Y'know, I was gonna make them meet and introduce themselves, but I got lazy so they already know each other. Thanks.

(Also hey guys, y'all might wanna check out the character descriptions I've got, if you're one of those people who sometimes skips that and goes straight to the first chapter-like me!)

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I HAVE

THE WORST

LUCK

EVER.

Why was he saying this repeatedly in his head? Because he, Libra Scalene, had literally just stumbled upon a couple making out in the freaking alley, and now the male of the couple had him pressed up against a wall.

How did this happen?

If he was being honest, it was his own fault. While trying to find his way to the summer apartment, he heard a thump from the alley and had instinctively went into there.

Whiiiiiiiiich turned out to be the worst mistake ever.

Leaning against the wall was a silver-haired male and a brown-haired girl, whom he was currently making out with passionately. Not used to such blatant PDA, Libra had let out a little squeak in embarrassment. Before he could run out, the male looked up. "Hmmm?" His eyes bored like icicles into his as a borderline sadistic smile appeared on his face and he licked the saliva off his lips. "What do we have here? A trespasser?"

Okay, don't get Libra wrong, it took a lot for him to get tongue-tied, but this was definitely one of the moments. A mixture of annoyance and embarrassment swirled inside of him, as he started backing up. "If I'm trespassing, then why don't you two move to a more private room instead of an open alley?"

The male's mouth flicked up into grin. "What a spectacular idea, if only I was interested." He let go of the girl. "Thanks for playing, sweetheart." The girl, also looking flustered, clutched her purse to her chest, madly blushing, and ran off.

Libra watched her go. "Geez, people these days, no shame whatsoever-"

WHAM.

Suddenly he found himself pressed against the wall, hands pinned above his head by none other than the silver-haired male as he leaned in close. "What's a pretty little thing like you doing here, hmm? Don't you know it's dangerous? You could..." He leaned closer, breath cool on his neck. "Attract some unwanted attention..."

So yeah, that brought Libra to his current problem. Figuring out if he was going to beat up this guy's butt for having the nerve to do something so indecent to an innocent girl in broad daylight, or send him flying for having the nerve to try and do the exact same to him.

"You... damn... PERVERT!!!"

Eventually, he chose to do both and subsequently did so.

The silver-haired male chuckled from the ground as Libra stalked away, still irritated. "You foolish boy. I'm... not even gay."

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Taurus was lost. Again.

Honestly, it wasn't his fault! All that happened was that he maybe-okay he did-get distracted by a very pretty book display in a window and wandered away from his friends! (He had purchased that book, but now the problem was how to get home to read it properly)

"Let's see..." He held out his map, turning it this way and that. "According to this map, the nearest coffee shop in which Libra or Capricorn might be found is... a few right turns and a left later? Wait, I missed that street earlier, shoot-"

Suddenly a loud crash sounded and a shoe came flying out an alleyway. A very familiar voice shouted, "WHAT THE HELL CAPRICORN WHY'D YOU MAKE ME DO THAT?!!?!?!"

"Oh, never mind," Taurus said, folding up his map. "Found them."

A moment later, Capricorn came limping out of the alley, holding his cheek, which had a red shoe mark on it, looking hurt. Although the playful twinkle in his eye betrayed that. "Ow, ow, Libby, that hurt!!"

Libra came marching out the alley next, looking enraged. One of his feet was missing a shoe. He picked up the one that was on the ground and put it back on. "You absolute bastard, WHAT HAVE A TOLD YOU ABOUT MAKING ME PRETEND I DON'T KNOW YOU?!"

"But you did such a wonderful job! I was getting bored of her anyways."

"Oh yeah? THEN TELL ME, WHY THE HELL DID YOU JUST PRETEND TO HIT ON ME, HUH?!?!"

"'Cause Libby's cute and adorable when he's angry and I wanted to rile you up!"

"YOU-"

Before Libra could taekwondo-flip-kick Capricorn into tomorrow and hospitalize him-again, it had happened once when they first met (since then, Ophiuchus, their 'manager' had sternly made them promise not to do such a thing again)-Taurus quietly cleared his throat. "Ahem."

Immediately the two turned towards him. Libra calmed down. "Oh. Taurus."

