A/N: Alright, Seven Knights Mania! Luna's back with a new round for this fan fic! Are you still with me? Good. Now, go ahead and ENJOY ROUND 3! FIGHT!
Disclaimer and Warning: See Prologue!
A Gift from A Far Away World—a Seven Knights Fan fiction
© lunaryu
Round 3: Trouble! Misunderstanding All Around
In the afternoon, when it was time for the students of Terra Demesne University to mill around the campus ground, either playing sports or eating lunch, Kris was once again under the biggest oak tree at the inside park. Though, today for some reason neither Dellons nor Rudy were there with him.
Well… we have our respective schedules after all. It would be weird if we were together all the time—Kris sighed deeply as he bit into his pasta bread, his lunch for the day, at the same time he tried to focus on another mystery novel he had brought from home today to read as a mean of spending his break time. However, while he was at it, he couldn't help recalling what happened this morning…
… After they went home from their morning jog, Kris had retreated to his room to prepare for his lesson. As usual, Dellons was the first one to hog the bathroom and Rudy was in the kitchen to fix them some breakfast since it was his duty today. Kris together with Spike got the dishes chore, so he could take his time preparing. Jave was on grocery shopping, Eileen on laundry, while Rachel and Dellons were in house-cleaning duty.
Kris stayed longer in his room to search for his experiment note while he was waiting for Dellons to finish his morning shower, since Kris also needed to take a soak after running around the town. Actually, he already started looking for his note last night, but he couldn't find it in any of his drawer. It wasn't inside his wardrobe as well. He finally gave up after he yawned for the tenth time since he started his search and went to bed. Now, feeling fully awake and fresh from the morning workout, Kris looked for some secret compartments under his studying desk, under his bed, or in any nook and cranny that he could think of inside his room, but still nada.
It was weird. He was Kris Tenebra. Kris knew himself pretty well. He wouldn't keep something important to him too far away from his body. The place would be secretive enough, but somewhere he could access easily when he needed it in case of emergency. If it wasn't in any secret compartment in his room, then it must have been somewhere in this house. Keeping it at his campus risked it being found by someone else. His independent (family) lab… was too far away from both his current house and campus, so accessibility was a problem.
Do we have a basement in the house…?—Kris contemplate to look for it after confirming with his body memory that indeed, the house had a basement. But before he could execute his plan, Rudy knocked on his door, informing him that breakfast was ready and that he would wake up the others so they could have breakfast together.
Kris decided to postpone his search for later, then grabbed some of his clothes and a towel before he went to set them at the counter near the bathroom. He knocked on the bathroom door twice to tell Dellons that breakfast was ready and he should hurry before Jave ate it all.
Kris then joined Rudy at the kitchen to help him set the table. Soon, everyone trickled inside the kitchen one by one. Eileen was still in her pajama, yawning, when she entered. Rachel was already prim and proper, even as far as bringing her own brewed herbal tea to drink because she refused to drink tea from a tea bag in the morning. Jave and Spike walked in together, already with their bags and ready to go since they had an early scheduled classes, Jave to the field and Spike to the factory. Dellons came in last, still damp and looking fresh with his towel still hanging on his neck, topless and only wearing a pair of sweat pants that clung to his hips sexily.
"Such indecent sight in front of the ladies," Rachel frowned at him, her cheeks colored pink slightly, as Eileen wolf-whistled blatantly eyeing Dellons' abs like a piece of meat.
"Well, you have great taste, ladies," Dellons winked at them playfully as he sat down beside a ruefully smiling Rudy. Jave made a barfing noise and Spike just ignored them all as he ate. Kris resolutely didn't look at Dellons way at all, feeling a bit uncomfortable, especially after Eileen commented that she wouldn't mind sleeping with Dellons if he weren't such an ass.
After that, Kris finished his breakfast quietly and retreated to the bathroom to shower. He couldn't help feeling Dellons baby blue eyes fixed on his back all the time during his short walk between the kitchen and the living room where their biggest communal bathroom was located.
Half an hour later, Kris, Rudy and Dellons went to campus together (after Kris did the dishes, Jave, Spike and Rachel already departed, and Eileen was taking a shower) and they parted ways to their respective building when they reached their campus. Since then, until at this moment at lunch, Kris hadn't seen his other friends again…
Kris sighed rather deeply. For some reason, the mystery book he had brought today failed miserably to hold his attention for more than three minutes at a time. He was easily distracted by what was happening around him. A Frisbee flying near him, the laughter of the other students, a whispering talk between two girls sitting just two meters away from his spot… it was slightly irritating.
Kris decided to give up his lunch-reading session and started to pack up when a tall, burly figure stopped in front of him. Kris blinked, seeing the dark chocolate colored ankle boots, and then looked upward slightly at the owner.
"Kris Tenebra?" A big Asian man, with reddish-black hair and a pair of azure colored eyes spoke to him. His expression was calm, but there was seriousness in his tone and Kris couldn't help feeling that he didn't really like this person despite only meeting him for the first time.
Though, original Kris knew this person in his original world. This was the counterpart of General Lu Bu from Aisha continent. The guy that had kicked Rudy, Rachel and Eileen's asses despite only being by himself when the three had confrontation with him. Luckily, he wasn't exactly immune to Kris' death curse, so Kris alone could corner the guy to back down and retreat before Kris could seal his fate in Death hands.
What in the world did his counterpart want with Kris' counterpart?
"Yes," Kris responded to him with low voice before standing up. He didn't like that he had to look upwards to him, but since Lu Bu was considerably taller, around 188 cm, it couldn't be helped. "Do you have business with me?" Kris asked, looking at him in the eye without fear.
Lu Bu nodded slightly, offering his hand to him in a handshake. "I'm Lu Bu, an exchange student that studied theoretical physic in this campus. Actually, I've been in your class since the start of the semester. I hadn't gotten a chance to talk to you since you seemed pretty busy. I presumed the Professor asked you to do some independent project before, but these days I saw you here most of the noon break, so I decided to come over and greet. I hope I didn't interrupt your time too much," he explained, his words and attitude polite, but the content of his speech spoke too loudly of how close observation he had done to Kris' day to day activity.
Stalker?—Kris couldn't help thinking as he nodded, confirming Lu Bu's observation.
"I'm actually quite interested in talking about that independent project, if you don't mind," Lu Bu confessed his intention, to the point, without any preamble or sugar-coat.
Oh… he's interested in that experiment, huh?—Kris contemplate in whether or not to tell Lu Bu that the Professor already cut Kris off of the participant list, but first he needed to know from where Lu Bu heard about the experiment in the first place.
