Not Us, Not Ever

14. Goodbye Forever.

        After school dismissed, Preston, Peyton, Riley, and I waited in the lounge waiting for Mrs. Emily to pick us up. After a couple minutes, we were approached by the regular suspects; Hunter, Lily, and Jacob. Evan was with them at another table, but stayed where he was while they walked over. Why waste energy coming over here to mess with us? We were just sitting here not hurting anybody..

        "Preston. Peyton.. Queers," said Lily, but she was wrong. She looked over to Peyton when she said Preston and looked over to Preston when she said Peyton.. In other words, she got the names wrong.

        "Hello, princesses," I said. Hunter gripped my hair and whipped my head back. I winced as I felt a couple cracks in my neck as if cracking my knuckles.

        "Who are you calling a princess?" He asked, menacingly.

        "Well, you, of course and Jakey over there," I referred to Jacob, "And Lily pad."

        Riley spoke through his teeth, "Cut it out, Oliver.."

        She glared at me and Jacob pulled her in by her waist, "First off I'm no 'princess'. I'm a man. Don't call me 'Jakey'. Second off, only I can call Lily 'princess'. Understand?"

        "What's the threat? He's a faggot anyway," Lily cooed and kissed his cheek.

        "You're repulsive and revolting," said Peyton to Lily and Jacob.

        Jacob gripped his hair and mirrored Hunter... except he brought out a Swiss army knife to his throat. Riley, who was sitting quietly with his eyes to his lap, looked and saw Peyton's predicament. "Peyton!" He called and was getting up until Hunter held one to my neck as well. I heard the *click* of it opening. The most distasteful thing about it was that we weren't the only ones in the lounge. Other kids were here and watching as if they were watching a really good movie. A couple of staff members were walking by as well, totally ignoring the matter. So this is the price of being different, huh? "Don't move," he sarcastically smiled to Riley.

        I looked over to Preston, who was totally expressionless and watching her brother... What? Jacob looked down at him, "What'd you say?"

        Peyton spoke louder and enunciated every word, "You are repulsive and revolting!" Now is not that time to pull an "Oliver", Peyton! "The only reason you have Lily is because Oliver set you up. You pay him back by ridiculing him and Riley just because his sexual preference. That's just the lowest of the low. Even though you pushed him around and bullied him, he saw that you loved Lily. He didn't let his personal feelings of you stop his friend from being happy. And Lily, did you hear that? I said Oliver wanted you to be happy, but yet here you are acting like.. Excuse my French.. a bitch. And as for Riley, he's been nothing but kind to all of you. Are you just mad that he got your first love, Lily? And you Hunter. You wouldn't be on the team if these two hadn't helped you learn how to play. You were mad at me earlier for saying that. Were you mad because I was right? And as for my sister and I, we support them because, like we've said before, we don't care about their preference, just their personality." Please stop talking, Peyton. Don't die. I heard another *click* of the knife. "Thanks, now could you let go of my friend?"

        Hunter let go of my hair and I picked my head back up, sore in the back of my neck. I rubbed it while applying pressure to ease the pain. Peyton looked like what just happened never occurred. Riley called me amazing, but these two are extraordinarily fearless. Hunter began walking away without a word. The couple followed after him.

        "Are you crazy?!" I yelled at Peyton.

        "What?" He questioned.

        "Have you ever heard the expression, 'You should be nice to a guy with a gun'?!"