Ring
"Кольцо вокруг Рози,
полный карман букеты,
золы, пепла,
все мы падаем"
Chapter 8
~Len~
For the past few days, I've been going around through the houses of the students that Kaito taught, introducing myself to more and more people and gaining more power than I've ever had before. By the end of the week, I was finally able to touch man-made structures and I had a bit of control on some of my powers. Students were bringing me home and introducing me to their younger siblings, and some of the friends that couldn't make it to the class could already see me. Kaito had never asked yet for me to help him during one of the lessons, but I knew that the day would come eventually.
At this moment, Kaito was helping Oliver with some homework that was due for a different class. On multiple occasions, I had asked if it was weird for Oliver to be living with his teacher, but he just smiled and said no, because it also gave him a chance to hang out with me. I had told him that based on Kaito's crazy, girl-period-like mood swings, we tended to get into very heated arguments, but the little blond boy just laughed and said, "But you two are totally in love so then it's fine, right?" which caused me to freeze up and eventually leave the house altogether.
What he said to me...really got me thinking. Was I in love with Kaito? He was a human, and I've told myself that so many times! I don't care if he dry-humped me a few weeks ago (even though it felt amazingly good) I wasn't going to fall for him! I couldn't! He would die and leave me alone and it would only cause me more grief. I was too busy caught up in my thoughts that I hadn't noticed that the window was closed since it was slowly getting colder and colder and bonked my head right on the glass, waking me up and startling the other two. I smiled sheepishly as I waved to them, of which Kaito laughed and got up to open the damned thing for me. "Thinking too hard?"
"Trying to feel the energy around me, and I sure felt that," I giggled, sitting down on the floor next to Oliver. "Yuck," I said, glancing at the open textbook sitting in front of him. "Math."
The boy chuckled and punched me lightly in the shoulder. I flew up a bit so that he wasn't able to hit me any longer. "You're no help, Len. Kaito's the only one allowed," he smiled as the blue-haired teacher sat back down on the floor, his face adorably confused, even as I sat down in his lap and hugged him. "You're just gonna bother him!"
"I am not," I said back, wrapping my legs around his waist. "I'm going to keep him company." It took everything I had not to turn red in front of Oliver when Kaito wrapped his arms around my waist. "Best friends do that."
The blond raised his eyebrow and pointed his pencil at us. "But you two are more than just friends. I mean, just look at it."
A deep chuckle resonated in my ear as the owner of the voice nuzzled my hair affectionately. "You're making it sound like one of us has a diseased tumor." I let out a short laugh.
Oliver stood up, grabbed his stuff and walked to the door, turning around to stare at us, his amber eye hiding a gleam of mischief. "Whatever, if I start hearing weird noises though, I'm telling Mom. And you'll have to explain to her that you're having sex with a spirit."
"Who said anything about sex?" Kaito sputtered, but the boy was already out of the room. He growled a bit and said something under his breath, which got me curious. I looked back at him, giving him a questioning glance. "What?"
"What did you just say?"
"Nothing."
"Oh no," I said, floating up from his lap. "You said something, and I wanna know what it was. You think my hearing hasn't gotten better since people started believing in me, well you're damn wrong. Tell me."
He sighed and ran a hand through his blue hair, a thing he only did when he was nervous about telling me something that would only further anger me. I was prepared to hear and try to understand whatever he had to say. "I feel like smoking," he said slowly, refusing to meet my eyes. I wouldn't blame him, considering how furious I was at the moment. But it didn't end there. "I've started it up again. I'm sorry. I promised to quit—"
"Promised?" I interjected, swooping down and lifting his head up by the chin. "No, no, darling, you promise that you'll quit. I'm not having my best friend smoke around me, or around the family that apparently he's been lying to for a while."
"But Len you don't understand, I need it."
Oh, so he was just going to continue trying to prove me wrong? This little— "I don't care if you desire it like sex. You're quitting, and that's the end of the story. I don't care if I sound like your mother or whoever, but—"
"My mother's fucking dead, she wouldn't have fucking told me that shit anyway," he snapped, making my eyes widen. "She made me do drugs anyway. First I hid them, then I bought them, and soon I started doing them like the retard I was!" He was freaking out. "If it wasn't bad enough, no one was there to fucking stop me! My dad killed himself because he couldn't handle my mom anymore and wanted it to all be over. I found his fucking body! And if that's not enough, my ex-girlfriend caught me. Do you wanna know how hard she slapped me? I was sore for a fucking week! And when I decided it was time to send my mother to the rehab center, the bitch just smuggled drugs in and overdosed! Overdosed! And now here I am, trying to restart my life, but instead I'm going back to my old ways, and I have all this shit—" I couldn't listen to it anymore. I reached up, placed my hands on his hips, and kissed him, hard, but only enough get it through his thick skull that he needed to calm down.
Halfway through the kiss, it occurred to me that his eyes were wide, as if he couldn't grasp the severity of the situation. Kaito was completely stiff, like a wooden board. I pulled away, looked down, and got really scared. "Len," he started. "What was that?"
I didn't answer. "Because if that was your way to shut me up, it worked like magic. And if you're expecting more of that because you love me, you'll get it since I love you just as much." He intertwined our fingers together. "And if it's both, then we're gonna have a good time." He proved it with another kiss.
"Are you gonna stop smoking?" I just had to ask.
"Well..." he dragged out.
"Kaito!"
He laughed and kissed me again. "I promise to stop just for you."
I HAD TO TYPE THAT ENDING TWICE BECAUSE FFNET IS A B—
THIS STORY IS SLOWLY COMING TO AN END. There are only TWO more chapters left. Please like Eternal White Rose for more updates.
Len saw Kaito's insane side, they finally fell in love, what could possibly go wrong?
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