Zane placed his pen on his desk and stretched. Finally. He'd thought that essay was going to take forever, but it was only, he checked the digital clock blaring it's numbers across the desk at him in the dark, nine fifteen. He yawned. Good, still forty five minutes until curfew, well not that the Obelisk blue paid much attention to the curfew after all, but still if he was going to do what he was thinking about then it would be an excuse to get out early. And what he was thinking about doing was going down to the lighthouse to talk to Alexis.

After all he and Lexi were still friend, right? Admittedly it was a little weird that she liked him still, and he liked Chazz. He'd been living with Alexis as friends, both knowing she liked him, for a long time. But that look she'd given him in the cafeteria… If Zane's suspicions were correct, and they usually were, then Alexis was choosing to make a move on him at exactly the wrong time.

Standing up Zane left the room not having to turn any lights out seeing as he'd been so preoccupied with that essay that he hadn't turned any on. It would probably hurt Alexis' feelings if he didn't show and not only did he feel he should look after the youngest Rhodes for Atticus but he owed it to Alexis to make sure she didn't think her and him were going places they weren't. He felt he was being paranoid, and Zane wasn't sure if that was too far from the truth. Was he making something out of nothing…?

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"Now it is very important to remember that the field card Skyscraper not only…"

Chazz yawned, he'd heard this lesson far too many times, the fact that it was taught by Professor Banner and that he'd had to sit through classes like it all day, just made it so much more boring. Unusually for him he just couldn't pay attention either, it wasn't the fact that he didn't want to, his mind just kept wandering.

Placing an elbow on his desk he rested his chin on his knuckles and looked around. In front of him Jaden Yuki was sleeping, as normal, Chumley Huffington on one side trying to keep awake, and on Jaden's other side Syrus Truesdale snoozing. Chazz stared slightly at Syrus for a second, Syrus Truesdale. His grey gaze then turned to the older Truesdale, who was sitting a row behind Chazz to the left of the room. If he just shifted a bit he could see… Chazz turned slightly in his seat to get a better view of Zane.

He might absolutely detest Zane, but it didn't mean he couldn't watch him in class. God he sounded like a stalker now. Chazz turned his attention back to Banner, for all of five seconds, before he found his concentration sliding away, back to a certain Obelisk.

His overcast eyes travelled slowly down from Zane's face, damn that desk being so high. He closed his eyes slightly and shook his head a little to try and shake himself out of it. There was nothing at all attractive about Zane, nothing at all. Then why couldn't Chazz stop looking at him? He sighed slightly, a little louder than he thought he had in fact when Professor Banner stopped talking about bloody Skyscraper and looked up at him.

"Chazz Princeton when does the effect of Skyscraper not work?"

Chazz goggled at the ever-smiling teacher; he hadn't even heard the question, just his name being called out. Everyone was staring at him. He couldn't think. Oh Christ Zane was looking. Skyscraper what did he know about Skyscraper? People were starting to laugh. What the hell did Skyscraper do? Alexis was poking his back.

"Chazz? Are you okay?"

Chazz looked around slightly and was brought back to earth by Alexis' voice. He looked over at Banner again, "I – uh…" Skyscraper… when does the effect of Skyscraper not work? The professor's words echoed in his head. He knew this, he'd been taught it before… who did he know who used Skyscraper? That Slifer slacker Jaden! "- The effect of Skyscraper doesn't work when it's being attacked," he said managing to regain his icy tone.

"That's the right answer Chazz! But I think you weren't paying attention, so it'd be best for you if you stayed behind after class…"

"What!" Chazz hissed, he had to go hide in his room tonight away from Zane, "I got the answer right!" Banner just smiled annoyingly.

"You weren't paying attention Chazz, it's best if you stay behind tomorrow as well to catch up."

Chazz glared but let it drop he didn't want three nights detention after all. He let his head fall onto the desk in front of him, this could not be happening. He could feel someone watching him and let his stormy eyes look sideways to find a pair of cerulean ones across the row staring right back with a smirk. Chazz felt a blush tinge his cheeks and looked away from Zane to turn his attention back to Banner at the front of the class. Sitting up straight he could still feel Zane's eyes on him, but he was not going to turn around. Not going to look at him. He squirmed slightly uncomfortably in his seat Zane's gaze burning a hole in his side. He was not turning around.

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This sucked. He had to stay here all through dinnertime to redo some of the work they did in class then sort Banner's papers, for two days! Not only did that mean that he was going to be getting the crap food not even Jaden would eat for tea, but also he'd be way too tired to do his essays. Screw this.

