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"So, you and Nefera, huh?", asked Deuce to his best friend's other personality. Holt only replied by raising an eyebrow that meant "What's your point?". "Pretty huge, right? How long have you two been together?"

Deuce saw Holt's shoulders tense up. "We're not dating." The gorgon snorted. "Though your Freakstagram pictures say otherwise." Holt darted his eyes. "My Freaksta- What? Are you stalking me out, now?"

"I am not stalking you, I'm worried about my sister-in-law, that's all. It's not like you have the perfect boyfriend's reputation." The blue boy punched his food plate when he got angrier. "Okay, now, first, fuck off. If you really cared about Neffie you should have worried about the people she dated before me, alright? And then, the hell are you to judge me? We never talk, you don't know me, maybe I'm the perfect boyfriend and just don't want anybody to find ou-"

"Oh, so now, you are the perfect boyfriend." Deuce retorted. "Well, Nefera never complained."

Deuce tried to chill out, he thought about how Nefera was down last summer, he thought of how it had brung Cleo down too, and himself all the while.

"Look, dude. I'm sorry, you're right I don't know you. But for all I know you make Nefera happier." His fellow member sighed and looked annoyed, so Deuce decided to hit where it would hurt the most and see if his doubts were justified. "Plus, I guess it must have been hard to survive both Nefera and Jackson's breakdowns this summer, you're a real hero, you know." Holt's jaw clenched, and Deuce thought Bingo!


Later that day, Deuce found his best friend in the Monster High parking lot. Jake looked jaded as he was smoking a cigarette. "Hey, what's up, Dude?", said Deuce as he tapped Jackson's shoulder. "One-week detention. Bullshit.", he replied after inhaling smoke.

Deuce wince, but quickly found himself smiling again. "Look, I have a few questions." His best friend replied with a hand gesture meaning "Ask, then.". "When did you and Nefera break up?"

Jake's face switched right away as his eyebrows raised all of the sudden. He exhaled slowly the smoke, knowing he would have to answer his friend after that. Now he was the one with questions. Who told him? Did Nefera say anything? Does everyone know? He was tortured in his mind, so he only answered. "A week before the summer break."

It was Deuce's turn to be surprised. He thought Jake would deny it. He wasn't even sure that that could be real. So, when his friend confirmed his crazy theory, Deuce pulled at his snakes. "What? Wait, so you two did date!"

Jackson looked at him amused. "Why did you ask? I thought you knew already." "What? No! It was a theory! Damn, I'm good at this shit, I probably should become a detective…" The two of them were laughing, now. "Yeah, and you would probably drop your glasses and turn your witnesses into stone."

Deuce burst into laughter, and Jake soon followed when they added "Detective Gorgon…"

As they were trying to get their breathing back, Deuce thought of how good it was to finally get his best friend back.


Deuce had proposed to Jake to drive him home, and in the car, he decided to relieve his curiosity.

"Wait, you're not getting away with it. How did you meet her? And when?" He heard his friend sigh. "Huh, we met in February. Cleo needed the Fearleaders grades and Frankie couldn't give her by herself so she asked me if I could drop her file at her place. When I got there, Nefera was grounded and we talked a bit." Deuce said nothing at first, but when Jake stopped talking he replied "And? I want all the details, dude. Wait, is Neffie the sucker?" Jake laughed and Deuce growled.

"And I went back the day after that. I don't remember why I just know that I had never seen anyone as pretty as Nef is. I still haven't. Anyway, I went for a few weeks, and we ended up kissing at some point. And I know that if it hadn't been for the whole grounded point she wouldn't have even looked twice at me, but I guess I was lucky back then." "I've got so many questions, were you already together when she dropped by the school and called Cleo out?"

Jake laughed again. "Yeah, you called her a bitch, that day. I hated you so bad. Like that time when you told me my girlfriend gave you a boner." Deuce winced. "What? I've never said- Oh no, no, no. Fuck. Wait, that explains the whole weird thing about you saying I shouldn't think of someone else... Sorry, dude."

"It's good. She gave me boners too." He winced again. "Now that disgusts me. I mean, she's like a sister to me now, you know, and… You fucked her, didn't you?" When Jake kept a straight face, Deuce laughed. "You little son of a bitch." They both laughed, but soon there was a silence when Jackson thought of the rest of the story. "She cheated on me. That's how it ended. I should have known, I mean, she'd gotten weird over time, like, she wasn't happy anymore."

"Well, I don't know if it cheers you up but know that she cried over you a lot. The bitch ruined my summer.", Deuce said with a little laugh.

"Yeah, I've thought about it. It's not me who broke her heart. Probably the guy she was seeing when we were together. But I guess it's okay. Frankie says it's Karma." His friend nodded. "Oi, what's with Frankie and Neffie, by the way, they look like they're going to kill each other every time they see each other. Is that your fault?"

Jackson shook his head. "It's… Frankie got a little over bonding and Nefera saw us. She kept calling her the green sex doll after that. It was really awkward."

"Over bonding like touching you, or like sucking you." Jake was the one wincing, now. "Like almost grinding me."

There was another silence. "Look, don't say anything to anyone. Even Cleo. This needs to be kept a secret. As much as I hate her I wouldn't want her to lose her job because of our relationship." Deuce agreed with his friend. "You don't hate her, Jake. You love her and it wrecks you not to be with her."

His friend never answered, and Deuce smiled.


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