Key for this AU;

High school: Verdi, Ran, Anak, Beta, Miseng

University: Bam, Khun, Rak, Vespa, Endorsi, Ehwa, Hatz, Shibisu, Novic, Wangnan, on and on. You'll get the hang of it.

Adults: Jinsung, Lero-Ro, Quant, and probably much more.

Edit: I went over this Nov. 1st, 2019 in order to change it to past tense and fix up a couple of wording issues that I didn't really like.

"You two would look so cute together!" Verdi squeals, hugging Anak and Ran.

"What the hell is this?" Ran shoves the arm off him. "We just HAD to be paired together for the school project?"

"It's your fault that we had to come over to my apartment, you idiot. I warned you about them." Anak sighs as Verdi pinches her cheeks.

"Anak! We're here!" She hears Shibisu call out from the entrance.

Anak groans. "Who invited you?"

"Verdi said a boy was coming over, so I decided to come to check him out.." Shibisu walks over to the living room.

"Why are YOU here?" Anak glares at Hatz, not even bothering to dignify Shibisu with a response.

"Shibisu here dragged me over after school," Hak says, not without exasperation.

"How's high school?" Shibisu sits down. Or rather flops over onto the couch.

"You asked me that the last time you visited. Which was yesterday." Anak deadpans. "Come on, let's go." She grabs Ran's arm and their supplies, walking off to the dining room.

"Who are they?" Ran asks bluntly.

"I told you this when you said that we weren't heading to your house," Anak says. "We all live in the same apartment complex, and then Verdi realized she was in the same school as me, and somehow we ended up being 'friends'. You're lucky that only three of them are here."

"Oh! So that's Verdi." Ran cackles, eyes glinting.

"What?"

"It's none of your business, let's just get to work." Ran continues.

"..." Anak rolls her eyes, grabbing the paintbrush. "So which animal are we doing for the poster?"

"A fox. Duh." Ran says, reaching for the paintbrush.

Anak just pulls it further back.

"Give. Me. The. Brush."

"Not until you tell me what you were laughing about," Anak says, jumping up as Ran tried to attack her.

"No way." Ran replies. "A.A. would kill me."

"You're afraid of someone?" Anak grins. "I wonder what everyone will think when they find that out..."

"Give me the brush already, you lizard." Ran makes another unsuccessful grab for it.

"You were a bit short." Anak jumps onto a chair.

"I'm taller than you, lizard." Ran jumps after her. "Now give me the paintbrush already, do you want us to fail?"

"I'll throw it out the window if you don't tell me." She dangles the paintbrush.

"I'll just buy a new one to use."

"Come on, just tell me," Anak grins with a sudden idea. "Or are you too scared?"

"Fine! I am not scared of-of A.A." Ran sighs and sits down.

"Go on." Anak jumps off of the desk, landing beside him.

"Since you know them, I'm sure you heard of the time your friend went to the party at A.A.'s house, right?" Ran asks.

"What?"

"So you don't," Ran mutters. "Anyways, I heard from Hachuling that Verdi was going around shipping everyone. And then you know, came upon A.A.'s group of people he hangs out with. Or more like the friends of his best friend. So then since Shibisu and Hatz were also his friends, they were also there. I'm guessing Verdi just tagged along."

"Oh. And somehow they left me out?" Anak fumes.

"Or that could have been the time when you broke your arm when we had the skateboarding incident," Ran says. "Which was the reason why I wasn't there. Anyways, Verdi decided that A.A. and his friend, Bam, looked adorable together and ended up trailing them around for the rest of the night, shipping them."

"And...?" Anak asks.

"Here's the thing. Since Hachuling, A.A. and I are all brothers, we share the same house. And then that day, Aguero stormed in, pink and fuming. I swear, I could hear him cursing from three floors up." Ran laughs.

"I still don't get why that's amusing."

"The best part is how he's definitely in love with the aforementioned best friend." Ran grins. "Of course, he doesn't know that said friend is also definitely into him."

"So Verdi had shipped the right people. For once." Then realization struck her. "Wait. Bam? As in, the most athletic guy to ever go to our school? As in the twenty-fifth Bam? Or the guy Endorsi is friends with?"