Capricorn smirked. "Are you lost again?"

"Yep, seems like it," Taurus confirmed. "What were you two up to?"

Libra huffed, crossing his arms. "Well, I was just minding my own business when I came across this hooligan and-"

"Excuse me, if anything, you're the hooligan here," Capricorn interrupted, poking Libra's cheek. "Hoo~li~gan~~"

Libra's eye twitched. "Listen here, you-"

"I think I get it," Taurus interrupted again-before something else could explode (like Libra's temper) "You saw him with some random chick and being all full-on PDA, interrupted, pretended not to know Capri, then Capri hit on you, then you flipped him, and now here we are."

"Pretty much~!" Capricorn sang cheerily, seeming unaware of the rumbling volcano of a person behind him.

"YOU-"

Just then a much louder, far more annoyed voice shouted out, "THERE YOU ARE, YOU COW!!!" 

"Oh, there he is," Taurus remarked idly, stepping aside a little. A moment later, Pisces crashed to a halt in front of him, leaving gravel everywhere. He was huffing and his red hair was in a mess. Taurus waved. "Hey, Pisce-"

"WHAT IN THE WORLD DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, GETTING LOST LIKE THAT?!" Pisces interrupted him loudly. "I SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU NOT TO GET LOST, AND THEN WHAT DO YOU DO, GET LOST!! WHAT GOES ON IN THAT BRAIN OF YOURS I REALLY WANT TO KNOW BECAUSE THIS IS THE FOURTH TIME THIS WEEK AND I'M GETTING REALLY TIRED OF HAVING TO RUN AFTER YOU LIKE SOME NANNY!! IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO GET ANNOYED AND WORRIED AS HECK, TRY AND NOT GET LOST, WILL YA?! I THOUGHT I TAUGHT YOU, WHEN YOUR INTEREST IS DIVERTED, ASK THE PERSON WITH YOU IF THEY CAN ACCOMPANY YOU TO THAT OBJECT OF YOUR INTEREST, INSTEAD OF WANDERING OFF ON YOUR OWN THEN GETTING LOST BECAUSE OF THAT OBJECT OF INTEREST DISTRACTING YOU!! IF THIS HAPPENS ONE MORE TIME, I SWEAR I'M GOING TO MARCH INTO THE NEAREST PET SHOP, BUY A COLLAR, PUT A TRACKING DEVICE ON IT, THEN HANDCUFF YOU TO ME SO THIS KIND OF SITUATION DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN! I HAD TO RUN ALL THE WAY OUT HERE, AND THIS DISRUPTED MY SCHEDULE BY EXACTLY FIFTEEN MINUTES, SO YOU'D BETTER HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE FOR WHY YOU'RE ALL THE WAY OUT HERE WHEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WITH GEM AND VIRGO SHOPPING! DO YOU KNOW WHAT KINDS OF PAINS I'LL HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO REVISE MY SCHEDULE, ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS-"

(Creator's Note: If y'all actually read through that the first time through, you deserve a VIP sticker and a dedication.)

Taurus held up a book. "I actually got this."

Pisces instantly deflated. "Oh. Well. I was actually planning to buy that later. Would you lend it to me when you're done?"

Taurus beamed. "Of course~!"

"Wow," Libra observed. "It's kind of amazing how Pisces can revert to a normal guy so quickly. Taurus needs to teach me how to do that." Whilst Taurus was usually the cause of Pisces shouting, he was also the only one who knew how to deflate Pisces instantly, a magic trick that none of them so far had managed successfully for too long.

Right then Pisces noticed them. "Oh, there you are, Capricorn, I assume you and Libra got into another fight?"

Capricorn beamed. "No~o~o~ Libby's just to~o cute for me to resist, what can I do about that~?"

"YOU-"

"All right, all right." Pisces cut off Libra's raging with a dismissive hand. "Let's just go home. I'm not in the mood for your shenanigans after racing here, and Mini still needs supervising with the summer camp and school schedules."

"Summer school and camp!" Taurus exclaimed gleefully, holding onto Pisces's arm as he skipped along, happy now that things were resolved (somewhat) peacefully.

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Gem could feel a migraine forming in his head, and it wasn't even time for lunch yet. Really, why in the world was he stuck watching such a... such a...

