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Finney’s and Griffin’s DMS
finneyy: yo pooks i gotta question
pls don’t leave me on delieverdd
pls
Read, 5:11AM
finneyy: wow.
yk that hurts right? 😀
grriffin: u literally said don’t leave u on delivered
so i didn’t
i’m such a good friend :)
finneyy: true
ok
so
theres rhis xude
billy
grriffin: yes
finneyy: .. woa
chill man
grriffin: i am chill.
finneyy: your scaring me
ew
is this because i said billy?
😦
oh my gawd
grriffin: no what
ew
uh
ew 🤢
finneyy: so you won’t mind me..
adding him.. 🤨
grriffin: no.
finneyy: no as in.. no? or no.
grriffin: no.
finneyy: ..
k
finneyy has added 04- ******
finneyy has changed 04- ****** user
finneyy: welcome billy
billy: finney?
🤨
whats going on
finneyy: u have been summoned to join us 😈
yoy can’t leave
billy: i wanna leave
finneyy: no i js said you can’t so
NO
griffin is the guard dog
he will chase u down
billy: is that why his user is ‘grriffin’
finneyy: yeah he has issues.
grriffin: no
finneyy: his favourite word is no atm
billy: really?
grriffin: no
billy: ah
finneyy: as u may know griffin is griffin stagg the quiet kid the nobody the loser.
grriffin: u insulted me and yourself 😒
finneyy: no i didn’t
people know me
😂
grriffin: your bullies don’t count
billy: oh!
finneyy: ..
uhm actually ☝️
robin nkticed me yesterday
grriffin: in your dreams?
billy: OH 😟
finneyy: shut yo ass up
billy: why
finneyy: you don’t deserve the why
finneyy has changed ‘Billy’ s user
bill: thanks man.
finneyy: no problem >:)
grriffin: are any of you paying attention to class
finneyy: ‘any of you’ bud there is three of us.
bill: no
i stopped listening when i heard about intercourse
finneyy: …
grriffin: and what period was that
jokes 🤭
bill: around this morning i think
finneyy: buddy.. we’re well into the afternoon 😟
bill: oh.
well
kys
grriffin: y’all crazy
…
it was auto correct
finneyy: y’all???
may i remind u again.
that there’s only 2 of us
bill: i listened to the class again we’re in math
i decided to not listen further
finneyy: this is why u repeated
u learninng wht u already know??
bill: 😒
ok punching bag
grriffin: jeepers
finneyy: see you at lunch.
bill: jeepers 😦
grriffin: fuck off
bill: oh!
i thought we were bonding man
———
LUNCH, 2:30 PM
The two boys, Billy and Griffin were in the canteen line, Griffin using Billy as a shield as he was the taller one.. or the tallest in their grade which was.. frightening.
Griffin grabbed onto Billy’s bag staying behind him trying to avoid being squished. “Where’s Finney?” Griffin asked, Billy having to lean down slightly to hear him better over the talking.
“He said he’d be running late, had to go to the bathroom.” Billy looked towards Griffin for a second before turning back to the front. He was next.
The canteen lady asked what he had wanted, her tone obviously told them she was tired of being here. Billy ordered before, waiting for her to get it.
She came back with a chocolate milkshake and a sausage roll. Billy smiled, thanking her before turning around, and walking out, Griffin following.
“Here.” Billy spoke, pushing the milkshake over to Griffin once they sat at a table, Griffin looked at the milkshake then back at Billy. “I didn’t know what flavour you liked so i chose chocolate.. i hope you like chocolate.” Billy muttered, his eyebrows furrowing as Griffin continued to stare at the milkshake before grabbing it smiling.
Then, Finney finally made it to the table, sitting down huffing and puffing. “Sorry, the bathrooms are so far away!” He huffed, putting his head down onto his arms.
Griffin sipped his milkshake whilst Billy laughed, “There’s bathrooms literally over there.” He pointed down the corridor and there were bathrooms. “Nah, Finney likes a specific bathroom block, it’s his home.” Griffin giggles.
