~Lucas Side: Begin~
I woke up relaxed, my laptop charging beside me. I can't believe I finished that in one night, wow I am amazing. I guess it was because Dark Pit wasn't there to bother me the entire time, Ness was just watching beside me. ... Wait...
I turned around. Ness was gone. Did he... leave? He probably did, since he's mysterious like that. If he got caught then I'm sure mom or Shulk would have woken me up or something... Pretty sure... But just in case, I got up and walked out of the room. I mean... you know what if he's still here? But why would he even be here?
I went downstairs expecting to find Shulk cooking breakfast as always. I was expecting.
I stood by the kitchen, my hand firmly grabbing on the wall, watching. I... I can't even...
"Look who finally woke up," Ness said, placing a plate of scrambled eggs on the table.
Shulk had turned around and put down another pancake on top of a stack of pancakes.
"Morning Lucas," Shulk said. "Your friends sure do like coming over unexpectedly!"
I gave the best smile I could. It felt painful.
"Y-yeah..." I said. "Umm... Ness can I talk to you for a second?"
He set the pan he held down and spun. I felt uncomfortable watching him walk like a celebrity on the red carpet, the sway of his hips, the movement of his body... looked weird but at the same time it was so him.
"Of course!" he said, exaggerating his arms. "And what would you like to discuss? I'm truly up for anything that doesn't involve spoilers!"
I swear to God sometimes he's just... How could anybody have that much energy in the morning anyway? Seriously, the only one I know who can be all peppy in the morning is Shulk and Shulk is always full of it!
I grabbed his arm and dragged him into the living room... or at least tried to.
"It's better if we talk in private," I said.
He had that annoying little smirk that always signals trouble on him right now.
"Oh really?" he asked. I am so not in the mood for his sarcasm. "Is there something that you cannot discuss in front of your brother?"
I glared at him but his smile was still there so I kept dragging.
He gasped.
"Does it have to with our relationship?" he whispered loudly.
I swear... It's going to take everything I have to hold it in... I took a deep breath. I really wished he took things seriously sometimes...
Hopefully he wouldn't hear us in the other room or get any funny ideas. Well Shulk isn't that kind of guy but still! Got to make sure he doesn't hear this! So, I look to see Shulk looking at us with a curious expression and back again at Ness. He's giving me that look...
Once we were in the living room far enough to be out of Shulk's hearing I grabbed Ness by the shoulders.
"What the hell are you doing!?" I tried to keep my voice as low as possible. "I thought you were going to leave in the morning!"
Ness only frowned before ugh... hugging me. I mean... I want to push him off don't get me wrong but, you know it feels nice like this in a... weird sort of way. I rarely have friends this close to me so... I guess I'm just not used to it...?
"Have you not noticed anything off today?" Cheerful as al- Wait. Off?
Now that I think about it where is Dark Pit? Could he have left or something?
"Um... You're talking about Dark Pit right?" I whispered right into his ear.
He nodded with a 'yes' sound.
"Of course," he whispered back. "My little Pit Pat is gone too. Maybe they made a little rendezvous somewhere, back to their masters."
Masters...? I honestly thought I was... But now that I think about it when I first met Dark Pit he said he needed Ness for something... Could that...
"Hey Lucas isn't it a bit too early for you and your boyfriend to start making out?"
F***!
I tried to turn around but Ness held me in a pose that makes us look like two dancers at the end of the dance, only thing missing was our outfits and my leg up. This is just great my mom is going to fricking kill me because Ness can't ev-
"Good morning Mrs. Aran how was your little project outside?"
NESS!
"It went fine kid, I'm a pro at this so I know exactly what I'm doing," she said, a confident smile on her face.
Is she seriously okay with wearing a sports bra and shorts when Ness is here? She's even wiping her sweating with a wet towel in front of him how does that not bother her? Wait how would Ness even know that she was working on something!? Did he meet my mom while I was asleep!? Oh my god hopefully he didn't say anything stupid or god forbid my own mom turn on me and tell him about my life.
I glared at her and try to signal her to get out. Come on mom this is kind of embarrassing having you here like this...
"Well you two have fun," she said. "Ness, you helped Shulk with breakfast right?"
"Of course, how could I not?" he said. "You've treated me with such kindness as to allow me into your home that I couldn't help but return the favor!"
"Thanks kid, Shulk really does need help sometimes with it and believe me, the only one who sucks at cooking more than me is Lucas."
"Mom!"
