ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏʙʟᴇᴍꜱ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʙᴇɪɴɢ ᴀ ʜᴏᴘᴘᴇʀ

ᴇᴘɪꜱᴏᴅᴇ 2

(Vance's pov)

"ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ɪꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ᴏɴᴇ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴ ɪꜱ ᴠᴀɴᴄᴇ ʜᴏᴘᴘᴇʀ."

I rush down the hall pushing people out of the way who was blocking the doorway. I always know Robin was either in the bathroom or in the nurse office. The bathroom was closer so I barge into there to see Robin washing off his bloody fists. "What happened?!" I say rushing over to him. "He was talking shit about someone so I punched him in his face." He lifts up his fist to me. "He has some pretty damn sharp teeth." He says messing with the cut. "Dont play with it man!" I say slapping his hand down. "Who was he talking about?" He was silent. "Robin?" he sighs. "It's nothing anyways so it doesn't matter." He says getting paper towel. "Obviously it meant something if you beaten him half to death.", "Listen Vance, I said its nothing impo- "
"if it wasn't so important then you wouldn't have done that." "He was talking shit about you." I was confused. Everyone talks shit about me everyday so what's makes today different. "Everyone talks shit about me though Robin." Robin makes an over dramatic loud sigh. "It was about the, you know what was going around.." I look at him confused once more. "Ugh forget it. I already know i'm going to get in trouble. Meet you at lunch later." He says patting my shoulder and exiting the bathroom. He was acting weird. What did he mean by that? I hope he's not talking about the thing the teacher stopped me to talk about earlier. I check my watch to see that it's almost 12:50. That's when our lunch starts. I minus well hangout outside for a bit until it's lunch. I exit out the bathroom to see Griffin picking up his notebooks from off the floor. "Hey Griff." I can tell Griffin got startled a bit because he dropped his notebooks once again. I lean down to help him grab his books, he's such a nervous wreck. "Thanks Vance!" One thing I noticed about Griffin is that he smiles with his teeth. You don't see much people doing that. "Your welcome. Whats got you so nervous in the morning anyways?" I can tell some people was staring at us, mostly because i'm talking to Griffin Stagg. Everyone knows Griffin for being a nice kid that gets in no trouble. And him being seen with me is a shocker to people. I guess. "Oh it's nothing! It's just this day is going by sorta fast." He says playing with his fingernails. "Is that a bad thing or a good thing?" He sucks his teeth. "It's both good and bad. I don't really want to go home right now." He says mumbling the last part. "Hm?", "Nothing! We should wait in the cafeteria until it's lunch." He says. "I was actually heading outside but we could go in the cafeteria." I say. As me and Griffin was walking to the cafeteria,

I see Bruce smacking Billy's head. Ive had a small crush on Bruce for a while. Ive been telling myself that it'll go away but everytime I see him it's just. It's just complicated for me at the moment. Me and Griffin sits down at the regular group circle tables. It has a perfect amount of seats for all of us. 6 seats made for 6 friends.
People say friendgroups doesn't last for a long time but I call that bullshit. Even though I only made friend with them all this year, I can tell that there's going to be nothing to break us apart. The bell rings which means it's time for lunch. The cafeteria gets quickly packed and I could see Bruce dragging Billy to the table. "What's with you bullying me today man." Billy says plopping down next to Griffin. "What's with you being an idiot." Bruce says sitting down next to me. "Hey Vance!" He says hugging me from the side. I find it weird that Bruce only hugs me from the group. "Hey Bruce." My cheeks turning a bit pink. A couple of minutes later, we see Finney scolding Robin from behind as they both walk to the table. "Here comes the old couple arguing." Griffin says taking a bite out of a sandwich. "Can you guys believe that Robin didn't take his adhd pills today." Finney says crossing his arms. I turn my head around to Bruce avoiding any eye contact with Finney. Finney gets very serious when it comes to anything Robin related. I sense Finney glaring at me, "You knew didn't you." Finney says putting his hands on the table. "Hey! Its not my fault Finney Blake. I told him he should have taken it." Robin mouth opens, "No you didn't-" I take Griffins sandwich and shoves it into his mouth. "Hey!" Griffin kicks my leg. "Sorry Griffin. I'll buy you a sandwich after school." I say ruffling his hair. "Enough with the arguing. What are you gonna do for your birthday?" Bruce takes a sip out of his boba. My birthday was in a week and I taken my stepdads word for it and chose to come out to them. Not to mention, after my birthday is the day we all started being friends.

