~Rival Enemies~ Michael x Noah

~26~ "Published audio."

Michael POV:
Well, another day of school. Can't wait to see what drama will happen today. As normal, I got ready at 5:30AM and went downstairs to go get a fruit or something.

I changed surprisingly fast, so I decided to just make myself a small breakfast since the walk to school was only about five minutes away. I made myself chocolate pancakes, I usually made myself chocolate blueberry pancakes, but we were all out of blueberries. So just chocolate would do I guess.

I finished making them about seven minutes later, so I had a bit of time left. A few moments later, Evan came downstairs rubbing his eyes. "Evan? What are you doing awake?" "I woke up and I didn't feel like going back to sleep." I checked my watch and realized I would be late if I continued eating.

"Evan, do you wanna eat my pancakes?" He looked at my plate, and saw I had only eaten one. I made two, thinking I could eat them. "Ooh, can I?" He asked. "Sure buddy! I'm gonna be late if I don't hurry, so i'll see you later okay?" I smiled. "Okay, bye Mikey have a good day at school!" I giggled.

"Thank you Evan, you too." I pat his head before walking out the front door and getting to school.

After getting to school...

I didn't realize I took a while getting here, or maybe it's because I got distracted by something. But whatever, I was still on time. As soon as I walked through the double doors, everyone in the hall stared at me.

A few didn't, they carried with their conversations and didn't care. But almost everyone in the hall that knew me for my popularity was staring at me. I don't know why, it gave me the creeps. I got to my locker and saw that many people had their phones out, not that it wasn't normal but it was just more people than usual.

I saw Simon, Fredrick, and Mark staring at a phone by the lockers. "Guys?" I asked. They quickly looked up at me and pulled me into a classroom. "Michael what the fuck? Why would you say that! It'll ruin your reputation!" I raised my eyebrow. "What? What are you talking about?" "The video!"

I was still very confused. "What..? What video?" "This one!" Simon pulled the phone away from Mark and put it in my face, playing it. I listened closely, and it was my voice. It was mine, but I don't remember saying any of these things. But, I also heard Oliver's voice.

"So Mike, I wanted to ask you. Y'know how people know that you and Noah had sex?" "Uh, yeah of course!" "Did you enjoy it?" "Fuck yeah I did, he's pretty good at it." "Oh wow, so you did?" "Duh. That was very fucking good. He'd call me pet names and shit." "Damn, you really love Noah. I thought you guys were rivals?" "Eh, I just used him for sex. Honestly, i'd use anyone for sex. I don't care if I break their feelings afterwards, telling them I just used them for sex and I didn't actually love them." "That's cool." "And hilarious."

I stared at the audio with wide eyes. "W-what.." I snatched the phone away and replayed the audio multiple times. I could feel Simon, Fred and Mark giving each other worried looks.

"A..and.. and everyone saw this..?" I asked worriedly, my eyes watering. "Yeah.. Somebody showed a teacher this too.." "Come on dude why would you say that." I shivered and almost collapsed. The rest of my school days until collage would be fucking hell.

My reputation was fucking ruined. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what I could do. I ran. I ran out of the classroom. "Michael wait-!" I heard one of my friends yell. I kept running. I ran out of the school and all the way back home.

You can call me dramatic, but my whole reputation was ruined because of a fake fucking audio. I'd get bullied, physically and mentally, cursed at, harassed. I ran all the way back home. I didn't care if my parents scolded me, I needed to be away from school for as long as possible.

I went inside with the spare key I had and ignored the worried looks on my family's face. I'm sure I saw everyone here, minus my father. I ran all the way to my room and slammed the door shut, locking it. I slid down onto the floor and curled up into a hall, silently crying to myself in my knees.

A few minutes passed and I heard a knock on my door. "Mikey sweetie? What happened? Why are you back from school already?" I heard my mother voice. "I don't wanna talk about it." I mumbled loud and clearly enough for her to be able to hear, still not bringing my face up.

"Do you want to talk about it later?" She asked once again with her sweet voice. She was really the only person I could talk to about it, but I didn't want to right now because I would just burst into tears before even explaining. I stayed silent for a few seconds before responding.

"..later." I mumbled again, still practically crying. I could just feel her sad face on the other side of the door. I heard footsteps walk away and I just stared at the floor, being unable to process what happened today. I cried for a long time. I don't know how long because I lost count, but I know it was for a while.

Suddenly I heard a knock on my door again. "Honey? Someone uh.. someone's here to see you.." "Tell them to go away. I don't want to talk to anyone mom." "I think it's someone you'll want to talk to.." I raised my head and was hesitant at first, but then I thought that maybe I would want to talk to them.

I sighed and stood up and unlocked my door, revealing myself. I could tell mom was very upset, but she didn't say a word. "Come on hun." She whispered and walked toward the living room. I followed without saying a word and keeping my head down.

She stopped when we got to the front door, and I saw someone standing there. I looked up, and saw someone I thought I wouldn't see in my house again. It was Noah. My eyes widened lightly from the shock, thought I couldn't much because they felt heavy from the crying.

There was silence before mom spoke again. "I'll leave you two alone." And her footsteps faded away into the kitchen. We stared at each other, without saying a word. He walked towards me, and for a second I thought he would hit me and call me weak.

I thought he would call me disgusting for the fake audio. But no. He came closer to me, and pulled me into a hug. I suddenly felt a feeling that I couldn't express, a glow in my eyes. I hadn't felt a hug in a long time. I stared off into the distance of the room, being unable to move of the sudden action.

Noah pulled away and moved behind me, tugging my wrist and making me follow him. We walked in the area to my room, I slightly smiled to myself that he still remembered which one was my room, even though I was still upset and embarrassed of the situation of the fake audio.

We went inside my room and he closed the door. I looked away from him as the silence grew heavier. "Listen, I know the audio was fake." My hope grew stronger, but then I remembered his words from a while ago. When he had pulled me in the classroom, he said that Oliver and Stephanie were making a fake audio.

"That day in the classroom- You told me that-" "I know." I felt horrible for not believing him, I definitely should've. "I'm sorry I didn't believe you.." I muttered. "It's alright. The important thing is that you're okay, because you are right?" I stayed silent and so did he.

I don't know what the real response was. Physically I was, but mentally. Ehh. I felt my eyes growing heavy again. I wanted to cry, I needed to. But I didn't want to feel weak or get embarrassed since Noah was here.

He walked over to me and pulled my in a hug. But it felt.. warmer. "You can trust me now." I almost believed that, but I didn't fully. "How can I be so sure. How do I know you aren't just going to betray me like you did a few years ago?"

I felt my eyes grow tears as I pulled away from the hug to look at him. For the first time in a very long time, he looked at me with soft eyes. The same eyes he looked at me every day with when we were younger.

It was a soft and sweet look with a calm smile, I feel as if I could get lost in his eyes. The tears I had in my face rolled down my cheek and I pulled back in the hug with him as I cried onto his chest.

"Shh.. it's okay.." He rubbed my hair to calm me down, it always used to when I was younger and it still does. "It's alright, you're safe." I felt safe in his arms, warm.

I didn't want to leave his grasp, though I knew it would be weird if I didn't. So I pulled away. "I have an idea on what to do as a way of revenge to Oliver and Stephanie." He smirked, in a way of asking me for my opinion. I wiped my face and smiled. "I wanna hear it."

1662 words! Aww, they made up<3 What's Noah's plan I wonder.. 🤨