anonymous love simkus

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*simon's pov*

after school markus and i walked to the football field as i sat down in the bleachers. markus started practicing with all the other jocks and doing, jocky things.

after a while of sitting and watching markus, some girl sat down next to me. north maybe? i'm not really sure what her name is but i think she's friends with markus and jo? josh? i don't know his name either.

"you're friends with markus right?"

"um, yea? north is it?"

i smiled as she gestured to the seat next to me. i nodded and she sat down next to me. we sat in silence for a few moments before she spoke.

"so you and markus have been hanging out a bunch lately?"

i nodded once again as we fell into silence again. my mind started to wander to the story markus had told me earlier as i waited for practice to end.

"my neighbors had lived in their house for twenty years, they were growing old but they refused to move out into an elderly home. one day i just had a watermelon on hand and i decided to mess around with it. it was around seven and the sun had already begun to set and the neighbors were out for dinner. i snuck into their house and set up wires near the ceilings.

i set up a bunch of pulley systems that lead to my backyard. i tied the watermelon to the wires and once the neighbors got home i started wheeling the watermelon around the house and it so happened there was a storm and the neighbors thought there was a ghost watermelon in their house.

they moved out the very next day"

i laughed at the memory and north gave me a weird look. luckily practice had ended and markus had walked up the bleachers.

"hey simon! oh, hey north" markus reached his arm out and helped me up. "ready to go?"

i nodded and we made our way to his jeep. he opened my door and gave a little bow. i rolled my eyes and sat down, grabbed the aux cord and plugged in my phone.

i scrolled through my playlist till i found a good song, fuck you by lily allen. markus sat down and turned up the radio as we drove to his house. after another song or two we arrived. the house was absolutely huge.

(you know what it looks like, i don't feel like explaining it)

markus led me inside and we walked into a side room where an older man sat in a chair. he turned around and smiled wryly.

"hey carl, this is simon. he's the boy i was telling you about"

"it's good to finally meet you, i hope you enjoy your time here"

we said our goodbyes and walked upstairs. his room was surprisingly clean, with some sports posters on the walls, and trophies sitting on various pieces of furniture about the room.

we hung around for several hours just chatting and snacking on random food markus snuck from downstairs. daniel texted me that it was time to go so i said goodbye and walked downstairs and out the front door.

as i walked down the driveway i saw a figure creeping their head around the fence.

"north?"

"oh uh, hi simon. what are you going here?"

"um, hanging out with markus. better question, what are you doing peaking around the fence? are you spying on markus's house?"

north fell silent and i walked away towards my house. i stopped in front my house and looked at the driveway. dad's car was in the driveway, bad news.

i slowly opened the door and crept inside, closing the door as quietly as possible. luckily he was passed out on the couch so i walked into my room and locked the door.