"Isn't our new teacher hot?" A 17-year old Angelo spoke to his new friend. Chris glared at him and continued reading his book, they were currently in their Junior year and had a new teacher for their english class. "Well?" Angelo repeated and poked Chris's face. "Leave me alone" Chris growled out and dug into his book more. "Aw Chrissy! Don't be like that!" Angelo pouted and was about to mess with him more before hearing a voice. "You two are awfully noisy" Angelo jumped hearing the deep voice and turned around to find his new teacher staring back at him. "M-Mr. H-Haylel! M-my sincerest apologies" Angelo straightened up and Chris looked up from his book. "It's all his fault" Chris nudged towards Angelo. Mr.Haylel laughed.
"Please, Call me Lucifer. Yes I know, Name of the Devil." He rubbed his forehead and smiled. Angelo smiled back. "Welll I think it's hot!" Chris made a disgusted noise, covered up by a fake cough, and felt disgusted that his "friend" just flirted with the teacher. Angelo smiled up at Lucifer, who just smiled back, "Thank you. I don't get that a lot" Immediately Chris tuned them out as he continued through his book, he didn't want to hear anything.
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The moment Chris entered the classroom, he noticed something was off, it's been a full week now, today was Monday, a fresh start, a fresh day. Mr.Haylel, who Chris refuses to call Lucifer, has been more... chipper lately and Angelo's been more distracted. Of course he still bothers Chris on a day to day basis, but it's less and it always ends with him zoning out and thinking about something, maybe someone. Chris sighed and slammed his book shut, causing Angelo to jump. "What's wrong?" Chris asked as he looked at Angelo. He stared at him a bit stunned before answering, "What? Nothing! Why? Has something been said about me?" He asked a little bit worried. That sent an alarm bell through Chris's head. "No? You seem... not yourself for awhile and I'm getting worried" That made Angelo smile. "Chris?! The Christopher?! Worried?? About little ol me?!" Angelo laughed causing Chris to huff and regret asking anything about him.
Angelo stopped and stared in front of him. Chris raised an eyebrow and waved a hand in front of him. "Angie, seriously. What's going on?" Angelo chuckled at the nickname before feeling tears fall from his eyes. "I slept with him Chris" Chris's eyes widened and he fell silent. "I-I slept with him, m-more then once y-y'know? He was just... he was just sooo nice to me! At first it wasn't even a thing, I had a crush on him like all stupid teenagers do! But then he started whispering things to me, saying nice things about me and my talents. I-I fell for it all" Chris was still silent as Angelo continued, "H-he invited me over to stay at his place for awhile, so I did and did you know he has kids? They're beautiful, they're adorable kids. They were so small and delicate. I fell in love with his kids, I- he- he asked me if I wanted to stay with him!" Chris shook his head. "What?!" He interrupted, making Angelo jump a bit. "Y-yeah" Angelo said. "We had so much fun together so... he asked me if I wanted to live with him"
Chris blinked. He could not believe what he was hearing. "Angie, are you being blackmailed?" He abruptly got up. "He can't do this to you Angelo, he-" Angelo shushed him and pulled him back down in his seat. "No!" He harshly whispered. "You don't understand, I-I want to go with him" Chris's eyes widened again. "You can't be serious" he replied. "Angie, that dude is in his 30's, you are only 17, you just told me he has two kids!!" He bit out the last part harshly, he could not believe the boy in front of him, his "friend" that he got to know over the school semester, the one that he always said he hated, but genuinely liked, was throwing his life away for a man he met in a span of a week. "I have nothing in my life" Angelo continued. "I don't have my parents, I don't have any siblings and fuck, I don't have any friends" He looked at Chris with tears in his eyes. "You wouldn't even accept my friend request, yet here I am. Spilling my guts to you" he bit back a sob. "I'm going with him, not because he's forcing me, but because I finally have a chance for a better life"
Chris didn't have an answer, he didn't have a reply for anything. For the first time in his life, He was speechless. "Ang-" he tried saying, but was interrupted by the bell. Angelo saw students filing in, it was already the next class, "listen... I'm sorry for... annoying you. Okay?" He grabbed his books and bag before leaving. Chris watched him walk away before grabbing his stuff and leaving himself, he wanted to say something, he wanted to respond, but he couldn't think of anything. "You can't just... drop this all on me and expect me to give you an answer" he told nobody, but himself.
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The next day, Chris never saw Angelo or Lucifer ever again. He sat in the back of the room, thinking and replaying everything Angelo said, what if he responded to his friend request? What if he told him he did accept him as a friend, but just didn't want to admit that he liked him? He sighed as he kept going through scenarios in his head, but he had a nagging feeling that all would just end up being the same. Chris couldn't focus anymore, he had to take a break from school and focus on himself and he did. He took a break, came back and graduated from highschool. He got into a decent College and studied to become a marine biologist.
And he did.
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