I Care About You... (a septiplier fan fic)

•Chapter 4•

We're finally beginning high school. As much as I loved school, high school scared me, it almost scared me as much as social interaction. Seeing how my brother and his friends changed, I thought that's the same way my friends and I would end up. What happened to my brother was he and his friends got into a fight and never spoke to each other again. I didn't want that to happen to me.

Everything through our freshman year went better than I thought it would! High school was great so far. It was all well but of course there are sometimes bullies that everyone must deal with.

At this point I was one of the few openly gay people in the school, it wasn't frowned upon but it also wasn't "okay." There's bound to be that niche that have opposing opinions.

At one point I was getting bullied pretty bad, I was beaten up a few times and it sucked a lot. I got sent to the office a few times regarding the injuries, my family never pressed charges against the students but we did want something to be done.

Nothing ever really was done which is the only thing that truly sucked about the school system. The bullying never did stop, I never did anything about it. Mark found the words when I couldn't.

He did yell at them and threw a blow or two.

"I don't ever want you to feel hurt." This is why I still like him, because he cares about how I feel and would do anything to make me happy. What Mark did stopped the physical bullying but the verbal bullying never did stop. The verbal aspect didn't bother me, I just learned to tune it out and not give them a reaction because that's all they want.

It subsided or maybe I just got really good at ignoring them, either way I don't feel unsafe after those series of events.

The rest of the year went great! I feel as if Mark stopped being unhealthily clingy with Yami, and with that I was getting close to Mark again. We started hanging out more with the group. Ken got a girlfriend; Mary, she was the newest addition to our group. She was a student from Australia, super sweet and always brought cookies and candy for us at lunch.

Through all the drama and occasional mishaps, our group pushed through and stayed together. It was surprising to me and also was reassuring to me, I felt comforted by that thought.

One thing we all noticed was changing was the relationship between Mark and Yami. Yami was becoming more and more corrupted and more and more distant with Mark, but Mark kept denying it. Yami had a secret account — Mark hadn't found it yet — but the rest of the group had. It had pictures of him doing drugs and updates about the "fun" he had with some guys and girls. It was rather obscene and inappropriate to say the least.

I went out to lunch with Mark and I decided I should probably discuss it with him, it was only fair that he knew.

"Hey Mark, so how are you and Yami doing."

"Well, he's been acting oddly strange and secretive. I'm sure it's just him acting weird again." He said sounding unsure of himself.

"Mark, i'm not trying to make decisions for you, don't take this the wrong way, but I think you and Yami should take a break, have some space or something, I don't want you to get hurt."

"No. We've been going strong for 2 years! I can't just throw that away." I see tears begin to fill his eyes and his tan face turning a shade of red at his cheeks.

"Mark, this is just what I didn't want. I didn't want you to be upset! I don't want you to get influenced by him and start doing stupid things. I'm scared for you Mark." the tears began to flow, I could tell that he was still in denial about everything, and I don't think he was going to change that state of mind.

"No. But, Yami is a good person. He wouldn't be doing drugs... Would he?" Just by giving him a look, he could tell I was serious. His fave shifted from denial to betrayal.

"I even have evidence Mark, he's been living a double life and I don't think it's fair to you." I pull up Yami's secret page and hand my phone over to Mark. He began to scroll through, and the farther he got into the page, the more sad and hurt he got.

"I can't believe this. All the time I spent with him, thrown away. He never loved me, he only tried to get into my pants. He was unsuccessful and he pulls this stunt?!" I stare at him for a moment as his tears fell. I pull my chair next to his and start comforting him. He's really hurt by this, I feel hurt myself, and it's not even my relationship.

"Jack, thank you for telling me this. I think I  need to go home and think this all through." He grabbed all of his things and headed home. I watched him leave the food court of the mall, and in that time I try to process all that just happened.

As I walk home, I couldn't help but think the end of their relationship was my fault. I didn't want them to end on a bad note, I just felt that Mark deserved to know the truth. Yami couldn't hide it forever anyway.
I got home and began my homework and studies.

As i finished my Biology, my phone buzzed and lit up. I got a text from Mark.

Mark: hey Jack, just wanted to thank you again for telling me about his account. I broke up with him, and he didn't even care. Can you cone over for a bit? I need someone to talk to and to be with...

Jack: I'll be over is just a bit, one last question on Biology and I'll be over faster than you can say "top o the mornin' to yah!"