"Case!" A voice beside him called the bleach dyed blonde back into the group he was stood in. His eyes flickered round and took in the faces staring at him.<br/>"What?" The word was stale and flat, his eyes levelled at the other male looking at him with his eyebrows raised as Case picked up a hand and pushed the locks from his face once they'd fallen there.<br/>"What the fuck man, were you even listening to anything we were saying?" Case shrugged his shoulders slightly at the question before the left side of his mouth tugged up a little into a crooked grin. "Nope." With that, he pushed himself from the wall he'd been lent against at the back of the school building and headed off towards the main path at the entrance. The guys he'd been bunking off with all day called after him, asking where he was going, what he was doing whilst adding in a few colourful names for him since he was abandoning them and not for the first time - in try Case style.<br/>"I've got people to do, things to see..." His voice trailed off as he left them with their arms in the air, flipping signs and shouting swears after him. Case couldn't help but laugh. They'd kick off for now, but come the next day he showed up, they would be there again, hoping to hang out behind the school again.<br/><br/>Pushing through the front doors of the school building, he sighed softly, letting his eyes wonder around the hushed hallways. For some reason it seemed creepy to be there during the day with no one around. Case had lost count how many times he'd broken into the school grounds over night - just for something to do - he'd become used to the darkened, silent halls. Now he found it much more disturbing in the light.<br/>Bu~t Julien had sent out a call to arms, so he had to make his way to the art room. Case had tried all too many time to avoid the other boy over the past couple of months, making sure the two of them were never alone together and always keeping Mads or Eve around as a buffer. He'd been feeling strange things when getting close to Jules for a while but it was becoming increasingly awkward. His sense of humour and confidence was waning whenever he was close to the brunette making him come out with some strange comments, even had him feeling nervous - which the blonde hadn't felt since he was in pre-school. It wasn't a welcome emotion.<br/><br/>It was only a short walk to the art room and staying true to his character, Case was sure as hell going to make an entrance. He'd left himself long enough between the agreed time to meet and him actually entering the room to know that the other two boys would be there - leaving him feeling a lot more at ease. If it wasn't just Jules, he wouldn't get tongue tied.<br/><br/>Kicking one combat boot out, Case smacked it against the door and set it swinging on it's hinges. The door smacked into the wall and Case stood tall and confident in the doorway. After a second, he stepped inside, that wicked grin on his lips as he assessed his friends.<br/>"Okay, I've arrived, the meeting can start now." He stepped inside and hooked a hand around the edge of the quivering door and swung it shut again. His vivid blue eyes catching sight of Julien's piece. He swallowed hard as it felt like a shot pierced straight through his chest. He dropped his eyes away and approached the other guys.<br/><br/>"So, what's so important that we all need to be here at once? Someone died?" Case lifted a finger and pretended to count through the four of them that stood around like a child, stumbling on the numbers, then adding them up on his other hand. "There's only three!" He exclaimed with wide eyes before a wash of relief. "Oh.... I'm the forth." His lips tugged up in a grin once more. Case could be a royal dick when he was hiding something - seeing that drawing had really rattled him, so he was going over board.<br/>The glowing, heavenly white of the feather, surrounded by toxic darkness - no matter what it meant to Jules, Case couldn't help but read it as a picture of himself and the other boy. The way his noxious personality would smother and suffocate the pure beauty of Jule's, but he'd be all the better just having that celestial glow around.