Academic Rivals: Kaeya x Albedo

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Albedo POV
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It had been a week and nothing had really changed except for everytime I changed Kaeya's icon on my phone to the same one, I'm thinking this will just be a who gets bored first scenario. Well one thing had changed Kaeya kept asking me if he could hold my hand or kiss me in public and I wasn't quite sure since despite the fact he was encouraging me to be public with him but also very much warning me that girls and some guys would judge me and would probably hate me. The hate wasn't the problem it wa more the attention most people only know me from the mural I did for art week and well it has my name in the corner.

"Hey blondie, my friends are starting to think I actually got with you since I keep coming here instead of the cafeteria. I have been denying it but saying I'm avoiding the girls who like me can only get me so far " Kaeya sat down in front of me in the library he kept talking about mundane things that had happened that day

" I never said you couldn't tell your friends.... I also never said you couldn't tell people if we are getting technical" I put my sketchbook down and looked at him.

"Yeah well you never gave me a yes either so I took the safe route and said nothing " he slumped in the chair before jumping up and leaning towards me " So~ I can tell people I have an amazing boyfriend " he smirked

"Well I don't know I ... You can decide I don't mind... I did tell Sucrose and Alice found out before she left because she saw my phone and I just told Sucrose" Kaeya started eating his lunch and looked at me with a smirk

"Which photo the one I chose or the on you did " my face went red and I looked back over at him " The one were you had put 'please please please keep it ' at the bottom "

Kaeya bursts out laughing before taking a second to breath and calm himself down. "What did she say about it " I took a sip from my bottle  "she was more happy I had a boyfriend and didn't really care "

The bell rang and I started putting my stuff away and Kaeya stood up next to me " I'll walk with you to your art class and I'll meet you for geography " I stood up and immediately Kaeya wrapped his arm around my shoulder and fiddled his fingers I just thought he was bored before I heard "ehhm ... hold my hand I'm trying to be slick" I awkwardly laughed and lifted my hand up and he intertwined our fingers together.

No one seemed to really pay attention to us holding hands since most people had gotten use to Kaeya leaning on me around the hallway's I let go off his hand and started walking towards the art room "see you later " before I entered Kaeya pulled me back to him kissed me and walked away " bye blondie" he winked at me as he walked away. I just stood there stunned for a minute before I walked into the art room and sat down.

I could already hear the mumbling. Not many people would be around the art room other then art students but still gossip and rumours spread fast in school. Presumably the whole of M block would know by the end of the day.

I listened to the instructions that the teacher gave, stuck my headphones in and started drawing. I don't like using markers I would much rather be using pencils or paint instead of markers but this is what the brief called for so I'll make it work.

The bell rang and I walked towards my next class and I heard people whispering as I walked past. Logic dictates this is the imaginary audience and it's all in my head people are just talking it isn't necessarily about me or Kaeya but still I can't help but think that they are.

I walked into my geography class and Kaeya came and sat next to me a minute later. A woman with long pick hair walked into the front of the class before speaking" umm this is a M block geography class right " the class nodded before she started talking " I'm Ms Miko I'm an I block teacher but your teacher is sick so do what you want I don't care " she smiled before sitting down and typed away on her laptop.

I took out my sketchbook before Kaeya pulled it over and started looking through it " can you look at it later I would like to draw right now " I asked Kaeya before he leaned on the table and looked over at me " you can draw later tell me about your drawings instead of we can just talk " Kaeya seemed so nochalant

"Fine we can talk while you look what do you want to talk about "  Kaeya smirked and looked at me as he flipped the pages of my sketchbook " Well rumour is that some very cute blondie was kissed by me earlier today would you happen to know who that mysterious person is because no one seems to know " he smirked as he teased me acting all coy

" Oh I don't know but why would you do that so publicly you would swear you were trying to start something like this" I retorted back trying to play slightly dumb since that seemed to be the narrative Kaeya was going with here " oh well I was told I could choose who I could tell so I kissed that elusive blonde to let the school know I was taken so I kissed them that seems like a rational plan " he smiled at me and continued flicking through my sketchbook

"Do you have any self portraits ? I would like to see some of you  " he paused at a page of body studies "where do you get your references ? " he went back to flipping pages "do you have more sketchbook at home ?"

I chuckled slightly at the array of questions he was asking " your plan had some rational but you should have checked it with this blonde first " I laughed " and only for school projects, google and like a box full of them ... Does that answer all your ground breaking questions"

He turned to me and booped my nose " very much and I would like you to show me all off those things please " he leaned down and looked up at me with a longing look " hmmm I don't know should I show you, you did pull a big stunt maybe you don't deserve to see those things yet " I smirked and leaned forward to him

"You can't do this to your boyfriend come on please show me " he sat back up and slowly inched his hand closer to mine on the desk "fine I'll show you them later but I would like an apology, what you did wasn't wrong but when I said you could do what you want I ment more as in you could tell your friends or say to people you have a boyfriend not kiss me in the middle of school"

Kaeya paused and looked at me with a smile " fine I'm sorry but still who cares your my boyfriend and I wanna show it " he did have a point it's not like I didn't know what I was getting into, I was aware even when I was just hanging out with him Sucrose told me all the rumours she had heard about me and Kaeya

"You can come over after school if you want Klees would love to see you when she gets home " I asked him I didn't plan on him coming over I couldn't even remember if I had a clean room or if the house is clean I think it's pretty clean maybe I can't rember. Kaeya respond immediately " sure I would love too" he said with a smile