The Burnout and the Pansy
First meetings
"It's useless," said a fully awake Puerto Rican boy as he sat up from his lying position on his twin sized bed. "I can't sleep I'm too excited to." A small smile formed on his face as he began to imagine how the day would play out later.
He reached over to turn on his little lamp on the nightstand, looked at his Mickey Mouse alarm clock and sighed as he realized how early it was. "4:36 am only a few more hours and I will officially be a high school student!" He squealed as he hugged his bull plushie.
But suddenly he was attacked by a wave of nervousness mixed with fear. So he stared down at his stuffed bull toy that he was recently cuddling with to see if it could give him some pearls of wisdom.
"Hey Mr. Bull can I ask you something?" The boy asked his toy like it was a live person looking it in its blank eyes.
"Sure what is it Tavros," he made the bull say in a deep voice.
"Well…uh…I'm kinda nervous about going to this new school. What if no one likes me, what do I do?" The boy asked staring at the plush hoping it would give a reasonable answer.
"It will be alright buddy, all you have to do is be yourself, be confident in all that you do and don't forget to smile! And everyone is nervous on the first day it's perfectly natural."
"Thanks Mr. Bull you always know what to say," said Tavros with a smile gently placing his toy on a pillow. "Maybe I should go ahead and get my stuff ready, hehe, I forgot to last night." Tavros then spent the rest of the morning putting supplies in his brand new lime green back pack and getting his recently bought clothes out.
"I'm finally finished and ready to go," sang the small boy as he walked down the stairs his stomach growling furiously when the delicious smell of breakfast hit his nose, "mmmm pancakes. Good morning Rufio! You ready to take me to-"Tavros stopped talking when he realized his big brother was nowhere in sight, his big smile formed into a frown.
"I guess he already left for work," the mohawked boy's words had a bit of disappointment in them but he got over it quickly when he saw a note on the kitchen table with a few bucks laying on it by the tall stack of pancakes and glass of orange juice. He read it and sighed deeply, "well it looks like I'm going to be home alone for a bit, it's a good thing he left some food money this time." Tavros hated when his brother went out on his little business trips, he always got a little depressed when he left. But it doesn't sting too badly now ever since Rufio bought him an adorable little short haired tan Chihuahua which he named Chico. He giggled when he spotted the little fat animal fast asleep on the brown living room sofa, he sure did love his puppy. After he ate the still piping hot pancakes and drank his refreshing juice he grabbed his book bag and headed out but not before he said bye to his still sleeping furry friend.
After a nice long walk through the neighborhood Tavros finally made it to his new school, but he arrived a bit too early seeing as the street lights were still shining their bright orange light and the sun wasn't even up yet. "Well nothing to do now but just wait," said Tavros sitting down on one of the schools many steps near the entrance shortly after he decided to take a quick nap.
A few minutes later the sound of someone screaming was heard a little ways away then a large amount of laughing followed. Tavros quickly sprang awake and looked around, "uh…that was weird I thought I heard something." After hearing yet another round of screaming Tavros sprang to his feet and clenched his chest, he could feel his heart beating like he had just ran a marathon. "It sounds like someone's in trouble," he whispered to himself, I have to go help. Now Tavros was scared beyond compare but he knew if he ignored the cries his conscious would tear him up inside so he bravely walked towards where the dreadful screams were coming from with his body shaking uncontrollably.
Tavros slowly walked until the terrible cries grew louder and louder. He stopped when he reached the mouth of an alley way, he cautiously peeked his head in the dark alley to see what was going on. The small boy gasped when he saw a poor kid lying on the ground getting beaten unmercifully by three other guys.
"Damn! This little fucker sure can take a hit!" Said one of the guys as he kicked the poor lad in his stomach making him cringe and cough up some blood. The boy begged for them to stop but they ignored his pitiful pleas.
"O yeah I haven't had this much fun in a good long time!" Yelled another as he stomped on the kids head repeatedly.
"This is awful," thought Tavros covering his mouth his left hand, he was trying to fight back the tears that were welling up in his eyes as he witnessed the brutal torture. Hearing the cries made his heart ache, he really wanted to help but he knew he wouldn't be able to stop those monsters.
Then a dark low growly voice spoke up, "alright motherfuckers that's enough, I don't want the motherfucker dead." The owner of the voice moved from the wall he was leaning on and stood in the dim light, he was tall, really tall and thin, he sported a thick black curly mane and he had some sort of clown makeup smeared on his face. He was wearing a purple hoodie and black baggy pants, like the other guys. Tavros shivered as he heard him speak, he sounded so menacing.
As their leader (well that is at least what Tavros thought he was) approached the beaten and bloody mess of the boy the three others backed off. The leader crouched down near the boy and whispered near his head, "now listen motherfucker I don't want to up and see you here in my territory again ya dig? If I catch you anywhere near here makin trouble I'll motherfuckin kill you, ya get what I'm sayin?" The boy nodded as his tears ran down his bloody and broken face. "Good," the leader grinned and smacked the crying boys face gently, "now get the fuck outta here," he ordered as he stood back up. The boy struggled immensely to get up but he somehow managed, groaning with each painful step.
