Janiel Oneshots (Discontinued...Again)

45. The Jock and The Nerd Part 2 (Fluff/Smut)

REWRITTEN

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(Joey's POV)

Coming back to school this time was weird. I wasn't bothered by anyone. No one even came near me. I walked by the group who harassed me but they didn't say or do a thing. It was odd. How did they go from breaking my shoulder to not even glancing at me in the span of three weeks? 

"Joey! There you are!" My friend Josiah runs over to me, a huge smile on his face. "Did you hear what Daniel did?! It was so noble of him." "What? No, today is my first day back. What are you talking bout?" Josiah smiles "come look! He put something up on the bulletin board!" He leads me to the school's infamous bulletin board, and in the middle of all the school spirit fliers, there's a piece of white-lined paper. 

'Attention Senior Class,

My name is Daniel Preda. You may know me, but I am the captain of the football team. But other than that, I would like to be known as the boyfriend of Joey Graceffa. I've known Joey since we were in middle school, and in that time, I've fallen head over heels in love with him. But recently, I've found out about something terrible. The people I called friends have been bullying my boyfriend for three years. All behind my back. But I'm not here to talk about Joey, that much. I'm here to tell everyone that I, Daniel Preda, am gay and happily in love. So if I hear anyone or see anyone bullying my sweet boyfriend, I will not back away from beating your ass. I made that mistake once, and it put Joey in the hospital. Because I was too afraid to be myself. I'm not afraid anymore. I will not sit back and watch the man I love be bullied by all you homophobic assholes. 

The moral of the story, leave Joey Graceffa alone or face the consequences. 

Thank you for reading, 

Daniel Preda.'

I roll my eyes "this is so pathetic." Josiah looks at me, confused. "What do you mean? This is sweet." "Yeah, that's because you didn't know what I went through. He waited until I was sent to the hospital for the second time to say something. After he sat back and watched me get the shit beaten out of me. He just stood there and watched, didn't move, didn't say anything." Josiah pats me on the back "come on, let's get to class." 

When the day ends, I stay back and wait for everyone to leave. After all the halls clear, I walk back to the bulletin board and look over the note once again. "You know, all those words are the truth." A familiar voice speaks from behind me. "Oh really? Because they were spoken almost a month ago but didn't have any truth to them." I turn to look at Daniel "and I don't think there is any truth to them now." He frowns "Joey, I talked to my old friends. I told them about us, and they promised to leave you alone." "Please, they'll come back to me once my shoulders heal. Your words mean nothing to them. They'll probably murder me now that they found out we were together. Do you not get that? You just made it worse." I try to walk by him but he puts an arm out "please, Joey. Just hear me out. I just need one hour for you to hear me out, and if you don't believe me, I'll leave you alone." 

Daniel and I sit in the living room, us on either side of the couch. Him looking at me, me looking across the room blankly. "So, you wanted me to hear you out. So speak." Looking over at my ex, I see tears in his eyes "I don't know where to begin." "Fine, explain to me why you thought it was okay to just watch your friends beat the shit out of me instead of, oh, I don't know...saving me!" Moving over, Daniel rests a hand on my leg. "I will never not be sorry for doing that. I was just frozen in shock, I didn't know it was you they were bullying until I heard my name. And I wanted to help you, I did. But I didn't know how. If I got in between them, they would've thought that I was going to join in. If I yelled at them, they would've laughed and hurt you more. I just didn't know what to do. I'm sorry I let them do it to you. I was panicking in my mind, just trying to think of ways to stop them. So when you were in the hospital, I went up to them and told them to stop fucking harassing you. At first, they didn't believe me and told me to stay away from you. I told them to fuck off and they told me I had to choose. Either you or them. I didn't give it a second thought before I told them that I choose you. Because just as I said in the hospital, I'll always choose you."