FOUR PILLARS

Chapter 18: You're On Your Own Kid

Win wakes up with a daze. He feels like a teenage girl falling in love that was typically potrayed in romantic comedies. He feels like kicking and turning and screaming because how full his heart is.

Truthfully, he never thought he will fall in love during high school, even more so with a man. He never opposed the idea of being a queer but it never crossed his mind.

Nevertheless, he is in a good mood and hopefully nothing will ruin it for him.

Except for his own brain. He is never really the type to overthink but this is a new territory that he never crossed before. He never had a crush, never think of someone with this kind of fondness and never even went to a date until yesterday and a surprise date at that!

He's a commoner, hell he may even been poor for the school's standard so it would be unsuitable and illogical for Bright to like him.

He's not blind to Bright's feeling, he's not dumb enough to not understand the glint in the older guy's eyes or the gestures he did but there's a part in his brain that convinces him that this might be a some sort of prank. Or maybe a dream that he will wake up from.

His thoughts continue to race even after he finished washing up. Even when he is eating his breakfast which he received concerned glances from everyone at the table as he did not join their conversation whatsoever.

Before going to school, his mother pulled him into a tight hug which is not particularly weird but it did help him easing some of his worries.

His mother sends him with a smile that he replied with a flying kiss.

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People staring at him is not something new for him, nothing mind-blowing to be the talk of the town. At this point he can recreate the scarlet letter even without having a bright red letter pasted on him.

Is it tiring? Very much.

But today is harsher, everyone gives him the stink eye today and some people even ran into him intentionally. Why did he say they did it intentionally? Because he was ran into repeatedly without a break and when he was picking up his things that was knocked down by the hit, they would sneer at him or gave him mockingly innocent face without apologizing to him.

He ignores them because it's not like they hurt him or anything. He was bigger than most people so all it does not affect him that much.

The first person that successfully knocked him off his feet is ironically enough, Krist, who was running down the hallway in a hurry.

"Win! Gosh, I was searching for you,"

Win who is on his ass, is pulled up by Krist who has an incredulous look etched on his face. Before he can reply, the said man drags him to the closest toilet and lock the door.

He shot the older guy a confused face, "Wait! What are you doing. Krist you like another man Krist. I don't want to lose any of my firsts with you,"  he said sarcastically but also laced with a hint of panic. He trusts Krist but his action just now does not give him a vote of confidence.

"Are you stupid? Hell I may be more of a virgin than you at this point," he replied, "Not the point though! Have you checked your social medias or the news? Are you crazy? I mean you are crazy if you still come to school if you saw what happened,"

"Wait what happened?! Why are we panicking??"

"There's a picture of you and Bright on a date together leaked on the internet. Thankfully the netizens don't know you but they do know Bright so yeah it causes an uproar,"

"You've got to be kidding me,"

The shorter male shoved his phone into Win's face, with his Twitter account on the screen, he can see Bright's name on the trending list.