"Did Professor tell you to talk to me about the experiment?" Kris asked, testing if he could trust Lu Bu's counterpart. He could feel several pairs of eyes on him now. From a silver long haired guy behind the palm tree six meter away from their spot, from a very pretty girl with straight-long dark-chocolate hair that stood just behind the whispering girls two meters on his left, and from a short man with short brown hair squatting on the middle of the park.
Those people are the Four Lords'… counterparts, huh? Ace, Rin, and Goku. What did they want?—Kris inconspicuously glanced at them, careful enough so Lu Bu wouldn't notice that Kris knew he was being watched closely.
"Yes, he said you would know better about it since you are the leading researcher of the project," Lu Bu confirmed once again and now Kris knew that this guy was lying. If he really had talked to the Professor, he would know that Kris was no longer allowed to go near the experiment since he had been banned by the higher ups.
Kris decided to keep it a secret then. He didn't trust this person. He lied to Kris in the first meeting after all. Maybe he was looking for an in to learn his campus secret. Or he could be planning something terrible using that experiment. Either way, it would be a bad idea to disclose his finding to a guy like Lu Bu.
"I'm sorry. My hands are tied. It's a classified project. Unless I am sure that you are part of the researchers, I can't reveal anything of the project to you. Do you want me to confirm with the Professor?" Kris took his cell phone out of his bag, opened the lid and started to dial Rudy's number instead of the professor to appear that he was serious with his intention.
Lu Bu widened his eyes in a slight alarm when he saw Kris fast movement in dialing he number and he raised his hand to reach for the phone in Kris' hand to stop him. But before Lu Bu's hand could touch Kris', someone else had seized Lu Bu's wrist in a tight grip.
"Sorry, big guy, My Princess doesn't like being touched by stranger." It was Dellons, pulling Lu Bu's wrist, and hand by extension, away from Kris' which thumb was still busily moving to dial Rudy's number.
"What?!" Lu Bu exclaimed in surprise because he didn't seem to notice Dellons' presence near them before and Kris secretly noted that the other three people that were watching them jump slightly in surprise as well as Dellons interfered.
"I have to ask you to back off, man. This guy here is already taken," Dellons smirked at Lu Bu, but his eyes and expression looked cold and intimidating, unlike the usual cruelly playful Dellons that liked to mess with other people just because he could. This time, Kris could actually feel an intent to kill from Dellons, and it was rather frightening.
Kris stopped his typing for a moment and used his free hand to touch Dellons' tense arm as Dellons hand was still on Lu Bu's wrist. It seemed that Lu Bu was trying to free his wrist from Dellons' vice-like grip for a while then, but to no avail. If Dellons didn't loosen his clutch soon, Kris was sure he would break Lu Bu's wrist.
"Dellons, stop. You will injure your own hand that way," Kris placated the blond, caressing his arm slightly. Dellons seemed to react to his soft touch and immediately let go of Lu Bu's wrist to turn to Kris and smile at him.
"Are you alright, Princess?" Dellons reached for Kris' hand that was on his arm and then held it tenderly.
Kris let out a resigned sigh as he deadpanned at the blond. He didn't have a spare energy to be mad at Dellons anymore for calling him 'Princess' repeatedly. "I'm fine, and you're over-reacting. Lu Bu here was just talking to me," he continued, appearing annoyed, but didn't pull his hand away from Dellons' to wordlessly inform him that his intervention was welcomed. "So, Lu Bu," he turned to the pensive looking guy that was holding his wrist in a grimace and when he looked back to Kris again to regard his call, Kris sent him an ice-cold glare. "No more lying about something so sensitive, or I'll report you to the Dean," he warned and Lu Bu looked visibly humiliated as he growled in anger before he retreated, stomping away while seething.
Secretly, Kris also saw the other Four Lords' counterparts withdraw as well, completely abandoning their stealth, when they joined Lu Bu across the field.
A few minutes later Kris started to feel uncomfortable with Dellons' close proximity. "So… until when are you going to hold my hand?" Kris asked, pulling his hand slightly, but Dellons didn't let go.
"If I could, I'd never let go," Dellons pulled Kris even closer and Kris glared at him, feeling extra annoyed now.
"Quit joking around," Kris growled. But somehow, Dellons' baby blues staring at Kris' rubies deeply made Kris very awkward as well. Dellons's eyes seemed really bottomless and his expression appeared somewhat serious. It was so uncharacteristic of him. "Dellons," Kris called the blonde again, but Dellons was still in some kind of trance when he leaned into Kris and Kris felt that Dellons was about to do something embarrassing, so Kris used his hand that was still holding his cell-phone to punch the guy on his side.
Dellons winced in shock and immediately crouched down to hold his abused side while grimacing in obvious pain at the rough treatment. "Ugh… I wished you'd be gentler to your knight in shining armor, Princess…" he complained lowly, sounding slightly vexed.
"If the knight tried to molest the princess, I think it was called for. Princess couldn't be sullied by the knight," Kris huffed, going along with Dellons' knight and princess analogy while closing his cell phone before putting it back inside his bag.
"So… what was that, just now? Since when have you been associating with the Four Lords?" Dellons asked after he stood once again and Kris nearly dropped his bag, along with his heart sinking, at Dellons' mention of the Four Lords' tittle.
"The what?" Kris tried to hide his panicky and nervousness by appearing feeling ridiculous then. It couldn't be… Dellons knew?
"What, you didn't know? The Four Lords, four exchanged students from Asia. Incredibly rich, very smart and strong, Ace and Rin from Japan, and Lu Bu and Goku from China. They are all here with their martial arts scholar ships, but Lu Bu is very exceptional in politics as well. Rumor says he's related to the current Chinese Prime Minister or something. I haven't dug enough on the other three, but they all seem to be sons and daughter of very influencing families in their home countries. Especially that guys just now… you should be careful with Lu Bu. He looks like muscles-idiot, but he's actually incredibly clever and cunning," Dellons warned and Kris was thoughtful for a moment before he commented.
"Hmm… similar characters can tell each other's minds, huh?" Kris nodded in understanding.
"Hey, now. Are you comparing me to that guy? That's not very nice of you, Princess. I'm clearly superior to him both in mind and body," Dellons protested and Kris' sweat dropped at his arrogance. "So, what did Lu Bu want from you?" he repeated his question, apparently not easily distracted from it.
Kris eyed Dellons calculatingly before he sighed, thinking that it was okay to say it if only it could get Dellons off of his back. "He asked about the independent project I was doing for my professor some months ago," Kris said, but not telling Dellons what kind of experiment it was.
"Independent project… ah," Dellons punched his palm as he seemed to remember something. "That time when you were sleeplessly and enthusiastically building something in our basement like some kind of mad scientist, huh?"
What?!—Kris gaped.
