Disclaimer: I am currently wishing that Elliot was absolutely and completely mine…but he isn't. Neither are the rest of them for that matter.
They hadn't liked Stone at all when they had first met him, although it had been Jinx who had hated him the most. Mikron and Baron had just gone along with it. Stone had been unfortunate to run into them, but he had assumed they were the ringleaders of the academy. There were no popular kids at the Hive, they were all the same, although some had more authority than others. Sometimes they thought that their school was as close to total equality as it got if one took the teachers out of the equation.
They could have destroyed Stone within a second of meeting him to be honest. Seymour, for example, had just about leapt out of his seat to defend Jinx, even though she didn't need it. Stone thought he had only angered her team but he was wrong. The entire school was on Mikron, Baron, and Jinx's side. The Hive stuck up for their own (most of the time). But they held too much respect for Jinx to destroy him right off the bat, she thought up things much more devious than a simple pounding.
It was her idea to make him do the easiest initiation in the Hive history. Carry her books around in a tutu? Please, Mikron had to do that on regular occasions whenever she was particularly pissed at him. The academy was used to it, just another tidbit of old news. Making Stone do it was cruel almost to a fault. It was Jinx's way of showing what the school thought of him. He was weak. This was the only initiation he could pass. The Hive was figuratively spitting in Rocky's face and the best part was he had no idea it was happening.
That could have been that but he carried out the action gracefully. That was a major plus because the Hive was all about taking the punishment dished out to you. Even as they were laughing at his weakness they gave a slight nod to him as he passed down in the tutu. He took it like a true villain and how could they complain about that?
Life went on.
"So tell me about the other initiations." Stone said cheerfully, sprawled out on the common room couch. He had since been integrated into their group and was perfectly at ease with them, as they were with him. Jinx, Elliot, and Seymour sat with him.
Jinx gave a cackle of appreciation and shot a look towards Seymour who flushed in mortification. "His was pretty bad," she supplied while Elliot snickered silently, "Seymour had to sneak into the Headmistress's room, this was when she was still here, and steal a pair of her underwear. Oh god Stone you should have seen them, they were awful, spandex with polka dots." She laughed. "And then he had to hang them up in the lunchroom."
Seymour groaned and put his head in his hands as Stone chuckled madly. Elliot pat him on the back sympathetically while snickering in remembrance.
"What did Kyd Wykkyd have to do?" Stone asked, smiling at her (a little too brightly Seymour noticed.)
Elliot immediately turned bright red and waved his arms around wildly. Stone wasn't great at Wykkydisms yet but he assumed the boy was either trying to wave the topic away or get Jinx not to tell it. Either way it ought to be entertaining.
She smiled. "This one was Billy's idea so I can't take credit; you have no idea how much I would like to though. Kyd Wykkyd had to write a love letter to Ms. Kelly."
Stone burst into guffaws.
"The love letter," Jinx continued sagely, "Stone, don't mock who Ell-Kyd Wykkyd loves. The love letter was bright pink with sparkles and was inscribed with a beautiful poem. What was it again?" She asked Seemore casually.
"I believe it was," Seymour answered, eager to get the embarrassment off of himself, Although math fills me with woe, it is you my little doe, who makes me feel like I can add, my love for you just drives me mad. Oh can you love me pretty thing, or is this only a short fling?"
Stone was having trouble breathing and Elliot's face threatened to out-red a cherry. He pointed wildly to Seymour who bowed proudly at Stone.
"I wrote it." He proclaimed happily.
Once the laughter, at Elliot's expense, had died down Stone looked up suddenly. "Hey, these initiations are pretty gruesome. How come you went easy on me?"
"It was out way of saying you couldn't take the heat," she flapped a hand at his peeved look, "Hey don't worry, we've been wrong before. You're a friend now."
They'd be wrong again too.