“No it’s not! It’s just because no one uses it that much.” Finney sighs, looking between the two. “Hey, where’s mine?” He sulked looking at Griffin who shrugged pointing at Billy.
“Billy?” Finney muttered, acting heartbroken. Billy rolled his eyes ripping a piece off of his sausage roll passing it to Finney.
“Thanks man.”
Griffin sighed, continuing to drink his milkshake, unaware of the stares from Finney.
They continued talking amongst each other before the bell rang. The three boys had different classes but they were all in the same block, meaning they had all walked each other to class.
Griffin had been the victim of being pushed side to side by Finney and Billy, (it’s cause he was short) who were laughing and giggling about it.
Griffin managed to get out of the way before Finney started to lean sideways to push “Griffin” into Billy, now knowing that said boy was gone, he fell straight into Billy, tripping them both up and falling in the hallway.
Griffin had to grab the wall to control himself as he was starting to turn red and his head had started to hurt from the laughing.
Neither of the boys had gotten up, Finney laughing on his back rubbing his knee, it was turning red and had spots of blood coming up around it. Billy, was on the side leaning against the wall cradling his head, laughing. (Well that wasn’t helping your concussion.)
Everyone still walking to class, either went a different way or walked around them. Then, a teacher came barging through the crowd at them. “Mr Blake and Mr Stagg.” She then looked around to see the other, “.. And Mr Showalter..” she then turned to face the other two, her hands on her hips as they all stood up, Billy still grabbing his head.
“How many times have I told you, playing time is for lunch. Not class. You’re all fifteen minutes late for class. Go.” She yelled pointing down the hallway as she looked around the small crowd that was still there. Everyone had started speed walking away.
Except for the three boys, and one other. Mrs Shelley seen him and shook her head, hands gripping her hips tighter. “That means you too Mr Hopper.” The boy groaned walking down the hallway muttering a ‘loser’ to Griffin who stuck his tongue out.
“Now. You boys have detention after school, thirty minutes.” She looked around, shaking her head before walking off.
Finney turned to Griffin, giggling, Billy groaned shaking his head before playfully pushing Finney away from him. “Mr Showalter!” The yell echoed down the hallway, Billy shocked she could still see them from that far away.
He saluted before walking away from the two, Finney and Griffin had English together whilst Billy had science.
The two walked towards their class, immediately getting stared at when they entered, Finney stopped, frozen whilst Griffin looked anywhere else but anyone’s faces.
They eventually sat down at the back, Finney loved sitting at the back it was better when he had his phone out because the teachers hardly paid attention to the back seats.
Just before he got his phone out, he leaned over to Griffin. “I thought you didn’t like chocolate?” He whispered, keeping his eyes on the teacher before they moved to someone else, not knowing they were in this class.
“What do you mean?” Griffin looked at Finney, backing away just a bit, realising the distance between them. Finney looks back at him, eyebrow raised. “You were drinking a chocolate milkshake, but you hate chocolate.” He muttered, turning to the teacher again.
“I don’t hate it. It’s just not my go to flavour.” He clears his throat, pretending to look focused in the work.
“So why’d you drink it.” Finney grins, eyebrows raised, wiggling in motion. Griffin groaned, elbowing him slightly.
Everyone in the class had started to get their books out, but Finney. This is how the teachers attention is directed to them.
“Finney. Do you not have a book?” Finney looked up at his name, the teacher staring straight at him. “What?” He blinked a few times, registering what was said.. before the teacher could speak again, he spoke up-
“Oh i do, have a book. Yep.” He muttered, coughing at the awkwardness, Griffin giggled silently still getting an elbow to the ribs.
He coughed, staring down at his writing with a glare now, Finney smiling awkwardly at the teacher before turning away to grab his book.
When Finney finally found his book, he looked up from feeling the burn of a stare into his head, he immediately found the person staring at him.
Griffin sniffed, looking up at Finney wondering why the boy had gone so still. He snorted seeing how he was zoned out, he followed the eye line to see Robin. (Of course) Griffin sighed waving to Robin who waved back, smiling.
