Somebody like you (boyxboy)

14. I Don't Wanna See You with Her

Charlie

"Hey, Trev –" The room was empty. "What...?" I pushed a button on my phone and groaned loudly. It was 10.37; I'd slept through my first two and a half hours of the school day. I dressed in a hurry and got my bag. The halls were empty so I sprinted down them, taking the stairs three at a time. I knocked on the door to the Maths classroom and waited outside impatiently.

"Mr. Nichols! Fancy seeing you here! I'm honoured by your presence, please come inside!" the teacher said sarcastically. I glared at him and went to sit down by Trevor, until I noticed that my usual spot was taken by his girlfriend. Of course. "Charlie Nichols, come up to the board dear boy, and show us all how to solve this equation!" the teacher said with unusual enthusiasm. I snorted, went up to the board and solved the problem. The teacher glared at me. Too bad for him that I'd read ahead in the book.

When the bell finally sounded, everyone rushed out of the classroom, as usual, and I fought my way towards Trevor.

"Why didn't you wake me up?" I grabbed his shoulder and turned him around so he faced me.

"Why should I?"

"Well, for one you were the reason I overslept, keeping me up all night talking to that girlfriend of yours on the phone. Do you know when I fell asleep? At three. Three, Trevor!"

"I didn't talk to her until three."

"But you talked loud enough and long enough for me to wake up completely. I couldn't fall asleep no matter how much I tried."

"And I should care because...?" He rose his eyebrows expectantly, but I was too angry to come up with anything to say. He walked away from me.

After another hour of class – which Trevor luckily wasn't in, though Raymond was there to ignore me – I went outside, going the opposite direction of the canteen, where everyone else were headed. I wasn't hungry and had nobody to sit with anyway. It was just like old times again. Wonderful.

At least no one else were there to disturb me, but it had started to drizzle, and I hadn't bothered with a jacket.

I walked around for longer than I expected, thinking about Nancy and everything that came with, and suddenly I heard the bell ring up at the school, signalling five minutes till class.

I took my time back to school and was ten minutes late. I caught myself in looking to Trevor for a reaction but he didn't so much as lift his eyes.

I was desperate to get back to the room and get some sleep, but it didn't go quite as planned when I entered the room.

"God – Trevor, seriously?!"

"Oh, bugger! I'm so sorry!" the girl squealed and pressed her naked chest closer to Trevor so I wouldn't be able to see anything. Trevor was bare-chested too, and smiling, lying on the bed with the buttons of his trousers undone, putting his grey underwear on display. I clenched my jaws and turned around.

"Don't worry about him, dear, he doesn't care about anything. Could you give us some privacy, please?"

"Twat," I muttered under my breath and put my bag down on my bed, careful not to look at them, before picking up a book and leaving in a hurry.

I went to the school's library, where a couple of sofas were conveniently sitting in a far-off corner. It turned out the book wasn't that interesting, and I was soon sound asleep.

***

I woke with a start as the phone in my pocket started buzzing.

"Hello?"

"It's eleven o'clock and adults are off their rocker searching for my twin brother."

"Leave it, Raymond."

"Then get back to your dorm. Immediately."

"What's your problem?" I asked as I groaned and pulled myself up, making for the door.

"Damn it, Charlie! I know which date it is!"

"Good for you. Now send someone to open this door for me, I'm locked in."

"I know what happened last year, Charlie!"

"To be fair that wasn't entirely my fault. Now, send someone to open this bloody door, or I swear I'll find something to hang myself with."

"Charlie!" Raymond yelled.

"Oh relax, it would only be mostly your fault and we both know you'd barely notice my absence."

"Where are you, Charlie? Don't do anything, we're coming."

"The library. Hurry up." Raymond hung up and was outside the door with the headmaster within a minute.

"You bastard!" he said when he saw me.

"Come on, Ray, you know I'm not suicidal."

"Mr. Nichols, what have you been doing here all this time?" the headmaster asked.

"Sleeping." I stalked away from them nonchalantly, and was soon back in my own room, happy to see that Trevor was now alone on his bed, not accompanied by some half-naked girl.

I got to bed, but wasn't the least bit tired as I'd just slept for a good three hours, and my stomach was grumbling and twisting with hunger and I couldn't focus on anything else.