Fast Times At Clairemont High

Chapter 6

Today's Monday, the dreaded day of school. I pretty much spent my Sunday trying to remember Saturday, and vomiting. actually make that mostly vomiting and a little bit trying to remember. So anyway, today's Monday and I was walking to school to get to home group a little earlier than usual.

When I got to home group I saw that Kellin wasn't here yet, and the few people that were, well, staring at me with looks of shock and disgust. I shrugged it off and walked up to my old group of friends because, why would I want to be alone. When I sat down next to Oli, he moved his chair far away from me. "Get away from me you freak!" he spat at me.

I was shocked "What's got your knickers in a twist, huh?" I replied, generally confused. 

He took his phone out, I was even more confused to see it was a video. He hit play and that's when I saw it. It was Kellin and I. We were kissing. We were making out and someone had filmed us. "This is going around the whole school, you disgust me, get the hell away from me now!" he yelled at me.

My eyes grew wide. Everybody knows? Everybody knows I'm gay! At that moment Kellin decided to walk into the room and I looked at him in a panic.

"Vic are you oka-"

"Fuck off! Stay away from me!" I screamed cutting him off. I was freaking out, I think I'm having a panic attack. I couldn't think straight and all I could think to do was run, and run I did. I ran out of the school, I was on the verge of crying. 'They all know,' I kept thinking. I stopped outside a park and dropped to my knees, finally letting it all out. 'They all know'. I was a crying mess. 'They all know!'. What were people going to think? What will my mum think? Surely she'll find out.

I'm not sure how long I was like that for, a crying mess, but after a long while someone sat next to me, pulling me into their chest to cry. "Shh, it's going to be okay, everything will be fine," the voice tried to soothe me. I knew that voice anywhere, it was Kellin. When I finally looked up with my, no doubt, tear stained face, I saw that yes, in fact it was Kellin. He smiled down at me sadly and I smiled back. "Hey, are you alright now?" he asked quietly.

I nodded and buried my face into his chest and he wrapped his arms around me tighter.

"Come on Vic, I'll take you home... I guess we have to talk now," he spoke softly.

I nodded and started wiping my eyes as he helped me to my feet. We walked the rest of the way to my house in complete silence.

When we arrived at my house we went straight into my room and sat next to each other side by side. I sighed and looked over at him, he was staring straight ahead but he looked so scared. "So you're gay right?" I asked very quietly. He looked like he was on the verge of tears, but nodded nonetheless.