Banner had just left and Chazz was sitting alone at the teacher's desk, a pen in his hand and a four page long paper about bloody Skyscraper in front of him. It should be easy now though, as the reason he had been so bored in class was because he'd heard a million times. And at least now he didn't have stupid Zane distracting him from working. Chazz had only gotten to where he was in duel academy through a lot of work – a lot of work, and he wasn't about to give up just because Zane was there staring at him awkwardly. Stupid Zane.

Chazz looked down at his paper:

Question One. What monster type is Skyscraper associated with?

Well that was obvious. Chazz scrawled down an answer, see this was easy with out some stupid teal haired boy staring at him. Why was he even staring at him?

Question Two. What card type is Skyscraper?

It wasn't like he'd tried to attract the older boy's attention. He didn't want it. That was why there was a damned padlock on his door.

Question Three. Is there a limited amount of times you can play Skyscraper in a duel?

The bloody perve was probably trying to eye him up. Really had the whole world gone insane? It was crazy someone like him and someone like Zane didn't work together even if Chazz was that way inclined…

Question Four. If you can, how do you stop Skyscraper?

Chazz looked down at the question paper in a slightly confused way. He knew the answer to his, he knew he did. Wait… He stared down in horror at what was written above the question.

Question One. What monster type is Skyscraper associated with? Zane.

Question Two. What card type is Skyscraper? Zane.

Question Three. Is there a limited amount of times you can play Skyscraper in a duel? Zane.

And there off to the side of the paper 'Zane' 'Zane' 'Zane'. What was wrong with him? Did he even write that? It was crazy. Even though Zane wasn't in the room somehow he was meddling with Chazz's brain. He put his pen to the paper and scribbled out what he had written furiously. Zane was so… Gah! He literally felt like screaming. Still scribbling furiously Chazz's thoughts were only broken by a voice. A calm, annoyingly familiar voice that somehow, although Chazz would hate to admit it, was very welcome.

"What're you doing?"

Chazz didn't look up, "What do you think, genius?"

" – what're you crossing out?"

No way in hell was he going to tell the cause of all his misery that he was scribbling out his name, so he responded with another question, better to change the subject, "Shouldn't you be in dinner?"

"Thought I'd go later with my boyfriend."

Still not looking up Chazz wrote the correct answer for question one whilst saying, "I'm not your boyfriend Zane," though his tone wasn't anywhere near as angry as the first time he'd said that phrase to Zane, in fact it was kind of bored.

Zane, as ever, just smirked in response.

"Won't you be missed?" Chazz asked, for once it was him starting the conversation.

"By who…? You're here and Atticus is in the sanatorium," the tinniest sad note in his voice.

Chazz scowled, "Why would I miss your presence?" however he did now look up at Zane his grey eyes full of concern, betraying his true feelings, "Besides you have all those other friends… and your little fans."

Zane quirked an eyebrow, moving slightly closer to Chazz to study him from the other side of the desk, he grinned slightly, "Who? Like you?"

"You wish Zane," Chazz replied smartly, though a small blush was staining his cheeks. Zane chuckled slightly as Chazz hurriedly got back to his work, "Shut it Zane."

Zane smirked and made his way around to Chazz's side of the desk, swinging a chair over from the wall to sit on. He read over Chazz's shoulder as the younger boy wrote, "Actually Chazz Skyscraper can be cancelled out by any field spell."

"I knew that," Chazz hissed crossing out his answer and scrawling down the right one, "It's hard to work when your leaning over me like that you know," he said, annoyed. Zane didn't move, "That means go away jerk," he added trying to concentrate on what he was answering but becoming much more preoccupied by Zane's breath on his neck, "I'm trying to work here," he said, spinning to face Zane whose cobalt eyes were looking right back at his, much closer than Chazz had anticipated. Chazz's gaze dropped unintentionally to Zane's lips and he found his breath caught in his throat, he quickly looked back up at Zane's eyes. Why was Zane having this effect on him?

Zane smirked.

A/N Yay! Alexis and Zane's talk down at the lighthouse shall remain mysterious, for now. Next chapter will be some hot and heavy Zane/Chazz . Okies, r + r please people and I'm glad so many of you guys enjoyed it. Another thing, the plot is in my mind, but if it turns out bad don't hate me this is my first ever fan fic! Though the plot should be good… crosses fingers until next time dudes.