Johnathan Tohquah (pauwau) wrote in st_margarets, @ 2018-09-16 09:19:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: johnathan tohquah, character: van carlyle, location: hydra dorm |
Thread: Not Friends
WHO: Van and John
WHEN: Last week, some time after this.
WHERE: Van's room, Hydra
The two Hydra boys had an easy understanding. Neither of them bugged the other one or got in their way. They had similar ideas and opinions about most people and that was really the only thing they had in common other than a couple people. Both were friends with Caitlin and Gilderoi. John didn't hold it against Van that he was dating Gil and Van didn't hold it against John (to John's knowledge) that he'd stayed friends with Caitlin over the summer. They had an easy friendship and an ongoing joke that it wasn't really a friendship.
John had accepted Van's invitation to do what he called "hang out". They were in Van's room and John was working on homework. Or he was trying to. John didn't tell Van yet, but the music was distracting. John liked to work in quiet. Sound was something he used in his magic and it made studying magic harder when he tried to apply it later. Whatever song had been playing when he learned a new concept would interfere when he tried to recall it, interfering with the spell. The same thing happened with subjects like mathematics and memorizing facts for history or science. John was diagnosed with only part of his learning disability.
His thoughts turned to Xavier, the boy who had taught him to read. John had always been a late bloomer, but the ridicule he received from other students in his elementary classes as the years went on had almost driven the young native boy to drop out of school entirely. Xavier reached out to him and helped, finding the way John needed to learn and coaching him until he could read and write. Then, before entering middle school, Xavier disappeared and reappeared now. John still hadn't decided how he felt about it.
Glancing at Van, John cleared his throat to draw the kelpie's attention. Van had a lot going on right now with the elections and everything, and John had done the decent thing when Van's integrity had come under attack and stood up for his friend (his not-a-friend), but it was very uncharacteristic of John and had taken its toll on him. It had taken every ounce of willpower John had to not turn back to the drugs to help him through it the first time. The second time he wasn't so lucky and now he was days away from his drug test with Ms. Hallowfen, but that was a problem for tomorrow's John.
"Hey, do you know Xavier? New vampire student? I think he's in Ladon."