"Not in my good Christian household!"

Chapter 2: More Characters No One Cares About + Pete Wentz and Breadbin Urine

Jasper was close to being in the same situation as Jasmine, except his crush wasn't very traight.

Patrick was, however, head over heels for Pete Wentz (the kid basically worshipped him), and had appointed Jasper as his trusty wingman that was not supposed to intrude between Patrick and Pete.

However, Patrick's wingman had a not-so-small crush on Patrick and desperately wanted to tell him.

Obviously, Jasper wasn't willing to destroy his friendship with Patrick and make his best friend feel extremely guilty, so that wasn't going to happen.

"Jasper? Are you listening?" Patrick's voice forced Jasper out of his thoughts and back to the class, where he was sitting as he and seven others waited for the bell to dismiss them.

"Nope, sorry," Jasper chuckled, embarrassed.

"I was asking if you knew who the new guy was." Patrick glanced up at the taller (Jasper was still short, just not as short as Patrick) boy.

"There's a new guy? Is he- wait, never mind, Aria's probably clinging onto him already." It was quite annoying to see a cute guy and find out that he was straight and dating Aria, but Jasper had to deal with it.

"No, actually. He's kept away from her."

"Wow, shocker," Jasper murmured, glancing across the room to where Aria and Jasmine were conversing. Well, Aria was talking, Jasmine just looked tired.

Jasper could relate to that.

"Yeah, but he's-" The rest of Patrick's sentence was cut off by the bell ringing.

Jasper stood, grabbing his stuff and hurrying out of the classroom along with the others.

-

"Okay, uh, Pete, how do you know if someone likes you?"

Pete glanced up, looking at Melody.

"Dunno, you kinda just know," Pete said, not very helpfully.

"Okay, uh, so, like, you know Mikey's sibling, Jay?" Melody was definitely great at speaking.

"Yeah? What about her?" Pete asked.

"Them," Melody corrected immediately. "They go by they/them pronouns now."

"Ah, sorry. What about them?" Pete apologised, corrected himself, and carried on (which is what someone should do whenever they use the wrong pronouns/misgender someone on accident).

"Well, uh, I think they might have a crush on me," Melody admitted.

"Sweet- they probably do. You should ask them, they're not the type to lie like that," Pete suggested.

"Pete, you're asking me to go up to Jay fucking Way and ask 'hey do you have a crush on me?'" Melody asked in disbelief.

"Sure, why not?" Pete said, as of that wasn't going to embarrass Melody at all.

"I have a Way better idea," Brendon, who had been texting someone- Ryan (WHY DID YOU LEAVE, RYAN ROSS???!!!)- declared.

"Alright, let's hear it."

-

WOW, I FINALLY UPDATED!

Soul Punk turned 6 on the 18th, which is pretty cool.

Also, the next few chapters are going to be kinda disorganized and probably confusing. I'm trying to get my ideas in order so I can actually write without deleting everything like fifteen times.

~Alex