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Jack walked down the winding halls of Night Raven college to the mirror room. He promised that he'd meet Epel there to avoid him getting lost in Pomefiore. He walked in and saw the familiar head of lavender hair.
“Epel,” Jack calls out walking up to him. “You ready?”
“Darn- I mean, yeah” Epel started walking towards the field. Jack smiled a little at the partial slip-up and followed.
The boys were in the field having just finished their warm up. Jack was laying out the work out equipment while Epel took a drink from his water.
“Epel, how heavy was the last weight you used?”
“10 pounds” Epel put his water down and walked over.
“Here” Jack holds out two weights. Epel took them and steadied his legs while Jack picked up his own. The two lift their weights in a well rehearsed manner. A sign of how long they had been doing this routine together.
“Jack?” Epel looked over.
“Yeah?”
“Why'd you ask about the weights?”
“Cause I just gave you 15 pound ones.”
“You did what?” Epel looked at the unit on his weights and low and behold, they both said 15 pounds. Jack chuckled.
“You're stronger than you think, Epel. Yeah, there are guys bigger than you, but that doesn't mean you're less than them.”
Epel felt his face warm as he stared at Jack, who was smiling at him. Epel looked away and started muttering to himself.
“Damn you and yur stupid compliments. How dare ya go makin’ my heart flutter faster than a hummingbird.”
“And Epel?”
“What?” He looked over at Jack.
“I like your accent, even when you try to hide it,” he smiled.
Epel dropped his weights. Jack frowned a little.
“Sorry. Did I go too far?”
Jack placed his weights down before Epel ran at full speed and jumped on him, knocking the unsuspecting Jack over.
“Now you listen here Jack Howl. Yur gonna stop saying such things, or there shall be consequences,” Epel huffed. Jack looked up at him.
“Like what?”
“Like this.” Epel kissed Jack's cheek.
“Now who's the flustered one-”
Before Epel could finish his sentence, he was engulfed in white and grey fluff. Jack had turned into his wolf form and was now licking Epel's face.
So to answer his question, Epel is still in fact the flustered one.