Nathaniel went very red at Arthur's comment, but relaxed a bit when Isaac fended Arthur off. He liked compliments plenty, but he still got flustered incredibly easily, and his pale skin was atrocious at hiding a blush. He looked up when another stranger opened the door and would have flushed harder if he could. Oh my fucking god. They get even hotter. I don't know whether I love or hate this place. I'm way too gay for this, honestly…
Lacerta, too, had seen the person at the door. He averted his eyes from him abruptly, staring at the desk in front of him before shaking his head. He needed to stop thinking, his thoughts were going to wander down the wrong paths if he weren’t careful and that’s something he could have really done without!
He looked up and noticed Lacer watching him, and slowly his smile returned. Something about the other lizard boy made him comfortable. Well, it wasn’t just something, but it was a reason besides the genetic similarity. “What did you wanna know? I’m open to questions.”
Arthur and Isaac turned to meet each other’s gaze, laughing a bit before turning back to Nathaniel.
“I heard that the dorm roommates list will be announced later today so you might wanna keep track Isaac,” Arthur had mentioned.
The boy nodded, eyeing Nathaniel a bit and noticing how he’d changed when the gray haired boy came into the class. Of course, it was information he wasn’t going to bring up for Nathaniel’s sake.
Lacer tapped his chin for a bit.
“Hmmm… I don’t really know what to ask right now. What do you wanna share?” He asked in return, his eyes sparkling with more than just curiosity it would seem.
Curtis watched the scene unfold from the edge of the book he was reading. For some reason, the friendliness between the two lizards irritated him. He tried not to care, only returning to his book.
Nathaniel turned his gaze down to the floor as soon as the stranger left, clearly still flustered and embarrassed. He shifted his wings around so they weren't brushing against the ground. He pressed the end of his glitter pen against the corner of his mouth as he stared down at the tiles below him.
Lacerta pursed his lips for a moment, squinting one eye as he thought. “Well..” he shrugged casually. He propped an elbows on the desk and held up his face in his palm. “You already know I am of lizard heritage, but that’s pretty much all there is to me. I’m a loud, single Spaniard—nothing more, nothing less.”
He paused for a moment, his eyes drifting around the hushed room before gazing back at Lacer. “What about you? What’s your game?”
Isaac saw how Nathaniel was zoning out. He snapped his finger a bit, leaning a bit closer to the boy.
“Hey, are you alright?” For some reason, Isaac had decided to come close enough for it to be considered too close for comfort yet he didn’t seem fazed by anything he’s done so far.
Aisen turned to the back of the class when Isaac seemed to have given Nathaniel too much attention. The Isaac he knew was never like this with anyone. It was getting weird.
“Well, I’m an adventurous dude who loves to get myself into really weird places in life. I’m also quite a lover of sciences and I guess that’s really all there is to me— oh, I’m single,” Lacer had said with a small laugh.
Curtis at the back of the class flicked a folded up piece of paper at Lacer which had hit his forehead.
“Ow? What was that for?” Lacer had asked, rubbing his forehead a bit.
“Nothing, I was just annoyed…” Curtis had answered, flipping the page of his book.
Nathaniel jumped and looked up at Isaac, flushing again when he noticed how close they were. "I-I… um… yeah, I-I'm fine." He stammered, his heart pounding harder. "Did I not look fine?" He asked, fidgeting nervously with the tips of his wings.
“That’s good to know, we should pick a forest trail and follow it to the end some day.” Lacerta chuckled. He liked that he had a few things in common with Lacer, including the oddly similar name. He definitely wanted to get to know Lacer better..
Lacerta peered around at Curtis, his eyes narrowing on the book. “What are you reading?”
“I don’t really know, you kinda looked like you were zoning out so…” Isaac sighed at himself “… nevermind,” he ended.
Again, Aisen was really questioning why the boy was being so friendly with the new kid, given the fact that he’d never been like this with anyone else in the school thus far.
Isaac went back to his playlist and ended up picking another one of his favorites—“Henceforth” by an artist named Orangestar.
“Just some satanic book, why do you ask…” Curtis nearly shot Lacerta an evil eye. From the cover, it did look like some sort of satanic ritual book… if it wasn’t for the fact that Curtis’ face was reddened while reading the book.
Alvin noticed this and got curious. He stepped closer to the boy while still keeping his ground beside Lacerta. He was able to pull out the book from the boy’s hands to himself.
“Hey—!!” Curtis yelped out as Alvin was already reading what the boy had been reading up to point.
The satanic ritual book claim was a complete lie as the page the book—the manga book— was on showed the image of what appeared to be two male characters kissing each other with both of the characters wearing student uniforms, the sub of the two being pushed to a wall.
Curtis’ face went simultaneously pale and flushed in those brief moments because if Alvin had opened it, Lacerta was sure to have seen it.
Nathaniel curled the tips of his wings around himself while he listened, fiddling with his pen again. He didn't know when class would start, but he was sort of hoping it would be soon. He wasn't sure how long he could stay here alone in a room full of attractive guys.
Lacerta stood up a little, peering over Alvin's shoulder at the pages of the book that he had open. His eyes narrowed as he tried to figure out what he was looking at, before he covered his mouth with two fingers. "I mean… As far as art goes, I think it's really well done."
In truth, he knew nothing of art, but he didn't think now was the best time to be making a joke about what he was looking at. He took the book from Alvin and slid it back over to Curtis with a shrug. "You have good taste."
The lizard boy knew for a fact that his cheeks were probably giving away what he really thought about the book, but he wasn't going to address it. No need to make anyone overly uncomfortable on the first day. He sat back down in his seat and sort of just stared at his hands on the desk.
