"I saw you that time at the theater with him. During the summer, am I right? I went with a friend and I saw you with a guy, so I decided to see who my girlfriend was going out with. It was him, wasn't it? Sure looked like it; tall, dark-haired, Irish… You know that's illegal, and I tend to not keep secrets when it involves other handsome men and my girl." Gilgamesh had a wide and smug smirk on his face, Arturia had to fight the urge of punching him square on his perfect jaw.
Arturia rolled her eyes, "Yeah, okay sure, whatever." Maybe sarcasm could buy her out of all this mess because she was sure he wouldn't believe her otherwise.
Gilgamesh crossed his arms over his chest and settled back on the bench, "What is your excuse? Are you not going to defend yourself?"
"Defend myself? Over a false accusation?" She scoffed, "Look, Gil, I knew you were stupid…but I just didn't know you were that stupid."
"Excuse me?" He furrowed his brows, "I know what I saw, Arturia, you can't fool me."
"Well, you obviously need glasses." She sassed back.
"Then who were you with? I know for sure it was you."
Okay, so he probably would catch this lie, "It was me, I went to the theaters with a guy during the summer. Truth be told, he was okay, not so handsome. I think your mind was playing tricks on you Gilgamesh. He was tall alright, dark hair, not Irish. He was Scottish. Derek. We worked at camp together and he invited me to the movies. Since I'm not a jerk, I accepted to test the waters but I didn't like him because turns out he was just like you—a big," she turned to the male, "jerk."
Gilgamesh glared at her and his red eyes seemed more like they would burn her, "You can't fool me!"
"Well, let me call him up then." She pulled out her phone and began to scroll down her contacts to find the actual Derek that worked with her during the summer. She pressed on the contact and let her thumb hover over the 'call' button for a millisecond before he stopped her.
"Okay, I believe you. I really hope it was this Derek guy." Upon hearing his words, she was flooded with relief but she refrained from letting her breath go altogether in an audible sigh.
Arturia bit her lower lip to stop herself from smirking before she stood from the park bench, "Well, are we not going home now?"
Gilgamesh looked at her and then nodded as he stood, he still wasn't letting her off the hook, but he would totally start his investigation as soon as possible—which literally meant the following day. He drove her home and dropped her off right in front of her door. She seemed a bit worried, but he did not point it out, for it was probably because he knew of the relationship she shared with the Chemistry teacher.
Arturia quietly entered her house and slipped past the kitchen where she heard her father rummaging through the cabinets and right as she stepped on the first stair step, she heard her father close the Cabinet and take a step closer to her, "How was your day?" He sounded quite disappointed, "That boy treat you right?"
She cursed under her breath as she noted her father had seen Gilgamesh and it wasn't helping that they arrived past her curfew of nine in the evening. In fact, she wasn't supposed to out that week because she had been grounded for a bad math mark, "Sorry father…" she mumbled lowly.
"Jeanne told me that the guy took you away… What's that all about?" Her father was a little more over protective of her and her half-sister after the death of her mother.
Arturia bit her lower lip and tilted her head, "His name is Gilgamesh and he took me out to the movies then took me out for dinner and finally the park. It was an okay date if it weren't for the fact that it was Gilgamesh."
Her father let out a chuckle, "He sounds like a good guy, so why don't you like him?"
Arturia sighed and nodded, "Well, I cannot really explain Gilgamesh, he's… he is who he is. A little stuck up, annoying, possessive. He's just not someone I would like."
Uther laughed a little more and crossed his arms over his chest, "Okay, now that you went on a date. I think it is best that you go to sleep and get grounded for another week."
"But—"
"And give me your phone." He shook his head, "Come on, pass it over, being grounded is being grounded."
Arturia took a deep sigh and dug her phone from her back pocket and handed it to her father, "Alright."
"Good. And you have to come straight home after school, do you understand? Another outing and you will earn yourself another week of grounding. Oh, no teli or computer unless necessary for school."
"Yes, father." And this is what usually happened when she was in trouble. Her father restricted her from everything and if she ever brought a boy over, well…let's just say things would start to get complicated and he father would probably get his revolver in order to meet the boy. Her father was a good man, he was pretty chill and fun, but he could get real angry sometimes and he was still getting over his alcohol abuse.
Arturia sighed and rolled her shoulders as she slowly ascended the stairs and plopped down on her bed. She slipped out of her uniform and into her pyjamas, she was not going to be able to do anything for the remainder of the week and the next.
The following day, Arturia leaned against the locker next to Jeanne's as the other female searched the locker for a text book, "So how was the date with Gil?"
"Not a date," Arturia corrected and crossed her arms over her chest, "It was okay, he bought my food—free of charge. I mean, one could argue as he did bribe me. But, he is onto me." Arturia sighed.
"What do you mean onto you? What are you hiding?" Jeanne had completely forgotten about the fact that Arturia and Diarmuid had gone out for a while and now she was worried that her best friend was hiding something from her.
