Eric growled watching Andrew leave before balling his fists again. "Whatever" he rolled his eyes leaning against the wall and once again pressing his tumb and index finger to the bridge of his nose. "Ugh. I have to go clean up my stupid room" He growled walking out of the door towards his room. He hated to punish Andrew but who else could do it? He wanted to believe Andrew but there was no one else.

"I need to find someone to help me" he breathed reaching his room observing the damage. He sighed pulling his ears back and allowing his tail to drop as he began picking up the papers and posters that were strown all over the place. He had an hour and a half to simi clean up his room before his first class and he was determined to do it. There was no way he was canceling his lessons today just because of this.

Something smallish hit Andrew from the side, making him sidestep in surprise and he figured it was Aiden. He looked to see that it was the new kid, Seth. "Morning Andrew. You look like you're in a mad mood..." Seth said to him. "Yeah." Andrew said, not really knowing the guy and wanting to talk to someone that he knew.

"Why?" Seth asked, following Andrew now. "Because. Have you seen Mr. Dashaniel's room? They're blaming me for it and theres no way I could have done it." Andrew growled. "So what do you have to do?" Seth asked. "I have to.... Why do you care?" Andrew asked. He realized that they were going toward his locker. He stopped and faced his follower.

"Just curious. Did you get into a lot of trouble?" Seth asked. "Just detention." Andrew replied. "Well, maybe I'll hang out with you in detention?" Seth suggested, his tail coming up and rubbing up Andrew's shin, ears drooping slightly. Andrew frowned at him, he was only slightly shorter than Andrew. "Hmm?" He murmured and rested his hand on Andrew's shoulder.

Andrew lifted his chin slightly, this was a bit uncomfortable for him. Way uncomfortable for him. "Mind if I call you Andy?" Seth asked. "Fine." Andrew replied. Seth smiled and reached up and ran his lips over Andrew's cheek. Andrew froze slightly, his ears laying back and eyes getting a little bigger.

Seth back up, "See you later Andy." He said before he left. 

Eric managed to pick up all the papers and sighed turning one of the student's desks over to set the papers on. He looked at his desk which was over turned and just shook his head. He layed his ears back and actually sat in the student's desk he had set up. He placed his elbows on the desk just stairing at the boared that had graffiti all over it which deemed it unusable. He let out a heavy sigh placing his head in his hands and just thinking back to when he was a kid.

This wasn't a new sight to him. When he was younger he used to be a troubled student as well. Break into the school...break windows, move the desks against the door so people couldn't enter. All kinds of stuff but never something to this degree. 'Damn... I now know how my teachers felt' He thought to himself looking back around his room. His ears perked slightly when a figure stepped up to his door. He immediatly stood watching him carefully as the man observed his room before turning and exiting. He breathed out just now realizing he had been holding his breath while the man was looking around. "What the hell is the director doing here?" He asked with wide eyes walking over to the door only to see the man disapear around the corner towards the front office.

Eric's blue gaze focused on the floor before shaking his head. "Looks like the game of duck duck goose is back..." he muttered to himself walking back into his room to turn the student's desks right side up.

Andrew almost ran the rest of the way to his locker, whatever Seth had thought he was doing Andrew didn't like it at all. He reached his locker and stopped, wishing that he knew where Aiden was so that he could get rid of all of this sh!t weighing down his shoulders.

Seth, on the other hand, was walking back to Mr. Dashaniel's room. He looked inside to find the teacher alone like he had expected him to be. "Mr. Dashhaniel?" He asked, trying to look as nervous as possible. "I helped Andrew mess up your room..." He admitted quietly, lowering his fuzzy appendages.

{grrr XD bad seth!! >:( Bad} 

Eric's ears perked and swivled around before he turned to set his eyes upon the person who spoke. "Seth?" he asked standing up straight pulling his ears back. He did have to admit he was a little shocked. "Why the hell would you do this?" He asked motioning around his room. He managed to suck in a breath walking forward and placing his hand under Seth's chin, lifting it so he could look into the kid's eyes. He studied him for a breif moment as if he was looking for something before dropping his hand.

