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Tomorrow is the first day of school. Parrot thought to himself. I should probably pack my backpack so that I’m not in a rush in the morning. And he does just that. Parrot gathers all of his stationery that are spread across his room and deposits them in his backpack.

After doing so he decides to go to bed since it was late.

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The next day when Parrot woke up at 7:30 he changed into his clothes for the day and headed downstairs with his backpack. Preparing a quick breakfast which he ate, along with his lunch for the day, Parrot headed out to the bus stop. Once there he only had to wait a few minutes before the bus got there. Boarding the bus Parrot found an empty seat near the back and sat next to the window.

He checked the time, 8:00. The bus takes 15 minutes to get to his stop and then it is a 4 minute walk to arrive at his school. His schedule says that class starts at 8:30 so Parrot will have plenty of time to find his locker.

The bus slows to a halt at his stop and Parrot descends and starts to walk in the direction of his school. Once he enters it he immediately starts looking for his locker. Number 566. Aha there it is. Parrot spots his locker situated at the end of the hallway, which is quite an inconvenience because his first class is at the start of the hallway.

After depositing his jacket and extra textbooks in his locker Parrot starts to make his way to his first class of the day. English. Entering the classroom he noticed that the teacher wasn’t here yet. Parrot took a seat near the back and set his bag down next to his chair, taking out a pencil in the process.

While waiting for the teacher to show up Parrot looked around the classroom taking in the appearance of his classmates.

Next to him sat a boy with ashy brown hair, a purple headband and wearing a grey yin and yang hoodie.

He’s kinda cute, actually really cute Parrot thinks, then cuts his train of thought off. He should not immediately think of someone as cute at first glance.

Before getting the chance to look around more, the teacher walked in and the class immediately quieted down.

“Hello, everybody I’m Ms. Gem and I will be your English teacher for this school year!” she announced.

“Since it is the first day, why don’t we do some introductions?”. “When I call on you, answer with your name and what hybrid you are along with something cool about yourself. You don’t have to say what hybrid you are if you don’t want to, though.”

“I will start. My name is Gem, as I just told you, I am a deer hybrid and I really like to paint!”

“Next, you there, in the front introduce yourself” Ms. Gem asked

“Um, my name is Pangi, I am a pangolin hybrid and I uh, I like to dance!”

“Why don’t you go next?” Ms. Gem said to somebody that Parrot couldn’t see.

“Sure! So my name is Spoke, I’m a Voidwalker, and I like rock climbing!”

Then the next person introduced themself.

“Hi, I’m Kab Kaboodle but you can just call me Kab. I am a bunny hybrid and I, uh, hm… Oh! I really like annoying my friends.”

Parrot thought that annoying your friends hardly counts as something cool about yourself, but hey who was he to judge someone.

After that the person next to him introduced himself.

“Hello, my name is Wifies, I’m really good at escape rooms and I am a dog hybrid.”

Parrot went next.

“Hi, my name is Parrot. I am an avian hybrid, if you couldn’t already tell by the wings, and I like to draw.”.

After Parrot everybody else in the class went ahead and introduced themselves though Parrot wasn’t paying the most attention to the words being said.

Instead, his attention was on the ashy brown haired person next to him, Wifies.

Wifies seems interesting and Parrot would like to get to know him, and totally not because of the fact that Wifies is cute. Really cute. Considering the fact that Parrot rarely thinks of someone as cute, it’s really saying something.

Parrot thinks his day has been going great. Up until the teacher decided to give them a project to work on for the class. Which teacher does that? His apparently. To make it even worse than it already is Ms. Gem said to partner up with the person next to you. The person next to you. He sits next to Wifies. Parrot doesn't think that he can handle an interaction with him which will most likely end up with him embarrassing himself. Too late the avian realized that the teacher had been explaining instructions on what they would be doing. Only catching the last bit.

“-ve the rest of this period to do it.”

Parrot was silently panicking because he had no idea what they were doing and if Wifies knows he will end up thinking badly of Parrot.

Amidst his panicking Parrot realized that Wifies was talking to him.

“ - Parrot right?”

“Huh, what?”

“Your name is Parrot, right?” Wifies repeated

“Uh- yeah, yeah it is”

“So for the project you do know what you are doing, correct? ”

“Um, so about that. I was zoned out and didn’t hear any of the explanations, only that we have the rest of the period to do so.”

