feelings | cranksepticeye

5 - greg

when ethan realised who he was sat next to, he couldn't help but begin to shake. it was that boy felix and seán were talking about; greg. and sat next to him was one of his friends he was messing about with outside of the door before class started. he was still messing about with his friend and not paying attention to the teacher. but the teacher didn't tell him to be quiet. she was used to him talking over her.

"welcome back class. i hope you had a nice break. i also hope you completed the homework i set you before break. if you have completed it, put it on your table so i can collect it." mostly everyone pulled out a sheet of paper and placed it on their desk, apart from obviously greg, his posse and...seán.

"shit.." he whispered as he looked through his bag. the teacher seemed to notice his struggle and made another announcement to her class.

"anyone who didn't bring their homework with them today will be having a ten minute detention during their lunch break." ethan heard seán sigh and zip his bag back up before sitting back in his seat and folding his arms.

"well..ten minute detention it is.." he whispered. the teacher, miss grazer, began walking around the classroom slowly, retrieving the students homework's. whenever she came across a student who didn't have theirs, she would tut at them, smack her red pen down on their desk, and tell them they had a ten minute detention during their lunch break. and she did the exact same thing with seán.

when she walked away to the back of the class, seán leaned over to ethan.

"wanna wait outside for me at lunch? everyone else will wait there too." ethan felt unsure about waiting in an unfamiliar place with people he didn't really know for ten minutes, but it's not like he had anywhere else to be, so he said yes. plus, if he wanted to have any friends to hang out with, he would have to stand around and talk to people, even though that was the one thing he didn't like doing.

miss grazer had finally taken in everybody's work and returned to her desk at the front of the classroom. she reminded everyone about the punishment for not handing in the work, before giving everyone instructions for the work.

time skip

it was now time for the schools lunch break. well, everybody except for the people who had detentions, and that group of people included seán. him, ethan and the rest of his friends made their way up to the dingy maths classroom so that seán could waste ten minutes of his life.

"i'll be back...maybe.." seán said before entering the classroom and shutting the door behind him. an awkward silence between everyone followed. for a little while, it was just bob, wade, mark, tyler and felix having a conversation with each other, whilst ethan stood there nervously waiting for seán to come back out. it was weird; he didn't know seán that well at all, and really, they had barely talked, but ethan was already feeling an attachment to him.

"you seem like the nervous type." a voice said. ethan snapped out of his thoughts to look at who was speaking to him; it was mark.

"uh...what?" ethan replied, still struggling to process the statement.

"i'm just saying. hood always up, hands constantly in your pockets, barely talking, never starting up conversations...you seem like the nervous type." mark elaborated. ethan nodded slowly, not really sure how to respond.

"yeah...i guess you could say i am..." and for the first time, mark actually smiled at ethan.

"well, you don't need to be. not around us." ethan smiled back, his view of mark changing completely. maybe he wasn't so bad after all.

"thanks. i'll keep that in mind.." ethan said and from there, the two talked to each other for pretty much the entire ten minutes. it was like they were best friends who had known each other for years. that still didn't change how happy and relieved ethan was when he saw seán exit the classroom.

"have fun babe?" felix asked.

"shut up." seán replied, the look on his face priceless. everyone laughed, even ethan.

"what are you fags laughing at?" a new, mocking voice asked. seán looked behind him and saw greg with his friends standing by the lockers. everyone in the group rolled their eyes and didn't even bother replying, they just started to walk away. but greg and his dumbass friends followed.

"i asked you a question." greg said, standing right in front of seán.

"and i ignored it." seán tried getting around the other boy, but it didn't work. instead he was pushed back slightly into tyler. the two boys stumbled a little bit, but soon regained their balance.

"so...you recruited a new kid. what's his name?" everyone stayed quiet, not wanting to give an answer.

"what's his fucking name?"

"why does it matter? quit bugging us, don't you have some pot to smoke at the back of the school or something?" bob said, earning a small laugh from his friends.

"well, if you won't tell me, i'll ask him myself. new kid, what's your name?" greg jabbed his finger into ethan's chest, making ethan wince and let out a small whimper.

"e-ethan.." at that point he wasn't all too sure if answering the question would help him or not.

"ethan...let me tell you something. never ever get in my way. don't bother me. don't annoy me. because if you do, i'll make sure you don't do it again." ethan took a few steps back, his heart beating out of his chest. this is the last thing he wanted. to be threatened by some random kid. he had come to this school for a fresh start, not for a repeat.

"leave him alone dipshit. in fact, leave all of us alone." seán stepped in front of ethan and confronted greg. he growled and finally gave in, walking away with his group of friends, all whilst shouting slurs at the other group of boys.

"he won't hurt you. trust me. he makes that empty threat to everyone." seán began to reassure ethan that he would be fine, and that greg wouldn't lay a hand on him. but the nervous boy was still terrified of what would happen to him if he was to one day, 'get in greg's way'.