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Fire spirit was loud, boisterous, cocky, and just had what seemed like the classical jock personality. Wind archer knew exactly what he was in for the moment he locked eyes with him. Fire spirit was what seemed like a typical annoyance he’d have deal with everyday, a problem. Fire spirit was.. confused, to say the least. He hadn’t met anyone who had just tolerated him, everyone at school either hated him, loathed him, didn’t know him, or absolutely loved him.
Fire spirit wandered down the halls, finally arriving at his history class. Yeah, he might’ve been late by what? 9 minutes? But who cares, certainly not the teachers, they always just glanced at him and marked him as ‘late’ on their attendance sheet. He sighed as he sat down next to wind archer, their relationship was.. strange to be blunt. Some days wind archer seemed to absolutely despise every cell in his body, others he seemed to actually LIKE fire spirit a bit. He decided not to dwell on it, opting to listen in on whatever Mr. Elder faerie was yapping about. And suddenly he remembers the time he caught mr elder faerie and Mr silent salt making out in the teachers lounge when he was required to deliver some papers.
‘Why would they do that in a public area bro..’ fire spirit thought, recalling how traumatized he was from that. He was then promptly snapped out of that.. daydream? when Mr. Elder faerie said that we’d have to do a project over our break. Fire spirit had originally wanted to go visit their adoptive parent, Pitaya, and knew that Pitaya would be either overly worried or extremely mad if fire spirit had decided to not show up at their house last minute. Elder faerie had then also mentioned that the class would be partnering with the person next to them.
So apparently fate hates him, but whats new? Wind archer had simply glanced over at him, and Fire spirit knew at that moment that he wasnt just cooked, he was deep fried.
“So uh.. are we going to do it at your dorm or-“ fire spirit started, but was promptly cut off.
“We’re doing it at yours. I don’t trust that you won’t somehow burn down half of my dorm room.” Wind archer said in a monotone voice.
“Alright.. im supposed to be visiting my parent over the break though so you’ll have to drive over to my house.” This felt so awkward, why couldn’t that time have succeeded, why did Pitaya have to find him?
Wind archer passed his phone over to fire spirit, “type your number into it so we can talk about this later, class is about to end.”
Fire spirit blinked in surprise, “oh uh- alright here.”
Fire spirit was pacing around his dorm room, looking anxious, confused, and horrified at the same time.
Stormbringer sighed, not wanting to watch this go on for any longer, “Hey fire spirit, have you eaten anything today?” She watched as he stopped to look at her, and I mean really look at her. It was like he didn’t expect to hear that from her. I mean reasonable, yeah, but does he really think she’s THAT inconsiderate??
“Uh, yeah ive eaten toda-“ fire spirit started, but was promptly cut off.
“And I don’t mean just an apple or some sort of snack. I mean an ACTUAL meal.” Stormbringer spoke with an accusatory tone while pointing a finger at him.
“God what are you? My non-existent mom? Jeez, YES, ive eaten an actual meal today.” The lie came out smoothly, having said this at what felt like a thousand times. Whats the point anyway? Theres no need to tell the truth if it’ll all come crashing down either way in the end like it had so many times before. He doesn’t need other people’s pity. The only time he did was.. nevermind.
“Alright fine, what are you even pacing around in front of the damn TV for? I only see you do this when you’re like, extremely stressed or something.” Stormbringer slouched down on the couch, looking bored.
So.. you know how we have a group project in history right..?” Fire spirit said with a hint of nervousness.
“We do? Man I wasn’t even paying attention during that class.” Stormbringer had suddenly realized how screwed she might be. “How many points is the project worth anyway?”
“Probably like, a hundred. You also have to partner up with the person next to you.” Fire spirit sighed.
“I HAVE TO WORK WITH FRILLED JELLYFISH? BRO I LOVE HER, platonically of course, her girlfriend would fucking kill me, but MAN ALL SHE DOES IS YAP ABOUT HOW PERFECT HER GIRLFRIEND IS WHY COULDNT I HAVE GOTTEN LIKE, I DONT KNOW, MOONLIGHT OR SEA FAIRY.” Stormbringer groaned, putting both of her hands on her face dramatically. “Can we like, ask prune juice for a potion to switch bodies PLEASE FIRE SPIRIT I BEG OF YOU.” Stormbringer had resorted to begging it appears.
“Im going over to my dad’s for the holiday, so unless you want to deal with him, then no. Unlike you, I actually participate in doing the project and dont want to have windy hate me for making him do all the work.” Fire spirit rolled his eyes. He probably already hates me anyways.
“Fuck. Nevermind. Your dad is fucking terrifying.” Stormbringer said, instantly taking that option off the table.
“Well I should probably start packing, good night stormy.” Fire spirit sighed.
Stormbringer gave a soft smile at the nickname before quickly changing it into a sharper one, “good night fire!!” She said waving her hand at him veraciously.
Fire spirit finally finished packing around 11 pm. He was about to go to sleep when he realized he had a text from wind archer.
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Windy🍃(probably
hates my guts lol)
11:21 pm
What’s your address
so I can drive over
to your house
tomorrow?
11:30 pm
Its 1643 dragons valley avenue
what time are u coming
11:31 pm
I’ll come around 10 am if thats fine with you
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He tried to sleep. He really did. Yet he couldn’t help but think about all the ways he could fuck this up.
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Some promises aren’t meant to be kept.