The sequel to BUY ME! is HERE!! Okay, if this chapter is boring then MY APOLOGIES first of all. I want to get through with the beginning and move on to the funny parts, the plot and of course, the romance but this story may lack a bit of it, you'll see why. Anyway, please enjoy! And if you missed it, I have the lemon up for Buy Me! Rated M (obviously). Check out my profile and, of course, you have been warned my friends! Ta ta!

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Ch.1 Once you leave high school, you'll wish you were still in it

Life couldn't get any better for Nero. Once the seniors graduated and the underclassmen threw their homework and excess papers into the air in jubilance when the bell rang for the last day of school, Dante had hurried to his room to give him a kiss hello for the tenth time that day.

And molest him in those piles of papers. With the door closed and locked of course.

"Come on, Dante, I can't believe you're celebrating along with those kids," Nero remarked amusingly as he struggled to flip the older man over.

"Well, babe, why not?" He pinned the other's hands over his head and gave a quick kiss to his forehead. "Now for a whole summer, I have you all to myself until the vicious cycle starts all over again and then we have to go back to secretly romping in the janitor's closet. But I don't think it's a secret anymore anyway. Damn, I think they locked it with double bolts now so it'll be harder to crack…"

The math teacher just laughed in response. Dante finally moved off him and kissed his lover gently this time, caressing the side of his face with delicate fingertips. His eyes were shining with lust but majority of that lust was of loving and care. How that was even possible, Nero didn't know but he trusted his gut that it was so. The thought made him smile more.

"A penny for your thoughts?" A shiny brown copper coin magically appeared from out of nowhere between Dante's thumb and index finger. Now Nero had no idea what to trust in his gut now. But the grin on the Government teacher made him dismiss it.

"Just ah…well.." He scratched his nose nervously. "I was just thinking about the past month and er..I'm pretty happy about how everything's turning out. That's all-AAH!" He found himself getting hugged by the older man, being tossed down into the papers once again. This time a random D- grade paper landed on his face. "Pfft! Dante! Hey!"

"Heh, sorry, babe. Got a little carried away there…"

"Well, don't get too carried away because, um…I have something else I need to say."

Dante raised a questioning brow and pulled them both up off the floor. Nero silently took a seat on top of his desk while Dante picked a random student's desk and hunched his back, eyeing Nero solemnly. "Shoot."

"Look, it's not easy for me to say this but…at the beginning of the year, IsigneduptobeateacherforthesummerschoolsessionIhopeyou'renotmad!" he blurted out all in one breath. He waited for a response but none came and then slowly looked up at the other teacher to find him sighing.

"Boy, you had me going for a moment there! I seriously thought you were going to tell me that you weren't gay and then leave me!" he boasted in relief and it almost made Nero fall off his desk in shock. "This is great, babe! Now we can be together again in school. I forgot to tell you that I'm being forced against my own will (again) to help out the school and do the summer session too or Randoff's going to cut my pay next year. Guess I'll need to go borrow some power tools for that closet door now. I'll be back!" With that being said, Dante hopped off the desk, gave Nero a quick kiss (with tongue, might I add), and zoomed out the door with a quick goodbye, leaving the young silver haired man to roll his eyes. His head suddenly popped out from outside.

"Just so you know, I'm still thinking up a plan to get your cute little butt back for that first time."

Nero feared for his cute lil butt.

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"Ah! Mr. Speis! A word, if you please!"

"Look, Mr. Randoff, I already apologized for breaking the coffee machine last week AND paid for it. What else do you-"

The principal waved a hand dismissingly. "No, no, it's not about that, at all, Mr. Speis. Please come in my office. It will only be a few moments. And er…why do you have that box of tools?"

Dante raised it slightly and grinned. "Oh this? Just borrowing it for..er…my car! Got a loose bolt. Ol' Jimmbo said I could!"

"Uh…huh." Mr. Randoff said it in an "I'm-not-buying-it" tone. "This way, Mr. Speis."

Some minutes later...

"WHAT?! Are you shitting me?!"

"Language, please, Mr. Speis," Randoff said with a slight twitch in his brow.

"Sorry, sorry, but…wow." Dante ran a hand through his silver locks and he couldn't keep his heart from pumping 3 times faster than usual. Almost nine months ago, he turned in an application for Washington DC's prestigious private university, Soho U, the college that every student at Rowland High School would kill to get into, next to the Ivy Leagues. The position he applied for was obviously a professor position in American Government studies but it was a thousand in one chance of anyone getting the job, especially for someone from a "public" school. Anyone who had a job at Soho U was set for life with a grand reputation and, of course, a big paycheck every month. Some of the other teachers had laughed at him for even trying to apply but after the exciting news that Randoff had told him, he would make them choke on their chuckles.

"Okay, before you call the paramedics for me…" he took a deep breath and looked at his boss straight in the eye. "…you're not punking me, right?"

