Semester at Seas BxB (Staten Krown)

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I was sitting at this fucking welcome dinner, with all these fucking people that I didn't want to fucking be with. I cursed because I was angry. Why was I stuck here? Why did I have to be here?

"Chauncey Crane..."

I was the last name called. I was always the last name called. The other students probably didn't understand why out of all 200 students, we were being singled out. They were so stupid. It always worked like this. Patience would lead the Dollhouse Six to a new school, we would take over, we would get bored and we would go to another school after making our names almost legendary...well making her name almost legendary. People knew who Patience Crane was and it was said that those clicking heels meant a new law was coming into your school...hers...

Mia's father, the captain continued his speech, "These six students I honor because they are accomplished students and hopefully they can be a token for our school that anything is possible with hard work and dedication."

I watched Patience's smile. It was wider then the rest of ours. I hated standing up here. It was so damn uncomfortable. The lights burned my skin. The stares burned my skin. My sister didn't care. She loved it. She would be challenged...she always was...but they wouldn't beat her. Patience was a genius at taking control of things.

The bitch on Cruel Intentions had nothing on Patience Crane.

That's when I saw him...Amir. He was in the crowd like everyone else. I didn't know how I spotted his face out of 200 students packed in this gorgeous ballroom. He was sitting at a round table on the very other side of the room. He looked bored...like everyone else...but damn he was beautiful.

No one had ever stared at me in the way he stared at me. It was something different...I hadn't even officially met him and yet it was like I'd known him all my life and he was some long lost friend that I had to reunite with.

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"You seem distant," Vince said.

He would be the one to notice. People were coming up to meet Patience and introduce themselves already. Damn...she was starting to have them wrapped around her finger already. I had my elbow on the table and my head rested in my palm. Patience would have probably tripped if she saw me sitting like this...but she was to busy entertaining her slaves...I mean...new friends.

"I've just been thinking about something."
"Oh...I bet you're eye caught someone cute," Wednesday invites herself into the conversation...as usual.

Vince gives me a look. I can tell he is still bothered. He looks very bothered really. He still can't crack it around in his brain that I could possibly be gay...tainted and different from THEM.

"Something like that," I tell her.

I say it just see how he reacts. He gets up, obviously bothered, without excusing himself and takes his cup with him. I can't believe he is acting like such an asshole. It is really unlike him.

"What's her name?" Wednesday asks me.

I didn't even realize she was still there as I watched Vince get away. He was just bothering me. I didn't get it. I knew he didn't have a problem with gay people. He had said so himself. We were so close...almost like brothers. I couldn't understand why this little thing would be able to come between us.

"I don't know Wednesday...I'll be right back."

The last thing I want to do is sit there and have a conversation with Wednesday. I might as well be talking to the air or something. I follow Vince. It's really bothering me and I don't have any idea why. He means a lot to me. He is the only real friend I had. I couldn't lose him...not with all this fakeness.