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Lunch

I shook my head.

Just because max fucked up my mood , doesn't mean I'm going to miss lunch. Plus Milo needs someone to sit with.

I walked to the cafeteria and caught up with Milo in line.

"Uhm, don't cut in line ,benji." A girl said, saying my name with more force than any of the other on words.

I scrunched is my face.

"Uhm, yeah, piper, not like you didn't do that to me with you and your thot squad every day freshman year." I said, rolling my eyes and turning back to a , now smiling Milo.

She scoffed, and pushed some of her hair back behind her ear.

"Listen everyone, benji thinks his all that now that he's gay." She sneered. Some people laughed behind her in the lunch line, Milos face grew angry.

"Piper y-" I started, but Milo cut me off, stepping in front of me.

"Listen here, bitch." Milo said, getting close to her face, "You are not better than everyone else, despite what your parents told you. You don't have any right at all to throw around slurs, and especially not to my friend. Take your entitled ass somewhere where people want it, which is fucking farrr from here." He said, ending with a shove to her shoulders.

My jaw was dropped to the ground. Milo was practically a nobody before we were friends, or , maybe I just saw him that way because I thought I was better than everyone else.

But he didn't really have many friends, he never really talked.

Although that night when I spilt my alcohol on him at a party, he definitely stood up for himself. Yes, the result ended up with straight me punching him, but he still did it. I guess I've just never noticed that about him.

"Well, maybe I will leave. Wouldn't want to be around the two gay dudes." She huffed, turning on her heel and making clicking noises as she walked away with them.

"You know, you can be friends with gay people and not he gay!" Milo shouted, flipping her off and returning back to our original place in line.

"Thanks for that, Milo." I said, patting him on the back.

He smiled.
"No problem benji, I know you'd do the same for me." He smiled.

He grabbed two trays, and handed me one of them.

"So, what did you have to tell me." He said, grabbing a milk and placing it on his tray.

"Oh shit, the pile has multiplied since I've said that." I said, opening the fridge and grabbing a fruit drink.

"Well, might as well start now." He shrugged, grabbing the meal ,which happened to be tacos.

"So basically, my friends from summer camp finally responded. They told me they couldn't respond because some jack ass was buying and smoking pot on the school grounds and so they got their phones taken until the person who did it confessed." I said.

He laughed.
"Holy shit."

I grabbed a taco and put it on my tray, along with some napkins and a side salad.

"Yeah, and so I was like , that's great but could you tell me what happened to jorge and why he blocked me." I continued, as he typed in his lunch PIN number .

"That's sixty cents left sweetie." The lady said to him. He nodded.

"And Xowie told me that he said he wasn't good enough for me. She told me he was smoking weed everyday, every night, in between each of his classes..." I trailed off, concentrating on typing in my number.

"Ten dollars left." She said. I nodded.

"Shit, was he the jack ass that got everyone's phones taken?" He asked, as we walked our way out of the cafeteria and into the commons.

"Yeah, but before that she told me he would hook up with every guy he damn near saw-" I said, my voice breaking a bit. I couldn't really tell if saying all of this to milo was making me feel better or worse.

He looked at me, his face dropped from the sarcastic, easy-going look.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

Fuck. Am I?

I stared at my shoes and shrugged.

"It's okay not to be. He hurt you, and that's not okay. It's valid for you to be upset." He said.

I nodded.

We sat down on the wire bench and I checked my phone.

Benji !!
Max just cornered me in the bathroom and told me to stay away from u.

Thought u guys weren't friends anymore

Ben :)
Omg what? Are you okay? Why did he tell me to stay away from you?

And no, trust me, him and I are not friends.

Well, I guess it was just max being his normal, shit-face self.

Okay, I believe you.

Ben :) is typing...
Ben :) is typing...

Hey, do you want to hang out after school?

Sure. Meet me at my locker.

I don't know why he was being weird about hanging out , we hung out that other night and he seemed fine.

I shut off my phone and continued to eat my lunch with milo.

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Hey so it might be awhile before I update again. I want to take the time to figure out how to treat myself the way I'm supposed to be treated.

It won't be too long, nothing drastic like a month. Maybe a week or two. I'm sorry <3 ily all and I really hope you're enjoying the story