𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬

Chapter Eight.

    

     THE NEXT DAY during SLT class, Romeo wasn't really focused and was staring at the desk until he heard Jojo say something about shame and fantasy, so he quickly raised his hand. "Yes, Romeo?" Jojo looks at him and he lowered his hand slowly.

"What if you don't like what you're feeling?" He asks the woman. "Well, that's normal. Our thoughts and feelings aren't always reflective of who we want to be." Jojo explains and Sasha looks up at Romeo. "Oh, yeah, like sometimes I have sex dreams about Dorothy the Dinosaur." She says and the Castillo boy just furrows his brows. "I'd like to "Romp Bomp A Stomp" that din-ussy." Sasha grins widely.

"Actually that's a great example." Miss Obah pointed at the girl as Darren and Quinni giggle quietly together and Romeo looks over at Jojo. "Plenty of people have kinks that other people might see as icks." Jojo says.

"Okay, well what if something starts as a fantasy, and you know it's wrong, but all you can do is think about it a lot, and then suddenly it becomes something that you wanna do in real life because it--it's almost like it's already happened before," he stammered a bit, looking down, "and then all you can do is think about it, until it's something that I never, ever, ever want to think about again." He goes on before looking up at Jojo. "Oh, my God, don't stop there." Darren says and Romeo looks down. "I get it." Jojo merely began with.

"Brains are weird, and our thoughts can feel really overwhelming. But just because you have a thought about something, doesn't mean you have to act on it." Jojo tells him and Romeo just nods softly. "But also sometimes it's worth exploring why you feel ashamed." She added and he just looked away, at the drawing on his notebook that he'd done.

A spider on a spiderweb. "Enacting a fantasy can be healthy, as long as it's consensual, legal and no one's getting hurt." She says and Romeo just flips over the page, sighing as he set down his pen. Romeo has spent all morning thinking about the dream he had, he never even had one about Spider before, but he did the night before. They were... doing stuff and he woke up with a little problem, and now he won't stop thinking about the dream.

"With a generous boost to his campaign funding, Spencer White is poised to take the lead with Romeo Castillo and Sasha So following close behind with their modest contributions from the Women's Association." As Zoe announced over the intercom, Spider raised his big check further up, covering both girls making Sasha and Amerie push it down.

"Meanwhile Amerie Wadia's SLT Nation party has received a whopping 50 cents, which she found on the ground outside. Word is on the street she spent it on a Red Frog at the canteen." Zoe goes on. "Don't worry, ladies and Romeo. I'll get you a bunch of custom CUMLORD's T-shirts made." Spider tells the three other candidates.

"Smile."

"Everyone gets one. Even the losing teams." Spider says. "So cringe." Amerie says quietly. "I'd rather die in a fire." Romeo whispers. "And now just one with Spi... Spencer." The woman taking their photos says and Romeo rolls his eyes, walking away. He picks up his phone from his bag, seeing a couple of messages from Enya who couldn't make it.

"So..." Spider says, walking over and setting down the big check so Romeo quickly turns around. "When are you gonna deliver on our bet?" The blond says, smugly. "Get fucked." The brunette says, annoyed. "Name a time and place." Spider raised his head and Romeo looks up at him. "In your dreams." He says, rolling his eyes at the taller boy.

"Yeah, I'll see you there." Spider says and Romeo huffs, walking away. He stands by Missy and crossed his arms. "That smug asshole," he whispers and Missy looks at him. "Hmm, not letting him get to you, huh?" She says, squinting her eyes at the boy who looks away, shaking his head. "I'm not." He says.

"Alright, who did it?!"

Everyone arrives to the scene, where the CUMLORDs had literally wrote up their feelings and buried them, now all on display on cut up cardboards. "I gave myself an infection trying to shave my balls." Darren read aloud then looked at the CUMLORDs. "Alright lads, drop them." They say and Ant tries to undo his belt. "Oi, don't actually do it." Spider says.

"My mom found my internet history and now she can't look me in the eye." Harper read another one out loud. "That's gotta be Ant." Darren says. "Oh, deep." Sasha says with a sarcastic tone and both Missy and Romeo laugh. "Alright, come on, 'fess up. Who was it? Who did it?" Spider says, at the front of the pit.

"Betrayed by my dick." Romeo reads another one. "Actual lol." Sasha says, grabbing onto Missy's arm as Spider looks over at the three. "Bet it was you and the SLTs." Spider says. "Oh, come on." Romeo says, furrowing his brows. "No, this is a dog move, even for you." Spider says angrily. "What do you mean even for me?" The Castillo asked, confused.

"You're the ones dumb enough to put your secrets in publicly accessible spots." Missy now says, crossing her arms. "There's no trust left in the world." Ant says, staring at the pit as Spider walks up and kneeled down, picking up something. "Surprise, surprise." He says, turning around. "Look who's responsible." He then shows off the picture frame.

A photo of Amerie, everyone gasping and turning around to look at the girl. "No, no, no, it wasn't me, I swear." The Wadia girl says. "Right, explain this then." Spider gestures at the photo. "Okay, why would I leave a photo of myself doing the crime at the crime scene?" She asked. "So you admit it. You did do the crime." Ant says. "No, you don't understand, okay. We were putting the secrets back. This is Bird Pyscho's work. It has to be."

"It was Pit Cunt. Pit Cunt did it."

Everyone begins chanting it at her, pointing and clapping. "That's it! This is over. Get back to class, please." Ms. Woods shouts as she walks up to the group of students, Mr. Voss and Ms. Obah on either side of her. "Come on, guys." Jojo tells them. "Off you go." Woodsy says. "Back to class. Back to class." Miss Obah ushered them and Spider hands the picture frame over to Principal Woods.

 

  

  

authors note
rowan hate club. he got in the way of my pookies amerie and malakai 👎