The begin of war

The next day, like always, I came to school with Jace.

We were messing around near the lockers when suddenly, Leo showed up.

The moment I saw him, my mood turned sour.

I shot him a judging, annoyed look.

He calmly walked over to the locker right beside mine,

jerked the door open, pulled out his books, and stood there like he owned the place.

Just then, Stephen came over and stood by him.

Handing Leo some old notes, he said,

"You're going to be the top scorer this time, right?"

It felt like he was throwing a challenge at me, filling the room with confidence and tension.

Zim, clearly annoyed, whispered,

"Ugh, this crazy class monitor's starting again."

But this time, Nova and Zim exchanged glances—a whole secret plan was cooked through just eye contact—and they both smiled.

I tried to stop them with a look, but it was too late.

Jace and Aven were already hyped, like

"Let the entertainment begin."

First, Nova walked past Leo and accidentally stepped on Stephen's foot.

He winced, looking down in pain.

Right then, Zim took her chance—bumped into him and spilled water all over him.

Now the entire corridor's attention was on us.

The gossip started instantly.

Nova and Zim were laughing their hearts out.

Stephen looked like he wanted to say something, but then—

the bell rang.

He ran off toward the washroom, and we headed to class.

But before going inside,

I turned around and gave Leo a sharp, angry glare—

just to make sure he knew:

I'm still not done..

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During the break after class, we were all standing in line at the canteen food counter, waiting to place our order.

Out of nowhere, Aven and Zim got into one of their playful moods.

While messing around, Aven accidentally pushed me.

I stumbled, barely balancing my tray—

and ended up crashing right into Leo.

All of his food spilled and fell to the ground.

He looked at me, a bit startled.

I was just about to say "sorry",

but Jace grabbed my wrist and stopped me.

Leo let out a small, sarcastic laugh, looked at Jace, and said,

"You've started your dirty little games again, haven't you, Sanz?"

That made Nova snap.

"Dirty games? What dirty games?!"

"And watch your damn mouth." she growled.

Leo rolled his eyes and looked away like he was above all this drama—like we weren't worth his time,

but I wasn't going to let that slide.

I stepped forward, clenching my jaw,

"You think everything's some planned attack, don't you?"

"Hate to break it to you, but no one here's wasting strategy on you."

Leo turned back slowly, locking eyes with me.

His voice was low, calm… but sharp like a blade.

"No?"

"Then why do I feel like every time you breathe, it's just to piss me off?"

Zim muttered behind me,

"Oh damn... tension's tensioning."

Nova whispered,

"Y'all need to either throw hands or make out at this point."

I was about to say something back—my blood was boiling—

but Leo suddenly bent down, picked up the spilled tray, and tossed the food into the nearby bin without saying another word.

Then he looked at me once more and said,

"Tell your little crew to grow up, Kael. Or don't. I'm starting to enjoy this."

And with that, he walked away.

For a second,

I didn't know if I was more angry…

or intrigued.

I called out after him,

"At least they're better than you."

"Sure, they're a bit chaotic… but for me, they're just fine."

"Or wait—did that scare you?"

Aven, Nova, Zim, and Jace burst into laughter.

Whispers and gossip started swirling all around.

A few girls nearby began murmuring and giggling as they watched.

Leo turned back, locked eyes with me, and smirked,

"Oh? So you do know how to talk, Kael."

I stepped forward, pulling a disgusted face,

"Yeah, because some people clearly lack the common sense to understand things without words."

It felt like we were standing there…

ready to roast each other in front of the whole damn canteen.

Then he stood in front of me and in angry tone but calm he said ,"kael in don't wanna fight with you "

As I heard this for a second I fussed but then I mocking him I said ,"Why don't you wanna fight ? or not brave enough ?"

He chuckled and pinch my cheeks while bending little down "how can I hit a cutie !"

His words and the touch turn out my cheeks are red im blushing and my heart start racing but then I push him away and angrily ask ,"cutie who is cutie?"

Leo let out a small laugh and exhaled sharply,

then turned to the entire canteen and said loudly:

"Isn't he a cutie?"

Jace and Aven were already glaring at everyone in the room.

But some students actually replied:

• "Yeah bro, he's definitely a cutie."

• "Honestly, he's prettier than most girls."

• "Total spicy cutie!"

Hearing all that, I turned bright red from embarrassment.

My heart was racing so fast, and I just stood there—completely frozen.

Nova shouted over everyone:

"Is this a circus or what?! Why is everyone answering like it's a fan meet?"

Aven growled,

"If y'all are that excited, should I start punching people?"

Just like that, everyone quickly went back to their own business.

Jace came over, placed a hand on my shoulder, and whispered:

"Bro… you totally slayed."

Then he glared at Leo and muttered,

"Some people are born idiots, I swear."

Zim walked up to Leo, stared him down, and said:

"You creepy flirt, damn you."

Before Leo could respond, Aven grabbed Zim and dragged her away.

He waved all of us over and said,

"Let's just go to the club room before we end up on the school news."

And with that, we all left the canteen chaos behind.

In club room Aven was said now everyone starts to talk about today's incidence

Zim sadly said ,"yeah ! And now we are on spotlight "

Nova tiredly said ,"that's how we started the war again !"

Jace chuckled ," don't worry guys nothing gonna happen "

Aven concerning me ," that's not problem jace "

Leo's pov :

In the morning the way zim and nova did to Stephen that's what i except from them but at the canteen i don't mean to fight i just wanna talk to kael so i picked to fight back

Yeah that's sounds weird but anything if want to do something but usually now i have to be acvare I put my ass in pain cuase in school everyone knows how jace and his squade can tourcher anyone they are bullies but its okay for kael ...