Chapter 12

Seiji bounced into the room, "wakey wakey people, it's saturday."

"Ugh," Matt groaned, "You're cheerful,"

Seiji grinned, and started to get his clothes out, "Only two lessons today guys, then free all afternoon. Surely that's a reason to be happy."

"Yes," Alex stared at this hyper Seiji, "But not that happy. Why else?"

Seiji laughed, "Oh, no reason."

Ash stared at him, all innocent, "But I wanna know!"

Seiji sniggered, "I offered to wash Art's hair for him."

"Uh, that's nice."

"I didn't wash it....I dyed it." he laughed

Eagle stared at him, "You fool, he's gonna go crazy!"

"Yeah, he looks pretty stupid too."

"Oooh," Nienna sat up, "What colour?"

"Black," Seiji sat down, laughing so much he couldn't breathe.

Art appeared in the doorway, wearing a hat. "I hate you Seiji."

"Aww, and just when you were telling me how much you loved me."

"Why did you do this?"

"Revenge." Seiji laughed, "I also took a picture to send to Amber."

Art scowled, "I hate you."

"Ooh...who's Amber?" Asked Mara.

"My sister." He turned to Seiji, "Why revenge?"

"Why d'ya think, thicko."

"Let's see." Asked Eagle.

Art scowled, "It looks really funny, because I've got such pale skin." He frowned, "I look really goth."

Eagle laughed, "I have to see this."

Seiji grinned, and tried to snatch the hat off Art.

"Bugger off. I am not pleased with you."

Seiji grinned, "It's only wash in wash out." He laughed, "It'll only be there for a few days."

"Yeah, but I'll never trust you again."

"Did you ever in the first place?" Seiji snatched the hat off him.

"No!"

The entire dorm started to laugh, even Ash and Nienna who were normally really nice to people.

Art scowled, "I'd be careful if I were you, do you really want to be spending your saturday afternoons in detention."

Seiji laughed, "You wouldn't"

"No, but it's still nice to threaten people."

Morning lessons were pretty boring. Matt spent most of the time feeling guilty, and being hated by the rest of his year.

Lunch time arrived, and freedom with it, on a saturday afternoon students could either go into town, or just lounge around doing nothing. After lunch, everyone went back to their dorms to decide what to do. Everyone that is, except Matt, who went off with his new friends.

Art knocked on the door, and then opened it, "Eagle?"

"Yuhuh."

"Coming?"

"Where are we going?"

Art laughed, "To the pub, well, I am, and I wondered if you wanted to come to." he turned to Seiji, "Sorry Seij, I would take you, but I can only just get away with taking an upper sixth to the pub, I'd be slaughtered if I took you."

Seiji scowled, "That's fine by me."

Art laughed, "You can't guilt trip me Furu-Yama and you know it." he turned to Eagle, "You coming or not?"

"Uh, sure, just let me get some proper clothes." He grabbed a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, and put them on instead of his uniform. He pulled on a jacket over the top, slipping on his trainers. "Ready." he grinned.

Art turned to go, and paused, "On second thoughts," he turned to Seiji, "Stand up Furu-Yama."

Hesitantly Seiji stood up.

Art grabbed him, "Stand very still or I'll tell on you."

Seiji scowled again, but did as he was told.

Quickly, Art removed Seiji's palm knives, his boot knives, his pocket knives and the knife tied around his middle. "Better safe than sorry." He grinned, and left."

"Bastard," mutter Seiji, and lay down on his bed, reaching out for his Katana, which he cradled in his arms.

Tor turned to Mara, "You planning anything this afternoon?"

"No, why, more dancing?" she asked, eyes shining.

Tor grinned, "There abouts, yeah."

Mara blushed, "And dancing too?"

"Course." Tor stood up and took her hand, "Come on, lets go find somewhere to, uh, dance."

It was Fergie's turn to scowl as his brother and his new girlfriend left the room. "No fair, he doesn't love me anymore."

"No fair, he stole my knives," Imitated Seiji, "I feel naked," he laughed

"Wish you were," Fergie grinned.

