Chapter 3: Logic Three
"Arum's POV"
Sometimes there are questions in life that you can never answer. Like, why does Superman wear his underwear outside of his suit, do vegetarians eat animal crackers? If you pamper a cow do you get spoiled milk? Or why is there no pine or apple in pineapple?
Pretty much people are free to wander and do what they want in the world. Although Hide used to take things too literally, sometimes even until today occasionally. I often try to imagine what is it actually like to be like him, everything to him is different. He's all I really care about.
I accepted Garren's invite to his party so Hide and I will be going together, I'm actually excited! I know he doesn't want to go but I never leave him out of anything. We only live once so we may as well make the most of it. I want Hide to experience that freedom.
"Students, I actually have an announcement to make. Today we have a sudden transfer student from Daiji," Mr. Robert announces.
A transfer student? I can't wait to find out.
"Come in," The professor gestured. The student enters the class.
'Oh, it's just a guy' I thought to myself as I caught an eye on him. I guess I can be friends with him, I got my hopes up thinking I might have a new crush on someone. He has really good looks for a guy though, and his muscles are quite built. Wait, why am I impressed?
"Why don't you introduce yourself?" The professor told.
"The name's Raihen, Kaminaga Raihen. Hey, I guess? I got bored with my previous school so I decided to transfer, let's all get along together!"
So he got bored with his previous school... And he decided to transfer? What kind of reason is that? Daiji is like, one of the biggest and most prestigious schools, it's kind of like a dream school to almost everyone, passing the entrance exams in Daiji is hard. They have everything, from the best facilities, especially for sports, to the college dormitories and huge classrooms.
For a second I saw him gaze a smile in our direction, and dang, not only he's handsome, but he's also hot. I feel kind of threatened. This guy could even become more popular than me! There's always room for good competition.
I turned to my best friend and he looked a bit too serious which was not what I pictured in mind, Raihen was looking at him and that's when I realized he looked kind of familiar. It's the same guy Hide was talking to yesterday, I only saw a glimpse of his face but I'm sure it was him.
Hm, coincidence?
Nah, maybe they'll get along.
"You can take that empty seat over there," The professor pointed toward the one empty seat behind Hide. Raihen nodded in return and sat where he was told to. I rest my cheek on to the palm of my hand while I stared at my own desk, class discussion is about to start and I know it's going to be boring again as usual.
I notice Raihen already talking to Hide at the corner of my eye, I guess the new guy has already taken a liking to him. I think that's a good thing, he barely interacts with any other people.
"Please open your books to page sixty-nine, we will discuss Maslow's hierarchy of needs." Mr. Robert told the class. I get my notes out and yawned. This is going to be a long day. Class sucks.
Time flew before I knew it. Everyone left the classroom at the ring of the bell after being dismissed. I guess today's class wasn't as bad than I thought it would be.
I kept my belongings and I was ready to leave until I felt something drip on my head. I noticed that something was leaking above. It was weird because I never saw any cracks in the ceiling before, and holy shit, the walls are covered in milk and my clothes are soaking wet. How did this happen? What the actual fuck?
I pace around my surroundings but I don't see Hide anywhere. I suddenly hear screaming which made me rush outside the classroom in reflex. The halls were flooding with milk, I feel bad for the people who are lactose intolerant. I see a girl being attacked by someone.
"Stop!" I exclaimed. The attacker slowly turned around and my eyes widen in surprise. What I saw was no human. It had the face of a cow and a body almost like humans, but it had the milk glands that cows had on its belly.
"This is the apocalypse. You shall be terminated." The cow-persons eyes glowed red. A screen with highlighted images suddenly appeared before me.
'Choose your weapon' it said in an AI voice. Bazooka, Machine Gun, and Toilet Plunger. Heh, I'm a master at video games, everyone should know better, of course, what else should I choose?
"Toilet plunger," I said. Just like that the toilet plunger appeared out of thin air, I quickly grabbed it.
"Moooo!" The cow intimidated.
"Prepare to get milked!" I said with a smirk. I made a stance and pointed the toilet plunger towards the cow holding it with both of my hands as if it were a spear.