“Ok, good thing I was paying attention then.”

“Yep”

Wifies then proceeded to explain to the avian what they should be doing. Working on it for the rest of the class and turning it in at the end.

The bell rang dismissing everybody. Parrot packed up his stuff and left for his next class.

The rest of the day was not the most eventful.

During lunch Parrot got invited by Zam to sit with him and his friends and so Parrot did so. Zam was talking to the pangolin hybrid who Parrot had learned is called Pangi. They were arguing about something but he couldn't be bothered to pay too much attention.

Out of the corner of his eye Parrot saw Wifies sitting with two people, one being a cat hybrid looking person with one yellow and one green ear. The other had green wolf ears and was wearing a suit with a pink tie. Who even wears a suit to school? Parrot has already seen three people with suits including this one.

Apparently one of his friends said something very funny ‘cause now Wifies was laughing very loudly. Even from his position a couple tables down Parrot could hear him. And god Wifies’ laugh was cute. Parrot never thought he would find somebody’s laugh cute but there is always a first.

He was snapped out of his trance by the bell ringing. Parrot scrambled to put away his lunch tray, then he went towards his next class which was, he checked his schedule, Math.

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Walking into the class Parrot noticed that the teacher was already sitting at his desk. On the whiteboard he wrote his name.

Hiya, I’m your teacher for math. You may call me Mr. Major.

Mr. Major looks to have bright cyan hair and elf ears with floating green crystals all around his head.

Parrot took a seat near the back. Math class was uneventful. He took notice that Wifies was not in his math class which was disappointing to say the least. Mr. Major went over a few things they already learned last year to ‘refresh your memory’ or something.

Parrot likes to think that his memory of the things learned last year was quite good, so he doesn't know why the teacher needed to go over it. Maybe some people forgot over the break. The entirety of math included a lot of the teacher talking and barely doing anything.

Finally after way too long the bell rang dismissing everybody. Parrot left to go to his last class of the day.

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The final bell of the day rang and Parrot went to his locker to grab his jacket. Closing his locker he noticed Wifies standing at the locker next to him. Before he got noticed Parrot sped walked away and outside. There is no way that Wifies’ locker is the one right next to mine. Parrot thought. Out of all the lockers that could belong to Wifies.

Parrot spent the entirety of the walk and bus ride home thinking about Wifies. Considering the fact that Wifies was only in one of his classes today Parrot was thinking about him a lot.

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Once Parrot gets home he deposits his backpack by the door and throws his jacket on top of it before collapsing on the couch. His parents won’t be home until 6:00 and it’s only 4:25 so he has the whole house to himself for a while. Getting up he went to the kitchen to grab a snack and some water before going to his room and shutting the door.

Parrot didn’t do anything very eventful for the rest of the night, unless you count thinking about a certain dog hybrid with ashy brown hair as eventful, which Parrot doesn’t. He couldn't seem to get Wifies out of his head no matter what.

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A week has passed since school started. Parrot has interacted with Wifies a handful of times since which hasn’t helped with his probaly crush, if you could call it that. Everytime he spots Wifies in the hallway or beside his locker his heart rate speeds up. It feels as if there is something about the dog hybrid that pulls him in. Every chance he gets Parrot tries to subtly admire Wifies from afar. He has been caught by his friends on multiple occasions who then proceed to tease him. This was one of them.

It was lunch Parrot was (not so) subtly trying to look at Wifes who was sitting with his friends three tables down. Spoke noticed and decided to ask him.

“Bro, who are you looking at?” Spoke followed his line of sight to see what he was looking at.

“Um, nobody.”

“Is that the guy from English? His name was Wifies or something right? Why are you starin-”

“I was NOT staring bro.”

Rek leaned up against Spoke “Who is Parrot staring at?”

“ I’m not staring at anybody. What are you talking about?”

Spoke pointed to where Wifies was sitting. “See that guy with the purple bandana wearing a grey Yin and Yang hoodie?”

“Oh him? I can see why you’re staring. Parrot he totally seems to be your type.”

“What? Bro, that is not true.” Parrot then proceeded to shove Rek making him fall over which in turn also made Spoke fall.

“Hey! That was uncalled for.” Rek shouted after getting up.

“No, that was perfectly called for and needed.” Parrot retorted back

Spoke sat up too “But back to the previous topic, is Wifies your type?”

