i wanna get better

well that's not very punk rock of you. ✌

[odette-ward]

“Ugh, I know.” Hana gave in. “The day I can reject your pretty self, I will conquer the rest of the world.” she winked. “Ok, I will go distract him, and you go out of that door. Wait for me there though. There might be more obstacles on our way.” she said and walked towards the teacher’s table, leaned in and rested her elbows on it. She was giving a show to the teacher from the front and probably some show to the people in the class from behind due to her bending position and short skirt. She made sure to block the teacher’s view of Ash and looked over her shoulder to signal him to go as she turned her head back to the teacher and asked if he was teaching math, even though he clearly wasn’t.

[jaretthovvarth]

“You’re the best,” Ash sighs happily. “Seriously, if you ever fancy the world domination thing, I’ll totally be on your side.”

For a moment Ash finds himself as distracted by Hana’s... assets as the rest of the class, so much so that he forgets he’s meant to be escaping and spends a few seconds staring at her like an idiot. Luckily he makes a relatively quick recovery, and while the teacher is busy stammering nervously through a conversation with her, Ash quietly shoves his books into his backpack and slips away from his desk, ready to wait for Hana in the hallway.

[bey]

[derpolk]

Derek couldn’t help but let a chuckle escape his lips, a snort soon to follow. “Oh god, listen. You can tell Abuela whatever her ears need to here. But she doesn’t scare me and she’s sure as hell not sending you anywhere.”

“Yeah man, i do it all the time. Come on.”

[jaretthovvarth]

“Aw, bro, is that your way of saying you’d miss me if I got kicked out?” Ash laughs, pushing down the little thrill of hope that accompanies the thought. “I think you might actually be her favourite grandson, I doubt she’d even be mad. She’s always like ‘Mijo, your friend Derek is so handsome, when are you going to invite him and Laurel over for dinner again?’ - like, for real, what am I, chopped liver?”

“Seriously? I- oh, okay! I guess?” Like he wouldn’t follow Derek into oncoming traffic if he asked.

[derpolk]

“Dude, just walk out. I mean what can they do other than give you a bad grade?”

[jaretthovvarth]

“Sure, I can do that. And I’ll be sure to tell Abuela it’s your fault I flunked out when she asks which devil tempted me from the path of righteousness or whatever, so she’ll know exactly who to thank for finally having an excuse to send me to Catholic school.”

“You really think they’d just let me walk out of here?”

[shybat-deactivated20190807]

*romantically calls you dude*

[littlealienproducts]

[ashxmoreno]

Dylan danced around with Ash in the hallway for a moment before following him down the hallway, she swung their hands as they walked out the front door of the school.

“I feel that, man. I was terrified I was going to get kicked off the team because of Chemistry, if it hadn’t been for Juda I would have failed.” Dylan shrugged, school wasn’t her thing per se. She preferred being on a field than at a desk, it just so happened that academics controlled her ability to play sports.

“Volleyball today, we had a scrimmage against the Wildcats,” Dylan smiled. “I’m usually off by one in the afternoon, but they scheduled this one later.”

[jaretthovvarth]

The casual intimacy between himself and Dylan is something Ash has always valued. It’s nice to hold hands with her, to be close without worrying what means what, to know that he has a friend that supports him. He gives her fingers a gentle squeeze when they’re finally outside in the sunshine.

“Jude’s so smart, I have no idea how he does it. Like, I could read chemistry books for the rest of my life and know less stuff than him,” he sighs. “But they’d never kick you off the team, Dyl. You’re way too good, like the Juda of team sports.” 

“Scrimmage,” he repeats, like the word is totally alien. “We’ve been friends for like a million years and I still don’t understand half your sport talk. Did you win? Can you even win a scrimmage?”

“Anyways, you’re all done now, right? So you can come and hang out at the park with me?”

[wyattande-deactivated20200101]

By the time Wyatt and Ash were both on the safer side of the wall, Wyatt was on his behind. A lively smile graced his features as he looked over at his friend. The thrill in being rebellious had it’s own fulfillment, and Wyatt hadn’t tasted it in a while. This was brilliant. 

