#zemy

"Um, not this weekend. Finals!" Zelo frowns. "Also, I really want to just crawl into bed with George and read."

Zelo sputters. "What?"

Amy looks at him strangely and checks the time on her cellphone. "Oh crap, I'm going to be late. Go to band. I'll see you later." She rushes off in the opposite direction before he can even say goodbye.

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"Psst, Daesung" Zelo whispers, poking Daesung with his drumstick. 

Daesung hisses and turns away from the timpani he was tuning. "What?"

"Who's George?"

"What?"

"Do you know anyone named George?"

"I don't know. Maybe?"

"You have to tell me for sure."

"I don't know bro. Let me tune this or Mr. Cho is going to go apeshit on me again and then I will kill you."

Zelo pouts and returns to stand behind the snare drum.

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"Is it because I got placed in Symphonic band this semester and we no longer have math together fifth period?" Zelo asks, cornering Dongwoon after 5th period.

"What are you talking about?"

"I think Amy is cheating on me."

"What?"

"I think Amy is-"

"No, I heard you. I mean, why?"

"I asked her if she wanted to hang out this weekend and she said that she wanted to cuddle with some George bastard."

"I doubt she would tell you if she was cheating on you..."

"I don't know, man. It sounded like she just let it slip without realizing it."

Rhea's usual squeal of "Woonie" as she exits from her Philosophy class saves Dongwoon from having to hash out this conversation further. "Oh. Well, good luck with that man. Gotta go." He pats Zelo on the shoulder before walking around the corner with Rhea.

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"Zelo! When you crack the eggs, they have to fall in the bowl!" Kyungsoo warns while cleaning the mess Zelo made. "Honestly, why are you even in this class?" He laughs.

"Elective credit." Zelo looks listless and Kyungsoo notices. His motherly instincts kicks in and pushes Zelo to sit down on the stool.

"Hey. Are you okay?"

"Just peachy."

"No you're not."

"Okay."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"Ooh, talk about what? I like talking. I'm a cool teacher!" Mr. Kim, sorry Ryeowook the cool teacher, interrupts. 

"Something is wrong with Zelo."

"Yeah I could tell. When I brought out the cream puffs at the beginning of class he didn't say the cream puffs are mine nor did he try to steal Onew's piece when he wasn't looking."

Zelo sighed, "I think my girlfriend is cheating on me."

"Oh my god!" Ryeowook squeals and hurries off towards the refrigerator only to come back with a glass and a carton of milk. He fills the glass. "Here, drink this." Zelo gulps it down and slams the glass down.

"Another shot." Ryeowook refills the glass and Zelo repeats the process.

Ryeowook is about to refill the glass a third time but stops upon seeing Kyungsoo's wide judging eyes. "What?"

"I have no idea what's happening, but I think we should just set aside the milk and listen to Zelo talk now."

They both look expectantly at Zelo while Ryeowook rubs circles in his back. Zelo starts, "I asked her if she wanted to hang out this weekend but she rejects me and says she want to be with some bastard named George."

Ryeowook gasps. "Oh my god you poor baby!" Kyungsoo's eyes take up 40 precent of his face.

"So... what should I do?"

"I don't know. Too gay to help you with that son," Ryeowook says suddenly before marching off to cooly tell Minseok and Onew to stop eating the cookie dough.

Zelo looks expectantly at Kyungsoo, whose eyes now take up 60 percent of his face. Kyungsoo smiles awkwardly. "What is a relationship? Is that something you can eat?" He laughs nervously and turns back to the counter to start whisking the eggs.

Zelo slumps his head against the counter and mutters to himself.

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"YONGGUK!" Zelo covers his eyes when he finally finds him in a rather close position with Himchan.

Himchan sighs exasperatedly, removing himself from Yongguk's arms and glares at Zelo. 

Zelo laughs awkwardly and scratches the back of his neck. Yongguk pats Himchan's shoulder as a signal to stop glaring. "What is it Zelo?"

"Amy is cheating on me!"

"What?"

"Why does everyone keep saying what?"

"Sorry. Are you sure she's cheating on you?"

"She's never turned me down and now she's all into some jerkface named George. Ugh, it's such a dumb name too. George. George. Who names their sons George? I'll tell you who! Irresponsible parents who don't care if their son just steals some poor innocent guy's girlfriend and-"

"Whoa. Calm down. You just need to show this George guy who's boss."

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"Well catch them and then duel for her affection, duh."

"Duel?"

"You know throw a punch here and there and tower over him because you're a giant and be like Amy is my woman you bastard and stuff..."

"Gukkie, that is like the worst advice I have ever heard," Himchan says, hitting Yongguk on the arm.

"It works in all the movies I watch."

"You only watch war movies. Since when do they fight over women like that?"

"Well, if they did, that's how it would be done."

"Oh yeah, I'm so sure. You would know, of course, because you spend more time watching those stupid movies than with me. I even wore that stupid cheerleading outfit and you-" Zelo took that as his cue to run away.

