With a bandage wrapped around his left hand, Rian walked into class on Wednesday. He was only a minute or two late. Though nobody cared because this period was a free period due to the teacher failing to get what she needed.
"What happened to your hand?" asked Sarah.
"I uh, punched a wall. It just hurts a bit so I put the bandage on it."
"What did the wall do to you?"
Rian responded in a mimicking child voice, "He called me a jerk, then slapped me." He and Sarah laughed.
"No, but seriously, what happened?"
"Something upset me, so I punched a wall."
"It must have been something pretty bad, considering how you don't get angry easily."
'But apparently I'm oblivious,' Rian thought. "It's just something major in my life, that's all."
"That's all? In order for you to want to punch a wall, it must have upset you pretty bad. Tell me what happened."
"None of your concern."
"I've been your friend for practically our whole life. I'm sure it's my concern now."
"I'm not telling you."
"i'll get it out of you somehow."
"Good luck."
"What can I do to make you tell me?"
"Nothing. I'm not gonna tell you."
"I'll do anything to get it from you."
Rian glanced at her, "Anything?"
"Anything."
"Are you sure...?" Rian tilted his head slightly, with a small grin.
"Not that!" Sarah screamed.
Rian laughed, "Relax, I'm only joking." Rian noticed the blush on Sarah's face.
Sarah muttered something, the only audible words heard was, "Well, I guess..."
This made Rian curious to what she said.
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Classes passed by with ease. There was hardly any writing to do, which Rian thanked for. When he tried to write, it didn't mess up his writing, but it bothered his hand a bit.
Lunch was among the 10th grade, and Rian returned to the roof. Only a minute later came Rainbow, "Back already?" she asked walking up to him.
"Yeah. Besides, can't skip forever." Rian was looking over the school campus, and his town beyond it.
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing much, just feeling the wind I guess."
"You seem like a vigilante watching over the town that hates him."
"Do I?" he looked back to see her standing right behind him.
"Totally." They both showed a chuckle,
They sat down on the edge, "What happened to your hand?"
"You did."
"Wait what?"
"Yesterday, after you left. I punched a wall because of something you did."
"Was it because I kissed you?"
"Yeah."
"Look, I know I shouldn't, I just didn't like seeing you that sad."
"It's fine, relax. My hand doesn't hurt too much anymore, and you were only doing what you thought you should."
"Oh, alright."
They sat there, not knowing what to say to one another.
"So..." Rainbow said, trying to break the silence.
"Hmm?" Rian looked over at Rainbow.
"You, wanna hang out after school today?"
"Where could we go?"
"I don't know. Just, hang out I guess. Mess around at the park."
"You want to play on the playground, at the park?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Nothing, I guess. But what if that guard sees us again?"
"Well this time, we aren't trespassing. But still, who closes a park at night?"
"Jackasses, I guess."
After a few seconds, "Why'd you curse?"
"I don't know, I always curse."
"I've never heard you curse."
"I try to keep it out of school."
"Aha..."
The school bell had rung, "Time to head back," Rian said standing up.
Rainbow followed after as Rian walked away.
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Rian walked out of the school, talking with Sarah as he did so. "Hey Rian," said a voice was a slight country accent.
Glancing back, he saw Applejack. "Give me a sec," he told Sarah as he walked back to Applejack. "Yeah?"
"What's been happening with you lately? Seems like we're barely hanging out anymore."
"Stuff has been happening a lot lately. I need a lot to think about."
"About what?"
"At this moment, the girl I'll be with after highschool I guess."
"What are you even talking about?"
"I'm sorry if I hurt you doing this."
"Doing what?"
Rian walked away, going back to Sarah as they started to head home. That only leaves Applejack to wonder what had happened.
Rian and Sarah had split not too long before he reached home. He slightly smiled, realizing she was blushing the whole way.
He walked into his house and to his room, messing with his - self built - PC before homework.
Not to long after his homework - 20 minutes after reaching home - Rian received a text. 'So, you wanna hang out at the park today or no?'
'Now?' Rian responded.
'Yeah.'
'Yeah, sure.' Rian packed up his phone and other necessities, and went to the park.
XXXX
After arriving at the park, Rian was the only one there. Only minutes later, came up running was Rainbow, "Sorry I'm late," she said as she stopped. "I got stuck doing something, and left a few minutes late."
"It's fine. Not like I had anything better to do today."
"Alright, so what do you wanna do?"
"It was your decision to come here."
"Then how about a race?"
"A race... Seriously?"
"Yup."
"Fine, but where?"
Rainbow quickly scanned the area. "We start behind the restroom slash technical place, going all the way to the playground, through the jungle gym dome. Once we get pass there, we have to touch that sign," Rainbow was pointing at a sign that said 'No loitering.'
"The building seems pretty large, you sure you wanna have that in there?"
"Why, you too chicken to race me?"
"I was saying it for your benefit, I'm not scared at all."
"Haha, sure you're not..."
"Let's just go." Rainbow and Rian walked behind the large building.
From where they were starting, they would have to run around the building to begin with, but that bother either of them.
"3..." said Rainbow, starting the countdown. "2... 1... Go!" The two started running.
As Rainbow looked behind her, she saw she already lost Rian, because she didn't seem him behind her. However, she was wrong.
As she began to finally pass the building, she already saw Rian passing the playground, "How the-!" Rainbow began to run faster.
She was Rian dive into the dome easily, barrel rolling as he landed. Doing the exact same as he left it. He stopped as soon as he hit the sign. "How did you pass me so easily!" Rainbow screamed as she left the dome.
"By running?"
"I didn't even see you behind me!"
Rian pointed at the building. "I climbed over it, instead of going around it. It was so much faster."