Love Wins (BoyxBoy)

Chpt. 35- Frank Zhang is Not What He Seems (Small Trigger Warning)

~Nico Di Angelo~

I walk through camp borders relieved to finally be back home. As I reach the bottom of the hill, I pull down my sweater sleeves and walk to the infirmary; Will is usually on his lunch break right about now. I look at the ground as I walk; watching as the long, uncut, grass covers the dirty rubber of my worn converse. I notice how the legs of my pants go up half an inch every time my feet leave the ground, and how they slide back down when my feet land. I look closely at the ground, noticing each and every blade of grass; mentally pointing out the brown blades. 

The toe of my scruffed up shoe hits a wooden board; I look up and step up onto the porch of the infirmary. Holding my sleeves with my fingers, I slowly open the old door. I walk to the back of the infirmary to the "break room". I knock on the door with shaky hands, scared of what his reaction will be when he see's me. I hear two voices trying to make the other get the door, then I hear a loud groan and feet shuffling on the wooden floor. The creaky door opens slowly as if whomever is opening it hasn't slept in a while; though not sleeping much isn't rare here. 

"Neeks? I thought you weren't coming back for another two days. Not that I'm complaining." He says, a huge smile spreading on his face.

"I missed you." I say, smiling slightly.

"Awe, I missed you too baby. But what's the real reason you came back so early?"

"Damnit he saw through me." I say under my breath, causing him to chuckle. His soft hand slides into mine, making me blush a little.

"Come on baby, you can tell me anything." He says warmly as he pulls me over to the "break room's" bed. As we sit down, the bed creaks under our weight. I sigh softly and rest my head  on his shoulder.

"It started as a nice visit, up until-"

~Flashback~

I laugh and pick up the card Hazel just put down.

"Seriously Haze? You can't put a Hermes card on top of a Poseidon card, Poseidon is one of the big three and his power level is higher than Hermes by like, fifty."

"Well maybe if you were good at explaining card games I would've known that." She teases, laughing lightly. 

The smile on my face grows with her laughter, but soon flattens when I see Frank climbing up the hill. Hazel notices and turn around.

"Hey Frank! Come play mythomagic with us!" She says, grinning from ear to ear.

"Us?" He looks past Hazel to me. "Hazel," he says in a stern tone "get away from that disgusting fag now."

"Frank!" Hazel yells. "Apologize to my brother! He is not disgusting or a fag."

"Get away from him now before he infects you with his gayness." Frank says, slowly walking towards us; I chuckle. "You think this is funny?"

"Yeah, kinda." 

Big mistake.

Frank walks over, his face red with anger. He pushes Hazel out of the way, and stomps over to me. I quickly stand up and put my hands up in surrender.

"Hey dude, chill. I don't want to fight, how about I just leave and not come back?" I ask nervously.

He stops in front of me, the vein in his forehead popping out. He jaw clenches and he backs up a tiny bit, then swings a hard punch at me. I put my arm up just in time to block it; a terrible pain spreading through my wrist up to my elbow. I wince and back up; Frank takes a step closer.