Ch. 10 - Company

Everyone began to leave together. However, Jess took the lead on taking Sarah to school for Drake. He didn't mind but was going to miss taking her. Still, it was best since they managed to stay a bit too long on eating and talking. So Drake was headed to school with both Marlene and Alex at each side of him.

"Hey Drake, I've been wanting to ask…" Alex said very concernedly. "What was all that about at the house?"

"Yeah… this is news to me too Drake. What's going on?" Even Marlene now was wondering what he was thinking.

"I'm glad you asked, but first… let me just say I'm sorry Marlene. I made a sudden decision. I did talk to your mom beforehand, I hope you won't mind it…" he said to her. Since it was inconsiderate on his part.

"Hey, don't worry I'd be interested in how this went… still let up know before you make a big decision okay," Marlene said and grabbed onto his hand. "I look forward to living with you. Draky" she smiled and kept walking at a pace with everyone.

"No fair… I wanted to be in a house with him too you know…" Alex said, grabbing onto his other hand.

"I'm sure it'll be okay for you to come over, won't it?" He said and looked to Marlene to confirm.

"Of course… I don't want to keep him away from you…  please visit often okay" Marlene said. "We are also dating, remember… I don't want any of us to be left out…"

Alex moved over to Marlene's side and grabbed her hand now instead. "She's a keeper!" She said and held a thumb up in her other hand towards Drake.

"Hehe… back to what I was saying… I know it was sudden what I said, but that is because I've decided on something. If I'm going to make you two happy, or have a peaceful life in school and with my sister. I need to abandon that home. And the people who call themselves my parents." He looks more serious and stern. "I never want to see her cry again, and I hate them for the life they gave me. It has been hell and I just want our freedom. After what the man who calls himself my father said, I also realized another thing. It's my sister that he has his eyes on… all this time he uses her as an excuse to keep me around. And I won't stand for anymore… after all, she isn't his real daughter… she's my half-sister…"

Both Alex and Marlene felt their spines crawl. "You don't mean… what do I think you do?" Asked Alex.

"I do… his use for me is coming to an end the older I get. And I don't think he can wait until I graduate. He's irrational but he's not some sort of idiot. I've known all my life. I probably know him better than I do myself. I can't help but feel like I no longer can stay there… if I hadn't met you, Marlene. I might as well have gone to Maria's place instead. This wouldn't have changed."

Marlene and Alex saw the glare in his eyes. How narrow they got showing how exactly mad he was.

Marlene spoke up. "Hey, Drake… you're looking scary…" she went closer to his side. It was early In the morning. And she wanted to not see him so stressed.

"Ah… I'm sorry…" he looked down at her and relaxed his look. "Sorry… I got a bit too intense there… I just wanted to explain what I was thinking and my decision for what I did, but I think I got too emotional…"

Marlene again spoke up. "It's alright… I get it Drake just be more careful this time around… you have us to talk to… and I'm glad you try, rather than hide"

"She has a point, Drake…. We're glad you keep us involved and in the loop. So don't worry. We get how tough this will exactly be. I'll do my best for you all over again got it" Alex said while she smiled and held onto Marlene.

"Yeah okay, I'll make you both the happiest women in the world…" he told them and stopped. He knew the subject was heavy, so lift the mood and both of their spirits. He grabbed Marlene's cheek and lifted her head. He leaned over kissing her first on her lips.

Her eyes widened, it was her first time experiencing a move such as this. She closed her eyes and leaned into his hand tightly holding onto his and Alex's.

Alex watched and was jealous, but had the look of excitement. Hoping he would do it to her next. She waited for her turn quietly not to stop this lovely scene before her eyes that excited her.

Drake broke the kiss and smiled down at Marlene, gently letting go of her cheek. He then looked at Alex and asked her. "Come closer"

She nodded, and stepped closer shyly, for some reason enjoying the commanding tone of his "yes sir…"

"good…" Drake got a hold of her cheek next and brought her head closer kissing her now, and to her surprise, she felt his tongue in her mouth and felt it swirl against her tongue gently.

Alex held onto his arm with her other hand and shyly kissed back. She remembered Marlene was here and did look more embarrassed as Marlene watched how he showed her affection. But also the scene was just as intense as she watched in amazement.

