It's been two years since his sweet Mick disappeared without a warning, after six blissful days officially together. Unable to move on, Ohm is starting third year at the university, his last hope fading. Then he hears a familiar voice...
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Pete and Rain were walking to lunch, when Rain got mobbed by ardent admirers. Pete was pleased that he had kept his newly single status a secret, as he wasn't too keen on the kind of attention Rain was attracting. Pete looked around, when he overheard a loud voice in a table ahead.
"I still can't get over that Ohm is gay. And all those other guys? Is everyone at this uni gay? For people who can't get pregnant they do keep multiplying," a loud, sneering voice was saying.
"I think Mick and Ohm's story is very touching. I overheard some of it and they have gone through a lot to be together. You shouldn't judge people who you don't know," a cute young boy said.
The unpleasant first year turned to look at him. "Why are you defending them, Ten? Are you gay, too?"
"Yes, actually, Tong. But even if I wasn't, I would still see that what they share is beautiful," Ten said, not going to back down.
Tong got up and motioned to his friends. All of the rest of the table rose with him. "We're not friends with queers," Tong said and walked off, leaving Ten alone in the table.
Pete walked over to Ten, who looked downcast. "Hey man, there you are," he said loudly, clapping a hand on the boy's shoulder. "We're waiting for you, come on. Let me help you," he added and picked up Ten's tray. Ten looked up, confused. "You're eating with us from now on."
"I am? Really?" Ten said, flushing with surprise. "Really?" he repeated as he trotted after Pete.
Despite a few nasty people, like Peck who had tried to spoil their football match a few weeks earlier, most of the students thought the 'Gay Table', as it now was dubbed, was really cool. It was called that by everyone. The bullies thought it was an insult, the allies thought it was accurate enough. The friends at the table didn't care either way. After Ohm's revelation at Mick's arrival, it had all come to the open. In the days that followed, the halls of the university had buzzed with different takes with it.
There was even a website that had sprung up, with the full story of Mick and Ohm's love lost and found, which was accurate to a large degree. This was just one voice in the multitude, though, until most of Ohm's friends posted their approval, with minor corrections to the story. While Ohm's friends didn't comment on the claims that Mick had been beaten by his father, they didn't refute it either, and it was this that had garnered Mick, and by extension, Ohm and the other couples, a lot of sympathy.
In the end, though, it was the football players' reaction that had tipped the scales. Farm was the head of the Sports faculty's football team, a big, laid back guy, who was hugely admired for the team's wins. He and most of the other guys from the football team had been sitting in the canteen a few days after the reveal, talking about a party they had been to the previous weekend, when one of their friends had approached them.
"Hey Farm, what do you think of all this gay going around?" Nic, a short second year who never failed to watch a game, had asked him, flapping his hand toward Ohm's table.