He laughed as he sat up straighter, nodding at Ash. “You too, bro. I was ready to kill you if he didn’t hurry up already. C’mon,” he said, standing up and brushing his pants off for any evidence that would suggest he had been in a garden bed. 

“Did anyone see you ?” He asked, handing over Ash’s bag to him. Wyatt didn’t need to get into trouble, and get Ash into more trouble than he was for not being in class right now. “Because if they did, we need to leave. NOW. –– Wait, not right now.” Someone had been backing up their car out of the lot, not too far from where they stood. “I’m guessing you can’t go home till you’re actually supposed to be out of school ?” He asked, looking around for a safe way to get out of the shrubs already, without getting into trouble.

[jaretthovvarth]

Ash grins right back, eyes bright with new possibility as he pushes his hair out of them. Hanging out with Wyatt usually means something fun and not-strictly-legal is going to happen, even if that something is a little light trespassing or graffitiing the town sign. It’s all stuff that’ll get them in trouble, but when it’s the two of them together, he feels just that bit more bulletproof.

His knees are a little grazed thanks to the fall and the old holes in his jeans, but it’s nothing to make a fuss over, so Ash gets to his feet and picks a few leaves off his leather jacket. “Hey, I’d like to see you go any faster,” he replies as he carefully inches the window closed behind them. “A girl, but she won’t say anything. Not if she wants to go to Hana’s party.”

“You’re right, but it’s okay, I don’t really want to go home right now anyway.” Not to his sick grandpa and worried abuela, not after he’s cut class and will have to live with their disappointed faces. They can wait until later. “Want to head up the water tower? I’ve got stuff to smoke, if you’ve got nowhere to be.”

[wyattande-deactivated20200101]

“Not the best time for your sappiness, but okay there Ash. And I know you love me. Now shut up or you’re going to be stuck here longer.”

Wyatt gave Ash a stern look, that lasted at least five whole seconds, as he told him to carefully handle the chilli, but complied and swung the red bag ( carefully !! ) over his shoulder. He really wouldn’t mind some of Abuela’s chilli, even if it set him on fire. Wyatt wasn’t even sure why he was out here, in broad day light, rescuing Ash from school. But he knew he missed his friend and distancing himself from everyone over the past few weeks hadn’t really served helpful. 

“Okay. Quick,” he whispered loudly, sure to have heard people nearing in on them. There was only so much he could hide between the window and the short shrubs lined outside the classroom. Wyatt extended his arm out for Ash to take, as though that would hurry up the process of getting him out. 

[jaretthovvarth]

“It’s always a good time for my sappiness,” Ash insists, but he does take Wyatt’s advice to shut up because it’s seriously time for him to get away from school.

Satisfied that his lunch is safely outside, he crouches warily below the window, waiting for the right moment to make a break for it. Wyatt’s insistence that he hurries up is only met with a one-fingered salute - if he gets caught, they’re both fucked.

A few seconds pass, each one dragging like an eternity, but Ash eventually pops his head up and grabs for Wyatt’s hand. With his help, he manages to get his knee up on the windowsill, but from out of the corner of his eye Ash realises that the girl at the desk next to his is now paying a bemused sort of attention to his escape. All he can do is shoot her a pleading expression before he is dragged unceremoniously through the window and into the shrubs below.

“Nicely done, bro,” he says weakly.

[elliethompsonxo]

“I am- I snuck in when the teacher left. There’s a room to emergency exit to the left. If we go fast, we can get out.”

[jaretthovvarth]

“I knew I could count on you,” Ash says, grinning as he crams his book into his backpack. “You lead the way, Elles Bells.”

[logan-donovan-blog]

“It should be illegal to be as lazy as you are,” Max returned with a good-natured roll of his eyes. “You’d survive a few more hours in here and I definitely shouldn’t help you cut class. Think of all the things you could learn in the next 180 minutes.” A grin found its way onto Max’s face. “Very generous of you to offer to take all the blame. It’s not that easy though - if you end up getting grounded or something for Hana’s party, they’re all gonna be just as mad at me for not stopping you from doing something stupid.”