"Why, how, wha—?! That was supposed to be a classified project!" Kris shouted at Dellons in reaction, extremely shocked because—What the HELL?! Did this world Kris really build a fatally dangerous device in their basement?! Without safety precaution whatsoever?! Was he insane?!
"Wait. Why are you angry with me? You were the one who was being noisy every night through last month and even though we came down to warn you about the noise disturbance, you just looked manically at us and said that you were going to change the world or something. Personally, I thought you really had gone mad because of too much coffee and no sleep," Dellons huffed, looking slightly confused because Kris forgot about all of that.
Well, Kris really didn't know. There was no body memory about that time that was recorded in this world Kris' brain. "It seems that… I really only functioned with half of my mind at the time…" Kris mumbled, paling severely since apparently he had endangered everyone in the house with his carelessness. "Doing such hazardous thing near my family… There was something really wrong with my mind...!" Kris shuddered at the thought that he almost brought disaster to the people close to him. No, he was afraid that he already did it unconsciously. What if the device highly radioactive?
"Hey, Kris… was that experiment really that dangerous?" Dellons asked hesitantly and Kris looked upward at Dellons rather nervously, his hands shaking slightly, but he tried to hide it by clenching his fists. Kris wanted to apologize, but his voice was stuck in his throat and he couldn't exactly explain the nature of his experiment to Dellons because then Dellons would guess that Kris wasn't this world Kris. If his cover was blown up, Kris would lose his mean to fix everything.
Dellons though, seemed to notice how hard it was for Kris to speak up. He probably conjured up that Kris was feeling guilty for risking him and the others' health by doing his experiment at home. Dellons patted Kris' shoulder softly then. "No worries, Princess. We're okay, aren't we?" He winked and smiled at Kris comfortingly.
"Dellons…" Kris stared at Dellons in wonder then, slightly disbelieving that Dellons could be nice too when he wanted to be.
"Of course, I'll be more in my top health if you give me a kiss every morning and night," Dellons' other hand grabbed Kris' other shoulder and he grinned cheekily before he leaned down to give Kris a kiss on the corner of his mouth.
Kris widened his eyes and his face color turned slightly green before it exploded in red as he- "You PERVERT!" yelled, clenched his fist, and sent Dellons body flying with his enraged (embarrassed) punch.
Yeah, Kris couldn't lower his guard at all around Dellons. That stupid, crazy bastard of an asshole!—Kris rubbed his lips frantically. He would definitely kill him after done kicking Dellons' butt later!
~A Seven Knights Fan fiction~
Rudy stared at the cheerily humming Dellons—while he was doodling something in his notebook beside him, with a bead of sweat rolling down his cheek. After the lunch break was over, it was time to attend the next class. For some reason Dellons had entered the lecture hall with a bruised cheek, but his expression looked incredibly happy and flowery.
Since the professor hadn't come in yet, Rudy decided to ask. "What happened to your face?"
"Hmm?" Dellons turned to face Rudy, still smiling like an idiot. "A proof of love from my beloved Princess," he chirped, completely disregarding the violent treatment to his behalf.
"I see," more sweats dropped of Rudy's face. "Though, you should probably quit provoking Kris every time you guys interact with each other. He'll end up hating you for real, you know." Rudy rested his chin on one of his palms while sighing.
"Kris… hating me?" Dellons snorted once before he started to laugh at that. "That will happen when pigs start flying, Rudy," he continued laughing for a while as Rudy shook his head, exasperated of how unbelievably confident his best friend was.
"Don't whine at me when he refuses to talk to you anymore," Rudy presaged, impishly punching Dellons' arm.
"Kris will never avoid or refuse to talk to people just because he hates them," Dellons was still chuckling as he said this, his expression so fond that it caused Rudy to widen his eyes for a moment, quite startled that Dellons could be so affectionate to someone else.
Ah… but Kris isn't exactly 'someone else', is he? He's in our circle after all…
Rudy knew that deep down Dellons was actually a good guy that cared about his friends and family, he was only bad at showing affection because his way of delivering his love was so twisted that people tended to misunderstand his intention. He teased the people that interested him after all.
Back then when they were in high school, as Rudy had just known the guy, Dellons also antagonized and picked a fight with Rudy all the time. If Rudy hadn't seen how Dellons beat the shit out of people that tried to frame Rudy for the stolen examination sheets so Rudy wouldn't be elected as the student council president and would be expelled from school in their sophomore year, Rudy would have still thought that Dellons was merely a delinquent-classmate instead of delinquent-best friend.
Kris was also there, even though his way of paying back those guys who dirtied Rudy's reputation was subtler and in a way crueler since it impacted their future as well. Kris was exceptional in computer science, hacking and manipulating pictures and videos was like child's play for him. Kris actually changed the record of those guys attendance in school, so all of them had to repeat a year for the lack of them. He also remotely manipulated security tape in one of the convenient store closest to their high school, showing those guys stealing some stuffs from the store, and then posted the video on You***e that they had to deal with the authorities and get a criminal record in their file.
Kris made those guys' life a living hell (especially in social media) for attempting to hurt and upset Rudy. It was sweet, but also very scary at the same time. Rudy was grateful, but he couldn't help thinking that it was too much as well. Though, Kris didn't say that he was the one who did it. There was no proof of his involvement, but the way Kris looked in satisfied contempt at those guys' suffering back then told Rudy enough that he definitely had done something to make them pay for inconveniencing Rudy in the first place. Kris would make a very terrifying super villain if he ever wanted to go down that path in his life.
Eileen and Rachel had been in student council as well back then as a secretary and a treasury, and they helped clear Rudy's name by mobilizing the disciplinary committee, led by Spike, to catch the real thief. He remembered they had stayed at school over night to do that. And then there was also Jave. Jave was a year younger than them, not exactly in student council, but he hung out around Spike all the time for some reason. He was supple, outgoing and very resourceful, so he made sure to spread words to other students to defend Rudy restlessly, giving him moral support. It was a crisis that Rudy was grateful for, since because of that, he knew how precious he was for his friends, how much loved he was by them. Ultimately, Rudy ended up feeling so blessed with friends like them around him.
Done reminiscing, Rudy looked at Dellons some more with a smile. "I'm glad I get to know you all," he whispered softly, but Dellons seemed to hear that as he blinked.
"What is it, Rudy, so suddenly like that? Ah, have you fallen for me?" Dellons smirked at him humorously then and Rudy flushed and punched his arm harder in reaction. "Ow! I told you to mind your strength!" the blond protested, stroking his own arm slowly.
"It's because you're always teasing people like that, you know. You reap what you sow," Rudy huffed and looked away to the front since the lecturer already arrived.
