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Chapter Seventeen - Twitterpatted

It seems today that all you see is violence and movies and sex on tv, but where are those good old fashion values ON WHICH WE USED TO RELY! Lucky there's a family guy… lucky these- these a fam… I'm gonna run out of intros and songs one day. Where were we? Oliver's training is slow… but progress is being made. Jasper comforts Oliver after it all becomes a bit too much. Both promising to help each other out with their dreams moving forward into the future.

"Again!" Oliver gritted his teeth as he swung the heavy training sword into the side of a practice dummy, embedding it deeply into its side. "Again!" Pell said again, Oliver felt a bead of sweat roll down his face as he ripped the sword out of the dummy and swung at it again. "Again!" Oliver merely grits his teeth and repeats the swing and stance.

"You have come far Oliver, I believe you can join in with the other recruits now… just remember to continue your strength training." Pell said looking down at Oliver, who was leaning forward against his knees panting softly. "Tomorrow we will begin the other half of your training" Oliver looked up at Pell with dread in his eyes. "What do you mean? I thought that I was joining the others in their training?" Oliver questioned.

"You will be, but this training is completely different from this. It will be on how to work with Princess Vivi and how to be a Palace guard. This is a huge responsibility Oliver. Only a select few ever get this chance." Pell said with all seriousness. "I'm ready Pell" his mentor looked at his pupils face, Oliver had a determined glint in his eye.

Pell smiled at Oliver proudly, "I know you are, meet me at the front of the Palace at eleven. That should be enough time to have a wash and get changed after training tomorrow. I must be going now Oliver, see you tomorrow". With that Pell too off into the sky. "Dramatic bastard" Oliver laughed.

"Haha finally moving up in the world I see, good job Oliver. You finally get to play with the big boys" Van said as he, Jasper and Oliver made their way through the streets of Alubarna. The destruction of the city center five months ago was just a distant bad dream at this point.

"Don't think we will go easy on you just because we are your friends Ollie" Jasper said playfully ask he bumped his shoulders against Oliver. This caused the shorty boys face to flush, "ye-yeah. I don't expect you to" Oliver said with a soft smile.

"I'm excited to finally learn how to fight properly, I've just been doing strength training and using a big sword to learn basic stances."

"Oliver as much as I love your amazing advancement through basic training we have a three a clock on our hands" Van said in a rush pushing past Jasper and Oliver. "What do you mea-" Jasper was cut off by Vans excited mumbling "Code red, code red, code red It's a hot chick our age coming towards us" Van said rather excitedly.

Jasper and Oliver leaned around Van to get a better look at the approaching girl. The girl heading there was a brunette beauty. She had tan skin and sparkling green eyes. The real kicker was the fact that she was wearing a tight fitting white dress that showed off her new assets.

"Ok… and what do you want us to do about it?" Jasper asked confused, raising his left eyebrow. "Yeah I'm with Jasper on this one Van, it's just a girl" Vans swiveled around to face his two oblivious friends. "You do realize that she is smoking hot right?" Van asked in mock horror.

'I don't know what Van is on about.. She is pretty but it's not like I'm attracted to her…' Oliver thought to himself as he went to have another look at her. 'Even though I'm now a dude… I don't think I'm attracted to girls. Does this mean I'm technically gay?' Oliver's face scrunched up in thought.

Van caught Oliver's look and Jasper's non-interested gaze and sighed in sadness.
"Oh you poor, poor fools. You have yet to learn the magic a woman's body can hold… watch this", with that Van spun on his heel and swaggered towards his unsuspecting victim.

Oliver and Jasper shared a look before watching their friend interact with the female. They could just hear them talking from where they were. "Hello lovely lady, my name is Van… and what pray tell is yours" Van said as he gave a small mock bow in front of the girl. The girl stared at Van for a moment before answering "...Its Asvyata" she replied hesitantly.

"What a beautiful name, Asvyata-chan" Van said softly "I could help but notice your beauty from all the way down the street, surely you would be interested to hang out with a man like me?" Van asked as seductively as he could. "Thanks.. But no thanks ah… Van was it, I'm a bit preoccupied… have a nice day" The girl replied simply, and before Van couple even utter another word she was already walking away.

Van fell to his knees in defeat, "dammit" he mumbled showing clear heartbreak on his face. He was brought out of his woes by hearing his two friends laughing at him. "That was stone cold there Van" Jasper giggled, "we definitely have a lady's man in our presence hahaha" Oliver added.

"Oh shut up guys, it's not like you guys can do much better. I bet you guys couldn't do better" Van said gruffly clearly upset over his failure. "Pass" both boys said at the same time, "what, why?" Van asked in confusion. "Wel- well I'm not the inter-interested in girls at the moment you know… just want to focus on training… up training" Oliver supplied quickly.

