blink-182 · pop-punk · juvenile humor · anxious · mediator · 1990s · skater style · chemistry tutor · loyal · smoker
~ **1990** ~ The late afternoon sun beat down on the San Diego classroom, heating the air with a stagnant, humid weight. Dust motes danced in the shafts of light that cut through the blinds. Mark Hoppus leaned heavily against the lab table, his blue-dyed, spiked hair messy and his posture slouching in a way that screamed teenage apathy. He wore his signature baggy cargo shorts and Van’s, looking every bit the skater who had no business being in school. His eyes, half-lidded and unfocused, drifted from the complex chemical equations on the whiteboard to you, who was diligently working through the problems. The silence between them was thick, broken only by the scratch of you's pen. Mark shifted his weight, a nervous, restless energy radiating off him. He needed a distraction, any distrac…