<<Failure By Design[SETH]

[danny cole]

And when I wake up you're the first to call.
This is one more late night basement song.
And I'm so sore.
My voice has gone to hell.

He was in an unusual mood, and for once his thoughts weren't sullen, angry, or irritated. Instead, his horrible attitude was replaced by a better, joking one, and it was as happy as he could muster himself to be. He hummed slightly as he walked, and this attracted more attention then usual - the students of this boarding school had come to associate him with unhappiness. They cast sideways looks at him and giggled, whether at his obvious lack of humming skills or that he was making any noise at all. Usual he would walk through the halls quietly, his feet barely making a sound as he treaded along the place that caused him so much gloominess. It was a trait, however, that he prized - it made it easier to sneak out at night or run away from someone he didn't want to see. But now he was singing some unknown, weirdly distorted tune to himself, and people noticed. But instead of angering him, their obvious laughs to him only amused. As two preppy-clad girls wandered past, pointing and chuckling, he turned his head in their direction lifted his upper lip in what appeared to be a snarl. He pierced them with his astonishing green eyes and a low growl emitted from his throat, rather like that of a lion. They gasped and scurried away, and he laughed and laughed and laughed his insane, scary laugh, though it came straight from his belly this time. People stared even more.

His ratty old backpack accidently bumped something as he walked on, and it caused a ring to sound, like a bottle hitting something hard. He swore loudly but it went unnoticed in this sea of students, and Danny let his breath slide out of him slowly. Though it wouldn't be that big of a deal if he got caught, he didn't want the plan to be ruined already. What waste of perfectly good money, planning, and time. He hitched his pack higher on his shoulder carefully and walked briskly along, the tune gone from his lips but the humor still in his eyes. The brush with the girls had elated him just a little further - he loved torturing them. If they were going to snicker behind his back, then he would have to do something in return. It was only fair. Hey, they brought it upon themselves - no need to deny it. And although he knew that his little vampire-ish growl would be all over the school by tommorrow, it only made his satisfaction more complete. If he could grin, then he surely would be now.

Turning into the building he walked past all of the students in the lounge, not even sparing them a glance but feeling eyes on his retreating frame. Shrugging, he pulled himself up the stairs and climbed to the second level, where all of the boys were intended to stay, far away from the girls. He laughed - did they really think that one level would keep the hungry, horny boys away from the equally as horny girls? He made a mental note to try sneaking up there sometime, although he had found no girls to his liking here. Of course, some were hot, but he just wasn't interested. It took a certain kind of girl to keep Danny's attention. But what was the difference of clothes when they would just be ripped off, anyway?

Finally reaching his destination, he stopped infront of the large wooden door and rapped on it three times, calling as he did so, "Dude, Seth, open up man! It's Danny."

[Seth Connelly]

Dude, Seth, open up man. It's Danny'

This was the sound that Seth was woken up to. What the fuck was Danny doing here so early. He opened his eyes to slits and looked at the electronic clock on his bedside table. It flashed 1:30. Okay, so maybe it wasn't so early. He was still tired. He shut his eyes again and lay there for a moment before hearing another knock. Rolling over he collided with another body. Opening his eyes he saw a flash of blonde hair laying in the bed next to him. A small smirk formed on his lips. He didn't remember anything about last night. Hell, he didn't even know this girls name. One thing he did know is that he was trashed last night. This was signified by the slight headache in his temples. Seth never really got hangovers. He would get mini headaches that went away with Advil easily. Apperently his accidental nudge had awoken the girl because she now rolled over and smiled at him. Seth's face remained emotionless. He simply looked at her before rolling out of bed and finding his boxers under the mess of clothes on his floor.

'I'm guess you don't need any help finding the door?'

He said to the girl, not even looking at her. He heard her scoff and hastly rise from the bed. Seth watched her get dressed. He had never seen anyone dress so quickly. She hussled out of the bedroom and Seth followed her lazily. She flashed him a dirty look before opening the door and storming out. Seth smirked and watched her walk out before turning his eyes to Danny, his best friend.

