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"[Y/N]!" You hear an obnoxious yell, followed by you almost falling over as you feel a heavy weight behind you.
"Itto! What the fuck?!" You push him off your back sounding pissed.
"Whaat? Can't even greet my bestie whom I haven't seen in ages?" He puts his arm over your shoulder.
"It's been three days Itto, chill."
"Anywayy..." Itto glances away in an attempt to find something interesting, as he remembers: "Have you seen the new hottie?"
"You find everyone hot, what's new." You dismiss him.
"No he's like, hot hot. Like, half the school's all over him dude."
"Well in that case it doesn't concern us does it." You remind him of your 'school social' status.
"Wouldn't hurt to step out of comfort zone every once in a while ya know..." He nudges you.
"I am going to throw beans at you." You say, to which he starts yelling and runs away; attracting only everyone's attention. Great start to the school year.
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"Woah there!" You look up to a tall figure hovering over you. In fact, he was so tall he was almost a silhouette, a big shadow above you.
"Hello?" He snaps you out of your trance with a wave, bringing you back to earth. In hindsight, he wasn't that tall, still pretty fucking tall though...
"Uhh" You kinda zoned out forgetting what was happening, or the fact that he even bumped into you at all. He lets out a laugh, squinting his eyes and putting a hand on the back of his head. He was pretty cute. Didn't expect yourself to fall for a ginger honestly-
"Alright... I have to head to class now. I'll catch ya name later. See ya!" He says as he sprints off into the distance (the classroom to your right).
Hmm. You thought, What a cutie.
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Fifth and sixth period fly by, and you rush straight to Itto's class to tell him all about your new little obsession.
"Ittoooo..." You peek around the empty classroom, spotting him on his phone.
"[Y/N]..." He drags your name out.
"You'll never believe what happened to me."
"You got dick?"
"Shut the fuck up." You smacked him with a book on the head.
"Ow! Fuck you! What happened?"
"I talked to this guy..." You say trailing off.
"Woah! Congratulations!" He says sarcastically, practically spelling out each letter.
"No, no, get this- he said he'll catch my name later!" You doubled-down.
"So... You talked to a guy... he doesn't know your name... and you call this a victory?" He questioned you.
"Ugh it's not like that. He was in a rush and we just bumped into each other-"
"Aww, how cute." The sarcasm dripped off his tongue, "So what's his name?"
"Uhh..." You looked around inconspicuously.
"Nahhh, you don't know his name either??? Bye." He leans on his chair as he clutches his face in disappointment.
"I'll find him, I saw the class he went into n' shit. I'm good." You reassure yourself.
"This is the most you've been this serious about someone." He pauses, "Must be one greasy guy."
"Fuck you."
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Class was boring as hell, you couldn't stop thinking of that mysterious guy. You wondered what he was into, and what subjects he was taking, what he does at home, is he nice? Is he an asshole? He seemed nice, so he's probably cool. Maybe. Or maybe he's bad, like the hot kinda bad. So much to think about. You didn't even hear the bell ring, you only resurfaced once Itto grabbed your arm and pulled you out your seat.
"You asshole, I texted you like 20 times, do you know how many fucking classrooms this school has??" He scolded you as he dragged you out into the hallway.
"Shit, I didn't even notice class ended."
"Yeah, I could tell, you looked goofy as hell."
"Wow thanks, go fuck yourself." You hesitated, "Why are we just standing in the middle of the hallway?" You looked at your tall friend.
"Take me to his classroom, let's investigate." You were stunned.
"What makes you think we're gonna find anything from a classroom???"
"You saw him fifth period on the first floor, yeah?"
"Yeah..." You start getting suspicious.
"I happen to know some schedules..." You were definitely going to interrogate him about this later, but first, you gotta go find your man.
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"This one." You point to the third classroom from the end of the hall. '12-B' is written on the plaque that hangs on the door.
"12-B? Seriously?"
"Uh, yeah... why?"
"Nothing..." What the hell Itto...
You two walk into the class as the scent of berries suddenly hit you, before you even need to realise what happened you walk into a cloud hovering across the classroom.
"Berries? Seriously? Mint solos."