Dellons muttered something in reply, but it was too low for Rudy to catch and he only grunted in response and told Dellons to focus on the lecture for now. Still, during the lesson, Rudy couldn't help remembering what happened last night, when he was trying to apologize to Kris and following him upstairs to the veranda.
At the time, Rudy didn't get to speak to Kris, though. He didn't even get out to the veranda because from the slightly ajar door, he could see Dellons and Kris…and Dellons was holding Kris' body from behind, his mouth so close to Kris' ear and his baby blue eyes looked extremely tender when he seemed to whisper something.
Rudy felt that he had walked into a very private, intimate moment between Dellons and Kris, and somehow, he sensed that he absolutely couldn't interrupt it, so he backed off and immediately scrammed away from there.
And just now Dellons made such look again when he talked about Kris. He never showed that kind of expression even when he was with his girlfriends before… Is it possible that Dellons… towards Kris…?—it bothered Rudy. Somehow, the curious thought greatly perturbed him. But Rudy didn't know why it was unsettling him. If Dellons liked Kris like that… If for Dellons Kris was special, then… shouldn't he be happy for his friend finally finding love?
But the fact that it was Kris troubled Rudy. Why Kris?—Rudy's chest felt slightly tight as he thought about his other best friend.
Rudy had known Kris since they were still in elementary school. Kris was the only son of very prestigious family in town and maybe he was a bit coddled by his parents, but the silver platinum blond boy with ruby colored eyes was quiet most of the time. Their classmates misunderstood his quietness for aloofness and thought they weren't worthy of Kris' attention, but Rudy just guessed that Kris was a shy person by nature, so he greeted him first and asked him to play with Rudy.
That first sweet smile Kris bestowed Rudy when he was saying yes was still nailed so deeply inside Rudy's heart and memory. Since then, Kris talked more often, and he talked to their other classmates as well. Kris was smart with vast knowledge for a child in his age, so many curious children, including Rudy, immediately flocked to him to hear some stories that Kris knew and they hadn't heard before. Kris was also good at sport despite reading books constantly, so he was popular among the girls as well.
Well, some other boys who were jealous of Kris' popularity tried to bully him once, but Rudy wouldn't let them get away with it and even though it hadn't escalate into a fight, the yelling and shouting was quite bad that their teacher had to intervene and their parents (the nun from the orphanage in Rudy's case) were called to school. Rudy was about to tell the teacher and their guardians the truth about what happened, but Kris prevented him and told them that their playing had just gone a bit too rough, and they promised it wouldn't happen again.
In the end, it didn't end too badly because those bullies ended up apologizing to Kris and thanking him for not telling their parents about it the next day. Apparently, those boys' parents were in debt to Kris' parents, and they told their children to play nice to Kris because they would get into trouble with Kris' parents if they caused him any harm. Kris understood that from the beginning. That's why he had lied about the bullying. Kris didn't want to cause trouble for those guys' parents since he knew how big his family's influence was.
Kris… despite being so young, understood how the grown ups' world worked. Maybe he was forced to grow up because of his parents and family's high expectation. Or, maybe he didn't have a time to being a kid because even as a child, there was a lot of things Kris wanted to protect. He even apologized to Rudy for forcing him to lie despite knowing how great Rudy's sense of justice was.
However, when Rudy looked at Kris' sad smile, he not only was unable to get angry, but also couldn't help hugging the boy. Then, while holding him tightly, Rudy promised that he would protect Kris no matter what, for as long as Kris would have him.
Rudy's feeling for Kris since then hadn't changed. He still wanted to protect Kris. He wanted to shield Kris from any harm that could hurt him. It was pretty bad, his over protectiveness. He and Kris got into a fight because Rudy suffocated him too much with his presence during their middle school. Rudy got extremely possessive and obsessive towards Kris, he didn't even let Kris out of his sight and have a private chat to anyone. Kris punched him, threw him into the pool, and told him to cool his head off, get a grip of himself and stop being a creepy stalker or he would kick Rudy's ass some more.
Rudy then realized that Kris was stronger than he appeared to be. Kris made him realize that Kris needed Rudy as a friend, not as bodyguard, and he wanted to play and study with Rudy like a normal friend. He hated that Rudy put him on a pedestal and he wanted Rudy to regard him as his best friend that could tell him anything just like Kris himself that already called Rudy his best friend.
Rudy laughed after that, feeling foolish, because he felt so strongly for Kris, more than for anyone else, he didn't know how to treat Kris like he did his other friends. He realized that Kris was special because he was Rudy's best friend. Rudy then apologized for being stupid and Kris easily forgave him as long as he tampered down his mother-hen's tendency.
Rudy would always feel protective towards Kris, but it wasn't as bad as before. He let Kris socialize freely now, but he shouldn't have been so worried in the first place, because Kris didn't actually socialize much at all. Especially during high school… Kris was still popular of course, because he was beautiful and very smart, but people were more afraid of his family that they couldn't treat Kris like a normal friend. They always talked about Kris, but only from afar. They didn't have any guts to interact with Kris directly. Only Rudy, Dellons, Spike, Jave, Eileen and Rachel that could speak to Kris in friendly manner (in Dellons case, teasing Kris every so often) and before anyone realized it, they were dubbed as the Seven Knights of Terra High School.
Remembering about the past always made Rudy smile. There were a lot of things happening in high school, huh? Kris being hit on by a male senior, or that time when Dellons set the frying pan in home economics class on fire because he misjudged the power of the fire and the amount of oil, or that time when Spike incidentally froze the lemon because he spilled a liquid nitrogen on it during science class, Eileen and Rachel having a cat fight over Klahan, the new transfer student from Thailand, or that time when Jave brought Red to school and it escaped from its cage and flied over the school ground, terrorizing the female students… They were such fun experiences, and Rudy really wanted to have more of those amazing things together with his friends even after this.
Nevertheless, if the relationship between them changed… if Dellons was really in love with Kris and if they ended up as a couple, then… Would Rudy still be entitled to protect Kris? Would that right be given to Dellons then?
For some reason, thinking about that possibility made Rudy's heart clench in a strange ache, and… he couldn't help disliking the idea, despite not knowing the reason.
~A Seven Knights Fan fiction~
"Hey, Dellons…"
Dellons turned to face his best friend with a raised eyebrow. "What?" He asked as Rudy looked rather hesitant for some reason. It was after the lesson and they were getting ready to leave the lecture hall to go to their next class, but Rudy seemed a bit off since in the middle of their lesson earlier. "You know you can always tell me anything, right?" He felt rather weird that Rudy was beings self concious around him now. They had been friends since high school after all.
