I Wait For You (Its What I Do) •Xavier Thorpe•

Chapter Five - Carnival

translations at the end
1.9k words

tw: vapes, cigarettes, pills, blood, manipulation, verbal fighting, talk about smashing someone's face in, sweatshirt

-

Once everyone had arrived at the carnival, Yoko had gone off to find Divina, Wednesday and Enid ran off to get cotton candy, Tyler had picked a fight with Xavier which Rowan was trying to put a stop to.

Sade and Ajax stood there for a moment before he tugged on her arm, moving them to start walking away.

They walked in silence for a couple minutes, taking in the lights and music all around them. Ajax spoke up once they found a funnel cake stand.

"Ever had funnel cake?" He smiled at her.

Sade could feel the weight of her pack of cigarettes in her back pocket, wishing badly for one. "No, it sounds too American." She joked.

The boy just laughed and bought one. They walked until they found a bench, setting the cake down between them. They both took a piece and ate it, Sade's face twisting into a look of confusion while Ajax laughed again.

"Not like how I expected. At all." She smiled up at him and took another bite.

"Good though. Really good," he said with his mouth full.

It was silent again for a little bit, which Sade thought was unusual based on Thornhill's class sitting next to Ajax.

"You know they used to date." The gorgon looked up at her. "Xavier and Tyler."

Sade's mouth formed a slight 'o' shape as she fiddled with the lighter in her hands.

Ajax shrugged. "Yeah. I don't know if date is the right word but whatever they had was messy. Like, Xavier's my boy y'know, I've never seen him so messed up. Not even after Bianca." He shook his head.

"He dated Bianca Barclay too?" Sade sat there in slight shock, she had never actually 'dated' anyone for more than two weeks. Something about her just drove people away after her charm wore off.

Ajax chuckled slightly. "Yeah, Bianca freshman year into sophomore year, Tyler junior year, and he had a crush on Wednesday after he broke up with Tyler."

All Sade could manage was "huh."

—

Xavier, Tyler, and Rowan stood in the grass parking lot of the carnival, all with tense expressions on their faces.

"Tyler, I'm not getting into this right now! You're just gonna spin it into you're the only person who has ever loved me or ever will love me bullshit and I am not doing that right now!" Xavier threw his hands away from each other and started pacing.

"Well it's true, isn't it? Bianca broke up with you and Wednesday certainly didn't want you..." Tyler reasoned back with a slightly smug look on his face.

"You're doing it right now!" The artist stopped pacing to yell at the blonde boy.

"Xavier-" Rowan tried to intervene, he could see where this was going.

"Not right now, Rowan, please. Just go." Xavier crossed one of his arms over his chest while the other held the bridge of his nose.

Rowan glanced between the two boys for a moment before walking off into the carnival.

Tyler took a step towards Xavier, who automatically took a step back.

"Xav, please, you just need to start listening to me again." His gaze darkened slightly as his tone became more serious.