The said person he was assigned to watch over, the orange-haired Virgo, suddenly slipped on a pencil and flew backward. "Wah!" Before he could topple to the ground in a painful not-at-all-graceful-fall, Gem quickly caught him and righted him, guiding him to safely sit in his seat. Virgo smiled sheepishly up at him. "Thanks!"

Gem sighed a little. "Not a problem."

... Such an AIRHEAD?

It all started in the morning when Mini, preoccupied with signing everyone up for summer camps and school, asked him to accompany Virgo and Taurus to the mall. Everyone else was busy; Libra was missing (probably at Starbucks again or something), Capricorn out to do who-knows-what (probably hitting on some poor girl again), Sagittarius and Scorpio were getting dart-throwing lessons from Aries (which was probably going to backfire on everyone later, but oh well) Cancer was holed up in his room again as was Aquarius (nothing out of the ordinary there), Pisces and Leo were helping Mini (thank goodness, Gem really didn't need his uptight schedule shoved in his face right now) so he was the only one open.

Which turned out to be a much harder task than he'd bargained for. In the space of the fifteen-minute walk to the closest mall, Virgo:

- Tripped five times

- Bumped into like a million people

- Got hit on the head by something three times

- Almost fell over something that just so happened to run in his path

- Got distracted by a butterfly or something else of the sort

-among other antics. Honestly, Gem was amazed that Virgo wasn't dead yet or hospitalized every time he set foot outside the house. (Then again, from what he heard Virgo had no shortage of accidents inside the house as well...)

Thankfully, Taurus was a little easier to handle. He was a little... on the strange side, but knew how to look out for Virgo, which helped. All Mini said for him was: "Don't get him lost."

... On the way back from the mall, they had stopped to get Virgo drinks, and Gem promptly lost Taurus. 

How, he wasn't even sure, but when he called Mini, she just said stoically, "Just leave it, if you're out with Virgo and you're trying to find Taurus at the same time, you're going to fail, and I don't want to see Virgo hospitalized today." Then HUNG UP.

Oh, words would be thrown later.

Apparently, this was something that happened a lot.

HE'D ONLY BEEN LIVING FOR THEM FOR ONE WEEK, SO HOW THE HECK WAS HE SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT?

In a way, Taurus needed even more supervision than Virgo, because when he got lost he got lost. Like, really lost. Which meant everyone had to put everything else to a screeching halt to find him and make sure he didn't die or do something to get them all in big trouble. (One time, he heard from Mini, he went to the police station and calmly 'kidnapped' an officer to help him find the house again. Panic had clearly ensued since the said officer was on the verge of suing him for walking in and committing what was categorized as 'a stupid child's prank'.)

After Mini HUNG UP on him, Gem decided to call Pisces-who apparently had an entire chart of which he kept tabs on how, where, and how much time it took to find him when Taurus got lost-for help when it did happen, of course.

"WHAT?!" Pisces roared through the phone. Virgo had looked up curiously from his milkshake, whipped cream on his nose. Gem waved to let him know it wasn't too important. (It was.) "I THOUGHT MINI EXPRESSIVELY TOLD YOU NOT TO GET HIM LOST-THAT GODDAMN AIRHEADED, CARELESS, RIDICULOUS COW BASTARD-" After a few minutes of Pisces raging at the non-existent Taurus, he finally calmed down enough to say, "You take Virgo and go home. I'll go out and try and find him."

That sounded like a great deal for Gem, so he agreed and took Virgo home (keeping a hand firmly on his shoulder the entire time-which didn't stop him from tripping and bumping, but at least it kept him from wandering away too much).

At that moment, Virgo looked up from his drawing and held it up proudly. "Haha! I'm done!" He eagerly stood up to show Gem, then promptly slipped on a stray sock and fell over again. Gem caught him again. "Sorry! Thank you!"

"... No problem..." Gem sighed and rubbed his head. He really needed to find a better occupation if he wanted to stay sane. Or maybe find a different household.

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Yeah, so I'm taking a break from 10,000+ word chapters, as you can see right here~. Hope you enjoyed the first chapter!

Sayonara, I'm out~

-A.A.C.