He's Just a Skater Boy (boyxboyxboy)

Chapter 85: Gossip Round the Table

"I still don't think I understand." Amir frowned in the middle of taking a large bite from a home packed lunch of fried rice that he was sharing with me in place of the pizza that he had promised last time around before he ran off never to be seen again.

This was, of course, the following day, and although it wasn't lunch time the both of us were hungry by break and impatient.

"He didn't see. Neither of them did, they just stared at me like what's wrong with me and asked me if he just headbutted me and I'm like yeah 'cus I asked him to." I replied, rushing because I didn't want to go over it again.

"Huhh?" He didn't seem to understand as he squinted at me, a spoonful of yellow rice hovering as he was about to eat. "So they don't know?"

I glared at him and stuffed a mouthful of the food down my gullet. "Don't say a word."

"Why would I??" He stared at me like I was crazy. "Why on earth would I be talking to Atlas ever?"

"Don't tell Jacob either!"

He raised an eyebrow and leaned in.

"Why's that now? What's he got to do with anything?"

I stuffed more food into my mouth, giving him a good look as I spoke. "I just don't want him to know." I grumbled.

"Yeah but..."

"Don't!" I insisted, a little panicked.

He gave me a look and my ears burned as I looked away.

"What are you worried about?"

"Nothing..." I groaned, running my hands through my hair.

"You think they'll find out you liked it?" He asked with a playful grin on his face.

"Don't even say that out loud!" I whispered loudly. 

"Huh?" He blinked, then laughed. "Say what? That we kissed? That I stuffed the ballot box? That I swapped out my older sister's lunch box for mine?"

"Don't say anything..." I looked around nervously.

He followed the direction I was looking in and shrugged. "Worried your boyfriend will find out you're dating someone new?" He flashed his eyelashes at me in a way that forced me to kick his leg under the table.

"Ow, bloody hell..." He groused, kicking me back. 

I rolled my eyes. "Just keep your mouth shut, I'm serious..." I grumbled.

"Jees, are you..." He stared at me for a while, considering his words carefully.

I looked down at my food but glanced at him, trying to figure out if he was beginning to suspect anything remotely close to the truth.

"Is it... Are you..."

"What!"

"Homophobic?"

I blinked. "What?" 

"Huh?"

I frowned and leaned over the table to smack him round the back of the head. "Fucking idiot..." I complained.

He laughed looked like he wanted to press further but didn't push it and we eventually lapsed back into comfortable conversation, which was pretty much nothing but him talking about how his little sister squeezed juice out through the straw of the carton into his newest controller and now the buttons were acting sticky.

He tended to ramble about things like that while I dozed off with my eyes open, not that he wasn't talking about something interesting because a lot of the time I wasn't even aware of what he was talking about but when I had things on my mind nothing stopped them from coming to the forefront for me to worry about.