Battle High: Not your ordinary High School

Battle thirty-nine

Lilly's confession

Kirai looked around, so very confused. All he saw was a flash of pink and before he noticed someone slash Artemis's arm. He stood still, trying to process what was happening.

Primrose giggled to herself when she accidentally cut Artemis. "Oops," she said aloud to herself. She quickly swept her feet under Artemis and knocked him to the floor. Artemis gave a smirk as he rolled to his side swiped his foot under her own and grabbed her quickly as she fell to the ground. He brought his an arm around and under her neck and grabbed the inside of her collar tightly. Then grabbed her other arm and held it under his arm and grabbed tightly by the elbow andput his weight on her chest.

"You can't get free of this..no one can," he said with a smirk as he brought his face to her own.

Sora blocked Lilly's next attack but found herself knocked back into the wall. Primrose glared at him with an angry blush across her face. "Well fuck," she said annoyedly. 'Now Lilly's gonna get all pissed at me...,' she thought, not looking forward to that.

Kirai knew he'd die if Artemis saw him just standing there. He looked over at him- he obviously had the pink chick covered. He looked at Sora, saw Lilly and knocked her feet out from underneath her. Lilly's eyes went wide as she found herself falling to the ground in two seconds flat and found Sora knocking her dagger from her hand and held the blade to her neck. Lilly smirked and then brought her legs up to Sora and kicked her hard enough sending her across the room and hitting her head on the ceiling knocking her out.

Artemis smiled, "Your pretty cute while your trapped," said Artemis with a sly smirk.

Lilly looked over and forced Artemis off Primrose and knocked him out, Lilly turned quickly grabbed Kirai by the wrist and knocked him out fast."Lets go now!," said Lilly and she took off with Kirai on her shoulder. Primrose stood up quickly and glanced down at Artemis. She smiled. "And you're pretty cute when you're knocked out~," she said, even though she knew he was knocked out. Primrose quickly ran after Lilly before she got too far ahead.

Lilly ran fast.

She came through the door and glanced at Cloud, "I'm back Cloud and brought him," she said with a slight blush. She was hoping he would praise her this time for not taking as long as the other few times she had before. Cloud looked at her, surprised. "Well hey, that was fast." He walked over to them and patted her head lightly. "Good job, chick."

Primrose walked in and caught her breath.

"So how'd she do?" Cloud asked. "Oh yeah. Put Kirai over there," he instructed, pointing to a chair. Lilly smiled slightly and did as she was told and sat him down, "Well..she got pinned by Artemis in less than a second if thats what you mean and other than that thats all that she could even manage to do," said Lilly. She walked back over to Cloud and glanced up at him from the corner of her eyes and gave a small blush, "A-anything else Cloud?," she asked.

Primrose had been silent and zoned out in the doorway but her head popped up when she heard the mention of Artemis. "Hm? What?"

Cloud gave her a skeptical look and picked up the rope he had for tying Kirai up. "She said you got pinned by Artemis in like, a second. Nice job by the way."

Primrose rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Theres a first time for everything," she said with sarcasm in her voice.

Cloud studied at her for a second more before turning back to Lilly. "So anyway. Good job," he told her while beginning to strap Kirai down. "What'd you do with Artemis and Sora?"

Lilly glanced at him as she shuffled her feet, "..We had to run away fast. But I know Sora will be the first one to come after us so in no time you'll have her back and then all we have to do is take down Artemis with ease," Lilly replied.

She watched as he tied up Kirai, she was jealous at how much attention he gave Kirai; she gave Kirai a glare before she went back to the wall and sat down. She seemed as if she was upset as she took out her dagger and stabbed the wall a few times.

Primrose kept her mouth shut. Although inside she was thinking something along the lines of, 'KILL ARTEMIS AND YOU DIE.'

Cloud tied one last knot and stepped back. "Doubt he'll be able to get out of that."

He looked over at Lilly and tilted his head. "..'Cha doin there?," he asked, amused at her way of expressing her attitude. Lilly looked up at him, "I'm stabbing the wall..why do you ask sir?," she asked with just the slightest blush across her face.

She looked at her dress and saw a mud stain and saw that her hair had dust on it, she growled at herself for looking like such a mess.

Lilly stood up again but still stabbed the wall. Cloud leaned against the desk in front of the window. "I dunno, maybe cause people don't usually stab walls without a valid reason."

Prism rolled her eyes. "Thats the closest he's gonna get to asking you whats wrong."

Cloud smiled at Lilly. "The twin is correct."

Lilly could feel a red blush visible to everyone come across her face at that exact moment, she would have said it but couldn't find herself to say it. Rather she had accidently placed her other hand on the same spot and stabbed her hand by mistake, "Ouch! Crap...,"she said in a pained voice. She dropped her dagger and looked at her hand as the blood poured from her wound; she wasn't one to make a mistake like that for as long as Cloud had known her.

