The Pocky Game

Chapter 2 -Hurry up

The bell rang, telling everyone that 7th period was over, and it was time to head home, except, of course, for one black-haired boy who was running late to meet up with a particular rich jerk for a group project.

Eren didn't even know where they were supposed to meet up! He took out his phone to check the time, and it read 2:35 PM.

"I'm so dead.." Eren mumbled under his breath. "Eren?" A familiar voice called out to him. He recognized that voice, and luckily it wasn't Sam. It was Faith; she was walking towards him with a guy with black hair he hadn't recognized. "Faith? What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to study for the project with Levi." She responded. "What are you doing here?" She asked. "I was supposed to meet Sam after school, but he never told me where to meet him," Eren answered, rubbing at the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"He's probably in the library. He loves studying there a lot. Levi and I were actually on our way there, too, if you wanted to come with us." Faith explains. "Thank you!" Eren beamed.

And, surprisingly, once they got to the school library, they saw the one and only Sam, sitting at a table alone. Eren did wonder how Faith knew he would be here, and that he loved studying here, but he quickly shakes it off.

As Eren approached Sam, he glanced up at him and looked back at the table, and Eren started reconsidering if failing this assignment and dropping out of school would really be that bad but knew he couldn't back out now. After sitting down, Sam stared him down, daggers practically flying out of his eyes at him. "Didn't I tell you not to be late?" Sam sneered.

"Hey, dumbass! You never told  him where to meet you, so stop blaming him!" Faith snaps at the brown-haired boy sitting at the table across from Eren.

Sam lets out a sigh in defeat. "Okay." He responded calmly. Faith went ten tables apart from them with Levi to do the project.

"What's with the guy? She got a boyfriend or something?" Sam whispers to Eren.

"That's her partner for the group project," Eren responded, taking out his notebooks for their project. "His name is Levi. From what I've heard, he and Faith are pretty similar; they'd make a cute couple." Eren says absentmindedly, setting everything up.

"Tch whatever," Eren looks up at Sam, and honestly, he looks pretty pissed, but he covers it up quickly. "How long have the three of you guys been friends anyway? Asher and Faith, I mean."

Eren was a bit taken aback. He didn't expect Sam to ask so many questions, especially about Faith and Asher.

"We've all been friends since elementary, Faith is basically like my older sister," Eren explains.

"And Asher? How do you see him?"

Eren paused and just sat there for a moment. Sam was definitely in a talkative mood today, not that it bothered him, but it felt kind of weird telling the guy who would make fun of him for the stupidest stuff all about his life.

The truth was he really didn't want to answer that question because it felt kind of too... personal to tell anyone, let alone Sam. So he quickly changed the subject. "When's the project plan due, you know when we get the baby?" Eren asked, focusing his attention on the notebooks he brought with him.

Sam noticed what he was doing quickly and backed off. He wasn't really in the mood for a fight. He honestly just wanted to go home and forgot all about this entire stupid project, and go to sleep, of course.

"Pretty sure teach said we get the baby tomorrow so then we get a week not to kill the thing."

Eren nodded his head. "We should split up the time then, I'll get them for a day then you'll have them," Eren explained, sharing his plan so they had to spend as little time together as they could. But he didn't want Sam making them fail, so he added, "but of course we should regroup and discuss any problems we have with the baby or tips for taking care of them, what do you think?"