Classes Divided
Who is ready for more Vi/Lux?
Within Valoran, there is a very elite school. Its home to the best people from the country. Being funded by Valoran's top dogs, most of the students are there on scholarship, working hard to make their names heard. The highborn students made up most of the school's population. Only about 5% of them were true royalty, however. These students included the Du Coteaus of Noxus, the Lightshield, Buvelle, Laurent, and Crownguards of Demacia, The warring Avorosan, Frostguard, and Winter-Claw sisters of the Freljord, and the unrelated Fitzwilliam siblings of Piltover. They all stayed in the largest house on the campus, styled as a mansion, away from everybody else. Most of the students disliked them, and their 'holier than thou' attitude.
The previously mentioned highborn -but not royalty- students still stayed close to the higher class, even though they were mostly treated as slaves. Most of them were always sent to fetch things, or deliver messages. They lived in a cluster of shared houses, in a cul-de-sac.
The lowest class of students lived in one big building, designed as apartments. These students were always considered the happiest and closest, keeping each other's spirits up and helping anybody they could. A lot of them were also the smartest in the school, due to being at the school on scholarships.
This attitude always continued, even when lessons started. The higher class students always assumed that they were the top of the class, and refuse to hear anything that anybody else has to say.
Of all of these negative things that have been said about the school's royalty, there is one person that breaks the mould. She is, however, the youngest member of this house, and is seen as invisible most of the time. Luxanna Crownguard stayed hidden from the public eye, due to the attention that is always showered on her older brother, Garen. She still held high expectations from her family and the rest of the house. Today, however, she was in a rush to get back out of class, and away from the extra homework that her teacher was attempting to give her. Without looking inside the building that she was going to rush into, she ran in, and bounced off of a wall of muscle, falling back and landing in a shallow puddle of rainwater.
"Oh, fuck. Are you alright?" Lux looked up at the tall, wall of muscle. Vi, the star boxer of the school, knelt down and pulled the heiress up by her wrists.
"I'm fine." She tried to brush herself off. "I guess it wasn't a good idea to wear white today." Vi laughed from where she was picking up the papers that Lux dropped.
"Yeah, your backside has gone see-through." With her ears going red, Lux tried to cover herself with her hands, and was stopped when Vi handed her work back. "C'mon." Taking her white jacket off, the taller teenager tied her jacket around the other's waist. "I'll take you back to my place and get you a spare set of clothes. My sister is about your size."
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I've ever been to this part of the school before. Everybody always told me to stay away because the people here are filthy. Well, that and violent. But they always used the word 'filthy' like it was poison. Maybe Katarina was tricking me when she said that the students here are all cruel. Vi doesn't seem like a bad person.
"Oh, fuck." Was what followed the sound of keys dropping.
"Are you alright?" I asked, earning a grin from Vi.
"Yeah, my hands are just sore from practice." She bent over and picked them, up, hitting the wood of the door a few times before getting the key into the lock. "Y'know, I never got your name." She said, opening the door and gesturing me in. "You asked for mine, but I didn't ask for yours."
"Oh, I'm Luxanna." I placed my stack of papers onto a table next to the door and held my hand out for her to shake. "But I prefer Lux."
"Nice to meet you." She shook my hand with bruised knuckles. What does she major in here? "Hold out for a second, I'll get you something to change into." I tugged the arms of her jacket tighter around my waist. She's definitely nicer than a lot of people around here. Even people in my own social circle would have laughed at me.
"Are you sure that your sister won't mind?" I asked, watching Vi open a drawer in one of the dressers, close it, and walk to another one. The room was about half the size of my room, a bunk bed taking up half the wall on one side, the head of a single bed against the foot of it. Against the other half of the wall were two dressers, pushed against each other. I'll take a guess and assume that next to where I'm standing is a chemistry table. Why does Vi have that in her room?
"She only wears like, half her clothes. She won't miss a few." Vi turned to me, a shirt in hand. "Do you wear shorts or full length pants?"
"Full, please." I squeaked in surprise when she threw the clothes to me.
"Bathroom's right over there. I won't look, don't worry." She grinned, petting me on the head. "I need to change, too."
