"I hate school" I groan in silence while in science class. Both Chloe and Sabrina looked at me with no reaction, it has become almost a daily thing for me to say in school every day. I glared at the science blackboard with pure hatred for it.
It has been a few days since our battle with Timebreaker and things went back to usual. I and Chloe have spent more time together, it was almost like we were each other's shadow, you couldn't find one of us without the other one.
I also have officially taken the dog as my own, and I loved it significantly. And thanks to winning a bet between me and Chloe, he got to live with her in her vast room. I think she has also started to love the little pitbull.
I have named him, Lightning, because he has the zoomies all the damn time. I could swear he ran around the place with all the speed he could come up with. No matter where, when, or what he is doing, he has the zoomies, and I love him so damn much because of his active personality.
He is probably my best friend even tho I only had him for a short time. But I couldn't help it, I always loved dogs, they are just the best, and so lovable. How in the world couldn't I love him with all my heart?
My friendship with Chloe is still going strong with each other, we annoy each other all the time. My friendships with Sabrine and Kim were also doing well, I saw Sabrine as a younger sibling since she reminded me of my little sister. I and Kim are friends because I'm still the only one who goes along with his bets whenever he asks for one.
However, my friendships with Chloe, Sabrina, and Kim were great, and my friendships with the rest of the class were nonexistent. I found them all to be annoying and not worth my time. Sure, I and Marinette have a sort of friendship, because her parents were just so lovely and I couldn't find it in my heart to be mean to her because of them.
So, here I was in science class with Ms. Mendeleiev, that was a weird ass last name. My sworn enemy for life, I dislike her being all up in my sleeping in class, and she dislikes me for sleeping in class. I simply watched her teach in pure spite until I had my chance to get some payback for her not letting me sleep.
"Stop that" Chloe whispered to me, before I turned to face her "I don't need you to plan a payback for her, for not letting you sleep" Chloe told me with a firm tone of voice and I frowned at that. Before I leaned back like a child being scolded by his parents, she gave me a light glare.
"Why you gotta ruin my fun" I asked her mockingly with a grin, not seriously mocking or making fun of her. Just being a bit silly for the time being "Come on, no one needs to know if she gets water dumped on her or something important goes missing" I told her with a shrug but she glared harder, and before, she could say anything, she was interrupted.
"Nathaniel! What are you drawing" Ms. Mendeleiev asked Nathaniel abruptly, which caused him to snap out of his daydream in a confused and unexpected jump. Nathaniel looked so confused over the situation that I started to snicker to myself, enjoying his confused misery. "And these artistic endeavors" The purple-haired teacher grabbed his drawing from him, and waved it in front of him. "Are clearly why you are failing science"
"Yeah, not because it's boring as hell" I muttered snarkily to myself after hearing that, but God decided to have humor today because Ms. Mendeleiev heard me. To which I cursed the god with all the hatred in my soul.
"What was that Cruel" Ms. Mendeleiev asked me and turned to face me and I looked away like a coward, not meeting her eyes with my own. "Since you seemed to be in a snarky mood, why don't you follow Nathaniel, as you two march down to the principal's office" I glared at her, why did she have to be such a bitch.
I was about to remark back to her but Chloe placed a hand on my shoulder and shook her head. I calmed down almost immediately, which surprised me very much since this was the first time, I calmed down so quickly.
I got out of my seat and just when I was about to walk, Nathaniel tripped on a schoolbag and crashed into me. We both landed on the ground in a pile of bodies, with his drawing book flying out of his hands onto the floor for everyone to see his drawing.
"Fuck my back" I groan in discomfort, but not in any serious pain. I heard the students gasp after seeing us fall. I and Nathaniel were picked up into each of Ms. Mendeleiev's hands, as we hung. And Jesus Christ this woman was strong.
"Ooh. Look, Sabrina. It's him. As a superhero" Chloe, the ever evil girl she was, had picked up the drawing book from the floor and showed it to Sabrina. Sabrina leans closer to see the drawing better "And look who he's saving. It's Marinette" Chloe told her as Sabrina gasped in shock, and that got my interest. "He is so totally crushing on you, Marinette" I didn't have time to take a look at the drawing before Nathaniel took it back from Chloe.
"Gimme that" Nathaniel said as he took the drawing book back from her and I sneakily took a look. Just because I was a curious little bastard but I didn't get that good of a look.
"Enough! Nathaniel, Cruel, go" Ms. Mendeleiev ordered us and we went out of the classroom while I grumbled and cursed at her "I heard that" She told me and shot me a glare.
