dear vikram barn, ♡ sidemen

♡ chapter three

"On the outside, always looking in
Will I ever be more than I've always been?
'Cause I'm tap, tap, tapping on the glass
I'm waving through a window."

-'Waving Through a Window' from "Dear Evan Hansen"

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Vikk walked into the school building, his head staring at the ground. He kept walking until he felt a presence next to him, "Hey, how was your summer?" Vikk turned to face the voice.

He looked at the person, he knew who he was, his friends called him 'Freezy' or 'Cal'.

Vikk was about to respond but he was struggling to find a response. "M-My...uh..i-it wa-"

Cal cut him off, "Mine was pretty productive. I did some community service and made some great friends too."

"That's...u-um c-cool...hey-it's-fine-if-you....um...w-would you just maybe sign my cast?" Vikk asked pointing to his broken arm

Cal gave Vikk a concern look, "Oh my God, what happened to your arm?"

"Oh...well I broke it. See I-"

Cal cut off the poor boy again, "Really? My grandma broke her hip getting in the shower last July." Cal paused, "It was nice talking to you, happy first day!"

Then he took off before he could sign Vikk's cast. Vikk sighed before getting his books from his locker.

"Is it weird to be the first person in the world to break their arm from wanking too much, or do you consider that an honor?" Vikk rolled his eyes at his sarcastic friend's commentary.

The boy leaned up against Vikk's locker, of course it was Harry. "I wasn't....No I wasn't doing that!" Vikk defended

Harry ignored his statement, "Tell me how it went, you're in your bedroom on your phone with Tobi Brown's Instagram pulled u-"

Vikk cut him off with a bright red face, "I w-wasn't doing that... obviously. Well, I was climbing a tree then I fell." Vikk explained his eyes not leaving the ground

Harry looked very amused, "You fell out of a tree? What are you like, an acorn?"

Vikk rolled his eyes and felt his face heat up again, "Y-Yeah, well...um. I-don't-know-if-you-know-this-but-I-worked-at-a-local-park-for-the-summer-and-um....well-I was-climbing-the-forty-foot-tall-oak-tree th-"

Harry cut him off, "Then you fell?"

"Yeah. B-But the funny thing is, there-was-a-solid-ten-minutes-after-I-fell-where-I-just-waited-there-for-someone-to-come-get-me." Vikk went on

"Did they?" Harry asked

"N-No, that's...that's what's funny." Vikk said forcing out an awkward chuckle

"Jesus." Harry responded

"So, um....what did you..." Vikk cleared his throat as he tried to find the right thing to say, "You had a good summer?"

Harry nodded, "Well my friends from camp and I won at capture the flag which was amazing. And we also messed around at a lake so yeah."