Chapter Four

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Lloyd: kai

Lloyd: KAI!!!!

Lloyd: KOI

Lloyd: kai answer your phone damn you

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Kai flopped into his bed dramatically.

"Are you that exhausted?" Zane smiled and turned a page in their book.

"It's Monday and I'm dying," Kai answered through a pillow. "What's the nearest way to death? Does death give free trials? Try death for three days, if you're not satisfied we'll send your soul back."

"Death does not give free trials."

"Dammit." Kai sat up with a sigh. "It's, like, October. I can't even be excited for Halloween, Zane, this is what the public school is doing to me. It's corrupting my childlike enjoyment of Halloween!"

"Halloween? Aren't we a little too old for that?"

"What? Zane, I'm sorry, the words coming out of your mouth don't make sense."

It'd been about a week since Kai had seen his parents. School was getting into full swing and it was terrible. Kai remembered why he didn't like school. He was terrible at it.

"Can we go to a club or something?" Kai mumbled. "Like, I mean, my mom will flat out murder me if I drink anything alcoholic, and I'm a terrible dancer, I just kind of want to get out of the room."

"Kai, it's a Monday afternoon."

"Damn you and your logic, keeping me from making stupid decisions," Kai grumbled, but it was with a laugh. "Hey, how's Pixal?"

Zane refused to look up from his book, but he was blushing. "She's fine."

"How long have you two been dating?"

"A year and a half."

"She's currently studying abroad in Sweden?"

"Switzerland," they corrected.

"When do I get to meet her?"

"I don't know," Zane said. "I know she's coming back into town before Thanksgiving, and we've been talking about going to a pride event together, but dates are fuzzy."

"You two are adorable," Kai cooed.

"Kai." Zane's blush went redder.

"Zane and Pixal, sittin' in a tree-"

"Kai, don't pretend you're not just teasing me about Pixal so you can procrastinate your homework." Zane raised an eyebrow.

Kai sighed. "You got me. Why did I think a double major was a good idea?"

"You're doing fine, you just need to stop teasing me about my girlfriend and do your work."

"You're like no fun sometimes."

"Kai Smith, do your homework, or I personally will tell Jay you blush and get all stuttery whenever Nya mentions his name."

Kai squawked, fell off of his bed, groaned, then got up and went to get his textbooks.

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Cole: jay u keep looking at your phone and smiling

Jay: im looking at memes

Cole: okay, I thought you were texting kai

Jay: garyjkhdsfha COLE

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