Unforgiven Mistakes

Names and Introductions

(PJ'S POV)

This was it. Today was the day. The day my life finally starts. My first day of high school.

I wasn't sure which I was feeling more; nervous or excited. But I knew it was going to be an interesting year. It always was with me around.

Mum pulled up in front of the school. The same shit school I'd gone to since year 3.

I got out of the car ignoring mum's lectures about safe sex and how to prevent rape. What did she think this was? A stripper bar?

I walked into school doing what I do best - avoiding human contact. Then I saw him. The one person everyone avoided. That boy was dangerous.

Maybe that entranced me, maybe I was just stupid. In any case, I still approached him that day two years ago. That was the day the bullying started. It was relentless and harsh, just like the boy himself.

You wouldn't dare to say that to his face. No-one dared to voice his name above a whisper. It hadn't been spoken in years, maybe.

Until the new kid started school here. Dan Howell, they say his name is. Most people just know him as the boy who dared to say it, the boy who said 'Phil Lester'.

"Hello, hello, Earth to PJ. Anyone there?" Louise grinned

"Huh" I said intelligently, as she giggled at my confusion.

"Sorry, what?" I corrected myself.

"Did you hear anything I just said?" she sighed, I thought before slowly shaking my head and gazing back into space.

I was confused, Chris and Phil hadn't approached me at all today. Maybe this year would be a better year, maybe they were sick of bullying me. I mean, it had been 2 years.

I could see Louise's mouth forming some kind of gibberish so I just nonchalantly nodded my head. Suddenly, she burst out laugh and my blurred vision, sharpened. I started at her, waiting for an explanation but she wasn't nearly done laughing her ass off at me.

"You, you, you" she attempted before bursting into another fit of giggles.

I waited.....and waited....and waited. Until finally, Louise had composed herself enough to spit the words out

"You just confessed to having a crush on Chris frickin' Kendall" she burst out laughing once again.

I gave her a hard look, because he was coming this way and I could see in his eyes that he wasn't messing around

"Wait, you don't do you?" she gasped, suddenly serious

"What?" I diverted my attention back to her

"Have a crush on him" she repeated herself.

I didn't had time to tell her to shut up but I knew even if I had, it would be too late. He was already standing behind her, smirk on his face. Louise suddenly realised and threw her hand over her mouth in shock-horror.

"Well, well, who do we have here" Phil mocked, bowing his head slightly, "Fairy Princess and Gay Boy".

His friends snickered and I suddenly felt angry. I wasn't gay but even if I were, why would it matter?

I stood up, finally ready to give Phil Lester a taste of his own medicine but I was pushed down by a hand. I looked up and saw the one and only Dan Howell looming above me.

"I know all about you, Phil Lester. I thought by now you would know not to insult people when you're exactly the same. It's called hypocrisy." He leered stepping towards Phil.