"Uhm, probably nothing." I said. "That's boring. We should all go to the fair!" Billy says. "Yeah! The fair starts before your birthday so it'll be open." Bruce says leaning on me. Going to a fair doesn't sound like a bad idea. The food, the games, and the rides. Even though I know Finney is scared of them. "I wouldn't mind going.
"Only if we don't go on any rides." Finney says. "Don't be a wuss Fin, it'll be fun!" Robin says nudging Finney's shoulder. Finney rolls his eyes, "I guess." He says. Everyone starts talking separately now. We usually talk separately when we finish discussing our conversation and how our day was. Bruce pulls up this soap opera type shit on his phone and watches it. Robin and Finney is basically flirting with eachother, and Griffin and Billy are bickering over some shit. I was bored so I decided to lean over and watch the soap opera with Bruce. I didn't notice I had my head on his shoulder until I dozed off after watching the show. I felt like if I lifted my head up it'll be disrespectful so I kept it there, plus I felt relaxed. Suddenly, my eyelids start getting heavy and I can feel a yawn coming in. "Tired?" Bruce says pausing the show. "No im good. You can put it back on."Bruce puts back on the show.

1 hour later..

The bell rang just means lunchtime was over. I didn't hear the bell ring because I was half asleep. I felt someone tapping my shoulder. When I looked up, It was Bruce. "Lunch is over." Bruce says in a sad tone. I rub my eyes. "What's with the sad tone Bruce?" I say stretching. "I liked the position we was in." He says smirking. I feel my cheeks heat up. "Yeah well you better have enjoyed it pretty boy. Because that was the last time." I say getting up walking besides him. "Sure... Ill take pretty boy as a compliment." He says doing that stupid wink. I roll my eyes at him. I never knew someone can look as good as him and be a goofball. "Also Vance, theres something I should ask you." He says completely changing his mood. "Sure you can ask me anything." We stop in the middle of the hallway. A part of me was hoping that Bruce was going to say that he loves me and the other half of me wanted the same thing. "Can I stay over tonight? My mom invited a friend over and I don't feel that comfortable around him," He says playing with his fingers a bit cracking each one of them. "Sure, my mom loves you anyways." I say putting a hand on his shoulder. As I stare at Bruce, I noticed he has a small mustache from his drink. I take my sleeves and place my hand above his mouth whiping off the mustache. "I'll pick you up school, see you Rue." I say walking off to class.

(Bruce's pov)

Vance places his hand above my mouth whiping something from off of my face. "See you later Rue." He says walking off. My face heats up. First he touches my face and then he calls me by my nickname. I can feel the joy leaving my body as I skip to class happily. I don't even like english class and I'm going to there happy. Does this mean that He likes me back? I was thinking about confessing to him on his birthday but what if he doesn't feel the same, that would ruin his birthday. Ive recently been sending signals to him and today he was resting his head on my shoulder. He smells like strawberry vanilla shakes. Its so sweet and I wish I could smell him all day. Wait, that sounds so weird. Ignore that brain. But this must means that he likes me back. I reach my class and I open the door to see the teacher. Shes so snappy for no reason. He needs a chill pill. Shes gonna have a stroke one of these days at her old age. I walk to my seat as I feel everyone staring at me. I hate this. I hate that I sit in the front, simply because I feel like everyone is staring at me. And there is. It's these girls in class who keeps writing me love letters and then get upset when I reject them. My heart is for one person only and that person is Vance Hopper.
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i know this chapter isnt that good but trust me, there is heavily implied brance in the next chapter.❤️