Usernames || A Garmau Fanfic

Five

"How the heck is Gene in honors chemistry?!" Vylad exclaims, bewildered, picking up another sheet from the pile.

"I'm assuming that's Sasha's work, Vylad."

"Oh. That would make more sense."

I laugh slightly, finishing up the last math problem on this sheet before grabbing the next.

We've been at this for over two hours at this point and have been making relatively quick work of it all. Luckily, they didn't all have work from each of their seven classes, thank Irene, so we only have two sheets left to work through.

"Thanks for helping me out with all of this, by the way," I tell him. "I would have never gotten through it on my own."

"No problem. You're my brother; it comes with the job."

I smile and work through another problem.

"Though, it would be much easier if you told a teacher about them," he adds and I sigh.

"I-I know... I just feel like something bad would happen if they found out I was the one who told someone. They could come after Laurance, Zane, or even you when you transfer. I won't risk it."

"You're missing one~" he sings in that teasing tone of his. "What about Aphmau, hm? You did sacrifice your whole afternoon for her."

"S-Shut up!"

Vylad laughs as I attempt to hide my burning red face in my coat.

My phone vibrates against the desk, showing a video call from Laurance. I mentally groan.

Great timing, L...

Vylad's eyes light up and he snatches the phone before I can, accepting it instantly. It takes a second, but Laurance's face soon pops up on the screen.

"Hey, Laurance!" Vylad chirps with a smile. I've noticed that he kind of looks up to Laurance somewhat. He's the reason he got into soccer. Laurance doesn't play at school, since it's basically a war zone on that field, but he does after school sometimes.

"Hey, Vylad. How've you been?"

"Good. Busy. When are you coming over again? I want a rematch!"

Laurance laughs: "Sure. Talk to me when you learn to actually kick the ball."

"Hey! I beat Garroth the other day!"

"That's really not a difficult accomplishment."

"Would be if it was baseball," Laurance says and I roll my eyes.

"I'm not that good."

"Are you nuts?" Laurance smiles. "You're freaking incredible. I swear, if you joined the school team, you'd probably be the star player."

"Instead of Gene?" I shake my head. "Yeah, right."

"Have you seen a baseball game?" He laughs. "Gene's horrible."

"We should all totally try out for football next year," Vylad jokes.

"Obviously," I play along.