Boys will be Boys and Girls will be Pandas - Turning Red Fanfic

Chapter 1

So feelings were hard to make out...

That's what he thought when they came. That's what he felt.

Honestly, Tyler didn't know how to feel with this weird situation. The girl he hated, the girl he teased... well, for some reason she was on his mind.

And not just because she was half red panda.

Sorry, sorry – not really half 'panda', but close enough when she transformed into one.

These days Mei Mei was able to keep the beast under control. But that's just because she hadn't felt love yet.

Y'know? The kind where there is mushy lip kissing and holding of greasy hands.

Okay, Tyler was thinking about this all wrong.

See, the thing was... HE had never been in love either. And how could a young teen tell if it was really love love. And not just stupid infatuation.

To put it blankly... he was seeing girls these days in a new light. Because all around him girls were blossoming into women. But no girl took the crowd for most awkward puberty than Chinese Canadian Mei Mei.

"Mei Mei..." He drooled half asleep in Math class. He couldn't pay attention to the board and the equations that had been written on it. He was too much in a sleepy daze – that probably was the reason why his scores often suffered. But he had another reason now too.

That stupid red-headed girl with the most annoying face ever – well, it was planted all over his mind.

"Mr. Tyler."

He jumped open, awake – her image disappearing quickly from his head in replacement with the angry look of the math teacher. He gave a small goofy smile and the man continued.

"Tell me why you think it's alright to sleep in my class?"

"Er...?" He nearly drooled out and sat up properly, paying attention finally to what was happening around him, "I was just daydreaming..."

Some girls who sat away from him only giggled at his words but the teacher glared at him very frustrated.

"And what was it you were daydreaming about?"

"A girl?" Someone howled and Tyler struck up into a more straighter tense position.

"NO." He said immediately and then another boy cooed in.

"No, A BOY!"

"Ooooo!"

"WHAT?!" Tyler yelped, becoming quickly embarrassed. See, he had a secret. And no, it wasn't that he liked boys. It was because... he was a 'shudder' Four Town fan.

He just liked their music! But whenever people found out he was into their beat, they immediately thought he was into their... 'looks'.

"Never not on my mind!" The whole class started to chant and he lay his head on his desk, covering his ears with his hands, "Oh My! Oh My!"

The school bell rang then just that moment and the Math teacher said to the students, his voice grating and annoyed.

"Alright, enough. Get to your next class."

Tyler swept his books quickly into his bag and flung it around his back expertly as he rushed out of the class and into the hall.

It was at around break that he met up with his posse... urgh, again, this is where people got the wrong idea of him.

His posse... they were girls. And he, in fact, was not. And if a bunch of girls have just one guy friend, it is immediately assumed that one guy friend is... well, 'gay'.