**I don't even know anymore.**

People always thought of the violetblood to be cruel. Rude. Snooty. Eridan was always the opposite, but over the years, he grew to what the rumors said. 

"Eridan Ampora, to the front office please." The speakers echoed in the rooms and halls, people hushing their friends and others pulling out their earbuds. No one though that the so-called Sea Prince would be called up, in trouble or not. The school leans more towards the royalty, it wanting extra cash for it's after school activities. Eridan looked just as confused with it all as everyone else. His normal scowl was replaced with a light confusion. The teacher nods for him to go and he walks out of the classroom with his head held high and cape flying. 

"You wwant me to wwhat?" He says in disbelief. The principal sighed. A girl was sitting right outside of the office. Eridan had never seen her before and assumed it was a new kid. What he didn't assume was that the principal was going to make him lead the girl around. "Look Mr Ampora, you are a high class student with good grades and high expectations. If Ms Y/n can just be lead around the school, then she might see how accomplished our students can be." Eridan sulked for a second. He turned in his seat to see the girl through the glass of the door. Her head was down and hands tapping against her chair and knee. "Alright." He grumbled out. The principal let out a relieved sigh and smiled. "Thank you Mr Ampora. Please close the door on your way out." Eridan nodded his head towards the adult and walked out. "Wwell, let's get this ovver wwith," He grumbled under his breath. "Wwhat a long day ahead of me."

"And this is the gym wwhere wwe get tortured wwith dodgeball and running." Eridan continued his monologue with a dull voice. Y/n was bouncing on the heels of her feet, slightly anxious from all of the information. She was quite pretty Eridan had to admit. Much prettier than the other girls at the school. Her hair was kind of wild and her clothes looked cute on her. Y/n brushed a stray hair absentmindedly from her face. "Whoa, look at the dame Eridan is with!" A boy whistled. Y/n's face blushed in an embarrassed fashion. "How did he get her to trial after his pretty little footsteps?" The boy continued. He smirked at Y/n who glared at him. Eridan stood in between the two. He hadn't heard Y/n talk much besides one sentence answers to his questions, so he didn't trust her in protecting herself from the guy's catcalls. 

Boy, was he wrong.

Just as the unknown boy was giving them both flack, Y/n cut in his words. "Goddamn, you'd think with someone with little to know brain cells would stop talking." She crossed her arms. "You crossed a line, girly." The boy threatened. "Really now? You start with insults to a girl's body as if it's an object and then threaten her? Oh no no no, you don't want to do that." Y/n smiled. It looked beautiful in a deadly way. Eridan was looking at the girl with a face of incredibility and was laughing in his head. Also, he was glad he wasn't going against Y/n's verbal assault. "You see, I'm new here if you didn't realize and I don't think the principal would enjoy hearing how I will leave the school because of a different student. Might as well expel you." The boy's face filled with red rage. "Why, you-" The boy reached to harm the girl and Eridan cried out. Y/n intercepted the hand and twisted it to an uncomfortable angle. She kicked the back of the boy's legs and he fell, his head hitting the gym floor. Eridan looked at the girl with stars in his eyes and smiled. "I told you not to do something to me," She said in a sickly sweet voice. "Of course you didn't listen." She turned away from the scared boy. "Now, where were we on the tour?" Eridan jumped a little as Y/n's piercing eyes directed themselves towards him. "Oh, uh, wwe're going to your first class." He pulled out Y/n's schedule. "Great! I was getting bored in here." She grabbed Eridan's hand and he lead her to her class, a blush evidently spreading across his grey face.

"Oi, Eri!" The princely figure was no more once Y/n continued talking with him. He turned back to his kind, dorky self and after a while, realized he developed a crush on Y/n. Confessing to her was difficult, but the outcome was perfect. Y/n races up to her boyfriend and kisses him lightly. "You ready to get your ass whupped in badminton?" She chortled. Eridan was horrible at any sport (besides swimming, duh) but so was she. She just happened to be slightly better. "Wweh, I wwill wwin against you someday!" He wraps his arm around Y/n's waist as they walk to the gym. "Ooh, look at that girl!" Someone whistled. A new boy. Eridan smiled and Y/n rolled her eyes. "Why don't you leave Lame Brain and stay with a real man?" They continued. "Dude, shut the fuck up, that's Y/n!" The boy that Y/n messed with on the first day was trembling. "She can kill you with a glare if you say rude things!" The new boy hushed up and left the cute couple alone. "You can be quite intimidating," Eridan mused. "But you'll alwways be my swweetheart." Y/n laughed and kissed Eridan once more before leaving for the girl's locker room. 

Eridan is known as a sweet, caring troll. There were rumors about him being awful, but that's in the past, ever since his perfect half came to the school.