Story Time; so I originally started this years ago but for some reason never got to posting more chapters after the first one, even though I had a lot of the plot planned out. So here I am trying this again, although I have changed some of my original ideas since.

Also I'm sorry if the writing style is a bit jarring, I've only edited the original version rather than writing it from scratch, and 2015 me was far from a literary genius.

For the moment this is gunna be rated at T, though as the plot develops I know I'm defo gunna have to change it.

Oh one last thing, I am British, so sorry if there's some names, things or references that you have no clue about. I'm gunna star things, and put some translations/explanations at the end of the chapter. But to start I'll just explain that the characters are 16/17 so second to last year of high school in the US I think.

EDIT:

So I felt this chapter out of all of them needed editing the most, so I've changed it so it's in POVs so it hopefully reads better. Hopefully I get to doing this with other chapters soon.

Anyway, enough from me. Enjoy :)

Friday 18th September

Green POV

*sigh*

It was Friday, 3rd period. We were only a couple weeks into the new school year, and I was already struggling with what life was throwing at my poor emotions. Leaning on the table in front of me, I stared across at the boy who had chosen me as his partner for the Physics assignment. It was just my luck that this person was Red, who happened to be the one boy I had a crush on.

'Greeeat'. I could clearly feel my own sarcasm.

I hadn't noticed that Red, who I might add was obviously struggling to process the physics knowledge I'd just tried to explain to him, had looked up to me for help, only to find me staring.

"What?" He snapped me back to reality, narrowing his eyes in suspicion.

Shit. I'd been caught red-handed, literally (pun not intended). Okay, now I was panicking a little. I tried to come up with a quick excuse, but of course, stupid me unintentionally kept staring. I'm a dumbass.

"What?" He asked again, this time more forcefully, obviously starting to get a little irritated by my scrutiny.

"What?" I replied dazily, attempting to look like I'd just been snapped out of a trance, blinking my eyes into focus for added effect.

His eyebrow raised in curiosity, "What're you lookin' at?".

I stretched my arms, "Erm, nothing, why?" again, trying to act innocent.

He held back a scoff, "You were staring at me, airhead". Seemingly happy it was nothing malicious, thankfully. Last thing I needed was a pissed off Red.

"Sorry, was just zoning out" I laughed back nervously.

He smirked, "Whatever". Embarrassingly, I could tell he was rather amused by my behaviour. He looked back down at the page in front of him, though it was obvious from the change in his expression that he still had no idea what it was trying to tell him.

I thought it best to start actually doing work too, instead of being an 'airhead' as Red put it, which I guess was kinda accurate. I looked down to my notes, and unlike him I actually understood them. Though, thinking about it now, I was confused, I'd definitely heard Red say in the past that he didn't like physics, hated it in fact, so why did he purposefully opt to take it for *A-level?

Fortunately for him the first piece of assigned work we had to do was with a partner, but still he looked like he was currently regretting his life choices. I stared at the words in front of me, not really focusing on them, still deep in my thoughts. We were sitting at one of the tables in the study area, surprisingly there weren't that many other people around considering it was just before lunch break.

There were a lot of people in our year who shared this free period, but I assumed they were out in town getting food now, rather than at lunch so they could avoid the *year 11's later, who only got to leave school grounds at lunch itself; this funnily enough, actually included some friends from both mine and Reds respective friend groups, in fact I'd actually asked Blue, my annoying ass best friend, to get me something.

A subtle breeze blew across the room making me shiver. Damn cold, I hated it, I've always been irritatingly sensitive to the cold, P.E. was a nightmare in earlier years, especially in winter. Thank god I didn't have to do that anymore.

I slipped on my hoodie, trying to warm myself up before looking back at Red. I theorised that the heat coming from his overworked brain must have been getting him by until now, I laughed internally at the thought. What didn't help though was that the newly introduced *Sixth Form uniform top was pretty thin; To be honest I thought the new uniform was a little strange, we were the first Sixth Formers in the school ever to wear one, even the *year 13s above us weren't made to wear it. Thinking about it, it was probably a stupid school council idea after that infamous inappropriate t-shirt incident last year, (I dare not quote what it said even in my thoughts); but to be honest it wasn't much of a uniform, it was probably just there to avoid another situation like that.