"Bitch" I told her and close the door, getting the last word in, which felt great.
"CRUEL" I could hear her shouting at me through the door and I just smirked.
"What a brat" Ms. Mendeleiev muttered under her breath, and shook her head gently. Cruel Hart had been her most troublesome student in all of her years of teaching. He only sleeps each time it's school, and he shows no interest in his classmates other than Chloe, Sabrina, and Kim. He has never done his work, like homework, or even schoolwork.
His attitude is the worst, he is always antagonistic, and defiant, and worse, constant swearing is getting a little out of hand. Ms. Mendeleiev could probably guess, that he has used every swear word in the book, in just the weeks, he has been here.
But with all of these negatives, the brat has some positives. He has shown himself to be smart not academically smart, but life experience smart with common sense. He has shown himself to be able to solve problems with common sense with little difficulty
His ability to record memories is also strange. You could ask him to answer a question you just taught him to solve, and he would come up with nothing. But if he found anything to be interesting, he would have it almost memorized by the end of the day.
He's both smart and stupid, both bright and dull, he is like the two sides of the same coin, and you need to flip it with luck to get the side you want. You were lucky to get the smart side of him once a week.
The female teacher just let out a sigh and turned to the class to continue the session. "Okay, the next particle physics presentation group is" She started by saying to the class before she informed them about the group "Nino, Adrien, and Alya" Adrien and Nino fist bump each other after hearing the both of them were in the same group
"And then, Sabrina, Chloe, Cruel, and Marinette" Ms. Mendeleiev called out to the class, and Marinette groaned after hearing that she was together with Chloe. At the same time, Chloe wasn't happy about having Marinette and she decided to voice her objection.
"Uh, miss, can't you just add Marinette to another group?" Chloe asked Ms. Mendeleiev, clearly not wanting to have her nemesis in her group "Sabrina, Cruel, and I work much better together on our own" Chloe tried to convince her teacher that they were better off without Marinette.
Ms. Mendeleiev, however, wasn't swayed at all. "This is a group presentation, and we are currently an odd number of students since Cruel joined the school" The scientists explained to Chloe simply, and firmly about her stance on this "That is why you are four in your group, since that would leave one student out of the presentation"
Chloe was about to continue arguing, having taken on Cruel defiant behavior towards her teachers, after spending so much time with him, but the bell went off before she was able to continue. Chloe sighed and left the classroom with Sabrina behind her.
"I can't believe she put us with Marinette" Chloe was currently ranting about the unfairness of Marinette being part of our group, I, and Sabrina simply listened to her calmly. We all were currently in the locker room, and I only just got here after speaking to the principal, who gave me my fourth detention this month.
"And just forget about the project, I don't have time for something that stupid" Chloe told us while she closed her locker "Besides, now you both have Marinette to help you two" I decided to interject.
"Yeah, about that no" I told her flatly and Chloe sighed, already expecting I wouldn't do any work, and that would leave Sabrina and Marinette to do it alone "I have a date" I realized my mistake as I misworded what I meant, but it was already too late as both of them looked at me with full attention.
"Ooh, with who" Sabrina asked me excitedly, happy that I finally found someone speical rather than just being a loner like always. Chloe however had a different reaction to the news, her stomach started to twist with a small bit of jealousy for an unknown reason that she couldn't explain to herself.
In Chloe's mind, she couldn't get over the fact that Cruel had a date today. Something about him dating didn't sit right with her, it was as if the idea of him dating a girl was unsettling. She tried her best to act like nothing was wrong, but the jealousy in her stomach kept coming up the more she thought about that date.
Her mind went wild, who was she, why did Cruel like her, and why did he decide, that she was so important to date? Chloe's mind kept having these questions before something crossed her mind, what did she have that, Chloe herself didn't have? That line of questioning caused her to blush lightly and shake her head.
I noticed how the two of them were acting, and I decided to try and explain this misunderstanding but Marinette came and overheard that I and Chloe wasn't going to help out with the project, and spoke up before me.
"Um, is everything okay" Marinette asked us while she walked over to us and stood beside us. Chloe scoffs at Marinette's question, taking out her jealous feeling that she got from the news, onto Marinette.
"Everything is perfectly fine," The Akuma user of envy said to the black-haired girl tightly while trying to keep this new feeling out of her voice. I raised an eyebrow, wondering why Chloe was acting so weird compared to normal. I shocked it up to maybe she woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
"Well then, why can't you and Cruel help us with the project" Marinette asked Chloe and me calmly, trying to figure out why we couldn't help.
