paper cut - minizerk au

[1.2] Bruised.

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"Well why isn't he here?" I asked forwardly as I sat with Ethan, Jide and Tobi in the courtyard at break.

"God, I don't know do I? He might be with Harry and Vik," Ethan suggested, though Tobi and I both knew this wasn't the case.

"Nah, Harry got as splinter in tech. Vik insisted that he'd take him to the nurse. Simon was never with them or us," Tobi correctly informed, and I nodded to the rest of them to back him up.

"What's up with Harry and Vik anyway? Have you not noticed that they've been spending a lot of time together this year?" Ethan quizzed, but it was none of our business.

"Fuck that, mate. I'm more concerned about the fact that Simon went from a B to an F in English. It's only out first week back. Don't seem like him at all," JJ commented, though he didn't look at any of us as he was too busy fiddling with a bottle that he couldn't unscrew the top from.

Tobi sighed, taking the bottle from him to remove the lid. He then passed it back to Jide and he just looked bewildered, as if Tobi just did some hex or something.

"He dropped four grades just from our start of year essays? Is that even possible..?" Tobi asked with a concerning complexion, brows furrowed.

"He's always struggled in English. He only started getting his spellings correct last year, give him a break," I huffed, completely dismissing it. Even though I'd noticed it too.

"There's gotta be something up with him," Ethan shrugged, leaning back against the school's metal fence, legs crossing.

"I mean. I guess I noticed it too. But, as I said, he struggles with it. He's probably just forgotten how to do stuff," I predicted forwardly, referring back to the ways he would write his notes to me in the past two days.

"I looked at his paper to see what he'd written about. His handwriting was all over the place.. Even worse than mine, fam. And he kept capitalising letters in the right places, but then it seemed he went back, crossed them out and did the whole thing in little letters," Jide chirped, tapping his bottle on the ground.

We all lowly chuckled at JJ,

"Little letters.." I teased, "think you meant lowercase, mate."

"Oh, fuck-"

"Behz, you got a light?" We all turned to see Harry, next to the cinnamon boy.

Vik rolled his eyes, shaking his head silently. He hated it when they'd smoke around him; I didn't really care, though.

"Yeah, yeah," Behz nodded, turning to fumble about in his bag for his orange lighter.

Harry took a seat next to him, then Vik next to Harry.

"I guess it's my turn to keep lookout.." Tobi sighed, this was a regular occurrence for us lot now.

We had to be even more careful now that Harry had been caught twice and at this point his own we on the verge of exclusion.

Tobi turned around to keep watch for any prefects, I just leaned my head back against the fence, still wondering where the fuck Minter was.

Harry and Behz had both lit their cigarettes now and we're slowly intaking the substances.

I looked over at Jide, who was now trying, and failing, at bottle flipping.