Class was taking forever, I just wanted it to end so I could see Zeref again. That kiss, it was so warm, so heated and the worst part, everyone saw. I don't think their was one person in my class that didn't see what was going on in the hall. I wasn't paying much attention to what the teacher was saying, I was so fixed on touching my lips, nothing else seemed important. Lost in my trance, I didn't know my phone was going off in my pocket. Zeref was blowing up my phone with messages. Scrolling through, I saw the same thing repeated over and over.

"STAY AWAY FROM ADAM"

That's right Adam and I-I'll have to talk to him, see what the heck he was thinking that night but, maybe it's not as bad as Zeref was putting it? Adam is a good friend to me and he's in my writing club. I can't really stay away from him.

Putting my phone away, I try to think of what I could say to Adam, if what Zeref said is true, we'll have a real problem. I know how Adam is, he's a very sweet guy, he's nice to everyone. With class ending, Zeref waits right outside class, I completely forget about the Adam thing. I run over to him and give him the biggest hug ever. "I missed you so much, how was cla-"

"Did you get my text?"

"Yeah, I got it."

Slinging his arm around my shoulders, he makes me walk along with him, everyone has eyes on us. I feel shy from it and put my face down a little, I saw the tiles beneath my feet, as they change patterns when we enter a new hallway. "Zeref, you're walking a little fast." He slows down which makes me finally catch up to my own feet. He brought me to my locker, which I was happy for, but he didn't look at me, now thinking about it, I didn't look up at him when we were walking.

"Zeref, is everything okay?"

"Mhm, I'm okay. Don't worry."

I try to get a look at him, but all I can see if the back of his head. Slamming my locker, I reach out and place my hand on his shoulder. He stiffs under my touch for a moment, but softens soon after. I twist him so he looks at me, what I see is a bloody lip, red marks on his neck. "Zeref what happened to you!" I pull out my hanky from my bag and dab his lip. "Who did this to you!" He waves my hand away, which annoys me. "Don't worry about it."

"Don't give me that. Tell me who did this to you."

He was silent, he let me wipe the dry blood off his lip, but he never gave me answer. Even when he walked me to my next class, he still didn't give me anything. With a peck on the lips he walks away completely, you've got to be kidding me right.  I step into my next class, thankfully this is my creative writing class and I have Lucy in here. I see she saved the spot right next to her, throwing my bag on the ground, laying my head on the table I groan. "Is something wrong?"

"Zeref, he was all bloody."

Her eyes grow wide, she couldn't believe what I just said to her. She comes close, talks in a whisper. "Who did it?" All I could do was shake my head at her, telling her I didn't know. As class started I couldn't focus on my book, all I could think about was Zeref and how he was doing. Why won't he tell me? I want help him, we could tell the principle and get this person suspended. I laid my head on the notepad, I was frustrated, yet worried about him. 

Recalling the text that he sent to me, I can't help but remember how I even ended up with Adam that night. I look to Lucy who's typing away and deleting her words. "Lucy, at the party. Did you invite Adam?" She slowed down her typing, pondering my question. "Yeah, he came with some people from the club. Was it not okay from to invite him?"

"N-No it's fine. Just-...Nevermind" I didn't know how to tell her I was drinking with Adam and then things got heated I guess. We didn't do anything and he's not that kind of person plus I know for a fact I'm not his type.

As class came to an end, I text Zeref telling him to meet me in the lunch line, he text back with an "Okay." and nothing more. I put my headphones in, listen to some music as the line starts to form, I look around for Zeref, not seeing him anywhere. Then I feel two arms wrap around my waist and a chin resting on my shoulder. He takes one of my headphones into his ears, raising an eyebrow on my choice of music. "What, I like this kind of music."

"I just can't see you as a Dubsteppy kind-of-girl. Something new I just learned about you." 

I see that his lip is now back to normal, it only has a tiny cut on it, I guess he went to clean himself up more or the teacher told him to go to the nurse. "What are we gonna have today?" I look up at the board, just really wanting pizza, It's calling to me and I'm answering. "I'll get us some pizza, does that sound good?" He nods, placing the headphone down and grabbing my hand. 

With out pizza's in hand, we decide to head to the rooftop, a lot of people go there when the weather is nice and lucky for us, the sun was beaming. I sat between his lap while we talked about classes, and my club after class. I didn't want to bring up his injuries, but I just had to know who did this and why?

"Are you ever gonna tell me how you got those marks?"

"No, I said don't worry about it."

"Alright, next time I get marks like that, then I'll tell you the same line. Does that sound fair?"

He got very silent, he heaved a heavy sigh while bear hugging me. "I got into a fight with someone. I got smart and he didn't take nicely to it, but I don't care."

Rubbing his back, I loosened him up, which made him hug me tighter. "Who was it?" He was about to speak when I head someone calling my name, "Adam? He was waving me over to him, cheeky smile on his face, hand in his pocket. I broke from Zeref but he yanked me back into his arms. "Don't go over to him." I looked to Adam, he had his arms crossed over his chest, a smirk playing on his lips. "Zeref, he's not gonna do anything. I need to see if it's about the club. I stand right there were too can see me." I peck his lips and he lets go, with a defeated look on his face.

"Adam, Hey! What's up?"

"Just wanted to see how you and your new boy were doing. Congrats by the way." 

I smile down at my feet and tuck the hair behind my ear. "Thank you, he makes me really happy." He steps closer to me, he looks down with me with something questionable in his eyes. Maybe he can help me. "Adam, something happened to Zeref a while ago. Someone beat him up and I was wondering if maybe you can keep an eye on him?" He was shocked at first but then pulled me into a hug. "Of course, anything for the new couple." 

Zeref's POV

What the fuck does he think he's doing!! Rage engulfs my whole body, it takes everything out of me not to go over and beat the shit out of him. All I could see was him smirking over to me as he rubbed Mavis's hair. "That son of a bitch."

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I'm not sure how I like the ending for this, I had something different in my mind but maybe I'll save it for something next time. Honestly, this felt like a filler but it needs to be written in order to get to the next part of this book. Anyway hope you like it :)

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