Lockwood Academy Rivals

Chapter Fourteen

• Evan •

My eyebrows shoot up and I can feel my eyes widen in shock. "You are?"

Christian's face is clear as he sits down on the bed and turns his face to the tv. "Yes I am. Now are we going to watch a movie?"

    I just sit there quietly, staring at him with my mouth agape. How can he tell me something like that so calmly? And then act like he didn't just drop a bombshell?

    "Dude... Are you kidding? Because if you don't tell me that you are, I won't have any choice but to believe that you're really... gay." I say, waiting for him to tell me he's joking or something.

Even though I wouldn't think a guy like Christian is gay, I can't just say 'no, you're not'. You can't tell someone what their sexuality is or isn't. That's rude, even if he is joking. He'll have to tell me himself.

He sighs and turns to face me, expressionless. "Not kidding. I like dick, not vagina."

I cringe slightly at the use of the word 'vagina'. I like girls but that word just kind of grosses me out, to be honest. I think Christian takes my cringe the wrong way because the expression that then covers his face is a combination of anger and... sadness? I think? It makes me wonder if Christian has told someone else before who didn't take it well.

"If you have a problem with it, then you can leave." He states calmly, but there's an underlying threat in his voice.

"I don't have a problem with it, I'm not a homophobic asshole!" I tell him, feeling slightly offended that he might think so lowly of me. I shouldn't feel that way though, because I know how it is. Not everyone is accepting and some people can be real dicks about it.

    Christian's face loses some of the anger but he still looks wary. "You don't?"

    I don't know why I did what I did next. I could blame it on the fact that I wanted to prove I wasn't a homophobe, but there might have been more to it. I don't want to think about that, though. Because I only like girls and I've only ever liked girls.

    After Christian's words, I didn't even take a moment to think before I acted. I leaned forward, grabbed the back of his neck, and pulled him into a kiss.  Our lips clashed together and only touched for a couple of seconds before I pulled away.

"I'm not homophobic." I say calmly, although my heart is pounding and my lips are tingling. It was hardly even a kiss, my lips shouldn't be tingling and I shouldn't want to do that again.

Christian's eyes are wide as he blinks a couple of times and his cheeks have a small tint of pink on them as he turns to me. I can't say anything about the blush though, because I can feel the warmth on my own cheeks.

"What-" Christian pauses and clears his throat before starting again, "What was that?"

"That was me proving that I don't care if you're gay." I answer and then turn towards the tv. "We gonna watch this now?"

It takes a moment before Christian responds with a quiet "Yeah". He presses a button to turn the movie on and we wait silently as it loads up.

I focus on the movie and drown out thoughts about the kiss. I really shouldn't have done that. Christian probably thinks I'm stupid or something and I really don't like the feeling that came with the kiss.