Double Life

Chapter 1: Jake

                        "It's good to see you again, Kyon." Shin said to Kyon, taking out his hand. The two of them then ran off together into the woods. They spent hours playing hide and seek, tag, and various other games. Shin and Kyon were very close friends.

                Finally, at the end of a long day of play right before supper, Shin and Kyon laid by a tree together. Kyon turned to Shin, looking right into his baby blue eyes.

                        "Hey, Shin...you think we could ever be in a band together?"

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"Mr. Baxterson."

Jake was suddenly snapped out of his fantasy world as he lifted his pen and saw his English teacher, Ms. Boid, was speaking to him, with all eyes also on him.

"Is there something on that paper you'd like to share with the rest of the class?" Ms. Boid asked him.

"Nope." Jake replied, hoping he'd get lucky and just this once she'd drop it.

"No, I insist you do share." Ms. Boid said, coming closer to him with a clear intent to snatch the paper out of his hands and effectively ruin his life. "After all, what was on that piece of paper is clearly more important then what we're doing here. Why don't you enlighten the rest of us with it?"

It was no use. Ms. Boid was going to take the paper from him. Jake was doomed.

Unless...

Without thinking twice, Jake crumbled the paper and stuffed it in his mouth.

"Mmm, tastes like chicken." Jake stated with a smirk on his face.

The class uproared in laughter with a few gasps. Ms. Boid simply shook her head; it was usual for Jake to pull things like this, so no one paid it any mind. 

However, if anyone knew what was really on that now digesting piece of paper, Jake's entire life would be at stake.

Indeed, Jake had quite the secret; on that paper was Band's Recovery chapter two, the second book in a three-book fanfiction trilogy revolving around the J-pop boy band group Mega Adolescent.

He had played an active role in the Mega Adolescent fandom for over a year now. His stories got hundreds of favorites and reviews, most of which were from females who were impressed by his writing.

Jake was surprised he got the type of attention he did; the most popular fics were typically boys love, something Jake didn't care for. He didn't judge it, but he liked the ladies. His stories were typically comedy, or fluff stories about friendships between the boys.

The main problem he would have with people in real life finding out he wrote this was in particular the fact that he wrote about a boy band with the fandom being ninety percent teenage girls. He had met another guy or two in the fandom, but they were rare.

There was nothing really wrong with it; it was the 21st century, after all. There were guys who liked that remake of the classic little girls' show Hoof Tales: Enchanted Friends for God's sake.

Still, Jake had a reputation; as the womanizer, the manly man, the head of the basketball team, the class clown...what would people think if they find out? Would he be labeled feminine? Gay? Geeky?

He didn't like any of those words. And that is why he ate the paper in Ms. Boid's class.

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"Hey, Jake."

A voice came up to Jake as he was walking down the hall to Science. It was none other then his best friend Andrew, also walking to his next class. 

"If you don't mind me asking, what was on that paper?" Andrew asked.

Jake paused for a second, but luckily had already spent the half of Ms. Boid's class he spent not writing fanfiction figuring out cover-up stories.

"I was passing notes to Alice." Jake said to Andrew, not even sure if Alice was in that class. Luckily for him, Andrew mostly slept through class and had no idea who was in it. "It was getting pretty saucy, didn't want her reading it to the whole class, y'know?"

"You think you're gonna get under her knickers?" Andrew asked Jake.

"I'm gonna at least get my hands down her shirt."

That was a lie; Jake wasn't hooking up with Alice. Well...he might have at one point. What he had done at a few parties was still a blur to him. Well, Alice didn't go to many parties anyways; from what Jack knew about her, she was kind of a geek. A cute geek though.

He only hoped Andrew wouldn't manage to run into Alice and say anything about it...

"Nice." Andrew said, high-fiving him. "Welp, gotta get to class. Catch ya later."

With that, Jake went on with the rest of his day, only with the dilemma of having to rewrite his rough draft of chapter two when he got home after basketball practice.