Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:48:51 -0700
From: Amethyst Rose <thepleiadescall@gmail.com>
Subject: Diana Celes Part 3

This story is fiction. This story will also involve sexual and intimate
relationships between two (or more) males, and if this offends you or it is
illegal for you to be reading, then please leave. If you are under the age
of consent for your community, please leave. And if it does offend you, I
honestly don't know why you're even here in the first place. Really,
though. It's perplexing.




10:00. Alan bumped into Kae and Kari, straight out of English. He seemed
rather panicked. "You guys, you won't believe it. About Dee." he said
hurridly.

Kari raised an eyebrow, not amused. Kae laughed, but stopped seeing the
serious expression on his face. "What?"

"I was beating him up yesterday at lunch. Sure, whatever, books, homework,
candy in his backpack... but while I was doing it, Jacob Gregory defended
him."

Kari's eyes squinted in disdain, and Kae slowly backed away from her. She
stopped in her tracks, heaving for several seconds, before regaining her
composure and continuing towards her Calculus class. Alan ran after her,
followed by Kae. "Well?"

"Please tell me that you didn't say that." She swiveled around, surprising
Alan into stopping and causing Kae to bump into his back. "Dammit, this
ruins us! He knows who you are, and that you hang out with me and Kae, AND
that he's closer to all the teachers plus YOUR dad than any of us are!" She
gave a frustrated moan and continued her walking. "This is all your fault!
Kae, dissasociate!" she commanded.

Kae perked up and ran to her side, sneaking Alan one last quiet "sorry"
before cutting off their eye contact. Alan stopped in mid-stride. "Oh, come
on! You guys!" They continued walking, and Alan was appalled as Kari gave
the middle finger behind her back. Someone behind him laughed; some girl
that Alan never saw before with dreads and a book in her hand. He stormed
off, busting into the bathroom and staying there for a good half hour.

Allegra, quite amused at the sight, walked into Calculus, observing Kari
and Kae talking amongst themselves. She sat down behind them, unnoticed as
usual.

"Kari, that was kinda mean."

"No. You just don't have what it takes to survive in this world." She
sighed. "Where would you be without me... anyway, we need to lay low for a
while. Start acting nice to other students, play extra suck-up to the
teachers, and most importantly, get away from Alan. Jake Gregory has the
power to make our break us in this hell-hole of a school, so we just need
to avoid the bang."

"How do we... how do we even know Jake is even friends with Dee anyway?
Maybe it was only a random, one-time fling of do-goodness."

Kari gave an immensly sceptical look. "Seriously, now. Jake's been here
three school years, and people get beat up every school day. That's at
gotta be at least... eight hundred days of bullying, none of which Jake
even lifted a finger to stop until this guy. I'd say he and Dee are
friends. And this also means that WE have an obligation to destroy Dee
before he gets any more powerful."

Mr. Conway strode into the room and closed the door behind her. Kari
immediately sat up in her chair. "Hi, Mr. Conway! Did you get a haircut?"

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"And then, she just sucked up to Mr. Conway! Without end! It didn't stop at
all during the period. I mean, look at her now- " Allegra referred Dee to
Kari in the front row, engaged in a jovial conversation with
Ms.Goldfree. "Miscreant... Makes me sick."

Dee sighed, a bit tired. "Does stuff like this happen every school year?"

"Well..." Allegra gave a hopeless expression. "...now you know why I hate
being here. Anyway, you have got to be more careful than ever. I'm sure
Alan just hates the shit out of you by now, and Kari and Kae aren't exactly
amorous either."

"Well I don't- "

Ms. Goldfree briefly paused her exchange with Kari, to look at the back of
the class towards Dee. "Dee! Sh!"

Dee slumped in his seat, now whispering to Allegra as Ms.Goldfree continued
with Kari. "Hey, why didn't you get in trouble?"

"Um... Didn't we go over this?" Allegra motioned to herself, then proceeded
to stand up, out of the blue. No one even glanced at her as she waved her
hands in the air and sat down. "My advice... Utilize your resources. I
think you should stay close to Jake. If he's as chummy with you as you say,
then he'll serve to be a very nice protector."

In fact, Allegra's advice was easier to follow than Dee thought. About a
week passed with little incidence; but at the beginning of lunch period,
after Dee got out of Biology, he felt an arm on his shoulder. He turned
around, and found Jake staring back at him. "Hey, Dee."

Dee smiled. "Hi, Jake! Kinda been a while."

"Is your lip better?" He motioned to his face, and Dee couldn't help but
brush the spot on his lips that were chaffed earlier with the tips of his
fingers.

"Yeah, basically. What's up?"

Jake started walking out the building, in the opposite direction of the
cafetieria. He motioned for Dee to follow, and Dee obeyed. "I know you were
a bit surprised last week. So as a sign of good will, I thought I'd
introduce you to some of my other friends!"

There was a bit of silence, as Dee processed what that might mean. He had
no clue what Jake's friends would be like- a bit along the lines of Kari or
Alan? Still, he pretended to be happy for now, since Jake seemed rather
excited. "Oh, that's a good idea..."

The two had exited the B building, and entered the back courtyard. There
weren't quite as many people here, mostly solitary students studying for
last minute pop-quizzes on the lone scattered tables. However, it was a
very big field: Dee could see at the farthest end three or four
cheerleaders practicing a routine in jeans and school wear. Jake guided him
to an old shady oak tree smack dab in the middle of the grass. Dee saw
three people from afar.

