Kira (boyxboy)

Chapter 1

The entrance of the school looms in front of me. It's my first day and I'm kinda nervous. I come from a single parent household, so Mom has been working really hard at her nursing job. We used to live two states away, but we moved to this small town a week ago. It's more affordable so we can actually rent a small house. Because Mom's working all the time, it's been my job to take care of my younger sister Rowan. She's 10 years old now but I've basically been taking care of her since her birth. I guess I've been more of a mom to her than mom. I feed her, dress her, take her to school...basically everything. I've also had a part-time job since 7th grade to help mom pay the bills. I know it seems kind of crazy...when would I have the time to study or have a life right? But I had neither of those things. I've never had any issues about the studying thing since I've been learning college level courses since 7th grade. Mom said I would be classified as a genius with my eidetic memory and ease at understanding higher level concepts. Then you might be wondering why I'm even going to high school. The reason is quite simple. I want to experience a normal life. I had a total of 3 friends in 9th grade but now that I've moved I get to start again.

I just dropped Rowan off at her new elementary school and ran over to the high school building. I didn't want to be late, but now I'm early, like really early. Half an hour early. I don't want to seem like a weirdo for standing in front of the school so I look across the green grass lawn that spreads around the school and start walking. I stop under a tree and plan to sit but I hear something from around the corner that sounds like music. I walk around the corner of the building and end up stopping in front of a window about 100 meters down. I peek in and I notice it's the school's music room. I look inside and I see him.

I don't believe in love at first sight, but he definitely caught my attention. He was tall and muscled in a not too buff way. He had dirty blonde hair and he had long slender fingers. He was sitting on the bench in front of the piano and his fingers danced across the keys. The music sounded so beautiful and I was mesmerized. I wanted to watch forever. All of a sudden he stopped playing and I could tell he was about to turn. Almost subconsciously I ducked under the window so he couldn't see. I just felt like I was intruding into something I wasn't supposed to see.

All of a sudden the bell rang and I almost fell over. I quickly crawled a safe distance away and then jumped up. I dusted the grass off the bottom of my grey skinny jeans and ran towards the entrance. I slowed down just before the end of the corner and tried to saunter in and not look like I was totally flustered. Everyone stared at me as I walked into the building, it was kinda eerie and it made me tense up. Once I entered the building my steps slowed down a little because I didn't know where the administration office was. I had a lost puppy look in my eyes as I turned around in all directions. I heard stifled snickers behind me and I turned to see who it was. There was a girl who looked like she had come out of a paint explosion; pink hair, purple lipstick, black off shoulder top and dark red jeans. She had multi-colored bracelets on both hands and she was looking at me with a smile.

"You're the new kid huh! Kinda cute in a puppy kind of way. I'm Joy what's your name new kid?"

Joy spoke really fast and I almost couldn't keep up. I felt like I had spirals in my eyes.

"I'm Kieran, can you tell me where the administration office is?" I had no question as to how she knew I was the new kid. The whole population of the town was about 400, everyone knew everyone here.

"Come with me, I'll show you the way. I need to meet with Ms. Jacobs anyways." Joy casually put her arm around my shoulder and led me away. As we walked through the hallway I could feel stares on me as people appraised me. I could hear some girls say 'he's cute' and I started to blush. I'm not bad looking but I never considered myself particularly attractive either. I'm 5"9 and I'm pretty lean. I'm not super muscled but I've taken some pretty heavy-duty part time jobs that required a work out so I'm no slouch. I have messy black hair that I can never fully tame and I have grey-blue eyes that apparently seem like they can look through your very soul. At least that's what I'm told. No-one really likes to look at my eyes when I'm pissed so maybe it's true after all.

Joy leads me to the admin office where I get my schedule and head to class. I have almost every class with Joy and she looks pretty happy about it. She has declared herself my best friend and plans to give me the whole tour of the school 'Joy-style'. I get dragged all around the campus as she points out all of the 'cliques' and her own judgment of who's cool and who's a total douche. We head to the cafeteria and she introduces me to her group of friends. There are two guys and another girl. Trevor, Mateo and Meena. She tells them that I'm 'cool' and that I'm one of them. I haven't been able to say a word as Joy keeps talking and talking and talking. How did she even decide that I was 'cool'? Is it some kind of finders keepers thing, where the first person to grab the new kid gets him?

I sit with them and silently listen to them talk while I take a look around the cafeteria. As my eyes pass over all of the people they snag on this one figure. It's him, the piano guy. The more I look at him, the more attractive he seems. I'm 100% gay, so I really appreciate the view. I came out to my mom in 8th grade. She seemed kind of uncomfortable with it, but she didn't kick me out and said family is family. But she was less affectionate with me after I came out. She stopped hugging me and she spent less time around me. At first I didn't really notice because it's not like she's around much anyways with her job and all. Over time I could tell that she was distancing herself from me, but no matter what I did I couldn't really bridge the gap. She didn't say anything though and everything seemed normal overall.

Joy caught me staring at the guy and nudged me. "He's Aaron, the captain of the swim team and the MVP of the basketball team. Think of any sport and he plays it. He's the ultimate catch of the school. Every girl in this room is thirsty for him except me and maybe Meena. What are you staring at him for? You interested?" She winked at me. I could feel the blush take over my face and spread down my neck and I looked down feeling embarrassed. I peeked up at her and her face was full of shock. Her mouth was hanging open and her eyes were so wide I thought here eyeballs would pop out any minute.

"Seriously? You're gay? I did not see that coming. OMG and you're already into Aaron? Woah half of the girls are going to be so disappointed you're gay since you're cute and all. But seriously you're gay? You're not screwing with me right? There's never been a gay guy in this town, at least not one that has come out." The words were spewing out of her mouth like bullets. She switched through so many topics that I could not keep up.

"Ummm yeah I'm gay. Is...Is that a problem?" I slightly stuttered. She just looked at me again when I confirmed that I wasn't joking. "Goddamn I have never met a gay guy before. This is kind of amazing. Hey guys! Kieran's gay!" She turned to the others at the table and announced. Luckily she wasn't too loud about it. She made sure that it stayed at our table. I was sort of uncomfortable that she just chose to announce it, but I didn't say anything. I've always been quiet, so it's hard to start being talkative all of a sudden. I've always been called a loner, but hopefully this time it'll be different.

The rest of the group just turned to me and gave lukewarm responses. They didn't seem disgusted by my 'gayness' but they were also pretty ignorant about it. They hadn't met a 'gay' before. All their words and I had no response. I turned away to look at Aaron again and this time our eyes met. His soft hazel eyes locked with mine and we just looked at each other for a few seconds, then he nodded at me with a friendly smile and looked away. My thumped the entire time and I felt kind of faint. I floated through the rest of the day and don't even remember how I picked up Rowan and made it home.

I made Rowan dinner and wrote down a list of everything I needed to do. All of the house chores, unpacking the rest of our boxes and searching for part-time jobs. I finished everything by 9 pm and put Rowan to bed. I didn't know when Mom would come home so I just wrapped up her dinner and left it in the microwave.

I collapsed onto my bed and tried to sift through my entire day but all I could think about was those hazel eyes and the slender fingers that created the soft melody of the piano.