It was basically just a white polo shirt with the sixth form logo on the breast, that, along with the ID lanyard which sixth formers have always had to wear, and 'must be seen at all times' as emphasised by teachers; but honestly, I'm just happy I was still able to wear my usual black skinny jeans (I hated school pants, they were way too itchy); I could also still wear my favourite purple zip hoodie, and my hi-top vans shoes. Sometimes I would even wear one of my hats if the occasion called for it, like a bad hair day. I also always kept my glasses on me, just in case my contacts started hurting, although I usually liked to avoid wearing them if I could, as my idiot friends would always dub them as 'hipster' and tease me about them.

Thinking back to Red, he wore basically the same outfit; light blue jeans, red converse, a red zip hoodie if he was cold, his usual cap which he always wore (even if there were times he wasn't supposed to), and of course the white uniform polo (which him and the other douchebag guys in the year liked to pop the collar on, seriously what was it, 2011?).

According to Gold, Red and his friends weren't very happy when they found out about the whole new uniform thing, although to be fair I don't think anyone was. 'No uniform' in sixth form was a freedom we were all originally looking forward to.

Appearance wise I had to admit, I'd always thought Red was good looking. He had dark brown almost black raven-like hair, that was styled kinda messy with a fringe that almost covered his eyes. Speaking of his eyes, they had a unique and uncommon feature, they were crimson red, (probably where he got his name from). I remember when our year group first started high school, Red got bullied for them, which said bullies immediately regretted as they were pretty much almost hospitalised for doing so, boy did the guy have a temper.

Although eyes of all colours weren't unheard of, red was very rare, the other kids used to say they were red because he was a monster and that's why he was angry all the time. Which I always thought was kinda harsh, I never got it, I've always thought they were pretty cool, and I still think that. They were pretty too, but I knew I probably couldn't tell him that, he might think I was joking and mocking him like the others so I kept my mouth shut, even though I honestly did just want to compliment them.

Though funnily enough, my grandfather used to tell me that my eyes were a beautiful 'Emerald' and not just simply green, even my friends had told me they were a pretty colour, Actually having caught Gold staring at them a number of times.

Hair wise though we both differed a bit, my hair last time I checked was a light-ish brown and a little longer than his, it was also a little messy at the back (no matter what I tried to do with it might I point out), although the sides of my hair and fringe were straight and kinda spiky almost.

I'd also noticed that Red was taller than me now, by at least half a head, last year I was sure I was just as tall as every other guy in the year, even Gold was taller than me now. How dare people grow.

I was here, snapped out of my thoughts again, this time by a sudden clatter. I looked up to see a pen skidding across the table, followed audibly by it's owners frustration.

"Fuck this, I can't do any of it" Red snarled, dropping his head onto the table looking utterly defeated.

I tried gesturing him to be quieter, "Shh, calm down, if a teacher hears you shouting and swearing in here you'll get in trouble, just 'cause you're a sixth former doesn't mean yo-"

"Shut up Green!" I was interrupted by another irritated yell from him, his head still on the table.

The outburst made me flinch, "Sorry" I murmured looking down, unable to stop myself from sounding a little hurt.

He looked up, pausing as he seemed to be swallowing his pride, "Don't be, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have snapped at you" he... honestly sounded a little guilty.

"It's okay" I smiled back at him, though he then quickly put his head down again.

I'll be honest, that kinda surprised me, usually after unfairly yelling at people or starting a fight, a teacher usually had to get him to apologise, he never did so willingly, but just now it didn't sound like he was forcing it out or anything like he would then, it was truly honest. Weird. The thought of an old memory then making me giggle quietly.

"What?" I heard from him. Crap he must've heard it.

"Nothing" I insisted, though I knew he wouldn't drop it that easily "Was just thinking about you".

He lifted his head back up, "What about me?" he raised an eyebrow, with an obvious curiosity now again written all over his face.

"It's nothing, I just remembered that time in first year when instead of telling someone to shut up, you just threw a chair at them" elaborating whimsically.

Red smirked unapologetically, "In my defence he was making fun of me, what was I supposed to do?".

"How about telling them to shut up or just ignoring them?" I suggested back, purposefully sounding a little condescending though definitely amused.

"Why ignore them when you can throw a chair at them, it gets your point across a lot better" He said like it was obvious, but I could tell he was joking really. Making us both laugh.

I looked back to him and smiled, "You haven't changed much have you, you've always been the same old Red since year 7, although at least you don't throw chairs at people anymore".

