Cliché

Chapter Seventeen: Sleep

Author's Notes:

This chapter's favorite word is: stupid.

Also did you really think we would have a fever scene without a towel bath in this cliché?

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"Lend me your computer!" Leon demanded, crawling half of the bed and then stopping because his head spun like crazy.

"No" Nick groaned and got up to push the younger back so he would lay down.

"Why?!" Leon fought against him, but he was too weak to be able to do anything.

"You're sick" Nick held him down, rolling the sheets over his body.

"Like that matters, give me the computer!"

"Nope"

"C'mon Jackass, I have to maintain my grades"

"You'll still be first in class even if you hand it in later"

"You don't know that! A point will be reduced automatically!"

"So you'll get a 9, big deal"

"What if I don't get a perfect score? It won't be a 9 then, will it?"

The two of them went back and forth like that until Nick enveloped Leon's whole body with the sheets like a caterpillar. The first-year was still squirming around, trying to break free, but he was locked firmly into place with Nick openly laughing at the way he was moving like a worm.

"Jailer! Demon! Saboteur!" The redhead cursed "You'll have to pay for my college if I lose my scholarship!"

"Yeah, yeah" Nick waved back, dismissing every protest.

The older boy looked utterly unconvinced, as if the possibility of Leon not getting full marks was absurd. The kouhai's notes were more detailed than the textbooks, it made no sense for him to fail at anything at all. But Leon was stubborn and in the end he got Nick sighing in defeat.

"Do you have the archive?"

"What?" After much complaining, the redhead was almost voiceless, but he still held up the only thing he could to look at Nick: his head.

The second-year barked a laugh and didn't stop for a few seconds.

"What?!!" Leon waved his head around and that made Nick laugh even more.

"S-stop– HAHAHAHA, stop moving like that!" The giggling kept on going as the elder was trying to breathe properly "You look too funny!"

"And just whose fault is that??" The redhead squirmed again.

"YOU'RE GONNA KILL ME" A new wave of laughter came and it took him a full minute to be able to stop panting.

Head back on the pillow and face red from both the fever and the mortification, Leon murmured "... Are you done?"

"Y-yeah" Nick voiced one last giggle, brushing away a tear on the corner of his eye. "The thing you have to hand in tomorrow, do you have the archive of it?"

"Aah~ Yeah, I have it online"

"Let me see it. W-wait" He laughed again "Don't even try to move, my stomach already hurts, I'll come over with the computer"

Leon muttered some curses as Nick walked over and sat back down beside him. They logged in and the senpai started reading over the whole project, brows furrowing with each line. As he had predicted, it was flawless.

"There's barely anything left to do here." The black haired boy pointed as if lecturing the other "What time is your class?"

"...Ten"