Tavros decided that it would be best if he left then ya know before they could spot him and decide to beat him up. So he ran as fast as his little legs could take him and made it to school just as it opened. He stopped before he reached the entrance to grab his book bag that he had left. "Man I'm such a whimp I wanted to help that guy out but I froze up," thought Tavros biting his bottom lip in frustration. After letting out a sigh he entered the school trying to erase what he just saw and trying to focus on the new school year. He forced a big smile on his face as he walked through the doors.
A few hours later lunch was being served and Tavros was glad to have a little break from all the embarrassing introductions he was forced to do in every class he had. He hated being the center of attention, he stutters whenever he's nervous and he always blushed to freakin much, like that helps at all. After getting a tray full of barely edible food Tavros walks around the crowded area looking for a place to sit, but it looked like nobody was going to let him sit by them or there wasn't enough room for him.
Deflated from being rejected he decided to sit at a table that was backed up against a wall in back, no one was sitting there so he thought it would do. He sat his tray down then he went to hunt down the drinks, wherever they may be.
When he returned he was shocked and confused, two older looking guys were sitting at his solitary table. And one of the two was stuffing their face with HIS food! The same food that HE stood in in that long line, full of dirty line cutters, to get! Tavros pouted a bit before he confronted the food thief. "Uh…excuse me but uh…you're eating my food," said Tavros tapping the guy on his shoulder.
"Fuck off!" Yelled the kid still eating the stolen food.
"Man what's wrong with this guy," thought Tavros as he backed up from the table. The aggressive guy was pretty short, so maybe he had that short man's disease.
"Calm down kk, it's too early for this," groaned another teen sitting straight across the table from the foodnapper. This kid appeared to be Asian while his friend appeared to be Latino. The Asian kid also was wearing these strange 3d glasses for some reason.
"O hell no! You don't tell me what to do you cockgargling Jew!" Screamed the mini teen standing up on the chair leaning closer to the much calmer boy.
"I'm not Jewish r-tard now sit the fuck down."
"Make me fuckass!"
Tavros was so confused by these two idiots but he couldn't help but chuckle at them.
Just as the two boys were about to throw down someone else walked up into the picture. "How's it goin motherfuckers?"
Tavros froze, he knew that deep voice. He turned around and the two locked eyes. His big chocolate eyes locked in the gaze of the strangers half lidded indigo. The much taller male smiled, "what's your name motherfucka?"
"Oh no! It's the leader of that gang I saw earlier!" Thought Tavros as he panicked, "he's going to kill me."
The Cuban's smile grew wider, "come on spit it out."
Poor little Tavros couldn't speak, his heart was beating rapidly, and he felt his cheeks growing hotter and hotter each passing second from the awkward silence. But eventually he spoke, "uh…my n-name is uh…Tavros."
"Tavros eh, that's one nice motherfuckin name", the stoner said with a big dumb smile plastered on his painted face. Then he proceeded to sit down by the same kid that stole Tavro's lunch, he turned to look at Tav and patted the seat on the other side of him, ushering him to sit. Tavros reluctantly obeyed and plopped down. They two that were arguing stopped when they noticed the unusually cheerful male sitting there.
"Well, well if it isn't old fuckface," said the small crabby kid as he sat back down, "what made you decide to come to school on this glorious day?"
The taller teen smiled, "well I wanted to come here to see you motherfuckin beautiful face man, it's so miraculous 'n shit."
Tavos couldn't help but laugh when he saw the smaller of the two's reaction, he looked so mad! But before the short guy could cuss him out the other teen joined in the conversation. "Hi Gamzee, who's your little friend," he pointed at Tavros who was still chuckling a bit who didn't noticed that he was being pointed out.
"Oh this is Tavros, he's my new bro, he's cuter than a motherfucker aint he?" He said wrapping his long arm around Tavro's shoulders and pulling him closer.
Tavros stopped laughing and tensed up, "I'm his new what?" Tavros was blushing many different shades of red as his new "bro" pulled him a little too close. This can't be the same guy I saw in the alley, he's too silly and nice to be.
"Well I've never seen the little shitstain around here before," said the dirty foodsnatcher as he continued to chow down on Tav's hard earned meal.
"Um…that's because I'm new here…it's my first day of high school," whispered Tavros trying to keep a smile on his face.
"Ah a freshmen, well let me introduce you, I'm Sollux," said the Asian teen. Then he pointed to his other friend, "and this little tiny midget that's stuffing his fat face is Karkat, were all seniors here."
"Shove it you shit eating faggot!" Yelled Karkat throwing his plastic fork at Sollux.
"Ow," said Sollux in a monotone voice as the utensil hit the side of his face.
"And I'm Gamzee motherfuckin Makara," said Tav's newly found friend with his arm still tightly around him squeezing his small body harder than was necessary.
Tavros smiled, "it's nice to meet all of you."
