A/N

This is the result of me trying to forcefully write a funny one-shot…


Merlin officially hated his life, he was sick again, but, since it was the day before spring break Merlin had dragged himself out of bed and forced himself to come to school, only to find out from Gwaine there was a math quiz that day that he'd completely forgotten about.

"Why didn't I stay in bed?" Merlin moaned rested his head on Arthur's shoulder. Ordinarily Arthur would have rolled his eyes and shoved Merlin off, but today Merlin was sick and obviously miserable so he wrapped his arm around Merlin's shoulders and rubbed it comfortingly. Arthur could feel Merlin's stiff shoulders slowly loosen as he relaxed and started to drift off, making him wonder how Merlin planned on getting through the day.

"I think Merlin's asleep," Gwaine informed Arthur.

"No…" Merlin mumbled half asleep eyes fluttering open momentarily, "I'm… resting me eyes…"

"Sure, that's it," Arthur agreed, grinning. Arthur felt Merlin nod his head, shifting so he was more comfortable, "you know, this is only going to make people think even more that we're dating you know." Merlin grunted and didn't rely and Gwaine teased,

"Awe you look so cute together!" Causing Arthur to groan and Percival to whack Gwaine's head.

"Will you ever give that a rest?" Elyan groaned.

"Nope," Gwaine replied grinning.

"Shut up Gwaine…" Merlin grumbled, "You're making my pillow move…"

"Is that all I am now? You're pillow?" Arthur asked.

"Yep." Merlin replied.

"Do you think Gwen got you sick again?" Lancelot asked. Gwen had been coughing and looking all together terrible the day before, only to tell them later that day she was not going to school the next day. Merlin shrugged and curled up against Arthur who sighed,

"And now I'm your teddy bear."

"Mmm-hmm."

"Well… this is getting awkward," Lancelot said and Gwaine declared,

"It's only awkward if you make it!" The bell rang and Arthur informed Merlin,

"Alright, nap time's over. Teddy has to go to class."

"No…" Merlin groaned.

"Merlin, you should be in bed," Gwaine informed Merlin.

"Can't… tests… spring break coming… ugg…" Merlin moaned. Most of his teachers gave even harder tests if you missed the original, and Merlin felt like he couldn't pass them as it was. Arthur stood up, hauling Merlin to his feet as he went.


Merlin's day only continued to get worse. During first period he quickly discovered that, that day was actually senior ditch day, hardly anyone was there. For his first several classes he could have easily missed and not have had any problems. Merlin was in a sour mood when lunch rolled around. Exhausted, frustrated and miserable, Merlin threw his backpack on the bench and laid down using his backpack as a pillow, to nauseous to eat.

A tentative hand reached out and touched Merlin's back rubbing it soothingly. Merlin cracked his eyes open and saw it was Lancelot and then screwed his eyes shut, curling up into a tight ball.

"Just hang in their Merlin," Merlin heard Arthur say, "Just one more period then you're home free." Merlin grunted before curling up, trying to tune everyone out, but failing miserably.

"Hey Arthur," Gwaine began, "Prom's coming up…"

"I'm asking Gwen Gwaine," Arthur sighed.

"You can't do that!" Gwaine gasped.

"Why?" Arthur sighed, Merlin could practically see Arthur rolling his eyes as Lancelot snickered.

"You'd be cheating then," Gwaine replied.

"Huh?" Percival asked.

"Since obviously what people say at school is true, and people say you're dating Merlin, asking Gwen out while you're dating Merlin would be cheating on dear Merlin, making you a cheater." Arthur rolled his eyes and declared,

"Fine, Merlin we're 'breaking up' got that Gwaine?"

"Fine by me," Merlin grumbled curling up.

"But you two were going to be couple of the year! And I was going to nominate Arthur as prom king Merlin as prom queen…"

"What?" Merlin groaned sitting up.

"Is that even allowed?" Elyan asked.

"Your right, the princess should be nominated queen," Gwaine corrected grinning. Merlin groaned and fell down onto his backpack.

"There isn't a law that says the queen has to be a girl," Gwaine informed them. Arthur opened and closed his mouth several times, unable to form a coherent sentence.

"Gwaine if you try and nominate me or Arthur for prom queen I will personally kill you." Merlin informed Gwaine.

"Mr. T Merlin's going to kill me!" Gwaine shouted at their math teacher as he walked by. Mr. T raised his eyebrows and replied,

"Yea Merlin is definitely a killer, I start trembling every time he walks into my classroom because I fear for my life," Mr. T rolled his eyes and kept walking and Gwaine lamented,

"The world hates me! It must be National pick on Gwaine day!"

"Yep, that's so it," Lancelot agreed. Gwaine glared at Lancelot and Merlin groaned when the bell rang.

"Time to take a quiz I'm not prepared for…" Merlin groaned, dragging himself to his feet, pulling up his backpack that seemed to weigh more and more as the day progress. Grumbling Merlin unceremoniously dropped his backpack to the floor and dropped into his seat.

"You ready for this?" Merlin's friend Gilli asked kindly. Dropping his head onto the table Merlin grumbled,

"No…"

"You and me both," Gilli agreed when a very hyper Will ran in.

"I am so ready for this!" Will shouted flinging his backpack onto the ground, "Hey Mr. T!"

"Hello Will," Mr. T greeted rolling his eyes, "Now Merlin, be a good boy and don't kill anyone ok?" The corner of Merlin's lip twitched slightly as he replied,

"I'll try and hold myself back."

"So any questions on the homework before we take the quiz?" Mr. T asked, suddenly finding himself faced with a classroom filled with raised hands. After all the questions were answered Mr. T informed the class that they could use the homework for the quiz, while the class cheered, Merlin repeatedly banged his head on his desk.


After school Arthur went on and on about how great his day was while Merlin glared out the window.

"Hey look, my dad's home!" Arthur exclaimed as they pulled up, Merlin grunted in response. Merlin walked in behind Arthur and heard Uther ask,

"Hello boys, how was school?"

"I hate high school!" Merlin declared collapsing onto the sofa.

"That's… great?" Uther replied. Merlin couldn't wait for collage.


End Notes

Most of this has happened to me at some point or another and a lot of the other things the knights did my friends will do. No my friends aren't gay, they just aren't awkward about anything.