High school, but manly.
Carlos absolutely HATED high school. He loved vandalizing on the lockers, Stealing from losers and flooding the toilets with toilet paper, but he hated the whole learning part… It was just so lame and boring! He hated how sweaty the teachers were, how the girls tried to hard to look pretty… Some were, but most just… Did too much. Everyone was a total loser, and he didn’t really have any friends With that being said, no one was cool enough to be his friend! He makes his way to class, the only class he actually enjoyed, Biology, because the teacher was totally awesome (and gave hints about how to hide a body,) And he got to cut open a pig! How awesome was that?! The only bad side about that class was that he was stuck next to a cutie who was obsessed with frogs… Willow, was it? He just called her Frogs… She wasn’t exactly a loser, but she never spoke to him, which made her automatically not cool… He could always talk to her, but why bother? He was too cool to reach out to others, they NEEDED to talk to him.
Settling into his seat, he tossed his feet upon the desk and dirt went flying… It seems Carlos had arrived to class before Frogs, which was amazing since it meant he didn’t have to sit next to a girl! However, he found himself a bit worried because she was always here studying… she must be busy… A couple minutes pass and the bell rings, and a lanky girl comes running in… She looks totally different from the last time he saw her, however… She once had long, braided hair, wore funny preppy clothes… But now, the girl had chopped her hair to her shoulders and curled it, she wore low rise jeans with a chain belt, a small choker, and a green crop top sweater patterned with… frogs. Carlos never noticed her ears were pierced, but he could see the crosses dangling from her ears now… Ew, Christianity… Willow must’ve had a midlife crisis. She also happened to be carrying a drink, seemed to be a coffee. She sat down in her desk, next to him, and sunk down like a weight in water. Placing her bag on the ground beside her, she sighs and takes a sip of her drink, only to spit it across the room, water gun style.
He held back laughter, as disappointment crept onto the face of his desk neighbor… Either she was dramatic or the drink was that bad… The teacher began to scold her, and the entire class brought their attention to that interaction…
“Willow, What was that all about?” The teacher called to her, Pointing his finger at the mess she had made… Willow was never much of a talker so Carlos couldn’t help but feel a bit of… Sympathy for the girl being put on the spot. It was her fault, however. She spat out her drink!
Willow cleared her throat, “They didn’t put any coffee in my sugar,” she paused… “I MEAN SUGAR IN MY COFFEE!” A common mistake made by a tired, high school girl…
“Clean up your mess, Willow.”
Really? It was about a lack of sugar? That was the ONLY way Carlos drank his coffee. Black. Being the entitled weirdo he was, he took the drink from in front of her, “Well, if you aren’t going to drink it, then I will, you pansy,” And that was the easiest coffee he had ever gotten!
You may have expected the interaction to last longer, but Willow didn’t really argue about it. It was quite disappointing, because Carlos wanted her to beg for her drink back… The lack of a reaction left him disappointed, and maybe a bit defeated. As Willow cleans up what she had spat out, class goes on as usual… The coffee was good, blessed nectar from heaven it seemed… Heaven wasn’t cool or anything, but it was the only word to describe something better than amazing…! With a free beverage, Carlos could tell that today would be a great day.
As class came to an end, the bell rang and students began to leave… Willow happened to be the first one out, which was also unusual for her… Her backpack happened to be open and her wallet came falling out… Free money too? Today couldn’t get ANY better. Picking up the wallet, Carlos places it in his own bag and leaves the class… He wouldn’t be going to his next class, and rather, would be going to hide under the stairs to count his new funds…
As he got himself settled, this queasy feeling struck his stomach… Guilt? No! Carlos NEVER felt guilty… Right…? He opens up her wallet to count a total of $23.67, and he laughs because she was BROKE. Her student ID and another form of ID happened to be in there, with her address… He could return the wallet if he wanted to… Maybe he wanted to… But was it cool to return a wallet to a girl…? To a frog obsessed girl? Ugh, life was too full of decisions…! Pulling some beef jerky out of his bag, he part took in his meal of champions, the most manly meal ever that made him totally cool. No, he wasn’t a 40 year old dad on a camping trip! He was 18 and enjoying some cool manly beef jerky! Stop judging him! He downed his little snack quickly to make sure no one saw him enjoying his MANLY snack! Pulling a can of monster out of his back, he drank that it what seemed to be one gulp… Because he was just so awesome! Carlos crushes the can, and places Willows wallet back in his bag… As the lunch bell went off, he knew he was free to wreak havoc on the school, because students would be everywhere! I mean, it was much time! Before he could stand up, however, he ends up… falling asleep… He was in a food coma, okay?
Willow was walking the halls, searching for her wallet… It couldn’t have gotten far, right? She knew this school like the back of her hand, and searched every nook and cranny…! She got to the last place, under the stairs, only to see her coffee stealing classmate taking a cat nap… Something must be wrong with him. Crouching a bit, she watches him, fascinated with his behaviors… The overly caffeinated teen had managed to fall asleep. It made Willow giggle. Carefully collecting the garbage that surrounded him, she stood up and disposed of it… He clearly wasn’t going to take care of it himself so she did it for him… Willow looks at him one more time, snorting a laugh, and then goes to check the Biology classroom once more for her wallet… It had to be somewhere, right?
(And that’s it for this part! It’s super rusty and funny looking because I have never written as a man before )