"ARUM." Someone yells. Everything just disappeared and I see Hide and Raihen in front of me. There wasn't milk dripping on the walls, leaks from the ceiling, no girl who's screaming for help, no cow, and my clothes were completely dry.
"You were daydreaming," Hide says.
"I was?"
"Classes are finished, everyone left already. Well, except us."
"My bad," I replied. I stood up and stretched my body.
"You two seem really close," Raihen told.
"Of course, always have, always will. We love each other." I said proudly with a smile as I pull Hide closer across his shoulder.
"Arum..." Hide mutters.
"You two must be lovers," Raihen raises an eyebrow intrigued. Our faces flushed embarrassed. I laughed at the idea a little since it was cute.
"We're best friends. We've known each other since childhood."
"Oh? That's pretty rare," He said amused.
"Raihen right?" I asked.
"Yeap, that's me."
"You hanging out with us?" I smile.
"I'd love to!" Raihen cheered. Looks like someone's excited.
"Glad to have you here. I believe I haven't introduced myself, I'm Arum."
"Nice," He said. I lend a hand and offered a handshake which he gladly accepted.
"I'd be happy if you show me around. There's a lot I have to get used to." He told.
"Why not?" I replied.
"Fuck yes!" He puts his arms around our shoulders, Hide and I both. He yanked us together and squeezed a little too tight. I could even feel his biceps. He's really friendly.
"You can let us go now," Hide told.
"You smell good," Raihen sniffs Hide's hair. His full attention turns to him and he was all over my best friend before I knew it.
"Raihen, please stop it," Hide told off.
"Why not?"
"We just met and I'm not used to you yet, let me go," Hide replied.
"You're quite cuddly though. I find you really cute," Raihen ruffles his hair before giving him one more sniff. I almost snort a laugh, I actually agree, I find him cute, nobody has ever been like this to Hide before, I find it entertaining to watch.
While the three of us walked the hallways, my phone vibrated and rung in my pocket playing the Wily's Castle theme song from Megaman 2. I immediately answered.
"Arum speaking," I said.
"Sport!!! How are ya?!" A familiar voice came out of my phone. Oh. It's my dad.
"What is it, dad?" I asked.
"I just wanted to check on you, I hope you and Hide are still getting along well."
"We're fine dad, anything else you'd like to say?" I asked.
"Ooh! Did you hear about the new restaurant on the moon? Great food, no atmosphere."
"Oh my god," I facepalmed myself. Here we go again.
"Why can't you breed an eel with an eagle?"
"Why?" I asked.
"It's 'Eeleagle'!"
"Daaaad!" I groaned.
"Okay, okay I'll stop. I just missed you, little tiger."
"I'm not a kid anymore, I told you to stop calling me nicknames," I annoyingly replied. I swear this is really embarrassing. My dad then took a deep sigh.
"Look sport, I'm really sorry for what happened to me and your mother, I know you'll never forgive me for it."
"Father. Don't apologize, I already forgave you a long time ago."
"But-"
"Look, dad, I love you and all that. But I really have to go. I'll call you later I promise."
"Wait."
"What now dad?" I asked.
"You promise? I have good news actually."
"Yeah sure, whatever. Dad, can I put down the phone now?"
"Take care sport! Your dad loves you very much!" He told. I chuckle in return.
"Okay dad," I smile and hang up. I take a deep sigh afterward.
'You aren't exactly making things easier for me dad' I thought.
"Your dad called," Hide says.
"Yeah," I nodded. Mom and dad weren't always exactly in best terms with each other, they kind of grew apart and kept quarreling each other. In the end, they got divorced.
Sure I was devasted, but I'm not the type who lets anything keep me upset. Let bygones be bygones they say. I wish things could've been better, I don't want that to happen to me and Hide. I mean, not the divorce part, but us. Our friendship was different. He was always there, and thanks to him I was able to prevent myself from doing self-destructive choices. He may not realize it, but every day I'm just glad we're always together.
"Hide! Arum!" We heard someone called our names from behind. The very familiar red-head.
"Schneider, it's you again!" We gave a brofist to each other and he does the same to Hide.
