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Chapter forty-two: Surprise surprise

𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚

Today is the day Alex decides to break his silent streak.

Alex and I had an mutual agreement. In order to not look suspicious and give away our relationship, if his friends were to pick on me, we would let them. Alex wouldn't join in, yet he would stay quiet.

I don't necessarily need to be stuck up for as it's always been me and Cami dealing with it on our own all this time, so it's not like anything has really changed. The only difference is that the worst person is no longer the worst person. He's the silent person. And because Alex isn't joining in, it has definitely died down a bit, especially with the homophobic comments.

Since Alex's coming out, I don't think I've actually heard anything homophobic been said. It's either because they're afraid of Alex's reaction if he finds out, or they've changed their ways as now the personally know someone who is non-straight.

Today, after almost three months of dating, Alex seems to rip our agreement to shreds and toss it into the bin before setting said bin alight, and in all honestly, I wasn't going to complain about it. It was relieving.

"Oh, look. The queer one." Luke Maddison sneers at me as he walks past me at my locker with Mason Anderson by his side and two other friends, Shawn Jones and William Hunter, behind them.

I note that none of his friends laugh this time when the word queer is said in malice. The last time I got called such thing, in class before Alex and I started dating, when that teacher stood up for me, they all found it quite humorous, leading to them getting detention. Now, no evidence of humour is upon them.

"So are you just going to ignore the fact that your best friend is bisexual or—?" I reply, making Luke halt. He holds a hand up as a way of telling his friends to stop too. He then turns to me with a grimace.

Since dating Alex, I've become more confident in the sticking up for myself area. I think because he's so outwardly self-assured, this assertiveness has kind of leaked onto me. I used to brush him and his friends off and walk away without a word, or utter out something in retaliation before fleeing the scene. I never used to stick around for more than one or two sentences. That has since changed. He's made me stronger.

Luke licks his teeth before responding. "What's this got to do with Alex?"

I narrow my eyes at his thickheadedness, the next words rolling on my tongue and falling out my mouth without even thinking, laced with all the confidence I had, "I mean, you're insulting one of his own."

My heart completely constricts in my chest. I just told him that I'm gay. I spoke without thinking about what I was going to say first, and essentially just came out. I praise the Lord that no one is in earshot of this conversation, or I would be flat out panicking right now.