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Chapter 6: So it begins

*ELI'S POV*

Sunlight.

I breathe out a sigh and start my morning routine. I never really needed an alarm to wake up. After a year of fucking up my life and ruining my body, I trained myself to be more disciplined. I drank less, smoked less, hung out with strangers less. I started to process losing my family and... well that other part I'm still in the middle of processing.

I won't be having P.E. today so I put on a collared shirt and a sweater paired with khaki pants. Yesterday was casual themed, today is smart themed. I grab the packed lunch I prepared last night (yes, the leftover curry) and headed out.

I got to school with time to spare so I went to my locker to switch out the things I needed for today. Just as I finished a hand slams onto the locker on my left and I look to see it's letterman boy. What's his name? Brendan? Does he not wash that jacket? Ew.

"Well, well, well, look who it is. A gay and a nerd. Boys we've won ourselves a jackpot over here." His group of idiots laugh.

"Well, well, well, look who it is. The first stage in Darwin's theory of evolution." I say mocking him, closing my locker, and leaving. Some students who stopped to watch us laughed. I even saw one of his friends try to stifle his laughter.

"What?" Monkey boy asks angry-confused. But before he could give a comeback I was already on my way to class.

My first two classes went by in a breeze. By the time third period came I was expecting at least something to happen. Guess this year won't be that interesting afterall, which is fine also. After a few minutes of discussion, the teacher told us to break into pairs and work on the activity. Everybody started going to their friends while I looked around for another straggler. Suddenly, someone taps on my shoulder and I look to see it's one of the three musketeers. The blonde one.

"Hi! Do you want to partner up?" she says cheerily.

"Sure, whatever," I say not caring but internally I'm like Yass, here we go.

"I'm Kate by the way," she says sitting beside me.

"Eli."

"You don't talk much do you?"

"Only when spoken to."

"You killed it yesterday in P.E. I thought for sure I was going to die," she brushes her hand on her forehead acting dramatic.

"Well, you girls put up a fight. I would've died from the death stares you were giving me."

Kate laughs, "Yeah, we're just very competitive."

"Sure," I say.

After our little chat we started working on the activity. I was surprised she didn't try to ask me questions about my past and build a profile on me to report to her queen bee. Or maybe I just think too much of myself. Haha.

"See you around," Kate says as class finished and we'd handed in our papers.

I waved at her and added a wink just for fun. I see a hint of blush as she exits the room. Cute.

Lunchbreak came and on my way to the yard I happened to pass by my locker. There was a group of students standing around it. Oohh what happened?

I break through the crowd and come face front with my locker. Only it was spray-painted with words like gay, fag, abomination, lesbian, queer, freak, nerd, and the likes. Then I start to laugh. I turn around and see everyone's looking at me weird (which was another word written on my locker, add an o at the end). I spot the neanderthals on one side and the musketeers on the other.

I wipe away a tear and say still laughing, "You should add 'pansexual' to your vocabulary. I also identify as that." I walk away my laughter now subsiding. The "suspects" sporting a scowl on their faces, except for Kate and the other jock earlier, they actually looked amused.

I ate my lunch in the yard again then headed for my next class: History. I guess I'll be taking a nap today. When I entered the classroom I immediately spot a girl with dirty blonde hair and forest green eyes. I notice that the seat next to her was empty so I head over with a smile. My turn.

"Hey there, beautiful," I say sitting down next to her.

"Disgusting! Stay away from me!" she says with a glare.

"Don't tell me you're homophobic? What year is it already?" I say pretending to be shocked.

"Well-- no-- I just don't want you to sit here." She's cute when she's flustered.

"Too late, this is the only available seat," I say smiling and crinkling my eyes.

"No it's not. There's--" Before she could finish her sentence the teacher asked us to settle down and began the discussion.

Much like in Math class, I could feel her giving me death stares but I just ignored her. Halfway through class I was so bored that I decided to strike up conversation.

I lean towards her and whisper, "So I never really found out your name. I know you're Ms. Anderson but what's your first name?" And I swear she was about to explode like Bakugo just saw Midoriya.

She manages to compose herself and angrily whispers, "Are you fucking serious?"

Nope. I actually know your name already but I just want to tease you. I look at her innocently and shrug.

After a moment she lets out an annoyed breath and says, "It's Sam."

"Sam. Interesting name. And as beautiful as you." I know Sam is a common name but I just wanted to mess with her.

Before she could angrily tell me off I put a finger to my mouth and point towards the front telling her to shut up and listen. Which she actually did! Haha.

A/N:

Is Eli crazy or is that just her coping mechanism?

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