Rivalry Wars [COMPLETED]

✴️ 26 - Listen ✴️

Blaze shook his head from his statement, as he walked to the other side of their rival. "Ais and I aren't trying to be good, we're trying to do good. Because doing good things is not an option. It's a MUST."

"But that's what I've been trying to do as well!"

The fire elemental sighed heavily. "You know, people don't always need an advice. Sometimes all they need is a hand for comfort, an ear to listen, and a heart to understand them."

"He's right." The calm teen agreed. "You can't always give them so much advices. It's like, you know so much that, you'd forgotten to hear out what they wanted to say, like, they just wanted someone to listen from what they're feeling inside. An advice is like a motivation for people, it inspires them to do things they haven't done before. It's not a command for people to follow your orders. Learn to listen to them. Sometimes, you don't have to say something about it. It might just make things worst, just like what you did earlier when you tried to approach that boy."

Frostfire was lost for words, with his mouth slightly opened. He felt like he just got defeated from a battle, as he felt ashamed and embarrassed from what he'd done. "The reason why... I was trying to be like you guys it's because, I looked up to you. I'd admired everything you do, and one day I thought, I could be just like you, but a better version of you." He spoke, causing the two psychologists to look at him in surprise.

"Well, you don't have to be like us. Both of us are unique in different ways, everyone in this world are. You can't just be a duplicate of somebody, well twins exists but, each of us has one specific talent they're really good at." Ais stated, giving a small but sincere smile.

"I wanna be like you, and that's what I've been wanting ever since I've seen what you guys can do."

"But do you think that's really who you are, or what you wanted to be?" Blaze asked, as he frowned a bit. Their rival became silent, not truly knowing what to say.

Frostfire then tried to change the subject as things started to get a little akward. "Just, how are you guys so good at these kinds of things?"

"Because we're not assuming things. Rather, we're looking at other people's perspective, and we have our own experiences too, so we kind of learned from it." The ice elemental calmly said, smiling sadly. "Just so you know, my friend and I really had a rough childhood."

"Same goes to me, but I'm honestly curious about yours first." Their competitor uttered.

Ais hummed, nodding slightly afterwards. "Alright then." He replied, smiling.

"Blaze and I were the best of friends ever since we were little. We do pretty much everything together, we even go to the same school together. Everything was doing well when suddenly, both our parents out of nowhere, I don't know if it was a coincidence but, they got divorced, leaving me my Dad, and Blaze his Mom. Years later, both our single parents started to develop feelings from one another and not long after, they got married, as I have Blaze as my half-brother now. But that was not the only problem. Our schoolmates before when we were in elementary, started bullying Blaze all of the sudden, as for me, I've been laughed at by some of them because of my body. But, no matter how many times my friend got beaten, how many times I got teased because of my unusual weight, we still kept going. We continued moving forward, erasing those negative things in our life, and look at us now. Yeah, our past really hurt, but we overcome it eventually."

"I'm sorry you've gone through all of that." Frostfire said, glancing at both of them in pity.

Blaze and Ais smiled at their rival genuinely. "It's okay." The two of them replied in unison.

"So, how about you? What's with all the fight that happened between you and your brothers?" The ice elemental asked straightforwardly.

"We— wait, how did you know they're my brothers?"

Ais snorted. "I'm not only observing how you help your schoolmates." He replied, chuckling softly. "I noticed how Glasier keeps on accompanying you everytime, maybe because of something that makes you feel uncomfortable. Also, Solar and I noticed back when you guys were on the gymnasium having a dance battle between Blaze and my other friends, I saw how you gave Supra a death glare when both of you passed by each other the moment you left the scene. Lastly, as you fight with your brother, I listened to almost everything you guys were arguing, and I somehow sensed that something terrible must've happened from your childhood days, which gave me a thought that you guys are related to each other."

Instead of Frostfire, his childhood friend was the one who looked at him with a shock expression. "How come you never said anything about this to me?! Why did you keep these things to yourself?!" Blaze exclaimed.

"Because I was busy solving these pieces of puzzles in my head, flame-head."

Their rival gazed at them, amused. "You guys are also calling each other names?"

"Yeah, we're used to it, ever since we were bullied." The fire elemental quickly replied, his crimson eyes narrowed directly at his best friend.

"Anyways," Frostfire started. "It's just about our parents' death, and I always blame Supra for it because he's the one who's behind the incident."

Ais heaved a long sigh. "Don't blame an unexpected accident on anyone if you know that none of it was their fault. You know, your brother also has feelings, and you hurt him pretty badly. You must apologize to him."

"I can't apologize to that brat! He's the—"

"Hey, remember what I just said? Doing good things is not an option. It's a MUST, and apologising is a good example for it." The sky-blue eyed teenager reminded, making Frostfire sighed in defeat.

"Fine. I'll... try to apologize to him..." Frostfire hummed softly. "I'm sorry if I acted too harsh on you guys. I've also been bullied before, for having no parents."

Both the psychologists smiled at him, with Blaze slinging his arm around his neck. "It's alright. We all have our own problems we face, Frostfire." He stated, as he mentioned his rival's name right for the first time.

"If you don't mind, shall we be friends instead of enemies?" Ais asked, earning a nod from their rivalry-friend from now on.

"I'll be glad to become one of your friends."