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     Leo's pov

I woke up to the sound of the pigeons on the roof of the flat; basically the same way I woke up the other days, which was strange, because there had never been pigeons before. Perhaps I had to make sure it weren't just Gem and Capricorn fooling with me.

First thing I did after waking up was checking the clock to see if I was still on time to see my mum, but it was too late already and with multiple groans leaving my mouth, I dragged myself up to the living room.

The awaiting note from my mother went straight into the trash and instead of following my usual daily routine to get the mail downstairs, I walked over to the balcony. It wasn't as warm as I expected; gee, winter really was nearing, even though these were the last months of summer. July was ending, August was nearing – meaning to all of us that school would be starting soon.

I sighed while opening my closet to take out my clothes for today. I'd completely forgotten about school. School was something back in the past, something that didn't have to bother me now. Unfortunately for me, we all went to the same school – Orbis High – and we even shared classes.

I snorted to my mirror-self and pulled down my shirt in front of the mirror. I was placed into a class with about twenty kids, including me, Aqua, Cancer, Pisces and Aries. The other class I knew of had Gemini and Capricorn in it, the younger ones among us. Virgo was the oldest, a year elder than most of us and so, he'd passed high school already. The lucky bastard.

I winked to my reflection and left off to the kitchen, while I calculated how many weeks and days were left to us. School started in September... Well, great. Barely a month to go.

The milk spilled anywhere but in my bowl when I got scared up from a knock on the door, followed by the door itself opening. Let's see; it was early in the morning and someone was visiting me, knocking on the door first before coming in. Did I know anyone who'd do that?

'Morning, darling!' I shouted to the hallway, where a supposedly Aquarius closed the door. My guessing was right – just a second later, Aqua herself walked into the kitchen, smiling softly. 'Hey, Lee. You're not busy doing anything, right?'

'Nope, just messing around with cereal while thinking about the horrible upcoming school year,' I told her as I cleaned the spilled milk. I could almost hear the frown in Aqua's next sentence. 'Why are you thinking about school already? It's not like you to worry about something such as school, especially in your thoughts.'

I took a spoon from the counter and turned around to my best friend, making sure not to spill any more of my precious breakfast. 'Well, seeing how I almost didn't pass last year, I figured I might start this year with that in mind. Besides, imagine what would've happened if I didn't pass; I would've been placed into that class with our married couple.' 'You learned a valuable lesson,' she smiled, 'but, actually, I didn't come to talk abou-'

'It would've been awful if they'd placed me in their pity little class,' I continued on, picturing me sitting in front of Gemini and Capricorn as they pulled "fun" pranks on me. 'Could you even imagine what the situation here what have been like? I mean, not that it would've changed much, but being in a class together would drift us together more and that would mean I'd actually have to spend time with them – ugh, I can't think of that. Let's switch the subject, hm?'

Meanwhile, I had taken my cereal and started making a way over to the living room, and Aqua followed me patiently. I grabbed the remote from the coffee table and put on Netflix, as I assumed Aqua came over to continue watching one of the many shows. '...but, you know, I don't want to worry about it too much. More important things are going on, hm? Now, let's stop focusing on the upcoming year and start watching another episode of –'

'Lee, I actually didn't come to you for Netflix,' she stated abruptly, and I frowned. 'No? But we can do that now that you're here, right?'

I saw her hesitation and shut down the television. 'Aqua, dear, is something going on?' 'If "going on" are the words you want to use for it, well, kind of,' she said and coughed softly. 'I, eh, have noticed something some time ago and, eh, I thought I should, probably, possibly... tell you about it.'

'Well, spit it out, then,' I reacted, without knowing what to feel. Was this something serious? Was something real going on or was she fooling with me? And if it was serious; what was it?

Aquarius stared down at her knees and I realized this was real. And, whatever it might be, I was glad she was telling me about it. 'Well... lately, I've kind of been feeling... stuff...'

'You have a crush on someone, don't you?' I asked. I very well knew the symptoms of having a crush and I also knew the symptoms of having to tell anyone about it, and Aqua was showing all of them. When her cheeks turned a fiery red, I knew I had my assurance and I smiled widely.

