High School Mayhem

~~26~~

How does he do that? <<Remember in season two, Smol Bean Trav was still a bit under Dante's mama bird wing>>

We walk into the classroom and I see Zerenity was already there. "Hey!" I say sitting next to her.

"Wassup!" She beams.

"Wait, Zerenity came back?" Dante wonders.

She never really left. "Yep!" Zerenity cheers.

~Flashback~
<<I know it's in Zerenity's POV>>

Come on, you can do this. It'll be simple.

I take a deep breath and knock on the door. It doesn't take long before her opens it.

"Zerenity?" Travis questions. "I-I means, ZPrevail."

"Just Zerenity." I say.

He stares at me shocked before it withers away into concern, "Hey... have you been crying?"

I quickly wipe my tears, "No." He raises an eyebrow. "A little." I say sheepishly. He keeps giving me a questionable look. "Fine, a lot." I sigh.

"What happened?" He pesters.

"Nothing happened," I say, "I just can't do this anymore!" I screech as tears start falling again.

He steps back alarmed, "Can't do what anymore?" He eyes me carefully.

"This whole 'ZPrevail' thing! It's ruining my entire life! I went to Juvi!"

"You went to JUVI!"

"I HATE ZPREVAIL!"

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WENT TO JUVI!" He shakes his head.

"My permanent record, ruined." I sob. "How do you think this will look on my college applications?"

"I'm not worried about that right now. Are you okay? What happened?" He panics.

"I'm worried about that though! If I can't get into the best college, I might as well drop out right now! My entire life is over!" I lean onto Travis and keep crying.

He hugs me before saying softly, "You'll work it out, it'll be okay." When I continue to cry, he says, "I can bake you some cookies."

I pull away and start smiling, "Cookies?!" I cheer. "With chocolate milk?"

"Of course, who do you think I am? A monster?" He steps aside from the door.

"Yay!" I giggle and skip straight to the kitchen.

As we eat our cookies and our milk, Travis phone dings. "Oof, that lowkey scared me. Is that your dad? Tell him I said hi!"

"Actually, it's Lyrvanna," he says awkwardly. <<Btw, this happened the day before Travis and Lyrvanna broke up>>

"Oh yeah," my spirit falls, "you two are still dating. Are you scheduling a date?"

"A—"

"Awesome!" I ramble, "We should have a double date! Me with Gene and you with Lyrvanna."

He wrinkles his eyebrows, "You two are still dating?"

"Yeah, but double date?" I ask again. For some reason, I hate that fact that he's dating Lyrvanna. Maybe because I wasn't there as his best friend to see them get together but instead I was off spray painting walls, getting tattoos, and hitting cops.

What's wrong with me?

"Um, a double date where you're dating Gene and I'm dating Lyrvanna?" He asks questionably.

"Yep!" I excite. "It'll be fun! You two were already planning a date anyway."

"Actually, she was asking for answers to the math homework."

"What?"

"Yeah, we have the same math class and she doesn't want to do the work."

"Oh, I'm grounded anyway, we can double date another day." I beam but I'm not very happy. I've been such a bad friend lately.

"Wait, you're grounded?"

"Yeah, my last act of ZPrevail was sneaking over here," I say, "can you help me be... 'me' again?"

"Of course," he says then adds, "I've really missed you."

"I've missed you too." I smile before we hug again.

~Present~

<<Travis POV again... I'm sorry, I wrote that a while back and it would have been less insighting to write it in Travis' POV.>>

"So are you back for good or are you going to leave again?" Dante asks then nudges me, "I'm pretty sure Travis would have another fit if you left again." I playfully roll my eyes again.

"Zerenity?" I voice calls out, "Zerenity~!" Next thing I see is Lyrvanna practically tackling Zerenity, "Never leave me again, okay?! Your sister is a demon!"

"I still remember when she stuck the middle finger out at me," Dove says dully. Her voice is monotone and her hair is pink and purple. She's not even smiling.

Is this Dove?

"She hated my guts for no reason!" Lyrvanna pouts.

Zerenity's cheeks turn red as she looks around at all of them, "I'm sorry guys... f-for what she did."

"You don't have to apologize for her," Dante says.

"Yeah, you didn't do anything," Laurance agrees.

Zerenity and I exchange glances before I squeeze her shoulder comfortingly, she smiles, "Thanks guys."

"Of course, now let's celebrate the fact that we all have the same homeroom this year." Lyrvanna cheers before we're all cheering, even though Zane and Dove do it sarcastically.