*RINNNNNNNNNNNNNGGG!!!!!!!!

    I stretched my arms and sighed in relief. Finally, another stressful school day finished. And no homework! I could really go for an anime marathon with Anda in my bedroom, again.
Ahhhh... good times.

    "Hey, Piper! Can I drop-by your place? Mom won't be home till 6," asked Anda.

I stand up to her height and nodded a reply.

    "Sure!" I grinned. "Anime marathon?"

    She grinned back. "You know it!"

We made our way out of History class, giggling and gossiping along the way to our lockers. I swung the strap of my red backpack over my shoulder and slammed my locker door close.

    "Hey, look who it is, Pipe," said my bestie as she pointed behind me.

I swiftly cranked my neck around, hoping to see my one and only true prince, Senpai!! Instead, I discovered it was no other than Will and his blue backpack himself.

    False alarm, I sighed.

    "No more jelly straws, Will," I pronounced in his face. "I'm going bankrupt because of you!"

He rolled his eyes. "I'm not here for another jelly straw, Piper." He suddenly glanced behind him as if he presumed he was being watched.    

    "Give me your hand," he muttered, pulling on my arm.

My eyes widened in horror and I pulled back. "WHAT? NO! I'm not falling for one of your stupid pranks, again! I'm still scarred from the last one you did. Literally!"

    Will rolled his eyes. "Give me your hand," he repeated. "Promise, it's not a prank."

    "Just show it to her, already!!" cried Anda, joining in the scene.

I sighed and placed my hand in his and felt three, hard, long items. I opened my eyes and raised an eyebrow.

    "They're mechanical pencils," I muttered, unimpressed.

    "Ah, Colton's mechanical pencils!" added Will.

My heart exploded from its insane 'doki' pace that I couldn't help it by squeezing the air out of Will.

    "OH, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU WILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I immediately chucked his body to the floor and showed a grinning Anda the mechanical pencils, beaming ear to ear.

There were all in a variety of colours: Red, purple, and silver. Each pencil even had its own plastic name tag near the eraser at the end; Colton Senpai. I deeply inhaled the smell of the pencils in absolute wonder. It was glorious.

    "Will, why do you have Colt's pencils, anyway?" asked Anda, abruptly.

    I continued inhaling the smell, his smell, from the pencils.

Will held his throbbing head and stood up. "Well, long story short, I broke a few of his borrowed pencils the other day and thought Piper should keep them instead."

    "Or in other words, you were too lazy to give it to Colton and didn't want him upset, so instead you gave them to Pipe?" added Anda, rolling her eyes.

Will scratched the back of his neck. "Yeah. Sorta like that, anyway."

I gleamed once more and gave Will another tight hug, rubbing my body heat against his. "Thank-you Willlllll!!!!!! You really are a great friend!!!!"

    He blushed.