Not so alone

Chapter 7: Sashi

New pronouns this chapter! Boone's pronouns are Ze/zir now!

Also warning for past Bullying in this chapter. Just skip the huge part that's italicized if you don't want to read it.

Chapter Text

3 days.

It had been 3 days since boone had seen sashi last. When they finally met up again ze didn't expect to see them on set of the play zirself was starring in.

"Sashi?" Ze called out. Sashi turned to see Boone, and she smiled so wide, it was like her head would split if she was not careful.

"Boone!" She ran over and pulled him into an (almost) Bone crushing hug. It felt like it had been forever since she saw zir last.

"Good to see...you...sash" Boone barely breathed out. Sashi set boone down, and began to speak again.

"Its good to see you too! Im sorry I haven't seen you guys lately,I got suspended." She said.

"Oh jeez Im sorry about that." ze said. Sashi put her hand up to stop boone.

"Don't worry about it, it was worth it anyway next time he'll think twice before bullying again. Its not the first time he's done something like that either" Boone flinched as ze heard that. Had sashi found out about what had happened before? Did she rough them up even more? Would there be anyway to get some nachos after the show later?

Hopefully i can get some nachos, or gelato, maybe some pie?" Ze thought to zirself.

"Uh boone?" Sashi waved a hand in front of zir face.

"Oh, um do you know what they've done before?" ze questioned. Sashi stared off to the side.

"Actually, yeah he was bothering me before." Sashi seemed a little self conscious, it must have been bad. Boone laid a hand on her shoulder.

"Did you...wanna talk about it?" Ze asked gently. Sashi looked like she was deep in thought.

"You know what? I do. But not here. I have been assigned to work the lights for the show, lets go up to the catwalk." She finally said. So up the stairs they went, and made their way up onto the catwalk. They sat off to the side away from the lights. Sashi was silent for a little bit, then took a deep breath.

"It was a while ago, apparently someone started a rumour that Im a lesbian and I had like, 3 girlfriends or something." Sashi started.

"Whoa..."

"While part of it is true, its certainly not anyone's business but my own." She passively aggressively uttered. She clenched her hands into fists. "But he thought it was his business and started pestering me about it" She remembered back to the conversation they had during passing time.

Sashi was making her way to her next class when the bully started to tail her.

"Hey, princess! where you going so soon?" He called. Sashi turned to face him, a scowl on her face.

"Do NOT call me that." She spat. He scoffed and got uncomfortably close. Sashi backed away, but he continued to get closer until she was back against the lockers.

"Don't be like that, im only playing!"

"well Im not, so don't call me that." He ignored what she said.

"So rumor has it you're a lesbian. That true, princess?" Sashi was shocked by his words. Her mind raced. She never said anything about it to anyone, how could anybody know that? Did they just start that rumor for fun or do they know the truth?