"Fine. If you helped you share the same fate as he does. This classroom every day until I say you two are finished. I still havn't decided on how long exactly I want to keep hi---you two" he spoke clearing his throat before stepping back. "Out of all the people...you choose the trouble maker" he breathed shaking his head. "Just....humor me and explian to me how exactly you and Andrew did all this. If you don't mind...every detail" he said crossing his arms and focusing on Seth.

Seth had been about to leave when he said to come to see him with Andrew after school but he'd continued. Well, he didn't expected an explanation but he could just tell the truth and add Andrew's name here and there in the story. 

He stepped forward, he had to think. Eric seemed smart, smarter than the other teachers crawling these halls. They thought Andrew did this already, and he himself was a new student. He had to make Andrew the culprit, even if he didn't want to. It would fit better than him getting the idea.

"Uhm? Well, Andrew flipped the tables and your desk. He's stronger than I am... I did the board... We both strew the papers and the textbooks..." Seth said, fiddling his the hand he'd hurt while doing this last night. He trailed off, not wanting to say too much, hoping he hadn't said too much already.

"Andrew flipped the desks?" He seemed to ask before pausing and nodding. "Thank you but what exactly was your guys's motive? To piss me off? To get back at me? What did I possibly do to piss you two off?" He asked curiously. Eric was having a few issues with Seth's story. Eric knew for a fact that Andrew had hurt his back a few days ago with the fight with his father so was he strong enough to flip his desk and a dozen others without hurting himself? He wasn't showing any signs of pain this morning and just the other day when he ran his finger down his spine he had showed a little pain there.

Plus with Seth only showed up a day ago. Did he and Andrew already connect that quickly in order to get together and plot this? He flopped his ears forward awaiting Seth's answer. He was curious on to where this story would lead. Sure some things didn't equal up but he was curious on to how much Seth would tell. What he couldn't put his finger on is if Seth was lying and he had nothing to do with helping Andrew or if Andrew was lying and Seth had done it all.

Seth knew by his question that he wasn't totally or not at all believing his story. What did he miss? What did he say? This wasn't going to turn out good if he messed up so soon. Clever, he had to be clever. "I only did it because he asked if i wanted to have fun. And I figured if I helped then he'd like me." Seth said, backing up to lean against the door frame.

"It had nothing to do with you Mr. Dashaniel. Not with me at least." Seth was quiet, trying not to let himself get worked up. Nothing beneficial would come from him getting worked up. 

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Andrew fiddled around in his locker. He didn't want to see anyone, he didn't want to do work, he didn't want to have to deal with stupid teachers that would only get upset when they found out that he didn't finish his homework last night. After a few minutes of anticipation he pulled on his jacket and headed outside.

His breath formed a misty cloud out in front of his face as he headed over to the gras$y hill beside the school and stood out in the gras$. When was the last time he'd laid out in the gras$? He smiled, the last time he'd laid out in the gras$ was when his dad took him to see fireworks when he was... 16? two years ago at least.

He sat down in the gras$ and pulled out his phone. nothing. Why did he always do that? No one called or texted him. They knew better. He would be at work or at school and didn't have time to mess with them. His ears drooped slightly, he loathed his life and he was on 18.

He was going to be 19 soon and he would be out in the world. Alone. Not that he wasn't already, he kinda was. But he was going to be utterly alone when his birthday came. His friend was getting out of here. His only true friend and even the guys that followed him around were going away for college.

He pulled his hood up and laid back into the soft, green. He ignored the cold wetness that came to him and just let his body relax.

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Seth, with his every wondering mind and attention span, caught something moving just behind Eric's head and focused out of the window behind him to see a lone student traveling across the campus. It was wearing familiar clothes. Andrew? He focused back on Eric slowly, forcing his attention away. 

[[ ugh. I feel like writing tonight for some reason XD no braindeadness here lol ]] 

Eric listened to Seth's words before sighing. "If your going to muster up enough courage to lie to me....you could have done more investigating and given me more plausable facts" he said pulling his ears back against his skull. "You seem like a smarth student Seth so why come in here and admit to something that you didn't do....unless your feeling guilty because Andrew had nothing to do with it?" He asked tilting his head slightly and flopping his tail behind him in an amused fashion.

