✦Sean✦

“There ya are,” He comments still laughing and he slaps my back fairly hard, “Where did ya run off ta Sean?” He questioned pulling me into a headlock.

“Maybe he knew we were gonna get somethin’ to eat while we were out and didn’t want to bum food off of us,” Sam snickered. That stung…

“I forgot something at home and I didn’t want to forget it. Sorry for ditching you,” I state not taking my eyes off my book. The first book that we were reading was Beowulf.

“What did ya forget?” Nick queries I glance over at him when I hear someone's hands hit my desktop.

“It was nothing important,” I respond in a monotone.

“Na, come on it hasta be important if ya had to run off like that,” Andy objects and I feel him lean on me more not letting go of my neck.

“It was just an old necklace,” I answer flatly quickly remembering that when Sasuke and I were little his parents bought us friendship necklaces. It wasn’t really a friendship necklace because it didn’t say anything like that. It was just a simple black chain with three beads on it. Two metal beads and one deep blue bead. Sasuke’s had a red bead in the center.

“What’s so important about an old necklace?” Nick inquires, curiosity in his voice. He is normally the more so soft-spoken one out of the three of them.

“You can call it a good luck charm if ya want,” I respond resting my head in my left as I held my book open with my right.

“That’s cute ya have a good luck charm,” Andy chuckles and pats my bicep then pushes off me.

“How far do we have ta read in Beowulf again for tomorrow?” Sam questions leaning on my desk.

“We have to read to here,” I answer after finishing my sentence and showing him the thirty-some pages. It’s a good book. I’m enjoying it.

“That’s not too bad.” Sam comments.

“No, not really. It’s not too bad of a book either,” I reply going back to reading.

“Come on Sam, we have ta go do our own homework,” Nick calls out. He sounds like he’s already out of the room.

“I’m comin’,” Sam pushed my head forward a little, just enough to push my cheek out of my palm before heading out himself, “See ya in class tomorrow.”

“Bye,” I answer flatly not turning around to look at the door.

“So what’s this good luck charm of yours look like?” Andy asked after I hear the door click.

I stop reading to see him hop onto his bed with his bag, “It’s just a necklace.” I sigh and go back to my book.

“Come on I wanna see it,” It was more so Andy saying. Stop reading and fucking show me the damn thing.

I put my bookmark in Beowulf sideways to mark the line that I’m on and got up. It was in the top drawer of my dresser in the left front corner. That’s where I’ve always put it, no matter where I go, it’s always there. I pull it out and showed Andy, “I told you it was just a necklace.”

“Damn that thing is simple. I thought it was gonna have some epic lookin’ charm on it or somethin’,” He has a look of disappointment on his face, “But it suits you. Your simple.” He snickers as he pulls out his history homework.

“Yep, that’s me, simple as fuck,” I mutter more so to myself and hopefully low enough so he can’t hear it as I put it back in my dresser and close it before going back to my book.

We had random short conversations throughout the rest of the night till it got around eleven and we decided to call it. I woke up with Andrew's alarm. He offered for me to come and do a morning swim with him, but I decline and tell him that I like going for runs in the morning instead. He left the room as I got on some spandex and my running shorts and a t-shirt. I went to my top dresser and grabbed a pair of socks when I stopped and looked at my necklace. I blink a few times as I stare at it and then pull it out and put it on. Over the years I’ve had to get longer chains so it would still fit. The chain was cool against my skin when I tucked it into my shirt. Then I head out of the room. I passed by Toshiro’s room and stop for a moment when I saw another name in the room.

“So Sasuke’s going to be coming to the dorms…” I mutter standing there and taking it in. A small smile makes its way onto my lips before I turn away from the door and continue on my way down the stairs and out the side door.

The few hours before classes start seems to fly by and now that school as actually started for the day it seems to be dragging a little bit. Though, I am happy to see that Sasuke managed to get to school. He looks like he was in a lot of pain though. He had a slight limp when he walks around the room. I don’t know if a lot of others notice or not. Considering that he decided to wear shorts today I can see half of the wrapping that’s around both his knees and he had his hands and elbows bandaged as well. He hit the pavement really hard yesterday.

