Blue Flow

Behind A Glossy Lipped Smile

Artak Aroyan had ordered Adonc High to pull out every single security camera in the lab and every single
camera in Mike's classroom, under the federal law. He was an officer, and by the morning, he had sent out the video to the "higher ups". The plan was, Mike and Dash were going to be taken into the principal's office. From there, the boys would be told that
they're going to be taken to the police station for illegal ownership of a weapon. If any of their's fight or flight kicks in, taser. If not, if everything goes well, Mike would be taken of to an actual lab and actually tested on, for military purposes and
Dash.. Well, he'd be dealt with, that's what Artak's boss told him. He knew what this meant, but he didn't care. The job paid well, didn't it? And he was giving to his country, right?

It was during physics, period 3rd, that Sveta's grin grew wider and wider. This creeped Mike out, slightly.
If she decided to suddenly play a cruel joke on him, Dash actually wouldn't be there to help him out. Nor would he be there on the next 5 minute break, since he spends those with Areg. Which always kinda got him thinking, what if, what if he actually needs
to stand up for himself and maybe not be that weird kid at the back of the class?
He was so different with Dash, Areg sometimes too. His jokes were terrible, but they made them laugh from
the irony of it all, and mostly because he would laugh so hard at his own jokes. He'd tease his younger brother, Nika, and totally be that older brother everyone wished they didn't have in the first place, but when it came to Sveta, something within him stopped.
Maybe it was she actually was kind of ugly,
in a pretty way.
He didn't have a crush
on her, but she was intimidating. Her personality, her looks and her ... wealth scared him. He didn't know why, but she made him want to run away and then come begging back. Maybe he did have a crush on her, or maybe he didn't, or maybe he was in love with
her crooked nose and long wavy hair that contrasted each other in their incredible opposition...

"Michael Sahakyan?"
"I'm here." He mumbles, pretending like he wasn't shocked at all, like he wasn't accidentally daydreaming
about Sveta. Something tugged at his jeans. Embarrassment took over his entire existence as he firmly placed his backpack on his lab.
Gross.

Sveta checked her phone. ‪2:34‬. In 6 minutes, this place is gonna get wrecked.
She hoped they'd come in with guns and raid the place, tell everyone to remain seated, and ask "their
majesty", also known as her, to please come over to them and give her a gun of her own, and she'd be the resident 'it' girl, the cool spy girl from TV shows, the hot chick that everyone feared.
She grinned.
She did feel slight guilty about Mike though. He was a sweet boy, but
it was for a good cause.
It would, he would, serve the country.
That was her pity excuse for herself, when in reality, he was just the bait here.
Dash was whom she was aiming for. Dash needed to go. Dash absolutely needed to be taken out, before he'd further corrupted Areg.
Areg, whom she'd loved since 5th grade. They went to a musical school together far before he had met Dash.
And she somehow believed he loved her too. He never said anything, never gave her any chance either, but she's made herself believe that late at night, when Areg sat awake in his room, he was thinking about her, writing poems, like she did. But he was a year older, and came to musical school a year earlier too, accordingly and graduated before her. He played the piano, she played the violin. Mike was from her violin class, but he wasn't in the chorus class her and Areg were together in, since he hated singing.
And where there's Mike, there's Dash. He didn't play anything, Dash, not the violin nor the piano, he only came to pick him up, since he was a year older. Thus, before Areg came to Adonc, Dash and him never met.
And to be completely honest, when she first learned he was coming to her school, she didn't once think that he'd spend his time with anyone except her, totally not Dash. When you're
too busy running after a sheep, that's when a wolf will bite you, is what they say.
Because the moment he stepped foot into Adonc, he didn't leave Dash's side. And that drove her
crazy.
You don't think "zebra" when you hear hooves click.
He didn't even say a simple "hi" to her last morning since he was too busy making Dash laugh.. She hated Dash so much, it burned. It burned within her.
And as the clock ticked ‪2:40‬, Sveta dig her nails into her desk, squishing it so hard it cracked off small
pieces of fake wood.
‪2:41, no nothing.‬
2:42.
4:43.