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Bad had never felt the need to change things up with himself or the people around him; he liked the feeling that it could stay the same. Even when change was the only constant in life. Bad liked it when things were the same and very predictable. He wasn't the funniest at surprise parties. Though it didn’t matter to him, it was the one thing that made him feel somewhat sane in the crazy world around him. It was a sense of comfort for the longest time, nothing getting way out of hand, at least nothing he couldn’t handle. Maybe it was because of an unusual life he’s had to deal with, a pure demon that liked to stay indoors all day wasn’t out of the norm. In fact Bad was the ordinary compared to other demonic peers of his.
He could handle the friends he made already, he’s known them his whole life. One of the pleasures and displeasures of living in a very small town like the one he lived in. Everyone knew of each other or at least had some idea of who they are, even if you never talked to them. Word spreads quickly if you go looking for things like that, one of the things Bad didn’t like about the town he lived in. There was too much gossip for him, the reason why he stayed in his own little bubble tucked away in the corner of the school in the robotics lab tinkering away at some parts and bits. There were people he let into that bubble of course, others that enjoyed his same pastime. The team that Bad had managed to form was comforting, there was Dream who was a prolific coder and still somehow on the football team. Ant did this for fun but had a life out of the club, unlike Bad. Awesam was so good at working on motherboards and grinding at coding just as much as Dream. In total, they were all nerds that just had fun in the room that nobody ever really went into.
Which worked for Bad, he didn’t need to leave his little sphere of friends. He liked this.
But of course Bad never felt horrible that any of his friends did anything else, they had other interests and so did Bad, even if it was still in the realm of being a huge shut-in. They went out as a group as well, if it was an important game then Bad would go to show the team as much support as he could. Those were a nice change of pace for Bad, usually he gets to hang out with Ant and his boyfriend Velvet. Chat with some more of the other athletes like Sapnap and George who he considered very close friends. Though something kinda new began just one day.
Bad was going to his club room, spending so many hours in there that he made people worry about his health, the normal everyday thing for him. But the hallway was blocked, there was a crowd of people around another two people. Bad could see the two guys that somehow managed to gain a crowd around them. He remembered one guy was on the cheer team while the other one was on the debate team. Possibly a heated argument between the two of them but Bad wouldn't know. He only had two goals in mind, get out of the crowd and go to the club room. Already they probably started the day without him but he was stuck so close yet so far away from his goal. As Bad took one step there was another person that got in his way, they were kinda rowdy and he didn’t enjoy having to sift through the many people there. Until he saw a familiar face in the crowd, Ant was there kinda egging on the fight, at least it was someone safe to go towards.
As Bad made his way through the crowd he could feel everyone pushing to get out of the way, Bad tried to keep himself out of the wave of people until he was in the inner circle and happened to land in the most unfortunate place. He happened to be at the end of the fist of the guy on the cheer team.
Bad backed away and held his face in pain, he could feel a warm liquid pool into his hands and dripped onto the floor. White blood droplets littered the floor.
“What the heck dude!” he cried out as more people got away from him. He just held his nose and looked around for Ant, only to be stopped as one of his arms was grabbed by the cheer squad dude. Bad didn’t remember his name nor did he want to remember it right now. He was kinda peeved even though it was just him being there at the wrong place at the wrong time. This guy had a panic in his eyes since he probably didn't mean to cause somebody else a bloody nose like that.
“Dude I am so sorry, here let's go come on,” He started to tug on Bad. Completely ignoring the guy that he got into a fight with. Bad was pretty sure he was leading him towards the nurse’s office, which was kind for the guy that caused him a bloody nose.
This guy kept taking the lead with him, talking to the nurse for Bad, sitting him down, and grabbing him some napkins to clean the blood. It was weird but Bad appreciated the help, it made it easier on him. Bad finally got a good look at the cheer squad boy, fluffy dark hair and beautiful diamonds littered his skin, it reminded Bad of freckles but made out of stone. He enjoyed staring at them, since they were pretty rocks all across this guy’s face. The dude just kinda chuckled and Bad had to look away due to the embarrassment of getting caught staring, even when it was so very obvious.
“Hey! It’s fine, people stare at me often.” Skeppy tried to make things less awkward between the two of them. Which only made Bad feel worse, like who stares so much at him that he's just completely fine with it now? Must be awful to be him.