"So you know him?" Ran asks. "Now give the paintbrush."

"Yes, I do. Endorsi talks about him all the time." Anak says. "I don't think she realizes he doesn't like her that way." She tosses Ran the brush, laughing at the memory of Endorsi's constant rants.

"Wait. Actually, you paint, I'll do the research." Ran tosses the brush back.

"What? Why?" Anak catches it with a frown.

"Do you want to research this? Besides, you'd probably mess it up, since you have the mentality of a lizard."

"What!? Ugh, whatever, you can do the research, I'm sure your art skills are terrible anyways. Smug blue b-" Anak turns back around.

"Lizard, lizard, lizard." Ran chants, cutting her off.

"Midget."

"Short dwarf."

"Bast-"

"Anak, no swearing!" Shibisu calls from outside.

"Fine," Anak muttered. "Idiot."

"Ridiculous lizard."

"Why do you even call me a lizard?" She asks.

"No reason." Ran shrugs. "Why do you call me so many variations of 'blue'?"

"Why not? Smug blue guy."

"Annoying lizard.

"Done." Ran says, printing out their information.

"About time. It's practically ten."

"It's your fault that we took so long." Ran glances around at the mess. There were food wrappers everywhere, and somehow the furniture was scratched.

"That's not true!" She frowns.

"How cute!" The snap of a camera was heard. "You two already act like a married couple!"

"Anak, you aren't allowed to date until you're older," Shibisu adds.

"We're working at your place for the report part of this," Anak says, already going to pinch Shibisu.

"Deal," Ran says. "Bye, lizard."

"I'm not a lizard!" Anak yells after him.

"Oi. Get in the car." Aguero ruffles his younger brother's hair.

"Stop doing that. It's annoying." Ran crosses his arms, sitting in the passenger seat.

"Then grow taller. So how was it, working with your girlfriend?" He grins.

"She's not my girlfriend. And why are you the one who's picking me up?" Ran says, adjusting the radio.

"You two are partners for the project. As for your question, Hachuling was busy." Aguero swerves around another car.

"The teacher chose the partners. I was forced to work with her. Anyway, we're working on the project at our house tomorrow." He props his feet on the dashboard.

"Get your feet off the dashboard, you'll mess it up." Aguero swats his feet off with one hand.

"I bet you would let Bam do that," Ran mutters.

"He has better manners than you, he wouldn't do that," Aguero says, glaring at Ran.

"There was that time when he got drunk and you had to drive him home." Ran retorted.

"How-" He turns around at the red light.

"Hachuling." Ran cuts in. "You're a bit biased, you know."

"What?"

"I could pester you asking to borrow twenty dollars for a year and you wouldn't give in. Meanwhile, if Bam asked you for a car you would probably buy one." Ran says, pulling out his phone.

"He wouldn't do that," Aguero says, defending Bam.

"Whatever. Besides, we all know you have 'the hots' for him." Ran drones on.

"...You need to stop hanging around Hachuling and his weird friends." Aguero mutters.

"Doesn't make it any less true." Ran shrugs.

"We're here." Aguero opens the door to get out, then slams it and locks the car.

"Why do you do that every time?" Ran asks, unlocking the door to get out.

"To annoy you. Now let's go." As they approach the front door, the sounds of laughter filled the air. "On second thought, let's go through the back door." Aguero backs towards the other door.

"Why? I'm too tired." Ran yawns.

"Prolonged human interaction."

So yep. This is going to be a continuous one-shot. Probably. Anyways, two updates in a day? Wow. That's a surprise. I actually thought this would take longer, but I kind of like this idea. So yeah. Pairings that may happen are RanxAnak and KhunxBam. Because those two ships are adorable. (To be honest, I ship Bam with so many people that it's almost comical.) There are other ships. I'll write those in future chapters. That may or may not be planned.

Comment your favourite line in this? Even though I'm pretty sure no one even reads this. Mine is probably the last line. And I still need to find a reason why Ran calls Anak 'lizard' in here.

This is also to make up for the really short chapter last time.