When the kiss broke apart. Alex looked to Marlene. Red and flushed. Before then going beside her again. "Let's go… we have school…"

Marlene looked at her and nodded. "Yeah…"

Both of them leaned to one another happy he had made a move on both of them. And neither of them were mad about who was first or second. Or who got more of Drake's affection. They were both happy he could love them and give them both attention.

"Alright… let's go…" he led the way again, walking together with them and headed to class once they got to school. Thanks to Maria, Alex was also in their grade and class. So they would all stay around together.

When classes started it was noticeable how they just walked into campus and class. And more rumors spread. Within another classroom, Akane had been sleeping on his desk. As it then got slammed by one of his classmates who bullied him. "Wake up four eyes…" one bit said, and with their free hand grabbed onto Akane's hair.

"Ah…! Stop it…" he looked at the boy who was bullying him and saw the others behind him. "What do you want?" He was tense and scared.

"You better not go around telling that fuck boy what were up to… I heard you know him… you know who I'm talking about…" he let go of him.

Akane smirked. "Scared of him huh…" he looked back at him still trembling.

"Watch it… I can break a finger or two before I let you out sight… remember we own you four eyes…" he slammed Akane's head into the wall beside him. A vein pulse near his head pissed that some weak nerd dared to speak up. "I can just as well put that kid in his place… I'm just letting you know because I'm interested in his girls… I don't want them to get the wrong idea about me…"

Akane again spoke up, not sure why he would defend Drake. "As if you could… last I checked… he could shut up a classroom just by speaking up… what if he saw you huh…? And do you think those girls will notice scum like you… you pick on the weak… you are just a half-assed imitation of Drake… get real" he grabbed on his hand and forced it away.

"Bring this kid…" he told his friends, and sure enough they dragged him away before the class started. Those who saw didn't say anything.

The rest of the day went as normal, however, it was during break that the head of the student council caught wind of the rumors spreading. However, they were also misleading. The guy who ran that council had approached Drake. "Drake… we need to have a word with you…" he was also accompanied by two other men and two women.

"Did you need something?" He asked. Since there had to be a reason.

"You heard me say we wanted to have a word… of as are you just idiotic?" He had a strong mouth on him. And didn't seem to waver at his presence.

Alex stepped in. "For someone that needs something from him. You sure got a bad attitude on you… do I need to rearrange it…" She spoke for him. And Drake stepped in.

"Relax… take Marlene to the roof and enjoy your break…" he told her.

"But this guy…" she insisted.

"Leave it to Drake. I'm sure he'll be fine" Marlene said, holding onto Alex.

"Touching… I guess that rumor is true to them… you managed to ring up two girls…" The guy said and Drake responded.

"As much as I want to retort such a rumor… it's true. I am dating both of these women… but I'll give you all one warming now… do not cause them trouble…" he turned to them, smiling at them. "Unless your looking to get hurt… do you understand… and there are plenty of ways to do that beside getting physical…" his smile and empty gaze that stared at them did get to them.

"My name is David… my apologies…" His attitude changed quickly. "Let's go…"

"I'll see you girls later for P.E." He left them both and followed him.

"A man shouldn't cling to baseless rumors… and if you were smart you wouldn't judge someone based on their looks…" Drake told him.

"Sure sure… but I'm not judging based on your appearance. I just happen to gather information about you… at first, I thought you were just a bully, some knucklehead causing trouble. But… one dumbass alone can't seduce two women way if his league" he looked back.

"Looks like this council president is one hell of a smart ass… now I wonder if you'll be something I step over or ignore… let me be frank with you, I got better shit to do than be led around and get into drama" he explained.

"Like what, study? Or stay out late and fuck around with drugs…" he said half hazard of the words he was saying to Drake. "I doubt you'd do anything productive… I've done some research… you are just a delinquent…"

Drake wanted to snap. In fact, he was ready to act out in his annoyance and anger towards him. "You damned spoiled asshole…" he mumbled.

A sudden surge of death crawled all five of their spines. The first to look back was David.

"Take what you said back…" Drake demanded his tone harsh and deep. He got closer until the man's tie was in Drake's hand forcing him close.

'What is his deal…? This feeling? Shit…' he swallowed his own spit and spoke up. "I… didn't mean it… I take it back… truly, I apologize…"

"Tch…" he let him go and after a moment apart he took the time to ease his nerves. He couldn't act so rash.