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"Hi mom!" Zelo greets Mrs. Wang and pushes his way into the house. He climbs the stairs two steps at a time and barges through Amy's door. "AHA! CAUGHT YOU!"

Amy drops the book in her hand and looks at him strangely. It takes her two seconds to realize that Zelo is currently standing in her doorway, looking oddly angry, and she is in bed with only her pajamas on. "OH MY GOD ZELO! You can't just barge into a girl's room like this!"

"What? Are you hiding something? Hmm Amy? Where is he?" He checks under the bed only to see and old notebook. "He's hiding in the closet isn't he? Of course, he'll be in the closet because it's large enough to hide a scumbag like-" The closet is empty of people.

"Zelo, what in the world are you going on about?"

"Where's Geroge?!"

"Um, here he is." Amy lifts up the stuffed giraffe toy next to her.

"I'm sorry, what?"

"Um, here he is? Um, what is going on?"

"THAT'S GEORGE?" Zelo looks incredulous. "I but- But- You said- And I- What?

"Err, yes? This is George?"

"Please tell me your kidding."

"No... This is George, my stuffed giraffe."

Zelo collapses on the edge of the bed and covers his face with his hands. "You mean, all this while... I've been jealous of a stupid stuffed animal?" He groans.

"Why would you be jealous? And don't call Georgie stupid, you'll hurt his feelings!" 

Zelo kicks off his shoes and crawls up the bed to sit next to Amy. "George is stupid," he deadpans and Amy hits his shoulder. "But I'm stupider."

"Yes. Go on."

"Yesterday, you said you didn't want to hang out with me but you wanted to cuddle with George and I thought-"

"Oh my god, don't tell me you though George was a real person." Zelo chuckles nervously. "Oh my god, you did, didn't you?" She bursts out laughing.

"Hey! Don't laugh at me!" Amy is practically clutching her stomach. "It's not funny! Hey! Stop!"

"I'm sorry, it's just- you're so dumb." Amy takes a deep breath to calm down but starts laughing when she sees Zelo frowning.

"You shouldn't be laughing. You should be fawning over me and how cute it is that I was jealous..." he mutters. 

"I know. I know. It is cute. Mostly really funny though. But cute too."

"Damn right it's cute."

"Oh my god, you are so adorable you big baby."

"Shut up. You better compensate for all the damage you've inflicted on my heart." Zelo closes his eyes and puckers his lips out. 

Amy giggles and leans forward to kiss him but is stopped short by the door opening. Zelo cracks open an eye and sees Mrs. Wang glaring menacingly at them. He raises his hands and backs up off the bed and all the way to Amy's desk chair. "I'll just stay here...?" he asks and Mrs. Wang nods curtly and leaves the door open when she walks away. "I swear, your mother always walks in on the wrong time..." He sighs.

"Hey, but do you know who can receive my kisses at any time?" Zelo looks up.

"Who?" 

"Huh?" Zelo looked up from his phone. "Amy! You're done!" He rose from his seat on the ground and enveloped her in a hug. "How did it go?"

"Ish wush fine." Her words were muffled because Zelo was squeezing her tightly and her face was getting mushed against his chest. "Zewo! I can't bweath!"

"Oh, sorry." He stepped back, but left one arm slung around her shoulder. "Let's get lunch, I'm starving."

"Me too. I only had some tea and a slice of toast for breakfast."

"That's not good enough for the day of a test." He pushed open the cafeteria doors.

"I know, but I slept late and then I woke up late and I didn't have enough time... Ugh, I am so tired. I just want to eat and sleep."

"Don't you always?"

"Shut up."

"Go sit at the table and put your head down. I'll buy your lunch. Pizza?"

"Pepperoni with a-"

"Small salad and chocolate milk?"

"Aren't you the perfect boyfriend?" She pinched his cheek playfully.

"Of course I am. Consider yourself lucky." He grinned when she scrunched her nose in distaste. "Kidding. Sit down, I'll be back."

Amy barely had a second to put her head down before Rhea slid into the seat in front of her. "You and Zelo are so cute it's almost gross."

"You and Dongwoon are gross too," Amy retorted.

"No we are not."

"You guys are usually attached by the hip. So, it's actually weird that you're here alone."

"Oh, he's getting my chemistry textbook from my locker. He should be here soon."

"Case in point. He gets your textbooks from your locker for you."

"What are boyfriends for?" Amy stared at her pointedly. "I'm kidding. I make it up to him."

"How? No wait, don't tell me."

"Okay, I won't. Maybe I'll tell you when you're seventeen."

"Ugh, I can feel my innocence flying away..."

"Am I interrupting girl talk or something?" Dongwoon asked, pulling up a chair. Rhea scooted her chair closer until their arms were touching.

"Nope," she answered, taking her chemistry textbook. "Now help me study for my Chemistry exam."

