Lawrence

The newbie

When Lawrence woke early as he normally did he found his back was bruised from hitting the ground the night before and Pete had moved him back to his bunk. Although his blanket was barely on him, he had slept peacefully. His stuff was cleaned up and he hadn't been hurt by Pete while sleeping. Lawrence got up to find a very feminine looking man sleeping in the bunk below him, a matter a fact he wasn't even sure it was a man.
He tapped the person on the shoulder to see if he had seen his bag of clothes "E-excuse me... um... th-there was a bag on this bunk. You didn't by any chance see where that went did you?" "It's on the floor..." said the man as he picked up the bag from the floor at the edge of the bed. "Here..." the feminine man had puffy red eyes as if he had been crying and had gotten very little sleep, it was obvious he had quite a story. Lawrence sat on the bed beside him, feeling as the feminine man was in need of someone. "I-I'm Lawrence, Lawrence victor. Y-you are?" He asked before feeling the feminine man buried his head in Lawrence's chest crying.
"I'm Max..." the man mumbles into Lawrence's sweater. Lawrence wrapped his arms around Max. After a moment of comforting Max, he picked him up off his chest "did you get your texted books yet?" He said wiping his tears from Max's eyes as Max shook his head no. "Alright then, get dressed. We'll go get you texted books and your schedule." Lawrence said smiling at Max "I don't have any clean clothes...." he said as Lawrence took out a pair of jeans for him and lent Max some of his clothes.
As they were leaving the room Lawrence saw a man run from the outside of the window. Odd. He thought to himself, but he didn't think much of other than odd. He commonly saw people outside and around, he saw them so often that he began to think not much of it. And not thinking of it Max and Lawrence walked to get a schedule for Max.
They talked about the small things until they were stopped by Pete. He had a big grin on his face until he noticed that Lawrence was with someone else, someone other than him. Pete decided that he would make Max pay for thinking of stealing Lawrence. Pete always thought of
Lawrence as his, he was his. Anyone who stood between the two of them he would make payments.
Pete stood starring at Max trying to hide his anger smiling. "Hello, Mam?..." he said dropping his smile. "I'm a dude..." he replied, "I'm Max!" He said Smiling. "Pete...." he said walking away.
Lawrence decided to warn Max about Pete due to the way he was. They continued through the day and found they had a very similar schedule. After class, they went out to field that Lawrence commonly said and read or did other things. Jack was sitting on the edge of the cliff forgetting that Lawrence always came and sat out here when he wasn't busy with people or school. They watched as a Motherly Woman came out through the bushes yelling for Jack "JUMBO!! YOU BEST GETAWAYS FROM THE FIELD!! THAT BOY WILL BE OUT SOON!!" She said as the woman walked across the field "damn..." she said seeing us across the field "HELLO KIDS!! WELL, I DON'T BITE!" She said as she ushered for us the come over to her. They didn't know her, yet they felt as if they could trust her. They began to walk over to her with little hesitation. "Hello Lawrence, I'm Ummi... Ahh, Lawrence who's the lucky fellow? Lady?" "How do you know my name," Lawrence asked under his breath before realizing that Ummi had just implied that the two were dating and Max was blushing like hell. "W-we're just friends!!" Lawrence said now also blushing. "I'm Max." "Max as in Maxine, or as in Maxwell?" Ummi asked as she put her hand on her hip and tilted her head smiling "It's just Max." "Whatever you say." She said sarcastically. "So, will you two be joining us for dinner? We'd love to have you over!" Max and Lawrence looked at each other in agreeing that a cooked meal other than school food would be nice, as so the left with Jumbo and Ummi trustingly.