StarLit / Yaoi

StarLit / Chapter 1

Awkward. Probably the first word that came to my mind after seeing this. My hand brushed against the knob of the door back to my side. After blinking a few times, just to let the thing I'd just found settle in, I bowed in apology for my mistake and quickly turned around.

The younger boy made muffled out calls as the older one prevented him from getting a word in. I sighed with irrigation.

Heres where my problem now lies. I could leave, pretending that I saw nothing and this poor boy will probably get raped. Or, I could turn around and push the rapist off him, you know, do what I can to save this kid. But that meant getting involved, and if there was one thing I learned in life it's that most people try to avoid giving help.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to do anything that results in any effort. I prefer to be apart of the background and fade from all responsibility. If you have any idea what I'm talking about, you'd understand what I was thinking. For some reason, I just wanted to leave. I really, really didn't want to do anything to help him. If I did, it would break my rules of responsibility.

I ended up standing there in the doorway just contemplating this for a good length of time. I didn't want to just pretend I didn't know this was happening, and the boys crying definitely wasn't helping me avoid the problem either. Eventually I could do nothing but turn to face the guy and punch him in the face.

He flew back and hit against the boxes full of various cleaning supplies. I quickly grabbed the younger boys arm and pulled him close to me. He was shaking, trying to hide his crying from me. "Are you okay?" As I said that I felt so out of breath. This entire day has been complete out of character behavior for me. First I get involved, then I punch a student, now I'm talking to some kid I barely know. I was starting to regret leaving the classroom for the first time.

The boy pushed away from me. "Leave me alone!"

I found myself glaring at the boy, insulted that he couldn't even say a "thanks" to me properly. "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing" he grabbed his wrist, forcing himself to stop shaking. "Please just leave me alone"

He was sobbing. It was here that I was offered another opportunity to avoid responsiblity. But his crying got the better of me. The guy I'd just punched started moving so I grabbed the boys arm and pulled him up. First he gave me a nasty look, but ran along side me after he realized his attacker was coming too.

Speaking of which... I wasn't aware I could hit that hard. Guess you really do learn something new everyday.

We kept running until we got to the stairs. He hunched over, holding onto his knees for support. Both of us were panting, me mostly. His eyes gazed at me, every once in a while he'd look behind us to be sure that guy wasn't following. When the coast was clear, he glared at me. "I told you to leave me alone" he hissed.

I was taken back by that. "Right. No apology needed. It's not like I saved you from getting raped or anything"

"I'm not a damsel in distress! I can handle myself"

"But you were crying" I pointed out. "Isn't it better that I did something? Look, your still crying" I reached over to wipe a tear from his cheek. He looked at it with surprise, then slapped my hand away from his face, wiping off the other tears.

"You're a jerk"

I sighed. Suddenly I was very uninterested in staying here and waiting for an apology. I, after all, had an entire lunchtime left to completely blow off and sleep. "Okay. I'll be going now. See ya around?"