“If I say no would you believe me?”

“Nope. So he is your type?”

Parrot glanced away, “Uhm, I can neither deny or confirm that statement.”

Spoke rolled his eyes. “I'm gonna take that as a yes.”

Parrot tried to steer the conversation away from whether Wifies was his type or not and Spoke and Rek played along. Then the bell rang announcing the end of lunch and everybody went to their respective classes. Parrot had art which is probably his favourite class but he liked every class.

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Walking into the art class Parrot took in the paint bottles in the middle of the room. He sat down in his seat and the teacher announced that they would be painting landscapes. Parrot didn’t particularly like painting - he’d much rather draw - but it's not bad either. Gathering all the colors that he would need Parrot went back to his desk grabbing a few paintbrushes on the way.

Parrot decided to paint some plains, snow falling from the sky and covering the ground, a spruce forest in the background and in the middle a small wooden hut. Parrot finished his painting early so he cleaned his paint pallet and brushes and put them away. Returning to his desk Parrot spent the rest of the class drawing in his sketchbook.

Parrot’s last class of the day is Social Science. He went to his locker to grab his notebook when he noticed that Wifies was also grabbing his stuff from his locker, right next to Parrot. As soon as Parrot arrived Wifies shut his locker and scurried away quickly.

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Wifies is in a few of Parrot’s classes so Parrot was going to try and befriend him, because he seems to be an interesting person not at all because Parrot might like him. - He does actually seem interesting - Parrot decided to not tell Spoke or Rek what he was trying to do mainly because they would tease the hell out of him.

During Parrot and Wifies’ shared class Parrot managed to build up enough courage to go and talk to Wifies.

“Hey, Wifies. I uhm, I think that you are an interesting person and I was uh, wondering if you would maybe like to sit with me and my friends during lunch?”

“Oh! I uh… sure, yeah! Ok of course I can.” Wifies spluttered.

“Really? Then meet us under the big tree outside during lunch ok?” Parrot informed Wifies before walking to his desk and sitting down.

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Once It was lunch Parrot went to their spot under the tree to wait for the others. Rek and Spoke were the first to get there so he decided to tell them about Wifies joining them.

“Hey Spoke, Rek, just so that you know I invited Wifies to come sit with us today.”

That immediately caught their attention to which the two of them turned to look at Parrot. Rek being the first to say something.

“Oooh I wonder why you invited him~”

“Bro shut up, he just seems to be an interesting person.”

“Oh so it’s not because you have a crush on him?” Spoke asked

Parrot made an offended noise “What, bro, what are you saying? Of course not!”

Rek did not seem to buy it though “Yeah right you totally don’t have a cr-” but was interrupted by Parrot slapping his hand over his mouth and shushing him.

The reason for that reaction was Wifies walking up to the group. “Hi Wifies, glad to see you join us.” Parrot greeted Wifies first with the other two right after him.

“Hello Parrot, and you two are?”

“I’m Rek and that’s Spoke”

“Ok Rek, Spoke nice to meet you.”

The four of them spent the rest of lunch talking about random things and they all got along (surprisingly) well.

From then on Wifies spent every lunch with Parrot, Rek and Spoke which did not help Parrot’s ever growing crush. Wifies and Parrot have also grown closer and they hang out almost everyday now.

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Parrot was just chilling sitting under the tree with his friends during lunch when he got a notification on his phone. He grabbed his phone to check what it was about.

Lifesteal GC

Spoke: @everyone I’m hosting a party at my place on friday at 6:00 everybody in this gc is invited.

Parrot turned to Spoke, who was sitting right next to him.

“You’re hosting a party?”

“That’s what the message says.”

Rek, who also just saw the message, joined their conversation.

“If the last one was anything to go off on, this one is going to be a disaster.”

“That is not true bro. This one will be awesome, better than all the previous ones.” Spoke announced.

“And by better you mean more unhinged?” Rek inquired.

“Absolutely.” Spoke replied.

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The day of the party arrived, Parrot and his friends - along with Mapic - were making their way to Spoke’s house.

“Parrot, you haven’t actually been to Spoke’s house yet, right?” Mapic asked.

“Uh, no. I haven’t. Have you?”

“Oh, I’ve gone plenty of times. Just so you know, you’re not ready.”

