Evan rubs his eyes as he looks back at the bright white computer screen, his letter should be finished printing any second now, the loud obnoxious noise had stopped so it should be done. He's surprised when someone tapped him on the shoulder. This is yours, isn't it?"
Evan turns around and looks up at the person speaking, "Excuse me, what?" he asks, before noticing who was talking to him. Connor Murphy, Zoe Murphy's brother and guy who had pushed him in the hall earlier that day.
"You're Evan Hansen, right? You printed this off?" Connor repeats, presenting the freshly printed off paper.
Evan feels a cold sweat starting to form at the nape of his neck, what kind of person takes something off the printer that wasn't theirs on purpose? "Uh… yep, that's me," Evan says awkwardly but trying to play it cool, unsure of what else to do he scratches the back of his head. Connor's eye goes to his cast.
"What happened to your arm?" he inquires, pointing.
Caught off guard, Evan looks at his hand. The situation had been so nerve-racking for him he's completely forgotten about the cast. "Uhh…"
Connor snorts as Evan searched for an answer that wasn't lame, "What did you do? Fall out of a tree?" Connor continues laughing and Evan laughs nervously with him. Realizing Evan actually fell from he a tree, he stops laughing. "Oh my God, that's the saddest fucking thing I've ever heard," he deadpanned.
Evan curls into himself, wanting very much to find an out to this conversation and get his letter back before Connor had a chance to look at it too hard. Connor, most likely sensing Evan's discomfort he points to Evan's cast again. "No one's signed your cast yet."
"Oh yeah, it's nothing-" Evan starts.
"I'll sign it for you," Connor offers, cutting Evan off.
"What?" Shocked, Evan gapes at Connor with his mouth open.
"I'll sign it," Connor says. "Then we can pretend that we have friends." And with that, Connor reaches into his back and retrieves a marker. Evan's too stunned to protest as Connor writs his name obnoxiously over the front half of the cast in all caps.
"Thaaaannks," Evan mumbles, hoping that Connor would finally leave if he wasn't provoked. Connor pauses, Evan presumes to admire his handy work, then tilts his head like he's listening to something.
"Hey, you want something to help with your anxiety?" he suddenly announces, Evan didn't think he could have been more caught off guard already.
"What?!" he begins to stammer.
"I have it too, don't worry," Connor waves his protests off. "I know what it looks like."
At a loss for words the only think Evan can manage out is a weak "um…". Despite Evan's lack of response, Connor reaches into his bag against and produces what looks like a small grey pill, giving it to Evan.
"It's called a SQUIP," Connor explains. "It's a micro super computer. Take it and it'll help a lot, just do as it tells you to do. It activates with Mountain Dew." Evan doesn't say anything and looks between Connor and the pill. "Anyway, here's your letter-" Evan makes a move to take the letter back, but Connor spots something on the paper and starts reading. "Zoe? What do you care about my sister?"
"No, it's a different Zoe-" Evan tries to explain, still reaching for the letter.
"You did this on purpose, didn't you?!" Connor accuses.
"Why would I-" Evan was so confused, he just didn't want to get pushed again and his letter back.
"You did it so I would find it and then nobody would believe that you're a creepy pervert!" Connor yells.
"No, that's not why I-" Evan continued, he didn't even know where Connor's reasoning was coming from. Nothing he was saying made any sense. To Evan's dismay, Connor shoves the letter into his pocket and stomps out of the room. Evan looks at the pill Connor left him and groans.
AN:: Hey so like you saw in the summary, this is in the process of becoming a comic/graphic novel. I am the script writer for said comic so that's why the story is so dialogue heavy, I'm transferring it over to story format. It's also why the chapters are so short (well I think the chapters are short), they're like scenes.
I hope you guys like this, I came up with the idea with a girl who I met on Will Roland's Instagram, and she' the artist behind this project.
I think what you'll find with this story is it really matches the plot of the musical and novel with the minor exception of Evan having a SQUIP. I'll be providing you with more information as things progress.
I don't know when the comic will be up, I have the easy job of just writing because I has not the drawing talent. We do have an official Tumblr where it'll eventually be posted, there are like a couple pictures sort of. It'll also contain updates on this.
I'd love to hear your feedback, I know the idea of Evan getting a SQUIP has kind of been floating around so it'd be awesome to know what you thought of how we're choosing to execute it. Thank you!