Tanner in The Center Boyxboy

HE IS WHAT?

"Will someone punch me in the face if I ever volunteer to work with Tommy Johnson ever again?" Tan walks over dropping at the lunch table where his friends are after 45 minutes of failing at taking pictures of Tommy.

"Was he that bad?" Lin asks rubbing his back as Tan lays his head on the table feeling like a failure

"He wouldn't smile, and he stood in the same fucking spot the whole time like a telephone pole! No matter how much I said Tommy smile or do something else with your body, boy would not move!" He complains to his friends as he steals food off their trays

"That sucks dude, when I took pictures of Sven this morning he was such a breeze" Erica gloats

"Yeah?" Tan scolds her "maybe it's because Sven's actually a genuine person with a great smile. While I got stuck with a fucking robot that had a stick jammed so far up his ass, it was causing him to malfunction!" Tan rants

"Calm down it's not Tommy you're mad at"

"No, but I'm also pretty fucking mad at him too" Tan turns on the camera and shows them the pictures "this is the best that giant could do"

"Wow these are bad" Ronnie adds

"Well they're going in the yearbook so I'm done" as they're sitting and talking the bell rings meaning lunch was over "but I just sat down" Tan cries as they pack up

"Come on get up" they wait for him as he drags himself off the table bench "get up Tan you don't want to be late for math"

"Math can wait!"

After school Tan walks to the exit to wait for his dad "hey" Sven walks up to him always carrying his gym bag and his basketball.

"Hey Sven" Tan replies and Sven walks with him

"No yearbook meeting today?"

"Nope, no practice today?" Tan takes the ball from him and starts to play with it

"Yeah we have practice twice a day before a game"

They get to the exit "have fun" Tan hands him the ball back "bye"

"Bye Tan" they smile at each other and Tan walks out.

Spotting his father's car Tan walks to it and gets in "how was school?" Scott asks as Tan buckles his seatbelt

"Awesome" Tan stares forward ready to get out of the car already.

"All right well we're going back to my office-" Tan turns to him "I have work to finish"

"So take me home" Tan couldn't see Harris right now

"Not gonna happen, your mother doesn't get home till 5:30 so you'll be with me till then."

"I'm not a child!" He groans "why can't I just go home?"

"Because no one trusts you, Tan. You'll do whatever you want and your mother and I are sick and tired of it."

"I'm so glad you and mom can bond over ruining my life."

Scott takes this all as normal teen rebellion not knowing Tan's actual problem, his name's Harris Wheeler. Tan's been acting like an adult like he promised, he doesn't call Harris or text him. Maybe some light stalking here and there but that's just online, and Tan doesn't count it because he never really finds anything. It's been four days without seeing each other and Tan knows he won't be able to be around Harris and not say anything.

"I have a meeting so I'll be in the conference room upstairs, why don't you go bother Harris till your mom gets here?"

"No thanks" Tan walks off the elevator when they get to his dad's floor