Sooo... Whoops?

In actuality though, real life got in the way. I had a few 'issues' and then my mom started deciding I had to raise my average. Honestly, RL sucks. *Awkwardly smiles* Sorry! I do hate when the author's note contains only excuses though, so I'll get on with the story.

And since it's been so long, I hope my writing skills aren't too terrible. It might be a bit different, but the ships won't change. (Afterall, I do still ship the same things)

Edit: Nov 1st, 2019

"...not my fault, you idiot."

Aguero sighs as he approached the office and hears his younger brother's protests. First, I have to write a romance story with Bam of all people, and now the little blue annoyance himself gets himself in trouble like some sort of little gremlin designed to make me suffer.

"Mr Ran, what have we said about insulting your superiors?"

"That it's fine as long as it's true." Ran snarks back.

"What has he done this time?" He opens the door and sighs again at the sight. Ran was swinging his legs in a chair with his arms crossed petulantly.

"Ah, you must be his older brother. I'm principal Yolker." The man stands up with a patronizing smile. "Come sit, come sit."

Ran glares, switching his gaze between Aguero and Mr Yolker. "It wasn't my fault."

Mr Yolker just ignores him, turning towards Aguero. "Your younger brother seems to have started a fight with some of his classmates and injured two of them in the fight. Their parents want us to punish him in some way, and I have to inform you that he's been suspended for three days."

"What did they do to start it?" Aguero crossed his arms.

The principal's smile faltered. "Who said they did anything?"

"I do know my brother. He doesn't start meaningless fights without even calculating the consequences." He tapped his foot impatiently.

"His classmates said Mr Ran was the one who started t-"

"I know what they said happened. I'm asking about what happened."

"They insulted me." Ran cut in. "I couldn't let that slide, could I?"

More likely that they probably insulted your little girlfriend. Aguero sighs again. Honestly, do I have to talk you out of your problems all the time?

"Well, now we have it. Ran wasn't the one who started attacking people randomly." Aguero smiled, showing his teeth. "I believe you should look into a problem before joining the majority and pointing fingers."

"That still doesn't excuse the fact that he injured two students. I do understand that three days may seem a bit harsh, but this is already the third fight he's been involved in this year, and if we don't do this, he won't learn any lessons," said Mr Yolker, starting to frown. Oh whatever, this was troublesome from the start. Besides, Ran needed the discipline, or he'll just end up making my life much more complicated.

"Alright then. I understand." Aguero stands up. "I apologize for the bother, but I need to get back to my classes."

The principal stands up as well. "I do hope that we won't be seeing Mr Ran anymore this year, Mr Khun."

Ran looked disbelieving as he followed Aguero to his car, exploding as soon as they were out of earshot.

"What was that about? Weren't you going to defend me?"

"It's your fault that you've ended up like this, you idiot." Aguero frowns. "You know, when I was in school, I was never labelled as being a misbehaving child. And now look at you. You need at least some consequence."

"That's only because you were Bam's friend and he had such an innocent face that no one ever caught you," Ran mutters. "Unlike you, I don't have the luxury of an overly kind significant other."

"Besides, you're so hot-tempered. I'm sure any remark at your girlfriend would set you off." He continues, talking over Ran. No need to answer to obviously phrased provocations. "That was what happened today, right?"

Ran stares at him. "First of all, Anak is not my girlfriend. Second of all, I told you already, the bastards insulted me first. ME. Not anyone else."

Honestly, he's such a terrible liar. Aguero shakes his head. "I never even said that Anak was who I was talking about. You just answered because you want it to be true."

"I don't even like the lizard." Ran frowns. "Not the way you like Bam."

"Of course I like Bam, he's my friend." Aguero diverts. "Just my friend." I wouldn't mind if we were more though.

Ran air quotes. "Just a friend."

"Oh just shut up." Ruffling Ran's head, he turned on the engine. "Now, where am I supposed to bring you..."

"You could just take me to your university. The day's almost half over, I could just wait in the car until you're done." The younger boy leaned forward.

...This is a terrible idea, Aguero thinks, frowning. "Fine. But you're not going to talk to anyone, or do anything to my car, or even get out of the car."

"Sure, sure, whatever." Ran pulled out his phone and started tapping on it. Aguero sighs at his younger brother's antics for the fourth time that hour.

"Now what are you going to tell Anak? You're suspended in the middle of an assignment." He smirks.

"Blue turtle, you're finally back! Black turtle was starting to get worried." Rak grumbles as Aguero walks into the cafeteria.

"Mr Khun! Is Mr Ran alright?" Bam turns around. Aw, how sweet of him to as- snap out of it, Aguero!

"The little jerk went off and got into another fight." He taps his leg impatiently.

"So are we still on for the project today?" Aguero turns back towards Bam. "Don't you have to take Mr Ran back home?"

"..." Whoops. "I'll just take a detour to bring him home first."

"Couldn't we just work at your place? It's less work." Rak glares at him. "Why do you have to make things so complicated, you scheming turtle!"

"To avoid my annoying relatives? My family has so many children running all over the place, with their friend groups and so on. Bam's place is much better suited for getting our work done."

"Well, at least ask the black turtle before you decide on your own!" Rak humphs. "Why is he even dating you anyways-"

"M-mr Rak!" Bam blushes, ducking to the side. "We're not dating!"

Aguero closes his eyes and leans on the table in exhaustion. At that moment, he sees a bright orange blur run past him and jumps onto Bam.

"Miss Endorsi?!" Bam scoots back, adjusting to make sure they don't topple over. "What are you doing?"

Somewhere in the background, Rak is snickering at Khun's irritated expression.

"Gosh, you're still so jumpy." The girl brushes her hair back and turns towards him. "I'm just sitting with my chemistry partner. We have to finish that by the end of the week, you know."

"I'm sorry Endorsi, but Bam's working on our political essay with us today." Aguero cut in leaning towards the two of them.

"Ah." Endorsi didn't look too pleased about the situation, cuddling into a more and more uncomfortable looking Bam as she glares at Khun. "And are you saying that he can't choose what he's going to do himself?"

"That's not right, you sneaky turtle!"

"What did I say to you?"

"Mr Khun, Mr Rak, please calm down. Miss Endorsi, why don't you just come over as well? That way I can work with all of you together."

"WHAT?!" Aguero and Endorsi practically scream at him.

"I am NOT going with the blue haired-jerk, Bam."

"And I'm not going with HER either," Aguero says, glaring harder.

"You should go with me," Endorsi says. "And what do you mean about not working with me? You should be honoured to get the chance to breathe the same air as me!" She demands Aguero.

"Oh please, you were the one who insulted me first, ghost eyes."

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" She slides towards Khun, squinting her eyes in a glare.

Ahhhh, I'm so not used to this. It's been forever~ since I last wrote something. My writing style feels really off for some reason. Oh well. I hope I get back into this soon! Anyways, I'm also sort of switching to Ao3, so I'll probably post my fics there, except for this one... (HolyQuiznak01) Still haven't posted there yet, mostly because I wanted to get this 'arc' done first. This chapter was more of an adjusting filler.

(Hopefully, I don't decide to drop ToG for a year and a half again in order to get more reading content haha)