"Berries are good, the fuck?" Itto snaps back.
Someone had filled this classroom up with berry vape vapour. That someone was glaring at the two of you.
"How long you idiots plan on leaving the door open?"
You and Itto glance at each other and quickly shut the door behind you, leaving you, Itto and a random guy in the class.
He has dark attire, matching his dark-blue-ish hair. The way he's sitting reminds you of the rebels you'd see in shitty teen dramas; both feet on the desk, chair leaning against the wall, phone and vape both in one hand.
"Aren't you scared to vape in school?" You ask.
"Curtains are closed, no more classes in here, teacher took everything. Only thing scaring me is people like you barging in."
"Jesus, you like, calculated this thing out? Just to vape?" Itto says pretty bluntly, with the dark haired boy getting visibly pissed.
"Who even are you? Did you come here to take the piss?"
"No, no, sorry about that." you shoot a glance at Itto, "We're actually here to-" You cut yourself off before you reveal too much.
"To... what?" The boy keeps questioning.
"To take the books we forgot... from the last period..." Itto jumped in to save you.
The strange boy raised an eyebrow but didn't prod further, so you assumed he either bought what you said or didn't really give a fuck. Either way, you're off the hook.
After pathetically pretending to look for the said books, you and Itto end up leaving empty handed as the books never existed in the first place.
"That was so embarrassing-" You cut Itto off.
"Ok, your turn to explain now. First of all, why do you know the schedules on this floor? Second, why did you act so weird when we approached the classroom? Third,"- you put more emphasis into the third point, "What the fuck was the plan of action? Were we relying that he'd magically appear in the classroom?" You ask him, almost annoyed that he's so blatantly hiding something from you. Instead of fighting back like he usually would though, he just got flustered and looked away.
"Okay.. So I may or may not have been snapping this guy..."
You were filled with betrayal; "And you didn't tell me?!" You play fought Itto as a mean of expressing your frustration.
"Look, I didn't tell you cause A, he wants to keep it on the low. B, because I knew you'd judge me..." The latter was said rather quickly paired with Itto making an innocent face.
"What about the plan?"
"I was kinda hoping you'd run into the guy you were talking about so I could slip away and go see if he's in his class..." So that explains why he knows the schedules on this floor.
"Well, now that you've said all that, you have to tell me who it is."-
"Hey! There you are!" A boy from the back called out. You and Itto turned your heads to face the man, in the corner of your eyes you saw Itto lean into you to slowly whisper, "Is he talking to us?"
"Holy shit...he was looking for me!" You whisper-scream in excitement. You're too busy fawning over him to notice the look on Itto's face. Absolute and utter shock, if you didn't know any better you'd probably assume he saw someone just shit themselves in public.
"You're much more lively than last time," The ginger turned to Itto, "Hi," Itto stayed silent...
"Uh, anyway, I was gonna ask, are we in the same grade?" The boy asked you, now fully turned in your direction.
"Are you in 12th?"
"Yeah, I'm new so I actually haven't met that many people."
"Ah, are your classes on this floor?" The first floor of the building was dedicated to humanities subjects, the second floor was for the sciences and third was for business.
"Yeah, are yours?"
"Oh no, I'm in science so I'm upstairs."
"Cool, so what brings you here?" You hadn't even realised that you didn't really have an explanation for loitering right outside his classroom.
While trying to conceal your stuttering you manage to utter; "Uhh, we were just talking with one of your classmates in that room, yeah... we were just about to leave."
"Oh, well in that case I'd better get out the way right? Just before you go, could I have your name?"
Suddenly Itto caught a glance of a figure in the distance and immediately ushered you to leave. "Uhh- I'm [Y/N]!" You said in a hurry. Amidst dragging you away you hear the boy in the back yell at you:
"I'm Childe!"
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"I see you've already made some friends," Childe smirked at his friend in the class that you and Itto had just left.
"The fuck you talking about?"
"Oh Scara, I shouldn't have asked... it's a well known fact that you are completely incapable of making friends."
"Are you talking about those two freaks?" Scara snarled. "Yeah, they came in and just yapped about nothing, then left."
Childe chuckled to himself, "Oh, this is gonna get interesting..."