'What the hell is his deal… no doubt this asshole now must have been the one who attacked him…' David thought. And spoke up to him again. "It must have been you… without a doubt now. Your behavior speaks for itself… you're the one who put Akane in the infirmary wasn't it?"

"What the hell are you on about? I wasn't anywhere near him…" Drake said.

"He was found beaten up behind the school… and from what I heard, you are likely the culprit. Someone who saw mentioned they had Black hair and piercings… and an ugly attitude." David said, still on edge from what he just felt. "Lay a hand on me and this will go to the principal… then again, I already filed a report about this…"

"You don't have proof, just another rumor… did you even go about his many were around when this happened? You're acting on little information and you're blaming me because of the rumors then, you managed to point and single me out… screw you… you made me walk all the damn way for this crap…"

"Leave, and I" David stopped.

"What are you going to do? You explained what happens if I put my hand in you, so come find out when you lay a finger on me… I dare you…" he glared at them angered at this unjustifiable behavior. "Do not bother me again… or my girls. Got it… you don't know a thing about me. And I promise you, I won't be so nice next time… get your ass together before doing something like this again" he warned and scolded them. Leaving the room.

"This isn't over…" David told himself. "Who else could it have been then? I doubt anyone would fit his description. Still, he has a point… which is annoying… we didn't have a lead to really go off this, to begin with… but ill make sure to write this encounter down…" he told him, as he got to work with the others of the council.

Drake made his way to the school's infirmary. Where he saw Akane beat up badly. "You look like shit…" Drake looked at him and sat by him on a chair.

"Drake! Sorry, well one was better and got into a mess…" he said, as he sat up slowly.

"You don't look too rough…" he said and then grabbed the blanket and took it away. "Show me every wound…"

"Woah! Hey Drake… I'm fine… and this is way too weird for me" he said trying to keep his clothes on and the blanket on his body.

"I've had plenty of fights… show me how bad it is… and tell me who did this to you…" Drake looked at him. "I'll make sure they get twice what they did you…"

"Seriously it's alright… it's my fault anyways. I was defending your name and your character to a bully" he explained.

"Even more reason now…" Drake kept up.

"Stop, I don't want you getting fights, they aren't worth it… but, I should tell you… they have eyes in your girlfriend" he wasn't aware he had two.

Drake was at this point pissed. "I get accused of being the one who beat you up. You won't let me help you, and you're helping me by warning me what they are after… I'm at the end of my fuse Akane… tell me who did it…"

"Why? Sorry… it seems there is no changing your mind… well it was three guys in my class…"

"Thank you…" he got up and flicked his head. "Now lay back down… I'll check up on you later.. If that idiot in the council swings by now that you're awake, tell him to clear my name… I can't believe I gotta clean this up after recovering myself…" he left him, but when he reached the door he was stopped by Akane.

"Wait… why are you going so far? And what are you planning to do?" He asked worriedly.

"You're my friend dumbass… and don't worry, I'll make sure they apologize… to you and confess to the dumb president they did it to clear my name" he left, going now to hunt down the three.

"Your friend huh?" Akane said and laid back. "Is this what friends do? Fight for one another? No… I won't be of any help… oh! I see…" he smiled softly and relaxed. "They helped one another, got it…"

On the roof too, both Alex and Marlene talked to one another. "What do you think they wanted with him?" Asked Alex.

"Well… if I have to guess… I'd say it's how he dressed? Nah… It could be because they are blaming something on him…" Marlene answered, sitting beside Alex and even holding onto her arm leaning on her.

The skin-ship and closeness were welcomed. Alex even leaned her head over her a bit. "They better not make it hard on him."

"Can you tell me what he was like… before you ended up here today?" Marlene asked.

"This is the part I say 'you should ask him yourself' but… that isn't gonna help. He was actually a lot less talkative. He was like a soldier even as a kid. It wasn't until he had his sister that he began speaking up. I was forced to spend time with him, and hated it. But… as I got to know him, I started loving him.. Oh sorry, it's not about me." She stopped herself.

"I like listening, keep going… " she looked at her.

