Hey… It's me again! I'm so sorry I haven't updated in awhile… I feel terrible. Did you miss me?
Jack: *scoffs* Who would miss you?
Me: LOTS of people!
Jack: Yeah? Like who?
Me: I can't tell you. Then you'll stalk them.
Jack: Not necessarily…
Me: Oh yeah! Update!
Jack: She doesn't own LoTF.
Enjoy! :)
Ralph, Simon, Jack, Maurice, and the twins were sitting in the park. Ralph and Simon were holding hands and Simon's head was on Ralph's shoulder. Jack was leaning against a tree, most certainly not swinging from it, a scowl upon his face. Roger was the cause of that scowl. He sat a few feet away from Jack, throwing stuff-mostly rocks- at his head. He chuckled quietly to himself while doing so. The twins were clapping and cheering him on. The whole scene was very touching.
Then something curious happened.
Roger stopped chuckling and stopped throwing the rocks at Jack. He threw the last one, in fact, with terrible aim and accidentally hit Simon instead. Simon gave out a little cry and Ralph glared at Roger.
"Why the hell did you do that?" Ralph questioned.
Roger didn't answer. He continued to stare off into the distance, towards the entrance of the park.
"…Roger? Did you hear me?" Ralph asked.
No response.
Sam crawled up behind Roger and attempted to trace his gaze. The older twin's mouth began to slowly open when he realized what the brunette was staring at.
"What's he lookin' at, Sam?" Maurice asked curiously. Sam's face was a huge grin when he turned away from Roger, who was still zoning out.
"He's looking at a girl." Sam responded, pointing. "That one in the black."
"What?" Jack exclaimed. "Roger, I thought you hated people! What's her name?"
Roger sat there, refusing to speak a word.
"Roger!" Simon called. The little brunette furrowed his eyebrows and reached for a nearby stick. He began poking the choir boy with it.
"Rooooger…" Simon chorused. "What's her naaame?"
Roger wrenched the stick out of Simon's grip and snapped it in two.
"What's her name, Roger?" Jack asked.
Roger mumbled something inaudible.
"Pardon?" Maurice smirked.
"I don't know her fucking name," Roger muttered. "I've never seen her before."
"Ooh!" Eric sang. "Love at first sight! Did you hear that, Sam?"
"Sure did!"
"Oh, shut the hell up. I'm not in love with her," Roger glared at the twins.
"You just think she's pretty!" Simon grinned, but then his smile became something much more sinister.
"Be right back, Ralph." He picked his head up off of Ralph's shoulder and nonchalantly walked away.
"What is that little demon doing?" Roger asked, peering after the choir boy.
"I think he's going to talk to your lover," Jack laughed. Roger stood up to take action, but he was too late. Simon was looking up at the girl- that's right, up; he was a little shorter than her- with his big, blue eyes. He was talking to her.
"Fuck." Roger gasped. "He got her to come over here."
"Well he is Simon. He's good at that stuff," Maurice noted.
The group turned to look at Simon and Roger's 'lover', who were coming towards them. The girl was tall, but not too tall, around 5'7. She wore a black t-shirt with some band logo on it that none of them recognized, blue skinny jeans, and converse. A little leather bag hung off of her right shoulder. She had her wavy hair tucked into a messy bun with her bangs down. She was skinny and, everyone later agreed, very beautiful.
"Hi guys, I'm Vanessa," She half-smiled. "Simon said you wanted to talk to me?"
"Yeah!" Simon cheered. "This is Ralph, the redhead is Jack, those are the twins, Sam and Eric, and that's Roger." Simon added as a quick side note, "Don't worry, sometimes we can't even tell the twins apart."
"We heard that!" Sam and Eric complained.
Roger went back to throwing rocks at Jack again. Simon invited Vanessa to sit down with them and she agreed, saying that she had nothing better to do. She walked over and sat down next to Roger.
Roger's breath hitched noticeably.
"Exhale, Roger," Simon quietly advised, which made everyone snicker. Roger and Vanessa either didn't hear or pretended not to, because they didn't respond.
"Hey." Vanessa said, "Why are you throwing rocks at that kid?"
Roger looked at her and smirked.
"'Cause it's fun." Roger responded. After an awkward pause, he added, "Wanna try?"
Vanessa shook her head.
"I'll stick to throwing rocks at my own friends… but thanks for the offer."
"You throw rocks at your friends, too?"
Vanessa laughed, a sound that made Roger smile.
Roger.
Smiled.
Everyone froze, confused at what they just saw. None of them could recall the last time that Roger had smiled at something that wasn't either Jack getting hurt or scary movies. The fact that he had smiled because of a girl was more surprising. Up until that day, everyone was convinced that they were the only group of people that Roger talked to. His family wasn't included in that group.
"Who doesn't?"
Roger laughed and then stopped suddenly. Another smile crept onto his face.
"You like Avenged Sevenfold?" He was looking at Vanessa's shirt.
"Yeah, they're the best!" Vanessa's eyes lit up at mention of the subject.
"I know, right? Everyone thinks I'm Emo because I listen to them! I mean, what kind of bullshit is that!?"
"That's not why people think you're Emo, Roger." Jack offered. Maurice and the twins nodded their heads slowly in agreement.
"Shuddup, Jack. No one asked you," Roger snapped. He was still looking at Vanessa.
"Do you guys live around here?" Vanessa asked, turning to face everybody.
"I live around the corner," Simon said.
"I live a few blocks down, on 31st," Ralph answered.
"I just moved here," Vanessa confessed. "So I don't really know where all the streets are. I live on Mulberry."
"Same!" Maurice exclaimed.
"That's cool. At least I live close to someone," Vanessa smiled.
"You're welcome to hang out with us anytime," Simon grinned.
"None of us will mind… Especially Roger," Eric said. Roger hit his arm and told him to be quiet. Vanessa didn't seem to mind the whole thing, though. She laughed.
Three little electronic pings interrupted the conversation. Vanessa looked at her phone.
"My mom wants me home to finish unpacking," She groaned. "Here's my number, if you guys want to call. I doubt I'll be doing anything anytime soon," Vanessa reached into her bag and grabbed a pen and a little notebook. She scrawled her number down on it and handed it to Roger, since he was sitting right next to her.
"Bye you guys! It was really nice meeting you," The girl then stood up and walked out of the park, the boy's eyes following her the entire time. Once she was out of eyesight, there was a minute or so of silence until Sam decided to speak.
"Did that really just happen?" He asked, his eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"I dunno," Jack mumbled. The whole thing seemed pretty strange. Vanessa was so nice, and yet, Roger liked her. She was like everyone's personality combined.
"It did happen!" Simon said, being the voice of reason. "Of course it did! Aren't you excited, Roger?"
Roger nodded. He was putting Vanessa's number into his phone.
Jack sighed and leaned back into the tree more, making sure not to hit his right arm on anything. At least, he thought, the twins and Maurice are still single. He wished, once again, that everything was back to normal. When things were normal, Jack was calm. Everything was going to plan. There wasn't anything to worry about.
But the poor redhead, leaning against the tree, did have something to worry about. He didn't want to worry about it, he really didn't.
As he looked over at Simon and Ralph- who were still holding hands and smiling- he really wished that he would stop worrying about it sometime soon.
Did you guys like it? I promise I'll update faster next time. *I'm not really good at doing that, am I?*