'Really?' I squealed, and when Aqua nodded slightly, I smiled even wider. 'Awh, my little Aqua is in love! So sweet –' 'I thought it'd be good to tell you about it,' she muttered softly. 'So you're not going to deny how I said you're in love with whoever it is?' I joked, but my entire happiness switched around when Aquarius started blushing even more. Wait, was she...?

'You... aren't really in – you know – that place... right?' I asked her, and the last bits of my smile faded when she turned her head away from me. 'Maybe,' I heard her mumble, and my heart skipped a beat when my happiness returned. 'Oh, this is even better than I thought! You're in love, Aqua, in love? How does it feel? Isn't it amazing? Doesn't it just make your – hey, what's wrong?'

I only noticed she was crying when I heard her sniff softly and when I asked her my question, she turned to me with slightly blood-shot eyes, filled with tears. I decided that, for once, it might be better if I kept my mouth shut and not make things worse than they already were, so I waited for her to get back her voice.

It only took a few more seconds before she stopped sniffing and looked straight into my eyes.

'He... he doesn't like me back...'

The room remained in silence for a few minutes, before I softly sat up and cleared my throat. 'Eh... I'm so sorry for you, baby, I really am. And... I don't know if you'd want to, but... could you, maybe, tell me... who this involves?'

Aqua's cheeks got brighter again, either a sign she was going to cry again or she really didn't want to tell me. 'Eh... another time, okay? I'm not... really in the mood for your reaction.'

'Oh. Sure – you know what, I'll make you breakfast. Actually, I think the chocolate cereal is still over at Cancer's place, so I'll go and get it and you can just – well, do whatever you want, okay?' I felt more in trance than actually guilty for lying to my best friend. Aqua was in love with someone, and that person didn't love her back. How was I going to kick that boy's ass without knowing who he was?

I closed the door of my apartment behind me and walked over to apartment 22. What was that dude thinking, not loving my precious Aquarius? I had to figure out whoever that guy was, so I could do some serious damage to him.

Although...

I'd let Capricorn do some serious damage to him.

I opened Cancer's door and walked inside, trying to be quiet so I wouldn't startle her. 'Cancer, dear? It's Leo!' I called into the hallway, and it was soon followed by Cancer's voice, yelling back: 'Come in, I'm in the kitchen!'

I went through the door opening into her small kitchen, and she smiled at me from her spot near the microwave. 'Hey! I was just warming up some sandwiches; are you here for that chocolate cereal I borrowed from you the other day?' 'You mind-reader,' I smiled and took the box she handed me. 'Thank you, Cancer. Aqua really needs it, especially now. Speaking of her...'

I knew I should've kept my mouth shut. I knew I should've stopped talking. But the chance to say something about Aquarius wasn't a chance I'd get all the time, and I just had to tell someone about what she had just told me –

'...did you know she has a crush on someone?' I said, and I felt ashamed right after. Oh, gosh. I really was a horrible gossip.

But Cancer's reaction was what horrified me more.

'Oh, so she's finally told you? Pretty intense, hm, how she's gotten herself into this situation again?' Cancer said, walking around the kitchen to get some stuff from the counter top. 'I thought she had freed herself from breakdowns and all that crap that comes with it, but nope, she had to go and fall in love with Libra.'

'She's in love with the rookie?' I shouted, as my hands shot up to tangle themselves in my hair. Cancer turned around faster than I could imagine, eyes wide open and her a blush appearing on her cheeks. 'Wha- you didn't know? But – you said you knew!' 'She told me she was in love with someone and that person didn't like her the same way!' I yelled, trying to focus on the conversation by ignoring my screaming thoughts.

Cancer frowned at me. 'Really? I'm actually pretty sure he likes her back, but that's not my idea. Pisces told me that Aries was suspecting something yesterday, and –'

'Oh, so the Tiny Dwarf is involved in this! The three sisters are involved in this! I bet the others are involved in this as well! When would Aqua ever go and tell me about it?!' I screamed, not really to Cancer anymore but just to let out my frustration.

'She's my best friend, and yet I seem to be the one who didn't know anything! What, is she afraid I'd spill it everywhere right after she told me?'

'You just spilled it to me,' Cancer reminded me, making me realize how ridiculous I was being. I sighed, and leaned against the fridge with my eyes closed. 'You're right. You're right; I'm a horrible, horrible friend.' I opened my eyes again, and my frustration turned into straight anger. 'But that doesn't mean I'm being unreasonable.'