Finney turned away, red covering his face. “You are disgraceful.” Griffin whispered, writing things off the board whilst Finney tries to keep his mind working.
Finney grabbed his pen, writing down the things before he got in trouble again, he didn’t wanna add more time to his detention.
———
finneyy, grriffin and bill
2:47 PM
grriffin: finns a simp
i was tryna do my work and thus boy lit goes still asf
i was so surprised cus yk he got ADHD and all
bill: and all
what else has he got
finneyy: autism
grriffin: a case of gay
in love with someone who only talks to him if they’re by themselves or needs homework answers
bill: oh my
YOUR IN LOVE WITH ROBIN???
finneyy: how tf
NO.
bill: oh. tbf i didnt think so either
griffin told me in dms
i had 0 clue u were gay
finneyy: im not gay fat ass
bill: wha
grriffin: gang wdym??
finneyy: im not
grriffin: 🤨
ur guys remember hiw we had
detention
right
fuys
finneyy: yes
bill: no
grriffin: .. well
vance has detention too
js thought u should know
:)
finneyy: my lifes over
bill: what’d he do ?
what’d u do 🤨
grriffin: nothing vance js got into a lil fight
finneyy: oh he didn’t do anything to me i js don’t like him ykwim
grriffin: ur scared of him whatcha mean
finneyy: no im not
bill: ur scared of vance???
real
finneyy: girl shut up
Read by Bill - 2:55 PM
finneyy: WOWWOOO
grriffin: oop bells going soon
see y’all in detention
.. autocorrect
finneyy: SHUR YP YOU WHIT EMAN
bill: woa pal
✋
don decimate.
finneyy: discriminate?
bill: whats that
finneyy: definitely not murder
bill: my bad man
finneyy: suck a toe
bill: WHAT
———
DETENTION, 3:01 PM
Finney and Griffin got to detention first, sitting in the middle row near the window, Finney leaned against the wall watching the clock tick on past three.
Then it was Billy next, he walked in heading straight for the other two unaware of the smirks from Finney.
Then walked in a random boy, his cheek bandaged, his arm bandaged as well as his hand. Probably the one who Vance fought.
Speaking of Vance, he walked in walking to the back row behind the three staring straight at the detention teacher who had walked in after Vance, placing her stuff on the desk before looking up at everyone.
“Why are you all sitting close together. It’s detention, not class. Separate.” She spoke, straight in the direction of Finney, Griffin and Billy.
“Mr Stagg can you please move to the back, sit besides Mr Oliver.” Griffin and Vance tensed at the name, “Miss, I don’t know him.” Griffin grumbled grabbing his bag from the floor, knowing he was gonna be moved anyways.
“Good, make some new friends.” She smiled at him, Billy groans, his head thumping onto the table as Griffin gets up and walks over to the other side, grumbling under his breath.
Vance tensed even more, he glared at Jake whose eyes widened. “If you speak a word to him. I’m gonna finish what i started.” Vance mumbled, Jake turning to face the front quickly as Griffin just laughed.
The other two, Finney and Billy, sat staring at either the clock or the floor, annoyed. Then, Vance faces them, leaning over his table towards them, keeping eyes on the teacher.
“Oi, idiots.” Finney tensed, his posture straightening, Billy gave Vance a side eye before he continued. “How the hell did you three get detention?” Billy turned to look at him, “Mrs Shelley gave us thirty minutes because we were late to class.” Finney turns to Billy, then looks at Vance. “It’s all because of Billy.”
Vance raises an eyebrow at the two, “Actually it was Griffin.” Billy muttered looking at Finney with raised eyebrows, “Shut up Billy.” Vance spoke, looking at the teacher as he leans back into his chair. Billy turns to the front and the teacher is looking at him.
“Something you’d like to share, Mr Showalter?” She glared at him, looking at her book, then back up at him. “No.” He whispered shaking his head and looking at the floor.
“Good. An extra ten minutes for you.” She spoke, writing something down before typing on her computer. Billy grumbles again resting his head onto his forearms.