The Ultimate Choice

Chapter 3

(Zach's POV)

These last couple of days, I've really been hanging out and getting to know Alex. His favorite color was purple. His favorite food was pizza, even though I don't understand why, pizza is gross.

Lena is still a rude stuck up bitch, but don't tell Alex I said that. I've really been trying to be nice to her but she still doesn't like me. I've talked to Taylor a couple times, she's really been cool.

I don't know much about Wyatt. I have a couple of classes with him, but I don't think he notices me. Right now I'm in my history class barely paying attention while my teacher, Mr.Hughes, drones on and on about Abe Lincoln. I have this class with Wyatt, but he's all the way across the room.

"Pair up!" Mr.Hughes exclaims.

Wait, what? Why are we pairing up, damn I should have been paying attention.

"Who's my partner?" I ask Mr.Hughes.

"Your partner is Wyatt Seacrest."

"Oh, thanks." I replied nervously.

I don't understand why I'm all jittery all of a sudden. Its probably because one of Alex's friends doesn't like me, I don't need another one hating my guts, I gotta make a good impression.

"Hey...Zach, right?" Wyatt asks, walking up to me, snapping me from my thoughts.

"Yes."

"I'm Wyatt, Alex's best friend, well guy best friend anyway."

"I know, he told me about you but not much, he says you guys have alot in common, and he's known you since elementary."

"Yup,  have been best pals ever since."

"That's good, Alex..."

"Are you gay?" he asks cutting me off.

"No, I'm not." I lie.

"You don't have to lie about it, I'm perfectly cool about it, and Alex really likes you, or when someone mentions your name, he turns crimson red, but why do you deny it?"

Who is he to tell me that I don't have to lie about it, and was I that obvious. I kind of suspected that Alex liked me, he just never said it out loud, but seeing as Wyatt is his best friend, I guess he could just tell. I don't think I'll ever be able to be me because I don't want the same shit to happen cause then I'll transfer because I can't deal with it. I guess you could say I was a coward. I wasn't ready to face that again.

"Zach?"

"Yeah?"

"You sure do zone out a lot, but I understand why you won't tell anybody, it was hard for Alex to come to terms with who he was." Wyatt said. "I was the first person he told, and I accepted him as he was, and I still do. He was really torn up when he told me, you could tell he was really beating himself up because of it, he said it was eating him alive because he didn't think anyone would accept him."

"Can we not talk about this?"

'Stop running from the truth.' my conscience said rearing its ugly head. I rolled my eyes at him.

"Sure,  no pressure. You'll be ready soon enough."

'You'd better hope its not too late, cause you won't get Alex.' my conscience smirked.

It was right, as much as I liked Alex, I couldn't put myself through the torture I endured at my last school,  which was by far the worst thing to happen to me, I don't want that to happen to Alex either.

I know Wyatt was only trying to help but damn he didn't really know me to be telling me all of this. I'm not ashamed of who I am, its just everything that comes with it. The rumors, the separation from everyone else, and the bullying. I don't really care what people say but its another thing to physically harm people because of who they are, whether their race or sexual orientation.

"Thanks, so what are we paired to do?" I said snapping from my thoughts.

"We are supposed to do a report on Abraham Lincoln, stating his birth, childhood, rise to presidency, and death, its due Friday."

'Great, another thing to worry about.' my conscience remarked.

"OK, I zoned out when he was talking about it."

"I know, I could tell when you asked Mr. Hughes who your partner was two minutes after he said it." Wyatt laughs.

At that that the bell rang and Mr. Hughes dismissed the class for the best part of the day, lunch.

As I'm walking to lunch but think of how much Wyatt had told me about Alex and the fact that he actually liked me. Wyatt is a cool guy and we could really be good friends, but I couldn't help think of the things he said about me being gay and how I'll be comfortable with it in time. I already was comfortable with who I was.

'Stop telling yourself that lie, if you were really comfortable with your sexuality,  you wouldn't be hiding it.'

my conscience remarked.

'Shut up.' i grumbled at my inner self. Once my conscience was really fed up with my bull it wouldn't shut its trap.

One thing is for sure, if Alex really liked me, he would try his best to know everything about me,  including my past, which would soon enough come to bite me in the ass.

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A/N:

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