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"Come on man you need to bring up your grades if you want to come on the trip during spring break." Jeremy said as he starting eating his lunch at he table. He was talking to Michael who the past couple of weeks has let his grades slip since the new Apocalypse of the Damned came out. Jeremy and him have been playing everyday after school at Michaels. Jeremy still kept his grades up though, due to him being anxious of having extra work. Michael on the other hand...well he 'didn't really give a shit' were his words when Jeremy brought it up the first time.
"I know I know but dude were so close to level 14!! Just a day or two and we can beat it!!" Michaels exclaimed as he sipped on his drink, today being a blueberry slushie due to Jeremy peer pressuring him to try a different flavor besides cherry for once. He made an interesting face "Jer I still don't know how I feel about this.." he said.
"The tutoring or the slushie?" Jeremy smiled at him. Michael stopped a sec before he agreed both the slushie and the tutoring Jeremy was forcing him into. In order to go with Jeremy all spring break to New York he needed to up his GPA at least to a 3.0 said one of his moms two weeks before spring break. Which he was a little irritated at since he wouldn't have much time to bump it up but he knows his moms will probably give him a stretch if he's close to it.
"So where did this person wanna meet for teaching me calculus exactly?" Michael sighed as he accepted his defeat. "Should be in the library after school today- AND before you complain about missing Apocalypse of the Damned, I won't touch spoilers until your grades are up." Jeremy assured him. "Come on Jer, we both know you won't..but I like the effort you have for me" he nudged him jokingly as the bell rang. He sighed dramatically as he put his head on the table. Jeremy patted him on the back, "Come on man just two more hours and some tutoring than you can go home, hell I'll help you with some of your work if you need me." Jeremy smiled as he slung his bag over his shoulder and snatched Michael's slushie. Michael let him as they slapped hands, hit ankles and separated their ways to the last two classes of hell.
They met at the schools library and Jeremy explained the situation, "Okay man," he said as he had an arm slung around Michael "So here's the deal, you here after school, every other day until spring break. We can game on the days you don't stay after but! That means you need to finish your homework with me before we do anything gaming related!" he playfully punched him as he pushed him closer to the library. "Alright man I gotta head to play rehearsal, shoot me a text when you get out so me and dad can drop you off at home." he gave Michael one last smile before he ran off to the auditorium.
Michael can't lie when he says that he's a little excited for this. Usually he is pretty shy but he generally likes to meet new people. Sure Jeremy and a few others are his best friends but sometimes meeting someone that doesn't know you is pretty cool to him. He walks in till he sees the study tables and sees a few tutors. He doesn't know who is suppose to help him so he awkwardly walked up to one, hoping its them. They raised their head from the textbook and smiled. Michael was stunned.
"Hello! You must be Michael right?" they stood up and reached out to shake his hand. He took it a little more nervous than before, Jeremy would've told him if his tutor was good looking, or at least attractive! Michael's always looking for cute people to crush on or think about, not in a creepy way but he generally likes to crush on people. He shook the others hand, "Y-yeah! And you must be..?" he stretched his sentence, waiting for them to say theirs. "Oh! I'm sorry heh I thought you knew already, I'm (Y/N), I've seen you around a few times with your buddy, Jeremy is it? Yeah you guys seem really cool." they laughed as they sat back down.
Michael grinned as he sat down and brought out his books "Uhm a fair warning that I have no idea what I'm doing in this class so bare with me as I space out sometimes too" he apologized as he brought out the days homework. "Oh no worries! I was like that too and hell I still am, just a little more educated with it" they laughed as they brought out their notes. Usually they aren't this open to people, more shy and hidden but Michael seems like a pretty nice guy to hang out with, well teach in this case. Michael sighed as he realized he wasn't gonna be able to focus more now with a attractive person in front of him.
"So, where are you stuck on?" they asked him, he seemed a little distracted already. "Uhhhh, does everything count?" he smiled shyly "I'm sorry I really don't understand any of this, I was hoping you could teach it to me before we move on to actually, like, solving shit.." he sighed and tapped his pencil. (Y/N) thought for a moment before they pulled out a blank sheet of paper from Michael's notebook and started explaining the first section of the unit he was on. Michael was surprised to fin out that this method was actually working for him, usually if Jeremy or his teacher would do it he would just get frustrated with it and give up.
After a while Michael actually started to think of it as making sense, wondering what changed as he thanked (Y/N) an left to meet up with Jeremy. When he saw Jeremy he eminently told him the differences he saw, which Jeremy was glad to see. He's known (Y/N) for a while now and didn't tell Michael, making sure they were right for him, also he low-key was hoping for them to be a thing by the amount of stuff they had in common that Michael probably doesn't know yet.