"I don't think I'll ever get old seeing the two of you together all the time," Schneider jokes. He's suddenly surprised when he notices Raihen who is with us.
"Whoa, who's the new guy? Never seen you before," Schneider asks.
"This is Raihen, he just transferred to our class today. Raihen this is Schneider, he's an old friend of ours and we used to learn violin together," Hide replied.
"You should've seen him this morning, he was totally amazing," Schneider told. He motioned his hands into the air as if it was mesmerizing magical fireworks. Hide gave a light fist bump on Schneider's shoulder to make him stop. Raihen draws closer to Schneider and starts to inspect his body.
"What are you doing?" Schneider asked confused. Raihen was touching him all over, through his waist, his chest, and onto his arms.
"Wow, you have a nice body. You have really good biceps too," Raihen mutters. Schneider just laughs.
"I like this guy!" He chuckles. "I actually lift weights at home Raihen," He adds. Hide and I was just puzzled with how weird and friendly he was.
"You're really nice," Raihen complimented.
"Likewise. Anyways I have to go, I'm still quite busy. I'll definitely hang out with you guys another time," Schneider says. He was about to leave but he paused shortly.
"Oh, and Hide, I'll still expect a reply from you regarding the duo competition. See ya!" Schneider bid us goodbye and gave us one last brofist. He also gave one to Raihen then left.
We walked outside eventually and ended up going to the school courtyard where there were students sitting on some furnished tables eating their sandwiches and merrily talking to each other. You can obviously tell the types of people seating on each table.
At one table I can see some nerds and gamers together, at another was a table full of people painting banners and cutting paper mache's most likely preparations for the homecoming. There was also one in particular where there are girls who are obviously part of the cheerleading team, one of them used to be my ex-crush. For a moment I flinched a little when we made eye contact, she immediately averted her eyes which made me feel disappointed. We used to be KickChat buddies, but she blocked me on all social media platforms when I confessed to her. I don't understand girls sometimes.
"All these people are making me hungry, I want a sandwich, let's get a snack," I said. Raihen gets some coins inside his pocket and inserts them into a nearby vending machine. He throws me an orange fizzy drink which I caught right away.
"Here." Raihen hands over a carton of strawberry milk to Hide while he got himself a can of carbonated root beer. It kind of surprised me because it's what we usually go for.
"How did you know?" I asked.
"Eh, I just know exactly what people want when they want it. But I actually just guessed," Raihen said with an accomplished smile. The three of us sat down at a nearby table.
"So tell us more about you! Do you have a particular hobby or something?" I asked.
"Well, there isn't really much to me. But I do love to jerk off!" Raihen replied.
"You mean masturbate?" Hide asked.
"Yeah! At least three times or more every single day," Raihen grinned obnoxiously.
"Why am I not surprised," Hide tells as he pokes the straw into his milk box. A few people nearby drew their attention towards us.
"Shh!" I immediately silenced. "You don't have to say that out loud!"
"Isn't this a normal conversation between boys?" Raihen asked.
"I was about to say the same thing." Hide said. He sipped onto his drink as if everything is just casual. Wait, why am I the only one who's awkward?
"I know, but not in public!" I told them both. The only thing I can actually come up with is because Raihen is an actual pervert which explains his bold personality while Hide is simply too logic-eccentric to care about what we talk about.
"Why transfer here from Daiji?" I asked another type of question.
"It's like I said, I got bored. I got tired of Daiji because everything felt so intoxicated. Everyone is 'always aiming for the best'" Raihen told enunciating the phrase. "It's the school's motif," He added
"There's no thrill. It's boring. And I hate being bored. Also, I'm really liking it here! There are so many interesting people!" Raihen told ecstatically.
"Interesting people?" I asked.
"Schneider was kind of hot. I have yet to be friends with our other classmates. By interesting I'm talking about the both of you, especially Hide," Raihen points toward my best friend.
"Me? Really? There's hardly anything about me either. Don't bother," Hide said.
"See what I mean?" Raihen tried to imply.
