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𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘖𝘯𝘦 - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦.

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Chapter One - The Apple Tree...

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Finney sat under the apple tree, his knees holding up his book, which was Fairy Tale by Stephen King, which just so happened to be one of his favourite books made by the horror author.

He was often there alone as none wanted to be his friend and he knew why, everyone thought he was a fag, and they didn't want to fuck up their good reputations, so why bother trying to make friends at this point?

It wasn't that big of a deal to him anyways as he enjoyed the quiet he got when he sat under that apple tree.

Strangely he liked the feeling of being alone, he had once had a friend, Robin Arellano, but things were different now, Robin hated his guts and he wasn't sure what he had done for Robin to hate but, oh well, shit happens I guess?

Finney hummed as he flipped through the pages, enjoying the smell of a new book, or the pages of a new book as when you first get the book out you aren't going to smell anything until you get into the true pages.

This was his happy place.

But on that fall day, one thing would slowly start to change as the sound of leaves crushing under a foot made their way over to him, and When Finney looked up from his book and saw Vance Hopper, the school's toughest kid standing in front of him and then sitting down in front of him, he was truly shocked.

"What book is that?" Vance asked as he looked at the page within the book.

"Oh! Uhm, Fairy Tale! By Stephen King!" Finney stammered as he looked down at the book in his hands. He was nervous as he wasn't used to talking to people that often, he only really talked to Gwen, his sister.

"Cool, what's it about?" The bleach blond boy asked as he looked over at the page Finney was opened to.

And then Finney went on to explain the plot of the story until he was interrupted by the bell and the two had to go their ways and off to their classes, which they didn't have together.

Finney sat in his literacy class, which was a class he enjoyed a lot, but it wasn't his number one, art would always take the cake for best class.

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Class ended and he headed for his next class, which was one of the only ones he did have with Vance and all of Vance's friends, gym as the class.

Finney didn't necessarily like p.e, but he took it anyways.

Finney had gym with Vance, so, now, he guess that it couldn't be too bad.

Vance had put Finney on his team for volleyball, which was one of the sports that Finney was good at.

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Finney was heading out of the gym, planning to go hide out in the library to eat his lunch.

Vance stopped him.

"Hey, Finn do you want to eat with me and some of my friends?" Vance asked, Finney was confused.

"Why would you want to hang out with me? Everyone says I'm a fag and that would ruin your reputation..." Finney whispered.

"I don't care." Vance simply said as he dragged Finney over to his table, Finney was introduced to Bruce Yamada, Griffin Stagg, and Billy Showalter, and re-introduced to Robin Arellano, Finney felt so out of place.

He had his book with him and chose to read his book instead of making a fool out of himself trying to befriend Vance's friends, he felt safe in his book.

Finney did look up from the pages a few times, looking at the boys around him, how could they seem so happy together, then there was Finney Blake, a fag, a nerd, someone that didn't deserve to have friends let alone something good happening to him.

"Finn, are you okay? You seem pretty into the book more than our questions," Bruce asked, Finney, looked up and closed his book and blushed.

"Sorry... Sorry, I didn't hear you..." Finney whispered as he looked at Bruce and then around the table, his anxiety suddenly kicking up.

"How old are you? You look so young!" Griffin exclaimed, Finney, flushed once again, not used to the praise, let alone people trying to be friends with him.

"I'm nineteen, I just have a good skincare routine." Finney smiled, and he silently thanked Gwen for all her skincare stuff for when he started to go that awkward phase when his face was nothing but acne, pimples, and blackheads.

"Do you like Stephen King? What's your favourite book?" Bruce asked, seemingly eager to know if Finney liked the horror author.

"I do like Stephen King, and my favourite book at the moment is Fairy Tale." Finney grinned as Bruce smiled.

"I love Hearts In Atlantis." Bruce laughed, Finney suddenly felt lightly at home within this new group of people, it was nice not having to talk to Gwen or his hand to cope with his loneliness.

"Do you like dogs?" Billy asked, Finney thought about that one.

"I do but I think I like cats more, I had a kitten once..." Finney's voice fell flat as he thought about what happened to that kitten he found on the side of the road one night when he was about 12.

More questions and answers, peaceful conversation, Finney was starting to like it and when he headed back to his dorm, which had been assigned a while ago, but Finney was almost never there, he unlocked the door and walked in seeing Vance laying on the couch.

Finney felt flushed, this whole time his roommate was Vance Hopper, god seemed to favour his sister so much more.

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Finney sat in his room, relaxing until Vance came into his room.

"So, Bruce is holding a party and he wanted to know if you wanted to come with me as my plus 1? It's fine if you don't want to come with me." Vance asked, Finney thought for a moment, he had never really been to a party and it might be a fun experience to have.

"Sure, sure, I'll come, I don't mind." Finney smiled, and Vance smiled back.

"Great! I'll be waiting for you in the living room, get yourself ready." Vance said with a wink but Finney didn't notice the wink, too in thought about the fact this was going to be his first party.

Only god knew how this could end...

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A/N - This took forever, I started this in 2022 and now it's 2023, so yeah! I hope you like it?

Words - 1073.