Tweek took a deep breath as he looked into the opening of the nook Craig and him had been unofficially reserving as their study space.
"Be normal." Tweek put a smile on his face.
He was ready to continue on like nothing happened because nothing did happen.
What occurred on Saturday was nothing more than an event of circumstance and Tweek was willing to accept that. Even despite the nagging feeling in his gut and head that wasn't as accepting of the dismissal.
He did a couple weighted steps to the opening between two bookshelves, popping his head in only to lose his smile.
Craig wasn't there.
Tweek fully immersed himself into the space and checked his phone.
3:15 pm
"He's only five minutes late." An optimistically dim tone to the word 'only'.
Tweek sat down and gave a peaceful look around the room, he loved this special spot of his-and now Craig's-in all its booky glory.
It was a bookshelf created room in the farthest corner of the library where he sometimes ate his lunch. A small secluded table with a couple of old chairs sat encased within the space, the furniture being different from the chairs and tables that sat outside of the rest of the library. These four pieces seeming to be frozen in time in this secret area.
Tweek's eyes fell on the chair across from him, frowning at the lack of person there to help with their homework woes.
"Hey."
Tweek's eyes perked up and bounced from the chair to the figure standing in the opening of the nook. Excited at first to have his student here, but the excitement falling short upon seeing the condition of Craig.
"Hi..." Tweek sat straight in his chair and sifted over the drained features on Craig's face, his eyes staring at the floor with a tired reluctance and body seeming to be propped on a fish hook. "Uh... you okay?"
Craig nodded silently, walking forward to sit in his chair with a fatigued drop onto the old wood.
Tweek glanced at his phone again, trying to keep his voice soft as he looked up at Craig's wilted state. "You're fifteen minutes late."
"I fell asleep." Craig started to slowly take his things out of his bag, placing his binders on the table one by one. "Sorry."
Tweek watched the lethargic male struggle to take out one of his heavier books and frowned. "Wanna take a quick nap before we start?"
"Thanks." Craig's eyes finally met Tweek's, his eyes showing he was more thankful for the offer than his mouth was. He opened his binder and took the first paper from the front, sliding it to Tweek. A quick plop of his head into his arms followed soon after.
Tweek looked down at the paper in front of him and felt his gut clench, it was his anatomy test. Red marks and scribbles were covering the front of the paper and leaving a big branding F at the top of the page.
"You failed?"
Craig's mass shifted awkwardly, like it was too tired to be ashamed and camouflage itself like Craig usually did when he didn't do as expected. His shoulders hunching before a short 'yeah' was grumbled out.
"Craig, what happened?" Tweek picked up the test and looked over the answers, half of them barely even scrawled out on the page. His frown deepening as he turned it over and saw it was completely blank and the only piece of penmanship was a shaky doodle of a car at the bottom of the page. Tweek barely able to get out his sentence as he looked over Craig's work. "You didn't even finish."
