All Stars Burn Out

Notes and rumors

It's eight o'clock when Sett arrives the Iron Solari Academy, he likes punctuality and gets upset when others don't respect the appointment, but he always ends accepting the apologies. He carries Rakan's brand new suit, cleaned and ironed, on his shoulder. While he walks by the greened school's garden, he passes by several students. The classes will only start in half a hour, but almost everybody already is here. He passes by a group of girls talking about constellations, which takes him back to the shiny star he saw last night. He retreats his head and snuggles on the purple beanie made by his mom.

He enters and immediately spots Xayah chatting with a couple of girls, backwards. Xayah is utterly beautiful by Sett's eyes. Her suit is tightened on her torso and her skirt is folded twice, as much as the principal already had scolded on her because of doing so. Though, she says she doesn't want to be looking like an old woman and ends up folding the skirt again behind the principal's gaze.

She has not-so-long pink hair with blue streaks scattered through the strings. The color is all-natural, like Rakan's greenish hair, and matches their ears. She doesn't like it when someone says it's artificial and picks up fight easily. The most striking thing about her hair is the small fringe that takes up only half of her forehead. Sett finds it quirky and attractive, but he's too embarrassed to say so.

He comes up from behind and nudges her. "Hey Xayah, did you see Rakan?"

She looks back and motions for the other girls to leave. She raises her arms and shakes her head. "Not on my pocket."

She turns away and walks into a cramped room, looking for something. Sett follows her.

"Don't be rude, I just want to return his suit. Also I want to see him, chat for a bit. I like him."

Xayah looks at him and giggles. "You like him?"

Sett twists his mouth and looks down. "You're making me look like an idiot. He's cool, I want to be friends with him."

Xayah laughs.

"Cute... Found it!" She grabs a tiny jewel, shiny and greenish, and tucks it into her uniform pocket. Sett could barely see it, but it seemed to be star-shaped, like the ones in the sky, but with two opposite elongated ends. "Oh wait till I get my hands on those yellow teddy bears of Sarah..."

Afterwards, she looks at Sett and taps one finger on her face a few times. "Yeah, to be honest, I think Rakan talked about you a little bit last night. But I wasn't paying attention, he was just talking about muscles and muscles, but I wanted to watch my favorite show that's been on hiatus for, what, six months? So I said, yeah sure, he's totally hot."

Sett blushes.

"Do you think I'm hot?"

Xayah feels a small urge to laugh, but imagines an even better scene. She leans against the wall and stretches her leg to the door, pushing it. "I do."

Sett thinks she's giving him a chance to show what he can do, but he's not sure if she's the right person to him. But, for the fact of she being a vastaya, he is utterly attracted to her. Sett brushes against Xayah's outstretched leg and climbs up onto her thigh as he approaches her.

"What did Rakan say about my muscles?"

Xayah knows that Rakan is not even in the slightest vulgar with words, but that doesn't mean she can't play with her colleague a little. Sett is out of breath, but Xayah is just having fun.

"He told me they are huge, he said he wants to touch your bare shoulders and feel how steady they should be," she says as she does the same thing. Sett's rigid muscles twitch at the touch, but he doesn't flinch. "He tells me he wants to be lifted by you and be taken to bed and do several other things there."