𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬

Chapter Eighteen.

THAT FOLLOWING WEEK, there he was, Romeo laid in bed with Spider, the brunette had his head on the blond's, the boy's arm around his waist as he's tracing random shapes on the White's chest. "So Eurydice dies on their wedding day, so Orpheus has to descend into the underworld to go find her." He says quietly. "Sick." Spider replies with.

Romeo just smiles. "Does he find her?" The blond asked. "Yeah, but the god of the underworld tells him that, on their way out, he's not allowed to look back at her until they reach the land of the living. But Orpheus looks back and he loses her forever." He says. "Damn. That is, like, fully tragic." Spider says and Romeo chuckles softly. "That's what I thought when Missy first told me." He sighs, leaning up. "Missy, huh?" Spider asked quietly as Romeo turns to look at the blond boy.

"She's my friend." He says, raising his brows before leaning in, connecting their lips gently. Spider kisses back, even leaning his head up from the pillow when Romeo leans away. "Speaking of tragic... what happened to the girl humping the shotgun?" He asked, looking over at the wall to the left side of the bed. "Actually it was an AK-47." Spider corrects him and Romeo turns his head to look at the blond again. "Okay." He just chuckles quietly.

"I liked it. She was hot and a badass." He shrugs before he sat up. "Yeah, she's in the bin." Spider follows his actions, sitting up and their knees touch because of how close Spider sits to Romeo. "Why?" Romeo asked and the blond clicks his tongue, looking away. "I don't know, got sick of looking at her." He answers and the curly haired boy furrows his brows.

"At all of it." He says as Romeo looks around at all of Spider's walls, all empty now. "You can't just take down a few posters and be a different person..." He says as he looks back at the blond who's already staring at him. "Well, I also donated money to charity." He says and the brunette squints his eyes at him.

"Which one?" He asked curiously. "Breast cancer." Spider answers confidently and Romeo kept his eyes narrowed on the boy. "No. No, bowel cancer... I don't... the box in the admin office. You know?" He says as he gestured and Romeo scoffs. "The one where you get a chocolate for a gold coin donation?" He asks, baffled. "Mm." Spider nods.

Romeo just scoffs, shaking his head as Spider reached over. "And I saved you the chocolate." He said as he held up the package. "You realize this is classic white guy shit, right? Doing the bare minimum and expecting a treat from it." He said then reached over, taking the chocolate from the blond boy. "Ooh," he says quietly, taking a small bite before glancing up to see Spider was staring at him.

"Want a bite?" He moves closer, sitting by him and bringing it up to the blond's lips. Spider takes a small nibble from it, before Romeo took back the rest, eating the rest of it while they sat side by side on the bed. "Thank you, by the way." He murmured as Spider just watched him eat the chocolate, smiling.

The next day, Romeo was giving out stickers and buttons with Enya and Stevie's help, when the intercom goes off. "It is election day, Hartley High. In a surprising turn of events, Spencer white of the CUMLORDS party has taken a hit in the polls, and is now neck and neck with Amerie Wadia of the SLT party. With today's debate looming, the main question on everyone's mind is, "who will claim victory?" I'm Zoe Clark. You stay deadly, Hartley High." Romeo instantly turned to Enya and Stevie.

"What the fuck? This means I'm behind like Sasha." He pointed towards where the girl was set up with her custom water bottles. "This is fucked. This is so fucked." He said as he now looked all around. "It'll be okay." Stevie said, grabbing Romeo's arm gently and the boy quickly shook his head.

"I have to focus up for today's debate."

Spider now sits on the desk in front of Miss Obah's, the woman quickly looking up. "Spencer, are you lost?" She asked him. "No. I need some advice." He tells her and she looks at him, taken back. "From me?" She asked. "I respect you, miss." He tells her. "Oh. Yeah, I really felt that when you stormed out of here on the first day." She says sarcastically.

"I don't want to be that guy anymore." He tells her and she instantly looks up, surprised by his words. "I wanna change." He says. "Alright, well, it's easy to say, but it actually requires some meaningful action. Something big. Transformative, even. A tangible rejection of what people think you stand for." She tells the teenage boy now.

"Like..." He trails off. "Like when rockstars go to rehab, find God and make gospel music." She merely explains. "Is that a thing?" He says, looking confused and she laughs. "Oh, yeah, big time." She nodded. "Bob Dylan, Prince, Justin Bieber. Full journey to Jesus." She said as the blond just nodded his head.

"Uh, to be clear, I'm not telling you to go to church. I'm just..." She says. "Yeah, thanks. Yes, I understand that it's an analogy." He nods. "Yes, it is." She says, surprised by his words. "Is this helping?" She now asked the boy. "Yeah. Yeah, it is." He says, smiling.

Later in science class, Spider moves over to the table next to Romeo and Stevie where the two were paying attention to the teacher. "Oi." He says quietly to the two taking notes. "No, Spider, I've never tried vaping with my vagina." Stevie says, not even looking at him. "What? No, that's... Romeo, I just came over to tell you that I'm dropping out of the race." Spider now looked at the curly haired boy.

Romeo glanced up at him and Stevie instantly looked over at Spider, then looked at Romeo to see his reaction. He looks alarmed at first, but his face goes back to being neutral, "bullshit." He merely quips and Spider nods. "I'm serious." He says, staring at Romeo who just furrows his brows. "I've realized your policies are by far the best ones and if I drop out, it gives you a better chance at winning. You'll pass Amerie." He says, shrugging softly.

"I'll get the CUMLORDS to throw their votes." The blond added and Romeo just glanced at Stevie who's squinting her eyes at Spider. "In exchange for?" She asked him. "Nothing." He glanced at her quickly. "Just think it's the right thing to do." He looks at Romeo who's just blankly staring at him. "Well, if you wanna drop out, I'm not gonna argue. Or complain." Romeo simply says, shrugging.

Spider just smiles, glancing away. "You know, you've been so weird lately. Have you had an embolism or are you finally getting laid by a real live girl?" Stevie asked and Spider quickly looked at her, then glanced at Romeo before getting up and moving his stool with him. "Seriously, again with Spider?" Stevie asked later when the two are chilling at a picnic table outside. "Fuck." Romeo whispers quietly, turning his head away.

"What are you talking about?" He asked, crossing his arms as he turns to her. "The guy you've been hooking up with. Enya tells me everything." She said and Romeo just pursed his lips. "What the hell, dude? You said you were done with him! How long has this been going on?" She asked him. "A month, maybe two..." He says quietly, looking down.

"It just started off as sex, like before, but this time, I got to know him." He explains as the girl pretended to vomit. "What? You're seriously in love with him?" She asked, baffled by it. "He's not that bad." He shrugs. "He's the most probbo guy in school." She said, waving her arms all around to exaggerate.

"Most of the shit that he says even he doesn't believe." He defends Spider. "Hmm, yes, the devil's advocate." She says and he rolls his eyes. "He's really trying to change..." He tells the girl who just shakes her head. "At best, he's just woke-fishing you. At worst, he's just gonna humilate you in front of the whole school, because he's so obviously clearly straight--" "he's not like that, Steves." He cuts her off, continuing to defend him.

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" She claps her hands around his face. "Oh, my God! Why do you think I didn't say anything? You were never gonna understand." He exclaims at the girl. "Because no one will. They will fully judge you for it and the fact that you've kept this a secret from me this long means that you know it too. Deep down." She says, then sighed before picking up her backpack and walking away, leaving him alone there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

authors note
next chapter..... 😞

+ sorry i didn't update for 4 days, i was busy enjoying my trip with my family <3