Breaking Free

Gabe (16)

A/N AND BAILEY THOUGHT I WAS EVIL! Oh and life update on me, I may have accidentally came out to my family, right now they're acting like nothing happened and saying that I'm straight.

Matt was snoring above me, I really needed to talk to him. I stood up and shook him awake, he just snuggled deeper into his pillow.

"Matt, wake up!" I hissed. He groaned but sat up, if looks could kill I'd be dead.

"What the are you thinking waking me up before I had too?!?" He snapped harshly, I visibly flinched at how mad he sounded.

"I want to hang out." I said looking down and playing with my fingers.

"But we have to get ready for school." He said, he sounded like it pained him to say that.

"I-I know, I just thought maybe we could skip today..." I trailed off.

He looked shocked that I suggested that, "You want to skip school?" he sounded amazed.

I weakly nodded, I was so nervous. Did this count as asking him on a date?!? I pushed that thought to the side, we were just friends(A/N I keep wanting to put fren every time I write friend.) "I never thought you would ask me something like that! Of course I will!" My head shot up at his answer, he was grinning ear to ear. He hopped up and went into the bathroom, muttering something about give him five minutes to get ready.

Minutes later he came out with a towel wrapped around his waist, I'd be lying if I said I didn't stare a little. He caught me staring and smirked at me, he waltzed over to his dresser and dropped the towel. I shut my eyes and started blushing, fucking bastard. "You can open your eyes now." He laughed. In opened my eyes, he was in a plain blue shirt, jeans that hung perfectly on his hips and his hair was messy, he didn't even try to style it. He looked amazing, I looked down at my own black jeans and black shirt(A/N the more I write the more I put myself in as Gabe, he is literally me in every way, ask Bailey!) I looked plain in comparison to him.

"Let's go." I stood up, Matt looked excited. "We're going out to breakfast, I'm buying." Matt glared at me after I said that. I laughed and walked out the door. the halls were empty. I walked fast, my back hunched making me seem shorter than what I actually am. Matt easily matched my pace, he was whistling horribly off tune.

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We were currently sat at an old diner eating and talking, "So how are you and Jaxon doing?" I asked even though it hurt just to saw his name. Matt's shoulders tensed up and he looked at me shocked.

"Good." He chocked out, it made me sad hearing that one word but I didn't show it.

"That's great! I'm honestly really happy for you." I smiled at him.

His body relaxed, "Thanks, I'm really happy for you and Haylee too." He grinned at me.

Over the next hour we sat at the diner booth just getting to know each other. We were completely different, he had no sibling and I had Emma, he had several friends and I had none, his favorite color was green mine was black. He liked mostly pop music (bailey: I hate pop music and I love the color black and I like alternative music.) and I liked mostly rock and alternative music, he's athletic and I'm anything but, he's outgoing I'm shy. The list went on, the one thing we had in common was that we are both gay, I didn't tell him that.

We shared stories about our childhood and laughed at how awkward I was. I looked down at my phone, 12 PM, "Hey, let's go. I heard there was a carnival going on." I stood up and put money on the table for the waitress. His eyes lit up at the word carnival he he jumped up.

"Oh my God! I haven't been to a carnival since I was 12!" He was jumping up and down, his eyes were crinkled from smiling and his tongue was poking out a little. I laughed and told him to come on, we walked outside. It was a nice sunny day, my muscles ached from sitting for so long. I stretched to my full height and realized I was a few inches taller than Matt, he noticed that too and looked horrified at the new information. I laughed and stuck my tongue out at him and ran towards the direction of the carnival, I heard him run after me.

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I officially sucked at carnival games, I couldn't even knock down one pin. Matt made me step aside, "I'll show you how it's done." he said confidently. He knocked them all down on his first try.

"That's not fair!" I pouted, he shook his head a little. The man at the booth told him to pick a prize, he pointed out the last stuffed panda. the man handed it to him and told us to have a good rest of the night. "Here, you can have it." Matt told me and handed me the toy.

"Really?!?" I squealed. He nodded looking satisfied with himself, I hugged the the toy to my chest. (Bailey: ooh, how cliché)

We spent the next few hours laughing and just having a good time, we didn't go back to our school until the carnival shut down. That night I slept snuggling with the stuffed animal Matt won for me.

A/N I had this big long paragraph about the shootings that happened but I deleted it, all I'm gonna say is that those people didn't deserve that.