No fair Ch. 1 +boys love+

Chapter one



I sat in the hard, wooden school desk, just like every other school day. My fingers shook against the desk, and my leg shook against the leg of my chair. Most of the kids looked at me weird, like I was sitting on a seal juggling flaming bowling balls. It was a new school, no one knew me, and no one wanted to know me.

Who wants to hang out with a twitchy sixteen-year-old? I sure as heck wouldn’t want to. Not even medicine or medical treatment could cure me of my twitch, but my older brother, who was the only one who wanted to deal with me after the death of my parents, didn’t mind.

My clothes weren’t in ‘style’: I wore baggy, sometimes ripped, jeans; shirts that I had drawn on or were so baggy that I looked five sizes bigger than I actually was, and my old black hoodie; and old Chuck Taylors that I could soon wear as sandals. I always wondered to myself if I really looked so weird that I had been, basically, quarantined from everyone else. It was because the majority doesn’t accept us defects.

I heard the class room door slam and my upper body shook as a violent twitch grabbed me. I never really liked loud noises.

The teacher stormed in, obviously not happy, and slapped a ruler against the dry board. Everyone jumped, except for me. I just twitched again.

“Alright, listen up!” Her voice was military-like, her round glasses sitting on the end of her narrow nose and her blonde hair pulled back into a tight bun. She even stood like a soldier. “We have a new student today,” oh no, “Come, Edward, stand up and introduce yourself.”

My shaky fingers gripped the desk, and I mumbled through my teeth, “I’d rather not.” I could feel the nervous twitches already building up as I felt eyes turn towards me. My mind screamed to run, my dark hair covering my widening eyes.

The teacher wouldn’t let me be. “Come on, everyone introduces themselves one their first day.” The students gave off an air of agreement. I imagined they all had evil, cartoon-like smirks on their faces, waiting for the new kid to stand up and make a fool of himself. That didn’t make me feel better. My hands started to shake worse. “It won’t kill you, get up here!” She raised her voice.

I shuffled out of my seat, cursing fluently in my head as a quickly walked to the teachers side. I kept my head down, my arms super-glued to my sides. I could feel myself already starting to twitch as everyone stared at me.

“This is Edward Courlock, he is our new student from New York.” She had such a commanding voice, it made me want to disappear into my pants and never come out. “Tell us some things about you, Edward.”

My voice wouldn’t work, my body just shut down on me. I stood there, frozen solid, my eyes burning holes into the ground in front of my feet. I heard a student whisper to his neighbor ‘is that kid retarded or something?’ The comment spread through the whole class, and everyone was soon laughing. They were laughing at me: stupid, old, twitchy me. I would’ve ran if my legs would’ve worked. The teacher was yelling at the kids to be quiet, I think, because I felt numb. All the sounds were jumbled together and my vision went completely black.

I passed out before even falling to the floor.

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My eyes opened slowly, looking at the perfect white ceiling. Where was I? I looked around, white curtains hung around me, stopping me from seeing anything else. I sat up, kicking the plastic-like sheet off of me. Swinging my legs over to the side of the cot, I stood up, but froze when I heard voices behind the curtains.

An aggravated sigh. “You got caught with cigarettes yet again, Aaron?” It was a woman’s voice, she sounded like she was in her mid thirties. Her voice was like honey.

“I tried not to,” A boy’s voice, he sounded my age. “I’m sorry, Ms. Lily, but that bastard Dean of ours won’t stop bothering me!” He sounded angry and annoyed. Wait, who’s Ms. Lily? Who’s Aaron? Where am I?!

“It doesn’t matter if he won’t leave you alone, it’s the fact you still had them! I thought you quit! You promised me.” She was disappointed, I could tell by the heart-wrenching tone in her voice.

While trying to think of a way to get out without being noticed, I twitched violently, sending myself into the curtains. I fell through the curtains into what looked like a school nurse’s office. A young woman sitting behind a desk and a young man standing in front of it look at me in shock. My neck and face flushed, I just knew I turned completely red, and I stumbled to my feet.

The woman, whom I guessed to be Ms. Lily, quickly stood up too. “Are you okay, sweetie? You had a hard fall, you shouldn’t be up and moving so quickly.” She rushed to my side. My face got warmer with embarrassment as I realized that she was so much taller than me. I felt like a little child next to her. Her features were rounded, complimented by the dark curls that framed her face. Her smile made my stomach unclench.

“I’m fine…” I mumbled through my teeth, my eyes darting everywhere from behind my hair. I glanced at the young man. He was looking straight at me, with a dark stare. I squeaked, burrowing myself deeper into my hoodie.

“Be nice, Aaron.” Ms. Lily scolded, touching my shoulder softly, “Can’t you see he’s jumpy?”

The boy scoffed and looked away, digging his hands into his own, skull-decorated hoodie. I looked at him through my hair again. He was tall, taller than Ms. Lily. He had his hood up, but I saw a bit of his blue Mohawk sticking out from underneath it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much pen tattoos, earrings, ripped clothing, and grunge on one person before. I absently noticed he was wearing the same Chuck Taylors as I was, only he had drawn on his with a pen.

I mumbled that I was fine again, but it went unnoticed. Ms. Lily pulled me over to a chair by the desk, making me sit down on it as she sat down behind her desk. “Do you want to go home? We could call your guardian.”

My brother? What for? I’ve passed out in school before, it’s nothing new. “No, Derek is probably still at work.”

“Derek?” She looked confused, flipping through a stack of cards until she came to a particular one. I guessed it was mine.

“My brother.” I answer simply. I twitched softly, feeling the eyes of Aaron looking at me. I didn’t acknowledge him because he probably thought I didn’t notice him.

“Oh, of course.” She put the card back into the stack. “Well, in that case, your more than welcome to sit in here with me. I won’t send you back until you want to go back.” She looked up from me to Aaron. “Are you staying in here too?”

Aaron slumped into one of the chairs near the closed door, that I guessed led back into the school. “Yeah, it’s almost lunch time, anyway. Besides, I don’t feel like dealing with Mr. Richards anymore today.”

I turned towards him, “Who’s Mr. Richards?”

Aaron looked up at me, his eyebrows knit together. “What are you, slow? He’s the Science teacher.”

“Oh,” I fiddled with a string on my pants, “I haven’t had Science yet so I wouldn’t know who the teacher would be.”

Aaron went quiet, he must of figured out that I was new. Maybe this Mr. Richards was famous at this school, or something. “He’s an asshole, hopefully you won’t get stuck with him.”

I was about to reply, but I twitched again. My chair hit the metal desk, scaring Ms. Lily. I hit my elbow on the desk, which made me twitch again. That time I didn’t hit the desk, though.

Aaron stared at me, his mouth open slightly. He looked like the words he was about to use walked out of his mouth and flew away. Biting my lip, I hung my head in shame. I was just starting to talk to someone like a normal human being… Damn twitch! It felt like he was going to get up, call me a freak, and walk out of the room.

I wanted to cry, and I think I did.