Study Date || DNF

☾Chapter Three - Is This Normal?☽

ꕥ Dreams POV ꕥ

As soon as I walk into the school grounds i'm greeted by Nick who happens to notice George's sweater in my hands.

"What's with the sweater? It's a bit small for you isn't it?"

"It's not mine, George left it at my house."

My answer looked to have thrown him off "Why was he at your house?"

"He's my new tutor."

"And how's that been?"

"Well he managed to get me to pay attentions so great I think?"

"That's not what I meant."

"Oh, it was okay. He didn't yell at me so that's a plus."

As we walk in I go to look for the brunette so I can return his belongings, unfortunately I wasn't very successful so I just ended up putting it in my locker until I could give it back in English.

***

By the time English rolls around im pretty much done with the day, it's going by painfully slow. As I walk in I head over to his desk handing the article of clothing to him.

"You left this yesterday."

He looks up at me "Thanks, sorry about that."

"No worries." I smile before going to take a seat at my desk.

The teacher gets started with a greeting before jumping into what we're going to be doing, apparently a partnered project, just slides on a book we've read; not hard. The teacher assigns George and I as partners, lucky for me but unlucky for him.

He heads over to the desk next to mine, pulling up the powerpoint we'll be doing "It's like the universe wants us to be friends." I joke, I should really learn my lesson.

"Or it's just torturing me. I'll work on the first half you work on the last half, deal?"

"Yeah that's fine."

"If you need help just ask."

"Alright, what book are we doing?"

After we decided on the book we get to work, the teacher gave us until the end of the week to finish the project which if i'm being honest is way more time than needed but i'm not complaining. By the time the bell rings we've already finished 3 slides combined.

While he's packing up his stuff I push my luck a bit "Hey George would you mind giving me your number? For the project of course."

He takes a moment to think but eventually gives in "Fine, but only for the project." He writes down the 10 numbers looking like he's going to regret this.

I send him a smiley face to check if it worked and to my surprise it did.

***

After school I text him asking if he wanted me to take him home so we could work on the project, it took some convincing but he eventually agreed and met up with me in the parking lot so we could get going. The ride was pretty quiet other than the music and him occasionally giving me directions.

We pull into his drive way, his house is exactly like I remember it. I've only been here a handful of times in sixth grade when we had sleepovers or just hung out but it was enough to leave a memory, a lot of the inside was the same as well but his room was definitely different.

"You changed it."

"Well i'm not exactly 12 anymore, should we get started?"

"What if we got to know each other better?"