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Danielle frowned lightly walking away from the housing area. She was exausted and it showed as she walked. Her ears were drooped down and tail was nearly dragging the ground. "Today isn't turning out as well as I hoped" he sighed shaking her head. "Danille...take the garbage to the dump...Danielle, take my dog to the groomer...Danielle do this..Danielle do that" she huffed to herself trying to mimic her stuck up boss. She could just put an end to this thing and quit her first job but then where would it get her? No where. She had to stay strong no matter how messed up the people she worked for seemed to be.

She continued to walk down the side walk heading for the home her and Andrew had been staying in. She glanced up slightly only to side step out of some guy's way who had been rushing down the side walk. "Happy birthday to me" she breathed under her breath allowing her eyes to dart back to the concrete.

[[ Couldn't me! :O This guy doesn't like gay/bi/les people ._. Well, not gay guys/bi guys anyways >n> Girls are fine BLEH!! ]]

Seth tilted his head slightly, letting his hair fall out of his face. If he already knew he was lying, then Seth wasn't going to push it by saying anymore. But he did want to know one thing that he wanted to make sure of.

Seth was one of those people that studied others. Some called it weird, he called it research for his writing. He flicked his ear, focusing on his teacher in front of him and went ahead on changing the subject. "Are you gay Mr. Dashaniel?" Seth asked, rearranging the jacket that had been forgotten in his arms. 

He let that settle before he continued, "Don't get me wrong I'm just wondering because you seem to like touching things..." By things he meant people, he remembered the way he'd touched him a few minutes ago and yesterday with Andrew. The change of subject wasn't entirely his fault. He had a short attention span and couldn't focus on things that he wasn't interested in. 

{ I hate people like that. >.< }

Eric was taken back a little bit by his question. Where had that come from? One minute he was explaining how he and Andrew trashed his room now it was onto the completly obvious. He sighed shaking his head lightly glancing down at the floor. "You seem very observant and watchful. You watch people around you but you fail to see the people just merly passing by. You choose those who you watch and pay attention to...everyone else is forgotten or doesn't exist in your world. Their insignificant" he spoke returning his gaze to Seth.

"Isnt' it obvious? Have you not noticed the other teacher's sneers, witty comments, or the obvious discuss in their voice when they speak to me? I am gay, Seth. It's no secret in this small school. Andrew was the first to point that out to the whole class not to long ago" he shrugged stepping back. "What of it?" He asked curiously not sure why he would bring such a thing up.

[[ Me too >.< Especially since almost all of my friends are gay/bi ;C

And My comp refreshed and deleted my post D: Nuuu~ ]] 

Seth tilted his head slightly, "Whats wrong with that?" he asked, referring to choosing the people that he watched. "I watch who I want to learn, purely academic." He smiled, that wasn't entirely true. 

"No, it's not obvious. Or I wouldn't have asked." Seth said simply. "It's just that most guys don't touch people as freely as you do. You hide it well if you ask me." Seth stated. Was he getting defensive? "And, like you said before. I watch who I want to watch... the teachers around here might as well not exist." He shrugged, but it was barely a movement. Eric might not even have noticed it if he wasn't paying attention.

He mentioned Andrew again. He mentioned him frequently. This bothered Seth. "Andrew." He started, focusing all of his attention on him. "Do you like him?" He asked.

[[ UGH!! What a horribly butchered post ;O; Sorry. I summarized ]] 

{ Your okay. I understand }

"Watching people is purely academic? I doubt that" Eric breathed shaking his head. "And I don't hide it. I just don't mention it. There's no need to hide who I am just to please people. If they don't like it they can go jump off a cliff not that they would" He huffed before shaking his head. "I agree with you. Teacher's around here shouldn't exist but they do. They have their own comments and actions that arn't really....professional but this isn't a sob story about my life" He added.

