Teyvat High

Chapter Six

Aplogies for the lack of updates, writer's block 😭

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"What's gotten into you, Aether? You've been acting strange" Bennett asks him as they were eating lunch together. Its been a few hours since he saw Tartaglia and Mr. Zhongli kissing and he still can't get it out of his head. "Razor thinks so too." Aether just smiles at the two. "I'm fine, no worries! Just worried about the quiz we have in history later. I didn't study." He says chuckling lightly. Bennett's face drops, "we have a quiz?!"

The trio then talk about other stuff and try to cram as much knowledge as they can while eating. "Is the quiz about Liyue or Mondstadt? Or was it about the origins of Dragonspine?" Bennett asks, frantically flipping his notes, well, Aether's notes, while shoving his sandwich into his mouth. "I think its about Sumeru... or was it Snezhnaya?" Aether responds. "Wolvendom!" Razor exclaims. "Wolvendom? Oh thats right! Thats what Mr. Zhongli was teaching us about last week!" Bennett then starts to look for the Wolvendom notes.

"Found it! Hmm, 'Wolvendom is an area in Mondstadt that is home to Andrius, Wolf of the North of the Four Winds, and his wolf pack.' What else?" "I think we were supposed to research about it in the library." The trio sighed. "Think we can borrow books before lunch time is up?" Bennett asks with an awkward smile.

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"Got the books!" Razor tells the two, they are now sitting at an empty stairway near the library. They didn't want to be inside since they knew they won't be quiet. "So about the spirit in Wolvendom. Andrius yeah? Whats the story behind him?" "And the specialty from Wolvendom. The... flower? No, fruit? Or was it ore?" The trio then start flipping through the borrowed books, being careful not to rip the pages off for they DID NOT want to piss Ms. Lisa. Bennett reminds them of that every few minutes.

"So the Wolvendom's specialty is wolfhooks. Wolfhooks can be found in within , generally at the base of dead trees and near bushes. A high quantity of them can be found around the arena in south-west Wolvendom. A berry with thorns that often gets attached to a wolf's pelt. When you look at it, you can almost hear the echoing cries of the wolves in the woods. Write that down, Razor!" Razor nodded, following the ash-grey boy's instruction. Aether just half listens to what their saying. Truth be told, he knew the information already. He was more than ready for the quiz later. He just wanted a distraction.

A distraction from the image of Tartaglia and Mr. Zhongli kissing.

Aether shakes his head. Maybe he was just imagining things? Maybe he didn't actually see the ginger kiss his history teacher? Maybe his mind was just making things up. After all, he did read a manga with the exact same scene.

Yeah, it was all in my head. That still won't stop the blonde from avoiding the ginger though. He reconsidered joining the student council. Joining it means more interactions with the Vice President.

"Hey, students!"

Speak of the devil.

"Hey Vice President Tartaglia!" Bennett waves to the man, Razor just smiled at him. Aether tried to flash a smile. The image of him kissing his history teacher replayed in his head. Yeah it was real.  The blonde sighed internally.

"Mind if I borrow little Aether here? It'll be quick since classes are about to start. I'll walk him to your room too!" Tartaglia proclaims. No escape, huh. "Sure! We'll see you at class then, Aether!" The two then walk towards the direction to their room. "Oh!" Bennett walks towards Aether, "your notes! Figured you'd want to revise while walking to class. Bye!" He then jogs to catch up to Razor. Pouncing on him to give him a back hug, laughing when Razor glared at him.

"So, what did you need from Mr. Zhongli?" Tartaglia asks, flashing a smile. "Uhm, actually I was looking for you. I had something to ask" Aether mumbles. "Oh, is that so? Well then, I'm all ears!" So we're just forgetting what happened? Cool with me, Aether thinks. "About the grade representative role, is it still available? I was hoping to join." The blonde shows the ginger a small smile.

Tartaglia was definitely not gonna let the little blonde haired male forget the amazing scene he walked into a few hours back. After all, where's the fun in that? "Yeah you can still join! I'll tell the President you're interested. Let's go to the Student Council room together after class to introduce yourself."

He already knows me, a bit.

"Okay then!" Aether says, already half-regretting about his decision but decided it would be a fun experience. "Well then, I'll be on my way now-" "I'll walk you to class!" The ginger said smiling before grabbing the blonde's arm and making their way to Aether's classroom.

They were silent the whole way. When they arrived near the classroom, Tartaglia pushed Aether into the wall like those cliche shoujo anime scenes. "Tell anyone about what you saw in Mr. Zhongli's classroom, and you're dead meat. Okay?" He finished smiling. The blonde nodded and went into the classroom, leaving the chuckling ginger in the hallway.

Tartaglia half wished Aether would tell others, maybe those two kids he hangs around with just to see what'll happen. Then again, he wouldn't want Mr. Zhongli to lose his job. That means he wouldn't be able to see him daily anymore and he wouldn't want that.

"Hmm. Maybe this school year is going to be interesting, right little Aether?"

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I'm really sorry about the lack of updates. I've been working on short stories on my Ao3 account - kozumaane

improptu update because its almost 2 months since the last chapter ;-; , severe apologies !!