Flower Child (BXB)

Prologue

Fear, without a doubt is the most powerful way of grabbing attention from an audience. Arlo Rowdy, is a clear representation of this. With his lack of thought and questionable decisions, he found himself in quite a rut. Getting the short end of the stick from a game of truth or dare, Arlo is forced to run through Tranquilla Highway butt naked.

Now, him and his friends stand on a hill overlooking caravans stacked in organised rows. The smell of fire and burnt marshmallows fills there nostrils and the vicious wind sends shivvers down thier spines. Arlo, bigged eyed and stiff, glances at people camping outside their caravans and immediately regrets his naked decision. He was definitely not looking forward into blinding them with his pale behind and skeletal features.

"Dude, stop beating around the bush and fucking do it already," Kaya moans.

"You realise what you people are asking me to do?!" Arlo whisper-screams.

"A dare is a dare bro," Ziggy gives Arlo a sympathetic- but not so sympathetic look and Arlo complies.

He takes his items of clothing off one by one, until getting to his underwear and hesitating for a second too long. "Your lucky you're gay," Kaya giggles, "-because my eyelashes is longer than you're dick," she bursts out in laughter and so does the rest of the group.

"Ha ha very funny," Arlo responds with a deadpan look.

"I need to take a video of this, bro," Alchemy blurs out. Arlo points at him with annoyance and anger in his eyes, "Do that and you'll lose your fucking fingers."

This makes Alchemy, slowly put his phone down, in blanton fear. He knows Arlo won't hesitate with this threat. The guy may look innocent and defenceless but get on his bad side and you're just as good as burnt bacon.

Chicken flesh cover's his bare body as he cusses the weather. Taking a deap breathe in, he runs through the caravan park. He could not ignore the giggles he got from his so called "friends" but made a mental note to deal with them later.

On the outside he was practically a lightning bolt but in his mind everything went by in slow-mo. He saw the horror in the children's eyes, the cheers from the hippies, the "Oh my Gurd" from the teenage girl, the terrifying screams from woman and the laughter of the straight guy. He mentally scarred everyone in Tranquilla Highway, including himself.

Arlo takes a deep breathe in, realising that he is almost at the end of the highway. Poor guy, was a victim of speaking too soon. Out of nowhere an oddly familiar guy appears before him and he stumbles on top of him. "What the-ohhh," the guy screams at the end with an hyena-like tone and Arlo's heart starts to beat faster as he realises who the guy was.

Names- Rowan Gaelic, the schools bad boy and captain of the rugby team. He has a reputation that'll give you nightmares and a gaze that will make you immediately shit yourself. This is absolutely the worst thing that could happen to Arlo. His luck was never good but this was taking it to a whole new level. Arlo swears that the big man above hates him.

He panic's and runs into the trees surrounding the caravan park and never makes it too the end of the highway. He scraped his knee when he tumbled on the guy and his feet resembled blisters from trampling onto sticks.

He heed there for about 3 minutes before his friends came to his rescue. Kaya puts a blanket over him and hands him his clothing.

They all tried holding their laughter in but Arlo could see by the way thier mouth twitched and the tears in thier eyes that they just wanted to explode.

"Dude, care to explain how you ended up here instead of the end of the highway?" Alchemy asks.

Arlo finishes putting his pants on and responds, "I bumped into Rowan Gaelic." With those words, the laughter and the teasing stops and everyone stares at him in horror...clearly not helping the situation.

"Rowan Gaelic?" Kaya asks in disbelieve.

"Yes," Arlo responds. "I'm so dead," he chuckles nervously.

He always had a tendency to bring a nervous or awkward demeanor along with him. Most of the time, his nervousness didn't really suit the occasion but for the first time in a long time his social response is actually appropriate. He should be nervous, very nervous. Rowan knew a lot of people, if this gets out he could be ruined. It gives him heartburn just thinking of what could happen.

"Lets not get ahead of ourselves there," Ziggy puts his arm around Arlo.

"What do you mean?" Arlo raises an eyebrow.

"You're not exactly the most popular kid in school. He probably doesn't even know your name. Hell, you ran so fast he probably never saw your face. So, relax...I'm sure everything will be just fine," he mentions with actual sympathy this time.

"You're right," Arlo comes to a realisation. "I'm a nobody. Why would one of the most popular guy in school know my name?" he breathes out in relief.

"I couldn't agree more," Alchemy interrupts.

"Its only okay for me to say that," Arlo states, deadpan.

I'm a nobody, He thought.

But did he speak too soon?