Reala Again
Chapter 6
Elliot invited Claris over to his dormitory. Claris seemed kind of reluctant to visit, but Elliot insisted that he needs to tell Claris something very important.
Claris sat on Elliot's bed, and Elliot sat on his chair face to face. "Claris, I have to tell you that I'm bisexual."
Claris put her hand to her heart and sighed happily, "Oh, that's it? I'm pansexual, so that works."
Elliot nodded, "I know, and I've heard that you like Madison a bit."
That comment made Claris blush really hard. "Um, but you're the only guy for me! I'm not going to dump you for hir." Claris closed her eyes tightly, "Please don't dump me!"
Elliot gritted his teeth. That was the intention, but Claris looked spooked about it now. "Can we come up with a way that you can date Madison? I don't want to be in the way of hir, you seem to like Madison more than me."
Claris shook her head, "Madison and I may have more similar interests and personal connection, but we are the two Perfect Dreamers and we have to be together."
Elliot curled his lips into his teeth at stared aimlessly at Claris, "Who told you that?"
"NiGHTS!"
Elliot rubbed his eyebrows. NiGHTS was obsessed with Claris and Elliot as a couple. "Okay, so we won't satisfy NiGHTS. Will ze stop being our friend?"
"Maybe…." Claris looked down.
"Will be stop being friends?" Elliot asked.
"If we both go the TSU's GSA, we can still hang out there. They don't seem to care about me not going there."
"Agreed!" said Elliot. "And we can still have dates, just not romantic dates."
"Can we at least have sex before we break up?" Claris' face was bright red at this point. "We need to make NiGHTS happy somehow."
This was the second time person that day that Elliot was offered sex; Elliot is quite a stud there. Claris was also the third person to ask for sex as well. As much as this is an ego boost, Elliot had to reject that sex offer as well, "we can't have sex just because NiGHTS wants us to! What does NiGHTS know about sex? Ze doesn't even have one!"
"We can tell NiGHTS we had sex, and not actually have it!" Claris noted, "I don't think NiGHTS would know that we're lying."
Elliot was at the Academic Advisement office filling out some paperwork. He slammed his clipboard onto the desk, "My name is Elliot Edwards, and I am a Psychology Major, and an Art Minor."
The woman at the desk took the paper off from the clipboard, "good for you, want to choose your classes while you're here?"
"Umm… Is there a classes on Dream Study?"
The woman went on her computer to look up the class, "Dream Theory meets at Tuesdays and Thursday at 1:35-2:55, want to take it?"
"Of course, dreams are my specialty," Elliot smiled.
"Good thing you're singing up this early," the woman smiled, "It's a popular class."
Elliot did well on his finals. Elliot was home for the holidays when he got a call from Claris, "I'm having a New Year's Party at my new apartment. You're welcome to bring a friend or a special someone."
Elliot chuckled, "no special someone for me. I can bring Tony and Finn though, they're a fun couple."
"Awesome! Madison always had a feeling they'd get together."
Madison's voice soon illumined the phone, "Elliot should find some girl dudes at the party."
"I don't think I'll have time for any girl dudes, I need to start my internship next semester."
"I have a student teaching job, working at Grinder, and I'm living with my girl," Madison said.
Elliot knew that Claris and Madison started living together. Madison is taking less hours at Grinders, and Claris is starting to do her own work with the tattoo parlor. Yet Elliot hasn't heard that Madison was doing student teaching. It seemed hard to do while being at school full time.
Yet Elliot had plans for New Years.
NiGHTS was dressed up in light blue and white to celebrate the New Years in Splash Garden as the clock counted down to the new 2002. The people who were missing were Elliot and Claris.
Reala flew next to NiGHTS, "they're staying up until midnight this year?"
NiGHTS frowned, "and they won't even share a New Years kiss anymore."
"Yes, but Claris has someone else to kiss." Reala pointed out, "and Elliot is making a new path right now. He will find someone for sure. Maybe even get back with Claris."
NiGHTS' eyes light up, "really?"
"They're a good match, even if they're not the best match. Elliot will help out a lot of people with his future skills, and we've talked about using his Perfect Dreamer abilities to help out people with problems through their dreams. This is good news for you and the Nightopians."
"And maybe Wizeman will be destroyed," NiGHTS made a sideways grin.
Reala chuckled, "not if I can help it."
Elliot didn't get his New Year kiss, but he didn't need it. He watched Claris and Madison kiss, as well as Tony and Finn. He was happy that they were together, even in spite of not being with him. Elliot had a bright future that he knew was going to happen. Elliot was going to be happy, and help people with what they need to do to make them happy. This was Elliot's calling, and Elliot was finally an adult.
