I opened the front door to leave gesturing the rest of my team to follow in suit. Nebula pulled her scroll out to check the time, seeing how my timing is typically off every time. She smiled and cocked her head, gesturing the other two to leave the little shack. Here we are again. Out into the realm of nature rather than the man made infrastructure we surround ourselves in.
I held the door for the rest of my team. Octavia and Gwen walked out first, groggy as anything. I tossed my arm around Nebula's shoulder and held her close, but not too close. Oh god! God forbid I do that!We smiled at each other as I shook her back and forth gently and and rubbed the top of her arm before just walking beside her. She yawned and stretched out a bit. Watching her yawn made me yawn of course.
"If you want, Neb, I've got time after school today. We can spend time in the little stationery trailer up by work. Oh, my work! What do ya say? Just the two of us?" I couldn't help it. I rented this puny place for me to get away. It practically was a puny trailer. It had a tiny kitchen, enough room for a queen size bed, but not enough for a toilet. Luckily there's a public bathroom there anyway.
I could see her muscles relax as her face filled with suppressed elation and almost orgasmic bliss. "I-I don't see why not. What time you gotta leave?"
"I could leave around 4:30ish. That's when I normally do. I can stay a little longer if I wanted to."
"I think we'll have enough time," she said.
"There never really is enough time. Any time… oh, forget it! I don't want to sound stupid," I laughed.
"You're cute," she whispered in my ear chuckling.
"Not as cute as you," I whispered back. I know it's so cliched, but this is a first for me. All that lovey-dovey crap I gagged at all the time actually felt nice. Afterall, it was just playful flirting back and forth. I've never had that before. I mean, sure guys have flirted with me, but I always gagged by their crap and cheap one-liners. I could actually flirt back and forth with someone who I'm actually attracted to. Now I'm just getting too excited! I should slow it down a bit. I'm just getting a little too ahead of myself.
The wind seemed content and at peace. It seemed to greet us both equally instead of spinning me round over and over again and stinging me with the little dust devils it makes. The dew deserted the grass and went wherever it chose to go which I had no problem with. What the dew does in the dew's business. Maybe that's how people should see me. What the dew does is the dew's business. I actually like that idea though it will never come into fruition.
We walked up the street with ease. I swear that I could walk this whole town blindfolded. I lived for these streets and everything in it. The walk from our little shack to the bus stop was only about seven minutes exactly as usual. It was early morning, so everything was at rest. The cars were motionless as even they slept next to the houses of their masters, and the lights themselves rarely changed from signalling one direction to the other.
I took my normal spot by the sign and sat on the curb. I looked around, and there she was standing there behind me. "Neb," I called out to her. I pat the area right next to me to tell her to sit. She jumped, startled but quickly shook it off and did sit next to me just as I wanted her to. We sat so close together that there were only mere millimeters between the two of us.
I decided to make a bit of a ballsy move. I looked all around our immediate area. It was all clear, well minus Team NDGO. I put the tips of my fingers in the palm of her hand. I felt the short glove pull against my bare skin, but she locked her hand into mine. We hid it between both our hips and a bit of out thighs. I cradled her elbow in the wenis of my arm. I put my head on her shoulder blade and pretended to be drowsy, don't get me wrong, I still was a little. I closed my eyes and pretended to be falling asleep.
She unlocked our hands and rubbed my arm and kissed my head when nobody was looking. Gwen and Octavia looked a little perplexed, with which Nebula reassured them by saying, "Someone's a little tired, I guess."
Gwen and Octavia looked at each other perplexed. "Ya, I guess," Gwen stated. Nebula didn't look too concerned at all. She actually seemed confident despite Gwen and Octavia thinking something was up. I knew that they couldn't figure it out.
"Still got a pneumonia," I said, "Not contagious, though." I was still fighting off one that was caused by the flu I caught earlier.
"Kind of figured that, Dew," Gwen retorted. I figured since Gwen and Tavi shook off any doubt they had that I'd snuggle up with Nebula without any shame, though I hid my smile to make sure there wasn't anything suspicious that would get them to suspect that the two of us were officially partners. I was just getting over the pneumonia anyways. It brought me down some days, but it was bearable for the lack of a better word.
Some of the other students started to gather at the bus stop, so Nebula gently nudged me off her shoulder to avoid the staring eyes, or cause them. I anchored my elbows near my knees and let my hands hang low between my legs. I took a quick glance at Nebula who looked at me back and smiled. I gave her a tender smile and locked our hands and hid them between the two of us. She stared me dead in the eyes from a distance this time. Octavia and Gwen were a little too preoccupied looking for the bus. I pretended to whisper something in her ear, but I silently kissed her instead causing her to giggle.
I giggled in suit, pretending that something was funny. I figured she thought it was so cute by the way I sneak things here and there. She knows that I'm so good when it comes down to pulling off forbidden stunts in plain sight and behind authority's back. I found a group that said they'd help me with my little "problem". They said this whole thing was natural, so I bailed because that was the last thing I wanted to hear. Maybe I should go back there.
The bus began to pull up, so we got up and stood on the sidewalk so it could pull up with ease. We were one of the first people to enter. We took my usual spot in the back of the bus. She would normally sit directly in front of me on the bus, but she decided to sit next to me this time. She grabbed my hand with little to no shame and so did I. I sat closest to the window and leaned up against my backpack. I unlocked our hands and wrapped it around her waist and drew her in to lie down on me. I pecked her on the lips quickly while nobody was paying attention.