'Tell Aqua I said hi!' Cancer yelled after me as I left her apartment and I walked back to my own. I couldn't believe this; she'd told Cancer about her being in love with Libra before she even told me? She should've told me, I was her best friend!

Right?

     Aquarius' pov

Why did I even consider telling Leo about this?

My heart was still racing, even after the five minutes Lee had been gone now. I should have kept this all to Cancer and me, and when the situation wasn't as fogged as it was now, I could have told her.

I turned around in Lee's living room and started another round of pacing. Oh, gosh. Soon, Leo would return and want to talk about it more, and I'd have to tell her that I didn't... but she could be so pushy sometimes, and if I told her more she'd be sure to spill it out to others –

'Am I an unreasonable person to you?'

Leo's voice cut right through my voice and encouraged the forming sweat drops on the side of my head. I moved around so I could see her, but that turned out to be a terrible idea as she didn't look pleased at all.

'Well? Answer the question,' Leo demanded, and she walked closer to me while I just stumbled back, thinking about what could've possibly gotten into her.

When I didn't say anything, Lee continued: 'Did I ever keep something apart from you? Did I ever fail to be someone who'd want to help you? Did I ever trait you as a friend? As my friend? My best friend?'

'Are you upset because I don't want to tell you who I'm – you know – the thing –' I started, but she bursted out: 'I'm upset because you told Cancer you are in love with Libra before you told me!'

She knew. That was all that pounded through my head right now.

Leo, however, wasn't done. 'Do you know how shocked I was – no, am – when I heard it? First off, why didn't you tell me? You know you could have told me! Sure, I know I'm a gossip sometimes and I can't really keep things to myself, but that doesn't mean you can't trust me! Do you trust me?'

'Lee, you know I do,' I tried to calm her, but she was literally out of control. 'No, Aqua, that's not what I mean! You're practically my only friend around here, the only one I can actually trust! Do you know what it felt like when I felt like you didn't trust me? I just – I just think – you should have told me!'

'I wanted to tell you!' I yelled, and I felt tears welling up in my eyes again. 'Really, Leo, I did! But then all of that stuff started to happen with me, and with the others and – and everyone, and I couldn't – I couldn't –' The last bits of my sentence were overflown by short sniffs leaving my mouth, and even though I could see Lee was still angry, she also started to calm down.

'Y-You don't k-know what it f-feels like,' I hiccupped, and let myself fall back into the couch. 'I-I just hoped t-that when I t-told you, you'd be happy f-for me, not... upset.'

'I am happy for you, really,' said Leo softly. She walked over to me and sat down next to me. 'And I'm sorry for acting this way, but I was just worried you wouldn't trust me.' 'Of course I trust you,' I mumbled. 'I'm sorry for not telling you.' 'It's okay,' Leo responded and smiled.

'But I still wasn't done with my speech.' She stood up again, and cleared her throat, before frowning at me. 'How in Chaos' name did you manage to fall in love with Libra?'

I chuckled softly, and sat straight up for a bit. 'Well, you know. Love at first sight, I suppose.' 'How romantic,' Lee smiled and brought her hands together. 'Too bad he's a rookie, though.'

'You say that as if it's a bad thing,' I reacted and chuckled again, but I stopped once I saw my best friend's surprised expression. 'Why, yes, of course it's a bad thing. Darling, he's not a Chaos Survivor, meaning he's a rookie, and you remember the long list of rules we made around this place, don't you?'

My heart froze once again as my mind reminded me of the list. About five years ago, when everybody was united here, we made up a long list with rules to keep us together. Some things on there were "Fights must not last longer than two weeks" or "Do not steal each other's mail" and things as "You are free to walk into anyone's apartment". Of course, there were exceptions, added by mostly Lee and Aries ("You are free to walk into anyone's apartment except when your name is Furface or something close to that"), but there weren't exceptions on one of the last rules, added the moment when Pisces and Virgo started going out with each other: "Thou shall not date any other than a Chaos Survivor, unless it is someone from another living than the Chaos Flat".

'Come on, we're not taking that one seriously anyway,' I smiled, but Leo remained frozen. 'Oh, no. I know the first rule is "Do not follow the rules" but that rule has the dating-rule as an exception. You can't date him until he's a Survivor – and I highly doubt that day might ever come.'

