Chapter Fourteen: Chits And Chats

I was really pissed off that day when the early morning sun rays fell upon my closed eyes. I semi-consciously heard the curtains being put aside to let the irritating yellow light pass in. I fidgeted on my bed to let the person know I was getting disturbed but that did not help.

"Mark, please let me sleep....tell mum I will wake up in 13 minutes and 14 seconds...." I mumbled sleepily, covering my face with the blanket but I guess my call was ignored.

"Mark, leave the damn curtains, will you???"

I threw a pillow at the direction of the window with my eyes closed but was shocked to feel it hitting me back with the same force! Irritated, I threw all the pillows one after the other (For the record, I have a habit of sleeping with seven pillows around me. Its weird, I know. Period) until I heard a voice that for sure didn't belong to my brother.

 "Stop!!!"

 I got up & sat on the bed with a start & saw DRAKE with the pillows tucked under his arm. He looked funny indeed holding those fluffy pillows but that hardly contributed to reducing my astonishment on seeing him there. Before I could react, he showered all the pillows back at me. Arggg!!!

"Early to bed, early to rise makes Nosey a bit wise." he remarked with a taunt smile.

"What on earth are you doing in my house, in my room this early in the morning????" I blasted at him.

"Just to inform you're flunking in Science since you are late for Mrs Kelly's class today again which means you're late twice in a row." he shrugged.

My eyes popped wide open in shock. No No No!!I can't be late for Science class today!!

I nearly fell out of bed in a hurry & rushed to open my closet. And.....wait a minute!!!

Something is not right. Today is weekend if I’m not dreaming. That means, no school, no Science class, no Mrs Kelly. That means, Drake is fooling around.

 I turned behind & Drake burst into fits of laughter.

"Its fun always to make a turkey out of you, Nosey." he remarked, amidst his laughs.

I glared at him fiercely. He ran outside my room & I chased him down the stairs. We ran around the long dining table in the living room.

"Mark, buy me a coffin & Google search for the nearest graveyard." I told my brother as he came down the stairs.

Drake & I stood at opposite sides of the table. He smirked at me while I glared at him.

"Ermm....is anybody dead?" Mark asked, scratching his head.

"Not yet. But very soon." I replied. I began chasing him again.

"Guys Guys Guys, Relax!" Mark said, coming between us.

"Both of you will tear each other apart one day like literally!" my brother sighed.

I was about to speak out but--

"Breakfast time!"Mum came in there followed by Dad.

"Andrea, this is not how you present yourself in the living room." Mum rebuked me

I instantly got what she meant. I was in a pajama & T-shirt with my hair looking like a dinosaur’s nest. Sheesh! I immediately ran upstairs to make myself look human.

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"So why is this fellow here to ruin my morning?" I quizzed my brother after breakfast subsided, sending a frown at Drake.

"There is a Video Game Festival coming up three months later where teens from schools & colleges will develop video games to take part in the competition. There are four entries from our school. Drake & I are one of the entries, entering the competition as a group of two. He is here so that we can start working on designing a game." Mark completed in a serious tone. Drake looked equally serious about the thing.

"Um, okay....All the best in that case. That's really a good thing!" I said & then moved out of there. This is the first time that Mark would be participating in such a competition & I want the best of the best for him.

Mom & Dad decided to go shopping for Dad's clothes since his wardrobe wasn't something Mom or even I would be proud to boast of. I was going with them since my staying back with Drake being in the house wasn't really a great thought to think.

"Incase you two develop a remote controlled Elephant, see to it that you don't turn this house into a World War III stadium ground." Dad cautioned lightly as we were leaving.

Mark & Drake gave stupid boyish grins. To tell you the truth, I'm actually looking forward to what sort of video game they would come up with!

I left soon after with my parents.

 ***

The next day at school I got to hear something very much unexpected from Sophia,

"I proposed Mike to be my boyfriend."

"You did what?" I asked, startled.

"It was quite obvious to him that I like him so might as well officially say that to him by proposing him." Soph replied, shrugging.

"O...kay? But I thought you always wanted a guy to go down on his knees to propose you while singing a One Direction song."

"He had hurt his knee a bit while playing golf yesterday so that didn't seem possible." she gave a long sigh.

"Ohh." I exclaimed, not really knowing what else to say on that.

"Well, um, so what did he say after you proposed him?" I asked, starting the conversation again.

A wide smile spread across her face that extended beyond her ears.

"He is taking me on a date tonight!" she gushed like a teenager. Uh, well, she was a teenager anyways.

"That's great ya! I'm so happy for you! Enjoy!" I winked.

She blushed a nit, giving a silly smile. This time I will be behind her back to know every detail of the Kiss-That-Would-Happen. Ha Ha!

