Save my soul [Imagine Dragons Fanfic]

New people

Wayne:

Monday morning. I hate it. Everyone hates mondays. How could I not hate it. First two lessons maths. And if that wasn't enough we then have spanish and biology. I sigh. Hopefully something different happens today. I didn't sleep much last night because of my insomnia. I'm okay with that normally. But today is different the class hasn't even started yet and my eyes are about to close every second.

Suddenly someone hits me on my shoulder. I jump up, not tired anymore. Ben grins and takes the seat next to me. Platz sits down on my other side. "Morning sleepyhead." Ben smirks. "Morning," I mumble back. "Well I guess we've someone who didn't sleep much last night." Ben laughs. Even though I don't want to I smile too. Then I glance at the clock. "Mrs Hops is already late. Normally she is on time." "Yeah. Maybe she is sick." Platz suggests. Ben shakes his head. "She is never sick. Never ever. My brother had her for years and she didn't miss any of her classes." I nod. I like Mrs Hops. She is always happy and she cares for her students. She isn't the typical maths teacher. When she explains something even I can understand it. And I'm so bad at maths. That's probably the reason why I hate it.

At that moment the door opens and Mrs Hops enters the room. Right behind her is a skinny boy. He is pretty tall, has dark blonde hair and is dressed nearly completely black. Black shoes, black skinny jeans, grey t-shirt and a black sweatshirt. Not to forget his black backpag. I sigh. Hopefully no emo boy. I'm sick of these kind of people. As he stands there, in front of the class, I can already know that he is nervous. I know this sort of people. The anxious ones, like myself. He won't make friends very easily I guess.

"Ok everyone listen. You've got a new classmate, Dan Reynolds. Would aynone be so kind and show him around later?" Mrs Hops asks. I look at Platz and Ben. They both nod and we raise our hands. "Fine thank you." She says, then turns around to Dan. "You can sit right behind them." He nods and makes his way through the rows of tables. Then he sits down behind me.

Ben, Platz and I turn around. "Hey I'm Ben." "I'm Wayne." "And I'm Platz." we introduce ourselves. "Dan." he answers while he takes out a notebook. "Is it okay if we show you around during lunch?" Ben asks. Dan simply nods. Then Mrs Hops starts talking and we turn around again. Even though she explains everything pretty good, I still have to concentrate. I hate maths, why do we need to learn this? As if I would ever need this in my life again. I want to be a musician anyway. Can't I just skip maths?

After two exhausting lessons we pack our things again. I turn around to Dan. "What do you have next lesson?" I ask him. He takes out the shedule and hands it to me. "Spanish and then Biology. Cool I've got Spanish too." "And we are all in the same biology class." I can hear Platz say. I wait until he packed his stuff. "Why did you change school?" I ask him while we make our way to the classroom. "It just didn't work out on old new school." He answers. I can hear that he doesn't want to talk about it and change the theme. "I know that it can be hard being the new one. You can be friends with us if you want to." He looks at me. "You don't have to play my babysitter." He says with a sligthly annoyed voice. I scoot away a little. "Sorry. I just thought that you would need a friend." He sighes. "No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap on you." "It's okay." I say. But I don't know what to think of him. He somehow makes me nervous. He is pretty tall. Maybe he was a bully at his last school and got caught, or something. I'll better keep an eye on him.

...

After eight hours we're free again. I meet with Ben and Platz in front of the school. We don't live far apart which means that we can walk home together. "So what do you think about Dan?" I ask. "Well he is pretty shy. I got that by now. And he doesn't talk that much." "Yeah" Ben agrees. "And he doesn't want to talk about why he changed school." I nod. "I had three lessons with him and the only thing I know about him is his name." "Same goes for me." The others chorus. "I don't know why. But I have a feeling that it will get interesting with him." Ben states. "Should we be friends with him?" I ask at the same time. "Yeah why not. It's hard to make friends in situations like he is in. Especially for such shy guys like him." He pasues. "Or you." I playfully hit him in the arm and we start to laugh. "Maybe we'll find out more about him tomorrow." Platz announces.

...

After on week I still don't know many things of Dan. I know that he had some kind of trouble at his old school. He is really anxious, like really, he doesn't like speaking in front of the class. He always has his notebook with him and won't show it to anyone, even though he is scribling constantly. And he doesn't seem to like any subject except for music. That's the only subject where he actively takes part in class. He also is able to play the piano and a bit of the drums. The only reason I know that is because our teacher Mr Shaw asks everyone about that. But that's it. I neither got his telephone number, nor know where he lives. He is a big secret to us. So as Ben, Platz and I head out of the building and see him we take our chance.

We run up to him. "Hey Dan." Ben says and pats his shoulder. Dan flinches alittle. I guess he didn't see us coming. "Want to come to my house?"I offer. He shakes his head. "I have to go home." "We can come with you." Ben continues."No, thanks." "Why not? We barely know you. How can we be friends if you don't tell us anything about yourself?" Now Dan seems annoyed. He stops walking. "I didn't ask you to be friends with me. Go your own way and let me live my life the way I want to. You don't know much about me because I don't want you to. Understood that?" I raise my hands to defend myself. "Sorry men. No reason to freak out." He sighes, turns around and walks away. "Well I didn't expect that." Platz says after a few moments. "I guess we'll just do what he wants and leave him alone." Ben states. I nod. But I got a feeling that we will have something to do with him soon.