Karl is a shy high school boy that's good looking but has no friends, and Nick is a popular, regular high schooler, but when they get signed up to do a school project together, Nick starts catching feels but can't tell Karl them because of his abusi...
I think the pov's will mostly be from nick, I just needed to show what was happening with karl last chapter, also italics will be like thoughts.
possible TW's: swearing (there's probably swearing in all chapters)
-Nick POV-
I was driving back to school when I remembered what happened yesterday, there was some kid in the alleyway behind my house getting beat up, I went up to him and asked if he was okay, he mumbled something and then ran off.
that was so weird I thought to myself as I pulled up to the school and looked around the parking lot for a spot.
I parked and then quickly walked into the school noticing I only had about 2 minutes to get to my class. I past other people who said hi to me and I waved back, I went to my locker and got all my stuff and caught up with my friends, Clay, Darryl, and George. We all had first period science together so we walked together and made small talk.
I walked into the class and sat down in the back of the class, I pretended not to notice all the girls that were staring at me, it made me uncomfortable, I knew they didn't mean it in a bad way but it still made me feel awkward.
I looked around the class and saw no one was paying attention, everyone was on their phone or passing notes so I just pulled out my phone and scrolled through twitter, liking tweets. I looked up and saw the teacher had something on the board so I put my phone away and payed attention.
what they were talking about was along the lines of "month long group project." If I was going to have to do this hopefully I would at least get paired with one of my friends.
after about 30 minutes the teacher started calling off our groups, we were going to be working in groups of two's.
"Clay and Aya,
Zak and Darryl,
Joseph and Brian,
George and Chris,
Kiki and Ren,
Karl and Nick,"
She called out a few more names that I didn't listen to, I was trying to figure out who Karl was. At the end of class I was just about to get up when this handsome wait handsome? let's rephrase, good looking boy came up to my desk, he has on a green shirt with a yellow collar and baggy cuffed jeans, I looked up at his face and he was a very pale white, he had green blue eyes, one looked bruised, like he got in a fight, and light brown fluffy hair. I was intimidated.
"uh, hi." he said to me looking into my mocha eyes.
"hi?"
"I'm karl, we're working together." he said, his eyes looking bored. "I was thinking we could go to my house, my parents aren't there and my sisters at a friends house."
I wrote down my number really quickly and said, "sure here's my number, I'll come over at like 5."
"great." he deadpanned and then walked away quickly, I walked the same way as him but far behind him. He moved around carefully, trying not to touch people and dodging other people. It wasn't the same for me, everyone looked at me and said hi, or tried to talk to me.
I made my way to the next class and for some reason kept thinking about.. Karl. It was so weird, I couldn't stop thinking about him.
I made it through all my classes and then went back to my house, I was lucky my dad wasn't home yet, he was out drinking already.
I was looking at my phone when I got a text messages, it was from a unknown number,
hi it's karl we are doing the science stuff together, here's my address.(insert address ig)
okay thanks I texted back and then continued looking at my phone, it was 4:50 so I decided to get in my car and find his house.
5 minutes later I was at his house, it was a big gray modern house that had big black windows and neatly cut grass in the front, it looked to be about 2-3 stories high and super rich. I parked at the end of the street and walked up the long driveway, when I got to the top I went to the door and knocked. A few seconds later Karl came to the door looking like he just woke up.
"oh, hey." He said motioning me to come in. I stepped inside and looked around the house, it was quiet and all the walls were white, they had a big wood modern kitchen and a living room that had accents of blue gold and black.
"My rooms up here." He said walking up the light wood stairs in his socked feet. We walked up two flights of stairs until we got to his room, which was really the size of my house.
"great." I said sitting at his desk. He sat on his bed and asked what we should do for the project.
we worked on our project for a little while and when I was about to leave I said to him, "hey man, you should come to my friends party." he looked at me with his nose scrunched. "what do you have anything else to do? I won't let you drink that much... unless?"
he looked at his feet more a moment shyly and then said "fine I'll go, text me the address." he pushed his fluffy hair out of his eyes and looked back at me.
