A few seconds after she hit send, Emily heard her best friend giggling at the other side of the classroom. They used to sit next to each other, but that was before the teacher decided she was done with their constant talking and laughing. So, for the past two weeks they had been sitting at either side of the classroom. Not that that stopped them from talking though. It took them about two minutes to stop pouting and take out their phones to start texting each other. It wasn't until Emily looked up to look at her best friend that she noticed the rest of the class was giggling as well. She questioned what they found so funny though, since she only sent that text to Mace. When she turned back to the front of the class she found out just what they were laughing about, the teacher had her hand stretched out to her as a silent way of asking her to hand over her phone. With a sigh she put the phone in her hand and slumped back in her chair. Apparently the teacher also figured out who was on the receiving end of her texts, because after she confiscated Emily's phone she walked over to Mace to take his phone as well. Both friends rolled their eyes, now this hour would be even longer than usual.
For a few minutes, Emily stared at the blackboard, still not paying attention to what the teacher was saying. She just stared. That's when she got an idea, there was once a time before smartphones were invented. She took her backpack from the floor and started looking for a piece of paper. At first she thought about just using pages from her book, but since she never payed attention that book was the only thing that could still make her pass this class. Lucky for her there was a piece of paper on the bottom of her bag that looked like something that was once an assignment, but not that that was important right now. Emily ripped a piece of the paper that still looked decent enough to write on. On one side of the little not she wrote a message, then she folded it and wrote "For Mace" on the other side.
"Psst" she tried to get her neighbour's attention "psssst" she said a little louder and slightly annoyed already. That seemed to have caught the boy's attention.
"Pass this on to Mace for me, please" she said while subtly handing him the note under the desk.
In this entire class there wasn't a single person Emily could stand, except for Mace of course, but at least the fact that they could pass her notes for her made them somewhat less useless. While the small note travelled through the classroom Emily kept glancing behind her to make sure none of these idiots opened the note. She was very prepared to make a scene if that would've happened, but fortunately for them the not got to Mace unopened. When Mace got the piece of paper with his name on, he tried to give his best friend a disapproving look, but it looked more like he was trying very hard not laugh.
How dare she think she can keep us apart – Me xx
Mace chuckled and shook his head as he read what was on the note. He should've known his friend wouldn't give up that easy. Quickly he started looking for a piece of paper as well, but he couldn't find anything he could use to send his friend a message back. Using gestures, he let her know that he didn't have any paper, at which Emily rolled her eyes at him and wrote another not. This time it was Mace who closely followed the note's journey through the classroom.
Only you could come to school without bringing any paper ;) – Still me xx
Since he couldn't write anything back he just glared at her very intensely, causing her to giggle a bit. Lucky for them the fact that Mace couldn't send a message back wasn't that big of a problem, because the bell rang and they were finally free to go home. They almost escaped the classroom without getting a lecture when they realised they still had to get their phones back. The two friends looked at each other, telepathically discussing whether or not they really needed their phones, before turning back to walk over to the teacher's desk.
"Miss, can we please get our phones back?" Mace asked in a soft and slightly scared voice.
That was worst decision they made all day. It took another 15 minutes before they were finally able to escape and leave the school building.
"I thought she was never going to stop talking" Emily said, pretty excited about finally being able to really talk to her friend again.
She hooked her arm around his while walking away from the school building. Not that she'd got to do that for very long, because about 50 meter from the school Sam was waiting for them. Emily could just feel how he was already glaring at her.
"aw, are you here for me?" She asked him, adding a wink to really piss him off.
"No. I am here to claim my boyfriend again" Sam responded, taking Mace's hand and pulling him in for a kiss.
Emily rolled her eyes "Did I ever tell you I don't like you?"
"A few times" Sam was now the one to wink at her.
This happened every day, but Mace still sighed every time it did. "You guys are unbelievable. Let's go, I'm done with this place for today."
The three of them started walking to the bus stop, Mace walking in the middle in an attempt to keep them from arguing even more.
"How about I buy you guys some ice cream? I've got lots of homework I'm trying to avoid." Emily suggested with a smile, walking backwards in front of them to be able to look at them while talking.
"Please don't fall" Mace said, being concerned about his friend.
"Now that would be funny" Sam said, which earned him a push from his boyfriend's elbow in his side.
"Guys, I'm asking a serious question here" she said as she completely ignored both of her friends' comments and her smile grew even wider.
"Sure, sounds good. As long as you don't make any inappropriate comments involving me and ice cream. And that goes for the both of you" Mace said while giving both Sam and Emily a warning look.
"We'll just see about that" Sam replied and kissed the top of his boyfriend's head.
