No End

Charles

Decided to add the drawing I did of my characters for the manga I'm working on based on this story (it's just for fun I'm not planning on publishing obviously). It's a kind of old drawing but I hope you guys like it ^-^

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The big beast looked down on me and laughed. Fear instantly struck as I realized who it was. "When did I ever say that? I love picking on my favorite nerd!" Charles was just like any other bully: big, muscular and mean, and of course his last name was Smalls. Charles Smalls, the demon in my nightmares. Of course he wasn't the only bully in my life, just the main one, the one that is always there for you when you need a good kick in the ass while you're already down. "Who're you? An' why're you with this faggot?" He was talking to Brendan. Brendan didn't look scared. In fact, he looked mad.

He stood up and looked Charles in the eyes, "who are you calling a faggot? And if you say 'Chad' you WILL regret it." Where's popcorn when you need it? I watched as they glared at each other. It didn't even occur to me at the time that Brendan was defending me.

"What're you gonna do 'bout it? I can knock your lights out in a second! Don' go cryin' to your mama when I do either!"

As Charles threatened Brendan, Brendan just stood there in silent rage. Suddenly, he took a swing at Charles and his fist went straight into Charles' stomach. The three other people on the bus watched in awe, including myself.

Charles bent in pain while looking at Brendan in astonished anger. "Why you son of a bitch! I'll kill you!" He took a swing for Brendan's face but Brendan ducked and kneed him in the balls. Charles fell to the ground holding his nut sack, weird word.

Brendan crouched down and looked at Charles with a smirk on his face. "Didn't I warn you that you would regret it?"

"Mother...fucker! Fuck... You!"

"Sorry but I don't like broken dicks." He then looked at me and whispered something to Charles that I couldn't hear. "You got that?" He asked Charles who nodded angrily. Brendan looked at me again smiling, then back at Charles. "Good."

Brendan sat back down next to me. I had completely forgotten how awkward it had been just several minutes ago and gave Brendan a huge hug, I like hugs 20% of the time so this is a rare thing for me to do. I thanked him and kissed him on the cheek. "Wait. What??" I thought to myself after realizing what just happened. I removed my arms from around him. "What did I just do? Why did I do that? Was I just in the moment? I've never done that! What just happened?" I was freaking out and I think so much that I was starting to say my thoughts out loud, everyone around us looked at me strangely. "I hope they didn't see me kiss him, but it was just on the cheek so it shouldn't have been too bad right? But he's a boy. No forget that, he's my brother! But no one here knows he's my brother. But they also don't know I'm gay... Please tell me they didn't see."

I looked over at Brendan for a second, he was bright red and speechless.

The bus stopped. People came in. We drove off. Stop. People. Drive. The bus slowly filled by ones and twos.

I was so preoccupied by worry and overflowing thoughts that I didn't even notice the person in the seat in front of me had been staring at me until...

"Hey!"