She walked into the kitchen, not even bothering to change or anything. Mom can be so... ugh!
"Something wrong my dear Lucas?" Ness asked.
I pushed him away and he ended up letting go of me. I finally stood on my own two feet.
"How do you even know what my mom was doing!?" I asked. "No scratch that, how did you even meet my mom!?"
He wrapped his arm around me.
"Well you see I was going to leave originally and come back but then your mom caught me trying to leave through the front door." I mean, what did you expect Ness? You were trying to use the front door. "She grabbed me from behind and pinned me down, my compliment to you for having such a stealthily skilled woman as your mother by the way. She asked me who I was and why I was in there so I told her my name and why I was there. She ended up freeing me after that."
Okay that's good, at least their meeting was... somewhat positive?
"Truly Lucas if you hadn't gushed about me so much I would probably be dead so I thank you for that."
Ah... I-I... What!? Okay listen, I don't gush about him... at all. I just talk about him. When your only friend is a strange and out there guy with absolutely zero boundaries you tend to have a lot to say about them. You know?
"The red on your face looks so cute but you might need to relax before your family starts asking some... personal questions."
He winked at me before letting me go and walking off to the kitchen.
"By the way, let's discuss Pitty Pat and his other half later. Perhaps during some alone time at the mall today?"
I can't believe I actually forgot about them! Oh well, they can't cause the destruction of the world in an hour right?
I walked into the kitchen, taking a seat next to Ness who had a lot of food on his plate.
"Hungry much?" I asked.
"When you have to deal with work and the piles of AP homework all on one cup of noodles it really brings you down," Ness said, a sausage on his fork.
"Cup of noodles? Doesn't your family cook for you or something?" my mom asked.
"The situation with my ahem living conditions is rather bothersome and confusing to even deal with the little detail of only having a cup of noodles for a day."
He can't be serious... What kind of a life is that? He really needs help if that's the only thing he eats a day...
"Hey Ness, you know you can come over and well... have dinner with us whenever. There's always an available seat..." I felt so scared but... I really wanted him to know that I guess.
"Oh that's surprisingly nice of you Lucas," my mom said. "You've actually said something nice for once in your life."
Mom!
"It was really fun cooking with you Ness and hopefully we could be able to do that everyday! So please, consider coming over whenever you like! I know Lucas would most certainly love you being here," Shulk said.
Dammit Shulk! Why are you saying it like that!?
I looked over to Ness. I really hope I didn't make him feel on the spot like that or even worse hurt his pride. I don't know his situation but I've met some people who were downright angry with Shulk after he offered to do everything in his power to help them. I don't even know why people are like that, if you need help then get it and don't go crying about how hopeless you are when you can get help. Sheesh...
Ness' face was red but he was smiling, okay it looks good so far.
"You're truly the kindest family I've ever met!" he said. "To think, offering this near stranger into your home and inviting him to join you all in a feast is truly kind of you! I couldn't imagine an even more generous family than yourselves! I would love to come every day but I'm not sure if you would like someone as eccentric as I am with your son..."
"Well-"
"Hell I'm okay with it. I heard from both Shulk and Lucas that you're really smart and won awards! You being with my son is pretty much a blessing for me! Maybe some of your intelligence can rub off on him, especially in the math department. Apparently Shulk isn't enough for him as a tutor since he's way too nice. You could probably be better at punishing Lucas than he is."
Mom please stop talking!
"Tutor? Me? Surely you jest! The only things I could teach him would be about Art, I'm no good when it comes to teaching the basics for anything but that. I do however, have a friend who is more than likely the valedictorian for this year with his 4.75 GPA. Perhaps I can ask him for you?"
"Oh you mean Robin?" Shulk asked. "He's really amazing isn't he?"
Shulk, it's showing you know? Just... wanted to tell you.
"He's going to the mall today with Lucina and Red too, perhaps we can ask him today?" Ness asked. "Can Lucas join us?"
My mom scoffed.
"Please, take him to Vegas if you'd like! It'd be nice to have him get out of the house and do things with his friends instead of sitting around watching Netflix," she said.
A big grin was on Ness' face, it was as if he won the lottery. He took a sausage and ate it, leaning on my shoulder as he eats, and continues to talk to my family in the most casual way possible.
...
"So about Dark Pit..." I kind of wanted to talk to him about now since this seems like the perfect time.