"If you say so… he was… rough talking with… however, you know what, it might actually be best if you talk with him about his past I shouldn't say too much…" Alex said. Hesitating to bring up things he hadn't mentioned to her. "I'm not trying to keep it a secret from you or anything… it's just… we both worked in a gang as kids… so that subject is a bit hard to talk about to an outsider… and I don't mean to be a jerk about it!" She panicked and felt Marlene kiss her.

She stopped and smiled. "How about this then… you both talk to me about it… when the time is right okay?" She asked and kissed her again, hugging her.

Alex held her back and took over kissing her back and broke the kiss to speak up. "You got yourself a deal… and with drake… I tend to be submissive. I can't help it… but with ladies like you…" she held Marlene down on the bench. "I like taking the lead…" she licked her lips.

"Oh… I'm scared…" Marlene teased. "Kinda…" but it was also true.

"Hehe… don't worry, I know you want Drake first… so I won't overstep…" She helped her up and both calmed down.

"When was your first time…?" Marlene asked.

"Uh… it was, with Drake… and we were very young maybe… middle school…? I can't remember… but let me just say, it was addicting" she blushed. "Sorry…"

"Wow… that's alarming… but, why sorry?" Marlene wondered.

"Well… I knew we both had a hard time, and at that age we both were looking to experiment. So we trusted each other… with each other.. He was so cute, saying he would take care of me… and saying all those fantastic things… We were careful so luckily we didn't have any accidents. It was a way for us to forget about our troubles… still our relationship wasn't built on that, if anything it was just a guilty pleasure… We worked a lot together and eventually we both supported one another. I had to deal with parents who fought all the time. I would get caught up in the middle sometimes. So yeah… he helped me get through a lot and I knew I helped him… when you come from fucked up families what else are kids supposed to do other than look for help, but what adult would ever take a kid seriously. Luckily, my grandparents saved me and got me out of there. It's been a long fight." She openly talked about herself and her past with Drake to Marlene.

"I'm happy you two have been together. Or else I wouldn't have met either of you… and, now, I'm here to help you both. And I want to know everything about you two… no matter how heavy the topic is… or small the detail okay?" Marlene smiled.

"Hehe… okay okay princess. We'll make sure to include you in everything. By the way, are you really fine with me?" She was concerned about her looks. "I got some muscles… and I'm not exactly girly on the outside…"

"Oh I know Drake said you were more girly than most. On the inside… so I know that, and honesty. The tomboy look suits you… I like it. I never exactly dated anyone. So I'm glad to have a girl like you and a guy like Drake. I get the best of both worlds" she explained.

"Marlene, are you sure you're a virgin? And are you really not a pervert?" She wondered.

"Hey, that's a bit… rude, but I guess now that one said it out loud… it's embarrassing… sorry" She smiled shyly.

"No way, you're fine as you are… hehe I like you Marlene… it's hard to find anyone who can talk with me, so I'm glad to have met you…" Alex said and smiled back at her.

"That makes me happy to hear… I'll make you and Drake happy, but I feel like I can hardly do anything for either of you" she said, feeling subconscious.

"No way, you're open, the type of nice girl who stands up to someone. But also you feel for other people when they can't. You're the best kind of person Drake needs. And who I need… you're nice, caring and understanding… Who wouldn't love that? I can tell Drake loves you for it too…" she said, helping her feel more aware of how wonderful she has been to both of them. "Don't say that okay. Just keep being your playful sweet and cute self Marlene." She held her hand.

"Hey… I'm gonna fall for you harder.." She was shy and flushed. "Okay, I get it… thank you Alex." She kissed her cheek and held her hand back.

The door to the roof turned.

"Think it's Drake?" Alex asked.

Once it opened, they heard a loud and annoying bunch. Their looks went sour when the rowdy three boys that beat up Akane. The three were bragging a distance away from them. "The damn nerve of that kid…"

"He suddenly grew a backbone… bet he won't run his mouth again this time" another spoke up.

"We can always put him back in his place don't worry" the main one who led them all noticed the girls. And the three of them walked over. "What a damn good day it's been" approaching both Alex and Marlene. They began to surround them a bit.

"Is there something you need?" Marlene asked, calmly. Alex did her best to remain that way herself, but she saw right through them.

"In a way… I won't waste either of you ladies' precious time… how about I get to it. Let's ditch school and go somewhere nice all of us here… oh, you are probably wondering who I am…" he kept going until Alex spoke up.

