Chapter 3

Ceylan was worrying about Guren, it been about a week since he missed that day of school and he's been acting... off lately. Nothing too out of character it was just little things he didn't do often, like for instance one day when they were walking to school, they (mostly Toxsa.) were talking about a new game that was coming out soon and Toxsa was really hyped about it.

"Geez I haven't seen him this excited for something in a lon-"

Ceylan was confused to see that Guren wasn't walking beside him like he was a couple of minutes ago, instead he was trailing behind the group looking at the ground as if in deep thought.

"Guren." No response, both Chooki and Toxsa had stopped talking and were looking at Guren concerned about what was going on. Chooki then went over to Guren.

"Hey Guren, you ok there?" Chooki put he's hand on Guren's shoulder and shook him a little bit that seemed to be enough to get Guren out of whatever trance he was in as he jumped a little and his head shot up looking around a little bit confused.

"Hey, how was it at la la land?"

He gave Ceylan a confused look before releasing what he meant.

"Oh yeah, sorry about that." He said with a nerves laugh.

"Dude, are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine just a little tired that's all."

Ceylan didn't believe him, nether did Toxsa and Chooki, but he was certain it was because of something Daniel and his friends did (It wouldn't be the first that has happened) so he decided to pull a prank on him. The prank was a simple one, all he needed was fishing line, luckily he didn't have to look too hard for it as for in his backyard there was a small old shed that his parents used to keep tools and his dads fishing gear.

He eventually found what he needed there wasn't a whole lot of it left but it was enough for what he was about to do. The next day he went to school a bit earlier than usual with the fishing line in his backpack, when he got to his class barely anyone was in the class room not even the teacher was in there.

"Good, I won't have to worry about getting into trouble."

There was four rows of desks in the classroom, Daniel sat in the desk at the very end of the middle row. He took the fishing line out of his backpack and started tying the line to the desks at the left, and right side of Daniel's, a couple of the students that were already in the class asked "what are you doing?"

He explained what he was planning to do to Daniel and most of them were on board with his plan and promised to not tell the teacher that he did it, which didn't surprised him, a lot of people in the school thought Daniel was a jerk. (Including him.) Finally he finished tying the line and sat down at his desk, he began smiling at the thought of Daniel tripping over the clear line.

Eventually Guren came in and sat at his desk, he saw Ceylan smiling and knew he was up to something, he smiled turned around in his seat.

"What are you up to?"

Ceylan glanced over at Guren.

"What do you mean?" Ceylan said intentionally or unintentionally making it obvious that he was planning something.

"I think you know exactly what I mean, I've seen that smile before and that's the smile you make when you're about to do something so, what is it?"

Ceylan closed his eyes and just chuckled.

"Oh, You'll see real soon."

"Ok then, just hope it doesn't backfire."

Guren turned back around and prop his head on his hand and started to stare into space again and within a couple of seconds the teacher walked in.

"Good morning class!"

Ceylan looked over only to see the teacher walking right into his trap, when he saw this he sat up immediately and yelled.

"No teach wait-!" But it was too late they're teacher trips on the line causing him to fall face first to the ground, so long story short he got suspended for a week, his parents weren't so happy either and he got grounded as well, eventually Guren came over even though he was grounded and wasn't allowed to have friends over. (His parents weren't home right now so as long no one told them it didn't matter.)

"Oh um hey dude, you know you're not supposed to be here right?" Ceylan said surprised to see him.

"Yeah, I know but I thought I'd bring your homework so you wouldn't be behind." He said as he handed him a worksheet. He thanked him, Guren was about to leave but Ceylan stopped him.

"Before you go can I talk to you for a little while about something?"

"But aren't you grounded?" He asked

"Yeah, but as you can see my mom and dad ain't here right now and wanted to talk to you in a place more private."

"Ok then, what is it you want to talk about?"

Guren asked as in enter Ceylan's house.

"Is everything alright? You seem to be... off lately."

"How many times have I've told you guys! I am fine!"

"Wait a minute did Chooki and Toxsa asked you about this too?"

"Yeah, they have been bugging me all day long about it! If it wasn't for you being grounded I would have thought they asked you to talk to me."

"Well no wonder they didn't believe you, your a bad liar."

"I'm not lying!"

"Scratch that, your a terrible liar."

Ceylan chuckled as Guren gave him a light punch in the arm. "In all seriousness though, if anything is bothering you you tell me and the others, you know that right?"

Guren gave him a friendly smile. "Yeah I know."

"Well I better get going, I guess I'll see you later." He said as he let him self out the door

"See ya!" Ceylan said he waved at Guren as he left, he waved back as Ceylan closed the door and began walking home. He wasn't surprised Ceylan saw right through his lie there were basically brothers at this point, he wanted to tell them the truth he really did, but would they even believe him if he told them the truth.

The truth is rarely pure

And never simple.

-Oscar Wilde