POV Jack
"Hey Wren," I said to her.
She looked up at me and pulled out one earphone, "What is it?"
"Move your bag so I can sit down," I said.
she sat there staring at me for a second then sat up and put her bag on the floor under her legs.
"What is it?" she repeated again once I had sat down beside her.
"We never got around to picking a song to perform at Music so Daniel and Leo are coming over to mine now"
"So?" she said.
"So, will you come over to mine?"
"Well, I didn't plan it, I'd have to tell my Mum also," she said twisting her hands in her lap.
"Then text her"
"I can't"
"Why?"
"Cause I don't have a phone" she looked up at me.
"You don't have a phone?"
"No"
"Why?"
"None of your business"
"Then what stop do you get off at?" Can at least try to make this easy for me Wren?
"The second one"
"Then you get off at the second stop, tell your Mum that you're coming over to mine and then I'll walk you over to my house"
"Ok,"
Then she pulled out the other earphone and shoved both of them into her pocket. The bus driver came on and started up the engine and backed out of the driveway.
As soon as we were on the road Wren started talking "So why did you take Music?"
"Because Daniel and Leo were taking it," I said.
"What, so you don't sing or play anything either?" she said.
"No, I play the drums"
"Oh, right how long have you been playing?"
"5 years"
"Oh, ok"
"So, why did you pick Music as one of your subjects?" I said.
"I already told you, I thought it would fun," she said.
"Sure"
"What?" She sat up, stared at me, frowning slightly.
"Nothing"
"Sure" she rolled her eyes "What makes you think I didn't take music because of that reason? Huh?" she crossed her arms against her chest and tilted her head.
"Because you got so defensive" I answered.
"I did not!"
"Did"
"Not"
"Did"
"I did not!"
"See you're getting really defensive again"
"I am not," she said.
"So why did you take music?" I asked her again.
"Because I wanted to" she answered simply and leant back against the seat again, she immediately sat up again though as the bus slowed down and the doors opened.
"Come on, this is the second stop," she said.
I stood up, picked up my bag and then walked down the bus steps and waited outside for Wren to catch up.
She came out and walked straight past me, I followed her. She went over to a battered blue VW and opened the door.
POV Wren
I opened the door feeling far too self-conscious with the fact that Jack was right behind me.
"Hey, Mum," she looked up from her phone, "Come on hop in, I have a work meeting I have to be at in 20 minutes."
"Mum, I'm going over to, Jack's house, I have to finish a music project I'll be back later ok?" I said.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner? Then I wouldn't have had to drive all this way!" she said annoyed.
"I don't have a phone remember?" I said annoyed as well.
"Sure that's fine, as long as you can walk back right?"
"Yeah, Bye," I said and shut the door with a little more force than considered normal.
"she said that's fine, come on let's go," I said. I turned my back to the car and tried to ignore it as it drove away.
"Right," Jack said "Come on"
I followed behind him trying to memorise the turns and corners for when I would have to walk back. I think I got them all right...
What felt like all too soon we arrived at his house. He knocked on the door and a few seconds later the door opened, a woman stood in front of the doorway, her long curly blonde hair fell down in waves, clearly, Jack had inherited his blonde hair from her.
"Come on in Jack, who is this you've brought over?"
I stepped inside the house after Jack, the hallway was small and narrow, but cosy as well, there was a shoe rack at my right and family pictures were hung up along the walls.
"Come on Wren," Jack said bringing me back to Earth.
"Will I take off my shoes?" I asked knowing that back at home Mum hated it when I walked around the house with shoes on.
"Sure"
I quickly slipped them off and then followed Jack upstairs.
We walked into his bedroom, I mean, Jack and I walked into his bedroom."You can put your school bag in the corner there," he gestured to the corner where I shrugged off my school bag "Leo and Daniel are going to be over in about 20 minutes" he said.
"Ok," I said, suddenly noticing the awkward atmosphere.
There was a drum kit in the corner of the room, around it were dozens and dozens of sheets of paper most of them with only a letter or two written on them.
I walked over to a bookshelf by his window and flicked through them reading the titles. My eye caught one of the titles How to write Music it said in bright purple and blue caps lock letters.
I picked it up and opened it up and started reading it.
"So what sort of music do you like then?"
I looked up suddenly remembering Jack and snapped the book shut.
"Nothing much, I don't really care about that sort of stuff" I answered placed the book back in the shelf.
"Yet you care about people thinking you came to music class other than to have some fun?" he said leaning against the bookshelf.
"No, I just thought that book was by an author I knew," I said, would this guy stop being so noisy? It wasn't any of his business and it wasn't like he gave a shit about me.
"Well you can borrow it if you want to," he said, he took it out of the shelf and flicked through the pages.
I hesitated, I wanted that book really badly, but too bad Wren you can't have it. "No, I'm fine, it's probably really boring anyway," I said and walked away from the shelf.
"So what do you do in your spare time huh?" I asked glancing at the drum kit and sheets of paper.
"play drums" he answered.
I looked up at him, he was still leaning against the shelf hands in his pockets his blonde hair hanging in front of his eyes, I had never seen studs look so good on a guy. "You know you should probably take your hands out of your pockets, otherwise if you fall, which is very likely considering this is you I'm talking about, you could possibly get a concussion," I said randomly.
"Really?" he said grinning.
"What you find it funny? Well trust me you won't be laughing when you get a concussion and keep wishing you had listened to me" I said.
"Jeez, where did that come from?" he stood up straight, still smiling.
"It came from my head and then I said it aloud so you could hear it, does that answer your question?"
"Yeah, but I already knew that," he said.
"Well that's a relief that you actually have a small bit of sense in that pea sized brain of yours," I said.
"Yeah, the rest is just full of music notes" he answered smirking.
"Whats so funny?" I asked him" because this was beginning to piss me off a bit.
"Do you want an honest answer or not?" he said.
"Honest," I said.
"You"
"What about me?" I asked confused.
"I don't know, you're just funny, I mean who asks people why they're smiling?' he said.
"I do," I said frowning.
He was about to say something but I quickly butted in "So when will Leo and Daniel be here, huh," I said.
"I don't know soonish?" he said shrugging.
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