"No thanks… we're waiting and already with someone. And no, we could care less about some nobody's name…" she stared at him.

Clearly pissed. He grabbed her hair and stared down at her. "Listen bitch… I was talking… and you better do well to listen… or that boyfriend of yours will get hurt…"

Alex smirked and grabbed onto his wrist squeezing and turning his hand to forcefully let her go. "In your damn dreams kid… if you can't even beat me… no way in hell are you ever going to lay a hand on him…" she got up and bent his arm back to get him on his knees. The other two with him watched before then one of them grabbed Marlene.

"Easy bitch… or we will do something you'll regret…" he told Alex.

"Tch… you let her leave… and I let him go… I can break his arm…" she told them and the one who was held down spoke up.

"Do it… and we'll show this bitch a damn good time alright." He looked at Alex. "You're gonna regret it…"

Marlene was let go, and instead of running. She took the chance to grab a pepper spray in her skirt pocket to spay the guy who held her.

Alex kicked the other guy down who walked towards Marlen and left the leader of the pack still down. "Haha nice Marlene…"

"I figured I might as well help out or be ready for something like this…" She told her and now with the other one left being their group leader they stood over him.

"What should we do with him?" Marlene asked.

"Hm… I could snap his arm. But…"

"Hold on.. you don't wanna do that…" he began to regret. But his eyes tell another story.

"Yeah right… if I let you go, you will just come back. So here's an idea… I snap this arm of yours… since not only did you threaten me… and planned to violate us… I could give Drake a call. I'm sure he'd be more than happy letting his pent up anger out on you…" Alex told him using her other hand to grab his hair and pull his head back as she got down. "What do you think…? You got bested by two girls… imagine just what he can do alone…"

This was eye opening for Marlene. She could tell Drake was someone dangerous from how even scary Alex was right now. If Even Alex could speak like this to someone who she was able to take down. "Alex… let's just leave him be… they won't do anything else anymore… we got better things to do."

"Shit your right…" she realized she didn't have to do this anymore. At least her behavior changed. "Sorry you had to see that side of me…" she let go of the guy, but not after kicking him away far back. She left with Marlene.

"You did get a bit intense… just like when Drake starred in thought" she said noticing both times these two got so worked up. "How can you speak so highly of him?"

"Yeah, it's just a habit at this point… how we can be… don't worry so much about it… and it's because he's such a wild fighter… he can and has beaten up groups of people before… I can't compare, but I can hold my own." Alex explained.

"I see… oh, by the way, thank you Alex…" Marlene said and held her hand.

"For what?"

"For saying you'd let him go in exchange to let me leave…" she kissed her cheek. "Very heroic…"

"Hehe… no worries… I'm sure Drake would have the same for us both…" she said and together they head down. "And also, why do you just carry pepper spray?"

"My dad is a cop so I just have to always have one on me…" she explained.

"I see… very thoughtful and funny… and thank you, for staying around… it could have gone differently if you didn't." She then kissed her back on her cheek.

"Awe… no worries… I know I can't do much, but I will do what I can…" Marlene said and soon both of them ran into Drake as they passed a corner.

"Fuck my bad…" Alex said, before seeing who it was. "Drake what's wrong?"

Marlene looked at him and saw his annoyed look.

"I'm looking for some idiots who beat up a friend of mine…" he said, and helped them both up.

"We got into a fight with three idiots on the roof…" Marlene said and stopped him from going anywhere taking his hand.

"Easy Drake. We took care of them… come on let's see this friend…" Alex helped and with them both around. He gave in.

"Alright fine… but are you two sure you're okay?" He was worried.

Marlene then slightly lifted the side of her skirt showing more of her legs and thighs. "I'm still a Virgin if you want to see… that's how sure I am… not a hand on my body… beside when Alex held my hand or kissed me… you get what i mean..."

Even Alex got flustered for her. "Hey… not in the halls…"

Drake walked over and lowered her hands to let go of her skirt. "I believe you… don't do that again… unless we're behind closed doors okay" he told her and sighed. "Honestly… I should just learn by now to take your word if you're gonna do this…" he said and smiled since her lite stunt made him calm down.

"Good boy" she smiled and grabbed his arm. "Sorry, I just had to convince you"

"I know but there are better ways…" he told her and then grabbed Alex's hand. "Let's go…" together they walked to the infirmary.

