Down the Drain (Aki/Leo)

[Zachary LaRousse]

Zac doesn’t usually sing while taking a bath. And before anyone can make a bad comment about that, he clarifies that it’s not because he’s tone deaf (he is though, if only a bit). He says it’s more along the lines of him finding the whole thing a huge waste of time. After all, bath time is sacred to the self-proclaimed Hammel royalty; he can’t and won’t function well if he doesn’t get at least thirty minutes with his hot water. (And that’s just for him to function normally. For him to be at his best, he needs anywhere along the neighborhood of an hour and up). Singing, he claims, diverts the energy that would’ve been spent much better in making sure he has properly massaged his scalp or that he has effectively moisturized every nook and cranny of his body. That, and he usually doesn’t experience the whole song-stuck-in-his-head-for-days-on-end syndrome.

Until now.

As it was, within minutes of lathering up, the pompous teen found himself humming to a tune he’s only heard once yesterday. Humming which promptly turned into lip synching, which exploded into a full-blown stage-like performance that includes Zac doing all sorts of elaborate gestures by the time the refrain comes in.

So immersed was he with his bath time concert that he didn’t notice that his shampoo bottle was light and empty until he turned it upside-down and nothing came up. He pressed it against his palm for a good minute or two, but still nothing came up. Frowning, he promptly rinsed himself, wrapped a towel around his waist and stormed out to his dorm’s common room. And to his luck, Leo immediately came into view.

“Dude, for the last time, didn’t I tell you not to use my bath products?” Not that he’s ever caught the boy using his anyway. He was just irritated as hell and needed someone to put the blame on. And with Jace nowhere to be found, heaven knows the burden falls on the soft-spoken boy. “I know it takes a whole lot to wash the dirt and grime off that mangy hair of yours, but seriously?”

ooc:
Sorry it took so long. And if it's a crappy mess. D;
- Jam

[Leonardo Charter]

Leo walked slowly into the common room with a few books tucked under his arm. Before sitting on the couch he held his breath, listening closely to confirm his suspicions. Why yes, that was the sound of running water! Leo exhaled, relief running through him as he finally collapsed into the soft couch. His roommate was in the shower. Ya ,it was sort of creepy that he cared where his roommate was in the dorm. But with Zac occupied for a good hour by his ritual bath he could finally sit back and enjoy the common room without being tormented.

Leo took the liberty of stretching and placing his books next to him on the couch. Maybe he wouldn't even read, just sit and soak in the quiet. Or not . A strange noise arose from behind the bathroom door. Leo was pretty sure it was supposed to be singing, although he could be mistaken. Zac would be the kind of person to do strange things in the shower. Ugh, that was the last thought he wanted to have on his mind. With a shake of his head he took out his phone, flipping it open. Since he had nothing better to do he figured he might as well text Aki.

To: Aki
Text:
Roomy is in the shower "singing" up a storm.
You free to talk or busy getting into trouble?
:Sparks Flying:

Just as he pressed send he heard the door of the bathroom swing open. Turning his head he saw Zac dressed in only a towel emerge into the common area looking rather pissed. Here we go. . . Leo thought looking the boy straight in the eye as he ranted about his shampoo being gone. He wouldn't have used the concoction. Ever. It smelled too harshly of perfume. That and who knows what it would do to his curly hair. Zac then took a stab at his hair, making Leo run a self conscious hand though his locks. " Well, I'm sorry, I didn't use it." He said confirming that his hair was indeed soft and not grimy. " I mean, maybe you just ran out. You do shower alot."

[Aki Welland]

The computer wasn't going to cooperate. The sleek black instrument sat on her lap, and seeing as she had the dorm all to herself she wasn't afraid to let her well kept nerd side loose. No one knew how much she loved computers and technology. They saw her as the punk, trouble-making Aki who like to run around building like a crazy person. Fine, she didn't care and it suited her to let them continue to think so. The girls fingers zinged away at the keys as she started to undo some cobbled and disjointed coding for some random person online. The idiotts hadn't put any space between the codes they were working with and had removed parts, breaking the code. It was easy, seeing as she could fix most of it pretty easily.

