Chapter 3 - Freaking Secrets

𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗫'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗩

"Alastor...?" I entered the washroom after him and found him curled up in the corner with his head covered with his hoodie. "Alastor..." I quietly walked to him and kneeled down beside him, "Al, what's wrong..." I slowly pulled his hoodie away from his head but then I saw the most unexpected thing in the whole fucking world..

𝐻𝑒...

𝐻𝐸 𝐻𝐴𝐷 𝐶𝐴𝑇 𝐸𝐴𝑅𝑆. . .

"Go away!" He pulled the hoodie back down, covering his head and face.

I couldn't help but stare at him.

𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠? 𝑂𝑟 𝑎𝑚 𝐼 𝑑𝑎𝑦-𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔?

"Alastor..." I gently lifted his hoodie again, "Are these real.."

"N-No!" He smacked my hand away with tears in his eyes, "Leave me alone!"

"It's okay, Al..." I decided not to over-react and went to lock the washroom door, so that no one could disturb us.

"Go away.." He sniffled while hiding his face under his hoodie again, "Please.."

"I won't.." I kneeled down beside him again and wrapped an arm around him, "I don't want to leave you..."

He sniffled and looked down while wiping his eyes with his sleeves.

"Alastor.. " I lifted his hoodie again and looked into his beautiful eyes, "Please tell me...Are these ears real.."

He looked down slightly, "Y-Yes.."

"But...how..." I gently touched his fluffy ears, still surprised.

"I-I am a cat hybrid..." He put his hands over his face while his ears got flattened over his head.

"How adorable.." I chuckled while petting his hair gently, but then the bell rang, making me groan in annoyance.

𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑚𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝐴𝑙?!

"What... You don't hate me...?" He looked up at me with a surprised look om his face, "You don't think that I am a freak..?"

"Of course, not." I looked into his eyes, "You are not a freak.."

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢...

"I thought you would hate me if you knew that I am a cat hybrid..." He said while looking down, "You were the only one who talked to me nicely... I didn't want you to hate me or treat me like an outcast... Everyone always called me a freak....except you.."

"Alastor.. I will never treat you the way that hurts you or your feelings.." I gently ran my fingers through his hair, "Don't give a fuck about people who say mean things to you.."

His ears twitched a little and he looked at me, "You also say mean things to others sometimes.."

I chuckled softly, "They don't call me a bad boy for no reason."

He bit his bottom lip and covered his ears with his hoodie again, "Alex.. You won't tell anyone about this, right?"

"Maybe, I will." I smirked and his eyes widened, "P-Please don't!"

I held back a chuckle and smirked, "Then do as I say."

"You are blackmailing me..." He whined a little.

"Maybe." I chuckled, "But you should be glad that it was me. If someone else had seen your ears then they would have screamed at the sight of your fluffy ears."

"That's true..." He looked down while his cheeks turned a bit pink, "Even I hadn't expected you to react so calmly.."

"Aww." I pinched his cheeks gently, "You are so cute."

He blushed more and pushed my hands away, "Am not!"

"You are." I chuckled again.

"I-I have to go to class now!" He stood up quickly and so did I.

Then I looked at him again and asked, "But I wanna know how your ears popped up so suddenly.. And when will they disappear again?"

He rubbed the back of his neck while looking down, "Well.. My cat traits appear when I become severely ill, surprised, excited or aroused... And they don't appear when I am calm and quiet.. That's not the case with everyone but..."

"Is that why you were so distant from everyone?" I asked while placing my hand on his shoulder.

He nodded while looking down.

"Then why would you talk to me?" I smirked.

𝑊𝑎𝑖𝑡.. 𝑀𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑚..

"Well..I.." He blushed and looked away, his cat ears were twitching, "I... Because you didn't call me a freak.."

I bit my bottom lip while watching his cute face. I wanted to kiss him right now but then I remembered that we had classes to attend. So...

I held out my hand to him, "Alright. Now we have to go to class now."

He nodded a little and hid his cat ears under his hoodie before taking a deep breath, "Let's go now."

I nodded with a smile and we walked back to our class.

"You won't tell anyone about my....secret, right?" He asked quietly.

"What secret?" I smirked while looking at his cute face and opened the classroom door, just to find someone angrily glaring at us.

𝑌𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟; 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑅𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡, 𝑟𝑢𝑑𝑒, 𝑛𝑜𝑛-𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑠ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝐴𝑁𝐷 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠.