Alex was then thinking. "Did someone get beat up?" She asked. "Don't tell me you made another girlfriend?" She joked while walking with them.

"Funny… but yeah, someone did… a guy I only talked to once… but from our first conversation, he seemed alright. I found out he was in the infirmary today, so I went to see him, and he got grouped up by three people first thing in the morning. One had a piercing and the council president tried to blame me for his attack" he explained a summary of where he was, and who he was looking for that made him pissed.

"Piercings huh… hold on… Marlene wasn't that one weirdo wearing some?" Alex asked her.

"Yeah he was… do you think we indirectly got in the way?" She said and looked at Drake.

"Well if you did, I'll have to pay you both back… haha" he chuckled as the idea that they both already took on his problem was just incredible and funny in his mind. "So what happened exactly?" He asked them both.

"Well, we were talking about you, and then about ourselves, getting to know each other and yes, we did kiss a bit… quite romantic until three idiots came up, probably hiding the whole day and managed to run into us… and Marlene straight up pepper sprayed one guy who was holding her. It was awesome. I threatened the guy with piercings. I'd break his arm, after he had the nerve to try and threaten us and get us to go with him… I kicked the other dude too who went after Marlene so we came out unharmed" Alex explained it all and even hyped up the whole scenario that played out as she laughed a bit too. "You should have been there… "

"I was a bit frightened… but yeah, that's about right Drake… she is fairly strong and cool" Marlene said about Alex and confirmed the story.

"If I was there, I would have gotten carried away or overdo it. So thank you both… still I promised the guy I'd make them apologize to him." He told them. And was glad they both stood their ground. And together.

"Ooh, so you're not done with them yet… sounds like they are gonna have a rough time. Oh we're here" Alex said and pointed out. They entered and walked to where Akane was laid out. "Wait, I know you!"

"You've met?" Drake asked and heard Akane speak up.

"Once… I think about yesterday. She bumped into me, I fell and dropped some stuff. She helped and was searching for you" he explained.

"So that explains why you decided to look for me yesterday. Because I wasn't at school… Well, let's make introductions regardless… This beat up man is Akane. And these ladies with me are Alexandria, my right, and Marlene. My left." He told him and went ahead and sat down. But first grabbed chairs for Alex and Marlene to also sit but only managed two.

"You didn't come here just to show them off did you?" He asked. And slowly sat up.

"Well… funny thing… they took care of our problem before I even could" he told him and both Alex and Marlene nodded.

"It's true, also, call me Alex. I would rather not use my full name" she insisted and sat down. "You sit with me…" she said, grabbing Marlene and holding her on her lap.

"Eep! Hey, you could have asked" Marlene said shyly that someone else now had to watch them.

"Sorry there aren't many seats… so just relax…" Drake told her as he sat on the only second available seat.

Akane was chuckling and smiled at them. "Thanks for that… but I'm sorry also to cause you ladies trouble…"

"Hey don't worry, they reassured me they were fine… they just got lucky I didn't find them first…" Drake told him.

"If you say so… I'll believe it then. They don't look soft. I can't speak for myself though, I'm not much of a fighter." Akane said feeling bad that others had to help him.

"Nothing wrong with that," Marlene told him. "I'm pretty weak too… I mean, I've seen Alex naked already and she is prettier and managed to be fit more than most boys… but I can still hold my own… I did use pepper spray, but who cares about that when it's 3 to 2" she said with a smile. Something very alarming to him.

"Uh… right…" he froze. "Hey drake"

"What's up?" He looked up to him.

"Why did you come by?" He asked, wondering what he thought of him.

"Because I told them my friend was hurt. They got curious so we came to see you together" he said and pulled out his phone.

"We only talked once, and that makes us friends?" He asked.

"Do you not want us to be?" Alex asked while holding onto Marlene closely.

"No it's just… I do want friends… but, I'm not like either of you people" he said, almost like an excuse to keep his distance.

"You're fine how you are… our first talk, you helped me no question when I was lost on that subject in class, and you helped Alex. And I learned from what you said, you protected my character when you didn't have too… and warned me about what those idiots were after. I'd say you're already fit to be a good friend…" Drake told him and gave him his phone.

