a/n: thanks to Stickstrike for the review, if not for you, i'd never start writing again!
Auel, Sting and Stellar entered the tiny black car once again with Shinn in tow.
"You can drive?" Shinn asked Sting with an incredulous look on his face.
Sting did not take notice and carried on driving.
Auel rolled his eyes. "Sting can't see you, Asuka. Or hear you, for that matter. Jeez, it gives me the creeps to be able to see and hear you when he can't."
"Whatever," Shinn replied.
"Anyway, who exactly are you?" Stellar asked, looking at him curiously. She attempted to poke him to see if her fingers could go through him.
Apparently, it couldn't and Shinn got poked really hard in the ribs. "Ow," he grimaced, thinking back to the last time when he received a poke from someone - a long time ago on Facebook from Mayu and that wasn't even real.
"I'm sorry," she mumbled.
"Asuka, are you bullying my sister?" Auel asked loudly and Sting raised an eyebrow.
"No no its ok, I mean, I'm not bullying her," Shinn rolled his eyes at Auel.
"You better not be. So what the hell are you Asuka, you're not answering the question," Auel asked.
"Oh. I'm Stellar's guardian angel and well... The old geezer who sent me down here said I could cure Stellar's condition..." Shinn trailed off.
"YOU?" Auel's eyes widened until they looked as round as fishballs. "That's impossible."
"Ha, ha," Shinn laughed drily.
"What condition are you guys talking about?" Stellar cocked her head to one side, confused.
She looked so adorable to Shinn that he blushed merely upon seeing her face. He wondered if his body was producing an excess of blood lately (presuming guardian angels HAD blood) as he never had a blushing problem before. "Ah... Um..." he began, not knowing how to answer.
"Its nothing," Auel smiled and shot Shinn a 'I'll-rip-you-into-pieces-if-you-tell-her' look as Sting pulled up outside Ellesmevre High. "C'mon Stellar, let's go."
Stellar smiled at Sting as she got out of the car and waved. "Bye big brother!"
Shinn followed the two siblings, dragging his feet against the ground, unsurprised that there wasn't any sound. It seemed like any other ordinary school day, he was going back to school again. Except... He was already dead. He sighed aloud.
"What's wrong, Shinn?" Stellar asked innocently.
"I'm going back to school, its so freaking boring that I could-" Shinn was about to say 'die' when he remembered what Auel said, earning a death glare from the man himself. "Uh, I mean, I hate it because I know everything they teach already."
"Wow, then Shinn must be really smart! Then could Shinn tutor Stellar? Stellar is bad at maths, physics..." Stellar started to name all the subjects she was terrible at, which was almost every subject she took.
Shinn blushed again. Here was a cute girl, the girl he was supposed to 'guard' and 'protect', asking him to tutor her... He smiled wryly as he remembered Rey telling him that tutoring a girl was a wooing technique and immediately felt a pang of sadness and guilt after that. He turned to Stellar. "Um sure..."
Stellar beamed and Shinn thought he saw sunflowers in full bloom popping out of nowhere all around her. "Stellar is going to try to pay attention today!" she spun around as if she was dancing, causing a few students to stare at her. "Please poke Stellar if she reads!"
Auel rolled his eyes. "You better stop reading in class if you want your grades to get better. There's project work this term and I'm sure you don't want to get a F again."
Shinn wondered how that was possible. After all, Stellar seemed like the real studious kind, albeit being the occasional daydreamer... Note the emphasis on 'seemed'.
The blonde's cheeks turned a delicate shade of pink. "Auel, you're mean..."
The blue haired teenager rolled his eyes again. "Right. Anyway, I've got a date with Meyrin tonight and Sting's working late, so fix your own dinner and don't wait for us. Be a good girl," Auel ruffled Stellar's hair, completely ignoring Shinn.
Stellar pouted. "Stellar has always been good..."
Shinn stared numbly at the exchange of goodbyes between the two siblings and was still rooted to the spot when Auel left. Auel was dating Meyrin, the sister of his ex-girlfriend, Lunamaria. He thought he had gotten over Lunamaria but somehow...
"Shinn?" Stellar waved a hand in front of him.
He snapped out of his reverie. "Ah yes. School. Let's move," he grabbed her hand and she followed, puzzled at the way Shinn was acting.
"It's a new school term..." Stellar said, wondering if Shinn knew. "Stellar hopes she'll get a nice desk partner."
Shinn felt a wave of jealousy wash over him as he wondered if that meant Stellar ignoring him during lessons. He shook his head, wondering why he was feeling that way when he was supposed to be recovering from his breakup with Luna.
From the corner of his eye he saw Rey. His eyes widened as he saw him holding Luna's hand, both of them wearing a black jacket over their uniforms, looking solemn. He wondered how much time had passed since his 'death' and wondered if they were grieving for him.
The school bell rang.
"Shit," Shinn swore. Tightening his grip on Stellar's hand, he ran towards her classroom (without really knowing where it was), making Stellar look like an idiot being dragged around by (not so) thin air (given that Shinn was the 'air' dragging her around).
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