'Don't ask'

He said calmly before waving a hand to invite Danny in and made his way to the kitchenette area. Grabbing a bowl of ceral from one of the cabinates, he plunged his hand into it and pulled out a handful. Shoveling it into his mouth, he looked at Danny.

'What's up, dude?'

He asked with a mouth full of cereal. Seth was standing there in his boxers eating cereal from a box and his best friend didn't even seem the least bit surpised. This was Seth for you. A lazy, pathetic asshole. That's who he was and he dared anyone to change it.

[danny cole]

And this is one more sleepless night because we don't believe in filler.
Baby, if I could I'd sit this out.

He shifted from foot to foot as he waited impatiently for Seth to open the door. Fucking asshole. Of course he was still asleep - he would have slept all day if it wasn't for Danny waking him up. Although he was all for procrastination, he was always too hyped up to sit still. He only needed about three hours of sleep each night, so considering that he had gone to bed at five AM last night, he had woken up at about eight-thirty. Danny smirked slightly, wondering what time his best friend had gone to bed. It was one hell of a party last night, with girls swarming all over them drunkenly. Danny hadn't been in the mood to stomach them, so he drank his fill of Jack Daniels and left. No one seemed to mind, however - while Seth was a master with the ladies, Danny lacked that trait. He was too annoyed with their titters and giggles, which sometimes he could deal, but most of the time not. Sex was great, yeah, but not even the thought of that could stop him once he got angry. He had to leave before he hit one of them and got his ass in juvie for hurting a girl.

Lost in thought, he almost missed the soft muttering on the other side of the door, but not quite. Satisfied that he had rose the dickhead from his sleep, Danny pulled his hand back from the door where he had been a few seconds away from knocking again. It opened and a blonde walked out, looking rather hassled and insulted. Danny grinned at her and made smootchy noises, laughing when she snorted in disgust and clacked down the hall in her high-heeled shoes. He slipped inside and followed Seth to the kitchen area, sitting down on a hard-backed chair and proceeding to put his combat boot-clad feet upon the table, leaning back with an easy expression on his face. He liked that he was so comfortable around Seth. Though he was a lazy fucker with no morals, Danny loved him and would do anything for him. He watched his best friend eating cereal with his hand in his boxers, and wasn't preturbed. That was just Seth's way.

Pulling his feet of the table, he leaned down and grabbed his backpack which he had set on the floor, and unzipped it, extracting a bottle of vodka. "Grabbed it from the party last night. They never noticed." He snickered and put it on the table, examining the contents. "50 proof. Not bad. Wanna drink tonight?"

[Seth Connelly]

Seth couldn't help but burst out laughing as Danny made smoochy noises at the girl that had just left his dorm. That was so Danny. He wasn't really the man-whore that Seth was, but god damn was he an asshole. Seth couldn't count the number of times that Danny had been slapped by a girl for some smart ass statement. And that wasn't including the times that he had dodged the slaps. What could you say? Danny just had a way with words. While Danny had the sarcastic bit down to a tee, Seth knew the art of seduction just as well. Together, they were the dream team. They partied together, drank together, smoked together and eventually puked together. The two had been friends since their Freshman year at Banting. They were each other's Wing Man. There was really no separating the two.

Seth watched as Danny pulled a bottle of Vodka out of his backpack. He smirked and nodded in approval. Vodka wasn't really Seth's drink of choice, but you could make some pretty good mixed drinks with it. Seth preferred Jack. Plain and Simple. Mostly because it got you trashed way faster than anything else. Many people regarded him as an alcoholic, but he simply scoffed at this statement. He wasn't an alcoholic, he simply liked to have a good time. If anyone had a problem with that, then they could fuck off and die. That was his mind set about most people. That they could simply fuck off and die. Seth had the idea that no body was worth his time and he liked it that way.

