Okay, it looks like this story is also gonna be very short chapters, but think of it this way… The sorter the chapters in my story are, the sooner I tend to update… And I'm still in the phase of this story of figuring out where it's going….
After school, Roger, Daniel, Keten, and Erik sat around a picnic table on the front lawn of the school.
Keten, the drummer was tapping out a rhythm as he hummed the new song, which he had a rough copy of in front of him. "You know, this song would be perfect song for that drum solo I'm always talking about."
Eric looked over his own copy. "Or something on the keys."
"You had a solo on the last two songs we've done. I've never had one. My turn."
They bickered for a few minutes, as Roger worked to refine lyrics, until Daniel hit his fist on the table. "Quiet girls. We've got company."
Roger looked up from the paper he had been working and tried to get his stomach to stop flip flopping. "Hey Mark."
"Hey!" There stood Mark, with a bright smile that made all the others, minus Roger, snicker. But Mark just shrugged and continued smiling as he held out a green pen and a folded pile of papers to Roger. "Here, you left this in the lab this morning."
Roger looked at Marks hand for a moment before returning the smile, though not as enthusiastically, and taking the papers. "Thanks." He shoved them into his messenger bag, which made Mark frown slightly. "What?"
"Just don't lose them okay? You've got like half our passing grade in there."
Rogers eyes went a bit wide. "You're leaving if we pass or fail up for me?" He raised a quizzical eyebrow.
Mark shrugged again, looking around the table and then back to Roger, his smile not wavering. "I trust you. And if you don't get it by Monday, I'll help you."
Okay, Roger already knew he was going to need that help. In not because he actually didn't understand, then because it was more time he could legitimately spend with Mark. "Ya, okay."
"Great! I'll see you later then." Mark waved and walked off to join a friend, who Roger only knew from being in detention with him a few times. The guy had a problem with speaking out against the teachers or something like that. Roger watched Mark walk off until Daniel broke his attention.
"Dude, why do you talk to that guy?"
"He's my lab partner." And secret crush. "Why?"
"S'gonna be a bad hit to your rep if people find out you hang with him."
Roger frowned. Why the hell did that matter? "I don't hang with him. This is like my second time talking to him outside of lab."
"You best keep it that way." He clapped a brotherly hand on Rogers shoulder. "For your sake man."
Roger nodded slowly and turned to look at Mark again, who was enthusiastically waving his arms around as he told a story that Roger couldn't hear, but judging by the look on his friends face, it was either incredibly exciting, or equally dull.
