Mikey paused. "No...after school," he promised. He headed into the school.
Mikey found himself migrating toward a different crowd at the high school. The Tech squad. Once, and probably still at some schools, this consisted of people that might be called geeks. But at his school, the tech squad was considered a clique by itself. They were an exclusive group, with a tendency to wear black. A leather jacket seemed like a uniform to them. Many of them chain-smoked, despite the fact teenagers weren't supposed to be able to buy cigarettes.
Armed with passes to get out of class to set up stage lighting for school programs and other technical projects, and led by an equally strange teacher, they were a distinct group within the school, often called the Techies.
