Syn#1:Heaven is a Syn away MxM (Staten Krown)

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I was guilty of gluttony.

T-Boy was guilty of sloth.

Ms. Nicole was guilty of avarice.

Byron was guilty of lust

Sampson was guilty of envy.

Mercedes (Trash) was guilty of wrath.

Dr. Lopez was guilty of pride.

Those were the 7 sins listed by Dante's Divine Comedy (in the

Purgatory). I had a lot of time to read when I sat in detention. I

learned more in detention then in class. I'd realized that my past was

covered with sins and sinners. With so many sins surrounding me, I also

realized that no one was truly perfect.

I had come to the conclusion that Brunswick was some kind of

representation of hell on earth.

Ever feel like you had to run away and you had to do it at that very

moment? You ever feel like you just needed a change of scene to help you

figure things out? I wanted a break now. I wanted a get-away.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~///~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~////~~~~~ It was

Friday and I was finally ready to go on the trip. I'd spent all week

preparing for it. I had found a couple of nice snow outfits for the

mountain area that we were going to. Ms. Nicole had booked the place. It

was somewhere in the Pocono Mountains.

I definitely needed this trip. The school had gotten a little crazy.

Everyone had mixed emotions when they found out that I was beefing with Big

Rob, Erica and the other admired students. It seemed like I was the most

well- known boy in the school, but I was beefing with everyone that decided

who was popular or not. There was this whole buzz around the school.

People walked around me as though they were walking on glass. They were

careful to see every move I made, as though expecting me to publicly get

into an argument with the popular kids around me. The weird buzz was

almost like watching a movie and you knew that a climax was coming soon, so

you sharpened your senses to make sure you didn't miss it.

I needed a break from all that. I wasn't going to say anything to Big

Rob and the others, if they didn't say anything to me. The only thing that

seemed to be keeping a peace was the point that we had T-Boy in common. T-

Boy (though standing up to Big Rob) was still friends with Big Rob and all

the popular kids.

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"Syn, I'll help you with your stuff," T-Boy offered.

He took my biggest suitcase and headed out front out of my room.

T-Boy didn't seem to be so sad that Byron and I were going with Lamont and

Sampson for the weekend. The only one in the house was Yolanda and she