|| green and blue • || rinney.•

5 * : "bruce."

★:• chapter 5

tw : bullying , slurs

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bruce was sitting at a lunch table with his "friends". he wasn't having the best day today, it officially marked a week since bruce moved from his hometown. things have changed so much ever since, he joined a new baseball team which he guessed was nice. although he knew he would rather stay with his old baseball team.

with finney. he missed his friends, a lot. he just wished his mom wouldn't of forced him to move because of her stupid job. bruce thought it was ridiculous, he could've stayed in his old house. his moms job would only be an hour away. which he thought wouldn't be too far, but his mother didn't want to deal with dropping bruce off everyday and having to drive an hour out. bruce always told her that vance would pick him up everyday, but bruce's mom didn't care. she didn't want bruce to be around vance anyway.

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as bruce stared at his lunch, lost in thought; the other boys shared looks with eachother, "so you gonna eat that or what?" one of them snarled. bruce, shocked, looked up in confusion; "..what?" he mumbled. he never even liked hanging out with this group, but he was forced to. or else they would release his secret to the entire school. "why dont you just talk to us? stop being a fucking loser and thinking about your faggot boyfriend." as soon as they said 'boyfriend' he knew they were talking about vance. "ive told you guys a million fucking times. hes not my boyfriend?" bruce defended himself, knowing deep down how embarrassing it was when they found out he liked him.

a couple days before, he was drawing vance in his sketch book, but the group of boys saw him and started to assume things immediately. bruce tries to forget about that day but its so hard to, especially when he texts vance or calls him almost everyday after school, or when he sees little things that remind him of vance. like guitars, jean jackets and chains.

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one of the boys chuckled, "right, like you havent been doing this 'lost in thought' bullshit everyday since we caught you."
bruce looked down, he just wanted to stop being forced to hangout with them. but he didn't want to go through bullying like he did back at his old school, he cant take any risks of showing his feelings. at all.

and its going to continue like this for months and months, until he gets to go visit his friends back home during winter break; but thats pretty far from now.

and he doesnt know what will change during that time, hes scared.

really scared.

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ROBIN ARELLANO.

it was the last class of the day, and after every interaction with finney he had that day; he was confusing his self over and over. as he was lost in his own thoughts, he wasn't paying attention. the usual. the class went by pretty quickly though; during that time though he would glance over at finney every once in a while. it seemed like he was always paying attention to the teacher and the work, how does he do that?

the bell rings and robin gets up, grabbing his binders and his supply. he looked up, meeting eyes with finney from afar,

robin smiled slightly. hoping finney wouldn't see, he quickly dropped the smile and walked out of the classroom.