BAD ENOUGH FOR YOU ° MONTGOMERY DE LA CRUZ

Chapter 1

"For today's assignment you will all get to work in pairs!" Mrs Bradley announced cheerfully. Many of his classmates were relieved at the news but Tyler Down scowled in disappointment. He hated group work. All it ever did was give other kids a chance to slack off and pile on the work onto someone else. Still he tried to remain optimistic as his teacher began pulling names out from a hat.

But any shred of hope he had came crashing down as the next pair of names were read aloud...

"Tyler Down and Montgomery De La Cruz"

Tyler wanted to cry. Or scream in anger. Why did the universe want to punish him? Montgomery was one of the jocks who bullied him the most!

Speak of the devil... Montgomery was making his way towards him and he looked PISSED. Tyler gulped nervously. He grabbed Tyler by the collar until their faces were merely inches apart. "Listen faggot! I need to get an A on this or I get benched next game and that isn't an option! Your gonna get me that grade or I'm gonna make torturing you my next sport!" He declared darkly. "Got it?"

Tyler nodded. Montgomery seemed satisfied with his answer. "Great! Then you'd better get to work! Later Ty Ty!" He smirked as he ruffled Tyler's curls before running off to find his team members.

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"Seriously!? They paired you up with your Bully?" Cyrus questioned in disbelief as Tyler broke the grim news to his best friends.

Alex scoffed. "Are you really shocked?! This school is fucked up!"

"If Cuntgomery gives you any more shit man I can get the rest of the assholes together and we'll fuck him up?" Cyrus offered with a smirk. "Him and the rest of those goons!"

Tyler chuckled at the use of 'Cuntgomery' but declined the offer. He needed to deal with this himself.

"Not all the jocks are bad through..." Alex spoke up vaguely.

Cyrus and Tyler exchanged knowing  smirks. "You are referring to Justin Foley right?" Alex was open about his homosexuality and his buddies hadn't missed the tension between the emo band player and the popular basketball captain.

"Isn't Justin Straight though?" Tyler remarked negatively."I mean he dated Jessica Davis..."

Cyrus rolled his eyes. "So? Chad dated girls before he knew he was gay. Or Justin might be bisexual? Almost everyone is at least a little gay!"

But Tyler wasn't convinced. He had crushed on Hannah and Mackenzie in the past and he had never felt attracted to another man before.  Well unless you count Jenson Ackles, he WAS a gorgeous man but he didn't want to have sex with any men. "Whatever you say man..."

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Tyler's art teacher had just informed him of an upcoming photography competition in the area and he knew that winning that would look good on his college application and the prize was cash. Unfortunately, he only had week to prepare. He didn't have enough time to do both his and Montgomery's parts of the project AND be ready in time for the competition. It was just too much. So he made a choice.

Fuck Monty.

No, he wasn't going to fuck Montgomery....

But he was going to call his ass up and tell him that if he wanted the grade so damn badly he was going to have put in the work himself because there was no way he was missing out on this opportunity for Montgomery De La Cruz of all people...

So he texted Alex and asked for Monty's number.

"Who is this?" Monty snapped as he picked up the phone. Tyler sighed. He was always so damn angry. Sometimes he wondered why... Montgomery was a popular athlete who had girls hitting on him left and right, what did he even have to be so mad about?

"Um, It's Tyler. Tyler Down." He replied nervously.

"How the fuck did you get my number you freak?!?" He demanded. "Are you stalking me now?"

Tyler's hands begin to shake a little but he held his ground because if he didn't, he knew he would be stuck being forced to do all of Montgomery's assignments until he graduated. "No... I'm not stalking you. Alex gave me your number. Something
has come up, so that means I can't do your homework. You'll have to do it yourself!"

"This is fucking bullshit!" Monty seethed. "I am going to-"

"Listen... I can text you my address, you can come over I can give you some help with it but I am not doing it all for you!" Tyler said firmly. "And you can torment me and fuck with all you want. You already do anyway."

"I would NEVER set foot in your creepy lair!" Montgomery declared.

"Fine." Tyler scoffed, "have fun sitting on the bench all season!" He snapped before hanging up but he still texted Monty the address in case the dude had a change of heart. If he even had one...