Chapter 12: School

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The alarm blared which made Delirious groan.

It was the first day of senior fucking year.

He felt around the nightstand and grabbed his phone, squinting when the bright light hit his eyes. 6 AM. Delirious groaned again and shut off his alarm before sitting up and feeling around for his mask. Putting it on, Delirious got up and got dressed. Even if it was the first day of school, that didn't stop him from wearing jeans and his blue bomber jacket. He was going to wear his old mask and not the new one to school.

Delirious did all his hygienic necessities and trudged downstairs to Wildcat's Mom and Dad already gone for work and Wildcat wasn't even awake yet. He went through the cupboards and got out some Cheerios and grabbed the milk from the fridge. He was already leaning against the counter and had his mask pulled up to eat when he heard Wildcat trotting down the stairs.

"Delirious?" Wildcat called, he peered around the corner and Delirious waved with a mouth full of cereal. "Ready for the first day of school?" He chuckled, Delirious rolled his eyes and finished his cereal milk before setting his bowl and spoon into the sink.

He checked the time on his phone, "I just gotta brush my teeth and then I'll be ready." And with that, he disappeared into the upstairs to brush his teeth.

Wildcat was smiling and texting someone when Delirious came back downstairs, Delirious smirked and went up to him. "Texting Kelly?" Wildcat jumped.

"Oh! Holy fuck! Yeah, I am." He was blushing while looking at his phone screen. "Are we going to drive separately?" He asked, Delirious nodded and grabbed his new backpack which was just a semi-large messenger bag that was strapped across his chest. No way in hell was he going to use his locker this year, no need for those small and things.

Delirious grabbed both their keys and threw Wildcat's keys to him without looking and by the sound of it, he caught them with no problem.

They got in their cars and Delirious was the first to leave, and he knew he would be the first to arrive at school out of the two of them because Wildcat was going to pick Kelly up and then head to school because she only lives a few blocks from him.

Delirious parked and got out, people stared as he exited his vehicle and clicked the button to lock it. Vanoss was waiting for him by the entrance, leaning against the wall beside the door. There was a murmur and multiple stares when Delirious pressed himself against Vanoss and pulled up his mask from the bottom and pulled his boyfriend's mask down so they could kiss. Vanoss cradled his boyfriend's chin in his fingers.

There was a whistle and the two boys looked up to see Marcel and Simone approaching them, Simone's ring was glittering in the late summer's sunlight. "Hey, guys, ready for one final year of hell?" Marcel joked and fist bumped Vanoss.

"Hell yeah, brother!" Kryoz answered for everyone, he took a final rip of his vape before stuffing it in his back and releasing the smoke into the air.

The so-far small group greeted him and up came Aliyah and Nogla, he had his arm around her in a very protective way. Wildcat and Kelly were next (people were checking out Wildcat's car), then Terroriser and Lanai with Terroriser's bionic eye open fully to the public. Fitz came up with Swagger, Racc, Zuckles, and Nut.

Everyone thought Toby was last when he joined their group but then Smii7y came with a girl on his hip, turns out she here over the summer and her name was Chloe.

"Hey, Swagger, where's Bee?" Zuckles asked, everyone joined in on asking.

"Oh, she's here, just not with me. I asked her out but she just wants to be friends." Everyone hugged Swagger, Fitz was towering over everyone, of course.

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All through first period, English, nobody could shut up about Mickey and how he shot someone and got arrested. Delirious just looked at Kryoz and they both laughed. "What is going on back there?" The teacher finally asked and everyone went silent.

Delirious finally broke the silence, "they're all talking about what happened to Mickey. That kid was a psychopath and got what he deserved." There were shouts of protest and someone said something that set Delirious off.

"Like you?" There was an eruption of laughter and Delirious and Kryoz both stood up, glaring at the kid being ready to pounce at any second.

"Uncalled for, Jared. But Mr. Denis, how do you know what happened to Mickey? This information wasn't shared to students."

Everyone sat down and Kryoz shot a look at Delirious but he just nodded and Kryoz sat down. "Lets just say that I got front row seats to that show and Mickey and I butted heads during the summer." The events of Delirious putting a sack over Mickey's head and keeping him restrained while Nogla interogated him played over in his head.

"I see. Well, since it's the first day of school, why doesn't everyone share what they did this summer?" Mr. Kleir sat laid back in his chair and out his feet up on the desk.

People went one-by-one telling basically the same damn thing, partying, vacations, shopping, movies, typical teenager stuff. Then it was Kryoz's turn and soon to be Delirious'. "Well, all I really did was stay home and hang out with my friends. Nothing too exciting." People nodded and now for Delirious.

He kinda wanted to brag about what he did, "I turned 18 and got a car, got a boyfriend, got kicked out of my house for having that boyfriend, watched someone get engaged, got a job, and got this:" Delirious pulled up his right sleeve to reveal his teddy bear tattoo. People were tripping over themselves to look at it.

"Who got engaged?" One girl named Samantha asked once everyone sat back down, she had red hair and glasses.

"Did you not see the Instagram posts? Marcel Cunningham and his girlfriend, Simone." People gasped and Delirious pulled up Simone's Instagram post to show them. People were tripping over themselves yet again to look at the phone screen. Delirious strained over the crowd to look at Kryoz who was smiling that stupid smile.

"But they're only Seniors! I didn't know people were getting engaged when they were in school still!" Mr. Kleir threw his arms up in exasperation.

"Sir, they've been together for almost five years and she and Marcel went through hell just to be with each other." Kryoz said in a matter-of-factly tone and Mr. Kleir just said "pshhhh" and chuckled.

The bell rang and everyone was excused, Delirious and Kryoz were crowded by people talking to them.

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