"So how was you're weekend?" Larry asked while throwing books into his locker.
"Horrendous, I told Ash about what Travis had done to me. She deserved to know if she's gonna be helping me help him."
"Yikes that couldn't have been fun. How'd she react?"
"She cried. A lot. I left her with Todd so he could try and explain how it's not Travis' fault."
"Shit sorry about that dude."
"..."
"Yo, Sal you there?"
"Huh? Yeah sorry I was spacing out."
"You okay dude? You've been doing that a lot lately."
Sal sighed and leant against his locker. He had been watching Travis walking down the hall. He looked worse than before the Christmas holidays. Somehow more tired.
"Is it Travis?" Larry asked.
"How'd you know?"
"I saw you staring at him. I was starting to get a bit jealous." He said with a grin.
"Fuck off. It's not like that and you know it. I'm worried about him,"
"Really Sal? Worried? Even after what he did? And I know it wasn't his fault but still."
"We need to help him Larry. He could hurt me again, or worse, one of you guys."
Larry closed his locked and watched Travis drop all his books on the floor then scrabble to pick them all up. People around him were snickering. Sal knew exactly how that felt and before he could stop himself he was helping Travis pick up the books.
"Sally?" He whispered. "What are you doing?"
"Helping." Sal replied bluntly.
Sal picked up a couple of books and put them in a pile then handed them to Travis who was very red for some reason. He shoved the books into his bag before muttering a 'thanks' and hurried over to his next class. Sal turned to see Larry shaking his head at him. The bell rung and Larry waved goodbye and walked off. Sally sighed and made his way to English.
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"Larry, we shouldn't."
"Dude the door's locked it'll be fine."
"Yeah but still. Teachers have keys."
"Mrs Packerton thinks I'm tutoring you and we aren't to be disturbed. Trust me Sal no one's gonna catch us."
Sally looked up at Larry's eyes. And unsurprisingly he couldn't resist them.
He hesitatingly pulled off his prosthetic and connected his lips with Larry's. The taller boy gently pushed him against the wall and deepened the kiss. Sal let out a moan into Larry's lips (mostly just to tease the boy) which caused Larry just to press himself closer into Sally.
Then the bell rung.
"Fuck." Larry muttered.
"Larry we need to go there'll be a class in here soon."
"Yeah, lets go."
They exited the class as quickly as possible and headed down the hall. Without warning Sally burst out laughing, Larry looked confused but laughed along with him.
"Dude what's so funny?" He said with a big stupid grin on his face.
"Imagine if we'd been caught by Mrs Packerton." Sally wheezed. "Imagine the look on her face!" He said as he laughed even harder.