I rolled my eyes as I knew what was coming. The same lame question.

"Why are you two late?  ¿Incluso tú, Alastor? Vous êtes l'un des étudiants les plus brillants de notre classe et obtenez des notes A+ dans toutes les matières. Why are you late?!" She said while banging the book on the table, "You are 8 minutes late!"

Alastor looked down while fiddling with his fingers, "I-I was just..."

"Maybe they were doing something personal. In the washroom together." Max said from his seat and everyone else chuckled.

I clenched my fists and glared at him.

𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑚 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑖𝑝 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒'𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡?

"Shut the fuck up, Max!" she shouted.

𝑌𝑢𝑝. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟.

Then she looked at us again, "And what's the excuse?"

Alastor looked at me before looking at the teacher, "We were coming to class but then a problem came in the middle and we had to deal with it..."

"Non credo a quella tua bugia! For getting late and for disturbing the class, you have to stay outside the class as a punishment!" She said while smacking the ruler against the desk.

I rolled my eyes and said, "Fine."

𝑆ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑦, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 8 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑦, ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑢𝑠𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑. 𝑃𝑙𝑢𝑠 : 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑑𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝙙𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙮'𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨.

𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠. . .

I yawned and headed towards the corridor, but then Alastor also came after me.

"The punishment was for both of us.." He mumbled while looking down.

"It's not a big deal." I chuckled at his cuteness while standing at the corridor.

He looked at me and asked, "Alex.. Why are you nice to me.."

I smirked and leaned against the wall, "What do you think?"

"I don't know... I just feel like you see me as a child..." He looked at me again while biting his bottom lip.

"You are so cute." I chuckled and ruffled his hair a little.

But then Miss Richard scolded us saying, "Hey! You two are not supposed to talk during the punishment."

"Fine." I rolled my eyes again, but then I heard Alastor chuckle. I couldn't help but watch his cute face. This is the first time I saw him chuckling, "How cute.."

He paused for a second and looked at me, "What.."

"I said you are cute." This time I was the one to chuckle.

"I am not cute!" He bit his bottom lip while looking down.

I chuckled again. "We have been studying together since grade 10 but this is the first time I saw you chuckling and blushing." I smirked while looking at him again.

He slowly scratched his head, "Well.. This is also my first time, talking to you like this."

"Yeah. Standing in the corridor." I sighed.

"No no.. I meant.. Your friends, Max and Jake would always stick around with you." He rubbed the back of his neck, "So I didn't have any chance to talk to you in person.."

I looked down slightly, "They... They are not my actual friends.."

"Oh.." He looked at me, "But you three were together most of the time.."

I sighed while leaning against the wall, "It's just-"

"Why are you two standing here?" asked someone.

It was Mrs. Smith.

I looked at her without saying anything.

Then she looked at Alastor and Alastor looked down. "I can understand why Alex is here, but, Alastor? Even you are standing outside?"

"I made him late for class. That's why." I spoke in the middle just so she would stop scolding my Alastor!

She looked at me and sighed, "Alastor, you should stay away from bad company.." was all she said before walking down the corridor.

I sighed and leaned against the wall,.

He looked ay me before looking down again.

Now we were silent...until-

"You two can go to class now."

I raised my head up to look at Miss Richard.

"Don't give me that look. The bell rang just now. So go back to your class!" She started walking down the corridor while carrying a few notebooks in her hands.

𝑆ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑑...

"Let's go, Al." I sighed and went back to class while he walked in after me.

"I am sorry for earlier, Alex." Max chuckled and smirked, "I hope you don't get late next time."

I growled and went back to my seat, "Shut up, fucker."

𝐼 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑟𝑖𝑝 𝑜𝑓𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡...

But he wasn't done yet.

"Oops, look what I found in your bag." He said while holding out my diary in his hands.

"Give that back. There's nothing written anyway." I leaned on my hand while looking at him with a bored look on my face.

𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑘𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐴𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑.

"Oh but you have the habit of making doodles, Al." He smirked.

I groaned in annoyance and stood up from my seat, "Just give it back, fucker."

"Oh, you don't want me to tell everyone that you had doodled Alastor's name all over the last page?" He acted dumb and everyone else started to gossip while glancing at me.

𝑁𝑂𝑊 𝐻𝐸'𝑆 𝐷𝐸𝐴𝐷. . .