[jaretthovvarth]

“I’m not lazy! I’m just... nope, I can’t even be bothered to argue, lazy it is,” he concedes amiably. “But you should totally help me cut class, that’s what friends do. I’m not a smarty-pants like you, man, I hate being here.”

Ash gives Max a sly smirk when he brings up the party, gently nudging him in the ribs with his elbow. “They? Or just Hana?” 

“I swear I won’t get grounded, and if I do I’ll sneak out anyway. C’mooon, live a little! Elmo Hemingway wouldn’t’ve just sat in class like a sucker.”

[nicole-lin-blog1]

“I dunno… Maybe. What’s in it for me?”

[jaretthovvarth]

“My eternal love and gratitude? A selection of baked goods? Uh, I’ll help you do stuff for your next film and I won’t even complain once? Man, I’m super low on bargaining chips...”

[julieesimon]

“What? No. I just got out of rehearsals,” she hissed as she made her way past the classroom, being abruptly stopped in her tracks. It was warm out and she was sure Ash wanted to be anywhere but school. Sighing, she took pity on him. “Okay, okay… fine. Give me a second.” Julie looked to see if the teacher’s attention was still on their paperwork before walking past the doorway and into the hall. The best excuses required preparation after all. Steadying herself with a deep breath and quickly tousling her hair, she walked back to the classroom in feigned panic and rapped hurriedly on the door.

“I am so sorry, but Mr. Watson sent me and he needs your help right away. Two seniors got into a fight out on the quad and he needs help breaking it up,” she explained, using her thumb to gesture in the direction she had supposedly come from. “It’s… pretty bad,” she said with widened eyes, shaking her head. Watching as the teacher rushed from their seat and out of the room, Julie waited until they had disappeared before grinning. “Consider yourself rescued.”

[jaretthovvarth]

Before he can even open his mouth to beg her to come back, Julie reappears in the doorway and delivers (in Ash’s admittedly biased opinion) the performance of the century, effortlessly capturing the teacher’s attention with her story about fighting seniors. Ash does his best to match her frantic expression with one of casual concern, but ultimately goes back to hiding behind his book so he doesn’t give the game away by giggling.

With the room safely cleared of all adult-shaped obstacles on his path to freedom, Ash scoops his belongings into his backpack and hops out of his seat. “Wow, Julie Simon! I’m like, your number one fan!” He teases, feigning starstruck as he hurries to join her in the hallway, where he slings his arm carelessly around her shoulders. “But seriously, thanks for coming back for me, I really owe you one.”

[wyattande-deactivated20200101]

WYATT ANDERSON &. ASH MORENO - aesthetic. ( @ashmorenos )

[nmaxwell-blog1]

“Yes I even dressed for the occasion.” She gestured to her all black outfit. “What class is this though?”

[jaretthovvarth]

“And you’re a sight for sore eyes, as always,” he tells her, unable to hide his relief at the appearance of one of his friends.. “Um... I think it’s calc, which is another reason for me not to be here - I brought the wrong text book.”

[logan-donovan-blog]

“We can eat sweet, sweet fro-yo later. Did you seriously just compare school to prison?” Another glance around, this time more nervous. “Well…there is a convenient hole in the fence behind the gym, but…no, they probably fixed it by now. If someone caught us there, we’d be in so much trouble.”

[jaretthovvarth]

“You’re such a nerd,” Ash sighs, but not without affection. “It’s summer, it should be illegal to make people do school in summer.”

Too late. Now that Max has brought it up, Ash is dead set on their daring escape through a hole in the chain link - like a real prison break! “Luckily for you, Trouble is my middle name. Actually it’s Rosario Hernandez, but the point is, we get caught and I’ll just say it was my fault. All you’ve got to do is distract the teacher so I can sneak out.”

[logan-donovan-blog]

Max glanced around, seeing no immediate threat. “Rescue you from what?”

[jaretthovvarth]

“Shh!” Ash hisses, looking at Max like he’s lost his mind. “You do see we’re at school, right? And also that it’s sunny outside? And that we should be skateboarding in the park and eating sweet, sweet fro-yo? C’mon, Maxie, I’m trying to enlist you for a prison break, help me out here.”