【 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 】 - a kazuscara ff .••°

XVII

"I had a... study buddy..., but he and I kinda haven't talked in a bit."

"Laaame," A girl chimed in. "Go get your boyfriend!"

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"Excuse me?" Scara choked on his own spit, coughing a bit.

"What? Is that not what you meant?" The girl with black and pink hair asked. "That teacher, Mr. Zhongli, is Childe's study buddy and they f--"

"Hey--eyeyeyey,, let's not!! Talk about that!!" Childe interrupted, grinning while passive-aggressively pushing the girl away.

Scara gave him a look of disgust, vowing to never look at Xiao's dad the same again. "Oh my god.."

"Well? Are you two not dating?" The girl asked, shoving Childe away from her. "Or at least..like.. something more?"

"I-I'm not telling you that! No!" Scara denied, he was not letting these upper classmen know anything about his..'relationship' with Kazuha.

"Oh. Sorry. Childe used 'study buddy' as a code word for that, so we assumed everyone did," she shrugged, seemingly not that sorry.

A couple students in the back who were on their phones the whole time sat up and joined the conversation, allowing Scara to sink back and not talk too much.

"Are you suuuuure he's 'just your study buddy'?" Childe air quoted.

"Yes! And be quiet," Scara hissed.

"I dunno,, you only denied it after you said 'I'm not telling you'," Childe whispered, this time.

"Stop air quoting!" Scara hit his shoulder. "I'm not a queer like you," He narrowed his eyes, knowing damn well he kinda was.

It's okay.

It was a white lie, and wouldn't really hurt anyone.

Plus he didn't really care if he hurt Childe's feelings.

"Fine."

"Isn't it weird that you, as a student-teacher, are hanging out with a bunch of highschool kids? And vaping with them? In the middle of the forest?" Scaramouche asked.

"Does it look like I give a fuck? No," Childe curtly responded, promptly smacking the back of Scara's head and stopping his attempts at hitting him back. "Remember, I know your mom. Don't act up too much."

He was right, he did know Scara's mom.

They were actually strangely close.

Now that he thought about it, Childe knew a lot of his friends parents.

Really well.

Eh, he was probably over thinking it. He was probably jsut good at putting on an act in front of adults, like Scara.

"Go hangout with your boyfriend," Childe teased.

"I already told you, he's not my boyfriend!" Scara blushed and pouted.

"I know things, little dude," He smirked. "Now get out of here, and come back whenever!" Childe pushed Scara out of the bush, and while stumbling over twigs and trying not to get scraped, Scara had time to flip him off from behind.