"you can't control who you love and if you love him you need to tell him"
Simon was abused every night my the bully Carson. He was smart and lonely. He never thought twice about his sexuality...that is until the openly gay boy at school needed him...
Simon sits down at the lunch table in between Winston and Charlie, across from Noah who looks really uncomfortable. Simon looks over at the table that Carson and his group always sit at to see him staring at him with a look that was kinda between anger and confusion. Simon wasn't paying attention to the small group of friends around him so he didn't know that Noah was talking to him. "-is that ok Simon?" He asks.
Simon shakes his head a little then looks at Noah. " uh...y-yeah" he says hoping that was the right answer for the question.
" cool so. Do you have a ride or do you need Charlie to pick You up?" Noah asks. Now Simon is even more confused, he pulls his sleeve over his fist and chews on the sleeve, it as always been a habit of Simon's.
As he thinks he looks over at Charlie, who looks impatient. Simon then remembers that Carson won't give him a ride, he doesn't like Charlie. Why? Because Charlie is gay and Carson is homophobic. So now Simon can only say yes, but then Charlie will have to drive to Carson's house, and then Simon will be in big trouble. "I can walk" he finally says after about three minutes of silence.
"No," Charlie says to him with a serious look. " I'll take you, it's no big deal really," he says in his Australian accent.
Simon starts to panic slightly, he can't tell them that he's living with Carson or they'll hate him. Or so he thought. " its fine I can walk," he says wanting Charlie to stop.
Charlie looks at him confused. 'Why doesn't he want me to pick him up? Oh yeah, he's just like Carson. He is probably only doing this for extra credit.' Charlie thinks rolling his eyes. Someone gas to drive you, it's not right for you to have to walk" Noah says with a nervous smile hoping Simon wouldn't notice how scared he was.
" let me do it, or are you afraid Carson will see and me ruin your popularity?" Charlie says to Simon in a teasing way though everyone knew he was being serious.
Simon gasped a little bit while shifting uncountably in his seat. Winston gets mad at Charlie and glares in the direction that his voice came from. " Charlie!?" He shouted at him with anger. " be nice!" Winston looked back at the last place he heard Simon's voice then smiled again. "I can have my brother do it if you'd like?" He says.
That seemed like a better idea for Simon since Winston's brother was probably older and didn't go to school, considering Winston was seventeen, but before Simon could say anything Charlie shouted, "I'll give him a ride! " Charlie's cheeks turned a light shade of pink then he looked away.
Winston smirked a little at an idea he had. " fine, only if Simon is ok with it. " Simon nods giving up. " now, before anything, you have to apologize to him, " he said very seriously.
Charlie huffed then looked at Simon still blushing slightly. " I'm sorry," he says quickly.
Soon after a few minutes of silence, the bell rings. *Ring!!!!*
~After School~
After school Simon exits the through the main doors, ready to walk home when he suddenly heard someone call his name. " Simon!" It was the familiar Australian accent. He turned around to see Charlie walking towards him. " wheres Carson? Or is he already at your house?"
Simon thought for a moment. 'How did he know that I lived with Carson? Did Carson tell him?' Then Charlie sighed, letting Simon know get was waiting. " he already went home. How did you know I lived with him?"
Charlie walked closer to him making Simon lean away. "I found out, I'm not telling you how." He says looking down.
After a minute of silence, Simon speaks up. "so... I'll get going, I guess I'll see you when you come to pick me up..." He starts to walk away from Charlie but is stopped when Charlie grabs his sleeve.
"I can drive you there, besides then you can tell me where it is" Charlie suggests. Simon really can't say no now, Charlie has to good of a point. " fine" Simon gives in mentally facepalming at him giving in.
Charlie smiles. " well my car is right over there" he points to his car which is a new Orange Chevrolet Sonic.
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Simon didn't know that Charlie had thistype car, he knew this car had to belong to a student but he didn't know it was Charlie. They walk over to it, Simon's mouth wide open in shock. " what? You didn't think my family would have this kind of money because I'm not popular?" Charlie asks rudely.
" please stop with that. I've just never seen a car like this before. " Simon says sounding disappointed but he's really just sad.
Now Charlie feels bad, he doesn't know what Simon went through in his life. For all, he knows Carson's parents could abuse him or Carson himself could be doing it. But for some reason, Charlie hopes to god that never happened. Charlie opens the door for Simon then Simon carefully jumps in. Once Charlie gets in he turns the key to start it, He starts driving. He looks over at Simon. " you can listen to the radio if you want. " he says.
" O-okay" Simon studders. He looks back at the road and for a second Simon can see a blush.