"That is none of your business, Miss Nosey" Chloe snapped at her rival for Adrien's love, but Marinette took offense by her tone and placed her hands on her hips.
"Un, actually, since I'm a part of this group, it is" Marinette answered Chloe in a calm and leveled voice. I and Sabrina noticed that it was getting close to an argument, and Sabrina stepped in to break them up.
"It's okay, Marinette. You and I will do all the research, and writing for our project, and Chloe and Cruel can present it" That was so unfair that I felt sorry for Sabrina for a second, but only a second before it went away. "That way it's equal" Sabrina explained to Marinette and clasped her hands together.
"That's not equal at all" Marinette said to Sabrina with a bit of a mad tone in her voice, over how they would do almost all the work alone. "Is that how you three work?" The black-haired girl asked me and Chloe indignantly over the lack of work with both did.
"Yeah, we've been doing this ever since grade school" I waved my hands around as if saying I wasn't a part of this "When I started doing Chloe's homework, we have been BFFs ever since," Sabrina told Marinette, and I looked at Chloe with a shock look, and to her credit, she did look a little ashamed. But her personality wouldn't let her admit that.
"And you got a problem with that" Chloe asked Marinette hotly before she pointed at Sabrina. "We both get something out of it, she gets my friendship and I get a perfect score on school work" Chloe justified her behavior, as more of a transaction rather than a friendship, but I was all for it.
"Very businesslike, I like it." I commented with a thumb up for Chloe but Marinette didn't like this behavior and gently placed her hand on Sabrina's shoulder.
"Sabrina" Marinette spoke softly and gently toward her "Chloe is totally taking advantage of you. You don't have to do what she says. That is not how a real best friend acts" She explained to the orange-haired girl, trying to make her see that Chloe's behavior wasn't how friends acted.
Chloe only scoffed and rebuked, Marionette's statement. "Not only am I Sabrina's best friend" Chloe grabbed Sabrina by her shoulder and pulled her to her side "I'm her only friend" I coughed loudly "Her first best friend" Chloe corrected herself just as quickly as I coughed "So, she better do what I say, cause without me, she has nothing" Chloe said it like it was a matter of fact. I was simply enjoying this argument and wished that I had some popcorn for this show.
"Well, I'd rather have no friends than be friends with you" Marionette said back to Chloe but the blonde-haired girl didn't care about what Marionette said.
"Whatever, I got more important things to worry about." Chloe said and fixed up her hair calmly "My hair is a hot mess, and Jean-Claude promised to work his magic" I let out a snicker at his name, it was just so funny sounding. "Later" Chloe walked off and I followed after her, having nothing better to do in the day.
Later in the day, I found myself in the school library with Chloe, Marionette, and Sabrina. I had noticed that Chloe had acted weirdly throughout the day, she was much more snappy at me after hearing about the date, and that caused me to worry about her lightly. I tried asking her what was wrong, but she kept shutting me down, and I decided to give her space.
"What do you mean you're not doing my assignment?" I let out a groan as Chloe and Sabrina were currently in an argument, and I placed my head on the table. It seemed that Marionette standing up to Chloe in front of Sabrina, had given her a backbone, and she was now standing up to Chloe.
I decided to ignore all three girls are their argument and pulled out my phone I got after working for Marionette's dad. I had noticed over time, that this world didn't have certain songs that my Earth had. For example, Turn Up the music by Chris Brown, Silence by Marshmallows, and many more, artists weren't even real in this world. So, I made a blog, which I named 'Otherworldly Music', where I would slowly upload songs that I could remember like they were of my making onto a blog that I made.
I knew that I didn't have any musical talent and I knew what I was doing was wrong, and I knew one day this would bite me in the ass. But for the time being, I saw this as a way to make some easy cash for people to buy my music, or music from my world.
I now have a decent following of a few thousand in the time, I have been in this world. They seem to like the songs, just as much as people on Earth like them, which was pretty good, even in another world. People still love the artists of my world and their songs. I even started to earn a lot from the music, which was a plus even if it wasn't my songs.
But I couldn't help but feel like a cheat, I wasn't earning this because of my talent, I was only earning because of other people's songs from my world. I felt like a useless copout because none of this was of my making, which left a hole in me for some reason.
However, I didn't have time to think about it for long before I heard screaming and I turned to what the commotion was about. I saw the weirdest thing in the world, Chloe being chased by a hairdryer.
"What the fuck" I asked myself in confusion before I looked around to see what I thought was the Akuma villain, and I ran toward him. I made it up to the second level of the library, and I ran toward him before I tackled him to the ground. I raised my fist into the air, but he was able to push me off before I was able to punch him. I slid on the floor and just when I was about to run at him. He suddenly drew something, and I was stuck in a box.
