Important secrets
Chapter 3
I couldn’t believe what just happened. I mean, I only met Rian yesterday and we hung out. ONCE. In between every class I watch for him in the halls, I catch his attention a few times drawing a smile from him and a wave or a nod.
I have to ask Jack to set up another time for the three of us to hang out. Or should I? It might be draw suspicion if I get all eager to hang out with them again and it’s just in Jacks nature to want to be social.
Last night I couldn’t take my eyes off of him either, then he’d always look over and look at me weird, I don’t want to be the weird one. Shit. Why the fuck is this being so hard? Why can’t I just be a normal straight guy and have friends that I don’t think about having sex with. That’s an overstatement. Just Jack, but that’s really the most of my friends.
I don’t like a whole lot of the people who are from here so I guess its rare for me to get a good friend. All I can say is I hope that Rian and I can hang out more, from what I get we have similar music tastes. Maybe I should listen to Foo Fighters more often, I think he was wearing one of their T-shirts today.
I stand by my locker packing my backpack to go home when I see him. Just across the hall and about twenty feet down the hall. I guess I never noticed that his locker was so close to mine. He wasn’t on my radar before I guess.
Rian shakes his hair out of his face and looks over at me with a huge grin on his face. He waves over at me and yanks his backpack out of his locker and starts over in my direction. Shit what do I say?
“Hey.” Rian grins widely at me and pats my shoulder,
“Nice hair.” I say quickly not wanting to seem awkward. I feel the blood rush to my cheeks.
“HA. I’m probably going to shave it. Think I’d look good with a buzz-cut?” He laughs.
“It might work.” I smile glad to have my stupid comment played off.
“I was wondering if you thought that you might be able to come over to my house this weekend. I have a drum kit so maybe you, Jack and I could actually play like in a band type of thing setting.” He grins clearly about as excited about this whole band thing as Jack is.
“Can Barakat make it?” I smile,
“I texted him. Said he was going to ask his mom but probably.”
“Cool just text me your address and when I should come over. I have no life and my mom won’t care so.” I smile and shoulder my backpack and start heading to the busses.
“I will! I’m walking so I’ll see you around.” Rian smiles at me and jogs off in the opposite direction to some of his other friends I assume.
“HEY! GAYSKARTH!” I hear the familiar voice of Erik. The same guy who cornered me this morning. He’s huge brawny blocker for our school football team. I duck my head and start to walk to my bus with more haste. I seriously don’t want to deal with this shit.
“Fucking listen to me!” He shouts again. He sounds much closer to me. A huge hand grabs my shoulder and pulls me back, I fall into Erik only to have him shove me forward again so I falls on my knees.
“What do you want?” I mutter quietly,
“Oh! Sorry Alex!” Erik says sarcastically, he pulls me back up to my feet as a teacher walks by. The hall is still filled with people walking out of the building but none of them bother to stop to watch or intervene. I guess this whole scene has become common in this building.
“I was just curious. Are you and that Rick guy together now?” He chuckles angrily.
“His name is Rian.” I spit in his face only earning another shove and a good punch in my gut.
I close my eyes and fall back into the locker behind me closing off from the pain.
I have to ask Jack to set up another time for the three of us to hang out. Or should I? It might be draw suspicion if I get all eager to hang out with them again and it’s just in Jacks nature to want to be social.
Last night I couldn’t take my eyes off of him either, then he’d always look over and look at me weird, I don’t want to be the weird one. Shit. Why the fuck is this being so hard? Why can’t I just be a normal straight guy and have friends that I don’t think about having sex with. That’s an overstatement. Just Jack, but that’s really the most of my friends.
I don’t like a whole lot of the people who are from here so I guess its rare for me to get a good friend. All I can say is I hope that Rian and I can hang out more, from what I get we have similar music tastes. Maybe I should listen to Foo Fighters more often, I think he was wearing one of their T-shirts today.
I stand by my locker packing my backpack to go home when I see him. Just across the hall and about twenty feet down the hall. I guess I never noticed that his locker was so close to mine. He wasn’t on my radar before I guess.
Rian shakes his hair out of his face and looks over at me with a huge grin on his face. He waves over at me and yanks his backpack out of his locker and starts over in my direction. Shit what do I say?
“Hey.” Rian grins widely at me and pats my shoulder,
“Nice hair.” I say quickly not wanting to seem awkward. I feel the blood rush to my cheeks.
“HA. I’m probably going to shave it. Think I’d look good with a buzz-cut?” He laughs.
“It might work.” I smile glad to have my stupid comment played off.
“I was wondering if you thought that you might be able to come over to my house this weekend. I have a drum kit so maybe you, Jack and I could actually play like in a band type of thing setting.” He grins clearly about as excited about this whole band thing as Jack is.
“Can Barakat make it?” I smile,
“I texted him. Said he was going to ask his mom but probably.”
“Cool just text me your address and when I should come over. I have no life and my mom won’t care so.” I smile and shoulder my backpack and start heading to the busses.
“I will! I’m walking so I’ll see you around.” Rian smiles at me and jogs off in the opposite direction to some of his other friends I assume.
“HEY! GAYSKARTH!” I hear the familiar voice of Erik. The same guy who cornered me this morning. He’s huge brawny blocker for our school football team. I duck my head and start to walk to my bus with more haste. I seriously don’t want to deal with this shit.
“Fucking listen to me!” He shouts again. He sounds much closer to me. A huge hand grabs my shoulder and pulls me back, I fall into Erik only to have him shove me forward again so I falls on my knees.
“What do you want?” I mutter quietly,
“Oh! Sorry Alex!” Erik says sarcastically, he pulls me back up to my feet as a teacher walks by. The hall is still filled with people walking out of the building but none of them bother to stop to watch or intervene. I guess this whole scene has become common in this building.
“I was just curious. Are you and that Rick guy together now?” He chuckles angrily.
“His name is Rian.” I spit in his face only earning another shove and a good punch in my gut.
I close my eyes and fall back into the locker behind me closing off from the pain.
Notes
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8/3/13