"It would be nice if you joined Speech and Debate you know?" Ness said. "Mr. Falcon pays for travel and food. I usually bring my 3DS over to the tournaments to play against everybody else but hey, if you come I'll bring my Wii U and we'll Smash."
What and what?
"He'll bring his dick and bang you," Dark Pit said. "If you ever took the time to understand those little ten second clips you always watch at home you'd understand."
I'm pretty sure he doesn't mean that.
"He thinks of that psycho Lucina as his mom."
Oh yeah.
"Wait!" I run up to Ness. "I'm confused, what's a Wii U or Smash?"
He stopped and so did I. The wind had oddly enough begun blowing heavily, causing our clothes and hair to flow dramatically. I had waited for him and he turned to me.
"Smash Brothers... Super Smash Brothers. You never heard of it?" he asked.
Smash Brothers... I think I've heard commercials about it... What was it again?
"I... don't know...?" I said finally.
Without warning he had hugged me tightly, his hands stroking my back.
"Ness!" I cried. My face felt rather hot... It was probably pink... yeah definitely pink.
He had let go of me but even so our faces were too close for comfort. His cold hands had slowly rose to my hot cheeks and gently held it. It was pretty quiet where we were at so it was pretty easy for me to hear my beating heart quickly pace.
"Ness..." I mumbled. What is he even doing?
He stared at me with his purple eyes.
"Lucas..." he said. "You..."
Oh god my chest hurts! Say it already!
"You poor sequestered child."
What?
He grabbed my hand.
"Let's fix that immediately," he said.
He then ran as fast as he could, possibly dislocating my arm in the process. I don't understand what's so important about Smash that he has to get all surprised about it.
"Reminds me of you," Dark Pit said.
Hm... fair enough.
We were running quickly to get to the club room, not even taking a moment to stop and breathe. His hands were still cold while mine were sweating for some reason. I don't know why but it was fun to say the least, running crazy over a video game.
When we finally made it to the classroom Ness wasted no time getting the door open.
It was my Speech and Debate classroom, the class I share with Ness, the class he dominates in. I could see Robin, Lucina, and Red but no sign of Mr. Falcon or Shulk.
"Lucina!" Ness had called. " We have a dire emergency!"
She had dramatically turned and as far as I can tell, wanted her hair to be noticed (how could you not notice it though, it's blue). She ran to us.
"What happened!?" Lucina asked, moving away the blue strands of hair on her face.
Ness pointed to me.
"This poor child has yet to know Smash," he said dramatically.
Lucina had gasped audibly. Was that really necessary?
"You poor child!" Lucina said, touching my cheek. Her hand was rather warm.
"That's sad," I heard Red comment.
"Give me the boy!"
Immediately he had dragged me to her. Well so much for having a normal club day. She had carried (yes carried) me to where she was standing earlier with Robin and Red.
"Robin, get the treatment!" Lucina yelled, extending her hand dramatically.
"Are you sure we should be doing this now? You said you had a-"
"Dammit Robin do you not understand how dire this is!?"
Are you kidding me? I swear to god this chick is crazy. I never met a girl so... weird before and I've been on Tumblr. I look around, no Shulk still but I do see Ness fake crying. Did he really have to drag me into this?
Lucina had handed me... something. I don't really know what it is but I decided to open it away. Two screens, one above the other below, had turned on and revealed a picture of two different groups of people. On the top screen it had a little box and the words 'Super Smash Brothers for 3DS', on the bottom was a bunch of boxes. I look to Lucina. She had a wide smile on her face.
"Press A," she said.
I pressed 'A'.
"Why would you listen to her, do you know what could have happened?" Dark Pit said. I could feel his face against my own.
"I know I know," I mumbled.
"Well then why aren't you doing that right now?" Lucina asked.
Oh. The title screen was there.
"Since we have that done do you want to finally announce your wonderful idea?" Robin asked.
"How would you know it's wonderful if you haven't heard about it yet?" Lucina asked.
"Well because your ideas are always wonderful." Oh god he sounds just like Shulk. "Remember the time you suggested the big Smash tournament here at the school to fund raise for our trip to nationals last year? We raised so much money that the school wants to do video game tournaments every time the school needs something! Then there was the time you did an art gallery here. So many people were blown away by your talent!"
Lucina blushed.
"Well you know me," she said.
"Trash?" Red said.
"Goddess of the Weeaboos?" Ness said.
"Of course!" she proclaimed as if that was a good thing. "Oh but yeah, Robin's right about like everything. Including the idea thing. Yeah."
She marched off to the closet in the corner of the room.
"Somebody's coming out of the closet!" Lucina said, her hand on the handle.
So Shulk's gone and now somebody's coming out of the closet? Is she really doing this!?
"Don't stop her, this should be funny," Dark Pit said with a smile as he hugged me from behind.
"How is this funny!?"
"What's funny?" Robin asked.
Fu... I yelled that out loud didn't I?
"You hearing things too?" Ness asked.
I felt my heart skip a beat. He doesn't... have one too does he? No... Can't be...
"If he did I would see it," Dark Pit said.
"Well I mean..." I looked to the game. "I was just getting annoyed at this game. Like this one thing just danced when I died, can you believe it? It's not funny."
Ness laughed.
"You're pretty salty," he said. "Want me to show you my moves?"