"Oh I totally get what you mean," I agreed. This is Hide we are talking about, I know him more than anyone. Hide just glared toward us like we were criminals but perplexed at the same time.
"I can never understand the minds of you people sometimes," Hide sighs. Raihen and I both laugh at the same time. We're all actually getting quite well more than I thought, even when Raihen just transferred today. We might even be friends as a trio, this could be something completely new. It always used to be just me and Hide.
"Do you play any video games Raihen?" I asked. As he was about to answer he just stops when he notices someone behind us. I turn around and saw who it was.
"We have company," I muttered.
It's Michelle.
"Hide's POV"
It always too good to be true whenever you think the day could go by smoothly without even the tiniest of troubles.
"What's a pretty girl like you doing here?" Arum asks.
"Ugh, I'm not here to talk with his sidekick. I want Hide. And I want him now. I need to be quick, I don't want my precious time wasted," Michelle says sharply as she looked at her glitter-polished nails. She wore fancy looking clothes and a skirt while carrying a purse in her other hand. I noticed she didn't bring her slaves with her.
"What did she just call me?" Arum baffled.
"Hide, you and I need to discuss our future plans when we get married,"
"I am not interested. Just leave me alone please, I don't want anything to do with you right now," I tell to her directly. Never in a million years I'd be married to anyone, I'd rather die than be involved with the likes of her.
"Who is she?" Raihen whispered to Arum. I almost assumed Raihen had something to do with Michelle but I guess he doesn't.
"I, Michelle always get what I want, if you don't come with me, I'll have to take you by force!" Michelle threatens. And how exactly is she going to do that?
"You should learn that not everybody gets what they want. It's completely stupid and it makes no sense. Not everyone is obligated to give you what you want and not everything is served on a silver platter. Get it through your head, you're extremely ignorant and you make yourself look like an idiot,"
"Ha! No, you're the idiot! Think of it, if you become my boyfriend you can have anything you want, I'll even sponsor for your tuition and grant anything you wish for!" Michelle smirks. I pause for a short while then sighed in disappointment. I take one big step forward towards her.
"The only wish I want is to never see a face like yours ever again. You're illogical. Talking to you is a waste of time. Come talk to me again once you learn how to use your common sense and become reasonable. My answer is no. I don't need your money and I am not interested in becoming your boyfriend."
I took one more step an inch closer. I looked at her directly in the eyes as I hold a stare.
"Why are you so desperate?" I asked sincerely. But instead, she just left and ran without a word. A few people around us were left dazed and confused, but they just ignore and forget about it afterward.
"Dang girl," Raihen whistled in amusement.
"She used to be on my list of crushes until I heard about her. If it weren't for her attitude, she's insanely pretty. Too bad."
"No questions to that," Raihen agreed. I just don't understand what's actually on her mind. It's actually a little frustrating.
"I'm just going to take a leak, BRB!" Arum notified as he hurriedly left. Raihen and I are left behind and I do not have a good feeling about this. Raihen moves closer standing right next to me.
"So Hide," He places his arms around my shoulders but I immediately flicked and shook them away.
"I still don't trust you," I told him.
"Don't be a sourpuss, I just want to get to know you better," He grimaced. He licked his lips and wrapped his arms around my waist, I shivered when he starts to run his hands through my chest.
"Raihen..." My voice cracked. The situation made me feel really uncomfortable. He didn't listen, and none of the people around us seem to notice because they were too busy minding their own business.
"Stop it," I told. His face drew nearer to mine and chills ran down my spine when he whispered softly into my ears.
"I'm horny," He told breathily as he proceeded to nibble my earlobe. I stood there froze when he also runs circles with the tip of his fingers onto the area of my nipples. I suddenly felt something hard poking my behind which made me twitch. He's erected.
"Fuck, you're so hot Hide..." It is when he tried to grind his erection against my body that I gasped and immediately push-shoved him away in reflex followed by a blow from my fist onto his cheek. It was a direct hit and he collapsed onto the ground with a thud of his back hitting against a nearby pole, my fist had a burning sensation and I could feel my heart racing as I breathed heavily. But that is when I realized what I had done.
I 'actually' punched someone.
Fuck.
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