'Grabbed it from the party last night. They never noticed.50 proof. Not bad. Wanna drink tonight?'

Seth nodded, the smirk never leaving his mouth. Automatically ideas began popping into his head. Where would the go? The beach. That would be perfect. Since it was fall, hardly anyone went to the beach. Especially at night. It was far too cold. But the cold didn't phase Seth. He liked it actually. Walking over to the table, he picked up the bottle of Vodka and read the label. It wasn't half bad. Expensive Vodka. Something only the rich kids could afford. It made sense that Danny had snagged it from the party last night, considering it was at some rich kids house.

Seth smiled at what he remembered of last night. The two had heard about the party and knew that they were not invited under any circumstances. So of course, they decided it was party crashing time. They had shown up at the house and the pseudo 'bouncer' attempted to stop them from entering the house. He was a burley Jock with huge muscles but no balls. When Seth and Danny had threatened him, he stepped aside easily. The dirty looks they were getting only elevated their moods. Walking around with smirks on their faces and drinks in their hands they had officially crashed the party. Coming back to earth, Seth looked down at Danny who had his feet on the table.

'Did you honestly think that I would say no to drinking tonight? C'mon, Danny, you know me better than that.'

He said as he lightly smacked his friend on the back of the head.

[danny cole]

We're not falling in love
We're just falling apart

Danny absent-mindedly tapped his fingers on the table, staring away Seth from some unseen object. But in his mind he was really seeing Raine, that pretty girl from the emos clan he had met. But she wasn't like the rest of her group, no, she was different... and that had irked his attention. As I said before, only a certain kind of girl could hold his attention, and she fell into that category. Embarrassingly so, however, as this had happened a while ago and he still hadn't told Seth. His best friend was bound to be offended that he hadn't been trusted with this piece of information from Danny, but he didn't know how to bring the subject about. In all of his seventeen years he had only had a crush on two girls, one that was purely sexual as she often came into his house wearing leather and holding rope. He chuckled inwardly at the memory, and then a frown pushed itself unto his face, for he was thinking. What was it about that girl that he so liked? It was crazy. He actually felt like a normal teenager for once.

He shrugged to himself and came around to the present just in time to hear Seth's reply and feel a sharp pain on the back of his head. He glared at his friend and rubbed it dramatically, as if he had sustained some serious injury from it. Then he laughed, swinging out of his chair and over to the sterio by the window, turning it on to a mix he had made for Seth. The first few bars of Fer Sure played and Danny sang along: "Fer sure maybe, fer sure not, fer sure eh, fer sure bomb." He sat up on the window sill, his long legs still able to touch to the ground, and tapped his foot on the floor. He wasn't able to sit still. Even in bed when he was getting his few hours of sleep, he had to twitch a hand or a leg until he fell asleep.

"I think we should invite that girl. You know, Raine Breire." As he said it he felt his face turning pink, and he looked away from Seth and buised himself in fucking with the sterio's volume.

[Seth Connelly]

Danny seemed...diffrent. At this exact moment he was staring out into the distance, apperently day dreaming. This was so unlike Danny because he was always so down to Earth and clear headed. Seth looked quizically at his friend. What was up with him? He had nevers seen Danny this way in all the years that he had known him. Shaking this from his head he watched Danny rub the place where Seth had smacked him dramatically. Seth rolled his eyes and shook his head at Danny. What a drama queen. Smirking, made his way farther into the kitchenette and found a bowl and spoon in the sink. They looked clean, so Seth grabbed them and poured some cereal. Then he made his way to the fridge. Opening it, he pulled out a carton of milk. Seth opened it and smelled it. It smelled good enough. He shrugged and poured some into his bowl. He stood there and watched Danny play with the stereo as he shoveled the cereal into his mouth.

