Charlie and Nick Oneshots

Eight: Mr Ajayi? No! Mr Nelson.

Trigger warnings: none.

1634 Words.

Charlie:

Another day at Truham. Today is a Thursday in early May. I walk into my classroom and text Nick that I got to school safely and hope that he gets to rugby practice safely. I set up my computer and look at my time table for today: Free in C5 (my classroom), Maths in C5, break, Maths in C5, lunch Music in A2.

Now I think I know what you're thinking. Charlie, what the heck is going on? Well my dear friend. There's not much of a long explanation rather then: I'm a music and maths teacher at Truham and Nick is a professional rugby player.

The bell for form is due to go in about ten minuets. Okay, I have peace and quiet until my form ranging from boys in year seven to boys in year thirteen arrive. I've just sat down when one of my form students in year eight comes in my room. He sist down in his seat and I can hear little sniffles coming from his direction. It's not rare for him to come in early but it is rare for him to be crying while doing so.

"Asher? Are you okay?"

He looks up at me and starts sobbing.

"Oh Asher. It's okay, it's all going to be okay."

"Can I have a hug?" He says through sniffs and sobs.

I open my arms and he falls into them almost immediately. This brings me back to when I was year nine and had just told Mr Ajayi about the bullying I was receiving. Speaking about him though, he's actually still working here and he's the reason I decided I wanted to be a teacher. He always helped me when I was at my lowest points but also helping others with education and I wanted to be like that for other youngsters. Asher stays in my arms for a few minuets while he calms down.

"Do you want to tell me why you're so upset?" I ask softly, not wanting to pry.

"You're - you're gay, right?" He asks.

"Yeah, I am."

"And you outed and bullied pretty badly when you were in year nine?"

"Yeah? How do you know all this?"

"I'm friends with you little brother. Anyway, I think I may be gay too but I don't know."

"Okay. Is there anything I can do to help?"

"Well the process is different for everyone but I'd always shown interest in male characters, I always had crushes on Spiderman and Superman, never Wonder Woman and Supergirl. Every time one of my friends said that he had a girlfriend in primary school I was like 'okay congratulations' but never really cared but at the same time got confused. I always felt like I never fit in because I would never have a primary school girlfriend. Then I went to secondary school and I had my first crush on a boy and I got really scared and I was like 'I can't like him, I need to like a girl' and when I couldn't, I searched up what it meant and took some quizzes. They never really helped actually, they all told me I was confused and I was just sat there like 'No really? I hadn't noticed.'," That got a giggle out of him, "and eventually, after some time it came to me that I was gay. It was a long process but after finding out, I was so happy."

"What year were you in when you found out you were gay?"

"It was in the summer holidays between year eight and nine. I came out to my family and friends in year nine and then yeah, you know the rest."

"Thanks Mr Nelson, it's helped."

"Remember, there is absolutely no pressure to come to terms with your sexuality as soon as you start to get confused."