These Fatal Nights

Chapter 3

" I don't care what you want me to do, it's just really, really quiet. He doesn't talk he just sits with his headphones in acting like he's the king of the world we're all just peasants who watch him" I say to Sammy on the phone that night right after the most awkward class of my life.

"C'Mon you won't even just listen to my plan? I promise it'll work great!" She says almost with too much enthusiasm

I groan at her as a roll over onto my bed, kicking my calculus homework to the floor "Ok shoot, you get one chance and that's it."

She squeals with delight as she starts explaining her plan to me. Her plan might you ask? She's trying to get ME to become his friend so I can set them up together. " Well first try and engage in any conversation. Anything will work talk about food, cars, hell, talk about the gum on the bottom of your shoe I don't care. Anything that can strike up something interesting. Then, even if you don't, pretend like you agree with everything he says and that I I am exactly like him. Bada bing bada boom, we're happily in love, and you're my maid of honor."

" Yeah no you lost me at gum. We are not doing this. If I become friends with him, if he ever chooses to talk to me, maybe just maybe you might come up in conversation pal." I try to explain to her. All of a sudden my phone starts to make a random beeping noise, and I looked down to see it's the club calling me.

"Hey Sam let me call you back someone else is calling me" I say while cutting her off as she explains Pt 2 of her elaborate plan of marriage.

"Hello?" I say in my most business/professional voice I can muster, "Hi is Ms. Lennox Monroe available?" I recognized the voice immediately as Mr. Vizio

I smile to myself and say"Yes this is she." I can hear he through "Wonderful, I would like to inform you that you are our top candidate if you still want to work for us. If that is something you wish to do?" He ask carefully almost as if he's giving me a warning.

"Really?! Yes yes yes! Um- I mean- great! I'd love to!" I say having to tone myself down a bit. "Right well, your first day will be tomorrow at 6 and the rest of your schedule for the week has been emailed to you. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow I hope you have a great night." He says calmly

"You as well, thank you so much sir for this opportunity!" I hang up the phone and go to sleep that night feeling absolutely estatic. As I text Sammy the news, I put my phone on silent, knowing that she'll blow it up, going to sleep and realizing that I'll be waking up as a whole new person.

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The next morning as I go outside and wait for Josh again, I look across the street at my new neighbors, when one of them looks slightly familiar. As I take a closer look I realize that the one and only Reeve Connors is of course my brand new neighbor.

" Hey new guy!" I yell across the street catching his attention, "Welcome to the neighborhood" I joke.

He waves at me and gets on a motorcycle that's in his driveway and pulls over to my house. " Well hello there," he says with more enthusiasm. Odd, he's not as vibrant in school. "So I guess we're seat buddies and Street Buddies?" He laughs

" How come you're not like this more? Like at school you seem unapproachable?" I question him "Schools school, no one's approachable. Plus I don't have the best of luck in school anyways." His face falters a bit, almost like a facade. His bright green eyes of his seem to dim for just a moment, but he turns around and smiles again.

"Explain? I mean schools not that rough" I say " Ahh, for another day, but in the meantime I will see you in English, and you are going to be running late to school." He says to me and takes off his bike. Confused, I looked down at my phone to see what time it was and realize that we're running late, again. "JOSHUA PAUL MONROE" I yell as I honk my horn for a long period of time," IF YOUR ASS ISN'T DOWN HERE IN 2 SECONDS IM LEAVING WITHOUT YOU" I scream at the house. "Shit, shit, shit." I mutter to myself starting to pull the car out of the driveway.

As I make it to the end, Josh is running out the door with barely a pant leg on and I put my foot on the brake for just a second so he could get in.

" I'm not waiting for you anymore, you want to tell Mom and Dad? Fine, go ahead you're pissing me off." I yell at him as he flips me off.

As I pull into the parking lot, I see Reeves bike right up front and smile from the conversation we had this morning.

Quietly I make my way to my desk without being noticed and P-rich starts doing roll call

"Monroe, now I know for a fact you weren't here so what do you prefer paperwork? Or you can stay after school and help me grade papers?"

"Just give me the detention Brad, I got work tonight I'll serve it during my lunch." I say to him annoyed, both of us knowing that I won't be serving this detention because I really don't care.

"Oh do you want to just put it on your tab or want to start a whole new bill?" He say glancing up at me

"Ooo give me a new bill, let's see how many I can rack up the school year" I say sarcastically. I've gotten countless detentions from him that I've never served because #1 he never actually fills them out because he's a lazy piece of shit and #2 he's only given me one and he knows I won't go to them

"Yeah, Yeah" he says continuing on with roll call and getting into the lesson.

" Does he really not give a shit?" I hear whispered into my ear, I'll look over at Reeve and quietly say " I swear on my dead cat's grave that literally you can get away with anything in this class" I joke.

"Good to know" he says with a devilish look in his eyes. "I chuckle as I look forward at the screen this potato looking teacher pulled down, waiting for the end of the day so I can star my new adventure.

How am I doing so far? I feel like this story is actually gonna turn out okay! I came up with some ideas last night as to where this story could go and I have a game plan! Hope you guys enjoy!

XOXO -L