Mark and Roger had made a pit stop to the bathroom. Mark started to push the door open to leave.
"You're off?" Roger asked, raising an eyebrow.
Mark shrugged, "You want me to wait here for Benny to find me?"
"What else is there to do?"
Mark took a second, "Anything but going to see Maureen make a dumb Welcome Back speech."
"So you just want to leave?" Roger double checked.
"Yeah, I guess." Roger shook his head.
"You know, for someone who tries to act so cool, you are a fool."
Mark nodded kind of feeling bad for himself, "I know…"
"She shouldn't even be ready for another half an hour." Roger pointed out.
"If you need to go see it, we can, Roger. But we can go find something else to do until then."
"Some of us don't have our parent's money to go do whatever we want." Mark sighed towards Roger.
Mark hadn't mentioned that his parents cut him off… that might be too embarrassing even for Mark.
"At least I do things Mr. Hasn't Admitted to Having Fun Since My Girlfriend April-" Mark stopped. Sure, Roger wasn't completely over the fact his old girlfriend killed herself freshmen year. Now Roger was mostly using that as an excuse so he wouldn't have to go out and live.
"And who's afraid to go see their ex?"
Oooh yeah, Mark thought, that'd be me.
"I know," Mark agreed, "I'm chicken shit… a hypocrite. But let's make a deal."
Roger gave Mark a questioning look, "I dunno about this…"
"I'll go see Maureen if you come with me. Just ten minutes."
"I won't fit in, all right!" Roger claimed.
During freshmen year everyone would ditch study halls and assemblies to go to the diner across the street, The Life Café. Roger hadn't been there since then.
"Roger, all you do is go to work, school, and then back home. I know you're trying to do the whole music thing… and your songs are catchy and all. But I feel like you're wasting time-"
"No kidding. I wish all those days I wasted before I would've spent with April. Maybe she wouldn't have… done what she did if I spent more time obsessing over details like you do."
"Roger! I do spend too much time obsessing over things, and it's sad. For someone who's so cool, you're the fool." Mark shook his head, "You want to rediscover the spark, leave something behind and share it with someone. Just face your fears."
"What's that," Roger smiled, "Maureen… does that ring a bell?"
"Touché."
Mark began to open the door to the bathroom once more. He immediately ducked back in.
"Shit! I think that was Benny."
"Hey, Cohen!" a familiar voice called from down the hall.
Roger's mouth dropped, "Well lock the door!"
Mark locked it… they waited a second.
Knock, knock, knock. "Damn." Mark cursed just loud enough for Roger to hear.
I went driving for my first time today, so I wasn't sure if I'd get to update or not. 8D But I had time for this one. Oooh, and it's not gonna be Benny bee tee dubs. He is coming in right after next chap. though. Kay kays. :D Thanks so much for the reviews!
Everyone that's reviewed or even just read, thank you so much! I love seeing how many views I have. :) It means so much. The next three days are my last days of Driver's Ed. So my chaps. might be longer at that, hehee! :)