The Tokyo Hotel

Chapter 8

Mikeys P. O. V.

It was friday. It had been 5 days since the fight and both Rye and Andy hadn't even given each other a glance.

We had French class now. I didn't like French, I wasn't bad at it, but I knew I'd never get much further than a basic conversation.

"Allors, maintenant je vais divider vous dans groups de deux personnes, et vous pouvez préparer un dialogue pour aller au restaurant. (A/N: translation: Okay so today I will be dividing you into groups of two, and you will prepare a conversation about going to a restaurant.)" the teacher said.

"Allors, Brooklyn avec Mikey, Harvey avec..." she started dividing everybody into groups
I saw Brooklyn approach me.

"Hi, I'm Brooklyn, but you already know that" Brooklyn laughed.

"Yeah, we met the other day. You held Andy back to stop him from fighting" I chuckled.

"And you stopped Ryan" he added. "You seem like a nice person" Brooklyn said.

"Thanks I guess.. So are you good at French" I asked.

"I'm okay at it, Andy is amazing at French though. He always gets excellent grades" Brooklyn chirped.

"Excusez-moi, le directeur a dit moi que Ryan et Andy ne pouvez pas être ensemble dans un groupe, donc il faut changer ça. Brooklyn ? Tu veux travailler avec Andy? Bon, et Ryan avec Loren voilà. Donc Mikey tu peux travailler avec Harvey, ça va pour vous garçons? Très bien. (A/N: translation (again): excuse me. The principal just told me that Ryan and Andy can't work together in one group, so I'll have to change that. Brooklyn, would you like to work with Andy? Good, and Ryan with Loren. So Mikey, can you work with Harvey? Is that okay for you boys? Very good)" the teacher suddenly interrupted.

I groaned. So Brooklyn could be partners with his best friend, but I had to work with a stranger. How thoughtfull.

The boy whos name was apparently Harvey walked over and took a seat on the other side of the desk. He wasn't as hesitant as Brooklyn, on the contrary, he seemed pretty confident.

"Hi, I don't think I really need to introducere myself anymore do I? I would like to point out my name is Harvey with an H on front and not 'Arvey' like the teacher says" Harvey laughed.

"Yeah, well I know who you are, and you know who I am. The introduction is over great. Now can we get started" I huffed, feeling slightly annoyed.

"Allright Chief Thundercloud, we'll start." Harvey laughed as he unzipped his pencil case and took out an old fashioned fountain pen.

"Seriously? A fountain pen? Who even uses those anymore" I chuckled.

"I do. In my opinion they function much better than the mechanical ones." Harvey calmly responded.

"By function you mean leaking ink everywhere right? They made mechanical pens for a reason" I said.

"And I think these write better. A text written with an old pen has something scenic and romantic to it" Harvey simply replied.

"Yeah, because science and languages are soooo romantic" I retorded.

"Well they always say people in love have Chemistry don't they? And French is known as the language of love" Harvey said.

"You're gonna keep adding arguments till you win this discussion aren't you" I sighed.

"Indeed I am, and I will keep finding arguments to support my case untill you give up" he said in a sassy tone.

I was about to reply but we got interrupted by the bell ringing.

"Wow. We just wasted an entire hour chatting about a pen" Harvey laughed.

"Yeah... Sorry about that" I chuckled.

"No problem mate. We had fun didn't we? We definitly need to finish that task though. My place tomorrow 2pm. I'll text you my address" He said with a small smile playing on his lips.

He scribbled something on a piece of paper and handed it to me. It was his phone number.

"See you then okay" znd with those words he left for the next class.

I was suprised. He was actually quite likeable. I actually looked forward to seeing him again, wich was strange. I didn't look forward to anything... Harvey sure was a special case that was for sure.

Andy's P. O. V.

"We've gotten quite far with this task already" I smiled at Brooklyn.

"Yeah, someone needs to type it out on a computer though, so it looks more neat" Brooklyn said.

"I can do that, my mum has a laptop with a lot of recent updates, it'll go easier" I said.

"Yeah sure mate. I wanted to ask you something" I Brooklyn said, sounding a bit more hesitant.

"Okay what is it?" I asked.

"It's kind of off topic" Brooklyn added

"Just say it Brook. I don't bite" I laughed.

"So I saw Jack yesterday..." Brooklyn started.

"Yeah...? What about him?" I asked.

Did Jack tell him the truth?

"I wanted to ask if he's still living with you and of yes if I could like I don't know... Visit maybe" Brooklyns voice progressively got more quiet as he spoke.

Ow sh*t. If he came to my house he'd immediatly see that we couldn't offer a place to sleep for them. It was already tight putting in one extra bed, let alone for 3 people.

"I don't think that's a good idea... My mother doesn't like visitors that much" I lied.

"But what about Jack and his parents, aren't they, you know, visitors?" Brooklyn sounded confused.

I could kill myself, why didn't I think of that!?
"I mean, visitors she doesn't know. Jacks parents have known my mother for a long time" I said.

Please let him believe that

"Oh, okay. Does he have a phone number though? So I can call him to arrange something outside maybe?" Brooklyn asked shyly.

"He doesn't have a phone, his parents are very strict" how many lies did I have to add? It was only half a lie. Jack didn't have a phone, but that was because he simply couldn't afford it.

"Oh... well, too bad. I'll see you around?" Brooklyn said, the dissapointment in his voice was clearly audible, but I decided not to point it out to him.

"Yeah sure, see you on monday. Have a fun weekend" I called after him as he left.

Hopefully he wasn't going to try and visit me anyway, otherwise both me and Jack had a big problem.

Authors note
Ayyyyy Harvey made his first appearance in the story woop woop. That took longer than I intended. I can assure you that you haven't seen the last of him yet. I will try to make him a relatively consistent character but there won't be a storyline from his POV. It's still a Roadtrip fanfic after all. (I do not intend to discriminate Harvey please don't kill me)

If there's anybody out there who speaks French, I'm sorry if I made any mistakes I tried my best at making it realistic. I based the French teacher off of my own French teacher of this year.

And no, I will not name any of the teachers in this story miss Taken. That's rt fanfic cliché 1000

Who saw the lunar eclipse yesterday? I didn't bc it stormed all night and the sky was filled with f#*king rainclouds (goddamn Belgian sh*t weather)

Anyways enjoy your day 😊
And ofc don't forget to vote and comment bc I really want to see your reactions💞

-Manon