ꨄ︎ 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 ꨄ︎

|| part 14 ||

⚠️ homopfobic, bullying ⚠️

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// Nick's pov //

Karl sat next to me listening to music. He lay with his head on my shoulder. I looked at him and gently tapped his hand. He looked up and pulled out his earpiece.

"What are you listening?" I asked.
"A song that I've added to my new playlist." He said. "It called, Forever from Lewis Capaldi." He gave me the earpiece and I stuck it in my ear. He started the song again and hugged me.

I held him close to me and leaned my head on his head. He smiled as he took a book from his backpack. He opened it on the page he was sitting on.
'chapter 4, page 67.'

I read with him while listening to the soothing music. The song was out after 3 minutes. Karl took out his phone and turned on the following song.
'1 step forward, 3 steps back form Olivia Rodrigo.'

I kissed his head gently and continued reading the book. "ugh, that's disgusting." I looked to the side and saw a girl talking to her friend and looking at Karl and me with disgust.

"What do you mean? They're just doing their thing, let them." Her friend said as she turned away. "It's disgusting, and against God. My mom says they're going to hell if they keep doing this." She said. I tried to ignore it and turned my head to Karl.

He looked at the girl but ignored it. "Look everyone, Karl and Nick are a couple." She said through the bus. I felt everyone's eyes looking down on me. Some people just looked back and didn't care what we were doing, but others looked at us with disgust or  amazement. "Mia, keep your mouth shut for a moment and come sit here in the front now, this is a warning to everyone." Said Mr. Philza. Karl sat up and ignored the words that were being whispered around him.

"It's not my fault Karl is a dirty, disgusting slut." Mia said before packing her things. "Mia, that's enough. You sit here now without saying anything." Said Mr. Philza.

Karl looked around and saw all the staring faces. Although no one laughed but Mia's friends, he felt ashamed, and had every reason to be.

He didn't want to be in my touch anymore so I respected his choice.
Was he attacked by the words?
Didn't he feel comfortable anymore?
I did not know.

He seemed to be staring hard at his book, I just wanted to give him a hug and say everything would be okay, but I couldn't. Or yes.. I could, I just didn't know if he wanted to.

I laid my head on the window and stared out.

// skip time, 11am //

We were one and a half hour later and Karl hadn't said anything to me yet, I hoped he would at least say something. But no, that didn't happen. We still have to drive an hour and I was tired. We normally got there at 12am so I didn't have time to sleep yet so I took a little nap on the bus.

// Karl's pov //

I looked around and saw almost everyone staring at me I sat up and let go of Nick's touch. I tried to ignore the whisper and the eyes, but it was difficult. I just stared at my book.

Mia walked to the front of the bus and Nick gave me back my earpiece. I didn't say to him, I didn't want to ignore him,
I just didn't want to talk to him either.

He asked if everything was okay and so did Quackity but I just kept staring at my book. After a few questions, they stopped. I sighed and closed my eyes as I leaned my head against the seat.

// Nick's pov, skip time //

It was time, we were there. Everyone got out and waited outside the bus for their bag, or bags in some their case.