The green eyed female rolled her eyes, "About your tutor and I?" She couldn't exactly say Diarmuid's name and since Jeanne had a new tutor that was only a year older then people wouldn't suspect too much.
"What about Emiya? You and he are—"
Arturia shut Jeanne up by placing her hand over the other's mouth, "Jeanne," she hissed and the pointed at her right cheek as to indicate that she was talking about the one with the beauty mark.
"Ooooh…" Jeanne nodded once the other female had retracted her hand, "Oh!" Then her violet eyes doubled in size and she shook her hand, "No way!"
"He has his suspicions, and I know you share History with him so make sure not to slip up." Arturia warned as they began to walk to Jeanne's first class.
"My lips are sealed." The taller of the two made a motion as to zip her lips and then 'threw away the key'. They changed the subject and talked about Arturia's grounding instead. It wasn't long before the bell rang and Jeanne headed into the classroom while Arturia hurried to her first class of the day. Jeanne sat down in her usual seat by the teacher's desk and prepared for her history lesson.
It wasn't long before she was interrupted as someone sat next to her—no one sat next to her because of the fact that it was the desk next to the teacher's and no one ever wanted to sit there. Yet, a blond male sat next to her either way. Jeanne lifted her head from her backpack and blinked at the male.
"Jeanne, it's so nice to see you again." Gilgamesh had a bright smile on his lips, "How are you?"
"Oh, hello, Gilgamesh…" So there was no way to avoid him. If he didn't sit next to her in the theater, then he had to sit next to her in class. Seemed like she could never escape the King of Rudeness—he was basically hunting her down.
The boy settle nicely on the seat and took out his books. Upon the teacher's arrival, they had noticed that their original History teacher was not there—instead, they had two supplies, one for the first forty minutes of class and another one for the remaining forty minutes. Just her luck, the first teacher to take over the class was none other than Diarmuid.
Upon his arrival, all the girls quickly began to fawn over him as soon as he began to write something down on the board, "Hey guys, your teacher is sick today, so I'll be here until nine and then the other teacher will be here by then. My name is Mister Ua Duibhne, yeah it's hard, so Ua can do. The other teacher will be taking attendance due to that 'late' rule thing you guys have. You teacher just said to take notes on the textbook pages 117-130. If you have any questions, just ask me because History is one of my favourite subjects."
The man smiled at the class one last time and proceeded to sit at the teacher's desk, right in front of Jeanne and Gilgamesh. So this day wasn't the best for Jeanne. She tried to keep silent between the two men but Gilgamesh kept asking her questions from the textbook to get her attention.
"Gilgamesh, the textbook answers the questions, please let me focus on my work." She mumbled.
Diarmuid caught on to the fact that Jeanne was getting annoyed after answering probably twenty questions now, "Gilgamesh, I can help you out if you want."
Gilgamesh looked up at the man and grinned, he leaned forward and then decided to ask a question, "What do you think of Arturia Pendragon?"
Jeanne's head lifted in milliseconds from her textbook to the teacher to see his reaction.
The man furrowed his brows and damn was he good at hiding the surprise, "Arturia Pendragon? That short blond girl in my last period? The trouble maker?" He raised a dark brow.
Gilgamesh nodded, although he was disappointed not to see a reaction.
"She gets into trouble a lot and she needs work on her written assignments because she seems to miss the point of 'scientific terminology' but I think that with a little more focus on her studies she can be one of the people with the highest marks in my class. She needs to learn from Jeanne. Jeanne's my best student."
Jeanne smiled, "Really?"
"Yup, you're the best," the man smiled, "you always do your homework and you know how to write scientific papers like a pro."
"Thank you," the violet eyed female grinned, "my older sister helps me out sometimes since she's in university."
Gilgamesh frowned, if anything it seemed like Jeanne and the teacher had more chemistry than Arturia and him. He grit his teeth and shook his head, "I guess Arturia does need to work on her studies, would you be willing to help her out?"
"If she wants, but she's very hostile to me, I don't think she would seek my help when she has a smart girl right next to her." Diarmuid shrugged and sat back on the chair, "You care a lot for your girlfriend, no?"
"They're not dating," Jeanne pointed it out as she glanced at Gilgamesh, "he got her in trouble yesterday for dragging her along with him."
"She got in trouble?" Gilgamesh tilted his head, "Seriously?"
"So it wasn't a date?" Diarmuid furrowed his brow. It had been quite obvious that they were on a date, they were even holding hands and all.
Gilgamesh turned to the male and grinned, caught him. He could hear the tone of voice of the man before them, he had sounded a little too relieved and a little jealous.
"I can take over from here." Another teacher entered the room and Diarmuid looked up at the clock to see that it was already nine and so he gathered his things.
"Thank you," he nodded at the other teacher and stood from the desk, "Bye guys, it was nice getting to know you." He waved the class goodbye and slid out the door after hearing the sad cried of the females.