Ash turned to Nienna, "I wanna go shopping, come with me."

"Sure" she grinned, "Better than sitting here doing nothing." she turned to Raven, "Wanna come?"

"No thanks," Raven smiled, "I have my book."

Fergie looked across at Seiji, "We can't sit here moping after our loved ones,"

"Can't we?"

"No, I'm gonna go for a hack, wanna come?"

Seiji stood up, "Sure thing," he grabbed his Katana, "It could be fun."

Alex lay back on his bed, alone with Raven, in absolute utopia, "What'cha reading?" he asked

"Rubbish," she grinned and got out her sketch book, "Can I draw you please."

"Uh, sure," Alex laughed, "Why?"

"To help practice for art, I mean, drawing, on Monday,"

Alex shrugged, "Ok,"

"Come sit here," She patted the bed beside her, "I need to see your face properly,"

Alex thought about it for a second, was she deliberatly leading him on? He decided she probably wasn't "Ok."

"You have to tell me more intelligent things," she laughed, "Like more shakespeare. Who do you want to play in Midsummer Night's Dream?"

Alex blushed, "I'm not so good at acting, I'd rather like to be one of the craftsmen though, because it's funny, who do you want to be?"

"I don't know, because I don't like talking infront of people,"

"I reckon you should play one of the fairies, cause you'd look really cute."

"Ooh! That's a good idea, I could wear wings! I told you that you said intelligent things."

Alex smiled, "Can I see the drawing,"

Shyly Raven showed it to him,

"Wow!" Alex was geniunly shocked, "That's fantastic."

"Thanks."

By the time Fergie and Seiji got back, everyone else was already in the dorm. They barged through the door, Fergie giving Seiji a piggyback.

Art scowled, "Where have you been."

Seiji slid down off Fergie's back, "Riding." He laughed, "You don't seriously expect me to sit here and wait for you all day, every day, do you?"

"Sorry," Art held out his arms, "Come here,"

Fergie looked at Tor, and shook his head, "Really Torin, what would Uncle Sean say?"

Tor laughed, "He'd tell me I was sick and twisted, and only freaks screw girls for fun."

"And what would I say?"

"Uh, you'd probably call me a loser, and then remind me that screwing girls makes me sick and twisted."

Fergie laughed, "Uncle Sean's my hero."

Art shook his head, "You know when your brother's having sex?"

Fergie grinned, "You forget, we were the same person once."

"Were you?"

"Yeah," Tor scowled, "Technically we're siamese twins, but they seperated us when we were kids."

"Ooh!" Seiji sat up, "Did it go wrong, and Fergie loose half of his brain, which is why he's so dumb," He laughed and winked at Fergie."

"No," Fergie laughed, "I'm not dumb, and we were only joined at the foot, which would have made us really good at three legged races."

Mara laughed, "I ought to go do pointe practise," she blew a kiss at Tor, "Bye."

As soon as she was out of the room, Tor slid his arms around Fergie's wasit, "You're not mad at me are you?"

"No, why should I be?"

"No reason, I just thought you might feel lonley without me,"

"God Torin, you're so self centred, I have other things to do rather than obsess over you. Mind you," He slid his arms around Tor's waist, "You are rather gorgeous."

Tor shook his head, "You only say that, because it means you're gorgeous too, who's the selfcentred one now?"

Fergie laughed and kissed his brother, "Love you Torin," he mumbled before kissing him again.

"Ugh!" Squealed Ash, "Please don't do that!"

"What?" Tor broke away from Fergie, "You've seen him kiss me before?"

"Actually," Fergie laughed, "It's always been dark,"

"It, it, it look's like you're kissing a mirror." said Ash, majorly creeped out.

Tor grinned, "Yeah, I reckon that too, and thus always shut my eyes."

Fergie shrugged, "Only cause you're pathetic," he kissed Tor again, this time, maintaining eye contact, "and get really creeped when I do that."

"It's weird, because you're me."

Fergie smiled, "It's cute," he said softly, "Because you're you."