Is A High School Story

Chapter 6

Authors note: Time to see what Richard has been thinking all this time. Are you ready? I know I am! ^^

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Richard's POV

The stars were full on ablaze that night. It was quite dark and had gotten considerably colder, as expected. What a night tonight was. I never thought things would of went that way. I don't even know why I kissed him. I'm not gay..or at least I think I'm not. After his actual confession I was...taken aback yeah, but since that moment my mind went crazy. I started thinking about it more, and thinking about him...And if that's how I really feel then I shouldn't restrict myself or deny myself anything. So I just went along with what my body wanted. What my heart wanted really. And I think I did a pretty good job. I even left him confused, wanting more. Hehe. I sat in the cold waiting for the bus and thought about it more. How should I act in school? The bus came a few seconds later and I got on.

People will be giving him a hard time in school, that's pretty much a given. I probably should keep my distance, even though I don't want to. That would make people ship us more. Or I could go the badass route and just take the insults and rock my relationship with him. But that might not be the best idea. Maybe the best option is act distant at school but hang with him secretly. Probably in places that are exclusive to us. Or less populated areas or whatever. 

I continued to think and ponder until I drifted off to sleep. I woke about one stop away from mine, so that was lucky. I got off and went inside my house and collapsed on the couch, exhausted. Today was one interesting first day all right. I got ready for bed and updated my socials. Once again I lost some followers. Big bruh moment. 

                                        Time skip to the next day; first period....

I sat at my now permanent seat, across from Matt. He kept looking at me and blushing but I couldn't smile back at him, no matter how much I wanted to. Really, really, really wanted to. I saw kids snickering and whispering to each other. as expected. I ignored them, and Matt was doing a good job ignoring them too surprisingly. We got through it all unscathed. As we were leaving the class I slipped Matt a note into his hand and we went our separate ways. It said:

"Crazy day yesterday huh? Wouldn't mind talking more about it, and talking to you again in general. I know that spot in lunch you like to chill at. How about we meet there? If you read this, which hopefully you do. I hope to see you there later."

                                                                                                                       From, your pal Richard.

I couldn't look back at him to see if he read it or not, so I'll just hope he does. 

As well as Matt did prolly, I got my fair share of questions. I denied them, in any form they came in. Even I wasn't 100% sure. But for now, I don't want anyone suspecting anything. Classes still up to this point were a joke. Nothing that difficult yet. But they did go over what we would be doing as time went on. As like, a way to prep ourselves. I've always been good at school, so I didn't pay it too much mind. I just couldn't wait for lunch. Time couldn't move go any slower. But eventually the fated time arrived.

                                                                  Lunchtime...

I walked in with my friends as we sat at our usual table. As they were talking I constantly skimmed and looked for Matt but I didn't see him anywhere. I even got up and faked getting lunch to get a better view but still no sight of him. I went outside and looked around but came up empty. I got teased by people saying I was "looking for my boyfriend" but I didn't care. I wanted to make sure he was okay. Maybe he didn't read my note and had something more important to do. Hmmm...maybe he could be getting something out his locker? Worth a shot. I asked one of the teachers there to use the bathroom and went out into the hallway. I have no clue which locker is his, but once I see him I should know for sure. I searched most of the hallways in the school with lockers but came up with zilch again. I sighed. Maybe I wasted my time. He most likely had something more important to do. As I was walking back to the cafe, one locker stood out to me. Under closer inspection, I realized what had happened.

The locker was covered in gay insults and slurs and other harmful things targeted at gay people. I wasn't even gay really and it hurt me. So it made sense. This is Matt's locker. He probably went to his locker at some point and saw this. I started to feel really bad. If it hurt me and I'm not really gay, I can only imagine how Matt must be feeling...Well I figured out what happened (plus 57 points for me), but I still don't know where he is. Wait no, that's simple too. If i was about to have a breakdown in school, what's the one place I would most definitely go?

I walked into the bathroom and sure enough, I heard quiet sniffling. Everyone's at lunch with their friends, so who would be in the bathroom? He was in the last stall. I knocked softly and the sniffling stopped. I heard some brief movements and I think he stood up. Eventually, he gave a response.

"O-Occupied.."

Poor Matt...his voice sounded so hurt. Time to enter super ultra caring mode. (Yes I know this is cringe.)

"Hey Matt..it's me. I noticed you weren't at lunch and stuff so I went on a little hunt for you. Then I saw you locker and well...I'm really sorry that happened to you. I knew kids would bother you about yesterday, but not to this extent. Do you mind if I come in?"

A few moments of silence passed until I heard the lock moving and the door opened. There stood Matt. His eyes looked puffy from crying. I went into the stall and gave him a tight hug. He hugged me back as tight as I did. He was warm. 

"Will you be okay?"

He slowly nodded. I didn't buy it, and I can tell he knew I didn't. So he said:

"It probably won't ever be okay honestly. People will always hate gays and the LGBTQ community as a whole. For whatever stupid reason, that will always happen. So I just can't brush this off. If I'm going to do this, I have to get used to this."

I didn't know what to say. What he said was completely right, I just didn't expect him to say that. I also didn't expect what he did next. He kissed me back. I covered my mouth blushing. He chuckled.

"I'm just getting you back from last night. What was that about btw? You left me hella confused."

I laughed.

"Honestly, I don't know myself."

We keep chatting and laughing until we heard the bell. I could tell Matt was feeling a bit better now thanks to me. I liked that. We left the bathroom one after the other i went to our classes. I of course, got questioned for my disappearance at lunch, so I made up some fake story and they bought it. The rest of the school day honestly wasn't that eventful. In art me and Matt kept our distance, and that was for the best. After school I did in fact walk with my friends this time. I did see Matt leaving as well and did a semi wave to him. He waved back kinda the same way and that was that. That's how things went for about a week. Me and Matt avoided each other in public, and met up privately somewhere. I even invited him other to my house and I went to his. It was a lot of fun. But then, something happened that made school a lot more tricky.

At the end of Ela class, Mr. Teacher Man announced that we would be having our first project of the school year. Lots of people groaned, including me ngl. I wasn't a fan of essays. Matt looked thrilled though. To this day he baffles me sometimes. Anyways, Mr. Teacher Man said he would keep it simple. We had to write a two page essays minimum about something we don't like in the world and that we would change. Sounds real easy right? Not for me. For whatever reason, I just can't think of anything that I don't like. So far my life has been easy and not filled with any stress. I whispered and asked Matt what he would do, and he said how people treat LGBTQ people. Classic. He said we had till next week Friday to do, which was about 8-9 days. Not that bad. But here's the kicker: we each had a partner that he chose. People also groaned at that idea, but since they had a chance to be with me, it wasn't that bad.

He put all our names in a hat and we each came up and picked one. After everyone got one we had to read the name we got. One by one people called out there name and I didn't hear mine or Matt's. Don't tell me what I think what's going to happen is gonna happen. It was Matt's turn to say his name, and of course, loud and proud, he said mine. The whole class got quiet. I looked at mine and sure enough, I had Matt's name on it.

We both pulled each other out of a shuffled selection. What great luck huh?

Authors Note: Some people are naturally drawn together. Maybe that's what's happening here. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoyed Chapter 6 of my story! Until next time. ^^