'Fer sure maybe, fer sure not, fer sure eh, fer sure bomb'

Seth cringed as he heard this song come on the stereo. Then Danny started singing along and he cringed even more. Not because Danny couldn't sing or anything, the boy actually had a pretty amazing voice, but simply because the song was shitty.

'C'mon, Danny. You know how I hate that song!'

Seth covered his ears for dramatic effect. Danny turned away and began messing with the stereo again. Seth continued eating his cereal. It was amazing how these two interacted. They could be not talking at all, or barely talking and they would still understand eachother. That's what you get from a best friend.

'I think we should invite that girl. You know, Raine Breire.'

Raine Berire. That name. His mind flashed back to the night before when Danny hadn't showed up. He had been sitting on the beach with Raine, who had been in a very depressed state, trying to convince her to come up to his dorm. He looked over at Danny with surpise. Why would Danny want to invite a girl to drink with them? Then it hit him. Oh god, Danny had a crush on this girl. Seth smirked as Danny had turned away and was messing with the stereo system.

'Why?'

Seth asked, already knowing the answer.

[danny cole]

Danny shook his head at his friend's obvious lack of musical interest. Just to piss him off, he turned it up all the way, the beat booming. It was replied with by a bunch of angry school-dwellers, trying to study or read or whatever the hell they did on a saturday. He looked down upon them from the window and let out a horrible scream that sounded like a lion. The metal scream. They scattered away, still glaring at him but obviously too scared to say anything. He flicked the volume of the sterio down again and changed the song. Seth was the only one that he would ever listen to, and sometimes Danny even ignored him. The silence stretched, but not uncomfortably. That was the way they were: the two could hang out for three hours, talk during ten minutes of it, and it would be okay. They understood eachother on a level Danny had never thought he'd ever have with anyone.

His green eyes watched Seth as he fumbled around the kitchen, smelling milk and pouring it into his cereal. He laughed and shook his head - his best friend was obviously unable to see the expiration date on it, and Danny thought it would be funny not to enlighten him. But a moment later his laugh died in his throat as Seth smirked at him, asking simply, Why. That fucking asshole, he knew well why, Danny could read it on his face. But of course Seth was going to make him say it. He had never admitted it outloud, and the thought of doing so did not please Danny. He pondered that maybe if he didn't tell his best friend, just sat there in silence, the fact would go away and leave him alone. He didn't like liking a girl. It made him feel so... ordinary. As if his personality had gone and decided that it needed somebody else to complete him, besides the independent freak he was. But there was no escaping Seth and his gaze.

"Dickhead. I like her, as you very well know."

[Seth Connelly]

When Danny turned up the music, Seth couldn't take it. He walked over haistly and pushed Danny aside, turning off the stereo. Not only cause he hated that song, but also because he didn't want the dorm supervisor coming up and yelling at him for having his music too loud. This had happend on more than one occasion. Usually it was when Danny and Seth were drunk and decided that they wanted their music loud. Though, suprisingly, the supervisor never knew they were drunk. Well, he probably did, he just did nothing about it because he knew that nothing would stop the boys.

'God damn, Danny. You're an asshole, you know that right?'

Seth said with a smirk. The boys were always calling each other names and fucking with each other's heads. It was kinda how they showed their affection. They never really hugged or anything because that was not 'manly'. They just pushed and shoved each other around and called one another names.


'Dickhead. I like her, as you very well know.'

Damn. Danny knew Seth way too well. He knew his expressions and body postures more than Seth thought. He smirked at Danny's response, though. He didn't think Danny would actually just come out and say it. But apperentlly he was wrong. Danny had a crush. This was the first time in history that Seth had seen Danny like this. He was completely baffled. Who would think that someone could tame the wild beast inside Danny. Seth didn't think it was possible.

'Hah. I never thought I would see the day when Danny Cole was whipped. But yeah, we'll invite her'

Seth smirked at his comment. He was so sly sometimes.