It was at that moment that her pocket buzzed and rang a silvery tune she had placed as Leo's ringtone. She opened the phone and read the text it contained.
From: Leo
Text:
Roomy is in the shower "singing" up a storm.
You free to talk or busy getting into trouble?
:Sparks Flying:

Her fingers quickly hit the reply button and she let them punch merrily away at the little letters until she had her message.

To:Leo
Text:
I'm free for texting. Doing some research for this and that. Not breaking any rules...yet. Althought I'm due for some trouble making
|_-RunnerAtHeart-_|

She quickly hit send and let the message speed through cyberspace towards her friend.

[Zachary LaRousse]

The self-proclaimed Hammel Prince let an exasperated sigh escape him, rolling his eyes as he shook his head, hand meeting his forehead. A voice at the back of his head is telling him that, well, Leo ismight actually be telling the truth – the boy’s way too scared of him either way. The moment he came into the room, Zac’s been tormenting him, initially using his whole loss-of-closet-space dilemma as an excuse to bully him. (It’s not a secret that Zac uses the spare rooms in his dorm suite, whenever they’re available, as extensions of the closet he has in his room. Heaven knows how Zac loved that one month last year when he had the suite all to himself and thus had three ‘walk-in’ closets).

From then on it moved to Leo being blamed for eating the pizza slice Zac was saving for lunch the next day (the pompous teen ate it unknowingly the night before), throwing his handouts to the garbage bin (it unwillingly got caught in the scrap papers when Zac was cleaning his bag) and even for making Zac’s laptop short circuit (because Leo’s powers supposedly overloaded his computer, despite the boy being a wall away). He had become Zac’s little scapegoat, someone to put all his frustrations in the world on.

Poor boy. Neither Jace nor JinJoo nor Horus suffered like this under Zac.

“Ugh! You are so difficult to be with, you know that?” growled the boy, his fist balling into knuckles. In all his bullying he’s never laid a hand on Leo (Xander was his only roommate ‘lucky’ enough to meet his fists) but right now, he’s seriously considering it. Irrational and unstable, he had already raised his arm and was oh-so-ready to smack the boy but – thankfully – held back. “I don’t know how the hell Jace can keep up with you.”

That alone is enough to say that Zac’s world is twisted as hell, right?

“Touch my shampoo again and I’ll swear to you I’ll make your life in Hammel hell,” he said, leaning down and repeatedly poking Leo’s chest. With a huff, he came back into the bathroom and slammed the door behind him.

A few minutes later though, he emerged once more, blue pail in hand. Moving fast to avoid Leo evading him, he quickly dumped the water on him, not really caring that he soaked the couch. “That should teach you not to use my stuff,” he said with a smirk.

[Leonardo Charter]

Leo scooted himself as far into the arm of the couch as possible. Hopping, in vain, that instead of electrokinesis he had the power to faze through the furniture and in into the floor. Anyplace would be better then being the same room with the venting Hammel prince. As Zac balled and raised his fist Leo instinctively covered his face with his hands and shrunk down as far into the couch as possible. Zac had never once hit the shy teen but Leo wasn't going to take his chances that today would be the first. With his eyes clamped shut and his body tense he awaited the blow. Thankfully instead, the half naked boy leaned in and poked Leo in the chest, dripping some of the water from his still wet hair onto his shirt. Wait Zac wasn't already trying to make his life hell?

What did he call what he was doing already? Being tolerant ?

After huffing and puffing, Zac, thankfully, stormed away and shut himself back into the bathroom. When the boy was finally out of site Leo deflated, leaning his head back and letting out a sigh. This was the kind of thing the poor boy wanted to avoid. Slowly the boy gathered his things, placing his precious books on the coffee table in order form largest to smallest. Then he fished around for his phone, seeing as it must have fell in his near death experience with his angry roommate. Shoving his hand in the sofa cushions he caught the edge of his phone and pulled it up, noting the picture of Aki on the front.

Turning his head around to check the bathroom and then back to his phone he made an executive decision and decided to stay for a few more moments. Thinking that maybe Zac had slunk back into the bathroom to finish moisturizing himself or whatever.

Flipping open his phone he read her text.

To:Leo
Text:
I'm free for texting. Doing some research for this and that. Not breaking any rules...yet. Althought I'm due for some trouble making
|_-RunnerAtHeart-_|

To: Aki
Text:
Well if you need some "trouble making", stop by. I need someone to get me out of this dorm.