I was confused as hell and looked to see that he was gone, which made me even more confused over how fast he disappeared.
"The fuck" Those were the last words out of my mouth.
"Seems this Evillustrator is targeting you specifically, Chloe" I, Chloe, Cat Noir, and Ladybug were all currently in Chloe's room, and Lightning was currently on my lap while I pet him calmly. "Any idea why" Cat Noir asked Chloe calmly while she was drawing over Nathaniel's drawing.
"No! Everyone adores me" Chloe said it like it was a matter of fact, and I laughed loudly before I wince at the sharp slap to my arm. I looked at Chloe with a light-hearted glare while I kept giggling, and she rolled her eyes at me.
"Yeah, because you are so adorable" Ladybug muttered sarcastically, which I picked up with a raised eyebrow, but Chloe didn't pick it up. Chloe let out a gasp of excitement after hearing her idol's words.
"Yes! Ladybug just said I'm adorable" I facepalm openly and Lightning let out a doggish groan while Chloe blitzed past over to Ladybug "I totally need a picture of the two of us together," Chloe said to her hero while her arm was wrapped around Ladybug shoulder. The phone camera shutter clicks as it takes the picture.
"That was unpleasant" Ladybug groaned as she muttered and I raised another eyebrow, wondering why she seemed to dislike Chloe. My eyes narrowed slightly in a bit of anger for her behavior toward her fan. Chloe obviously liked her, so what was her deal, or was she just an asshole when she wasn't with other heroes.
"Well, I look great, of course. But your smile is all wonky" Chloe commented to Ladybug, seeming to be oblivious to the heroine's dislike of her. I grabbed Chloe when I saw she was about to take another, and I shook my head.
"Sit" I told her calmly and firmly which was unusual for my tone of voice since I'm more laidback and simple tone of speech. Chloe looked like she was about to argue with me, but she just sighed and sat down. "We need to do our apresentation" I decided against telling her what I saw of Ladybug's behavior toward her since I didn't want to break her heart.
"Oh, now you want to do the presentation" Chloe asked with a mad tone of voice and huffed while looking away from me. "What happened to the date you had" Chloe asked me, with what sounded like a jealous tone.
I groan loudly "It isn't a date date" I tried to explain to her but she was having none of it, and cut me off before I could fully explain everything.
"I don't care what you call it" Chloe said in a snappy tone and glared at me like I had offended her on a personal level. She stood up and started to walk away from me, and gave me a final glare "Go on your date, Mr. Ladies man" She turned with a huff and left me alone with Lightning.
"Why is she even acting like this" I asked Lightning, like I expected the pitbull to answer me. He just stared at me like I was the dumbest person alive, which I was since I had no idea what I was meant to do, or how to make Chloe feel better.
Then something hit me, that fact I wanted to make someone feel better because I someone made them mad. I never before wanted to make someone feel better, not my family, not my friends or anyone.
"This world has changed me" I lay down on the couch with that realization hitting me at once. It felt nice, to care about someone that much since I haven't ever felt this way toward anyone, and for the first time since I came to this world.
I let out a small genuine smile.
For the next few hours, both I and Chloe sat on the opposite side of the room, doing the presentation on my own. The air was tense between us, or more accurately, between Chloe. I had tried many times to explain the date, but she kept cutting me off before I could fully explain.
"There, I'm done with my part" I told Chloe calmly and patiently, despite her lack of patience with me. But Chloe didn't answer me, and I sighed before I looked at the time, and it was time for the meeting. I looked outside to see that it was starting to get.
"I'll be going now" I told Chloe but she kept giving me the silent treatment and I sighed. I put the collar on Lightning and we walked out of the room.
Chloe watched as Cruel left the room with the pitbull by his side, and she let out a sigh. Chloe's snake ring started to glow as Skalidor appeared in front of her face with a worried look on his Akuma face.
"Is everything alright, my lady?" The Akuma asked her with his usual envious voice, he gently floated over to her. Skalidor could feel the jealousy inside of her because he was the snake of envy, which made him able to feel other people's envy or jealousy easily.
"I'm perfectly fine" Chloe snapped at him, tired of getting asked that question over and over again. But Skalidor didn't get startled or scared by her tone and simply looked at her with an unimpressive look.
