It's Not All Roses | Brian May

Chapter 2: forever young

Hi there! Thanks for taking your time in reading my story, I really appreciate it! If you haven't read the first chapter, please do! Oh and tell me what you think about it! I'd love to hear your commentary, whether it's positive or negative, I can always use tips. Anyways.. let's continue.

6 days later.. it is now Thursday, the week after Brian and Michelle first met, and actually became friends!

Brian still hasn't found the courage to ask Michelle to his birthday. But.. they have been hanging out the entire week at school during recess after the weekend was over, which has been really fun for the both of them. They exchanged marbles, he also borrowed her a book about astrology he already read.. and he even took her to his house a few times!
Brian showed her his acoustic guitar and bedroom, Michelle was actually really impressed by all of it. Especially his six string. She asked if she was allowed to try and play the guitar.. he said yes and learned her a small piece of an Elvis song called Heartbreak Hotel.. it is a pretty recent one. It took them the entire afternoon, she's obviously not quite good yet. But yet she even told him she wanted to get her own guitar now because it was so much fun studying and learning it with him. Brian said she should get one, so they could play together! Anyways, back to the present.. right now they're having English class, it's really boring. Some random boy in the class is making paper airplanes and throwing them at his classmates behind the teacher's back. After half a minute of the professor hoping he'd just stop it, the teacher turns around and starts yelling at the boy with a ruler in his hand.

"Listen to me young man, if you don't stop throwing those paper airplanes at the others, I will hit your knuckles with this ruler, you understand?"

The teacher then walks over to the young guy and starts talking to him with the long wooden stick held in his hand firmly to scare him a bit. The rest of the class starts chuckling and whispering things to each other. And whilst this is happening, Brian looks behind him to look at Michelle, she gazes back and waves at him with a small smile on her face. And he thinks for a second.

"When am I gonna ask her..? My birthday is tomorrow, I can't wait much longer.. it's not even a big deal! Why am I stressing about this so much.. I bet she'll say yes, Michelle thinks i'm a nice guy. Let me just.."

Brian looks back down at his desk and starts to rip some paper out of his notebook, trying not to make too much noise.. or the teacher will tell him he's gonna get punished too. When he's done he grabs his pen and dips it into some ink as he starts to write something down very quickly, his hand is trembling but his handwriting is really elegant.. not even messy, despite his hand shaking a bit, it looks really good.

"Hey Michelle, just a quick question. It's my birthday tomorrow and I was wondering if you wanted to come?
From your dear friend, -Bri."

Brian wraps the paper up and asks the girl behind him to pass it to Michelle.
After 2 minutes.. brian gets thrown something at him and it hits the back of his head.. he glances down at the floor, it's a crammed bubble gum paper.. bubble gum isn't even allowed in school! Huh? Whatever.. he picks it up and opens it, it's from Michelle!

"Yessir! I already figured out your birthday was tomorrow, so I was already planning on surprising you anyways. But this is okay too, great!"

Brian looks behind him and puts his thumbs up at her while he smiles at her widely with his teeth, the teacher is now back in-front of the classroom and continues with his lesson.. Michelle is coming to Brian's birthday! He feels his heart skipping a beat, a spark inside his stomach.. it's something he hasn't felt before really, but it just feels lik utter happiness.