I couldn't help it. I just could resist the urge anymore. I just had to say it, so I said, "I love you," in a faint whisper.
She smiled and began tearing up. She placed her hand on my face. "I love you, too," she said.
"I don't ever want anything to ever happen to you."
"Me neither."
"I swear that I will protect you with my whole body, heart, and soul. I will not part from you until the reaper pry us apart by his brutal force."
"Likewise," she said kissing my cheek and cuddled with me. The bus began to move after almost everybody took their seats. Nebula promptly sat herself up as the bus began departing from the stop in front lower level combat academy which was our bus stop. I put my leg on the side of her thigh and caressed it for a bit before just leaving it there. She pat the back of my hand. Oh, I also forgot to mention nobody ever comes to the very back of the bus until the next stop.
Upon arrival at Shade, I kissed Nebula on the cheek while nobody was looking. Most people are either texting or listening to music and ignoring the world, so I know nobody noticed. "What periods are your least productive?" I asked her.
"Why?" she said arching a brow.
"Fourth, sixth, and seventh are snoozefests for me. We never do anything."
I know she knew what I was getting at. She knew I was just bsing and making excuses to text in class. She smiled, "Seventh, I guess."
"Oh, thank god! That's the most boring. I can't stand that stupid book! It's so stupid. Ugh, I did stupidly choose to take another language, though."
"Do you guys even speak the language?" she joked.
"Notta lick of it!" I chimed. It's sad but true.
"That's pretty much what Tavi told me."
"And Gwen?"
"She never really talked about it too much, but she seemed bored by it, too."
"What?" Gwen said looking back, "I heard my name. What kind of crap you guys saying behind my back, huh?" She teased.
"You in World Lang," I retorted.
"I'm telling you guys, it's useless. We don't even speak the other language half the time."
"I can second that," Octavia added.
"I know guys. I'm in your guy's' class," I said.
"That's pretty much what I hear from everyone else taking a language this year," Nebula said.
"It is. It's completely useless. Nobody even speaks the language at all through the whole period. They're dead languages anyway. Way back when, when there used to be a language divide, we couldn't even communicate throughout the kingdoms let alone the world."
"Typical of Vacuo, though," Gwen stated, "They always bring back the dead ideas and ideologies of hatred and discrimination."
"Come on, Gwen," Nebula whined.
"She's not wrong," I added.
"Please, Neb," Octavia said, "Look at the police. They raided a faunus town, looted their stores, slaughtered hundreds of innocent faunus, and castrated most if not all the survivors to maintain human supremacy. If that isn't barbaric and archaic, I don't know what is. I mean, I know they still face discrimination, but no one has taken that far since the pangean days. They had just made themselves a Vacuean Kristallnacht."
"Not to mention how they castrate, crucify, and burn gays at the stake, force blacks back into slavery, and are trying to force women back into homes as housewives based off a book that had been proven false hundreds of years ago due to its inconsistencies, false doctrines, and contradictions it made even to itself." I looked back at Nebula and saw she was pale. "We're all going to Atlas anyway where none of this is going on, so as long as we keep our mouths shut, we can do whatever the hell Vacuo would never allow us to do as women and have legal protections." I whispered an additional note that only she could hear, "As long as what goes on behind closed doors, stays behind closed doors, we'll be fine. I promise."
She smiled meekly. With her body a bit tense, she stated, "Of course." I know she was a bit uneasy about our newly formed relationship, but neither one of us could help it. I knew since the first day that I met her that there was something about her that I liked. She had that cute, long and structured hair that was so full of that vibrant indigo color. It's such a shame that she cut it and kept it at a short length, but it's actually really cute nonetheless.
We entered the library as usual so we could finish up some last minute homework or do whatever on the computers that we pleased. Being that most of Vacuo is a desert wasteland, it get's so ungodly hot. The library is literally the only place in the whole academy that has some form of air conditioning. Most students pass out from heat strokes, but the school still refuses to cough up the funds for any form of ventilation whatsoever, so the students have to suffer for their ungodly willfulness and stingy economic shortcuts they like to take.
I took my usual seat in front of the computer and did what I'd always do. I'd look up some images of some of my favorite characters or check my email. I did check to see if I got any mail from the social media sites that wasn't blocked by Shade. Octavia and I have been working on a story for quite some time. I have to admit that I'm kind of proud of it, but god forbid we use a Vacuean server to write it. Seeing as both of us are atheists, we instinctively wrote some stories together about people who tend to hold some secular views. Freedom of speech and press aren't exactly guaranteed in Vacuo, so we hacked a Valian internet server and used private docs until .
they were finsihed. Let's face it, we may by Vacuean, but we're not stupid. We know how to cover our asses.
I opened the doc to see that Tavi had done some work on it, so I pulled the editing table out to see how much she wrote and where exactly she began writing. It wasn't too long. I was about five paragraphs which took up about two pages since it was a single spaced doc. I looked around to see if anyone was looking at my screen since Octavia went on a bit a written, secular rampage. Luckily nobody was.
My screens have pretty much been the target for teacher and library watch since I got caught for some stupid things while on the computer. It wasn't exactly related to writing, but it did involve some explicit content and pictures which I'd rather not mention. I was being really stupid and careless about things, but it wasn't so much about homosexuality than it was about nudity which is a big no-no here. Tavi and I normally have our own set of characters, but we can write as them in our stories at our own leisure to better fit the story. I was writing as a male who just so happened to be having intercourse with a female. I know; I was stupid about it.