Do You Love Me Or Not? (Samgladiator X Taurtis)

Chapter Twenty

(Oh my goodness! We've reached Chapter Twenty! What the heck! I had always hoped that one day I could get this far, but I never thought I actually would! I can't thank you readers enough for the support you've given me and all of the great comments I've recieved! I luv all you peoples out there that are reading this!!! Anyways, on with le chapter!)

Taurtis' P.O.V.

I woke up with an empty feeling next to me. I opened my eyes to see that Sam was no longer laying down at my side. I sat up straight and let out a yawn before proceeding to stand up. I stretched out a bit before walking out the door of Sam's bedroom. When I got out, though, I could hear small cries coming from the downstairs area. "Sam? You okay?" I asked him as I walked down the stairs. The only response I got was more stifled cries. When I entered the living room, I was met with Sam hugging his knees to his chest, ears covering his face while clinging onto a small slip of paper. "Sam? What happened?" I asked, sitting down besides him. He handed me the note. It read:

Dear Sam,

If you're wondering why I'm not at the house, it's because I left back to England. I'm really sorry, but I just couldn't stand it. You being with Taurtis, it annoyed the crap outta me and I just hated seeing it. Leaving was the only reasonable thing I could think of. I'm sorry.

~Sincerely, Grian

My lips curled into a smirk when I was finished reading it. Finally that British brat was out of the way! Although he was finally gone, I was still a bit disappointed because I didn't get to actually spill his blood.

I forced myself to get rid of my smile before I wrapped Sam in a hug. I rubbed circles on Sam's back as he had his hands clutched onto my shirt and his head under my chin. "I- I can't believe h- he just le- left!" Sam cried out. I shrugged my shoulders, not really knowing how to act sympathetic when really I was completely overjoyed about this. I sighed. "I wish I could help you, Sam, but I didn't know him as well as you did..." I say, trying my best. Luckily it seemed to work. Sam pulled away from me and sniffled a bit. "Th- that's alright. I guess I'm just upset that he left without saying goodbye first.." He said, looking down. I put my hand under his chin and forced him to look up at me. I gave him a small smile, which he thankfully returned along with a slight blush.

After Sam was all calmed down, we both got ready to head to school. We ended up walking with J since he happened to be heading out at the same time we were. "Oh, hey, J. You remember my friend Grian from yesterday, right?" Sam asked J, who nodded in response. "Well, he kind of... left....." Sam said. Surprisingly, J looked very upset when he heard this. "Dude, why do you seem so upset about this?" I asked him, tilting my head to the left a bit. He looked down and blushed a little. "I... might of.... liked him..." J said shamefully. Sam put an arm around him. "Aww, I'm sorry, man. I can't imagine what I would feel like if I lost Taurtis.." He told J. I smiled when I heard this, and pecked Sam on the cheek. J looked up at us and smiled. "Well, at least I can be happy by watch you two act all cutesy around one another! You two are totally my OTP" J said, making us all laugh.

When we got to the school, everyone was still at there lockers. J parted away from Sam and I so he could go to his locker. Sam and I went to ours, which were right next to one another. I put a bag of Torito's in my locker along with a few other things before shutting it closed and turning towards Sam. I smiled at him as I intertwined my fingers with his and headed off to Okami's class.

As we entered the classroom, Okami had on her usual, cheery smile to greet us. I let go of Sam's hand so I could wave 'hello' to her. She continued smiling and waved back at me before I went inside. After role call, we were given an assignment to work in pairs for a class project. I looked at Sam, who looked at me. We then both looked at J and nodded our heads signaling each other that we were totally going to all partner up. The max amount of people to a group was 3, so we didn't have any problems there. We all gathered into a corner of the room and sat on the floor waiting for us to be told what exactly we're supposed to be doing.

When Okami finally got to our group, she handed each of us a few cards with some math problems on them. "All you need to do is test each other on how well you guys know your math and then you guys will be done!" She told us, smiling happily. Sam thanked her before she left to go and attend to the next group.

