𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬

Chapter Two.

     

     THE STUDENTS ALL run into the quad, where Anthony was standing in front of everyone, "my dick causes nothing but trouble. Makes you do stupid shit. Makes girls hate me." He says as the students laugh and the others that were in the gym arrive to the scene, all standing behind the crowd.

"Can't say anything without being called creep." He says then he pulled down his pants. "Anthony Vaughn!" Miss Woods shouted. "My dick is a curse, so I'm gonna get rid of it." He raised a pair of safety scissors. "Somebody get him down from there, please." Principal Woodsy tries to get through the crowd. "Oh, no! Miss, he's got a weapon!" Darren shouted. "He's not really gonna chop his dick off." Stevie gestured to the Vaughn boy.

"Oh, I am! I totally am!" Ant says sassily back to her as she just scrunched up her face in annoyance. He then reaches into his pants with the scissors as everyone chanted for him to chop it off, then Timothy Voss tackled the boy to the ground, making them all gasp in shock and put their hands over their mouths.

Later in SLTs class, the students all sit in a circle, facing Jojo. "Okay, peeps. Welcome to SLT class. Thought we could start off with something gentle." She says to the students all holding clipboards with paper on them. "You'll notice a collection of art materials in front of you." She gestured, "so pick whatever medium you like." She tells the students who all then rush up to the table full of art supplies.

Romeo doesn't move, he figures he can just share with Missy who he's sitting with, yet again. "We're meant to be learning about condoms and blue waffle disease." Spider says as he walks up to the table. "Why are we doing art?" He asks. "Don't look at it as art. Look at the canvas as a way of expressing how you feel. You can choose whatever color speaks to you." She tells the students and Spider grabs the cup full of grey coloured pencil crayon.

"Miss, Spider's gone with mental illness grey." Missy says, smiling at her joke and Spider fakes a gasp. "Are you flirting with me?" He asks the girl who turns to him. "No, I'm just hot and talking." She says and then returned back to her seat, holding out some of the pencils that she had chosen to Romeo who takes one, making Spider roll his eyes and go take his seat. "This is so fucking cringe."

Romeo glanced over at the boy discreetly, watching him for a moment as Jojo crossed her arms. "How would you like to express how you're feeling, Spider?" Their teacher asked and Romeo looks down quickly, starting to draw on his little canvas.

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe chuck something? Punch something? Like--like why is this a better way of expressing myself than simply telling you that this class sucks arse." Spider tells the woman. "Because art doesn't involve hurting people." She answers him. "Voss is right. This kind of bullshit is exactly why Dusty had to leave the school and Ant had a menty-B." He says and Sasha looks over.

"Yeah, the little trio of fuckboys is gone. You're irrelevant now." She says and Spider looks at her. "Men exist. Dicks exist. XY chromosomes exist. It's so easy to blame men, isn't it? But what are you actually doing to help fix it, hmm? Like, how is this crayon gonna fix it? How is this crayon gonna fix me?" Spider goes on as Romeo just stared at him.

"Oh, uh-oh. Spider's gone and literally pokémorphed into peak incel." Darren mockingly says and Spider gets up. "That's it. I'm done." He says angrily. "I am walking out of this class once and for all, and I'm doing it as a tribute to Anthony Vaughn." He kisses his two fingers and raised them to the ceiling. "Oh, I'm sorry, did he die?" Darren asked as Amerie just laughs. "Did he bleed out?" They add.

"All of you dudes in here," Spider looks around, "if you're actually men..." He looks at Darren and Amerie gasps, "oh, hell no." She says as Spider sends one final look to Romeo who's just been watching with a small glare on his face. "Get up! Walk out with me." He said. "If you leave--" Jojo begins, walking to stand in the way. "What are you gonna do? Go on. Touch me. Fuck SLTs." He tells Jojo before beginning to repeat it into a chant with the other boys, walking out of the classroom. Romeo and Malakai are the only two boys that stay.

That night at the party in the bunkers, Stevie was drinking from a bottle and walking around the party, talking to everyone while Romeo just stood with Enya who was nursing a bottle of beer, looking around worriedly. "Stevie's a party animal. She loves to get wasted at these things." Romeo informs his sister who just glanced at him. "So you're saying she gets shit faced all the time?" She asked him.

"Basically." He shrugs, now taking a swing from his beer. "Great." Enya murmured, looking away as Romeo nudged her. "Hey, don't worry about her. Stevie can take care of herself, she knows what she's doing." He tells her and she just shook the now empty bottle. "I'm gonna go grab another beer." She walks away and he just looks away, finding Missy in the crowd who's with Sasha and mingling with the partygoers. Right. That's what he's here for.

To mingle and get people's votes. Stupid school captain and the election stuff. He signed up for it because he thought no one else would, but then Sasha also signed up to run. So it was just Sasha versus him. He walks around as well, talking to other people to tell them about his campaign and his policies. But everytime he brings it up, they have this bored out look on their dumb faces.

He gives up, stopping near where Spider is, drinking from a bag of alcohol. He stayed watching when Amerie walks up to him, holding a dead bird in her hands which made Spencer White scream and it's probably the most emotion that Romeo's seen come from him. He slowly begins walking away. How did that not diminish his attraction to Spider?

He sighs, approaching Enya, "I'm hopeless." He says quietly and she looks at him. "Clearly. Hey, can you tell Stevie I went home already? I'm getting bored." She said as she now pushed herself off the wall. "But she's gonna be upset--" "she's your problem now. I didn't think she was gonna ditch me." Enya says, continuing to walk away and Romeo sighs.

He continued to mingle for a while, talking to people about his campaign, when he just couldn't anymore and tracked down Stevie, just to find her talking Missy's ear off, even holding onto the shorter's shoulder. "Okay, Stevie, I think you had enough." Romeo grabs her by her shoulders and gave Missy an apologetic look who just smiles up at him.

"Where's Enya?" Stevie turns around to look at him and he sighs. "She already went home." He tells her and she just pouted. "Can we go to your place then? I totally don't only wanna go just to see her." She says and he just leads her away from Missy, waving at the girl who just stood there, watching the two. "Uh, it's better you go home, alright, buddy?" He says.

At her place, he got her safely in bad, he even had taken off her boots and took off her jacket so she can sleep comfortably. "Hey, Ro-ro?" She says quietly, looking up at him. "I'm sorry I do this all the time..." She said and he just stared at her. "Don't apologize." He says quietly and she just lets out a small whine. "But I am. I'm so sorry, Ro. Please forgive me." She cried and he leans over, kissing her head. "Yeah, I forgive you. Please don't cry." He whispers and she grabs onto his hand gently.

"Will you stay until I fall sleep?" She asked and he nods. "Of course. Always, Steves." He clutched her hand in both of his and stayed there, by her bed until she fell asleep. He grabbed a glass full of water from the kitchen, and set it down with some ibuprofen on her bedside table. He looks at her one more time, seeing the little twitches her face does in her sleep and he sighs. He genuinely thought that she was getting better, especially after her and Enya got together. But it seemed like it was neither worse nor better.

 

 

authors note
.....for the plot. ok? trust me. let me cook

+ i finished the entirety of part 2. like literally just finished prewriting the last chapter today and i'm legit so sad. BUT so excited for everyone to read part 2, esp the last chapter <3