Chapter 2: Back to school

I woke up to the sound of my alarm. It has been so long since I heard it that I forgot how annoying it is. After I turn it off I hear my brothers alarm go off. Even though we are in different rooms, it sounds louder than mine. It gets really annoying so I put on my wireless headphones, turn on some music and get ready for school.

When I finish getting dressed and brushing my teeth, I go downstairs and get some breakfast. I see a sticky note on the drawer saying that mum won't be home till late tonight. It has been a while since she's had to work late I think as I finish my breakfast.

I hear Max coming downstairs a few minutes later looking weirdly happy.

"Good morning little bro. How was your sleep?" I look at him with a confused expression on my face.

"It was fine but more importantly why are you so happy this early in the morning?"

He looks at me with a proud and confident look.

"I am bringing Danielle on a surprise date today. She has no idea that it is happening."

"Nice, well I better get going. Don't want to be late on my first day back, do I?"

I walk to the door grabbing my coat as I go. When I open the door I see Noah standing there with his hand out ready to knock. Well this is a surprise, I think to myself. When I look behind him I see Danielle standing there by her car.

"Oh ya I forgot to tell you. Noah is transferring to your school this year so Danielle said she could give you a ride to school with Noah." Max says to me as he comes out of the kitchen.

"Well if it is alright with you Sam." Danielle quickly says as she comes to the door.

"Y-ya that's fine with me." I say back still looking at Noah who looks slightly awkward. I think it is just my imagination because there's no reason for him to be.

"I think it is about time for you to go and Danielle, could you come back over when your done dropping them off?" Max says with a smile.

"Ya I can come over after." she says with a knowing smile.

"Well bye then Max."

Noah starts to walk to the car and I follow him. We get into the car and as we are driving out of the driveway Noah turns to me.

"So before we get to school is there anyone I should stay away from?"

"You better get comfy because this is going to be a long ride." I say with a sad sigh.

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As I finish the long list of idiots who go to our school we arrive at the gates.

"Well here we are boys. Time to get out of my car."

"Well thanks for the ride Danielle." I say as I get out of the car.

"No problem Sam. Do you want a lift home after school too?"

"If it's alright then I would like that." I say quietly but loud enough for her to hear.

"Ya it's fine. Just meet me here after school. You to Noah!" Danielle shouts to him.

"Ya Ya I know."

"Also Sam, you should teach your brother to be more discrete. I know he asked me to go back to you house because he has something planned." Danielle says to me with a smirk as she starts the car.

I smile and wave at her as she drives off leaving just me and Noah standing at the school gates. As we start to walk to the school door Noah nudges me.

"Well, shall we hurry up then? Don't want to be late."

As we walk towards the doors of the school, I am getting more and more anxious. Last time I was here everyone found out I was gay. Ya the whole school knows. It was not fun. Lots of people either ignored me or looked at me with disgusted looks.

I am not too bothered by it now. Hence the rainbow badge on my shirt. I am more confident and don't really care what other people think or how they act.

Only 2 people actually kept talking to me and that was my 2 best friends. Their names are Jane and Ace. Jane is a small 5'8" girl with black, long hair and she always wears bright coloured clothes and has black eyes. Ace on the other hand always wears dark coloured clothes. He has short brown hair with blond highlights and is 6'2".

As me and Noah reach the door I see Jane and Ace standing there waiting for me like they always do. As I get closer they notice me and run over to give me a hug.

"OMG Sam, it feels like forever since I last saw you. How have you been?" Jane says as she hugs me really tight.

"I was fine until you started trying to kill me." I reply trying to breath while laughing, which I found out was very difficult.

"Oh sorry." she says letting me go with a smirk.

"And who may you be." Ace says looking over at Noah with a serious face.

"Oh ya Jane, Ace this is Noah. Noah these are my friends Jane Night and Ace Lancer." I quickly say forgetting I needed to introduce them.

"And how do you two know each other." Jane and Ace question at the same time.

They have a bad habit of doing that.

"Noah is a friend of my brother's girlfriend."

"YOUR BROTHER HAS A GIRLFRIEND!!!!" Jane and Ace scream in shock.

"Yes he does. Her name is Danielle. Also please never scream like that again, it hurt my ears."

After catching up we head into the school. Jane and Ace on either side of me looking like some sort of bodyguards. Noah is looking at us weird but he stays silent, which I am thankful for because I don't feel like telling him the reason yet.

I said I am more confident now but that doesn't mean that there isn't anything that scares me about coming into school. As we reach are lockers I start to relax thinking that no one has noticed me yet. My hopes are short lived when my locker slams closed and I look to see the person I wanted to avoid the most. Mathew, the one person in the school who refuses to leave me alone after finding out I was gay.

"Look who decided to come back to school after all." he says smirking and I know too well what that means.