You Pour My Heart Away • Declan McKenna

Chapter Eight

The school day ended and I jumped on my bus, and I saw Steven sat with the year 7s who were playing their Nintendo Switches.
"Steven why the fuck are you sitting with year 7s??" I said sitting in the seat next to him.
"Again, my friends are upstairs, being dicks."
"Awh well I'm here" I said
"Thanks babzzz" he said offering me one of his earphones.
I plug it in and look at his phone to see what was playing
DNA - BTS
You're into K-pop? I asked
"Yeah - I love Korean culture and all that - I'm Vietnamese, as you can probably tell, and I'm so so so bored with the stupid music my mum and dad play." He danced an enormous dance move and hit one of the year 7s in the face, without a care.
We got off at the same stop and he walked round the corner with his massive wave like usual.
I walked 13 minutes home and plonked onto my bed and got my paper from Philosophy and Ethics to read what Declan had written properly. The letters were in capitals, but were still lightly connected when I looked closer.
I K T I M N T Y B
The fuckkkkk?
I sat there so so confused.
16:17 - nap time, it was pissing me off so much and I just couldn't bring myself to wreck my mind anymore. Sure, I was over reacting, but Declan really mattered to me, every little thing, I wanted to evaluate, understand and love, cause he's intriguing and full of stuff unknown. He's perfect.