“Bro, the way you say that makes it seem so ominous.”

Once they arrived, Parrot realized that Mapic was right, he was not ready for this.
The sheer size of Spoke’s house was impressive, it was like a mansion, no it is a mansion. With a pool, Spoke’s house has a pool.

“Spoke, bro, your house is huge. Like, what.”

“ Yeah I guess it is.”

It was only 4:30 when they got to Spoke’s house so they had plenty of time to set up last minute.

It was when they were setting up that Wifies asked a question which was on everyone’s minds.

“Spoke, you often have these giant parties so I’m wondering, where are your parents at during all this?”

“My parents are always traveling so they’re rarely home for too long which is why I can have these parties.” Spoke explained

That actually makes sense on why Spoke does what he does. Everyone went back to helping Spoke set up after a few more questions were asked. By 5:00 everything was ready and by 5:20 people started arriving. First to arrive was Pangi with Zam, and 5 minutes later was 4c and Cube along with Ash and Squiddo. Arriving at 5:26 was Minute, Leo and Clown with Branzy right after them. Wemmbu, Flame and Mane arrived at 5:32 and everybody else from then to 6:00. Except for Vortex and Woogie who arrived late at 6:30.

Spoke said he had some party games planned which was definitely not a good sign. Turns out, it wasn’t actually that bad of an idea, if playing Truth or Dare with a bottle was a good idea (it’s not). Everybody sat down in a circle with an empty beer bottle in the center.

“So who’s going first?” Somebody asked.

“Spoke since it’s your party you should go first.” Mapic said.

“Aight, bet.” Spoke then gave the bottle in the center a spin.

It spun before slowing down and landing on Mane.

“Ok, Mane truth or dare.” Spoke asked

“Dare.”

“I dare you to… mix every soda we have here into a cup and then drink it.”

“Bro that sounds nasty.”

“It’s a dare you have to do it.” Spoke said

“I know bro I will, I was just saying.”

Mane made his way over to the kitchen to grab a cup and added in all of the sodas before coming back. He showed the cup to everyone, the liquid was a brownish color and didn’t look good. Mane downed the whole thing in one gulp with no preamble.

“Ew, that’s nasty.”

Then he spun the bottle again. It slowed down and landed on… Bacon!

“Bacon, truth or dare?” Mane asked

“Uh… truth I guess?”

“You’re boring”

“Tell me something I don’t know. Just ask me the question.” Bacon complained

“Ok, uh… Oh! Who in this room do you think is the most likely to end up in jail?”

“Spoke.” Bacon said with no hesitation. “Obviously Spoke.”

“With the things he does, I’m surprised he’s not already in jail.” Mapic said.

“That was the easiest question ever, Mane.” Bacon spun the bottle.

Wifies, who was sitting next to Parrot whispered. “Parrot, do you wanna come get more to drink with me?”

“Sure, let’s go.”

The two got up and walked to the kitchen. Parrot grabbed a can of sprite, and Wifies grabbed a Fanta. After that, the two made their way back to where the others were sitting.

The sight that they walked into was quite something - someone had dared Pangi to do a handstand which wasn’t the bad thing, the thing was, most people there (aside from Parrot and Wifies) were either tipsy or drunk, including Pangi. - the handstand ended up with Pangi falling on top of Zam who was trying to prevent someone from getting hurt.

Spoke then suddenly announced “Hey if anyone’s not too drunk do you guys wanna go swim?” a few people agreed and went to change into their swimsuits but some decided to stay.

Wifies went so sit down on a chair “Hey Parrot.”

“Yeah? What is it.”

“Do you plan on drinking tonight?”

“No, I can’t, alcohol and avians don’t mix well. Are you going to?”

Wifies shrugged “I’ll certainly end up drinking something. So I was wondering, could you walk me home after? My house is not far from here.”

“Of course I can, you don’t have to worry.” Parrot assured.

Wifies stood up “If that’s the case, I’m gonna go and grab a drink that’s not soda.”

When he came back, Wifies indeed did have an alcoholic drink, which was a rum and coke. Wifies offered Parrot some.

“Do you wanna try some?”

“Nah I’m good bro.”

“Ok, suit yourself.” Wifies took a sip from his cup.

They sat there in silence for a while before Parrot spoke up. “Do you wanna go outside and see what the others are up to?”

