Maroon

Chapter 2: Max

"fucking dike" "faggot" "tranny" "that's disgusting" "kill yourself" " they all repeat inside my head; they haunt my dreams. I can never forget what I went through, and what I'm still going through now... like, you know those dreams you have when you go to school naked. Well... It doesn't even compare when your dream is almost a reality. "Get up!" my mom yells into my ear. I'm startled awake as I see my mom kneeling down next to me with a grin on her face. "Hey sweetie, time for school" I groan and pull the covers back up over my head; my mom puts her hands on her hips her face almost in a pout. She gets up and walks out of the room "You better be ready by the time we leave!" she hollers down the hallway. I groan again and sleepily climb out of bed; I yawn and stretch my arms high up in the air. I walk to my closet to look for something to wear, and of course I go with the usual: ripped jeans, high top sneakers, a muscle tank, and a hoodie. I slip my shoes on and quickly comb my hair with my fingers.

I walk to the front door to see my mom looking at her phone with her keys in hand. After a slight moment of silence and me staring her at she looks up from her phone "Oh!" she then looks me up and down to see what I'm wearing "Would it kill you to wear a dress once in a while" almost a desperation in her voice "Yes it would" I say with a smirk; she frowns "Fine." I'm not exaggerating though, I would rather kill myself than wear a dress for even a second; we walk out of the house and I walk to the car as my mother is locking the door. She catches up to me and unlocks the car door and I sit in the front next seat to her; she gets in and slams the door shut putting the keys into the ignition. As the car is starting up there is an utter silence, and it stays that way for the rest of the car ride to school.

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I drop my bag beside my desk and plop myself into my chair with a sigh. I wonder if i turned off my phone? I reach into my back pocket and pull it out; when I press the power button the screen illuminates showing that I had received a text from my friend Kate wonder what she wants. I double tap the text "Hey did you hear? There's gonna be a new kid coming today!"

I text back "cool? Am I supposed to care?" she quickly texts back "don't be such a stick in the mud; you might like him. I hear he's pretty cute." I chuckle "I'll be the one to judge~" before she texts back I power off my phone quickly putting it back into my pocket so I don't get caught with it.

I hear a loud bang next to me and see that Brendon (another one of my friends) drops his stuff and sits down at the desk next to me. He looks back at me with a grin "wassup" I nod in return "sup." Brendon has a short brown hair, pale skin, slightly pink lips, and blue-grey eyes (and to be honest I think he's kinda cute, but I feel like since we're close friends it would be weird if I asked him out or started dating him so I've never bothered to try.) he turns back to me "What are we doing today?" I stare him down "ummmm you could look at the board" he frowns in return and sits forward in his seat. "You didn't have to be so rude about it" he crosses his arms and sulks in the corner. A laugh escapes me, he is so adorable.