"No, well…" Rudy looked the other way for a moment, seeming to contemplative how to say whatever he wanted to say while his hands were stuffing his notebooks inside his bag. "It's-," he started then, still not looking back at Dellons, "It's about last night… when you were with Kris on the veranda…"
Dellons blinked once, pausing his hand for a bit, before he smirked as he continued zipping his bag. "What, you were there? Pervert," he chuckled as he decided to tease Rudy, because it was so much fun to mess with his best friend as well.
Rudy's face turned interestingly pink as a reaction and he huffed again at Dellons in slightly embarrassed mixed with exasperated look. "I was just there because I wanted to apologize to Kris! I didn't intentionally see it!" he protested, defending himself.
Dellons laughed at Rudy's mortification. "It was a joke. Sheesh, can you take a joke?" He rolled his eyes after that, still chuckling as he observed Rudy's bothered look. "And?"
"Huh?" Now Rudy looked muddled as Dellons asked him.
"What about it?" Dellons continued. "What did you see, Rudy?"
Rudy was silent for approximately a minute, just staring at Dellons' face in scrutiny, but then he looked down on his bag and zipped it as well, looking more annoyed than before. "It's stupid. Just forget it," he grabbed it and then started walking away.
"Hey, now. Don't leave me hanging like that. You'll make me curious! Wait, Rudy!" Dellons also grabbed his bag and then strutted following his friend. "Come on, man. Tell me what's wrong," he grabbed Rudy's shoulder to stop him and Rudy complied as he stopped walking, while chewing his lower lip slightly, before he faced Dellons once again in the eye and asked.
"Last night, you held Kris from behind, and you looked… You looked like you're really into him. I mean, you… and-and today as well, you make that look again when you talked about Kris… Are you actually serious about him?"
Dellons tilted his head aside, a bit inquisitive. "What kind of look did I make?"
"Well, you seemed to be in cloud nine whenever you talked about Kris. Didn't you notice? I mean, you never made such kind of honestly fond and happy expression even when you were with your girlfriends… I just thought that maybe… your feelings for Kris are—"
"Real?" Dellons cut Rudy's speech and the brunet snapped to look upward at Dellons, his eyes widening slightly.
"Are you… serious about Kris?" Rudy's expression gradually turned somber and Dellons could detect an uneasiness there in his voice tone and his glimmering amber eyes.
"What would you do if I said 'yes'?" Dellons reversed the question with a small smirk, observing his best friend's various changes of expression from shock to dreading and then to confusion. It was amusing how Rudy couldn't figure out what he was feeling for Kris. Even though it was very obvious in his day to day behavior.
"Why are you asking me that? I'm the one that wants to know how serious you are about Kris," Rudy huffed again, apparently choosing to dodge the question as he turned into a lecturing mode. "Since you're always playing with women… Kris is not like that, Dellons. You can't play with his feelings." Aaaand here was the mother-hen that had just returned from the land of muddle.
It was such a shame. Dellons was actually very interested in witnessing how Rudy would react when he realized the nature of his feelings towards Kris. Oh, well… Dellons could always provoke him, He could be his rival for Kris' hand. Dellons would never let any other guys touch Kris, but if it was Rudy…
Dellons' smirk widened slightly at his amazingly cunning plan. "Who said I was playing with women? I seriously love them. I just don't think of them as my special one," he said, earning him more 'deer caught in a headlight' look from Rudy. "But Kris… he's my Princess, the one and only special Princess of my heart."
Dellons stared at Rudy's eyes deeply, still smirking, but he was 100% sure. Dellons could see the moment Rudy realized that he was indeed deadly serious. The brunet opened his mouth, seeming about to say something, but then he hesitated and looked away from Dellons penetrating gaze, seemingly very bothered, as if he didn't know how to react to Dellons' confession about his feelings for Kris, even though the brunet was the one that brought up the topic.
Dellons though, wasn't done messing around with Rudy because the brunet could be infuriatingly dense and annoying. "What do you think about it, Rudy?" he asked, deliberately appearing expectant of Rudy's approval.
"What? Why would you need to hear my thought about it?" Rudy sounded slightly flustered and he looked very adorable when his face turned red in perplexity like that. It was really amusing.
"Well, because you're my best buddy, duh," Dellons rolled his eyes. "If my best friend doesn't approve of my love-partner choice, it will be awkward to live with him under the same roof… together with my wannabe boyfriend, right?"
"I…" Rudy started slightly, but then he paused and looked at Dellons with trepidation as if he didn't know how to phrase his feelings into words. "I don't… know…" He finally said something after being silent for a minute. "I… need to think about it first."
Dellons turned his smirk into a smile seeing the distressed look on Rudy's face. He tapped Rudy's shoulder once before looping his arm from his side and hugged his friend across his back. "Alright, bro. No need to rush. I'm still having fun messing around with my princess after all." He snickered and Rudy scowled at him.
"Why are you making him mad all the time if you like him?" Rudy sounded and looked very disapproving now and Dellons grinned at him widely in reaction.
"Isn't it obvious? Kris' eyes shine brighter and more alive when he's pissed. It's a very beautiful look on him!" Dellons' reason apparently stunned Rudy, and seeing Rudy's dumbfounded look, Dellons couldn't help but laugh some more as he guided the still flabbergasted brunet to their next class.
~A Seven Knights Fan fiction~
When Kris arrived at home, he was hurrying to the basement. Of course he made sure that no one had been home yet because he skipped his last class of the day so he could come home early and have the house for himself and search it furtively. He also had secretly borrowed the radiation-measuring device from the university lab and used it to measure radiation level around the basement. Looking at the green light after he was done sweeping the quite large room, Kris sighed in relief. Whatever this world Kris had built in this basement, it wasn't radioactive.
Kris shut off the device and put it back inside his bag. He looked around the spacious room once again. Noting that it was actually used as laundry room since he found two washing machines and a sink at one corner. Other than those, there were some unused stuffs, like old couch, old dresser, and some boxes that probably stored more old things. But, Kris didn't see any device that looked like it could be used to manipulate space and time continuum.
Kris clicked his tongue in a slight frustration. If at least he knew how it looked like… Kris grumbled as he turned to the unused dresser. Maybe he kept his experiment note in one of the drawers.
As Kris was in the middle of opening those drawers one by one, he heard his cell phone ringtone. Kris paused his activity to rummage inside his bag, and then fished out his phone. He looked at the caller id and saw Rudy's name. Kris sighed before he accept the call, "Hello."
"Ah, hey Kris."—Rudy's voice greeted back from the other side of the line. "Sorry for not calling back sooner. I only opened my phone just now and saw the missed call. Did you need me for something earlier?"
"Ah, no… that was," Kris paused. He didn't realize that his fake call to throw off Lu Bu this afternoon really connected. He thought he had terminated the call before it could. How would he explain this to Rudy? Kris never called if it wasn't important. He usually just texted or mailed. He should probably tell Rudy the truth before he heard it from someone else… or Dellons. Kris certainly didn't want Dellons to twist the story into some kind of a princess in distress being saved by a knight.
