Class of '19 (A Steps School AU)

18 - Our first Song

If you recognise a section of song lyrics (long bits in italics) please feel free to sing it as loud as you please. I mean unless it's the middle of the night and you share your house/flat in which case you might want to reconsider XD
Also - time jumps between view points (sorry).

Claire's point of view
"I wanted you love but look what it's done to me. All my dreams have come to nooothing... no doesn't fit... All my dreams have come to nothing, who would have believed?" I sung quietly as I tried my hardest to get my piece of programming to work. I wasn't great at computing, and singing helped me not to worry too much about the fact my computer had just kinda crashed rather than make my piece of code work.
"Claire that sounded lush, what song is it?" H asked. Despite the teacher trying to split us up and putting us at opposite sides of his classroom, three weeks later he'd redone the seating plan and H and I had ended up sat back to back.
I blushed. "Oh urhm... you see it's not an actual song, it's just something I've been working trying to write for a little while."
He lent back on his chair so the front legs weren't on the floor. "Woah! No! Damn... Can you sing some more for me?"
I bit my lip. "I mean the rest of the verse is a work in progress again at the minute, but I could sing you part of the chorus?"
He shrugged. "Whatever, I just want to hear more of your song." He replied.
We'd been writing a song together for music as our group assignment for the last two weeks (three weeks for the others, though they'd done little work in the first lesson) so I didn't much mind sharing my lyrics with people when I was sure on them, but no-one else knew about this song except me and now H.
"And do you ever think of me and how we used to be? I know you're somewhere else right now, loving someone else no doubt, well I'm one for sorrow, ain't it too too bad... The rest doesn't flow very well, but that's what I've got. It's kinda a play from the nursery rhyme One for Sorrow Two for joy if you remember?" I replied.
"Have you got a title?" He asked as I risked a glance at my computer. It had worked out that the software wasn't working and Windows was 'checking for a solution to the problem'. Sighing, I turned back to H.
"It's sort of a working title, but it's called 'I wanted your love' right now." I told him.
"I think One for Sorrow would suit it more." H replied. "It just seems catchier. Oh shit now my word document's not working."
I force closed the program that had crashed as I mulled it over in my head. As I re-launched the app I decided I preferred H's title. He was right, it stuck in your head better than mine. "Actually yeah. One for Sorrow sounds better."
He shot me a grin before swearing again at his computer as the document closed itself without him doing anything. "Annnnnddd I lost my answers to all the questions. Wonderful."
"Yeah well I lost all my code, you think you got problems." I whispered back. "At least you can just run yours again to get the answers, it took me the whole lesson to get mine to work!"
"Swap places with me." He whispered, loading the answer booklet on his computer again.
"What? No! It's meant to be a test." I replied.
"And? If I quickly code yours and stick the answers in for the first few questions at least and you run the answers through for mine we can still both get some marks! Neither of us want to do computing anyway next year so it's not the end of the world." H replied.
"But... but... it's a..." I started. It was swap and cheat or fail. I'd know how to get the answers if I did H's while he did my code. I looked at the front of the room, where Mr James was reading a book. "Fine, we can swap." I whispered to H.

By the end of the lesson 'I' had working code and had answered 3 out of the 7 questions, while 'H' had answered all but the one which for some reason his code didn't return an answer on. I just hoped the teacher never asked me a verbal question about the coding we were meant to have done.
"I made sure there were differences in your code to mine. Little typos in outputs and different variable names." He when we'd left the class.
I hugged him. "Thanks H, you're a life-saver!" I said.
He hugged me back, and we went to wait outside Lisa's computing class, just round the corner from ours (Faye and Lee would come across and meet us on the field because they were at the top of the main building in the old computer room, rather than in the new ones like us).
"So... How did your computing test go?" Lisa asked us both as she joined us in the hallway.
"Badly. He did my code, I answered his questions." I told her.
"I mean I'm pretty sure that's cheating." Lisa replied.
"Yes, and now I reference you to last week's spelling test in English where you put the list in your lap." I replied with a grin.
Lisa bit her lip. "Look I have some really bad problems with spelling alright."
"And I have similar problems with coding. Come on let's go to the field rather than talking about this here. I'd rather not get in detention" I said.