Golden Eyes And A Smirk [KH/FF]

Familiar [4]

Here's another update for you guys :) I promise the next chapter will reveal some key pieces of info. I'm kind of excited to write it too!

You stared at the large red letter at the top of your most recent math exam. You sighed, resting your head in the palm of your hand as your elbow rested on your desk. Your eyes slowly began to close as you felt yourself dosing off, a mixture of disappointment and frustration swirling around in your mind.

"Rough night?" You were roused by that familiar voice you'd grown so accustomed to in the past few weeks.

"Mhm," you replied, rubbing your eyes, "More like rough couple of weeks."

"Can't sleep?" Vanitas asked, eyebrow raised as he leaned back in his seat with only the back two legs on the ground.

"Nope, I've been having so—" you tried to suppress a yawn, unsuccessfully, "some weird dreams lately."

Vanitas planted his seat back onto the ground with a thud, turning his body in his chair to face you. He leaned towards you with a glint in his eye and his usual smirk.

"Been dreaming about me?" You gave him a glare, "Don't worry, I don't mind. Besides you've been in my dreams too."

"You wish," you playfully rolled your eyes at him as he laughed.

"I'm being serious though, I have been dreaming about you," he said again, leaning back in his chair.

You promptly threw your eraser at him, smiling as he scrambled to protect himself. You picked up your pen as well but set it down as he began to speak.

"Alright, alright," Vanitas raised his hands in mock surrender, "Then what has been plaguing your dreams lately?"

You took a deep breath, plaguing was such a fitting word to describe your nightmares. That evil woman was definitely plaguing your dreams every night.

Vanitas carefully watched you, noticing the heavy bags under your eyes. He waited for any sign or indication that maybe you'd remembered something important. But you made no attempt to explain the details. He could only imagine what was keeping you up.

"I-I've just been having these..." you sighed again, rubbing your eyes again, the onset of a headache coming on, "these weird dreams. More like nightmares, I guess."

"Same one every night?" Vanitas was much more serious than he'd been earlier.

"Yeah," you replied, thinking to yourself, "Why?"

"No reason," Vanitas shrugged, looking out the window, "I've had my fair share of recurring nightmares."

You were one of the few people who knew about them, at least you used to know. At the moment, however, you had no idea.

"Oh," you replied, watching him as he looked out the window, confused by his odd behavior.

"Well, you're really rocking the whole eye bag look," he said, returned to his normal self, "Oh come on, don't give me that look. You know just as well as everyone that the whole half dead, zombie, I haven't slept in weeks thing is the trend for models now."

"Well, I guess that'll just have to be my future career then," your replied, waving your test in the air, "I bombed this test."

"No way did Miss Top-of-the-class bomb this test," Vanitas sat up in his chair, "Let me see."

He looked over your paper and you grabbed his only to see the A+ at the top. He whistled from high to low as he looked over your test. He glanced at you as he set the paper back on your desk.

"Wow."

"Tell me about it," you sighed resting your head on your desk, "look at you Mr. Smartypants."

"What can I say," Vanitas smirked, leaning back on his chair again, "I know my stuff."

You just hummed in response, beginning to close your eyes.

"Tell you what," Vanitas said, "I could tutor you."

Your eyes shot open, and you quickly sat up.

"Yes!"

"Really?" Vanitas rested his head on his right hand, "You haven't even heard my conditions yet, it's not like I'm going to do this for free."

"I don't care, I accept your terms," you really shouldn't have been so rash about this but you needed all the help you could get, "I have to do well in this class."

"Alright then," Vanitas smirked at you, "I'll tutor you in this class on the condition that we partner up in all of our other classes. For all the class work and the projects."

"I agree."

"Well then I guess you'll be seeing even more of me on a regular basis then."

You couldn't help but get the feeling that you'd soon come to regret this agreement. But you brushed that thought aside, assuming it was a result of your lack of sleep and the other weird thoughts you'd been having. You slumped over your desk again, hoping to get whatever amount of peaceful sleep you could from this short break to discuss your tests.

Vanitas glanced at you from the corner of his eye. He didn't like seeing you so exhausted but at least you were making some progress, eve though you didn't remember anything yet. Maybe he could speed this process along.