See You Again

Chapter 1

First Day

"your gonna be late, and I will be too" said Max as he rushed to get his little sister, Melody,  ready for school. Melody, was going to stay at her best friend Kim's  house while he was at college, and she would come back with him for the summer. "wait! maxie!" she yelled, running out of Kim's house. "before you go." she whispered. "i hope you meet some boys" she teased. "yeah yeah, I love you too. bye" Max said, getting into his car. he waved once more before getting into his car. he drove for about an hour listening to songs like '505 by Arctic Monkeys' and 'All I Need by Khai Dreams' on repeat. it was a 45 minute drive to Shipmen, so he decided to apply for a dorm, and it got accepted.

he got out of his car, and stared at the school before walking in. it was huge. he was told to wait until the bell rang, then go to the Headmaster's office. he stood for a bit, just watching everyone in little groups in front of classes, and walking into a hallway with a big sign saying 'DORMS'. 'bzzt' 'bzzt'. he checked his phone, it was a text from Melody. 'Max I forgot my lunch at home' she texted. 'sorry melody, ask Kim's mom or dad to go get it for you?' max  replied. 'okay!' she finished. the bell rang as students rushed to their classes, the hallways were packed. max waited for the hallways to clear out, then walked to the Headmaster's office. it was the only place he knew the way to here. he walked in, seeing a tall boy, and a girl looking angry. "your kicked out of this school Dee Dee, I thought you would be better, hence your the oldest person here" the headmaster said, as Dee Dee stormed off. "sorry about that, Max" the headmaster said sincerely.  Max nodded. "this is Dustin Soro, he will be showing you around" The headmaster nodded his head towards the tall boy standiing next to him. Dustin nodded, holding out his hand. "dustin" "max". they shook hands and proceeded to the tour. they started off with all the classrooms that max had, they almost had all of the same classes. almost. then Dustin showed off the Cafeteria, Gymnasium, and other extra rooms. then it was time for the dorms.

"what dorm do you have?" Dustin asked. "uhhhhh, 57?" Max awnsered. "we have the same dorm. follow me" dustin said, leading him to the first one on the second floor. the dorm hallways were huge, chocolate brown walls with small details engraved into them, coffee colored floors and a high roof with lanterns to light up the long halls. they walked in, and Dustin showed him around. "this is my bedroom." dustin pointed at one with a blue door. "and thats yours" pointed at the one beside it. "you can share dorms with people? at my old college you could only share with family, so I was alone" max said. "well now your not alone. plus my girlfriend comes over a lot, maybe you can be friends?" dustin said. "girlfriend?" max asked, forgetting the concept of relationships for a good bit, he was focused partly on the tour and partly on dustin. "yeah, Blair" he replied.

dustin took out his phone and texted someone, after 5 minutes a girl with hazel dyed hair opened the door. "im Blair, you must be Max" she said. "uh, yeah?" Max replied, uncomfortable with the way blair greeted a man she's never met before her boyfriend. "can I talk to you. in private...?" she asked looking at Max. "uhhh" max looked at dustin, who had jealousy in his eyes. "yes. go ahead" Blair said, acting like dustin, almnost im a mocking way. Blair pushed max into his room, but he just walked back over to dustin "cant you say it infront of him?" max asked, uncomfortable with blair already. "no. its fine. you can go talk" dustin awnsered. "you sure?" max looked at dustin, who nodded and gave him the 'okay' to do so. "yeah. I trust her" with those words Blair pushed the door open, waiting for max to come in. max walked in hesitantly, if anything happened, dustin would surely be able to hear it.

blair looked like the type of girl who was popular, but top of all her classes. seems like she had a lot of friends but was only genuine with a couple of them. she sounded like the main girl from every 'coming of age' film targetted towards girls. she acted entitled, almost like she thought she was above god, top of the world. she dressed like a rich girl who used 'daddys' money, which, didn't give max a good impression of her, and combined with the way she pushed him and his uncomfortability, all he wanted was to get out of that room no matter what she said next.

"you look WAY better than Dusty"  Blair said as soon as she got him in with the door shut, and she was blocking the door. "where are you going with this?" Max asked, his brows furrowed because he knew almost exactly where she was going with this "if I break up with my boyfriend, will you go out with me?" she asked. "will I? no! I just got here and I barely know you! and you have a boyfriend" Max said, resisting the urge to defend Dustin more then himself, and he had no idea why. "youre gay then" Blair said, her tone indicating that she was being sarcastic, yet she was fully serious. "what?" max asked, his brows furrowing once again, this time in confusion of the sudden accusation. "the only boys who reject me are gay" Blair said "so you must be gay" she stated, which Max immediately deemed to be false, but who was he to say that out loud to an entitled girl he just met. "maybe I am maybe i'm not. im not answering that" max said. "alright gayboy" she said, walking out. he stayed in. there were much worse things that she could've called him, 'gayboy' was a miniscule attempt to hurt his feelings.

"don't worry, im not cheating on you" blair said upon walking out of the room she was in with max. "I wasn't even--- okay..?" Dustin said as he watched Blair walk out of the dorm. then max walked out of the room, dustin walked toward him, backing him into the wall. he wasn't trying to be scary, he was just curious. "what did she say to you?" he asked, looking down a little bit to meet max's eyes. "I-- she--" max couldn't talk. "well? spit it out!" Dustin said. max took a big breath "she said I looked way better than you-- which isn't true-- I asked her where she was going with that, she asked if she broke up with you would I date her and I said no, and she said I was gay because all the other boys that rejected her turned out to be gay and---" he stopped Max. "and when she came out she said 'I wasn't cheating on you' for no reason" dustin said. he called her right after the realization set in, which was like 5 minutes maximum.  "come back for a minute" he said. "I-i cant" she groaned over the phone. "are you- max she's cheating on me...." dustin said. "n-no im not..! I-" the call ended. "follow me, we're going outside of Blairs dorm" he said. "why?" Max asked. "you'll see when you get there" he replied.  "so, about what Blair said, are you actually gay?" Dustin asked. "umm" max said. "I won't judge you, i'm pan myself" Dustin said. "yeah..." Max said. suddenly he hated the fact that Dustin had a girlfriend, upon being aware that there was a chance that he could be with Dustin. "alright, so here's the plan" dustin whispered. "when you hear a doorknob turn-- you'll hear it their doorknob is REALLY loud-- im gonna kiss you. when she questions us I'll say that I broke up with her" Dustin said. "o-okay..?" max answered. they waited for about twenty minutes hearing clothes shuffling, and barefeet on floor and finally, the doorknob turned.