Hate at First Sight [boyxboy]

Chapter One

Lee let his teeth sink into his bottom lip as he bent over to pick up his books from the shiny classroom floor.

The tall, black-haired boy towering over him snickered, giving his bookbag one last kick before exiting the class.

Don't let him get to you, Lee told himself, Don't let him get to you.

Meet Jackson Fernandez: arrogant basketball star and bully of pretty much everyone.

The senior was Lee's arch enemy, and even though Lee had only been at the school for a few months now, they'd already made one thing crystal clear:

Jackson Fernandez and Lee Haddock definitely despised each other.

Lee was a junior while Jackson was a senior, so Lee had barely taken notice of him until the older boy had suddenly decided to start tormenting him.
It wasn't too bad, usually. Knocking into him, shoving him into lockers, throwing his books on the floor, insults...
Jackson and everyone else were more of a nuisance to Lee than bullies, really.

Either way, it was still annoying, but the ginger boy had soon decided that keeping his mouth shut was probably for the better. The stupid jocks didn't seem to take too kindly to his sarcastic comebacks - probably because their brains couldn't process them.

He finally picked up his books and went about his day, a little more annoyed than he had been, but generally content.

By the time lunch rolled around, Lee was sitting with his "friends" at a table, silently stabbing his salad with a plastic fork.

Lena was a chubby blonde girl with terrible acne, who always had her nose in a book. People gave her a hard time, teasing her and all that shallow stuff. She was nice enough, but very shy.
Then there was Gabriel, who was just a theater geek. There was nothing really wrong with him, no reason to hate him, or so Lee thought at least. For some reason they all didn't have anyone else, so they had formed kind of a "loser" club.

It worked out quite well. They'd work together on group projects when they were in the same classes and sat together at lunch. This made each of them feel and look less alone - though they still were.
It was nothing to do with friendship, if you asked Lee. It was more of an arrangement that was beneficial to all of them, kind of like a trade deal.

Lee often missed Scotland, his home country. He'd left his best friend there and now they only talked over Skype every once in a while - Cole had a girlfriend and was having fun at their old school, with all of their friends.

Meanwhile Lee was stuck in this shitty American High School, getting bullied. He was more angry than anything, mainly at his parents.
They'd just sprung the news on him one day, like: Hey, we're moving away from everyone and everything you know and love - hope you don't mind, cause you don't get a say in it anyway!

There had been countless arguments since then, lots of yelling and screaming and some of them had even ended up making Lee cry. He'd somehow felt more distant from his parents than ever before.
He just wanted to go back to how things had been.

But Lee wasn't one to dwell on the negative.

Shit happens, life goes on.

That was pretty much his motto. He liked to think of himself as neither optimist, nor pessimist - no, Lee was a realist, didn't beat around the bush, and wasn't afraid to call things as they were.

He sat and ate his shitty cafeteria food, looking around the large room until his eyes finally settled on Jackson Fernandez.
The older boy was sitting with a bunch of his dumb friends, laughing.