My Name Isn't Liam Anymore

Part 1 - Chapter 1

TWs/CWs: This chapter contains a lot of swearing, along with homophobic language.
Liam Kilroy

Come on Liam, you need to get up soon, I thought as my alarm went for the second time. It was the morning of my first day of Year 10, the one thing I had been dreading for the past few months. I knew what I had to study for, yet I was still unsure if I was prepared for the chaos of my courses. And my classmates. Everyone hated me, except the other outsiders.

"Liam! If you don't come down in five minutes I'll leave without you!" The shouts of my brother snapped me out of my thoughts, as I hopped out of bed and grabbed my uniform. I always went a size up with new clothes like this, so the sleeves of my new blazer reached the end of my thumbs. I didn't mind though; I'd rather be mocked for this than not having a blazer. Once I had everything on, I went to my mirror and applied a thin line of blue eyeliner to my eyelids. "Good enough," I muttered as I stepped back, "damn I look cute today."

"Liam, come on!" My brother shouted up. Shit, I better get down there. I rushed down the stairs at an alarming pace, and grabbed my shoes to slip on. "Ugh, finally you lazy twat," my brother groaned as he turned to the door.

"Don't push me this morning John," I retorted with a harsh glare as we stepped outside. He shook his head as he got into the car, turning the key to let the engine roar and warm up. I hopped in beside him, throwing my bag into the footwell. "I'm glad you're my brother, wouldn't be able to get a ride in this beast if not." He scoffed as I said that, as he reversed off the drive.

Once he parked his car outside school campus,  I slung my bag onto my shoulders and hurried through the school gates. I found the nearest bench and sat down, as I heard the roar of John's car fade as he drove off to work. Now I wait, I thought as I plugged in my earphones and blasted fuqboi by Hey Violet into my ears.

10 minutes later I felt a tap on my shoulder, turning round to find my boyfriend sat on the table. I pulled out my earphones and stopped my music.
"Hey babes," he teased as he slid into the bench next to me, "I've missed you."
I chuckled, "It's only been a week, Ethan."
"I've still missed you," he replied, putting his arm round the back of my head, "and I know that you've missed me." And at that he pulled me into a quick kiss, which filled me with joy and ecstacy. As we pulled out of the kiss I smiled at him before standing up. "I need to get off to class before anyone else, I'll leave you to get to yours," I said as he stepped up after me, "See you at breaktime."
"Bye Liam."

As I walked into my Art Class in first period, I knew I would have to prepare for the onslaught of insults from my classmates, especially His Majesty Stephan Loque. I hated him. Always had, always will. His arrogant smirk as he walks into school, his prideful strut as he walks down corridors, ignoring all the other kids except his stupid friends. Those friends which bullied me, those friends who laughed at anything I did, those friends I constantly wanted to just set on fire.

I was pulled out of my own thoughts when two people walked into the room, heading towards the back row. Why are they here? Why isn't that twat Stephan with them? I thought to myself as they sat down chatting, not bothering to get their class resources out.
"Hey Kilroy," one of them shouted over, "Your boyfriend is a savage." The snark on boyfriend there hurt, but I didn't let it show.
"What the fuck do you mean?" I replied, a hint of concern in my voice, but mostly sass towards those twats.
"You don't know what he did? Unfortunate he didn't tell you," the other replied to me with a laugh, "I guess you'll have to find out from us."
"Just tell me. I can't be bothered waiting for details of what my boyfriend has done."
"He knocked out Stephan, and broke his nose among other things" He said, and by his face I could tell my reaction was visible. As I processed this new information, the others went back to chatting. What the fuck? Did he really do that? I didn't want this news today, I pondered, as the rest of the class filed in from the corridors.

After art I had to walk to the Science Block 2 roads away from the main site, and I did my best to hide my face from others. Everyone in this damn school would know what my boyfriend had done, and I knew they would blame me. Especially with how much hate I put towards Stephan. Having a period free of His Majesty's gang would be nice, but I knew I wouldn't be able to escape the gossip. For once in my relationship I didn't want to be associated with Ethan, because of his own actions. Even if I did love him, he'd done something I didn't want to be part of. Just get through the next lesson, then you can talk to him, I muttered to myself under my breath. I knew it was gonna be a long hour, so I needed to mentally prepare myself to the best of my ability. No matter what though, I would be prepared to fight anyone who got in my way or pissed me off.

Science always lasted a long time, but this time no one would shut up with their questions, making the lesson feel like an investigation and drag on and on. The common joke seemed to be that this was why I was with Ethan. It was partly true, but I didn't want him to ever take it this far with the rivalry between me and the No. 1 Twat in the school. I just wanted him to make me feel safe when he was around, not to make everyone around me scared to mess with me whilst we were together. Luckily there were only 5 minutes left of the lesson, when I would be able to swear at Ethan to my heart's content.

*****
Ethan Wickstar

"He fucking started it! How the fuck am I supposed to react when someone threatens to kill my boyfriend!?" I was shouting, with my ignorant father not caring, "It's not like I can just ignore it!"
"You could at least listen to me first."
Oh god... He's back, i thought as Liam's voice echoed from the doorway. I turned to face him, my cheeks still flushed with rage. "Liam... I'm so sorry..."
"Sorry doesn't mean anything to me. Why? Just why the fuck would you do what you did?" He nearly shouted. This was bad. I ran my hands through my hair as I tried to think of what to say, which just made him get more pissed. Who the hell told him, cus they've told him a lie or two...
"I don't know what I was thinking, ok? I lost it cus of Stephan and his gang of fucktwits," I said to him, which was a true statement. I sighed, then swore and asked him, "Who told you about what I did?"
"The two twats I have to deal with in class, why?"
"What did they tell you?"
"That you and Stephan got into a fight, and you broke his nose. They also said you did it because he called you a fag," he replied with some of the worst snark he could muster.
"You know I can't stand his bullshit. And his petty little friends were lying... He threatened to kill you along with calling me a fag," I retorted, my face trying back into anger, "And you know you'd do the same thing if you were in that situation."
"I WOULDN'T BREAK HIS FUCKING NOSE ETHAN! YOU FUCKING TWAT!" he shouted in my face, before turning and walking out. Well shit... What the fuck was I thinking, I thought as I watched him walk into the town, I need to follow him and get him to come back.
"Ethan, don't follow him. He needs alone time before he sees you again," my father tried to comfort me.
"What do you know? What would you know about my boyfriend? You're not even gay," I snapped before walking out to find Liam.

Author's Notes!
Hi! This is the first chapter of the series, and although it's short I promise that later chapters are gonna be longer. The main reason that this chapter was so short was I have made the committment to get the entire story finished and publishing this was my decision to make that happen. So, I hope that you enjoy this story for as long as I keep posting!
Chapters 2, 3 and 4 should be out within the next 5 weeks, with chapters 5, 6 and 7 coming out a few weeks after.