That's when it hit me. 'Veruca has feelings for me?' I thought. Remembering that she was looking at me, I answered with a simple yes and we walked into class. Mr.Rogers was the english teacher and my childhood terror. I still remember what happened that sunny school day, although I wish I didn't. No one, not even my parents believe what I told them. I even can't believe he's still teaching. But that's Highland High for you.
As I sat there next to Veruca who was intensly taking down notes, I flashed back to that school day. It was 3pm, and everyone was dismissed out of english. Mr.Rogers called for me to stay behind after class. He asked me, "Is everything okay at home?" He had heard about my family troubles with my new step mum from my father. I had been deeply depressed and the last thing I needed now was to talk to my teacher about MY problems.
"Everything's fine," I said. But he didn't buy it. I stood up from the seat I was sitting at and started to walked out. Mr.Rogers ran to the door andshut it in front of me. That's when I paniced. "What do you want?" I asked in a paniced voice. "At times like your having, it good to have a close friend," he told me as he walked towards me. As he walked towards me, I walked backwards tostay away from him. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" I yelled. No one except Mr.Rogers could hear my cry for help. Moments later, I had reached the back wall of the class room and was trapped.
Mr.Rogers grabbed me by the wrist and pushed me down. "I'll be your daddy," were his last words before he sexual assaulted me twice. The replay of the nighmare was over and I was brought back down to earth and to my english class. Surely I wasn't going to write down notes on what Mr.Rogers was talking about in class now. I'll never forgive him for what he did to me. Anyway, the topic was poetry. I love poetry.The darker, the better.
Anyway, IF I were to get a copy of notes, I would just get them from Fieldy or Veruca. I was sitting in between the two. Fieldy on the left, and Veruca on the other side. Turning to my left, I saw my childhood best friend draw nude women. I giggled under my breath, so it didn't catch anyone's attention. Leaving him to his 'artwork', I laid my head on the table. Mr.Rogers wasn't going to yell or punish me, well, not now when everyone was in class. He would use the same tatic of asking me to stay behind class and try to replay that horrid day.
As I laid my head there, I watched Veruca intensly take down the notes from the blackboard. God she was beautiful. I was interupted though by Fieldy who nudge me in the elbow. Turning back around to him, he had a smirk on his face. "What?" I whispered. "I saw you," was all he said as he kept his smile on and shook his head. I could help but smile back. The class eventually ended, but instead of going to lunch, the whole school was to go to the gym hall for a special parade. Walking out of the classroom with my books in hand, Fieldy and Veruca were talking behind me as we made our ways to our lockers. Fieldy and Veruca seemed to hit it off.
For some reason, I felt jealous of their friendly relationship. 'Did Fieldy find her attractive?' I thought as I opened my locker and put my books away inside it, trying to listen to their conversation. Closing my locker door, the two of them seemed to be physically close. 'I can't hate Fieldy for having sexual feeling for her,' I thought as I walked up to them. They had already put their books away. Suddenly someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Munky, David and Head back from their Maths class. "Hey? I'm going to the little boys room. You guys wanna come while we've got the chance before this STUPID parade?" Fieldy asked. The rest of the guys and myself included shook out heads. "Are you sure?" Fieldy said, now with a wink. Something was up.
Curious into what he had up his sleeve, so to speak, the guys walked off to the toilet. "We won't be a minute," Fieldy yelled as we walked off. Veruca was left there, by herself. No one would know how much I wanted to turned around and go to her. But I thought staright away, 'That's so stupid! She's a big girl, Veruca can take care of herself.' So I walked off with the guys to the toilet. When we were in the toilet, Fieldy put his arm around me. "Man, you got yourself a hottie," he said with a bit of laughter. "You mean Veruca?" I asked him, knowing how stupid that question was. "Of course, stupid," he said as I looked around at the other guys who all had smiles on, agreeing.
"What did she say?" I asked, very curious into what he was going to say. "Nah uh! I'm not telling you," he said and backed away laughing. "Come on man! That's not cool," Munky commented. "Fine, fine. She asked me if you were 'avaliable' and she also asked you if you wanted to come over for dinner tonight," Fieldy said as he walked over to me and then patted my back in a way of congratulating me. "Really? You're not shittin' me around?" I asked him. He's done things like this to me before, so I checked just incase. "Hell no," he started and then laughed, "If you don't wanna ask her out, I will." When he said that, I believed him.
With that, I smiled. "Guys, I'll catch ya later. Whenever that is," I said as I started to walk out of the restroom. "Have fun," I heard David say. I was just about to open the door when Ted opened it. "Well, well. It's the school faggot," he said and grabbed my arm. I had had enough of his shit for one day and also I was about to talk Veruca, or even ask her out. "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY FACE!" I yelled at Ted. He stood there in shock. I could even see people behind him, frozen in shock.
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