"I promise to not look, either." I smiled, walking into the surprisingly spotless bathroom and shutting the door behind me. She works out…so her major must be sports. As I changed into the loose shirt and slightly-too-tight jeans, the room's door opened again.
"We're back!" A boy's voice called out. "You miss us, Vi?"
"When don't I? What took you guys so long to get back?"
"We got detention." A second female voice.
"Why?" Vi asked.
"Jinx called the teacher a cunt, and I went with it." The boy answered. "I don't want her to feel left out." Wait, students actually swear at their teachers? Should I go out there now? I'm not sure about who these people are.
"There's somebody else here." Jinx said.
"How can you tell?"
"I can smell them, Ekko!" It sounded like she jumped a few times. I don't know what really happened, though. I can't see through walls.
"Yeah, you got me." Vi laughed. "I knocked some poor kid into a puddle, so I brought her back to give her a spare set of clothes."
"That's all we can expect from the walking wall of meat." Ekko said. "Where is she?" Inhaling deeply, I picked my dirty dress up and opened the door, meeting eyes with Ekko. Well, I guess that he was Ekko, since he's the only boy in the room. He was sat on the bottom bunk of the double bed, wearing a sleeveless green shirt, baggy pants, and was in the process of taking his shoes off. The fact that he had a white hourglass painted onto his dark skin wasn't confusing me. I was wondering how he got through doorways with his Mohawk.
"My old clothes!" Jinx ran across the small distance and hugged my arm, making me drop the clothes in my arms.
"Lux, this is my brother and sister, Ekko and Jinx." Vi smiled, dropping into a squishy, red chair and picking up a tv remote. "They're crazy."
"Oh, I'm definitely crazy." I looked into Jinx's wide pink, eyes.
"I love your hair." I smiled.
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"Okay, we've asked quite a few people, and I'm sure that she's here." Katarina said, balling her hand into a fist and pounding the door.
"You claim to dislike Lux, but you really care, don't you?" Sejuani asked, earning a glare. The knocks went unanswered, and the DuCoteau heiress punched the door.
"Geez, I'm coming!" Ekko pulled the door open, pushing his safety goggles up to his forehead. "Don't break what you can't fix."
"Where is Lux?" Katarina sighed. "She was supposed to be back hours ago."
"I'm here!" Ekko pushed the door fully open, revealing Lux and Jinx, sat on the floor and holding guitar shaped controllers, whilst Vi sat behind on a drum set, with the three of them staring intently at the screen and quickly pushing or hitting buttons.
"Lux, have you been here this entire time?" Sejuani laughed, stepping into the room. "And where is your dress?"
"It's being washed. It got mud all over it." Lux said, not looking up from the tv screen.
"Did you forget your manners?" Katarina stepped into the room, arms folded. "You need to look at who you're speaking to!"
"Not when I'm on a score streak!" She yelled back. Both Sejauni and Katarina were shocked with her answer. It lasted a few seconds before Sejuani laughed.
"Are you gonna finish soon? We need to get back to the mansion." Lux flicked her eyes towards her friends for a split second before looking back to the screen.
"Yeah, the songs almost over."
"Amazing." Katarina folded her arms. "Only two hours away from us, and your speech pattern has already changed."
"What do you major in around here, Princess Stabbity?" Ekko asked. He received a very confused look.
"'Princess Stabbity'?"
"I've seen you throw knives before." Ekko grinned. "And you're one of the royalty students."
"If you must know, I'm the female mixed martial arts champion." The conversation was cut short as Lux placed her guitar on the floor and stood up, smoothing her clothes out.
"Thank you for your hospitality!" She said, bowing to Vi and Jinx.
"Hey, feel free to come and hang out any time." Vi grinned. "We finally got an answer for 'what happens when an unstoppable force meets an unmoveable object'."
"Thank you for having me." Lux picked up the plastic bag with her dirty dress and completed homework, following Katarina and Sejuani out of the door. Before Ekko shut it, she met Vi's eyes again, and felt her ears go red.
"You are not staying in those clothes." Katarina put her hand on Lux's shoulder. "They are so ugly."
I'll let you guys decide again. Shall I go for angst, sweetness, or both?