“Hey *@#@#$#!*, wake up , your names about to be called”
I get shaken awake by my benchmate and best friend Joseph , his deep black eyes look sleepily at me as I thank him for waking me up in time .
Joseph always looks sleepy , its because he stays up until dusk almost every night ; I never understood what it is exactly that he does all night … sometimes it’s gaming , others it’s drawing and he even mentioned trying to play his brothers’ violin one night. The only thing I know is that he won’t ever be studying , Books are like the plague to Joseph and he relies purely on what he hears in class and the one day of cramming before an exam to pass his exams and somehow he manages to always get around the average score of the entire class.
The day goes by as per usual with me using my six subject notebook to note down whatever I felt was necessary, finishing up the physics assignment I had almost completed yesterday night and handing it to Tristan so he can both copy it and check it for any mistakes I might have made.I spend the rest of the time in classes sneaking peeks at Saki ; I like to think I’m very discreet whenever I do this but Joseph has this weird smile that he directs at me whenever Saki is called to the board to solve or whenever Saki enters the classroom , as though he knows … then again Joseph also sprouts the same evil grin , just not at me , whenever we get our results for any form of test or exam , so I don’t really know what to think.
This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.
Saki is one of the only girls in the class whose name I know , not because we talk , but because she is the teachers’ assistant and we have to submit all our assignments to her . She has helped me out of a few difficult situations in the past and I probably owe her a lot of favours , but so does the rest of the class. Her hazel eyes and chestnut brown hair make her a sight for sore eyes and she’s the class idol as far as I can tell , but the main reason I have a slight crush on her is because of the one time she messaged me at 2 AM on the night before an exam just to answer a doubt I had mentioned on the class group the day before ; I don’t know why , but as far as I can tell my completely unnecessary emotions originate from that one text message.
It’s also this silly crush and the antics of a sleep deprived Joseph which keep me going through the day , there was a time around 6 months ago when I just felt sad for no reason at all and Joseph showed up at my doorstep with his Hand-held and a memory stick containing a few local multiplayer games and we played video games and chatted all night long; I don’t know whether he knew but that one night of video games is probably the reason I didn’t end up completely depressed , although we both did end up sleeping through school the next day and got chewed out by my mom for the same.
“TRRIIIIIINGG”
‘Well I guess that was the bell for the last period , the day went by rather fast as usual’ I think to myself as I pack my bag . Joseph already had his bag packed around 5 minutes before the bell rang as usual and I wave to him as he leaves the room and probably heads to the public bus stand outside school; Joseph lives in the same apartment complex as me but he doesn’t use the school transport and leaves before everyone else , yet he somehow always reaches home after its dark out , usually carrying some groceries with him so his mom won’t get mad at him being late , his goofy grin which reminds me of an innocent child always makes me chuckle.
I leave the classroom and start heading towards the bus parking within school premises where students are supposed to find their respective buses which for some reason are always parked randomly.