'Excuse me?' I shouted, feeling my rage come up again. 'He may not be strong, outstanding or extraordinary in some things as the others, but that doesn't mean he's not a Chaos Survivor!'

'Aqua, it's been almost a month since they moved in,' Leo responded, not helping me at all. 'It took me too more than a month to become a Survivor!' I yelled, and I stood up to Lee. 'Sorry Lee, but I have to go. Important things to do,' I huffed, and walked past her. 'Fine; I just hope you'll remember that whenever it comes out to everyone here, they'll agree with me for once!' Leo shouted.

'Luckily I'm never going to tell them about this, so they'll never know,' I snarled, at which Leo groaned.

'Oh, won't they?'

She turned around and drifted back to her room, as I heard the door close. I hung on to her last sentence for a few seconds longer, then decided to go back to my own apartment.

'Woah, you're looking pissed off,' Capricorn chuckled when I passed him in the living room. I simply ignored his comment and stomped up to my own room, still thinking about what Lee said. What did she mean by "Oh, won't they?" Did she mean she was going to tell everyone about this?

She wouldn't, even though she threatened me. I plopped down on my bed and sighed softly.

Well, this was a great way to get myself into trouble. Speaking of trouble – my stomach lit up again – how would Libra be doing?

I sighed another time, this time letting all of my anger out with it, and stared at my knees as I realized this would be a pretty tough problem.

     Taurus' pov

I hadn't slept a single bit last night. Sagittarius had spent another night with me and Libra, but on the couch, because he had taken out all of his stuff already. It's not that I didn't sleep because I was worrying over him, definitely not. I hadn't slept because it was a horrible idea to move away, even though I still had no idea why.

It just didn't feel right; Sag belonged with me and Libra, and if Libra was going to be a bitch about it, it meant he belonged just to me, in a brotherly way. After all, he was the only stable brother I had.

With that thought in my head, I decided to do something serious about this. In fact, I was going to do the most serious thing I could.

I was going to tell Libra about it.

I threw the bed sheets off my body and quickly slipped on my sweatpants, before I made my way to the living room, where my instable brother was sulking on the couch.

'Hey, Lib,' I grinned, already knowing a way to tell him. 'How you doing?' His eyes immediately found mine, but quickly looked away the second after.

'Fine.'

I grinned a little more and slowly walked around the table, approaching the couch. 'So... you probably noticed you were alone in there, hm?'

'Sagittarius is probably over at another place,' Libra stated, his lips forced together after every sentence. 'Again.'

It was almost funny how Lib was trying to control his emotions. I smirked as I made a bet with myself of how big his explosion would be. 'Well, he'll be away for many days from now,' I said casually and turned away a bit, and I noticed Libra's suspicious eyes following me. He couldn't hold in the question, either.

'What do you mean by that?'

'Oh, nothing...' I said, sanctimonious, but Libra stood up in one fluent move and to be honest, it was kind of threatening.

'Tell me.'

Was it me, or did Libra just start sounding like dad a lot? Whatever; I shrugged, smirked a little wider, then claimed: 'Sag has decided to move in with Virgo, that's all.'

'HE HAS WHAT?' Libra screamed all of a sudden, with such level of unexpectedness that even I didn't see it coming. Well, looked like I had lost a bet there.

'WHERE IS HE NOW?' my brother roared, and it was then I decided that sending this Libra up to Sag, might not be an amazing idea after all.

'He's – he's not here,' I quickly said and stepped in front of Lib when he wanted to pass the table. 'Why don't you calm down for a bit and we'll talk about it, like, never again?'

'Calm down?' Libra groaned, and took another step towards me. 'I'm not gonna calm down! Sag has left us for no reason at all! I can't calm down over that!'

It was weird, but the fact he said "us" instead of "me" made me feel a tiny bit better about the situation. Perhaps I did have two sane brothers after all.

'Lib, relax for a bit,' I said, and in the meantime, I realized just this couldn't have made him this angry. Something was going on. 'Are you alright?' I asked him, but all I got back was another groan.

'I'm perfectly fine,' Libra huffed, and turned his back on me. Luckily, I was the steadfast among us and I wasn't just going to give up like that. 'Libra, come on. I can see something's going on. What is it, did someone around here bother you?'

His muscles clenched and I knew I had a path to go. 'Alright, so someone bothered you. Who is it and what did they do?'

