Christo and Rat had kissed, it was undeniable. Christo sat there shocked, and Rat looked away quickly. He was messing this is all up, why was he doing this.
"Rat… did we just…" Christo was almost tomato red blushing.
"I… guess." Rat shuffled a bit away from Christo.
The two sat in silence for a few moments. Rats mind was going insane, his thoughts full of what Christo would think of him after his mission, and what Erin would do to him after she found out about the relationship. Knowing her she would see it as a loose end, and Rat did not want to think about what she did with loose ends..
"Rat?" Christo was looking at him, Rat noticed that his eyes were welling up and wiped them quickly.
"Yea man, what's up?" Rat smiled
"We should head back to the group, the class is leaving in half an hour." Christo stood up and offered his hand to Rat.
Rat took it and Christo helped him up, "Shit man I didn't realize how long we were here…."
Christo smiled, "Well that's good! That just means we were having fun!"
Christos positivity cheered up Rat a bit, and he laughed a bit, "Are you saying you enjoyed our little lip fiasco back there?" He raised his eyebrow.
"Sure did," Christo looked down a little bit, "I really hope it's not a one time thing."
Rat smiled and ruffled Christos hair, "I can see what I can do."
The two laughed together and headed back to the entrance overlooking Northguard, they crouched in a bush to the side of the trail to make sure nobody saw them. The class was at the spiral door, a few of the bears were handing out small pieces of wood to each of the students. Rat and Christo moved quickly away from the bush and slowly made their way to the back of the group. Christo was giggling the whole time, Rat was pretty sure this was the most defiant Christo has ever been.
The class made their way through the spiral door and back into the world tree. The students were dismissed and the crowds mostly stood around the entrance to the tree still talking about what they saw or just hanging out with their friends. Christo headed to check on Kestrel while Rat headed back to the dorm. He opened the door and placed his things on his bed.
He heard a small beeping as he dropped his bag, he reached his bedside drawer and opened it up. His communication crystal was inside, beeping away. Erin must have been trying to contact him. He picked it up and answered the incoming call he was getting, Erin's voice croaked through the crystal.
"Oh look here, someone decided to answer." She sounded pissed,
"Look Erin I-"
She interrupted him before he could say anything, "Rat I am beyond confused with you. Here I thought you were one of the best men I have but the Ravenwood News has other thoughts. Being seen Rat? Really? Very amateur of you." Rat bit his lip as she spoke, there was no way he could explain himself.
"Oh and another thing Rat, now that we have this new light on us I'm going to have to rush the mission. Ambrose has ordered more guards and protection, they are on their way as we speak. You have tonight and tomorrow night before they arrive, I want that eye, If you don't get it I'm pulling you off of this mission and you can kiss your ranking goodbye. Also don't you dare plan anything, I have eyes everywhere…" Erin hung up before Rat could protest.
The room was suddenly filled with thick silence, Rats mouth was dry. Two nights? Fuck. He collected himself and put his bag around his shoulder. He needed time to think this over. If he completed his mission this would all be over, he would leave and never have to think about any of this ever again, but he didn't want to leave Christo. He headed to the door and went to open it but someone slammed it open from the other side and hit him in the nose. "Ow, what the fuck." Rat yelled.
Christo was on the other side of the door and looked mortified, "Oh my god Rat I'm so sorry!"
Rat looked at Christo and laughed, "It's fine, just hurts."
The blue haired boy was still panicking, "Listen if there is anything you want me to do to make up for this name it."
Rat let go of his throbbing nose and looked around the room for a second, the place was a mess, dirty clothes, dishes, school papers. Rat smiled, "How about you just clean this up."
Christo sighed in relief that it wasn't anything too harsh, "Sure I'll have it done by tonight." he smiled and let Rat pass him, "Sorry about your nose again!" he yelled as Rat walked out.
Rat grinned and waved bye to Christo as he made his way down the street towards the arena, he needed to think and the arena was the best place to do that.