Faith’s eyes lit up.
“Really? That’s cool~ Can I go visit some time? Is your family there as well? What kind of food do you—“
“Faith—“ the one named Chronos called out, afraid that her questions were going to make Daniel uncomfortable.
“Oh right, heheh, sorry~” she scratched the back of her neck while sticking out her tongue slightly, more of an adorable way to get out of things.
Daniel grinned at Faith's enthusiasm, taking a seat in a free chair while looking at her.
"Everyone in my family lives there," he said, "And we serve a lot of American comfort foods. Burgers, sausage gravy and biscuits, things like that. And of course you could come to visit! Is love to have you over~" Daniel didn't mind Faith's questions, and he found the face she made to be quite adorable.
(7:45 AM)
The morning bell had rang, signaling that classes were about to start. With that, the students who were still roaming around the hall went to their respectively classes.
In Nathaniel’s class, the door had slid open and a whole group of people had came in. All of which were somewhat decent looking or were full on quite attractive people. As all the seats were filled up, two other individuals walked into the room; one with blonde hair and a very intelligent vibe, the other with silver hair and a very athletic vibe.
“Good morning everyone. Welcome to your new year in Phastia highschool. I am Syzen, he’s Selik, and we’ll be your class teachers for the year. I hope that we all can get along, alright?” The teacher with blonde hair had introduced, combing his hair up with his hand.
Curtis quickly took the book back, embarrassed. He went back to his seat as the other students came into the class followed by some older looking individuals; one with white hair and quite a friendly smile, the other with dyed pink hair and a seemingly childish attitude.
They waited for everyone to be at their seats before they began:
“Good morning everyone! Well, not exactly a ‘good’ morning because I’m sure not a lot of you want to be here but there’s nothing I can help with that. I am Eisuke, your class teacher and biology teacher—“
“—and I’m Lucas, also your class teacher but your maths teacher,” the figures had introduced themselves. “We hope to get to know all of you as well as get along with everyone of you,”
Faith nodded. “I see, I see,”
She would sit down at an empty seat prompted beside Daniel’s, just in case. The rest of the class came in soon after, choosing their seats quite quickly as another set of individuals who looked older came in.
One of the two individuals had dyed blue hair with a pair of circular glasses and a windbreaker. The other had dyed green hair, a young face and the body of a highschooler.
“Hello class. First off, I welcome you all to your new year in Phastia highschool, we’re glad to have you here. Second thing, we are going to be your class teachers for this year. My name is Dakota, I will be teaching you chemistry—“ the blue haired man turned to his colleague.
“…… o-oh! Uhm… I’m Taylor, I’ll be your literature teacher,” the other said for a brief moment of silence.
Nathaniel was very flustered at the influx of attractive people in the room (primarily the guys, of course), but he tried his best not to show it. Maybe I'll fit in? I like to think that I'm pretty attractive… and Arthur said so when he came in. Well… something akin to it. He called me a snack, which I assume is a good thing… He fidgeted nervously with his pen again, unable to hide his blush.
Daniel gave Faith a quick smile as she sat next to him, then turned his attention to the front as the teachers introduced themselves. He set these names to memory as well, a little surprised. Where these the teachers first names? He hadn't called previous teachers by their first names, but perhaps that was normal here. Didn't really matter much, though. Even for old people they were cute.
Lacerta was seated at his desk when the two, mildly attractive teachers entered the class. His eyes wandered around the rest of the room, and he realised that most, of not all of them, had a certain attractiveness about them.
Turning his attention back to the teachers, he nodded his head as they introduced themselves——they seemed nice enough men. The child-like, pink one, appeared to be a lot more cheerful of the two, which shouldn’t have been possible since the man named Eisuke seemed pretty content himself.
The day was off to a great start for Lacerta, it couldn’t get any better. Right?
Syzen had glanced around the room and smiled slightly.
“As some of you may already, we have a new student. If you would please introduce yourself to all of us?” The teacher had asked, his eyes were focused on the angelic boy at the back.
Dakota let out a soft giggle at the other teacher’s quirkiness before returning his gaze to the class.
“Good news to all of you, we have one of the new students in our class. Can you please introduce yourself?” The blue haired teacher had requested.
(it definitely can lizard boy…)
“Ah! I almost forgot! In our class, we have a completely new student uh… oh, there you are—“ the maths teacher, Lucas, had pointed out and gestured at Lacerta.
“Could you please introduce yourself to all of us?” He’d asked.
Lacerta’s face heated up and his eyes widened when he was called out. Were the other students in the class not also new? With shaking legs, he rose from his seat and met the eyes of every other student. He was surprised to learn that there was only one female present——that wasn’t common, surely not when he had seen other female students in the building.
He cleared his throat and put on his signature grin. “My name is Lacerta Almaraz, it’s a pleasure to meet you. I hope we can get along.” He bowed slightly, and when he stood back up straight, his eyes glimmered. Something they only did when he had a goal in mind: to make friends and enjoy his time at school. A simple goal, but one he would no doubt have fun with.
Syzen had glanced around the room and smiled slightly.
“As some of you may already, we have a new student. If you would please introduce yourself to all of us?” The teacher had asked, his eyes were focused on the angelic boy at the back.
"Ah, um…" Nathaniel flushed a bit and got to his feet, bumping a couple things off of his desk with one wing and flushing harder. "My name is Nathaniel Windsor." He replied, trying not to sound too nervous.
Daniel was a bit surprised when he was called out. He stood, grinning.
"My name is Daniel Fox," he introduced, tail twitching a little. "I look forward to getting to know everything here." He grinned again, sitting back down with a little flourish of his cape. He always had been one for theatrics.