We were at the mall, sitting together at the food court. Everybody else had left to get food but the two of us were just waiting for our orders. Ness had his elbow on the table with his hand supporting his head, giving me this... look. It's a strange look, as if he's expecting me to come out with everything. I don't.
"So what about him? Curious as to his whereabouts?" Ness asked.
I nodded.
"Do you know what happened to them?" I asked. It may not be much of my business but you know, doesn't hurt to ask.
He nodded.
"Somewhat," he said. "Pit told me that there were some things that needed to be cleared with Dark Pit."
"Things like...?"
He placed his hand on mine.
"Pit is supposed to be the only one of his species left so hearing how there's a copy with a darker color scheme got him on edge. Poor Pitty Pat, sometimes I just want to give him a hug," he said. "I feel as if they're in some form of a supernatural world above ours, discussing the copy."
"At this point I wouldn't be surprised if there were one," I said. "But how would you know that Dark Pit is a copy of Pit and not the other way around?"
Wait... Hearing that aloud made me realize the reason. Oh my gosh I feel so stupid...
"The name kind of gives it away," Ness said.
I heard the sound of a bell.
"Two thai teas, two rainbow rolls!" the man called.
"It looks like our food is done," I said.
I turned back to Ness. He wasn't saying anything, he was just looking down. I got up and tried to shake his shoulder.
"Ness! Ness! Hey Ness!" I yelled. "Ness!"
He finally looked back up at me.
"Ness...?"
He got up and stuck out his hand.
"May I have this dance?"
Did he hit his head or something?
"Um but-"
Before I could say no he grabbed my hand and pulled me away from the table. He held onto my hand and my waist, spinning my around in circles and doing some other weird ballroom dances. I couldn't really keep up in all honesty and plus people were staring at me... Have they never seen two people dance before...? I mean... go back to your food people...
Finally, the two of us stopped by the order counter, our food right there, and posed. There was, surprisingly, some clapping. I looked to Ness whose face was right above mine, he smiled and I couldn't help but blush back. I looked back to our table, only to notice something flying right above my seat and to the ground.
If I were still sitting there I would definitely had been hit.
I tried to see where it came from, some woman was fighting with this guy and apparently threw that. Security was even coming in trying to escort them out.
I looked back up to Ness. Did he... know?
"Hey Ne-"
"Oh my gosh it happened! It actually happened!" It's Lucina... "Fricken Link, you predicted everything didn't you!?"
The two of us looked over to Lucina with a tray of food who was with both Red and some blonde kid in glasses and a green beanie. All he did was nod and smile.
"Oh you mean that ballroom dance scene that turns into near murder?" Red asked.
"Exactly!" Lucina squealed. "Link was the one who came up with it! He thought Ness teaching Lucas how to dance would be super cute! I came up with the mysterious assassin though, like for real."
"Oh really now?" Red asked.
"Yes! And all my fans loved it! They were like, "Ness x Lucas is best ship" and "Nesscas for life" and I'm like I know right!"
"Is that how they felt about Shulk and Robin?" Red asked.
"Well yeah! They loved the parent meeting scene and when Robin totes came out of the closet it was so sad that one fan cried over it! It was so relatable to her! I mean yeah some people got mad because it wasn't Red x Robin anymore but why can't you enjoy the threeway! Or the fiveway... Or..."
Red walked over to the whatever was thrown.
"Link, you are totes legit the best editor I can ask for, oh my gosh I love you so much."
Link's eyes lit up.
"Hey look, a free laptop," Red said.
"Really!? Oh finally I can play Genocide without ruining my Pacifist end!" she said. "And here comes Robin and Shulk too! Yay!"
I looked back up again at Ness.
"You heard that right?" I asked.
"Every single word."
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AN: This is crap and I feel like crap and I don't know what to do other then to scream internally. It's all messy and this was a mistake omfg.
Other then that, DID I REALLY GET LORDLENNE TO COMMENT ON THIS OMFG SCREAMING. Now two of my favorite writers commented on this... Ouch my heart...
I can't believe I got advertising from Paradigm too oh my gosh *inserts hearts everywhere*
This... was a lot different what I originally planned it to be... Here we are though. We even get this cutie Link with us! He wasn't even going to be here when I started If You but then I started watching Miraculous Ladybug and thought WHAT IF SOMEONE WAS NATHANAEL THAT WOULD BE SO CUTE
And that's what happened.
Finally, we get to Ness' side. His will be ten times easier to write thank goodness ;-;
Thank you to everybody whose been reading this so far, I love every single one of you!