Throughout the entire class period, Sam, J, and I failed to even get one problem asked to another. We pretty much just spent the entire class goofing and gaffing with one another. And it was about the most random of things, too. Heck, if you were to ask me what type of things, I wouldn't even be able to tell you one of them.

"Don't forget that tonight for homework you need to write a poem! It can be about anything you'd like!" Okami called out to the class as we piled out of her room. Sam, J, and I were all holding our sides as we exited because they hurt from all of the laughing that we had been doing. "That was a lot of fun!" Sam said happily as we walked down to the lunch room. "Yeah, no kidding. But now my sides hurt!" I said letting out a small laugh. "You're not the only one, Taurtis. Not the only one." J said, clutching onto his right side. We all laughed a little more.

Lunch that day was not much different from Okami's class. It contained lots of laughter and hurting sides. When we entered the gym, though, we quit our laughing when we saw a fighting arena in the center of the room. "MAGGOTS, GET INTO YOUR LINES AND STRETCH!" Rowan yelled at us. We did as we were told and went to go change afterwards. When we came back out, Rowan was now in the center of the rink. "MAGGOTS, TODAY YOU WILL BE FIGHTING ONE ANOTHER! LINE UP IN WHICHEVER LINE YOU CHOOSE!" his voice boomed through the gym. Every one scurried around, trying to get the lines even. After everyone was finally settled, Rowan finally begun yelling at people to go into the ring.

One by one, people were heading in and out, either being defeated or victorious. When it was my turn, I was pleased with who I was fighting. I was fighting Sookie, and I was actually planning on killing her tonight. That night I had killed Yuki, Sookie seemed to have had a small interest in Sam, so I'm going to need this bitch out of the way. I took her out extremely easily, considering she pretty much just stood there in fear while I puncher her in her stomach. It was hard, but not enough to hurt her too much. No, I would save that for tonight when I let her suffer before her death.

After my victory, it was Sam's turn to fight, only he had been partnered up with Jts. Shit, Sam's gonna get destroyed! I thought as I watched Sam get up onto the arena cowardly. "U- uh, Rowan? May I fight someone else, please?" he asked. He was shaking a tiny bit, too. "MAGGOT, YOU FIGHT WHO I PARTNER YOU TO FIGHT WITH. NO QUESTIONS ASKED." Rowan yelled at him. Jts turned to Rowan. "May I use my axe, Rowan?" he asked. You could practically see the fear in Sam's eyes when this was asked. "SORRY MAGGOT, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE ANY OTHER OBJECT OTHER THAN YOUR FISTS!" he said to him. Jts rolled his eyes before placing his axe outside of the arena.

"READY! SET! FIGHT!" After this was said, Jts was throwing punches towards Sam who was trying desperately to dodge them. One managed to his Sam in his face, knocking him to the floor. Before Jts could throw another punch at Sam, I climbed onto the arena and grabbed his fist before it made contact with Sam. Everyone stared at me wide eyed because of my action. "Taurtis, what are you-" I twisted Jts' arm and threw him over my back and to the ground. I turned back around to face Sam. "MAGGOT, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO INTERFERE WITH THE OTHERS ON THE ARENA!" Rowan yelled at me. I ignored him. "Did he hurt you? Does it hurt when I touch it?" I questioned him, touching his cheek gently. Sam smiled and shook his head no. "I'm fine. It hurts a little bit, but not too much for you to worry." I sighed in relief.

Rowan took a look at his watch before yelling at us. "ALRIGHT, MAGGOTS. CLASS IS DISMISSED, YOU CAN GO HOME NOW!" I smiled at Sam as I helped him off of the floor. "You two wanna come to my place for a while and play some GameCrab?" J asked us as we walked off of school grounds. "Sure, sounds like fun!" I hear Sam say happily. "Great, lets go!"

Third Person P.O.V.

As the three friends sat inside of J's living room playing GameCrab and cracking jokes, a glowing pair of eyes peeked through the back window. Watching their every move. "That little bastard better stay away from my Senpai...

If he wants to live, that is."