He wasn't too specific about what was going on to Aki, not wanting her to rush in and try to start something. Her fiery personality mixing with Zac's would be catastrophic and Leo didn't need to give the boy another reason to torture him.

Not that he wasn't already about to be tortured.

Without warning a wave of cold water rained down on Leo causing a shreak to escape from his lips that was anything but manly. He immediately jumped up, drenched with water and turned around to face his attacker. Zac stood smirking, blue utility bucket in hand. Leo was lost for words, his mouth opened in a look of shock. He didn't even think of looking over at his phone, that was giving off a strange beep before going blank.

"Wha- I . . . don't . . ." Leo muttered, looking down at the soaked couch and his dripping body. I hope Aki shows up soon.

[Aki Welland]

As her fingers clicked away the phone buzzed again telling she had another message from Leo. He was unusually fast today, meaning he must not have been doing anything at all. She shrugged internally and slid her glasses over her nose. Her phone clicked as it opened and she read the message.

To: Aki
Text:
Well if you need some "trouble making", stop by. I need someone to get me out of this dorm.

She mused on it for a moment. She knew Leo's dorm wasn't that far away so it wouldn't be that hard to get to it right? Aki gave him a quick message saying she'd be over and hit send, expecting the okay signal in return. She put a few things together in a bag, some snacks and what-not. She could maybe show Leo how to get up on the roof so he could look at the stars without having to go to far away and with no tree's to obscure his vision. It sounded like a plan. Maybe at the same time she could help him with his math or something.

Once the girl got everything together she checked her phone. No message back. That was unusual, because Leo would have texted her back. That's just how he was. So she frowned and slung the bag over her shoulder, heading out the door. Before she got to far she slid her glasses off, remembering not too many people knew she even had glasses. Then again she didn't have her contacts and couldn't see, so back on they went. The halls were quiet as she moved through them and it didn't take too long to get there.

When she did she was just opened the door, not caring about the 'other' room mates. They could get shoved for all she cared. What she saw was a soaking wet Leo and LaRousse with a blue bucket. She snarled in anger and threw her stuff to the side.

" LaRousse you fucking ass hole, what did you do? Why are you even in this dorm?" She yelled, not knowing this was his dorm as well as Leo's. The first thought in Aki's mind was that he had come there just to torture Leo.

[Zachary LaRousse]

The dirty deed done, Zac was just about to go back to the bathroom and continue his interrupted shower (sans the hair conditioning part) when the door suddenly flung open, revealing what seems like a rather furious Aki. “Well Welland, I think the real question here is ‘why are you even in this dorm?’,” he said with a huff, giving the telepath a glare right after rolling his eyes. “If you should know, I’ve been in this room ever since I got here.” Which translates to something between four to five years. Oh how quickly time passed by.

His frustration with Aki’s sudden appearance was (unsurprisingly) transferred back to the poor electric manipulator, with Zac growling, “Dude, you didn’t lock the door? What is up with you?” Never mind that he came in later than Leo earlier the day. “I have stuff that are way more expensive than five of your lives. My clothes, for example. You think you can replace it when someone steals it?” He could simply ask a retrocognitive from their staff to find it for him, or even simply replace it himself, but what’s the fun in that? “Could you even me more stupid?”

Poor Leo could never do anything right in the mimic’s eyes as it seems.

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ooc:
Crappy, sorry. >.>
- Jam[/font]

[Aki Welland]

The girl had had it upto about her with LaRousse. Why did he have to be such an ass anyway? Was it just part of his genetics or something. He started going off about how his junky crap was worth more than five of Leo, and of course Aki heartilly disagreed. Zac wasn't worth a hair on Leo's head. He was just another rich boy who liked to bully people to get his way. Aki snarled when Zac called him stupid, having had enough of listening to his voice.

" Damn it, why don't you just go mimic a rock and stay that way. It would suit your intelligience level." She let her scathing tongue loose on him, because she wasn't going to let this kid bully her best friend.

" Maybe if you weren't such a careless ass and actually noticed what happened around you you wouldn't have these problems. You just create misery LaRousse." Her amber eyes bored into him, trying to get the point across that she wasn't happy with him and if she had her way the telepath would probably rip his eyes out with a rusty spoon.