Disclaimer: I don't own Tales of Symphonia. If I did though, I'd ask Regal for a piggy-back ride because I know that he'd accept, while not being able to do it because he's got handcuffs.

Chapter 4

Kratos had been with the group for quite a while... 2 hours, to be exact. He'd ditched his obsession with being angelic and he kept making lewd comments toward Zelos, who was getting really annoyed.

"Kratos, just shut the fuck up!"

"I'll give you something to fuck up..."

Zelos screamed in frustration, "Lloyd, tell your dad to leave me alone!"

Lloyd giggled, "No, Zelos, it's far too fun to watch you get hit on by Kratos."

Colette looked at Lloyd like a robotic retard, "Lloyd, please. It seems that Kratos is annoying him. Please stop him."

Zelos scoffed. He didn't want help from Colette! "No, no, no. I'm... not annoyed. I love it! I love Kratos!" He jumped on Kratos and squeezed him.

Kratos felt a strange sense of satisfaction. Was it because no one else seemed to have interest in Zelos, excluding Colette (because she didn't matter), or maybe because Zelos had just screamed, "I love you!" and was currently hugging him? Kratos assumed that it was both, because he liked answering his own questions.

Sheena looked over at Raine. Raine was fuming quietly and looked like she was about to burst. Then, all of a sudden, Raine yelled, "GET OFF MY KRATTY-POO!" And she jumped on Zelos and started to maul him.

Zelos let out a girly scream, and suddenly Lloyd felt a strange sense of anger. "Hey, Professor, get off Zelos... I'm sure he was just kidding. Right, Zelos?"

Zelos flashed Lloyd a thankful look, "Yes, yes, yes! I was just kidding, I swear on my beauty!"

Colette laughed, "Hehehe... that's funny."

Everyone stared at Colette. "What was funny?" Genis asked.

"Zelos' joke. It was funny... wasn't it?"

"Uhh... how about no?"

"Oh. I... uhh... I TAKE BACK MY LAUGHTER!" She said, giggling at the end of the sentence.

Lloyd sighed, "Colette... you're really stupid..."

"Why, thank you Lloyd!"

Suddenly, Lloyd felt depressed that someone as stupid as Colette could be his girlfriend.

Genis walked over to Lloyd and whispered in his ear, "Don't worry... we'll dump her off at Asgard. No, we'll dump her off at Hima, because it would suck to be abandoned in Hima. I would know, as I was abandoned by my nutcase mom who still thinks that Raine is a doll."

Lloyd nodded and whispered back, "Good... she's getting on my nerves, a bit."

"Same here, man." A voice said, and Lloyd and Genis jumped about 3 feet into the air, and looked over at the source of the voice. And, who did they see?

"Holy cheese and crackers, it's...!"

"It's...! It's...! It's...! It's...! It's...! It's...!" Genis stuttered.

"Out with it, you imbecile!" Kratos yelled sternly.

"It's Regal! He's back! Get him away, I don't like pussies!" Lloyd yelled.

Lloyd's last statement raised a few questions in Kratos' head, but he decided to ask Lloyd about it later. When they were alone, so they could have a father-son talk.

Later, when they were alone--

"Hey, Lloyd."

"Yeah, Kratos?"

"About what you said earlier..."

"What about it?"

"Are you... well, are you... gay?"

"I don't know. Leave me alone. I have to contemplate this in my head and then go into denial when I realize that I am."

"Oh, okay. I'll leave you to it."

So Lloyd started to contemplate his sexuality. He realized that he was gay, so he withdrew himself and went into denial. Internally, of course.

A/N: I'm so sorry for not updating in a while. I had Christmas lists to make and Christmas shopping to do. It was a waste of time, because I'm not getting an iPod or a PS2... or a time machine.

R & R, my lovelies!