Deviltown - 🍋 cavetown 🍋

🍋-Chapter two-🍋

Elliott's POV
Walking in the direction of my first lesson I heard the usual "faggot" shouted at me but nothing could ruin my mood. I think I could be in love. Or is that too soon?

All these thoughts rush through my head and by the time I snap out of my trance, I'm already at the English classroom. The decaying and peeling walls were plastered with Dickensian literature posters. The teacher let us choose our seats so i protectively placed my school bag over the chair next to me, for Chloe. No one tried to sit next to me anyway but it's not like I wanted them too.

Unfortunately I had the pleasure of the biggest dick head sitting directly behind me, Callum Taylor. As you can tell I'm not a big fan, he was a massive jerk towards most people - myself included. I hear him and a couple mates start laughing and crush a piece of paper into a ball.
Oh god here it comes.
The paper ball misses me by an inch and lands on the Shakespearian text. A chorus of raucous laughter erupts and I continue to read the Romeo and Juliet monologue.

Listening to the teacher drone on about Verona and star crossed lovers was impossible without imagining myself in the play. Instead of Juliet on the balcony, it's me sitting in Starbucks. And instead of a Romeo comparing me to a summers day, it's Robbie smiling at me.

"Elliot Knight, please pay attention"
I shift out of my day dream and into reality, 2 more hours until lunch. It felt like forever.

The bell rings and I shove my books into my backpack and leave the English class and head for the music block. I may not be the best at any academic subjects but in my opinion, I was fairly good at music since I've been playing the ukulele for a couple years now. That's where me and Chloe first met, the first day of year seven at the schools music club. We both sounded equally bad and awkward so we became friends pretty quickly.

Music was the one lesson I could escape in, it was a small class of about 9 since not many people chose that as an option for gcse. Once I reach the outside of the classroom I open my dedicated locker and retrieve my ukulele, it was pastel blue and decorated by stickers and random shit me and Chloe wrote on it. I pluck a couple of strings that resemble a small tune.

"Hey I didn't know you did music" the familiar voice said in my direction. It was Robbie clutching a guitar case that presumably had a guitar in. I forget he said he wrote songs, maybe he would play me one? God I doubt I've ever been this cringey upon having a crush.

"Yeah I-I'm not great at it though" I blush, not trying to show off. He gives me an understanding smile and holy shit it was adorable. We both wander in and sit down while the music teacher explains what we will be doing.

Her name was Miss Jules and she was fairly young to be a teacher, she had long blonde hair to her waist that emphasised her hippie style. She wore a long floral dress with a pair of small heeled sandals peeking out. She was the sort of teacher who was always positive, but not in the condescending way, I could probably say she was my favourite teacher.

I grab the seat next to Robbie and begin to listen to Miss Jules,
"This term we will be doing a unit on love songs," she explains as some students groan. "I will be pairing you into twos and you will need to write a romantic song, at the end of the term you will be graded."

She goes on to lecture the class on what will be assessed but all I can focus on is who I was going to be paired with. I was friendly with everyone in the class but I held onto the hope that somehow me and Robbie would be paired up together. Maybe he was thinking the same thing, if only I knew what was going on under those ginger curls.

The rest of the lesson is spent listening to music ballads (you can tell why we all like this class so much) and comparing each of their strengths and weaknesses. Miss Jules gets onto the topic of the Smiths so me and Robbie blast out "this charming man" at the top of our lungs. Although the teacher acted annoyed at us we could see her smiling at our 'amazing' singing.

I almost forget about the group work until we start to pack up our pencil cases into our bags and Miss stops us
"Wait just a minute kids," she looks around the room and smiles "just for this once, you can pick your own pair."

I look down to avoid eye contact with Robbie, I didn't want to force him to be my partner in case he had someone else in mind. While looking at the floor I see his polished school shoes pace up to me.

"Want to be my partner Elliott?" He softly pokes my arm.
"Yeah sounds cool beans" I reply. OH WHY DID I SAY THAT?!! I laugh it off and we put our back packs on and leave the class room for lunch.

We sit together under the blossom tree and share our lunch and make one massive feast. I split my kit kat into halves and he had some home made buns that we wolfed down in seconds flat. For the rest of lunch we listen to twenty one pilots and sing along while gaining some dirty looks from the rest of the students on the field.

"So about the music project, do you want to come to my house this weekend" Robbie says, looking at me with sparkling eyes.

"Sounds great" I reply. So I get to go to house now?? My heart may just explode