“My name is Skeppy,” The other dude finally decided to introduce himself to Bad. Which finally got Bad to look over at him again. Bad could see that the dude had a solid diamond hand. Just fully encrusted with solid rock. No wonder it hurt so terribly, thanking whatever he could that he only managed to get a bloody nose and a bruised up face.
“Yeeeeaaaaahhhh I went overboard on that one guy,” Skeppy explained once he knew that Bad had seen his diamond hand, slowly seeping back into regular flesh.
“You could have seriously hurt someone!” Bad going ahead and berating this dude. “Seriously if it wasn’t just me you could have hurt someone so badly! Think Skeppy!” Yeah, Bad could admit he had a temper going on. It mostly came out when people were being dumb and he had to deal with it, he just really didn’t like it when something could have been stopped if someone ould have been just a bit smarter.
Though that whole thing surprised Skeppy, even though he did deserve to get yelled at by the guy he punched. Skeppy managed to surprise Bad by just laughing up a storm.
Bad had never met a guy like this before.
“What’s your name dude?” Skeppy asked still in a fit of giggles.
“My name is Bad Boy Halo, but everyone calls me Bad.” Bad responded to his question, now grabbing new tissues for his bloody nose.
“Well Badboy, happen to be in any clubs? Never seen you around before.”
“Yeah the robotics club, the club I was supposed to be at right now.” Bad snapped back. Sure it was mean of him but Skeppy did stop him from getting there in the first place.
“Oh come on! How was I supposed to know that you were going to be there when I punched that dude!” Skeppy argued back at him.
“I would think you have eyes, Skeppy!” Bad retorted with a force.
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After that, Bad saw a lot more of Skeppy in his day-to-day life. Whenever he went to hang out with Dream and along with his odd friends, Skeppy would be there with the other members of the cheerleading squad. Or when Bad ate lunch with Ant and Velvet, he could see Skeppy hanging out with other friends.
Bad noticed some things about Skeppy from just seeing him every once in a while. Skeppy was very loud, which was fine he didn’t mind loud, but his voice sure did grab his attention whenever he talked. Skeppy also always had another person around him, which Bad understood, he was popular and nice enough, so there would be people around him a whole heck of a lot of the time. Sometimes he would catch Skeppy's eyes like he was staring at him. Which wasn't that odd to Bad, thinking that he wanted to at least talk again. This wasn't odd at all.
Until Skeppy tried to collide into Bad's little bubble.
Bad had been known to be in the robotics club room even when there wasn't a meeting, it was just the place he always went to after school. The teacher allowed him as long as he locked after leaving the building. What wasn't known was Bad having a spot of unannounced company interrupting him.
Bad had this hand on the door handle, then another hand appeared on the door, way close to his own hand. He looked up to see Skeppy there, a smile plastered on his face. It felt unnatural for Skeppy to be here, at least to Bad it felt odd for him.
“Well aren’t you going to open the door?” Skeppy asked him, while Bad was still somewhat bewildered.
He eventually opened the door to the lab, Bad did his usual routine as soon as he took a step into the classroom. Toss his school bag onto the table, grab his personal laptop and some sketches as well. Get his favourite chair and grab his project out of the cabinets, it was a hefty little robot, he would place it next to his laptop then get right to work. It was second nature to him, now though it felt weird with a new pair of eyes watching him grab this. He couldn’t start working since Skeppy just stood there just watching him. Maybe he should have said something.
“So welcome to the robotics club, I’m the only member here for now.” Bad introduced him to whatever he could. This was just so new and off to him, how Skeppy was just standing there, not since the punching incident he never really talked to Skeppy. They only really saw each other and that was their whole relationship, which Bad was okay with. He would much rather have that than something a bit different. Maybe it was just Bad, he was kinda nervous for someone else to see the mess they have on any given day.
“I like it so far, what do you do all day?” Skeppy asked him, going right ahead and taking a seat next to Bad.
“Oh we just build and program robots,” He started, patting his little project on its head, “Her name is R.A.T.”
That’s how that whole rambling started, Bad finally got to talk about something he was passionate about.
“I started to work on her about last year, I wanted to do something different than what I normally make so I decided to make this little one, she mostly just follows people around and it was so hard to get that working. Making sure that she didn’t crush anybody’s toes-” Bad went on about the small details of the robot.
Skeppy went ahead and listened to him, his head rested on his hands as he leaned forward. He had the smallest of smiles as he paid attention to Bad ramble along. Sometimes going over something he didn’t understand to talking about funny stories that involved the little robot. It was so interesting how people can just go off and talk about things they love without thinking anybody is in the room with them.
