Toh Oneshots

😣A different Grom Tale☁️

(Alador x Darius) Helo, this is gonna be set in the time period of the episode "Them's The Breaks Kid" cause yes. Hope you enjoy the chapter! 🥳 (I have no idea what I'm doing right now lol)

- Alador POV -
I stood at my locker, grabbing and placing books in and out of it. I pulled my backpack onto my back and began walking towards the front of the building. Grom was coming up in about a week and I still had no one to go with. I sighed to myself as I walked down the stairs in front of the school. I saw a kid from the bard track run down over towards Edalyn. 'Looks like she's already got a date.' I thought to myself as I began the walk home. I was stopped when I saw Darius just standing around. "Hey, Darius." "Oh! Hi, Alador. You heading home?" "Yeah, why?" "Can I come to your house? Sorry, it's just that my parents aren't home and it gets lonely." "I'll ask my parents." I pulled out my scroll and texted them. (Idk if they had scrolls when they were kids but just go with it 💀🍷) 'Hey Dad, can I have a friend over?' I waited for a few minutes, talking to Darius when I soon heard a ding. I pulled out my scroll to read the message. 'Depends, who is it?' 'Darius, he's in some of my classes.' 'I see, i guess he can come over. Just don't misbehave.' 'Yes sir' "Alright, you can come!" "Cool!"

The two of us walked to my house, talking about our homework until the topic of Grom came up. "Speaking of Grom, are you going with anyone yet?" Darius asked me. "Nah, not yet." "I bet your gonna ask out some cool girl with flowers and a love poem?" "With all due respect, Darius, what would you know? Your not even into girls." "Fair point." He shrugged off the reply and we continued walking. Pretty soon we reached my house and we headed inside, seeing my father on the couch watching television. "Hey, Dad." "Hello, is that your friend?" "Yeah." "Alright, like I said before, no misbehavior." "Got it." We headed upstairs, avoiding my father who was obviously too tired to deal with us at the moment. We headed into my room and shut the door. It wasn't the cleanest but then again it was clean enough. "Nice room." Darius said, sitting on the bed. "Thanks" "Wanna work on some homework together?" I here him ask. "Sure." The two of us pulled out our abomination homework sheet, reading the instructions. "So first we have to... Do you understand any of this???" "Nope. Well actually... slightly? I think..?" The two of us let out a soft chuckle before attempting at our homework.

- Darius POV -
We had been working quietly for about an hour now, only having small conversations here and there. I let out a loud exhausted sigh, catching Alador's attention. "Wanna take a break?" He asked me. "Yes." We headed downstairs into his kitchen and ate some sandwiches. "Want a drink? We have Ghoul Acid, Apple Blood, and some kind of Energy drink." "I'll take the Ghoul Acid, please." "You have terrible taste buds." He said as he pulled one carton of Apple Blood and one carton of Ghoul Acid out of the fridge. He passed it to me and I put the straw in and took a sip. I was sitting on a stool, leaning on the counter while Alador was leaning against the counter as well but was instead standing. I could still here the tv in the other room. "So, where's your mom?" I asked him bluntly. "At work, she gets home late." "Oh, ok." "Say, are you ever gonna go back to your house?" "Eh, maybe." I responded, giving him a shrug. "Well, it is getting kind of late." I say. "I can walk you home if you like?" "Sure." We went up as I grabbed my stuff and headed towards the door. "Where are you two going?" Alador's father asked. "I'm just walking him home." Alador's says. "Alright, be back before dinner." "Ok" We walked out and begin walking.

It was silence, and not an uncomfortable silence, but a comforting one. I looked up at the sky as clouds began to form. "We'd better hurry." I said, signaling Alador's to speed up. He began jogging to my house, once we reached it I felt a few rain drops fall. We reached the porch and quickly got underneath it. "Phew" "Well, see you at school tomorrow!" Alador's said, about to run back to his house. "Wait! You're not seriously going to run through the boiling rains right?" "Eh, I'll be fine!" He said running off. I tried to stop him but he wouldn't listen. "Idiot.." I said before heading inside. I took off my shoes and headed into the kitchen seeing my mom standing by the stove. "Hey, ma." "Hey, how was your day?" "It was good, thanks. What about you?" "Same as usual." She responded. After about ten minutes she passed me a plat of food and we ate together. In the middle of dinner my father came inside. "Hello, Sweetheart!" My mother said, walking over to him. "You alright?" "Yeah.. just a few burns." He said walking into the bathroom, soon coming out with a few bandages on. "Well, Son. How was school." "It was good." "Anything exciting happen?" "No, how was work?" I immediately regretted asking as my father began rambling on about how one of his coworkers had nearly set their office on fire. When I finished I asked to be excused and headed up to my room. It was 6:40 pm. I took and shower and got changed into some pajamas, sitting on my bed and pulling out my scroll. I opened Alador's contact and messaged him.