Seth's next questioned seemed to throw him off a little bit. Did he like Andrew? What kind of question was that? "I like all my students. Boys and girls alike. We all have a very special relationship but if you mean a relationship out of the normal professional one then no. I do not. It's just....he reminds me of someone. I want to help him but the more I do the more he shys away....why do you ask? What interest is it to you? What....academic purposes does this hold seeing your so focused on school" He asked shifting so he was leaning against the wall.

Seth nodded. That was good, he didn't want to have competition for Andrew. The girls around here were obviously head over heals for the boy. But he didn't have a girlfriend? That was odd, there had to be a reason for that and Seth was going to try and figure that out soon.

"No reason. When you mentioned him you seemed to change and I was curious to know if that was because you liked him more than a teacher-student relationship." Seth explained. So Andrew shied away? He'd figure that out too.

Seth was creating a mental list of Andrew. Things he could use to get close to him. "But if all you want to do is help Andrew then you're going to have a hard time of it." He said, still putting smaller pieces together. "I can already tell theres something wrong with him." People like Andrew attracting Seth so easily, probably because they were the most interesting and difficult to write about.

"If you want to help him yo;'re going to have to be aggressive. Force him to let you help." Seth paused, that sounded harsh. "Have you ever seen those TV shows about abused animals? They'll kick and scream and snarl and simply refuse to make anything easy. They don't realize you're trying to help them until you force them." Seth explained, ready to leave and go see what Andrew was doing outside.

{{ HAHA! I just imagined Andrew kicking and screaming until Eric muzzled him >3< }}

[[ Ok. Seth and Eri aren't going to be friends, obviously XD

So, is Eric going to hate Seth? And I was thinking that if Eric wanted to use Seth to get to know Andrew :O Since Seth is a 'watcher' or whatever XD He could learn about Andrew and then Eric somehow get the information and use it? lol ]] 

"That doesn't work..." Eric spoke pulling his ears back. "With children in Andrew's position you have to have patience and time. I have plenty and he'll come around. You have to show them your meaning is true and has a purpose. Show them that you are here to help and not to hurt them. That's all they think about...those abused animals. They think your going to hit them, hurt them somehow. Everyone has so why not you? You have to wait and be patient. Befriend them then they will let you in" He spoke remembering back to his foster child. His tail immediatly dropped before shaking his head.

"Go Seth. I have work to do here. I can't having you waste my time" Eric seemed to snap all of a sudden, his mood changing dramaticly. His tail was slightly bristled as he spun around picking up a few books and setting them on one of the student's desks. "By the way. Since you are a friend of Andrew's or are trying. Be sure to let him know that the hill he is sitting on outside...is aproximatly the area my class will take place. So do be a doll and tell him not to be late this time" he said glancing back at Seth. His blue eyes rather narrow for being indifferent a minute ago.

{ Haha. Oh how Eric wishes he could do that. No they are not. Especially when Seth learns that Eric is lying. He totally has feelings for Andrew. He just....doesn't show it or show's it in a very different way...by...yelling at him? lol. I donno. ^.^ '

And that could work. Keep your freinds close....use your enemies as spies? lol. Okay so I made that up but it works. }

Seth raised his eyebrows, flicking his tail slightly. "We'll see." He said and turned on his heel to head off to Andrew. He was out the front door and down and across the lawn quickly, pulling on his jacket. He came up beside Andrew, "What are you doing?" He asked, making Andrew jump. "You'll get a cold." Seth told him, his tail swaying slowly behind him.

"You stay the hell away from me!" Andrew barked, his own tail flicking in agitation. "Are you afraid of me Andrew?" Seth asked, a smirk on his face. "No! i'm not afraid of you!" Seth smiled. "You're body screams fear." He responded, making Andrew straighten up. "I'm not scared of you..." He repeated.

"Good." Seth replied, "Mr. Dashaniel wants me to tell you we're having clas$ here and to not be late." Andrew huffed. "Well, you can tell Mr. Dashaniel I don't care and I'm not coming to clas$."  "I don't really feel like playing messenger boy today~" Seth sighed, sitting down close to him. Andrew growled quietly.