We Can Be Outcasts Together (Chansoo) [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 3

 When Chanyeol got home, he started on his homework, and finished it with minor difficulty. After that, he decided to briefly check his instagram to see what has gone on in his absence. He opened his phone to receive a notification from the site.

DO_Penguin is following you

Chanyeol then remembered that he had given Kyungsoo his social media at lunch. This must be his account. Chanyeol tapped the notification and went to his following. He then tapped on Kyungsoo's profile and started to look through his posts out of curiosity. He scrolled down to the first one. It was a simple short video of Kyungsoo giving the camera a shy wave, with the description "Hello instagram!" As Chanyeol went through more and more posts, things seemed to get a little less lighthearted. He was eventually met with a post that was posted on the December of last year (not that long ago, as it was only late January now) with the description, "I'm saying goodbye to my old school today. Things got so bad that I had to transfer." So this was when he transferred. Chanyeol had a lot of questions, to say the least. What happened? Where did he transfer from? Chanyeol immediately felt bad for going through the posts. He felt like he was snooping, and going through private moments of Kyungsoo's life. But he reassured himself with the thought, that if he put them online, people are supposed to see them.

Chanyeol's train of thought was cut off by another notification. It was the little instagram "ding!" sound that signaled that someone had DMed him. Chanyeol clicked on it, and secretly hoped that it was Kyungsoo. It wasn't though. It was from an account he didn't recognize, the username striking him as quite peculiar also. The message though, was far from unique.

K_Doggie: watch your back giraffe.

Chanyeol decided to respond. And with sass.

ParkChanyeolie: Okay. Number 1. Why would you think I care about this? I have seen stuff like this before. And 2. "Giraffe" is a stupid nickname. I don't think you have a choice weather you're tall or not. And 3. I don't know why everyone hates me so much, but I just deal with it. Your threat doesn't really matter.

The anonymous person did not stop here though, and his next response did scare Chanyeol a bit.

K_doggie: I've heard about the way you look at him. It's already all over the school. I know u r gay.

Chanyeol didn't know how to respond. So he just deleted the chat, turned off his phone and threw it on his bed like it was some evil thing.

The next day, he heard whispers in his first class. And they were about him this time. Chanyeol tried to hide in his desk as he heard the term "gay" be thrown at him multiple times. And as soon as Kyungsoo walked in, the whispers only got louder and larger in number. He nervously sat down next to Chanyeol.

"What's going on?" He asked, his voice barely above a whisper.

"I... don't know..." Said Chanyeol, looking at his desk, fully aware of what was going on.

D*mmit. Every time you try to make a friend, you always pull them into some sort of drama. Chanyeol thought to himself.

Later, in the hallway, Chanyeol was just walking to his next class, minding his own business, when he heard an enormous crashing noise. He looked over to see Kai and his (fake) friends, Chen and Tao, shoving poor Kyungsoo into a locker. Well... Chen and Kai were doing most of the shoving. Tao was sort of just standing there.

"Hey gay f*ck." He heard Kai say as he shoved Kyungsoo into the lockers again.

"Are you going to be a slut around here as well? You going to start sleeping with that loser Chanyeol? Well, at least he isn't your teacher this time." Said Chen, laughing as he shoved Kyungsoo into another corner.

"Hey-" Tao, who had been standing motionless before, started to say, but Chanyeol, unthinkingly, interrupted him.

"Why don't you be a man for once and pick on someone your own size Jongin." Chanyeol said, then immediately regretted his actions as the boys started to give him murderous looks.

"I... ummm..." Chanyeol stood there, stuttering, not sure what to say next.

"Get him." Said Kai, giving Chanyeol a murderous look.

The two others sprung on him, and after they were done, Chanyeol was pretty sure that he was bleeding from an ear, had two black eyes, and a minor concussion. The boys then left both Chanyeol and Kyungsoo behind, laughing as they did.

"What... the h*ll... was that..." Kyungsoo asked, standing up.

"It is usual for me. Let's go to the nurse." Chanyeol said, gently taking the small boy by the hand and leading him down to the nurse's office, and trying to ignore the questions circling around in his head about the boy.