'They didn't do anything,' Lib's voice muttered. 'That's the problem.'

He sat back down on the couch, but instead of having an angry glare captured in his eyes, it was changed for an easy, almost sad look. I walked over to him and sat down next to him, waiting for him to say or do anything.

At last, he looked up. 'Taurus... do you know how it feels, to be – you know – confused and overthinking about – eh – someone?'

'Yeah,' I responded, and even though I didn't know exactly what he meant, I had a small clue and for some reason, my thoughts immediately passed on to Aries.

Before I even had time to comprehend any of it, Lib went on: 'Well... lately, I've been, kind of, thinking and feeling that stuff... you know.' He looked away from me, and as I looked up I noticed his cheeks were red-blushed, making me frown mentally. Wait, something real was going on with him? He wasn't just being an attention-seeker?

'So... just to make sure we're talking about the same thing,' I said slowly, 'this is about girls, right?' 'Y-Yeah, sort of,' Libra muttered and gazed down to his knees. 'But if you ever tell someone, I won't hesitate to tell them the same thing about you.'

'Wha- I don't have a – you know – a crush on someone,' I quickly stated, at which Libra looked at me with the "dude-no-way" expression. 'Taurus, I'm your brother, you can tell me. Besides, I already knew you have a crush on Aries.'

'Excuse me?' I shot up from the couch and took a step back from the weird thing on the couch that had just claimed that I had a crush on – on – ugh, never mind. I shook my head for a bit and turned back to Libra. 'I do not have a crush on her.'

'You've had a crush on her from the moment you knew her name,' Libra teased, and I stepped away again. 'I thought she was a dude when I first knew her name!'

'Why are you denying this?' my brother asked me, with a calm I hadn't seen in a long time. It was the typical Libra-calm, the calm he had before all of this and that's when I really realized; boy, this place was actually changing us.

But I also knew Libra wouldn't let go of it until I fell for his stupid technique of doom, so I decided to give him the same treatment: 'Okay, but enough about me for now. You were starting this, and it was you who came on to the – the girl thing. So, anyone you're taking a liking for, hm?'

Libra's jaw clenched for a bit, but he relaxed soon and turned away again with the same blush I'd seen earlier. 'If you're really that great at paying attention, you should already know.'

He was right. I knew. His words alone brought me back to the last discussion we had, where he also accused me of liking Aries, and where I accused him of liking –

'Aquarius?' I guessed, and when he nodded, I softly chuckled. 'Well, look at us. We're doing great, hm?' 'At least my crush isn't on a Dwarf,' Libra stated, at which I groaned again. 'Will you quit it? Besides, I thought you wanted to "stay neutral in the fight"?' Libra shrugged and grinned widely. 'Ah, I'm screwed anyway. What, surprised because I know actual language?' he asked me when I frowned at his words. 'Come on. But, nonetheless, I'm still very angry at Sagittarius, so I'm going to seek him and give him hell.'

'Good luck with that,' I chuckled and let him pass me. As soon as he disappeared and I finally heard the front door close, I sighed deeply and sank down on the couch. Damn, my brothers really were a confusion.

I remembered thinking that same afternoon "alright, I'm going to let go off the weird conversation Lib and I had and I'm going to get some good sleep tonight".

Gee, I really was funny for thinking that.

It was about 4 a.m., and I had absolutely no sleep at all. Libra's words had been bothering me for all night long, and while I was thinking about the things he said, I'd gotten up and started pacing around my room.

Libra said I had a crush on Aries. Every time I thought of that, the feeling in my stomach tried to tell me he was right, while my brain kept screaming it couldn't possibly be.

At the same time, I was worrying about Libra himself. He acted so calm, this afternoon... but only when we were talking. So – did that mean he was upset and angry because Sag an I didn't spend enough time with him?

Ugh, I hated situations like this, where everything came together in one, big chaos – how ironic. I suddenly started to wonder about the backstory of this place, until my head got clouded with thoughts about Libra, Aries and Sag again.

Stupid Libra. Stupid Sag. Stupid everyone. Stupid –

In complete fuss, I turned around and kicked the wall as hard as I could.

Too hard.

I watched in horror how the spot in the wall I'd kicked became a rip and slowly teared down with a lot of sound, until I was staring at a small hole in the wall dividing my room from another.