"What kind of chemistry?" He winked.

"Oh Woonie..." Rhea giggled. It was nauseating for Amy. She tried putting her head down but Zelo chose that very moment to come back with the food.

He also must have heard what was happening because the first thing he said after placing Amy's tray in front of her was "Why do we sit with you two?"

Rhea rolled her eyes. "Calm down you babies. It's only going to get worse." She gestured  behind them. Zelo turned around to look.

It was Kris and Tao. "Oh, the only couple more sexually charged then you two."

"Kris, my birthday is coming up and I want a gucci handbag. The one you bought me last year, is well, so last year," Tao said sitting down next to Zelo.

"Okay babe," Kris answered, sitting down next to him.

"And I want to go out to eat at a fancy Japanese restaurant."

"Anything you want babe."

"I also want to go back to your place so we can watch Kung Fu Panda on your big screen."

"Only if it's followed by me on top of you on my bed."

"Fine but we're not using the strawberry flavor lube-"

Zelo turned to Amy, "Do you want to sit outside by the pond and eat instead?" Amy glanced back at their lunch table; Dongwoon and Rhea were being sickeningly sweet and feeding each other pasta while Tao and Kris had moved on to the topic of colored condoms.

"Yes, let's," Amy agreed, eager to leave.

They relocated to the small oak tree near the school pond. Zelo had practically devoured his pizza on the way there and kept trying to steal bits of pepperoni off of Amy's pizza. "Zelo..." she whined. "Stop it. Eat your jello instead."

He pouted cutely and stabbed at his jello. "Jello is so weird. Look at the way it jiggles." He shook the spoon slightly in front of her. "It's crazy isn't it?" He laughed.

"Why are you so weird?"

"Why are you so normal?" As if to emphasize his point, he opened his carton of strawberry milk and poured some into his jello and mixed it up until chunks of pink jello were floating in the pink milk.

Amy looked disgusted as he ate some. "No really, why are you so weird? That's disgusting, ugh, ew."

"It all goes in my stomach anyway."

"That's quite poetic and all but so do mentos and coke but that doesn't mean you eat them together."

"Aww, Amy, live a little." He grabbed her chocolate milk. "Put some of this in the salad!" He titled the carton but Amy screeched and smacked his hand away. "Okay fine. Don't live on the wild side."

"Okay, I won't." She moved her milk to the other side of the tray just in case. Zelo slurped up the rest of his interesting mixture and leaned back with his arms folded under his head. They sat in a calm silence for a a few minutes, when the only sounds that could be heard was the movement of the water and Amy eating her salad.

Zelo broke it, tugging on Amy's elbow. "How would I look with pink hair? I would look cute, right?"

"Sure. You would look cute. You would also be assuring that my dad never lets you in our house again."

"I'm willing to take the risk for creativity and beauty. Plus, you could always hang at my house for a while." He sat up and leaned his head on her shoulder. "Amy, I'm tired."

She drank the last of her chocolate milk before resting her head on top of his. "Me too Zelo."

"Can we skip fifth period and just stay here and sleep?"

"No, don't be ridiculous. We'll do what we normally do. We'll go to math, you'll sleep, I'll take notes and you'll copy them later." She sighed.

"Nah. We'll switch. You had your AP Euro exam this morning, so you can sleep and I'll take notes for you to copy later."

"What? Did I hear you right? You take notes?" She giggled.

"Hey, I can be a good student! I usually am. Math is just boring and the teacher doesn't care if we sleep..."

"I know, I know."

"And I'm going to become a famous rapper with pink hair and a beautiful wife who I will write romantic raps for along with my other raps about warriors and power and what not so math hardly matters."

"Hey, I'm still your girlfriend! Why are you talking about beautiful wives?" She folded her arms.

"Well, you're already beautiful and I've already written many raps for you so all you have to do is marry me when we get older and- oof!" Amy tackled him into a hug and nuzzled her nose against his cheek.

"You are so cute!" She hugged him tighter.

"Amy, as much as I love your public displays of affection for me, Rhea and Kris are within a 20 foot radius of us and those spawns of Satan will never let us live this down."

"I don't care. I can hug my boyfriend all I want and there's nothing they can say that will make me stop."

Zelo blushed slightly and buried his face in the crook of her neck. He wrapped his arms around her waist. "I love you," he mumbled.

He could practically feel her face heat up. "I love you too," she whispered and kissed his cheek. They only pulled away when students started leaving the buildings, signaling the end of lunch. Zelo got up first and threw aways their trays. Amy was waiting with his backpack in her hand and handed it to him.

He puffed out his chest, held his arm for her to grab and said in a deep voice, "To class Amy?"

She giggled and intertwined their fingers. "Why are you such a goofball?"

"You know you love it when I act goofy." He swung their hands slightly.

"Yeah, I do. I love everything about you, you big baby."

"And I love everything about you too, you big baby."