guy in a chiffon skirt《brallon》

Chapter 21

No one ever went to the old middle school near Gaffeney mill. It was deserted; no one had gone there for years. It had been closed down in the early nineties, leaving it abandoned.

No one went there, until they did. Maybe it was because there was no where else to go in a small town like Gaffeney, where Brendon grew up. Some teenager decided one day to break in, and ever since then, it's been the 'hang out place' for the teens who couldn't quite fit in with the football team and the cheerleaders.

That's where Brendon spent a lot of time during his early teenage years. He was friends with Zack Hall after all, and Zack was one of the most notorious bisexual punks in town. 'Abandoned school' sounded like heaven to the black-haired kid, and that meant that it sounded like heaven to Brendon, as well.

Brendon was only fifteen, but Zack was older, only by a few years. But a few years might as well have been a few decades, because in high school? Age is everything. Brendon was considered 'cool', though. Zack brought him into the school where the town's collection of black-wearing, hair-dying teens hung out, and blunts and bottles were graciously passed to Brendon on a regular basis.

That where it started, really. Brendon got hooked on the drugs and alcohol at fifteen years old. He went to the old school almost every day with Zack; they were greeted happily by Jack and Alex and many more. A whole community of rejected kids who had nothing better to do than sit in a dusty old building and get drunk and high, and do stupid shit.

Brendon learned how to skateboard, although he wasn't very good. One of the older guys, Mark, (who supplied them with most of their alcohol) was a pro, and everyone in the group pretty much executively decided that if you couldn't at least balance on a board, then you were not worthy.

So Brendon learned. He stole a skateboard from a couple houses down, because his parents would never but him one, and he learned to ride it in the parking lot of the old school.

While the group spent most of their time skating, smoking, or drinking; they also spent a fair amount of time doing other drugs. Extremely illegal drugs. Not just weed, no. Mark and a couple other older guys brought anything they could get their hands on: cocaine, heroine, acid, xanax, etc...

Brendon tried everything, although he didn't particularly like anything other than weed and alcohol.

Brendon was blissfully unaware of how these drugs were aquired. Most of them were, except for Alex. Alex was the one who did most of the 'dirty work'. Alex was the one with the criminal record, Alex was the one wanted by the cops in the next state over. But none of them minded, usually they were too high to care.

When Brendon was sixteen, he kissed a guy for the first time. He'd known he was gay since he turned thirteen, but he'd never acted on it until Jack
was on the other end of a Corona during spin the bottle. Jack was hot, so there was no hesitation as Brendon leaned across the circle and kissed the other boy. Later that day, Jack and Brendon decided they'd experiment a little more, and Brendon ended up giving his first blowjob that day as well.

Everything was completely okay, until Brendon's parents found out about all of this.

Abandoned schools? Older kids? Drugs and alcohol? Kissing guys?

The possibility of one of their children being involved in anything having to do with these things was enough to make their Mormon blood boil. Brendon was put on restriction, but he didn't obey it. He was a delinquent, after all, and delinquents didn't obey their parents.

"Why can't you be like your brother?"

Which one? The one who's the quarterback and has a cute cheerleader girlfriend? Or the one who makes all A's and is about to graduate with a 5.0?