Double Life: Unexpected

This is in Germany... it feels like a place that Nichole would pick haha 

A/N: I´m not sure about this tittle -again- mmm oh, well...

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“We’re so very sorry we´re late but Josh hadn´t even gotten up” Maya complained as they got in the Art Club Room

“I didn´t even know we were coming to your rehearsal!” Josh defended himself, Jonah smiled amused.

“Maya forgot to tell him” Jill rolled her eyes and they all took seats on the floor, Jonah hurried to them and his violin. Josh walked to Nichole, the rest hadn´t seen her until he kept walking to her work space, she´d been partially covered by one of the canvas in which she was working. When the rest noticed her Jonah started to play a quick song and they all focused on him.

“Hey! I didn´t expect to find you here” Josh smiled and glanced at the purple box she was putting in her bag

“I know” she said quietly, he looked up at her with a small frown and then he pulled one of the tall stools and sat close to her. Everybody was quiet the whole time Jonah was playing song after song, when one song ended they clapped and made cheering sounds.

“Are you going? “Josh asked above a whisper, she shook her head and then looked out the window.

“Do you want to go now?” Josh smiled touching the hand she had on her knee, their little fingers lingered for a second as he passed his hand on her palm, she watched their hands and then at Josh´s green eyes and narrowed her eyes just a fraction, and there was a tiny smile on the side of her mouth. He winked as he got up to take a guitar out of the cabinets, he walked to where Jonah was and sat next to him, right in front of where Nichole was. Josh lifted the guitar when Jonah looked at him, the other boy grinned and nodded as he started to change the melody so that the two of them could join in a song, the rest clapped and after a while they all joined in the playing and singing to end up improvising.

“That sounds really well –Mike said right when he entered the door- we could use that for our presentation” he grinned and everybody copied him

“The girls will need to practice until their throat bleeds though” Bryan said. Jill rolled her eyes and Maya playfully hit him.

“The girls will commit to it –Mike said and they narrowed their eyes- Sorry I wasn´t here, you guys, the meeting got longer than expected”

“Don´t worry about that “Jonah replied.

“Where's Nichole?” Mike asked looking around; they all looked at her working space and immediately after to Josh who just shrugged

“Ok, I guess you’ll have no grade for today´s practice, you´ll have to ask her for that later –the teacher grinned- ok, we´ll practice on Monday” he said walking to his desk. The boys went to put the instruments back in their cabinets.

“Josh, didn´t you invite Nichole to go with us? She´ll think we are ignoring her” Jill asked while they were all going down the stairs out the arts building.

“I told her but she had things to do, maybe next time” he replied somehow hesitant

“She´s such a busy person –Maya said- Do you think she didn´t want to go with us?” he voice was always child-like, she always sounded like pouting

“She must be busy, she´s one of the students on the top list… that can’t be easy” Bryan commented mostly to himself.

They went to the main entrance where they walked to the bus stop.

“Aw! Why didn´t you guys let me call the driver?” Maya pouted

“Walking makes you good, besides, rich girl, you never lived if you didn´t ride a bus” Bryan teased Maya

“That´s not my fault” she lightly pushed him “I bet no one here has ever taken the bus anywhere!”

“I have” said Josh. He’d taken the bus with Nichole except they had gone through the woods first.

“You have?! –she gasped- when?” Maya asked

“Huh? You´re not like the other rich kids then?” Bryan commented

“The other rich kids?” Josh repeated. Bryan pointed to the rest of the group. Jill rolled her eyes.

“He´s one of the few with scholarships in here –Jill explained- you gotta remind us how smart you are don´t you?” she poked her tongue at him. He gasped

“I´ve never said that! Besides my brain brought me here, why should I apologize for that?” he said crossing his arms

“Oh so smart, guide us on our way” the girls said at the same time and immediately laughed

“You girls are like twins separated at birth” Bryan shook his head

“Ugh, don’t associate me with her!” Jill wrinkled her nose

“Aw, you know you love me” Maya grinned

“I hate you” Jill said

“I hate you too!” Maya replied lovingly. They both hugged. The boys shook their heads

“That thing was so slow” Maya complained once they were already in town

“You’re so whiney!” Jonah huffed, she gasped.

“Are you mad at me?” she grabbed him by his arm; he shook his head as they walked.

“Thank you!” she kissed her cheek

“Where are we eating” Jonah asked to no one in particular

“Pasta” Maya said in a high pitched voice

“Ugh! No! Maya, that´s all you eat! It´s a miracle that you aren´t over weighted” Jill wrinkled her nose.

“Pffff! I make my miracles at the gym” she poked her tongue out to Jill

“We should go to the mall, to the food court, that way we can get what we want” Bryan suggested

“Walk fast, people! I'm hungry!” Maya prompted walking faster still holding Jonah´s arm

“I pity you… the flea is stuck to you” Jill laughed

“Food´s first, I´ll get back to you later”

“She´s so hyper” Josh commented

“She´s excited of being out here and not in the school”

They kept walking; Jonah and Maya were lost on the street. They were walking faster than the rest.

“Walk ahead, I´ll catch up to you in a while” Josh suddenly said and walked the opposite way. Bryan and Jill looked at each other dumbfounded but they shrugged and kept walking after a second.

“I thought you wouldn´t come” Josh sat on a chair and was met with an almost imperceptible smile “Why don´t you join us?”

“I like it here”

“This is where we came the first time we came to the town”

“The day you got a scar”

“Nichole…”

“You should sit if you´re staying or leave if you´re not, people´s staring at you standing there” the girl interrupted him

“You´re inviting me to stay?” he smiled with the side of his mouth

“Or to leave” she raised an eyebrow. She pushed her French fries plate to the middle of the table. His forest green eyes seemed to smile as he sat in front of her.

“What are you having?”

“A turkey sandwich”

“I didn´t think I´d see you today” he said after ordering his lunch.

“Same here, it´s late”

“We came in a very slow bus”

“When you take it at the main gate, it takes twice as long…”

“I don´t think I could remember your path”

“Never take that path on your own” her tone was serious

“No?” he raised his eyebrows

“Please, no” she stared into his eyes intently, he furrowed his eyebrows “We´ve only been to the clearer part of the woods, you could get lost there, anything could happen”

“Have you ever gotten lost there?”

“I have a good sense of direction but yeah, I got lost a few times but that was a long time ago –she seemed to be remembering those times, his face became sad as he saw her expression, she seemed to notice and in a second her face changed to her usual nonchalant demeanor –just don´t go there”

“I won´t” he smiled a little, she slightly bowed her head.