"You're mad at him!!!!" 
The delinquent reminded herself as the school president grinned at her.

"You are mad at him!!!"
Her mind roared as she folded her arms and crossed her legs, looking away. "Hmmph!" she growled.

"You can't be mad at me forever." The usual hardass president smirked at his friend, poking her cheek.

"Yes, you can! You know why?!"
"You are an idiot."
"Exactly!"

"Now that is not fair…." He teased, fixing her uniform blazer as he did...As he still did even after all these months. "I don't even know why you are mad?"

"I can fix-

"You like when I fix your clothes, Nini." 

"Hmmph!"

"Darling Delinquent."

He gave her a smirk, seeing her cheeks turn red at the name.

'You are mad at him!!' Connie's mind screamed as she looked up away from him, lips in a cute pout, her eyebrows raised to keep from looking at his cute face.'No, Not cute...Stupid!'

"Cutie Criminal." He poked her cheeks again.

'Mad at him!'

"Gorgeous Gangsta." He chuckled, seeing her pout begin to drop a bit. 

'Raaage.'

"Vivacious Rulebreaker." He fixed her blouse leaving just the top latch unbuttoned, his brown eyes seeing her panther blacks turn to him as he did.

'Anger...He..he.'

"Alluring Assailant." He fixed the taller girl's bow tie, placing it through her folded collar.

'Don't you dare smile at him! Don't fall for his playfulness and teasing! Remember anger! Anger and rage for calling you THAT in front of others! For being an idiot...For…'

"My Berry Baddie." 

Connie hated( not really) how that name made her heart skip a beat and how the feel of his lips on her cheek killed all her anger. She glared at him, though. Him and his silly, stupid...sunny bight grin. 
It didn't look good with the black-eye he got from preventing her from fighting some lame she beat before. Along with calling her Berry Baddie, in front of the Student council...His gossipy friends! And everyone in the front yard! 

"You're an Idiot, Ste." She declared, cupping his cheeks, looking at his face with guilt, "can you see through you left?"

"20-20." He gave her a reassuring chuckle as he held her hands. "So no more guilting yourself."

"i'm not guilting myself, Universe." Caring aggression spilled from her tongue as she hugged him close around his broad shoulders, resting the shorter man's head above her chest. "I'm guilting you." She pressed on him more, laying her chin on his head.

"What..what?" Steven started to blush red as he began glancing around, "Berry, what if someone sees us?! Thought we were keeping our friendship a secret."

"Oh? Now he remembers!" Connie chastised, rubbing his scalp sweetly, "might be too late for that, student clueless president!"

"What?!"

"Think back to what you did..TO WHAT YOU SAID!"

Steven looked at her with an arched eyebrow as he began to recall the fight…

He remembered this morning, some guy trying to sucker punch Connie from behind as she walked into the schoolyard. He took the hit and Connie...She was pulled off the trespasser by the whole student council before she got expelled for attempted murder.

He remembered talking her down, massaging her fist so that he could find her hands. Looking into her miotic pupils, trying to get her to focus on him and him alone.

He remembers someone yelling about a knife, turning around, and seeing the guy run up to stab her.

He remembers pushing her behind him before breaking off the punk's jaw as his knuckles tore through the flesh where his lips were. His left fist; colliding with the punk's already gushing temple, knocking him around as he dropped his knife and lost his balance. 

Steven recalls the guy looking back and deciding to leave, fearing both him and Connie.

"Leave, and if you ever cause trouble for any of our students, especially my Berry Baddie, I will beat the bitch shit out of you! Now leave!"

"Ooooh.." Steven blushed red as his eyes widened, "explains Lars, and Pearls, berry puns and the mixed berries fruit snacks on my desk all day.."

Connie scoffed at that, "Just...Hug me, Biscuit ..." 

Steven heard the worried sweetness in her 'order' and complied, wrapping his thick arms around her curvy athletic frame, palms on her upper and lower back, squeezing her just as tight as she was him.

"I'm sorry."

They both paused, hearing the other, before breaking into simultaneous chuckles and giggles.

Their secret was out. The biggest delinquent and the council president...was close friends, not exactly romantic, but not precisely platonic, either.
They were something...Somewhere in that spectrum.

"Your rep is destroyed." Steven teased." No more big bad, ice queen delinquent."

"Psst! Never really cared about that anyway…I cared about yours, Pres. Being friends with me got you into a fight and a black eye…" she held him more securely, "Never had a guy fight for me. l before… " She teased his locks, "thought I couldn't take them cause he had his knife?"

"Oh, I'm sure you could have, but I wasn't going to let you, not after calming you down." He nuzzled close to her.

"My hero." She joked.

"You're damn right." He didn't, "I got you, Connie...cause I know you got me."

Connie didn't respond right away, her face heated by the seriousness in his tone and words." No more dumb heroics like today..or.."

"Or…" he teased, "or what?"

"or you have to buy me an edible arrangement...Two, even!" 

"Guess you're gonna have a greenhouse of edible fruit flowers."

"Pres." She growled, glaring down

"Delinquent." He bit back with the same tone and glare. "Don't forget you chose Vengeance today because of a hit."

"That was meant for me!"

"Regardless, it never landed, and you… You were so mad."

"...I scared you…."

"No.." Steven answered quickly, hearing the hurt in her voice, " You aren't scary...No matter how brutal you can be." He joked only to clear his throat, hearing her displeased snarl. "I'm serious….You don't scare me...Your anger doesn't shake me cause I got to know you." He looked at her squared into her eyes, "I know my Berry Baddie."

Connie searched his eyes…No lies. "Shit.." She nuzzled his hair. " You are lucky; I don't wanna be mad anymore, or think about the rumors we'll have to deal with right now… " she kissed the top of his head, grinning. "So now I'm gonna smother you, and then we're going to get my edible arrangement, Student council hero."

Steven clicked his tongue, but he held onto her tighter as if protecting her from the world around them. Silently swearing never to let his thrilling delinquent go.

As she did to her daring student body president.