Some of the girls in the class ask him what happened and he just tells them he fell, which isn’t a lie he did fall. But he was able to just leave it at that. We are continuing on our watercolor project. Then it’s powering through the rest of the day and when the final bell rings I head back to the art room. Sasuke is there too and he’s working. I come in and set my bag down in my chair before going over and getting my project from the counter. I’m a couple of layers in and I want to get some more done on it before going and working on homework. “How were your classes for you?” I ask Sasuke as I set down my stuff.

“They were fine,” His answers a little quiet.

“Hey boys,” Ariana calls out coming into the room.

“Hey Ariana,” We say in unison. She moves around the room getting her stuff together and when Ariana trips and her water she was carrying spills all over me and my painting.

“I’m so sorry Sean, I didn’t mean to,” She panics and I put my hands up.

“It’s okay it’s just my shirt and I wasn’t liking how this was turning out anyways so it’s okay,” Sasuke grabs a roll of paper towels and we clean up the mess. I dry my shirt off as much as I can. Thankfully no a lot spilled on my jeans. Then Sasuke and I move over to one of the islands. He continues to work on his watercolor as I get a new sheet of watercolor and tape it to my artboard.

Lightly I sketch out the new image on the paper trying my best not to smug it, “My legs hurt.” Sasuke grumbles from the other end of the table as he worked on his watercolor.

“So sit down,” I comment not looking up from my paper.

“I don’t want to,” He said like a child and I chuckle.

“Then stop complaining,” I smirk a bit looking up at him quick to see him frowning at me and it fell silent between the two of us again.

After I finish sketching I wander over to the back wall where the tall stools were and brought one over for Sasuke, “I told you I didn’t want to sit.”

“Eh well, it’s there if you want it,” I shrug and go back and grab a stool for myself and putting my paints and water on it so I could get some books to prop up my board without having to worry about knocking it over. "How much pain are you in. On a scale of one to ten?” I ask wanting to keep a conversation going, “One being the worst ten being the best.”

“I wanna say about a four. But you know what they say, the day after is always the worst,” We both laugh a little.

“You know I could have taken you home yesterday,” I sigh a little looking up after finishing the water wash on the painting to dampen the paper.

“You were hanging out with friends,” His red gaze locks with mine and his words sting slightly.

“I’m going to go on my walk, if you boys need me I’ll be walking the halls with Mrs. Butler,” Mrs. Clark says.

“Okay,” We said in unison.

“I can’t really call them friends. They more so pick on me more then anything,” I answer truthfully as I brought my paints and water back onto the countertop.

“So why do you hang out with them?” Looking up again at him he’s just working on his project.

But I ended up looking up at him with a slightly annoyed expression. "Because Andrew is my roommate. And he just kinda drags me places." I answered. "I find them kinda annoying and frustrating to deal with."

“So why hang out with them?” Again…it was a blunt question, but it was right to the point.

“I don’t know to be honest,” I mutter breaking my gaze away from him, “I’m roommates with Andrew in the dorms so I guess I feel obligated that I have to hang out with them.

“Yo Sean,” I look over to see Sam and Nick standing at the door, "Andrew wants ta talk to ya," Sam calls out. There was a slight smirk on Sam’s lips and I was getting a bit of a bad feeling.

I sigh a bit frustrated and rest my brush on top of my cup. “Fine. I’m coming.” I groaned and shoved my hands in my pockets. “Why couldn’t he come and talk to me here. He knows that I was going to be in here. I told ya’ll what I was planning on doing at lunch today.”

“Just humor him and come,” I can tell that Sam was holding down a laugh.

“Sean,” I stop and look back at Sasuke. He has a concerned look on his face, “Make Andrew come here. You don’t need to go to him. You’re really busy and he knows that.”