Fish out of water
Summary: Life is never easy with a friend as a sadist manipulator who loved to see you suffered anyways possible. Just asked Jack Merridew.
Genre: Comedy/ Romance
Chapter 1: Is it?
It was hard keeping secrets. Yes very hard. Like trying to hold your breath under water or not laughing when a fat person falls down because of something you left on the floor and your mother is standing a few feet away glancing at you with a disapproving frown. Its hard because no matter what you would eventually want to spill the beans, laugh or breath. That is why Jack Merridew or simply Merridew respected the priests in the catholic churches and around school. Although it did not mean he had any less hate of them and their rules just he respected them, chiefly those who took confessions.
Yes it was hard keeping secrets, be it yours or others. However, it was even harder to keep a secret from someone who had known you your whole life and could read you like a book. It was like trying to keep something from yourself. It was simply not possible and that was why he was avoiding the younger boy like a pledge. However, that too was a secret.
"Why are you avoiding me?"
"Roger." Jack greeted a cold smiled pressed upon his face. "What ever give you the notion that I was avoiding you?"
Roger rolled his eyes and pulled the chair across from Jack out and took a seat. "Alright," He said slowly in a I believe you voice. " Then why didn't you answer when I call you in the halls or waited for me before leaving this morning?"
"I didn't hear you and I had practice."
The younger boy swung his right leg than left leg forward then back and ford and back and ford. "Really? Then what about in class when I poke you and you stay turned around or during group work when you when to a group that I was not in and when I switched to that group you switched out?"
"…." Jack paused in his writing. Sometimes he hated how the other boy could box him into a comer. "I was… I was… We are not twins you know? I am allowed to not be in the same group with you, you know? Moreover, Brother Ashdown was saying something important."
The dark boy paused in his motion. "You know," He begin. "There have been talks."
Resuming his writing with relief at the bullet he sort of dodge, the red hair asked. "What talk?"
"Well…" The dark boy said twirling a string of dark locks. " I heard that you were acting peculiar."
Jack frowned. He loathed rumors." Peculiar? Said who?"
"You know people."
"I see. And exactly how am I acting odd?"
"Well they said you were…" Roger began then paused and pulled close to the older boy, until they were nose to nose, touching. Dark eyes stared into blue ones searching before a smile spread across the dark boy lips and he drew back.
"I see." He said. "Who is it?"
Jack felt a blushed creep upon his cheeks. "Who is what?"
Roger rolled his eyes and the school bells ending lunch rang.
"You know who." Said Roger.
"No. No. I don't know who."
Palms slammed on the table. "Fine I will say it! The person you in love with!
"Love?" Jack shuttered but seeing the look the younger was giving him, shrugged and what not, narrowed his eyes instanced and stood.
" Jack Merridew don't do love!" He said. " Lo-ve is for weakly! Now if you will excuse me the bell has rang and am heading for class."
Roger watched him go, a brow raised and a soft thoughtful frowned pressed upon his lips. Jack was hiding something from him, be it someone he was in loved with or not, he was keeping secrets and the dark boy was going to fine out what. The younger boy stood up dust himself off and head in the opposite direction of the retrieving back. Yes he was going to fine out Jack secret, if it was the last thing he did.