Lilly tried to stop the bleeding on her own but she didn't have anything to stop it.

Prism and Primrose had exchanged a smirk before noticing that she'd stabbed herself.

"What the shit-?," Cloud quickly walked around to the back of the desk and pulled open a drawer. He shuffled around its contents. "Dude, where do we keep the fucking first aid kit?," he asked, irritated.

Prism walked over and opened the drawer next to it, and pulled out the kit. "Stupid," she said as she handed it to him.

Cloud glared at her and went over to patch up Lilly's hand. "Why did you just stab yourself? Come on we gotta clean off the blood first," he said as he held a piece of gauze over her wound to try and stop the blood. Cloud took Lilly's wrist and kept the gauze on the cut as he pulled her down the hall to the bathroom. Lilly felt stupid, she couldn't believe what she had just done, she just stabbed herself what was wrong with her today?

Lilly blushed as she was pulled down the hall, "I-I didn't do it on purpose..it was my fault..I-I made a mistake," she said to him. She looked at him with longing eyes, '..Why is it that when I'm injured he cares this much?,' she thought to herself sadly.

Cloud removed the gauze and looked at her hand. "Ouch."

He turned on the faucet and ran water over her injury. Cloud looked at her questioningly. "Why were you stabbing the wall in the first place, hn?," he asked her.

Primrose sat in a chair comfortably. "So she's basically in love with him."

Prism nodded and laughed. "He's either an idiot or he's smart and pretends like he doesn't know. Considering he's Cloud and he's a sadist, its probably the second option."

Lilly stared at the water for a moment before she looked back up at him again. She knew she could tell him now, but the words weren't forming correctly in her head, "..I..I..was jealous..," she said quietly but loud enough for him to hear her.

She let her blush turn a brighter red if that was possible and her mind told her not say it but her heart tugged at her as she stood there with him. Cloud looked back down at the water and laughed slightly, "Who would you be jealous of?," he took out the rest of the gauze and started to bandage her hand. Lilly wasn't wasting her time at the answer that time, "Kirai..you pay so much attention to him and..whenever I try...,"she didn't finish the sentence. She flinched slightly when she felt her hand get bandaged. Cloud smiled slightly as he finished repairing her hand. "You're not gonna be able to fight as well now," he whispered more to himself than to her.

"So you're jealous of Kirai. Because I pay attention to him," Cloud stated as he leaded against the counter and smirked at Lilly. Lilly diverted her eyes from him for a quick moment, "Y-yes I try to get your attention but whenever I try you go back to Kirai..its not fair!...I try so hard and all you can do is focus on him all the time!," she shouted. Lilly looked up at him with tears in her eyes and her eyes gave him a slight glare but also a look of longing.

Cloud looked away from her, still smiling slightly, and studied the floor tiles. "I was wondering how long it would take you to admit it.."

"You know why I focus on him so much? One, its cause I'm mental and I want to torture him. Two its because he's different than Sora and Artemis, I don't know how but the government even said so. We gotta keep him alive and guarded."

Cloud looked at out of the corner of his eyes. "But you could've just told me you like me."

Lilly's eyes widened and she felt her heart skip a few beats and breathing stopped for a moment, she felt her anger yet much more embarrassment come over her like waves. "H-How did you know?,"she asked him in surprise, she didn't know how he knew. She took a half step towards him but stopped for a moment, and looked at the tiles.

Lilly clenched the sleeves of her dress tightly in her hands and stood there, "..It doesn't matter how you knew...all I know..is that I don't just like you...Cloud..I'm in love you with!," she shouted. Cloud smirked. "I'm Cloud. Therefore I am magical."

He turned to face Lilly and tilted her chin up so she was looking him in the eyes. "I applaud your grammar," he said before kissing her softly.

"If you had said it earlier I would've been able to do that sooner."

Lilly stood frozen in her spot, her eyes wide in surprise; she didn't know how to react at first. She looked at him for a moment before her eyes got a slightly soft look in them, "Y-you are toying with me are you?," she asked in a pained voice. She knew how he liked to toy with people and hoped he wasn't doing that with her.

"..A-and my grammar was a mistake...But I wasn't lying when I said I am in love with you Cloud, I'm serious," she said to him. Cloud nodded. "I know. I'm not toying with you. I'm not THAT cruel," he said with a slight smirk.

He looked at Lilly again. "But really. I'm not."

Lilly looked at him for another moment, she couldn't hold herself back as she threw herself at him and held him tightly. She let her eyes close for a moment before she opened them again and took a step back again, "I-I'm sorry," she said. Lilly was about to turn around but stopped again, something in her went wrong, she felt the room spin in front of her and her head began to throb in pain. And next thing she knew she was falling back and she felt her temperature go up and she remembered when Sora had attacked her that Sora had got some kind of green liquid on her.

It was a liquid that Artemis had been working that would cause anyone to get sick in less than eight hours.