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"Tori and Kevin"
My eyes shot up instantly at the sound of our names... together... meaning we're partners for Mrs. Lyon's stupid spin off of some sort of "love project".
I avoided any eye contact with Kevin until we actually needed to be in each other's presence. I think I may be sort of developing a small crush- infatuation on him... and the last thing I need is for him to see that i'm lowkey terrified to do this project with him of all people.
"Alright class, your first work period starts now, take out your pens and notebooks and start getting to know each other! Have some interesting points ready for Monday for class discussion. Get started!" Mrs. Lyon concluded.
I sighed quietly and went through my bag looking for my pen. I looked over at Chantelle and Camila to see they got lucky with their pairings too. Well, if you consider getting matched with your best friend's crush instead of your own lucky. Devin got paired with Camila and Daniel with Chantelle so things are a little awkward.
"Yo Mila, Chantelle" I whispered.
"Was poppin' ma" Chantelle replied as Camila turned her attention to me as well.
"Come to my place after school. Daniel's sleeping over at Kevin's with Devin so we can have a girls night. You guys in?"
"Yaaasss it's lit girl i'm walking home with you I got my emergency pyjamas in my bag and everything i'm ready" Chantelle whisper-screamed excitedly while Camila laughed and agreed too.
I smiled to myself when I felt a tap on my shoulder. Oh right, the project.
I turn to Kevin to start working but he looks at the teacher and asks if we can work in one of the practice rooms. Great now it'll be just him and me alone in a small soundproof room with no windows, must be my lucky day.
The vocal class doesn't have any legit desks, just chairs that we have to set up in the middle of the room every class. It has two practice rooms, one bigger one with windows on the side wall of the class and one tiny closet type one at the back of the room. Of course, only the smaller one was available to work in.
I quickly grab a music stand and drag it lazily into the practice room so I have some what of a flat surface to write on, while Kevin grabs two chairs for us to sit. Once we're settled, Kevin starts asking questions.
"So T, what's your favourite colour?" He asked, ready to write down my answer.
"Starting super simple I see, I like red."
"Ah, me too!" He smiles, writing down my answer.
After a couple other useless simple questions we drifted off to a really enthusiastic conversation about who knows what, I don't remember what we were talking about but we was sure passionate about everything we said to each other.
Eventually, we talked our way to the end of class getting almost no work done. As soon as the bell rang i rushed out the practice room to meet Chantelle and Camila so we could walk to my house.
We ordered pizza and caught up on the newest episodes of Empire before heading down to the basement to talk about real important things.
Boys.
"So, funny how you two got paired with the wrong mans am I right?" I laughed, teasing both of them.
"It ain't no big deal. I'm gonna see if Mrs. Lyon will let us switch, she good with my mom so when she comes over for dinner on sunday i'll put in a few words to persuade her." Chantelle stated.
"Ouuu smart I like how you think!" Camila winked.
"Yeah, yeah don't worry boo boo you'll be with your puerto rican papi by monday no worries" Chantelle said and we all laughed.
After a good 20 minutes of laughing at anything and everything, Camila started asking me questions about Kev. No big deal, I trust them both.
"So, what's going on with Kevin? How are you feeling about the whole thing"
"Honest, he's hella heart eyes and all but I don't think i'm gonna let myself get too emotionally attached. I've dealt with a guy like him before so I think i've got it covered." I said, leaving out the part where I never really had feelings for the other guys.
* * *
"ITS KEVIEKEV IN THE BUILDING YEOOO"
The boys throwing themselves down the stairs, screaming startled us and cut our girl talk short. I looked over at Daniel who was basically on the floor laughing at our faces because we got so scared.
Kevin inserted himself into our little circle and started whispering.
"So guys, what bad things are we sayin' bout those two airheads over there" He asks, pointing to Devin and Daniel who were just gaining composure from laughing so hard.
We all laughed and rolled our eyes while the other guys joined our group as well.
"We got kicked out of Kev's house by Shari and her friends so we stayin' here. Why don't we join our sleepovers and have one big one down here in the basement ? Air mattresses are over there" Daniel said, pointing down to the other end of the basement.
Everyone cheered at the idea and we all started talking about some stupid shit.
"Hey guys, why don't we have a confession circle. It's passed 3am and that's when shit gets reeeaaalll" Kevin suggests, of course.
"Aii i'm down"
"Yee me too"
"Me three"
We all mumbled in agreement as us girls went upstairs to get paper and markers to write questions.
"So here's how it's gonna work." I started, closing the basement door behind me as I made my way back to the group. I handed everyone a sharpie and 8 slips of paper before continuing. "I'm putting a timer for 10 minutes and each of us will use that time to come up with seven questions and one dare. If someone doesn't wanna answer one of the confession questions because it may be too personal or something, I dunno, you can use one pass but you have to do a dare. Once we run out of dare slips, it's real shit and no more passes are able to be used. Before we start, everybody hold hands" I paused as everyone grabbed each other's hands. "Whatever is said within this circle right here, is heard only by the people in this circle and not to be repeated to anybody outside of this circle at any point in time. We clear?" I looked around at everybody as they nodded their heads promisingly.
"Alright guys, let's get started"