"Hmmm… well I just don't want to bug some random chick into asking her out, if I'm gonna date someone I would like to already know them you know… I don't like dating strangers" Jasper answered his voice going softer towards the end of his answer.

"Argh you both so weird.. I will catch you back at the brackets. I'm gonna see if I can snag myself a date with someone out here" With that Van stood up as he began his hunt.

"Our friend is weird" Oliver stated simply as he watched his friend go, "Van is Van not much we can do about that, all we can hope is that its not contagious" Jasper said Jokingly causing Oliver to laugh. Jasper's eyes brightened.

"What should we do now?" Oliver asked as he and Jasper made their way through random streets of the city. "Hmm well I like this" Oliver gave Jasper a confused look.

"What walking?" Oliver asked in confusion. "No… well, yeah. Only because you're here walking beside me" Jasper said smugly as he watched Oliver's face light up in a red blush. "Oh- oh um… that's nice. Oh wow look fresh apples" Jasper laughed as Oliver sped walked to a cart that had red granny smith apples.

"Two please" Oliver asked politely, "Haha certainly lad, two berrie pieces please" the vendor asked as he handed over two apples. Oliver grabbed the apples and gave the vendor his money be for turning and shoving an apple into Jasper's chest. "These are my favorite, eat one with me" Oliver said before eating his favorite apple.

Jasper smiled at Oliver as he ate his apple, finding it cute that Oliver took small precise bites and savored the flavor before taking another one. 'Wait.. cute?' Jasper froze mid bite.

Oliver noticed Jasper tense up, looking up he saw that Jasper had a far off look to his face and was holding the apple in front of his face, not doing anything. "Jasper you ok?" The question snapped Jasper out of it and when he looked at Oliver he blushed bright red at seeing his concerned expression.

"Ahh.. yeah I'm fi-fine" Jasper stuttered rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment. Feeling a new tight feeling in his gut as he stared at the face of his friend. "Hey Oliver, I kn-know we have been having a blast out here… with just the tw-two of use but I just remembered that dad wanted help in the forge this afternoon" Jasper explained quickly as he took a few steps back.

"Oh.. ok, well I will see you at the mess hall then?" Oliver asked kind of sadly, "Yep, I'm just gonna.. Yeah" and with that Jasper took off. 'That's not the way to the Palace' Oliver thought as he watched his friend run the opposite direction he said he was going in.

Oliver was sitting on top of a roof over looking at the Alubarnas markets, watching the vendors, people and a few performers that were down there trying to make money. Oliver usually felt happy as he watched someone put a flaming sword down their throat… but now he just felt cold for some reason.

'Maybe it's because of the way Jasper just up and left me..' Oliver thought sadly ' I don't know why I feel so sad that he up and left me…' Oliver thought as he could feel the butterflies in his stomach multiply. 'Its not like I like him or anything, his stupid hair and his stupid smile…' the butterflies seemed to go crazy and Oliver could feel his cheeks go warm.

"Oh no…" Oliver muttered out sadly. "I have a crush on my best friend" he said in sudden realization. Oliver gripped his forearms painfully to try and snap himself out of such nonsense. 'I can't like him.. This will ruin our friendship with him and possibly Van! I can't ruin that, I don't know what I'd do if I lost them' Oliver grabbed his sides. 'Do they even accept gay people here? Who would I ask about this… oh god what do I do' Oliver thought miserably.

Jasper had managed to run far enough away where he thought Oliver wouldn't be able to see or catch up to him. "Oh god, I hope he isn't upset…" Jasper said worryingly, "Who's upset?" "Ahhhhh! Van don't sneak up on me like that!" Jasper growled at his friend. "Woah woah calm down" Van said as he lent against the wall Jasper was standing near. "What up.. Where did Ollie go?" Van asked as he looked around for his friend.

"Shouldn't you be asking out girls" Jasper spat out. Van looked at jasper with surprise "Wow you really are upset aren't you? What happened between you and Oliver? Did he like to find your power ring before you did or something?" Van asked in confusion.

"No… no nothing like that" Jasper said as he calmed down, he looked at Vans face for a moment thinking things over before dragging him into a secluded side street. "Woah Jas, why are we coming down here?", "I have to tell you something but I don't want anyone to hear. "Ok...what is it" Van asked confused as he watched his friend nervously shuffle his hands and feet.

"I… I think I'm gay" Jasper forced out. He glanced up at his friend's shocked face, his confidence faltering for a second before he finished with "and I think I have a crush on Oliver".