King of the revolution (boyxboyxboy)

(18) Desperation keeps me going

"About that offer..."

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It was seven days later, in the middle of the night, when it all came to place.

Dion was terrified, once again huddled up inside his blankets and looking around the tight space anxiously. His heart was racing and his hands were shaking, wishing for the moment to just be over. He was so tried of this, so tired of feeling scared.

⚠️ Contains spoiler from "mess with me, mess with you" aka book 1 ⚠️

After spending the Saturday together with Allan and Jake, Dion learned a lot more about them. They talked about their past life at Lake view high, about all the adventures and all the romance that they went through. Jake was near tears when he mentioned their first fight. He described how Allan dragged him out of the cafeteria, looking angry and upset. Allan yelled at him about the homophobic things he allowed his friends to do to Allan and his friends, both of them being from different friend groups. Finally Jake cut off Allan and told him to leave him alone, saying mean things that left a crack in the blond boy's heart.

Allan comforted Jake by telling Dion another story, the day they made up. Allan had gotten into a fight between a few homophobes and ended up in the nurses office. Jake had apparently bursted in without warning and wanted to tell Allan about an important thing, even though they were still fighting. Allan managed to corner him and convince Jake to kiss him, both of them making up afterwards. Dion was hiding his blushing cheeks after hearing the romantic story.

They were an amazing couple, and Dion was a little jealous. He also wanted what they had, but he wasn't allowed to date because of his fathers many rules. He too wanted to experience such adventures as Allan and Jake had, especially after they told him about their defeat at blood row high.

Allan explained that blood row high was his old highschool before transferring to Lake view high. Blood row high was basically a fighting ground, a vicious and bloody place where people fought every day. Their king was Dorian, a dark haired big fighter like Jake. Dorian was selfish and dangerous, and he made sure that Blood row highs fighting rules were kept in place. Thanks to those bloody rules, all teachers had fled and all the students fought for their lives and honor every day.

Jake explained that during the same time as Dorian was king of blood row high, he was king of Lake view high. One day he ended up fighting Dorian at a football game, and since he was both stronger and smarter, he won. Since Dorian was defeated he couldn't be king anymore according to the rules, and a new king had to be chosen through "blood week". Allan said that blood week was a full week of everyone fighting everyone until there was only one person left who couldn't be defeated. Evelyn was the best candidate for king, as she promised to change the rules and make the school normal again. But Dorian didn't want to let go of his position, planning to fight and win over Evelyn at the last day of blood week.

In the end Evelyn, Jake, Allan and the rest of their new friendgroup managed to trick Dorian into fighting Jake instead of Evelyn, so that Evelyn became king and peace was finally restored to the school.

End of spoiler

So Evelyn decided that it wasn't enough. She wanted to do more to help other people, and so she started the organization. Dion was amazed by the story, his mouth hanging open for the first time since childhood. He felt like he was both missing out and on the wrong path. The thought had been bothering him for days, a whole week in fact. Now it was Saturday again, exactly 1:34 at night, and Dion was haunted by both those thoughts and his constant nightmares.