He sighed, "Yeh, I suppose, although I wouldn't say not having changed was really a good thing, I literally punched Pearl in the face the other day, he was being annoying".

"Yeh I heard about that" I knew I sounded a little unimpressed but I understood, everyone knew what Pearl could be like, "You've always had a bit of a temper problem haven't you" an under-exaggeration on my part there if I'm being honest.

He spoke back with pride, "Yup, ain't nothin' I can do, believe me I've tried, people are just gunna have to deal with it" saying it like it was nothing.

I laughed, "Unlucky for people then?".

"Yup" he spoke with no remorse, pausing the conversation there for a moment as he looked back at the work on the page in front of him, "Hey, could you try explaining this to me again, I still have no clue what I'm even looking at".

"Sure". I moved my chair to sit next to him as I tried to explain it, again, "You see this, it's just talking about electron configuration" looking back to him as I finished, only to find a blank expression on his face.

"You have no idea what I'm talking about do you?" my voice monotone. He just shook his head.

"Ugh" I groaned this time, resting my own head on the table, feeling utterly defeated myself this time.

"How do you even know all this crap anyway? It looks like boring gibberish to me". I could tell it was really starting to get to him.

I scratched the back of my head nervously, "Well to tell you the truth, I only get it because we've already covered it in more detail in chemistry" I laughed dryly.

"Oh, well that's just cheating" growling lightly as he crossed his arms.

"I'm not sorry" I responded sounding amused, causing him to look away and put his head back down again, "Asshole" he muttered to himself, evidently upset.

"I can hear you ya know" I glared at him, slightly annoyed at the remark.

"Really don't care" He replied unapologetically.

Of course he didn't. Although, this brought me back to what I thought about before, "You know it really confuses me though, I've even heard you say in the past that you hate physics and find it extremely boring".

"So?" He interjected, tuning his head back to look at me.

"Sooo... why did you take physics?" I was honestly curious.

For some reason it made him flinch, "Urrrm, my mum made me take it" he answered in a rush.

"Urm, my mum?" I questioned, but he didn't respond. I crossed my arms, not satisfied in the slightest, "Come on Red I'm not that stupid, I can tell you're giving me bull".

He turned his head away from me again, staying silent. "Come on, tell me" I kept prying.

"Green?" He said uncharacteristically calm.

Though I failed to pick up on the suspicious tone, "Yeh?".

"You're about five seconds away from being another Pearl" He warned me all of a sudden.

And at that I thought it best to stop before he made good on it, "Fine, fine, i'll stop" now slightly worried for my own wellbeing. "I was just curious".

He grunted, "Whatever".

"Although I do have another question, which to be fair I do have a right to know?" I treaded carefully, but I couldn't help it.

"You're pushing it Green" I could hear his temper quickly rising in his tone.

I cut in quickly, "Trust me this one's okay".

"Fine, what?" He gave in, though still a little hostile.

I tried my best to show that I was sincere, "I was just wondering why you decided out of the blue to commandeer me as your partner instead of just pairing with Dia; unlike me he's actually in your friend group".

"Because I punched Pearl in the face, duh" He answered like it was obvious.

"Riiight?" I pried further, still confused.

"So Dia isn't talking to me" He elaborated impatiently, though thankfully I could tell his annoyance was directed more at the answer than at me.

"Ahhh". I guess that made sense.

"Besides, the idiot is actually worse than me at this stupid subject, even if he won't admit that there's something he's not good at".

"Fair". Though there was still another question on my mind. I decided to ask, though doing my best at being careful not to aggravate him more, "But that still doesn't fully answer my question. Why me? Dia isn't your only friend in the class".

He hissed, "God, is it that important to you?".

I quickly backed down a little, "Sorry, I'm just a little curious" doing my best at sounding apologetic in hopes of calming him down.

"Ugh, fine" he groaned looking towards me again, "I suppose it's because you're the only one other than Dia I'm comfortable with, besides you actually understand this impossible subject, plus…"

He paused for a moment, and I paid attention, patiently waiting for him to finish, "...unlike some of the other smart arses in the class, you're pretty cool, understanding, and well I guess kind too". With that Red looked away from me, and I could tell he was feeling a little vulnerable from sharing his feelings with someone he didn't know that well.