"What's wrong, Kris? Did something happen?"—Now Rudy sounded concerned. Apparently Kris had been silent for too long.
"No, well," Kris started once again. "This afternoon I just needed to appear to call my professor to fend off some guy. It wasn't really that important. I just remembered your phone number first, so I dialed yours. I didn't intend for it to really connect. Sorry for that."
"Eh, did someone bother you today?" Rudy asked, his tone curious.
"Just a bit. He was asking about the independent project I did for my professor some months ago. It was supposed to be classified experiment and I wondered where he had heard about it from. Besides, he seemed to have been observing me for a while and he lied to me about hearing it from my professor since he didn't know that I was already cut off from the project," Kris explained and Rudy was quiet as he seemed to carefully listen to him.
"Is it going to be a problem for you later?" Rudy asked somberly after that, seemingly worried.
"No. There will be no problem. I threatened to report him to the dean if he tried to dig deeper about it." Kris rested his back on the old dresser and closed his eyes, smiling slightly.
"Uh-oh, as expected of the Golden Egg of Physic Department," Rudy chuckled in reaction, probably amused at the fact that Kris had privilege and not afraid to use it.
"Besides," Kris added before Rudy could hear the twisted version from Dellons, "Dellons already told him off. With Dellons' rep, I doubt that guy will come near me again."
"…Oh."
Huh?—Kris blinked once at the slight pause in Rudy's speech. He sounded a bit… odd.
"Rudy?" Kris called and there was a slight chuckle from Rudy, but it sounded strained.
"Ah, no. I'm just a bit uneasy. I hope Dellons doesn't cause any trouble after this. You know how he is. If he thinks that that guy is going to cause a problem for us in the future, he will definitely move first to disable him. Sheesh… Dellons is worrying me all the time lately…" Rudy grated and Kris chuckled at his slightly bemoaning tone, even though he was slightly jealous because Rudy was worried more about Dellons' possible future action than the main issue.
Oh, well… that's why we like Rudy after all—Kris thought silently before flushing a bit when he realized what he just thought and shook his head.
"Well, we will make sure that Dellons doesn't do anything stupid again like before," Kris said as a final. "I'm hanging up, Rudy. I need to do something."
"Okay, see you at dinner?" Rudy confirmed.
"See you at dinner." Kris nodded despite knowing that Rudy couldn't see him and then ended the call. He sighed once again before pocketing the phone. "Somehow… I'm starting to think that Dellons will be a rival instead of someone that needs to be turned down…"
Kris shook his head once again. It wasn't a time to think about his crush or potential rival. He needed to focus on finding the experiment note or the device this world Kris had built. He had decided to set his priorities in order after all. The most important thing was going back to his original world. As for the interrelationship between this world Kris and the others… Kris needed to refrain from interfering too much, right? If this world Kris was back and found that everything had changed around here, he would be shocked and troubled.
Well, I'm sure 'I' will be happy if he's closer to Rudy—Kris couldn't help countering. He knew himself pretty well after all.
~A Seven Knights Fan fiction~
Dellons intended to go harassing some people on his way home. He was ready to make some rude people's life difficult today since those guys had dared to sell some illegal drugs to one of his girlfriends, saying that it could boost her confidence and intelligence. Those guys had also preyed on some freshmen whom were still too naïve and unable to choose their friends carefully, and Dellons despised those guys for daringly touching what was his.
If Rudy and the others hadn't interfered yesterday, Dellons would have made sure that those guys would never show their noses in their town again. After all, Dellons was one call away from his questionable friends during high school, and they still thought that Dellons was their boss even after Dellons disbanded their group and turned a new leaf of his life to be an honor student as soon as he was admitted into his university. If Dellon gave them the word, they would remove those rude drug-rats permanently.
Of course, Rudy and the others, heck, even Dellons' family didn't know about his involvement with his old acquaintances. Dellons made sure to hide it. Besides, he was a master of deceit and manipulation. He never actually showed his face directly to his questionable friends. They were a bunch of misguided youths that had no authority figure in their lives. It was easy for Dellons to take their hearts by becoming some kind of mysterious masked leader-defender or justice that took them under his wings, protected and guided their actions through calls and mails. It was quite fun playing that role and they were pretty useful when Dellons needed extra hands to do some problematic deeds. Dellons' plans were always flawless and every mission he gave his friends always had back up to protect them from other groups and authorities. That's why they would always be loyal to Dellons. It was true that he used them, but Dellons also took care what was his after all.
Anyway, even after disbanding their group, Dellons still used them time to time. Well, you know the saying—Rome wasn't built in one day. Besides, even though Dellons wasn't afraid to dirty his own hands (like kicking some ungrateful asses in the pretense of self-defense), he wouldn't want to involve his other friends in that dubious world where there was no black or white, but always gray area to pass through.
Especially Rudy. He was a pain in the ass since he kept a close tab on Dellons as often as he could, and being in the same department as Rudy wasn't helping at all even though at first Dellons thought it could be a good idea as a reverse psychological trick, to make Rudy ignore Dellons if his presence was constantly around him. People usually took something for granted if it was always around him, right? Like air, for example, no one thought much about air. But no. Rudy was abnormal. He wasn't like other people. He took everything around him as something important to him and so he watched and observed and Rudy always saw through people's deepest thoughts which they desperately wanted to keep a closed lid on. It was grating most of the time of how difficult it was to throw him off, since Rudy already decided that Dellons was part of his essential circle to protect and care, so Dellons chose the 'tease and provoke' method to distract Rudy from seeing too closely and luckily, it worked.
Rudy was smart and observant, but pure, simple and positive-thinking. It was the reason why Rudy caught Dellons' real intention despite his disagreeable attitude most of the time. Rudy knew that Dellons cared. If he didn't, Dellons wouldn't bother at all. Dellons cared about Rudy. He cared about their circle of friends. That's why, despite officially leaving that shady world of deceit and manipulation, Dellons still couldn't completely cut ties with the people in that world. Because there had to be someone in there, to make sure that Rudy and their important circle of friends were shielded from having to deal with them directly.
Dellons made it his duty as Rudy's best friend. He was alright to be the bad guy that messed other people around, being hated or resented, as long as he could keep his important ones away from the real bad guys.
That's why…
"Quit following me around, Rudy!" Dellons turned around to yell at the brunet that was obviously tailing him since it wasn't exactly the way to their home anymore, but Rudy was still walking after him without being stealthy at all. "Are you a stalker or what?!" Dellons was quite irritated because he couldn't shake Rudy off at all today, especially after Rudy had been on the phone with Kris earlier and learned that he had confrontation with Lu Bu.
