Eh, sorry this took me so long. I'm absorbed into too many projects at the moment.

I wanna thank everyone who took the time to leave a reveiw! I was pleasantly surprised.

This chapter contains light shounen ai and implied yaoi. Aww yeah.

Ludicrous Misconceptions

Chapter two: "What the heck!"

A few days later the group was fortunate enough to stay at an inn after a week of roughing it outdoors. As usual, rooms were shared in order to reserve gald, and Raine took the liberty of choosing who was staying with whom. After a moment of pondering, she voiced her decision.

"Regal can have his own room." She started, noticing a silent thanks from said man.

"Colette can share with Presea." She continued, "Sheena can stay with them or Genis and me, and Lloyd can room with Zelos. Any objections?"

"Do I really have to stay with him?" Lloyd motioned with a nod of his head towards Zelos, who was too busy flirting shamelessly with one of the young housekeepinggirls to pay attention to what was going on.

"You haven't had a problem with it before." She stated simply.

"Yeah, but just look at him. I know he's up to something."

The two glanced at the flippant chosen, who broke his attention away from the young woman long enough to grin stupidly and wave at them.

"Lloyd, you're being paranoid." The healer sighed before proceeding to the front desk to purchase the rooms.

Lloyd signed also, knowing full well he'd get little sleep tonight.

--

Later that evening, Genis decided to trytalking Lloyd into playing a game of checkers with him. He sauntered down the hallway toswordsman's room, and stopped in front ofthe door, which was closed.

"That's odd." He said to himself before shrugging lightly and reaching for the doorknob.

He paused as he heard someone cry out from the other side.

"Ow! Zelos, don't be so rough!"

"Relax, bud. I know what I'm doing."

"Just…hurry up and take it out."

"Okay, okay! I'm almost done."

The young mage blanchedthen turned an interesting shade of blue before retreating to his room swiftly. Oh yeah. This would probably scar him for life.

"There we go. Told'ja I knew what I was doing!" Zelos boasted as he held up a pair of tweezers grasping a small sliver of wood in triumph.

"Yeah, yeah…" Lloyd muttered as he wrapped a band-aid around his now splinter less finger.

"Is that any way to thank someone who just saved your life?" the chosen said in mock pout.

"Zelos… it was a just a splinter."

"Hey, you never know, it could've gotten infected. Then I'd have to amputate!"

"You nearly did!" Lloyd huffed in frustration.

"Aw, don't get mad! Here."the chosenreplied in a buoyant tone before taking Lloyd's hand and gently kissing the bandaged finger, "Better?"

Lloyd jerked his hand away and crossed his arms over his chest, a slight blush on his cheeks.

"Whatever…"

--

The next morning, everyone sat together and ate breakfast in an uncharacteristically quiet manner. Lloyd stopped shoveling pancakes into his face long enough tolookoverat Genis, who turned slightly pink before looking away. He then looked to everyone else, who seemed to be making it a point not to make eye contact with him, with the exception of Zelos. Raine finished her tea and rose from her seat.

"Lloyd, Zelos, may I have a word with you two?" She spoke in an eerily calm tone with a deadpan expression.

Without waiting for an answer she directed them to the other room. The two stood before her, looking utterly confused.

"What you two do behind closed doors is your own business, however you could at least have the decency to be discrete." She started, getting right to the point.

"I'm afraid I don't follow, beautiful." Zelosconfessed as he offered a questioning stare.

Lloyd simply scratched the back of his head in puzzlement.

"Don't play dumb. Genis informed me of what he overheard you two doing." She replied patiently.

Lloyd looked even more dumbfounded then before. Zelos, however, recalled the noisy exchange of words from when he removed the splinter from Lloyd's finger. A cunning smile graced his lips as an ideaformed inhis head.

"I guess there's no use in hiding it now." The redhead remarked as he slipped an arm around Lloyd's shoulders casually, "We'll keep it down from now on."

"Wha…?" Lloyd squeaked as he slowly started to grasp what was going on.

"It'd be greatly appreciated." Raine affirmed her thanks.

"Not a problem." Zelos winked and grinned wolfishly. "C'mon hunny, let's go gather our things."

He then removed his arm from Lloyd's shoulders to grab his hand and drag him off to their room.

"…but!" was all the younger swordsman managed to blurt out before being dragged off.

Oh yeah. Sweet, sweet revenge.

Heh heh... poor Lloyd. It's only gonna get worse.