Careers was probably one of my favourite lessons. Not because I found it fun, but because I loved the teacher, Mr Metalbeard. He always went off of topic, and the last day of Winter term was no exception.
"Alright, so, ye have not actually talked about what you lot want to be when ye get older, so spill." He pointed his prosthetic arm at Watevra.
"You. What d'ya want to be when ye grow up, lassie?"
Watevra grinned. "Queen of the whole Systar System, sir!"
The class started laughing.
"Nah, but in all seriousness, it'd be cool to be a graphic designer," she shrugged, and went back to sipping her Starbucks mocha she bought at lunch.
"Aye, that's a good job," Mr Metalbeard nodded, looking around.
"Well, I was going to pick Benny, but all ye know what he's going to be-"
Once again, the class erupting into laughter, taking much longer to be quiet.
"Hmmm. Who'd I pick?" He muttered under his breath.
I stared down at my desk, deciding to instead doodle a quick drawing of Watevra as Queen of the Systar System.
"Ah, Wyldstyle! You never talk much, what do ye want to be?"
I froze, and slowly put down my pencil.
"Me, sir?"
He frowned. "Aye, ye. Unless you don't wanna answer, of course-"
"I'd like to be a musician." I said loudly, making everyone become almost silent.
"As in, like, singing?" Liberty asked.
"Yeah, singing," I mumbled, pulling my my sleeves over my wrists.
"But you never sing!" Flash shouted.
"You think I want to in front of you lot?" I retorted. Everyone started laughing again, and I smiled.
"Aye, it was funny, now we have to settle down- settle _down, now, oh my goodness-"
His words were cut off by the bell, ringing loud and clear. Everyone stood up and started to pack up their stuff.
"Aye, have a good holiday!" Mr Metalbeard hollered over the chatter of 30 excited students.
I walked out of the class, and saw Emmet leaning against the opposite wall in the corridor. He grinned when he saw me.
"Hey, Lucy! Ready for Winter break?" He asked as we walked down the halls to the doors.
"I guess. I mean, my friends are coming down in a few days, so you'll be able to meet them finally," I answered, pushing the door open.
My hand slipped down, and I felt Emmet's loosely fall into my grip. I smiled to myself.
I'd worked everything out: later tonight when I got home from school, I would text Batman to tell him I wanted to end things, then he would agree, make sure that he was fine with not coming down next week, and be able to become Emmet's girlfri-
"WYLDSTYLE!"
My head jerked round, and I was brought into a giant hug.
"G-guys?" I asked incredulously. "What are you doing here? You were coming down next week!"
If Batman's here, the plans are ruined_ both sides of my conscience thought simultaneously.
"Nope! This was a surprise just for you!" Richard gushed excitedly.
I smiled, and quickly said, "Do you wanna meet my fri... my friend, Emmet?" I faltered at the last part- we were still just friends.
Ughhhhhhhhh, high school was hard.
"Hi everyone! Uh, I'm Emmet. Lucy's said a lot about you. Nice to meet you guys!" He offered his hand out to the guys.
As Emmet, Nya and Richard started talking, Unikitry turned to me with a small smile on her face. 'Lucy?' she mouthed, trying not to laugh.
"Shhh," my eyes went wide as i looked back over to Emmet to check if he'd seen (thank the Man Upstairs he hadn't). "I'll tell you later."
"You better," she said mischievously, before joining in the other conversation.
"So, where are you guys staying?" I asked a few minutes later.
"Oh, we found a good AirBnB that was pretty cheap, so we're staying there," Richard shrugged, pushing his thick-rimmed glasses back up his nose.
I knew it probably looked suspicious that I hadn't asked about him yet, so I quickly dropped into the conversation, "So, where's Batman?"
Nya sighed. "He's coming tomorrow. Paying then as well. I mean, we played weeks ago for our train fare, but nah, he ain't doing that!"
Everyone laughed, but in the midst of it, she shot a very pointed look at me.
'Don't screw it up,' she communicated using her eyes.
I nodded. 'Don't worry, I'll be fine. Trust me.'
She smiled, and punched my shoulder. "Welp, I guess you gotta get home. Can you meet up tomorrow?"
"I'm free for the rest of the week. If the others are, you can meet them too, if you'd like?" I offered.
Unikitty grinned. "We'd love it!"
A few minutes later, we parted ways, and then it was just me and Emmet. We walked the same way for the first 10 minutes of the walk, so we usually met up and walked from there. Benny was normally with us as well, but he and Sweet had a date that night, so they'd gone to town straight after school ended.
"Your friends are... energetic, to say the least," Emmet said as we walked. "What're you gonna do with them while they're here in Bricksburg?"
I shrugged. "Probably do the touristy stuff, you know. I haven't done a lot of it myself, so it'll be fun."
I looked at him. "You wanna come along?"
He smiled. "I'd love it."
We got to the start of his road, and stood awkwardly for a moment.
"Well, see you tomorrow!" He said brightly.
I smiled. He was so adorable.
"Mhm." I gave him a quick hug, and started walking away quickly.
"BYE!" I shouted over my shoulder.
I smirked to myself.
I had one shot at this.
"Don't screw it up."
"She's probably aware of that, you do realise?"
"I know, O Smart One, but I'm simply alerting to the particular mission at hand-"
"You know, I haven't heard a certain song that drives you both insane for a while," I thought chirpily.
"Wait, no-"
"We're so sorry, Lucy-"
"IT WAS ALL HER FAULT-"
I slipped my headphones over my ears, turned up the volume...
And blasted the Catchy Song so loud I think everyone within a mile of me could hear it too.
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Yes, they finally get the Catchy Song! They deserved it.
Quick note: there are still some twists coming, so don't think we're out in the clear yet *evil laughing in the distance*
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