Beso | Miguel O'Hara

tasw vol. #1

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚙𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛-𝚆𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚅𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚖𝚎 #𝟷

𝙼𝚢 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝙿𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚣. 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝚊 𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜, 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢, 𝚂𝚙𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛-𝚆𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗!

𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚎𝚎, 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝙸...

𝚆𝚊𝚒𝚝 𝚊 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍...

𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎... 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗'𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞?

𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛, 𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢...

𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎... 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗'𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞?

𝙱𝚞𝚝, 𝙸... 𝙸'𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢. 𝙸'𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚙𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛-𝚆𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗... 𝚞𝚗𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜...

Pearl is flicked in the head with a pencil. It lands on her desk with a soft thud as she winces and turns to face the perpetrator. Her eyes narrow at her friend, who only meant to be helpful. Rosa begins mouthing some incoherent babble from across the room. It's entirely foreign to Pearl, who squints as she does her absolute best to read the lips.

𝙳𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗. 𝙼𝚢 𝚋𝚊𝚍.

Pearl huffs as she turns her attention back to the lecture taking place. It's nearly boring her to death. The professor is repeating his previous lesson from last week, word for word. Pearl picks up the pencil and begins fiddling with it, switching from her right hand to her left.

Another pencil is thrown at her head, and once more Pearl doesn't catch it. She winces and looks over to her friend with wide, angry eyes. She mouths incoherent babble as well, and this time Rosa is the one who is confused. Pearl just rolls her eyes and pulls out her phone.

[ what the hell do you want? ]

[ look down ]

[ ahorita ]

Pearl follows Rosa's gaze and sees bits of black and neon pink sticking out from under her zip-up hoodie. In a flash, Pearl zips it up all the way and prays that nobody saw.

𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚊. 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝚂𝚝𝚞𝚙𝚒𝚍 𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚒𝚎.

" And that's time. Practice test tomorrow, real test on Friday."

The room is quickly emptied as all the students rush out to spread like vermin around the bright and vibrant college campus.

" Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Slow down!" Rosa shouts as she races to catch up, " Jeez, stop running away from me."

" I can't be running away from you if I'm walking at a leisurely pace," Pearl snidely quips as she carries her notebook with one hand.