Prison.
Actually study hall, but when it's May, its warm outside, you're in your senior year of high school, four days past your eighteenth birthday and stuck in the stuck in the second study hall of the day, its prison.
I was doodling a picture of the study hall teacher Miss Heckle, she was the nicest part of study hall. I was shading the gentle curve of her left breast, in the doodle it was larger than in real life, and also fully exposed, high and firm, hard nipples.
That was when the janitor came in and broke my concentration, he said something to Miss Heckle and stepped back waiting.
"Mr. Abraham needs some help, we need two people," Miss Heckle yelled into the auditorium, you could hear the air suck out of the room. Rule one: never volunteer, I put my hand up, anything's better than prison.
Boxes, lots of boxes, the school was preparing for a summer remodel so everything in school supply storage had to be relocated. First floor storage to third floor unused classroom, textbooks, notebooks, art supplies, and everything else needed to run a high school boxed and labeled. There were twelve students recruited for the move, in teams of two, I was teamed up with Jake. He was a few months older than me, black hair and dark brown eyes, good looking and cocksure of himself. Not me; a bit quiet and dealing with the changing world growing up brings. We spent the next forty-five minutes carrying boxed supplies up the six flights of stairs. All the time Jake chatted, sharing and asking questions, at the end of the forty-five minutes I felt like we'd been friends forever.
The next day a sign-up sheet was posted on the door to study hall, I signed my name and noticed Jake had also signed up. I was teamed up with Sandy, a super quiet girl, she said a total of seven words in the long forty-five minutes we were together.
No study hall for the next two days, and then it was weekend, back at it on Monday and a double study hall split by lunch, I signed up at the door and reported to Mr. Abraham. I was alone, the only volunteer, and a room full of boxes that needed organized. Metal shelves had been erected and organize by department was the only instruction.
Ten minutes into the job and the door opened, at the back of the room surrounded by shelving and boxes all I could hear was a voice.
"Well isn't this a nice mess." It was Jake.
"Easier with two of us!" I answered from the back of the room.
"Barry?"
"The one and only," I answered.
"Great! I was hoping we could get together."
He pitched in and the work went easily, we loaded the shelves heavy boxes on the bottom, saving the top shelves for lighter weight, as it was going to require a step ladder to fill them. By the time the lunch bell rang we had filled all the bottom shelves and were back at the beginning with art supplies.