Bad had finally stopped talking about his little project, he didn’t understand why Skeppy was even here in the first place. How he could just sit here next to him like he isn’t talking his ears off.
“So are you going to tell me why you came here?” Bad asked Skeppy at last.
“I just wanted to see how dingy the robotics club was.” Skeppy teased.
“Get out,”
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Now there was something very new that everyone had seemed to notice, it involved the demon that spent his time in the computer lab and a cheerleader that had diamonds all across his face. It was strange to say that they became the best of friends.
It had only been a month since they first spoke, now they were attached by the hip. Wherever Bad went, there was probably Skeppy there to mess with him or help him out with something. There had also been some changes to Bad as well, he didn’t go to the robotics lab all the time, in fact he even missed a meeting.
That was because Skeppy managed to get Bad into trouble with another teacher. Which wasn’t the first time Bad had gotten into some trouble. But it was the first that made him miss a meeting in about a year.
This new change was noticed by Bad’s friends. Which they mostly deemed as a good thing, Bad didn’t always need to be cramped up here. But Ant had another funny thought.
“You know, Bad has been hanging out with that Skeppy guy a ton.” Ant said to his boyfriend. They were hanging out at a local park, just vibin and enjoying each other's company. They were holding hands and just talking about nothing and everything all at the same time. It was what was most comfortable with the both of them.
“They should just date already,” Velvet just responded back, it was a snappy response as well.
“Really?” Ant asked.
“Yeah! I’ve never seen them hang out with other people like that. Bite the bullet and get it over with, worst that could happen is Bad’s heart gets absolutely broken into pieces.” said Velvet with a chuckle.
“Yeah should we meddle with their love life if that's the worst case?” Ant asked again. “Dunno never had to deal with a heart broken Bad before.”
“I mean we’ve also never dealt with a Bad that has dated anyone.”
“What do you even want to do to get them together? Huh, what's your master plan cutie?”
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“So Bad I heard from someone that Skeppy has a thing going on for you,” Ant said to his friend. “Is it true?”
It was one of the only times that Bad wasn’t with Skeppy, it was a robotics meeting, which usually meant that Skeppy went and did something else. He didn’t understand anything and Bad needed to be distraction free during their working time.
“No I don’t think so at all.” Bad responded, not even taking his eyes off of his screen. He stood up straight and his back started to crackle and pop. The perks of having a very terrible posture going on.
“You don’t? He always hangs around you all the time. Out of nowhere too, like whats up with that?” Ant tried to pry into it.
“Don’t know, he’s kinda weird.” Bad could only explain it like that.
“Maybe you should ask him about it, just in case?”
“Fine,” Bad had finally agreed
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Bad had invited Skeppy to meet him after school near the bleachers. Really Bad couldn't care less about Skeppy’s feelings towards him, even with the butterflies in his stomach, or the kinda nervous energy that he had going on. This was really weird but Ant had been so persistent with him to just talk about it. So it didn’t have to come up again.
So now Bad just stood and waited, until he heard some footsteps coming his way, he glanced to his right side to see Skeppy. A little late but that was fine with him.
“Hey Skeppy.” He greeted his friend that sat next to him rather promptly. His eyes were set on the floor, which didn’t make the situation any better for Bad. Who now couldn’t even make eye contact with the guy.
Skeppy finally lifted his head after trying to just figure himself out. Then spoke to Bad finally. “Look Bad, I-I uhm I found out about those hm, feelings? About me and rather I am flattered.”
What?
Bad couldn’t help but just surprise Skeppy, by laughing.
Skeppy just seemed all the more confused, “What, why are you laughing? What’s so funny? Aren’t I letting you down easily?”
“Oh my goodness Skeppy! I knew it! Something muffiny was happening. Ant told me you had something for me. He's a persistent muffin.” Bad had explained, still chuckling, at least he managed to figure it out.
“So you, don’t have any actual feelings for me? Skeppy asked while Bad was still in his fits of laughter.
“Skeppy, why do you ask that?” Bad asked with a smile still plastered on his face.
“Well, I was gonna reject you to make our friendship not so weird.” Skeppy explained, his cheeks were flushed red, though he wanted to blame it on the sun beating down on the both of them.
“Are you saying you're interested in me?”
“Yeah, lil bit.”
“I think we can make this work,”