After a few days, which is weird to say, he already started understanding more and paying attention in class. Until the day he didn't, it was about a week in and one week left to go one he started zoning out again and he couldn't figure out why. He asked Jeremy during lunch that day, Jeremy gave a smirk of something he apparently didn't know about "I don't know man you were good with them before now right? Why all of a sudden this change?" he laughed as he bumped Michael with his shoulder. Michael gave him a confused look "What are you thinking about Heere?" he asked confused.
Jeremy finally gave in "Oh come on man can't you see it?! You totally dig them! You never stop taking about waiting to 'study' again. I know it's not just this 'studying' you look forward too every other day. You were never excited about staying after for school or studying, now you get excited all over it! And I have a feelings it's because of (Y/N) man." Jeremy exclaimed as he was actually surprised Michael didn't seem to notice the issue. Michael sighed as he suddenly started piecing it together. The sudden feeling of being distracted all of a sudden, always talking to Jeremy about not being able to wait for 'studying'. He definitely had it bad for them.
"Shit man," he exhaled and gave a small laugh "I guess you're right-"
"Right about what?" Michael turned to see (Y/N) right behind them, looking slightly confused and felt a little rude for barging in on conversation like that. But they usually never see Michael during the day due to different types of classes and how the hallways are arranged. Michael became flustered and Jeremy tried to hide his laughing. "U-Uhm about this theory on whether...uhm..Mrs. Kilm is secretly a spy for the government! Yeah you never know with her" he scratched his neck and nervously laughed, hoping they buy it. "Oh yeah totally, I mean shes always going on thoughts weird websites during class, right?" (Y/N) said as they sat down next to Michael.
"Yeah! Anyways uhm, what are you doing here? You don't have this lunch." he tried to make small talk. He was glad they bought the idea of Mrs. Kilm being a government spy, come to think of it though that was actually a good theory- "Oh I got switched, yeah I didn't know you had this lunch or I would've warned you of me heh..uh I can go if you want me to!" they said already getting up from their seat, "No! No really..it's cool, just was surprised is all." he put a hand on the table for them to sit down, he really didn't want them to think of him as mean. They slowly back down. They awkwardly laughed and apologized for acting like that, why were the skiddish all of a sudden?
"You okay?" Michael asked "You seem..I don't know a little off...well..just not you." he stuttered to try and find the right words. "What do you mean? I'm not always tutoring and talking about calculus you know, I'm actually a pretty shut in person if you didn't know." they tried to laugh it off. They didn't want Michael to think of them any different than before. "Well I've only seen you in the library either on your phone or shoved in a book of some sorts, what do you do? Well outside of tutoring my dumb ass" Michael turned to put one leg over the bench and fully face (Y/N). Jeremy took that invitation to pat Michael on the back as good luck and left earlier for them to have some privacy.
"I pretty much just play video games and listen to music, well either that or forcing myself to try and study," they said as they did the same, mirroring Michael now "I'm not that much different from yourself, I get the struggle of trying to pry yourself from a video game or focusing on something without a song getting stuck in your head" they said but not in a sympathetic way like most people do with Michael, they explained because they knew the feeling, they understood! Yeah Jeremy understood but having someone barley know you figure out how your brain works is a big up lift on Michael's shoulders. "Wow you just literately explained my whole life in like two sentences, you deserve an award dude." Michael smiled at them, loving how they understood him so well.
"Well maybe we can see a movie sometime? Or a cup of coffee?" (Y/N) asked, they hoped they didn't sound too forward but they really liked him. "No movies I really like and uh coffee isn't my cup of...well coffee heh." Michael looked away seemingly uninterested in them now. "Ohh.." they started to get up before they regretted even more but Michael took one of their shoulders "I was kidding! D-Don't worry man, I joke a lot more than a usually do when I'm nervous." Michael said, mentally slapping himself for scaring them. "Y-You're nervous?" they asked. Usually their always the one having a mental breakdown in the middle of a conversation.
"Look uh...I don't normally do this. I may not like coffee but uh, maybe after tutoring today I can take you to get a slushie?" he tried saying proudly but ended but seemingly shrunk into himself. They looked shocked at first before the excitedly shakes their head "I'd love that."
"So it's a date." Michael winked at them and trying to show how chill he was about this. In reality he was thinking how the hell did he do that without help, well I guess his tutor was right in front of him.