 ****

There was a seminar on one of the topics of Journo that day instead of a normal class period. And it was so boring that even an insomniac can be put to a deep slumber. When I looked around the class, I realized that I wasn't the only person who was having such kind of thoughts. It was like practically everyone was engaged in an inner battle to stop themselves from dozing off. Even Mrs Flores, our Journo teacher seemed to stifle a yawn that threatened to escape out of her by listening to the monotonous voice of the speaker.

Just then a chit came flying & fell into my lap. I looked sideways to see Daniel knowingly nodding at me. I   unfolded the chit & read his message.

How r u?

I wrote, All's gud, jst gettin bored lyk hell. wat abt u?, and secretly passed it back to him.

He passed another message, I'm counting sheep to help me stay awake :D

I wrote back, counting sheep? :O but ppl usually do tat to fall asleep.  

He wrote back, trying to do things differently :p

I wrote back, ohh. So hw many hav u counted til nw?

He wrote back, messed up actually cz I was thinkin whether refrigerator is cooler than an air-conditioner! :p

I wrote back, never been inside a refrigerator ever so can't help u out with tat.

He wrote back, do u think we can ask polar bears to help us out?

I wrote back, Depends if u ask the polite ones.

He wrote back, I think its better to ask Google :D

I wrote back, cz Google does half of ur assignments? :p

He wrote back, Well...ah, sometyms I do use my brain to write articles ^_^

I wrote back, If tat doesn't work, you use my brain to finish ur write-ups. ^_^

We continued our silly, meaningless, good-for-nothing talks via chits. It was pretty much fun & entertaining so long as neither the speaker nor Mrs Flores noticed us..But things didn't work out that way when I couldn't help but give a loud laugh at one of his message.

Uh-oh

I closed my mouth tight shut hearing my voice echo in the silent hall. But it was too late when Mrs Flores's sharp eyes fell on me,

"I'm sure we aren't here for a comedy show, are we?"

 "N-No.." I replied meekly.

"Out."

I didn't say a word on that. I picked up my bag & was about to leave when I heard Daniel chortle.

"Do you think this is funny?" the teacher asked him sternly.

Daniel kept quiet.

"Both of you out of the class. Now." Mrs Flores showed us the door.

We were walking out of the class after that. The speaker began speaking again as though there was never an interruption on the first place. Sigh!

***

Daniel & I had a good laugh over the entire episode.

"Man! I so wanted to walk out of that seminar!" I said as we walked along the corridors.

"We should do this often whenever things get boring." he replied, chuckling.

"Should do what?"

Mark appeared right in front of with that suspicious voice of his.

"Why are you with my sister?" my brother asked in a suspicious tone to Daniel.

I rolled my eyes, "He is with me because I'm not a vampire?"

"Its not funny." Mark turned to me, "You're not to hang around with guys, I had made it quite clear."

"Can you stop behaving like Cinderella's step mother?" I told him.

He opened his mouth to speak but closed it immediately seeing something behind me.

"Mr Wilson, I believe I had given you a detention which was surely not chatting with friends."

I turned to see a lady professor from whom Mark had earned his latest punishment.

"Uh...well, yes. I will be at it." my brother muttered, walking away.

I sighed. The bell rang soon after

"So Mark doesn't like you talking to guys?" Daneil asked.

"We're friends Daniel. He is not ready to understand that. But its fine, I'll handle that." I responded, shrugging.

I realized Daniel had stopped walking. I turned behind & saw him staring at me. I couldn't really understand his expressions.

"Are you alright?" I inquired.

"N-Nothing." he answered, averting his eyes from me.

We parted ways to head to our respective rooms for the next class.

 ***

I walked in the auditorium after the last class that day, hoping to find Laura who was just done with her Visual Arts period there.

I spotted her in one of the front rows staring at a professional camera that was in her hand.

"Hey! Wassup?" I called out, approaching her, "Is that your camera?"

"Yeah..." she nodded, "My elder sister received a promotion yesterday. I was kept at home last evening since she & my parents were ashamed to get me at the party. Linda got many gifts, one of which was this camera. It wasn't of much use to her so she passed it to me."

I felt really bad for her. It surely hurts you terribly when your own family treats you so poorly.

I pressed my hand on her shoulder, "Hey, are you alright."

"Yea..." she cleared her choked voice, "Yeah, I'm fine. I won't let it affect me."

"I know its difficult but don't let anything get down on you."

"Thanks for being there Andy." she smiled a bit.

I nodded with a smile.

"Now lets go, we need to help Soph get ready for her date!" I chirped as we made our way out of the auditorium.

"Did she finally fit in that dress?" Laura asked.

"I saw her with two burgers during break time."

" Oh that answers everything then!"

We giggled. :D

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