"Please my lady, I can feel the envy in your body" He told her matter of factly and she let out a grunt of annoyance at that. "Is this because of the date?" The snake asked its holder calmly, and just when Chloe about to answer, he continued to talk, not letting her get a word in "If you would have listened, Cruel would have told you, it wasn't a date with a girl, it was a playdate for Lightning with another dog" He told her bluntly and Chloe blinked a few times in confusion.
"What" She started to splutter after hearing that "What do you mean a playdate, he said it was a date" Chloe tried to defend herself and her actions toward her partner. Skalidor simply shook his head at Chloe and stared into her eyes.
"Cruel met a young man at the park and he decided to have a playdate for the two dogs to play with each other" Skalidor was firm when he talked to his holder but also very calm. "There was never a girl involved in this, and if you asking me how I know this. Nova and I talk to each other while you spend time in school" He quickly explained her unasked question about how he knew this.
"So, I was just mean to him for no reason" Chloe asked herself quietly, feeling a bit of remorse. She was so quick to jump to the fact, that he was going out with a girl, and unknowingly probably hurt his feelings because of every action she took because of it. "I need to call him" Chloe quickly tried to look for her phone, however before she was able to find it, she suddenly heard her room doorknob rattling
Both the Akuma and the female hero's heads snapped toward the sound, Chloe slowly and calmly moving toward the door but also being cautious. She placed her ear to the door and to hear for any breathing but she heard none.
"Cruel is that you" Chloe asked cautiously before she suddenly gasped as the door was being erased, and the Evillustrator stood on the other side with a smirk. Chloe quickly ran away while the Evillustrator walked after her slowly. She tried to look for any place to her before she was suddenly grabbed by the Evillustrator.
"Got you" He said to her coldly and with an evil smile, but Chloe quickly punched him square in the face. He let out a surprised gasp of pain, as he wasn't expecting her to actually fight back, and Chloe took that moment as her chance to run. She ran into her large spacious balcony and hid behind one of her small trees.
"You can't hide from me" Evillustrator erased the trees she hid behind and walked toward her menace. "I'm going to show you that you can't walk over people." The Akuma villain said to her and Chloe knew she had nowhere to transform into her Akuma form since that would expose her secret identity.
So, she did something as a last resort and shouted out with all of her breath inside her lungs "SIN, HELP ME" She shouted out loudly for Cruel, hoping he would hear her despite how unlike that would be.
"This is your end" Evillustrator drew with his stylus a giant heel that was just about to step on Chloe, but suddenly out of nowhere, punched in the face by none other than the hero Sin.
"Pick someone your own size" I cracked my neck calmly and glared at him with rage in my red eyes, and my body glowing red. Lightning ran into Chloe's arms and licked her face to comfort her. "Leave, I'll take care of him" I told Chloe, and she quickly ran away to a place where she could transform into her hero form. I turned back to glare at the villain "Let's see how you handle a brute like me" I looked at him with rage and ran toward him.
"You won't stop me" The Akuma villain shouted and drew three boxing gloves into the air and sent them at me. But I punched them with all the power I had, destroying them before they could even hit me. "What the…" He didn't get to finish as I punched him into a wall, shattering the wall from the force his body hit it with.
The Evillustrator looked dazed after that attack and looked around confused over how someone could be that physically powerful. I didn't let him have time to think about his next move, as I grabbed him and threw him back onto the balcony, and his body landed with a loud thud.
"RRROOOAAARR" I roared like a lion and just as proudly while I walked toward him slowly and menacingly. The Evillustrator slowly got up with pain written over his face and tried to use his stylus but I simply grabbed the top of the stylus and cracked it. "You lost" I told him simply while he fell back to his knees, while the butterfly Akuma flew into the air.
But it didn't get far as Chloe had jumped into the air to intercept it and grabbed it. She landed back onto the floor in her hero costume and crushed the butterfly in her hands. The two of us looked at each other, there was an awkward air around us, as neither one of us wanted to speak.
"So, how did you hear me" Chloe asked awkwardly to me, and I rubbed the back of my head.
"I sorta never went to the date" I admit to her with the same awkward tone "I decided it wasn't that important compared to this" I told her calmly and walked past her while deforming back to my normal self.
"I'm sorry" Chloe apologized quietly, not saying what she apologized for, leaving that vague but I knew what she meant without her saying it.
"I accept." I told her back just as quietly. We both just stood there for a moment or two before we silently walked back into her room, the air feeling clearer.
With that, everything was back to normal.
Sorry for the long wait, school work has been killing me for these weeks. But I hope this chapter was worth the wait. I tried to put more into Cruel and Chloe's feelings for each other without making them already in love with each other. A little jealously from Chloe, and a little change in Cruel attitude towards her.