"Our way home is the same," Rudy shrugged.
"I'm not going home today. I'm going to Victoria's place! We're having a date!" Dellons lied. Well, not exactly a lie, since he would still go to her place to dig some information about the rats that sold her the drugs. Those people yesterday were just thugs the dealer was hired to shut off Dellons, the big fish was still around and Dellons needed to make sure they wouldn't touch Victoria and his other girlfriends anymore.
"Exactly how many girlfriends do you have this time? Last time it was Shane, right? Before that there were Ruri and Espada, and I heard you had been on several dates with the dance instructor, Miss Lucy, that gymnastic instructor, Miss Jane, and then there was this Indian girl, Sylvia, and also—"
"Aaaaargh, I understand! Stop it!" Dellons covered both his ears in distress, honestly feeling crept out that Rudy identified all of his girlfriends by name. He never thought that anyone could note and remember so many names in one time. "God, you really are a stalker, Rudy. How come you know all those names? I didn't even tell you about them!" he groaned before he sat down on a rock shaped like a chair that was conveniently situated around the city park walking area.
"You're just not subtle, Dellons. I can always tell when you're dating one of the girls you hang out with where I can see," Rudy sat beside him, looking at him calculatingly before continuing, "-and those women gossip loudly."
"I see." Dellons deadpanned, even though he didn't face Rudy. "But seriously, do you need to follow me around this time? I mean, I'm going on a date. It will be rude to her if you watch, right?" he complained then, telling Rudy that he was being annoying and disturbing this time.
"I'm only going to make sure that you really go there without any detour, since you seem to attract trouble on the streets lately," Rudy shrugged again.
"Is this about yesterday? I told you I was just messing with them," Dellons huffed.
"Not without reason. I know you, Dellons. You mess with people, but there's always a reason for that. You're not going to fool me with your disgruntling bad-boy attitude. I'm your best friend after all," Rudy smiled then, sending an imaginary cute small golden star to Dellons forehead that made him blink once before sighing deeply in defeat.
Pure, simple, and positive-thinking… Damn him for being so endearing!—Dellons covered his face with both palms before he moved his hands up to his head, clenching some strands of his blond hair before releasing it with another long sigh. He didn't think he could distract Rudy by provoking him this time. Yesterday fiasco was most likely a close call in Rudy's mind. He had to give him something… or Rudy would become his personal stalker all the time starting right then.
"Alright, if I tell you… would you please leave me alone?" Dellons compromised. He would tell Rudy about the reason, but Rudy had to promise not to butt in on his business after that.
"It depends on how much trouble you're in," Rudy still stubbornly bargained and a vein popped up on Dellons' head after that.
"You're being too pushy right now," Dellons grumbled.
"It's for your own good." Rudy countered.
"I'm not a goddamn kid, Rudy! I can take care of myself!" Dellons raised his voice now, feeling increasingly angry instead of using his playful and teasing nature to distract Rudy like usual. Rudy widened his eyes, seemingly a bit startled at his unexpectedly strong reaction and Dellons regretted showing him his serious side immediately, because now Rudy narrowed his eyes in a grave look.
"Is it really that bad?" Rudy asked and Dellons bemoaned his stupid slip inwardly as he scratched his head curtly.
"Man, Rudy… you're seriously making my life more difficult…" Dellons whined. "This is something that I do. Can you please just ignore it? Please? Look, I'm even begging you this time? Can you see I'm begging? I promise there will be no sequel to this as long as I thoroughly clean it up." Yeah, he wasn't above begging now as he looked at Rudy's eyes, feeling desperate for some way out of Rudy's nosiness. Go and laugh at him.
Rudy stared at Dellons eyes for a few seconds in unreadable expression before he sighed slightly. "Alright," he gave in and Dellons perked up that finally he could do his thing in peace. "But, you will tell me if you need help, right? Promise me you will not do anything too dangerous." He looked very worried then and Dellons, despite being an ass most of the time, didn't have a heart to kick Rudy when he was just trying to look out for Dellons' behalf, even though it was totally unnecessary.
Dellons gave Rudy a confident grin. "No problem, bro," he said before he looped an arm around Rudy's neck and held him close. "You know me. It will be alright!"
Rudy seemed astonished at first, but then he also smiled and tapped Dellons' one arm-hug once warmly. After hearing Dellons' partial explanation, he left Dellons to his own device and Dellons was back to his mission to get rid of some rude annoying people that dared to bring harm to what was his.
~A Seven Knights Fan Fiction~
Kris and Spike were doing dishes when Rudy got home. He looked rather worried for some reason as he ate the leftover of the dinner he had ordered and delivered via delivery service before he came home because he knew he was going to be late and wouldn't have time to cook before his friend ended up starving. Kris also noticed that Rudy kept glancing at his cell phone since Kris paid more attention to his best friend instead of the dishes he was washing.
"You're going to drop the plate if your attention keeps straying from it," Spike reminded him with already low tone and volume, yet Kris still almost dropped the plate in surprise because Spike suddenly spoke.
"Oh, sorry," Kris felt a bit embarrassed. He quickly focused back on his chore.
"Though, Rudy does seem rather distraught. Go ahead and ask him. I got this covered," Spike glanced at Kris with a small smile and Kris looked at him speechlessly for a moment before smiling at him as well.
"Thanks Spike," Kris handed Spike the plate, washed the suds off his hands, and then dried them with a small towel hanging beside him before he approached the still absentmindedly eating Rudy and sat beside the brunet, purposely making a loud noise so Rudy would notice his arrival.
Rudy snapped to look at Kris, looking slightly confused at first before a smile bloomed in his face. "Oh, hey, Kris," he greeted. But then he seemed to be at a loss of words that Kris tilted his head slightly aside.
"What's wrong? You look kind of distracted," Kris picked a chip from the plate in the middle of the table and then ate it.
"Ah… well," Rudy sounded hesitant, before he sighed and put down his spoon and fork, more than half of his usual portion of food left in his plate. "It's about Dellons," he said, his eyes downcast. His expression showed weariness and worry and Kris resented Dellons marginally for causing such tired lines to appear in Rudy's handsome face.
"What has he done this time?" Kris mimicked Rudy's worn-out sigh with his slightly annoyed one.
"He's going after those guys from yesterday," Rudy slumped and then rested his forehead on the table surface. "He said that some guys had sold illegal drugs on one of his girlfriends and some of the freshmen in our department, and those crowds yesterday night were thugs hired by the big boss dealer to take care of Dellons since he already busted some dealings previously."
"What? That's dangerous!" Suddenly Jave showed up while exclaiming in shocked look. "That idiot! Why does he always do something like that without telling us?!" and he proceeded to yell his disapproval over the matter.
