Your Tears On These Sheets

Merlin was fine. Merlin was fine when the school bullies rammed him into the walls and beat bruises into his skin. It was normal that no one cared. None of it seemed to matter.

But then a new boy starts at his school, and Merlin finds his perception of the world thrown into a refraction of a much deeper meaning. Consequently, Merlin finds himself somehow becoming friends with this boy. That is, if Arthur Pendragon doesn't leave him like everyone else has done.