chivalry isn't dead yet

The door was opened by Richard, who Victor had met a few times and knew. Of course he swore Richard hated him, but what else did Victor expect from the guy? He was always hogging Tina’s time and was clearly interested in her. Any man in charge of ensuring Tina’s well-being was right to fear him. Hell, if the guy liked Victor, he’d lost respect for him.

”Hey, Mister Richard. Nice to see you too.” He said. He entered the house and looked around. He hooked his thumbs into the pockets of his sweatshirt. ”No thanks, we’re going out for dinner anyway.” Victor said.

He looked up at Tina as she descended the stairs, his eyes lighting up at the way the outfit complimented her curves and fit on her. She was always pretty stylish. For fashion standards, anyway – Victor never really know what to do with that knowledge. He just liked what looked good.

He held his arm out for Tina and, when she took it, he led her outside the door and didn’t look back at Richard. The sun was warm. Victor only brought the jacket in case Tina got cold at the sushi place – to be the chivalrous guy who offered her his jacket, of course! ”So, the rest of school go by fast? Chemistry dragged on and on. You’d think someone’d tell that old hag no one cares about solving equations already.”

Victor rose his brows when she mentioned an algebra pop quiz. ”Ew, algebra quiz? Does the teacher want everyone to flunk?” He asked. He never got the purpose of pop quizzes aside from giving the entire class a bad grade. Most teachers he had did it when they were pissed off. At her small cuss he smirked, giving her that boyish grin before she nudged his arm. He nudged back, playfully, and seized the moment the slip an arm comfortably across her shoulders.

To anyone passing by they looked like a typical couple and that was what Victor was going for. When she suggested a petition against quizzes, he nodded. ”Hell yeah. We’d get you, me, Trev, Elle, -- literally everyone, except maybe Jett. For some reason he likes school related stuff,” the weirdo. Victor still liked him, though, but man was he weird! ”Well, I’m proud you aced that test. As a reward, I’ll buy you anything you want after we’re done dinner,” he gave her a teasing grin, ”Or I’ll do anything you want,”

A car drove by. It was clearly someone who went to school, but they didn’t wave or anything. Victor smirked. ”Looks like Joel is still driving that lame soccer mom van his mom has.”

”You are right. Dude gets off on doing his homework, but if Elle bat her pretty eyelashes his way he’d cave on anything,” He said. It was kind of funny, how whipped Jett was. And some people might say he was whipped when it came to Tina, but Victor disagreed! He just stood up for her, and didn’t tolerate any smack talk about her. Plus, she was hot, and he liked to take her out. He was not whipped, and he still had his own interests and hobbies outside of her! What, with Jett it was do homework, sleep, and hang around Elle? That sounded pretty boring, at least to Victor!

He laughed when she imitated him. ”Wow. It’s like you recorded him during study hall. He refused to draw a doodle for Elle and she got all huffy till he agreed to,” Victor said. When she said that she’d surprise him, he nodded. ”Good. I hate predictability,” he said, giving her his usual boyish grin.

When he spotted Joel, Victor rolled his eyes. ”Guy’s so sad, I think he’s carting his kid siblings around, too. Man, I’m not jealous I don’t have a kid sibling.” He said. He just had Stefan. How lucky of him.

Uptown was bright and full of people, and the little plaza that contained a huge food court was right before them. Inside was the sushi place that Victor practically called home. He felt Tina lean against him and felt like a king. A few people from school looked at them and waved, and Victor waved back. They definitely looked like the number one couple at school! ”This is a popular place for people to come after school. Hopefully we don’t bump into any Metric overachievers.”