I quickly look back at the screen.
"No thanks," I said. "I mean, don't you even have faith in me?"
I sighed internally, at least that got smoothed over.
"You guys ready?" Lucina asked.
"Yes," Robin said.
I looked over to the large closet. Can somebody really fit in there?
She opened it up quickly. Shulk was in the closet alright but... what is he wearing?
"Kitty sweaters!" Lucina announced. "We should totally have kitty sweaters as our uniform!"
It was a dark blue sweater with a orange tabby on it, complete with Shulk's hair and his usual red jacket he got from dad. God I can't tell whether that's creepy or amazing.
"That was unexpected," Dark Pit said.
No kidding.
Shulk had stepped out of the closet.
"Hi Lucas," Shulk said. "Glad you made it! I'm so happy you gave Speech a chance!"
"I didn't!" I said. "I'm just... here with Ness..."
Shulk smiled.
"Thank you Ness," Shulk said.
He had a cocky grin on his face.
"Glad to be of service," Ness said. "I'll happy drag Lucas anywhere."
Why would you be happy about that?
"So yeah, I plan on making custom shirts with all of you as cats," Lucina said. "I'm basing all the cats off of Neko Atsume and you guys."
"Isn't that wonderful Lucas? You're always playing Neko Atsume so wouldn't have it on a sweater be cute?"
... I never told him. Oh my fucking god I never told him I play Neko Atsume. I HAVE A PASSWORD AND APP VAULT FOR A REASON OH MY GOD WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?
"Whaaaaat? You play Neko Atsume too?" Lucina ran to me. "Bruh, let me see!"
I shook my head. Damn, damn, damn why is this happening...
"I don't!" I cried.
An arm wrapped on my shoulder.
"Don't lie," Ness said. "I can see it in your eyes. It's not bad to play a cat game, it's what you like right? Nothing wrong with that."
I felt my face get hot for no reason.
"Well-"
"Look at my cats!"
Lucina had shoved her phone in my face. She had everything, the best stuff, the house upgrade, the best food, the best cats.
Amazing.
"Aren't these cats like super rare!? How did you get them!?"
"I know how to save sardines," she said. "This game is pretty easy though you know? There are some items that attract these super cool cats."
"So save up sardines then?"
"Yeah!"
Lucina, Ness and I (with Red making occasional comments) started talking all about Neko Atsume. Along with that Lucina showed me how to play Smash Brothers and in all honesty I really like playing it! It's so weird and fun! I think my favorite character to play so far is Luke, he's just... fun. While we were talking though I got curious and tried to listen in on Shulk and Robin.
"You look really nice in the sweater," Robin said.
Shulk smiled, a slight blush on his face.
"R-really? Well it's probably this sweater that just makes me look nice..."
"What are you talking about? You're really good looking and even I can see why any girl could fall in love with you."
A bigger blush.
"R-really!?"
Robin smiled.
"Yeah, I mean you're smart and you have talent in every field possible! Along with that you're truly kind and open to everybody. You're heart's like gold and I admit that I've even fallen for you a bit."
Shulk's face was red.
"R-really!?"
"Yeah," Robin said. "But I understand 'that sounds gay', no need to tell me. It's just so hard to find any fault in you. Even if the best debaters were discussing your bad points there wouldn't be much of a debate now would it? Not that being gay is bad though... I've been made fun of for being bisexual so it's been hard for me to tell anyone. I can't even tell my parents..."
Shulk had a lost dog look.
"Really?"
Robin nodded.
"Yeah really," he said. "I had this crush on this guy once, he was a close friend of mine. Every time I saw him I felt butterflies in my stomach, every time we hung out my heart just burst. I couldn't take the pain anymore and I told him everything thinking that he would accept me in the very least." Robin bit his lip. "I'm an idiot you know? He looked at me like I was crazy and called me a disgusting fag. After that he stopped hanging out with me, even made my life worse by telling the whole school. I tried to endure it but Lucina got into four fights with those guys because of me. She was expelled and moved to another school and I ended up following her..."
"Lucina is so amazing..."
Robin laughed.
"Yeah, the greatest," he said. "Can I tell you a secret?"
Shulk nodded. Robin whispered in his ear. For some reason I saw Dark Pit trying to listen in too, it made me laugh.
Shulk's face was forced. I haven't seen it this forced... since the time of Claus' funeral.
"Lucas the game!" Lucina yelled.
"Holy-!"
And I died.
"Lucas you need clear cut focus in order to master this game!" Lucina said.
"Don't stare into space," Red said.
I felt Ness' hand rub my shoulder.
"Something wrong?" he asked.
I look to Shulk.
"Nothing," I said. "It's fine."
Dammit Shulk we've been here for three weeks and already you're in love!? Stop hurting yourself alright dammit...
Why is there love in the first damn place anyway? All it ever does it hurt you and I'm tired of seeing Shulk force himself to smile. I'm so damn tired of it.
The next game I won, 'three stock' as they call it.
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AN: Hi, how are you? I have to write a bunch today ;-; I really really really wanted to do this little chapter today (which means I'm updating my fanservicey Deny) and then two essays for AP (lol) I got this bros. Guess who's getting no sleep tonight?
Also, my gamepad charger is broken (cries so hard). I just got my baby boo Lucas too (crying even harder)
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