2 days later..
I was sitting in the library looking at picture my friends from Finland had sent me, when in strolled Adam. There was some girl pestering him, she kept touching him he looked uncomfortable. I watched as she pushed him against the wall and kissed him straight on the lips and flounced off. He looked disgusted as he licked his lips, he pulled a face and ran out of the library wiping lipstick off as he went. Aw damn he didn't look to happy about that, I threw my books in my bag and went after him. The girl who kissed him was laughing with a load of guys, I overheard them talking as I walked past. "I kissed the gay guy, just for a laugh. His face was priceless" she giggled with her friends as they all laughed. That was out of order I thought, as I walked past them I heard the toilet door bang shut.
I pushed it open it sounded as though someone was throwing up. I lent against the sink as the toilet flushed and the door opened. It was Adam, he was pale he looked shocked as he saw me standing there. "Ah damn how long have you been standing there?" he asked washing his mouth out with water. "Long enough, I heard you throwing up. What's wrong and don't even start the stay away from my crap" I told him crossing my arms. "Fine, you really want to know?" he asked looking at me as he sat on the sink. "Yeah I do actually" I replied sitting next to him. "You will think im weird" he said, "Weird? you're talking to me about weird? dude seriously im Finnish everything about me is weird!" I replied.
He gave me a small smile "fine, but it will sound weird. That girl kissing me made me uncomfortable, don't get me wrong girls are beautiful but I can't handle getting touched by one. That was why I was sick, I have a funny thing with girls it always makes me throw up. Every since I was young I knew I was different, girls crushed on me all the time. At my end of year party a girl kissed me, it was meant to be something nice but I had to leave the party and chuck up" he said. "That's interesting, carry on" I replied. "They guys here don't like me because im different from them. Im different from them because.." he said, he couldn't finish the sentence he looked like he was about to cry. "Because you're gay.." I replied finishing his sentence for him.
He nodded as a single tear rolled down his cheek. I wiped it away, "Adam, why are you crying? Being gay isn't anything to be afraid of. Yeah the whole girl thing is strange but its part of who you are" I told him. He looked up at me "you seem so wise like you know exactly what I feel like" he replied. "I just get this kind of stuff" I replied looking down at the floor. "Ah" he said eventually, I knew he had worked out I was gay. I jumped off the sink, "guess we had better go, we will be late for class. Are you feeling better now?" I asked as he jumped down next to me. "Yeah, thanks Sauli was it?" he said, "Yeah Sauli is right, im glad I could help" I told him as I walked out the door.
This was my last lesson of the day, art. Our assignment is to draw our favourite place, I knew what I was going to draw. I looked round the room briefly as a girl looked at me and smiled, I smiled back to be polite and went back to my drawing. Once I was done I looked down at it as memories or the place I had drawn came flooding back to me. I felt tears prick my eyes as I lent on my hands rubbing them away. The bell rang for end of period as I ran out of the class and headed to my locker. I dumped my books and made my way towards the main entrance, I stood at the bus stop and waited.
I hopped onto the bus and within 10 minutes I was home, I dropped my bag to the floor and called my mum. "Hey Sauli good day at school? Make any friends?" she called as I walked into the front room. "Yeah I did mum, his name is Adam. He's awesome" I said and immediately regretted it. "A guy, you have a friend that's a guy? I thought you met a girl?" she cried. "Mum are you actually kidding me, it doesn't mean I'm gay" I replied. "For god sake Sauli we moved here to get you away from guys!" she shouted. "I didn't even want to move in the first place mum, I had no choice remember you didn't ask me!" I shouted back standing up and walking out the front door. My mum yelled up the path "Sauli Koskinen you get your ass back in this house right now!" I ignored her and carried on walking.
She didn't get me at all, she wanted me to be a lawyer I wanted to draw. She wanted me to date girls, I wanted to date boys. Im stuck at a school where I don't know anyone, the teachers all hated me. I wanted to run, run and jump on a plane and to go home...