The one furthest to the left was a short girl with blonde hair and pale
skin like moonlight; she was rather short, dressed in clothes best
described as "sk8ter," and her make-up plus her blue streaked dye job
couldn't help but make Dee think of Avril Lavigne. Although she was indeed
quite pretty, her face was stained with utter melancholy and plastered to
the grass. Another person was about two feet to the right of her, a tall
asian guy with about the same build as Jake, in a tight muscle shirt. Dee
was surprised to see a cigarrette dangling in the corner of his mouth. He
laughed wildly, as a pale guy with a backwards baseball cap whispered
something in his ear. Both of them were constantly smiling.

Jake and Dee walked up to their proximity, and as soon as Jake's presence
was known the blonde girl smiled luminously. Dee stepped back a little as
her gaze lit up, and she jumped onto him- her arms around his neck, and
head on his shoulder. "Jake!" she yelped.

The two guys continued their nearly perpetual laugh like an endless song,
both giving their greetings to Jake. All three of them completely ignored
Dee, and even Jake did for a time before he remembered that he was
there. "Hey, guys. I want you to meet Dee. He's new here."

As if by magic, Dee's existence was validated. The three of them smiled at
his direction. Feeling a bit awkward, Dee just waved back. Jake motioned to
the guy in the baseball cap. "Alright, so this here is Chris E." Chris
nodded his head. Jake continued to the other guy. "and Rhandy-"Rhandy
waved. "These two I've known since middle school, but they've known each
other longer."

"And this..." he finally reached the girl, who proceeded to cling to him
again. "This is Jaina. She's my girlfriend." Jaina laughed and mouthed "Hi"
to Dee, then kissed Jake on the cheek.

Dee didn't know why, but something inside him was stirring upon seeing
Jaina and Jake together. She touched his chest; something fluttered in
Dee's. His lips brushed hers; Dee could've sworn he was turning red. They
smiled at each other. Dee, not sure what else to do, gently cleared his
throat.

The two of them, still smiley, turned to look at Dee. Jaina leaned on Jake,
and she lazily spoke to Dee. "So Dee, what school did you come from?" she
drawled.

Dee snapped out of his daze, hesitating a little on purpose, to maybe throw
her off. After several moments of awkward silence, he responded almost
reluctantly. "Um... Diana Celes High."

Dee saw Rhandy and Chris exchange glances in the corner of his eye, but
they didn't say anything. Jaina's eyes widened, and her mouth gaped
open. "DIANA CELES? No way! That school is nothing but psychos!" she
laughed, and now Dee knew for sure he was turning red.

Jaina turned around towards Rhandy and Chris, who were both purposfully
quiet. "Remember in the papers? Last year, a teacher committed
suicide. Then a couple of months ago, there was a shooting. And like, not
only was there a teacher student molestation, but two girls like, committed
a double suicide!" Jaina was cracking up, and Chris began to chuckle a
little. "I mean, sorry dude, your school is screwed up!"

Chris gave a rather stereotypical dumb jock guffaw. "Yeah, man, my sister's
friend used to go there. She says the teachers sucked, and there were just
all these fuckin' freaks! She even used to have a friend who was having sex
with one of the teachers!"

Jaina laughed harder. "Daaamn!"

But Dee was utterly silent. Any pretenses of a smile on his face were
gone. He was getting teary-eyed. Jake finally noticed, and carefully
examined his expression. Chris and Jaina stopped. He didn't speak; grasping
his books close to his chest, Dee spun on his foot and walked briskly in
the opposite direction.

Jaina let go of Jake, who jerked his arm free from her. He yelled after
him. "Hey, wait, Dee! Dee!" He looked angrily at his friends. Rhandy and
Chris just shrugged, and Jaina looked confused.

"What's his problem?" Jaina asked, as she flipped her hair out of her face.

"Well, I don't know, you were only acting like assholes! Goddamn! It only
took five minutes being around you!" Jake grunted in frustration. He ran
after Dee.

Rhandy leaned in to talk to Jaina, a bit befuddled. "Touchy, anybody?"

Jaina shook her head, a bit upset that Jake left so
easily. "Whatever. He'll be back. You guys wanna play cards or something?"


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"Fun" fact for fans!: Being an avid final fantasy fan (as noted by one of
my other stories, FF Rosa), I know quite a bit about that universe. In
fact, I think I know a little too much about it, because I let it influence
my subconscious, which really isn't cool. "Diana Celes" got its name from
what I thought were two different moon goddesses. I knew Diana was the
Roman equivalent of Artemis, and for some reason I thought Celes was the
Greek equivalent of Luna... but I realized upon further thought that was
actually Selene. Where did I get Celes? A character from Final Fantasy
VI. Oh, lord.



Chapter three! Whoo!

No, I'm not neglecting this story. I just, err, have kinda crazy cycles, I
realized. I think CR, FF Rosa, and PA are in one cycle, and Teth, DC, and
Hallow are in another. Haha, whoops :D. That doesn't mean I love one more
than the other! I'm just sort of a procrastinator.

The secret of Dean is about to be revealed! Just what is he hiding? And
what will Jake think of it? What about Jaina? I really don't like her, I'm
sorry. Haha, there are many characters I write out that I love to hate, but
Jaina I genuinely don't like. That's kinda weird :P.



Questions? Comments? Recommendations? Fan Mail? Hate Mail, maybe? Wanna
just chat? Email me at ThePleiadesCall@gmail.com . Love to hear from you!

If you like Diana Celes, maybe there's the very vague possibility you'll
like other stories I've submitted:

Charmed Reborn (celebrity), Final Fantasy Rosa (celebrity), Pokemon:
Amethyst (celebrity), Teth (fantasy), and Hallow (sci-fi/fantasy).