Attracting Opposites

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waking up in his bed and hitting off on his alarm, sam golbach got up and headed to his closet. he looked for an outfit to wear for school, aka hell. sam picked out black ripped skinny jeans with a pastel pink shirt that has a knot on the side and white shoes. sam walks out of his room and to the bathroom, he sets his alarm for two minutes and starts brushing his teeth. once he finished brushing his teeth he did his skin care routine which consists of lotion, foundation to flatten his uneven skin tones, and a small bit of acne oil to remove his pimples and acne scars, then replied more foundation.

"sammy! come down!" his mother called him from the kitchen. so sam cleaned up his things and finished brushing his hair nicely to the side. sam walked out of the bathroom and down the stairs through the living room and the kitchen. there he sees his brother, ben, and his sister, allison sitting at the table along with their nanny and their butler cooking them their breakfast.

"nancy? can i walk to school today?" sam asked politely sitting next to his nanny. his nanny thought about it for a minute.

"um, sure sam" nancy finally says, "thank you" she says to john, their butler. as john goes back to the stove to finish cooking sam gets up and decides to leave early.

"nancy, john, i'm going to school don't bother making breakfast for me this morning, i'm having a fruit yogurt cup. bye, i'll text you when i get to school" sam said waving and skipping out the door, smiling. sam walked out of their pen house and started down the road listening to music with his headphones. there, almost at school sam sees a boy, about his age, he's crying on a broken down apartment building that his mother told him to never go by.

"hey?" sam whispers walking close to the boy not wanting to startle him. the boy looks up at sam and his heart demolishes. the boy's beautiful, blue eyes faded with tears and hair a mess.

"hi" the boy says softly wiping his own tears. the boy's jeans have many, many, many rips in them along with his arm that happens to have a bunch of cuts on it. sam can't tell if the cuts are intentional or something bad is happening in his home.

"i'm sam. you seem sad and maybe you want company" sam smiles a bit at the boy sitting down beside him. the teary-eyed boy looks at sam and smiles slightly.

"thanks. i'm colby" colby says quietly crossing his arms around his legs.

"you seem... hurt" sam points out hoping it's not too straight forward. colby doesn't reply he just hugs his arms hiding them away from sam's eyes.

"um, yeah you could say" colby says looking at the ground. sam bites his lip a bit and sits his bag neatly down next to him.

"do you have school? if we both go to Blue Valley we can walk in together" sam says pointing at the school.

"oh shit. i gotta go get my bag, and yeah please" colby says to sam getting up and running in the basically abandoned apartment building. sam stands up and picks his bag up putting it on his back and grabbing his phone from his back pocket.

colby walks out of the building wiping his tears again and points a sam's phone "isn't that the new iPhone? how do you have one?" colby asks and furrows his eyebrows.

"my dad works at apple" is all sam says and he walks down the stone steps and starts walking. colby is standing at the doorway watching sam, sam motions for colby to follow him breaking colby out of his strange trance and walks beside him.

"what grade are you in?" colby asked after a short while and he looked over at sam slightly smiling.

"freshman" sam replied looking at his new school and gulps.

"im a freshman too" colby smiles lightly and opens the school gates for him and sam. "so you seem preppy but i like you" colby says laughing and shutting the gate again.

sam laughs "my aunt used to call me "preppyuel. i don't know why, i think she was trying to be creative and put preppy with samuel" sam looks over at colby whose looking down at their hands swinging next to each other.

sam bites his lip and looks down at their hands as well. colby brushes his hand against sam's hand so if sam didn't like it colby would know, yet - sam kept his hand next to colby's and intertwined their fingers a bit. colby smiles holding sam's soft hand as they walk into the school yard. "hey gaybach! did you finally make a friend?" sam hears apollo yell and his group of bullies cackle after. sam let's go of colby's hand and turns around facing them and flips them off as they cackle even more.

"bullies?" colby asks pouting slightly missing sam's hand. sam just nods and continues walking. "sam, i know what it's like to have bullies it's ok" colby looks at sam and sam looks back at him. "i had to transfer from my last school, because i had a friend named dean, and we got bullied all the time, one day i just snapped and i basically beat all of them and of course i got expelled"

"you?! you seem so sweet" sam laughs a bit stopping to lean against the fence and colby does the same.

"believe me i am" colby laughs and looks over at sam who's looking at colby. colby looks down at sam's lips and starts leaning in, just as the bell rings. colby moves away from sam and starts walking as sam does pouting.

"do you have your schedule?" sam asks colby and colby takes it out of his pocket, its slightly torn up. sam bites his slip wanting to say something but he just takes his schedule out of his pocket and lines it up next to colby's. "we have first, second, fourth, lunch, seventh, and ninth together" colby says and smiles, thankful as hell.

sam smiles and walks in, "where's your locker?" sam asks and stands against the wall pulling colby with him so they don't get trampled by seniors. "mines at the end of hall 500, number 79" sam says and colby turns his paper around.

"end of hall 500, number 81" colby says and smiles, "it's basically fate that we were to be friends" colby laughs and they start walking to their locker. "i wanna know who's locker is in between ours" colby's says and smiles.

sam laughs, "me too. hopefully they're nice. '' sam gets off of the wall and starts walking to their lockers with colby behind him. when they get close to their locker they see a guy, he has bleached hair and chains on his neck and pants, he has black ripped skinny jeans and a black band shirt with black and white striped sleeve shirt under. sam and colby look at each other with wide eyes and separate and go to their own lockers. the guy between them looks at sam then at colby and sees his clothes tattered and ripped.

"you ok bub?" the guy asks colby and closes his locker. colby looks over at sam and he shrugs.

"yeah i'm fine, im colby" colby smiles at the guy

"jake" jake says and looks over at sam who shuts his locker and turns to them.

"what? oh i'm sam" sam says and smiles at jake and looks at colby, "can we all compare schedules?" sam asks and looks down and a piece of his hair falls in his face. colby leans toward sam and puts the piece of hair behind his ear and smiles.

"so are you two like dating?" jake asks and sam's face flushes and colby puts a hand over half of his face and smiles.

"nooo" sam laugh and looks away from them.

"uh huh" jake says and takes out his schedule and colby and sam do the same. "we have first period all together, i have third period with sam, forth with both of you, lunch with both of you, sixth with colby, eighth with colby, and ninth with both of you" jake says and smiles at colby then at sam, then the bell rings. sam grips onto his books that are in front of his chest and walks next in between colby and jake.

"look at that gaybach has two friends now! wait until they both leave you, once they find out what you are they're gonna leave you faster than your ex did!" they hear apollo yell at sam and cackles after. jake looks at colby with wide eyes and colby does the same. colby takes sam's books and grabs sam's hand still walking. sam smiles and walks holding colby's hand and next to jake.

the three arrive at their first period and the sit in the back, colby deciding it was best if any of the rude people were in that class. jake sits by the isle, sam to his left, then jake to sam's left. colby smiles at sam just as the class starts and the social studies teacher walks in.