"You are one strange bunch… but, alright…" he smiled. He figured he must have wanted his phone number so he put it in.

"I'll give both of them your number later alright" Drake told him.

"Huh? Wait no it's fine… they probably don't want another guy's number" Akane was nervous. Since he had no actual interaction with women before.

"We don't mind? For a guy looking to beat up your full self huh, think you can steal us away?" Alex teased and Soon Marlene pinched her cheeks. "Ooowhe"

"Leave the guy alone…" Marlene sighed. "That's too much teasing even for you… sorry about her… we know you won't and no offense… we don't plan to leave our Drake any time in the next life"

"Uh… right?" He felt defeated and also belittled. "Don't you mean 'any time soon' Why next life?" He asked and changed the topic.

"Because, neither of us are going to dump him ever" Marlene said with confidence and it made Alex blush.

"Don't say that outloud…" he hid her face into Marlene's chest, hugging her.

"Drake, your one lucky guy" Akane even had to admit.

"Is that right…? Maybe…" he got up and leaned over to them both, kissing them each on their lips sort of as a reward and also loved what he heard. This made them both flushed and remain quiet for a moment. He sat down again. "Or maybe I'm just blessed for once… hey are you doing anything after school?" He asked him.

Akane was a little embarrassed himself. "Uh… no not really, why?"

"Want to tag along with us? We're going to pick up my sister. I'm playing on taking her shopping. My girls are coming with us, so it'll be awkward if I'm the only guy around…"

"Are you sure? I don't think I'd fit in if I stayed around while you're with your sister and girlfriends…" Akane began to feel bad.

"We don't mind… and honestly it might do him good to have a guy for a friend…" Alex said now calmed down.

"Yeah, though, I would have liked making him do things he normally wouldn't. but we can another time okay" Marlene said and then looked at Drake.

"Sure sure… I do plan on taking you out individually on dates… so on one of those we can okay" he agreed and both of them nodded.

"It's a deal" they easily could get along and match Drake's intentions.

Akane once again spoke. "Okay I'll come along then…" he smiled, liking the feeling of being included.

"I only plan on treating my sister today… maybe if I got extra to spend I'll treat us all something to eat" he told them, so he wouldn't expect anything grand out of him.

"We know Draky…" Marlene said and got up from Alex's lap, to then sit on Drake's. However she sat down much differently.  Her legs spread on his lap and she faced him.

"Daring aren't we…?" He asked her, putting his arms around her small waist.

"You know… we're still in an infirmary…" Alex said. "And Akane is right there…"

"She's right Marlene…" Drake said, but didn't move her away.

"I just wanted a new seat…" she chuckled and leaned on his shoulder.

"You know… I am feeling much better… I should leave" Akane felt very nervous and tried to get out of his bed.

"No you're not… we'll leave…" Drake grabbed his arm. "Lay back down. We'll come by again after school okay…" Drake got up, grabbing Marlene's thighs and legs lifting her.

"No way you're gonna carry her like that?!" Alex said following him.

They all left and Akane had one last thought. "I'm gonna stay a virgin aren't i?" He even began to whimper.

"Are you jealous Alex?" Marlen asked.

"Yeah, I want to be carried and spoiled too, I also want a turn on your lap drake" she said to him.

"Haha… okay okay, I'll treat you someday to this too. Don't worry" he turned and kissed her at the door. Marlene sat up in his hand and watched him kiss Alex.

"It's not fair… how you can split your attention so well.. it's nuts… but also I want a kiss…" Marlene begged and wiggled on his hands.

"Easy… I might drop you…" he said. And smiled. "Fine… come lean down for me…" he agreed. But Just as he was going for it. Alex stole it, giving her one instead.

"Nope, you are getting carried. I get his kisses" Alex chuckled and held his back.

"Fine… fair enough. Take us to class Drakey…" even though he seemed to take the lead. Against two girls,  it was more like they were leading him.

"Yes princess… as you wish…" he carried her the whole time taking them to the gym. Where he had to put her down so they could split and get changed for the class. The day went on as usual, only now Drake, Marlene and Alex had each other's company to ignore the rumors they had to listen to. And stayed together so no one else would get in the way. School no longer felt lonely, for anyone of them including Akane who joined them after school. The boys ahead while the two other two girls walked behind. It was a welcoming change all around.

*Happy new year :) *