The Favor

Chapter 1: Carry Me?

"Stark! I'm lazy! Carry me pweeeease?" I begged in a little kid voice and my best friend Stark just chuckled at me and lifted me up; bridal style. 'I wish I could be his bride' I thought to myself wryly as he carried me down the street to Hell, or as most people know it as, school.

    "Haven, we're here. I don't think I can carry you around school all day. Stark stated

    "You can try." I replied with a smile spread across my pale pink lips. He just shook his head and carried me to our first period class, English. Maza, my other best friend and coincidentally, Stark's little sister walked in and over to us.

    "Hey guys. Did Haven make you carry her again. She asked, winking at me. She was the only person on this earth that knew I liked him and was always making fun of me for it.

    "No, I just decided that today i was going to carry Haven to English class as my 'good deed of the day'" he remarked and the sarcasm oozed out of his voice.

    "It's about time you started giving back to the community! After all it's done for you!" I scolded and we all laughed.

    "I'm sorry Haven, do you want me to carry you to math too?" he asked with a fake apologetic smile spread across his lips.

    "The less I have to walk, the better." I sighed as he sat me down in my English seat, which was in between him and Devin, with Maza on Devin's left. Yea, our English teacher isn't the sharpest tool in the shed for putting us next to each other. I mean Devin already hates school and tells off the teachers and blows off work, but with us next to each other, it's just worse.

    "Hey sista!" Devin exclaimed as he walked into the classroom late, disturbing an already pissed off teacher.

    "Devin! You're late! Again! This is you're final warning!" The teacher, Mrs. Locke exclaimed.

    "Like you weren't expecting it." Devin sighed with a roll of his stormy grey eyes. He sat down next to me and I ruffled his ebony hair, totally messing it up.

    "Haven..." he whined

    "Devin.." I mocked. The teacher just droned on and on about stuff I didn't care about, until finally thirty minutes later, the bell rang. The three of them got up and Stark picked me up to go to Math, my least favorite subject. He set me down in my seat and walked away to his seat which was all the way across the room.

    "Don't leave me!" I plead and he chuckled

    "Sorry Faithy, gotta go do some math, ya know?" he explained

    "Excuses!" I muttered and he laughed while he sat down in his far away seat. Maza sat in her seat next to me, so math wasn't totally terrible. We had to do a project with shapes but Maza and I just had to cut shapes in the "Square Inch Store". It was great. Stark and Devin came to get their squares.

    "I hate you both. Lucky bastards." Stark muttered, glaring

    "Love you too!" I laughed jubilantly

    "Aww, is my big brother mad?" Maza asked

    "Yes I am. Why do you two get to cut paper while the rest of us have to work for a living?" Stark asked with a grimace on his face.

    "We are working. Square inch store. we are business women. We sell square inches." I explained then I realized what I said and we all burst out laughing.

    "I don't need any of those." Devin winked to Maza. who just laughed at him. She totally liked him though, everyone knew they liked each other, except them of course.

    "You two! Get your stuff and go!" The teacher yelled at stark and Devin.

    "Oh shut up!" Devin muttered under his breath. They then took what they needed for the project and left. Maza and I just spent the rest of the period talking and handing out squares to people. Soon, class ended and I rose my arms so Stark would know to pick me up.

    "Where to ma'am?" he asked formally as he placed me on his back, piggy back ride style.

    "Like you don't know? We have the same classes." I remarked and he shrugged

    "I don't remember.." he stated. I sighed and shook my head in disappointment at him.

    "TO ART!" I screamed pointing forward. Stark ran to art so we wouldn't be late.

   

    The rest of the school day was uneventful. Stark walked to my house while he carried me with Devin and Maza, who were going to Maza and Stark's house which was next door to mine and Devin's. He set me down on the couch after walking into my living room and he jumped on the cream colored couch next to me.

    "I'm bored!" we exclaimed at the same time and I rolled my sapphire colored eyes at while he laughed lightly. The his face turned serious.

    "Haven, I need to ask you a favor..."