CHAPTER TWO

It was the Monday after the party I was freezing walking to school and that's when I remembered why I hated snow, I couldn´t skate to school, I had to walk and that meant taking more time to get to school. I was shaking walking by Roy's street, remembering when I saw him and his dad and I'm not going to deny that I'm not curious, I hope it was just a misunderstanding.

I got to class and sat on my usual seat, alone. It is weird for Roy to miss school, he falls asleep in class, yes, but at least he shows up. I know we are not friends but I wish I had his number just to make sure he is okay.

Okay, WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? Why am I worried about him? I never cared before and I completely have no idea as to why I am worrying now, never worried for other people other than my mom, Linda and Lucas.

I ignored myself, starting to worry about my well-being, maybe I was getting sick? Maybe I was going crazy, it seemed reasonable, thinking non-stop about a guy I have talked to once in my whole life, I shook my head and tried to pay attention to class but the more I tried to let it go, the harder I thought about him.

"Gray... GRAY!" I Looked up and the room was empty, only me and the teacher in front of me. "The class is over, you okay?" "Uh... yeah, sorry" I grabbed my backpack and hurried out of there before he could ask me more questions.

Linda was by my locker waiting for me? "Hey" I greeted her and opened my locker. "Hey? HEY!? That's all you have to say? You left the party without saying anything, not even a text on the whole weekend, you didn't stay to see Lucas play and all you have to say is 'hey'!?" I didn't even know I acted like a jerk until now. "I'm sorry, I was just out of it, don't be mad, I will buy you an ice cream?" I smiled nervously, maybe Linda was short and cute but she scared me every time she got angry. "Don't even think of buying me with ice cream young man, (by this point she had her finger raised at me, oh boy) you could have at least thought of a good excuse, out of it seems a little bit worn off don't you think?"

I apologized multiple times while walking down the hallway to have lunch, I hugged her, used my charming smile, called her beautiful, it took me a whole 10 minutes to hear her murmur "It better be Choco mint douche, or I will punch you, I want to punch you" Hearing the empathized 'punch you' between her teeth made me gulp, she scares me more than my mom.

When we got into the cafeteria Lucas was sitting at our table when he looked up at me, he gave me the dirtiest stare, I gulped again, why do I have such scary friends? "Stop making a hole in my head, I can feel the knife with your eyes, I'm really sorry Lucas" I was even scared to breathe. "Sorry? I'm really disappointed, I really wanted you to see me play, the whole point to convince you to go to the party was for you to see me" "I'm so- wait, what's that supposed to mean?" What was that whole 'me' about? "What do you mean?" "That whole 'me' thing, what do you mean?" He sighed before responding "Everyone knows that you were with Roy, he is popular to not talk to anyone at these things and you just were sitting together, chatting, everyone started to make rumors about it. That's it? You turn gay now and treat me like trash?"

Linda threw a glare at Lucas, who clearly got out of line. "Hey, I said sorry about it okay? You gotta chill and one I'm not gay, two, screw you for even thinking of that, of course, I care about you, you are my best friend, I get that you are mad but now you are treating me like trash, and what? It pisses you so much I got a friend who isn't you? Who the hell do you think you are? People really need to mind their own business"

By this moment I was standing and yelling, the whole cafeteria was dead quiet and everyone was staring, of course, I walked out, pissed, probably I overreacted but I was not really in the mood for his bullshit and I get I was the one who did wrong first but geez, he doesn't have the right to talk to me like that.

After my last class finished, I saw Lucas leaning on his car outside, he waved at me to come over and I did, I wasn't going to act childish, he is my best friend. "Things got really heated up back there, didn't they" "I guess so. Sorry about not seeing you play dude, I really am" "I know, sorry for being a jerk" He smiled at me. "That's okay, I was a jerk too" I was going to say goodbye when he said "You want a ride? It's freezing" "No it's okay, I'm not really on your way" "That's fine, come on, hop on" "Fine, thank you" I got in and got in charge of the AUX.

"See you tomorrow?" He said after I got out. I looked back and saw the copilot's window rolled down "Yeah" he waved goodbye smiling and drove off. From inside I could already hear my mother yelling on the phone with that jerk Samuel, the famous Samuel, I have never met him but mom seems to be fond of yelling at him.

I made dinner, homemade pizza, my mother didn't complain nor complimented my food, she was satisfied just by getting any, didn't care what she got, I kissed her on the forehead like I always do and went downstairs to my room, watching Netflix while I ate. After that I went to take a shower and my thoughts about Roy reappeared, I hope he is okay, I lay on my bed not being able to sleep because of him.