Carousel: Never Ending Cycle

"I'm sorry, your name is what?"

Mitchell Challets was 13 years old and an 8th grader at a military academy in south Texas... He was the most intelligent 8th grader in the entirety of the school while also being the youngest.

"CHALLETS!" Screamed the Drill Instructor (DI) "Get down to my office now!" Challets immediately speeds to his office to see what's up.

"What is it sir?" Replied Challets while he was catching his breath.

The DI started "Would you like to go to this concert tonight with the school band? After all, you are one of my brightest cadets."

"Of Course! I would love to go to a concert! What kind of music is it?"

The DI shows him a poster of the concert.

"Old 80's pop music, it's gonna be really fun." Adds the DI

"That sounds pretty fun, thanks for offering to let me go to this thing."

"No problem Challets, keep up the good work!"

-Later that day

Challets is waiting on the van to transport him to the convention center where the concert is being held when he meets a boy sitting next to him in the hallway next to his dorm room.

"Hello, my name is Tomate Scotty, what's your IQ?" Said the strange boy.

"I'm sorry, your name is what?"

"I know Tomate is a weird first name... it runs in the family though."

"Oh, anyway my name is Mitchell Challets, nice to meet you 'Scotty'. I haven't done an IQ test before so I wouldn't know."

"Well, that's too bad... My IQ is 147, I'm almost equal to that of Einstein!"

"Um... That's cool, I guess. What grade are you in? Sorry it's just that you look a bit young and you say you have your driving permit. Or so I heard."

"I'm 15 and a freshman, and yeah I have my permit."

Challets laughed in disbelief then challenged him saying "Ok then show me your permit because I do not believe a little guy like you has a permit."

"Gladly, follow me." Challets follows Scotty down to his room when he turns around and asks Challets, "Are you gay?"

"No-" snapped Challets, "a lot of people think I am because of my voice."

"Oh ok you just sound really zesty... Anyway, here is my permit."

"Damn you are 15, I guess you just haven't aged in like 10 years."

"Ok zesty voice kid. You seem cool, let's be friends."

"Alright, hey when do we leave for the concert?"

"No idea when you are going but I'm going with the band in like 10 minutes so I should get going..." Replied Scotty with exhaustion in his voice as if he did not want to go.

"I'm just gonna go wait outside for the bus then, see ya!"

 "Yeah, see ya."

Challets watches as Scotty goes away in the van and he is glad that he has a new friend who seems pretty interesting. He cannot yet know Challet's dark secret; he was gay.

Although he was gay, he was glad that he found a friend that he did not immediately have a crush on, which was rare because he is kinda... desperate. He was friend material though, that's all he was, nothing more than that, and he was going to make sure it was not more than that.

It had felt like ages but the van for Challets was arriving, and he hopped on ready to go to the concert that he had been waiting for by himself and with Scotty for the past hour.