“Sure, let’s go.”

The duo went outside to sit within view of the pool to see what shenanigans everyone else was planning. It is a Spoke party after all so of course people will be up to something. He was right, the people in the pool were seeing how many people they could drench with water.

So far they have gotten Cube, Planet, Subz, Mapic, Wemmbu and Pentar. They are currently chasing people with water balloons, where they got the water balloons, Parrot has no clue. Sitting that close to the pool was apparently a bad idea cause’ now Parrot and Wifies are getting targeted.

Spoke chucked a water balloon at Parrot and he failed to dodge, so now his clothes are wet. After hitting Parrot with a water balloon, Spoke then went on to target Wifies, who was somehow dodging all of the projectiles thrown his way.

“Bro, how are you not getting hit?”

“I’m just good at dodging.” Wifies said as a balloon narrowly missed him. With everything being thrown around it soon became a massive game of dodgeball. Planet, Jaron, Mapic, Minute, Jepex, Spoke, Leo and Chief on one side and Parrot, Wifies, Mane, Wemmbu, Red, Ash, Squiddo and Kaboodle on the other side. So far Parrot’s team was winning, how he doesn’t know, but it didn’t matter.

It was the end of the game and Wifies was the last one standing on their team. On the other team Minute and Spoke were still standing. Wifies is actually really good at dodgeball which Parrot did not expect but is really useful now.

The game ended with Wifies eliminating both Spoke and Minute one after the other. After winning the game of dodgeball Wifies manages to shove an unsuspecting Derapchu into the pool, which caused a water fight. For some reason Spoke had a lot of water guns which meant thematic everyone had a weapon, but that just made it more fun.

Apparently having a waterline fight while most people were either a bit tipsy or drunk was not the best idea. Wow, this party is the origin of a lot of bad ideas.

Parrot was right, how so? Well, somehow Squiddo slipped or something and fell into the pool, dragging Rek, who she was talking with, down with her. Squiddo wasn’t even drunk in the slightest, so how she managed that was probably because of her clumsiness.

The rest of the party was just as chaotic. Wifies got quite drunk, despite not having that many drinks, so now Parrot had to deal with him until the end of the party.

“Parrot, d-did I ask you to-” Wifies hiccupped, jolting back “-walk me home?”

“Yeah? That’s the first thing you asked.”

“Well, t-that’s not needed… I-I can walk home, by myself.”

“Bro, you cannot. You’re way too drunk for that.”

“Noooo… Im nott…” Wifies whined pulling at Parrot’s sleeves.

“How many drinks have you had?”

“...uhh, I don’t know…”

“So too many. We should probably get you home, people are starting to leave anyway. Can you manage to walk to your house?”

“Yesss… I think-” Wifies started before tripping on nothing –while standing still– and almost ending on the floor, if not for Parrot catching him before he could.

“Dude you gotta be more careful.” Parrot let Wifies stand back on his feet.

Wifies blinked at him. “That was r-really… uh… what’s the word… hot! That was really hot.”

That made Parrot flustered. “Ok bro, what are you saying. Let’s get you home.”

As much as Parrot would like to indulge in what Wifies was saying, He knows that he didn’t really mean it, which was disheartening to think about. Wifies didn’t feel the same way he does, he was just saying stuff, nevermind the whole drunk actions, sober thoughts thing.

Bringing Wifies home was a… difficult process, to say the least. Parrot had to half drag half carry him all the way. Thank god Wifies lives close to Spoke. By the time they arrived it was quite late. Parrot asked a question as they were walking up to the house.

“Hey Wifies, do you know if your parents are home?”

“Huh? No… they’re not.”

“Ok, so do you have a key to the house?”

“Uhh… lemme see.” Wifies said, looking through his pockets and handing Parrot the key.

Parrot went up to the door to unlock and open it, leading Wifies inside and to his bedroom. Handing him the key back he started to leave but was stopped.

“Noooo, don’t go, stay please?” Wifies whined

“Wifies I have to go, I can’t stay.’

As much as Parrot wanted to stay with Wifies, he couldn’t. He couldn’t handle being this close to Wifies and not being able to do anything.

“I’m sorry. Bye.”

With that Parrot left Wifies’ house and walked back to his own. As he laid down in his bed, Parrot wondered if he should have stayed with Wifies, if he made the right decision to leave.