vortship.

He really was a chill guy. Being a substitute, he probably wasn’t really paid to care. It was definitely better than their last substitute. She wasn’t actually in class that day, she’d walked in to see the woman had moved all the desks into a circle and decided to nope out of there as quickly as possible. This sub was more her speed, smoking while everyone else was chatting or on their phones, with the exception of a few honor roll students actually attempting to study from their text books. Their efforts went unnoticed. Nice.

“Hey, I would have, you know. But Mr. Elliot told me not to do that anymore and I didn’t know we were having a sub today. He says it makes it look like I’m bribing him or something. Can you believe that? Me?! I’m just trying to spread the positivity of the pumpkin spice!” she walked right past her desk, opting to sit atop his instead. 

“So whats your name? You didn’t write it on the board. Don’t they teach you that in like, sub teacher class or whatever?”

^{the audacity of this girl is surprising but he rolls with it,  unflinching when she approaches him.  she is either genuinely kind or trying a little too hard    -   not like spike hasn’t gone through that same stage when he was growing up  (  he likes to think he hasn’t,  he just feels he’s been this reckless and cool always  ).  he’s slumped with his back on the backrest of the chair,   forearms propped on the armrests.  the class continues on with a mixture of all kinds of kids enjoying or disappointed by his unconcerned watch.}  

^{“  real shame elliot doesn’t take advantage of generosity,  “     he answers,  wondering how the taste of a pumpkin spice latte would go right about now.  maybe a muffin.    so far she’s just another kid that he hopes won’t act like a blatant kiss-ass.    that’s not really working out so far.       (   spike has profiled and psychologically read the way many criminals think ;   he can probably understand a twelve year old.   )}  

^{“  spiegel,  “     he doesn’t give out his first name nor a mister.     “ does elliot let you sit on his desk, too ?  or let you try this hard to get on his good side so he can bump up your grade ?   “}