But I had to admit, I was taken back by his compliments, and I couldn't help blushing a little. Though the nickname he'd given me gave me another thought, though I wasn't usually one to tease people I wasn't close with, I still smiled cheekily, "Wadda ya mean smart-arse? Just 'cause I'm decent at this subject doesn't make me a smart-arse it just means I'm not dumb".

I laughed to myself but was interrupted by a very sudden and very painful punch to my thigh, "Oww".

Red snarled, "Last time I give you a compliment", turning away obviously feeling a little betrayed. "And for the record I'm not dumb" he added with a huff.

I chuckled, "Sorry, I was only joking". I looked to him, but he'd turned his head fully away to pout.

What he'd said to me had still meant a lot though, and I wanted to make sure he knew, "Honestly though thanks for that, it means a lot". I smiled, "You know you're really sweet under that tough exterior".

Red kept his head turned away from me, still hiding his face. I sighed looking back forward, knowing I'd have to try and goad him again to get his attention back, "I guess when I said 'dumb' that's obviously a little harsh, its more like-" I turned my head to look at Red again as I spoke, only to find him closely glaring at me, and he was definitely growling. I stopped talking immediately and for a second decided to look intimidated like everyone else would at Red's glare, but the truth was I had a theory that it wouldn't work on me, and it didn't, so I may of ended up just choking up and started laughing.

I could tell this caught him off guard, and it completely confused him. To be fair, as far as I'm aware no one he's ever done his apparently school famous death glare at has ever laughed before, and his face showed it. Although I could tell it still kinda annoyed him that I was laughing instead of taking him seriously, "Hey, hey, what's so funny?" he flustered.

"Sorry, I had a hunch" I managed to get out as my laughter died down

I could tell the vague answer just confused him even more, "Wha? What are you talking about?".

"Well it's just I thought I'd probably laugh when you pulled your infamous 'last warning' glare on me".

He still seemed very disoriented at my response, "Well you're the first to laugh". His ego sounding a little bruised from the whole situation.

"Not surprising, it is quite intimidating to most".

He raised an eyebrow, "But not to you?" though the question sounded more like he was pondering on it himself rather than actually asking me.

"Um, yeh, things like that have never really worked on me. Although I do hate shouting". I had to give him something at least.

He just looked at me bewildered, "I really don't scare you?" again, sounding like he was having trouble wrapping that idea round his head.

"No. Personally I actually think it's kinda cute-" I started to answer without even thinking, before stopping myself as I realised what I was saying, though it was a little too late.

Crap.

"Uhh, never mind, moving on" I laughed nervously, before quickly changing the subject. "So, are you understanding any of the work yet?".

He just stared at me with a very amused look on his face, "Nope" sounding just as amused as he looked apparently as he popped the 'p'.

At that moment the bell for the end of the period rang. Thank all the gods. "Ah well you hear that, lunch time, bye, see you fourth". And in a flash, me and my stuff were gone.

Red POV

It took me a second to process how quickly Green had just left. I started thinking again but properly about what he'd just let slip out. I wonder if him saying that means-, I dunno.

I couldn't let myself think like that, though I could still feel myself blushing at the thought.

At least I didn't need to turn my head away and hide it this time.

Notes:

A-Level - These are the qualifications needed to get into university, usually studied for two years at a Sixth Form College or College that's not attached to a high school

Sixth Form - basically a college that's part of a high school, though not all high schools have sixth forms. If studying here 'Years' are carried on from high school so you start in year 12 (16-17 yo) and graduate in year 13 (17-18 yo). Also if a sixth former has a free period they are allowed to leave school grounds if they wish.

Year 11 - Last year of regular high school (15-16 yo) studying for GCSE's

If there's something I've forgotten, you can ask, i won't bite haha

Thank you for reading this chapter, hope you liked it. I'm open to ideas and things you think I could improve in my writing style :)

Sorry if there were typos or something, I always seem to miss some no matter how much i proof read aha

Red: "so are you actually gunna update anytime soon?"

Green: "I hope so, most of the next chapter already done, and I have quite a lot of the plot mostly worked out"

Red: "Do I get to punch anyone?"

Green: …

Green: "bye Red"

Red: "aw Green come on don't be like that"

Red: "Green?"

Red: "Green!"

Red: "GREEN DON'T IGNORE ME!"

Green: "Bye Peeps ;)"

Red: "HEY!"