Hey, Jude

Chapter One

Since before I can remember, Ren had always been there. Not in a good way, though. Ren was the devil in disguise. Instead of minding his business, he would go out of his way to bully and torment me. When we were toddlers, I have a faint memory of him dumping his whole plate of food on me. When we were 8, he threw dead mice at me that his cat would bring home to him.

You're probably wondering why I even know the guy, or why I'm around him so often. Well, I can answer that. My parents and his parents have been friends since high school. They always dreamt of having their kids be friends, but that just couldn't happen. Ren was able to threaten me to make me not tell my parents, and now I just don't care enough. So, our parents just think we aren't interested in being friends, when really, we despise each other.

Enough about Ren. My name is Jude, and I'm in a band! Well, I'm starting a band. It's just me and my friend for now. I found out I was gay back in middle school, and I came out publicly, and I got accepted pretty well. I never had any problems with my parents, or my school, other than Ren. He beat me up one day after school, just because I came out.

"This is priceless! Of course your emo ass is gay!" He laughed hysterically as he kicked me again as I was curled up on the floor.

"Ren, stop it!" I yelled, trying to get up.

"Fags like you don't belong here! God, I cannot believe your parents still love you! Are they gay too?" Ren laughed hard as he pulled me up to my feet, just to push me down again.

"Stay out of my way, unless you wanna suck my dick." Ren said, his friends began to laugh as they walked away with him. I was able to get up, sore all over, and I walked to the bus stop.

Anyways, that was last year. I still see Ren all the damn time, and he's just as annoying as ever, but acts amazing when our parents are around. There's nothing more I hate in this world than Ren. I wish he could just leave me alone.

Ren is a slim, 5'9, male manipulator lookin ass. He's kind of got a 2000's older brother aesthetic to him, and has hair like Light Yagami from Death Note, but a bit lighter. He's got this, amazing smile, I must say. Addicting face. Brown eyes. His face is the only good thing about him. That's what makes him popular like he is.

Then there's me. I'm also pretty slim, and I'm 5'7. I have long boring straight black hair. And by long, I mean it reaches down to my waist. He calls me emo but... I'm more of a Goth. Whatever. He can say what he wants. Anyways, I am at his house today because once again, my parents wanted to hang out with his. They were going to be drinking and shoved us in his room since they don't want to "influence" us and they still think we are friends.

He was on his bed as I was just on the other side of the room, on my phone. My friend Karma was texting me, just to make sure I was alright. He's been making me feel good about coming out since him and his boyfriend, Jared, are extremely open. They post each other all the time, aren't shy to love each other in public, it's just nice. Him and I have never hung out outside of school, but he's still pretty cool. He's in a band as well!

I don't know a lot about his boyfriend, I just know that he got kidnapped last year. It got everyone terrified to even go outside at night, including me. He was gone for a month and a half I think. It was crazy. Karma didn't go to school that whole time. I don't think they were dating, but I do remember being surprised about Jared being gay, he never told anyone he was gay. They're cute and all, but enough about them, we will see them more as this story progresses!

Ren was picking on me the whole time. He was saying that he was bored and even tried taking my phone.

"Back the fuck off." I told him.

"Damn! What? You don't wanna be my friend?" He joked.

"Did you forget what you did to me last year!" I said loudly to him.