A smile graced the elder's face. "No…Dante. They think you're a worthy candidate for the position. It's not final but here's the proof to your doubts." He pulled out from his desk a manila colored folder and placed it between them. Dante gingerly flipped it to mailing address side and the memory of getting accepted into college washed over him. He had failed the first time getting in but after working another two years in a second high school aka community college, he received the acceptance letter in the mail, getting into his first college choice. It was like all his hard work drained away from him to leave a feeling of deep accomplishment. If he was one of those sappy kids that cried, then tears would have been rolling down his face but instead, there was only a proud smile.

"I…I still can't believe it..No way…"

"Well, I read some of the contents of the mail and it says the board wants to meet you personally. So now, the summer session for you will be dropped so you can go for two months in Washington DC."

"Whoa, it can't get any better than-what did you say?!" Dante's eyes almost bugged out of his head as he tightly grasped his armchairs and dropped the folder.

"The summer session is dropped-?"

"No no, after that…two…months?!"

"Y-yes, Mr. Speis. It says they want to stay there in DC for the time being to check out the campus and see that you can really teach the students. Think of it as an evaluation."

"Y-yeah but…two whole months?" His voice faltered and he repressed a deep urge in sigh. "Wait…a minute..if I get the position then…"

The thought clicked in his head like a firearm shooting a single bullet.

If he got the position then him and Nero would have to have a long distance relationship. When he applied for the job, Dante didn't expect to have any kind of relationship with his co-workers until Nero came along and the teacher auction changed everything. Now, he had something to put on the line and it was something not taken lightly. Again, he ran his hand through his hair, trying to calm himself down but it wasn't working or providing any comfort. Time was needed to think it over.

He quickly said his goodbyes and headed out the door back to Nero's room, wondering if the young math teacher was still there. The unlocked room gave him the answer before he met up with a pissed off looking Nero.

"Hey babe, sorry for the hold up. Randoff had to talk to me.."

Nero's expression completely changed going from mad to understanding. "Was it bad?"

"Oh..oh no, it's not bad. Actually, it's one of the best news I've ever gotten in my life," the older man said airily. "You know Soho University, right?"

His lover's eyes went wide. "Well, of course."

"Well…I…I'll be going away for the whole summer over there. To teach."

"…Um, is that really a bad thing, Dante?"

"Huh?"

"Well, think about it. Two months isn't bad. It's a small sacrifice to make. Plus, Soho U? Are you kidding me? A position there is like…a free membership into the Bel Air Country Club in California!" Nero exclaimed, emphasizing it with his arms flailing around, causing the Government teacher to take a step back.

"Nero, you're not letting me finish here…"

When the younger man realized this, he quickly apologized and let the other continue. Dante raised up the manila folder.

"I applied to that school for a position about nine months ago and they…they think I'm a good candidate and may possibly make me a professor there. So then we will be…" He couldn't finish when he saw the tinge of sadness on Nero's face.

"…oh."

Nero and Dante both stood in silence, never making eye contact. The math teacher moved to the window and gazed passed the cheap school blinds and out to the sunset inching down into the horizon. The first thing that popped into his mind was-

"You should go for it, Dante."

'Never be selfish.'

"But-But Nero-"

The younger man turned around and granted Dante one of his rare smiles that curved his icy blue hues with the softness of his cheeks. It always took the older man's breath away and it was doing its job now. "Dante…this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. And…if you actually don't like the place, then you come back. As simple as that!" He walked over to Dante and patted his shoulder.

"Are you-" Nero didn't want to hear him talk anymore. Any moment longer then he would have punched the other in the jaw. He cut off Dante with a soft press on the lips and hands running expertly into the other's hair, tugging pleasantly at the roots to earn a quiet moan. The bad/good news cleared away, only for a few precious seconds during the sweet kiss and it was enough to settle down Dante and keep Nero from chaining up the other teacher so that he wouldn't leave. The math teacher pulled away first and gave one last peck on Dante' nose.

"Don't worry, all right, old man?" he said jokingly. A small chuckle escaped Dante as he hugged the younger man tightly.

"I promise to come back as quick as I can, yeah?"

Nero could feel something clench at his chest as he clung tightly to Dante's shirt. "…yeah."

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Ring! Ring! Ring!

"Speis Residence, Vergil speaking."

"Please don't hang up, this is an emergency!"

"…you get 10 seconds, Dante."

He took a deep breath and quickly began his explanation. The more Vergil listened to his dim witted twin brother, the more his scowl turned into a shocked expression that left him speechless by the time Dante was done talking.

"Verge? VERGE?! Aw damn it, he did it again-"

"I'm still here."

"…oh. Well…did you hear my request at the end?"

He could hear the other sigh heavily into the receiver and thought this time Vergil was going to hang up but then he heard him say, "I'll do it." The silver haired man did a happy victory dance that Vergil was glad to be on the phone for and not there right next to Dante to see it.

"Hey, bro? There's one more thing, if you don't mind?" Dante asked seriously and his older twin detected the tone, setting himself into his black leathered armchair as he tightened his grip on the receiver.

"And what's that?"

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Vergil's back, baby! :)

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