Spike was apparently done with his dishes and put the last plate on the drying rack before he joined the rest for the discussion as he sat down at the table as well. "He always has to do the shady part, doesn't he? Why can't he just report it to the police and be done with it?"
Kris was silent mulling over it. Dellons in this world was more like a vigilante, huh? He was an ass, but it was a persona he had created to do bigger things in the background, not letting other people see it and acting like a bad guy to shield others from the real nasty ones.
Is it possible that the original Dellons also did everything with something bigger in his mind? Something more chaotic and ghastlier… something that we're not aware of?—Kris shook his head again, inwardly reproaching himself for once again trying to justify what the original Dellons had done to their world. Whatever the reasons, killing so many people and causing such despair to others couldn't be right. With or without the bigger picture, there were some things which shouldn't have been done. Killing Kris' men was one of them.
"What do you think we could do to help him?" Kris decided to contribute something in the conversation. This world Dellons wasn't the original Dellons. He was inside their circle of friends. He was a family, so they should help him if Dellons needed them.
"That's the thing. He refused to let me in even after I followed him around today. He believes he could clean this up tonight. He even begged me to let him be, and promised there wouldn't be any sequel of this problem. I had to give in because he looked kind of desperate. I just hope that he's not over confident and underestimating his opponents." Rudy turned his head slightly and now rested his left cheek on the table.
"Tsk. He's just a prideful bastard," Jave clicked his tongue, looking bothered as he huffed.
"Well, we can always collect his bones if he lost," Spike stood again, sounding slightly unsympathetic as he signaled the end of the discussion. Kris's sweat dropped at Spike's reaction. Jave chuckled, probably amused at Spike's choice of words and Rudy just laughed ruefully, seemingly rather grateful at Spike because he made the worrying mood rather humorous instead of grave and serious.
"Well, it's Dellons. He'll be alright," Kris tapped Rudy's back lightly after that, knowing full well that what he said was true, because Dellons was a formidable person. When he gave his mind to do something, he always pulled 100% success rate. They wouldn't have to be worried about him.
~A Seven Knights Fan Fiction~
Dellons didn't come home for two days. At Friday, he even skipped lessons at campus and didn't show up at home at all at Saturday. None of Dellons girlfriends and friends knew where he was. By Sunday afternoon, Rudy was in the verge of calling authorities to file a missing person report. Though, before he could dial 911, the blond came home with a bruised left eye and busted lips, but they seemed to already be treated and Rudy couldn't help flying to jump the guy at the doorstep of their house and yelled at him in indignant, worried vehemence.
"You stupid, idiotic bastard! Where have you been?! And what's with these injuries?! I almost reported you missing to the police, you dumbass!"
"Alright, alright, I'm sorry already. Can you please get off of me first? You're adding my injuries, Rudy," Dellons complained as Rudy fussed over him, not even bothering to placate the brunet, like he knew whatever he said wouldn't do him any good. Despite Dellons' rather ignorant personality, he seemed to understand Rudy's character pretty well. Rudy wouldn't be satisfied until he examined Dellons' wounds personally, so it was best to let Rudy do anything he wanted to do until he calmed down.
"You liar! You said you'd tell me if you needed help!" Rudy was still shouting as he dragged Dellons to the living room to strip the blonde off of his clothes, so as to check on whether or not Dellons had other injuries under his shirt.
"Hold it, Rudy. I already went to the hospital— whoa! Don't take my clothes off—ah! Where are you touching?!" Dellons shouted back, sounding a bit panicked.
"Shut up and stand still! Let me see your body!" Rudy wouldn't have his protest, lifted and stretched up Dellons' black t-shirt, until it was rucked up above his collarbones. Rudy saw some bruises in the mid-section of his chest and some on his right side. Rudy clicked his tongue in discontent and touched the bruise on his chest carefully.
"Ah, ouch…! D-don't touch it…! Rudy…!" Dellons grimaced, seemingly in a lot of pain, but Rudy ignored his whine and prodded the bruises gently, feeling his shoulder blade and ribs, checking his bones for any fracture. There was no crepitation that he could feel, so he sighed in slight relief.
"Oh, good. It was only cosmetic damage, then…" Rudy looked upward and blinked once as he noted Dellon's slightly flushing face. His breathing was shallow and he conspicuously gulped for a few times, as if his throat was very dry. Rudy was a bit fascinated with Dellons' peculiar look and stared at him more prominently by leaning down on him more closely.
"Um…"
Both Rudy and Dellons jumped in a start at the sudden voice that came from the living room entrance. Rudy turned around slightly and Dellons looked over Rudy's shoulder to find Kris' dubious expression by then.
"I'm sorry if I interrupted you guys, but I suggest you move this shameful activity inside your own room," he said, sending icy contemptuous glare at both Rudy and Dellons before he turned around and left.
"Wha—shameful?!" Rudy was shocked by the accusation, but then he suddenly realized his current position: straddling Dellon's hip, his hand in the middle of stripping Dellon's shirt and touching Dellons' chest, his body looming above Dellons' and his face leaning closely to him… plus, being seen from Kris' perspective and how it must have looked like.
"AAAAH! No, no, NO! Kris!" Rudy immediately jumped off of Dellons' stupefied body and ran after the retreating silver platinum blond. "Kris! You've got it wrong! It's not like what it looks like! KRIS!"
Yeah, it was disaster after another and this apparently wasn't exactly Rudy's day at all.
End of Round 3
Tbc…
A/N: *lolololol* Aaaaand the misunderstanding continues… *ROTFL* I'm so sorry I am not sorry *LOL* Can totally imagine Rudy's face~ *still doubling over* God, that was sooo good! I just love teasing all of them! XDDD.
Ahem. Forgive my moment of *snickers* mischief. It was just so interesting, I couldn't help it! Their relationship dynamic is just very tempting to write. I know it's supposed to be Rudy/Kris, but that's the end game. Dellons is a sinful creature that begs to be paired up with Rudy as well and Kris' jealousy is so frigging CUTE! Well, thoughts, critiques, corrections? Anything you wanna say, readers? I'm happy to listen (read) it. Hit that review button and tell me about it!
Teaser:
"Rudy… I never realized that you think about me that way," Dellons said, looking slightly aside with a rather shy look.
"Rudy, I didn't know you swing for the other team," Jave honestly looked shocked.
"I… honestly don't know what to say," Spike seemed bemused.
"Do you need me as your beard-girlfriend?" Eileen offered, somewhat looking sympathetic.
"Of all guys hanging around you… why do you pick Dellons?" Rachel seemed still in disbelief.
Rudy just stared at his friends with his jaw hanging and mouth gaping.
Kris just harrumphed and even refused to look at him in the face anymore.
