New Kid in School
Hello. This is the story of a new kid named Leo. He is , but doesn't quite want people to know yet. Riley sees him in the halls and absolutely falls for him. (Leo is a grade nine btw)
Leo POV
I wake up to the sound of my phones alarm.
About a by the academy is…
More like about a boy for my life.
I manage to find my phone in the dark depths of my room and turn off the alarm, get out of bed, and head for the shower.
Today is my first day at Degrassi. Seeing as the first semester is already over and I spent it in North Dakota (which is not a very fun place to be, but I guess Canada isn't much better weather wise) and now I'm stuck in Canada because of my step dad's spontaneous decision to move up here. His reason why we did this, I'll never know.
My step sister (Paige) and step brother (Parker, who are twins) are going to be juniors at Degrassi.
My family knows about my uality and I think my rents accept it but they're kind of sketchy. Paige thinks it's absolutely amazing to have a brother. Parker probably couldn't care less about it, let alone anything else in the world. He probably thinks we're still in North Dakota. Anyway… back to my morning.
After I finish up in the shower, I head over to my closet and pick out a light blue Hollister muscle shirt that shows off my muscles well, and a pair of dark blue designer-looking jeans from Tj maxx (my mom is a super fan of finding cheap name brand clothes at other stores) for the day. After putting the clothes on I head upstairs and make myself a bowl of cereal.
After finishing my bland breakfast consisting of crispex and acne medication, I head to the bathroom to make myself look at least somewhat presentable, and spend the next fifteen minutes deciding on which way I wanted my bangs to hang and straightening the few curls I have. Then the deodorant goes on along with the American Eagle cologne, brush my teeth and I'm ready to leave.
"MOM! LET'S GO!" I shout up to my mother who is probably finishing her hair up for the day.
"I'm on my way down!" she shouts back.
After waiting five minutes I get frustrated and reply:"I'll be in the car!"
"Ok!"
Another five minutes pass and my mom come out of the door to the garage.
When she gets in the car, she asks "ready for your first day at Degrassi?"
"Nope. I just spent the last twenty minutes doing my hair and brushing my teeth for nothing. Of course I'm ready!" I reply sarcastically.
"Well it's a good thing SOMEONE's in a good mood today!" my mom said.
I just roll my eyes and look out the window as we head to Degrassi.
"Have a good day at school!" my mom says as I slam the door closed.
"Whatever." I mutter under my breath just to make sure she hasn't rolled down the window to finish her never ending goodbyes and good lucks. She couldn't be more of a typical mother.
I walk up the steps to Degrassi and everyone starts staring at me and making comments to their friends. I'm used to being at the top of the school. In North Dakota ninth grade is in the middle school and high school starts with the sop res. Now I'm at the bottom. Who would've known my life could change so quickly?
I head to the office to get my schedule and locker number and combo.
"Looks like you'll be locker buddies with Riley Stavros." The secretary said.
I wonder if he's hot…
My locker number is 394.
I find it and this really buff, god of a man is talking with a tall, skinny kid.
"Let me guess, you're Riley?" I ask the god with his friend.
"Yeah, and who are you? Some fag of a niner? What do you want?" he asks rudely
Great. My locker mate is an ass hole. Why do all the hot ones have to be straight jerks?
"Well, this fag of a niner is your new locker mate. I hope you can get over my uality like most of the people in this world." I state and put my bag in my locker and leave for my first class, Mr. Simpson's.
I find a seat next to a cute boy who looks like a skater.
"Hi. I'm Leo. What's your name?" I ask the cute skater.
"I'm K.C. nice to meet you. Are you new here?" He says casually.
At least this one isn't as observant as my blockheaded locker mate. And he seems a lot nicer.
"Yeah I am. No friends or anything. Yet." I reply.
"Well consider me your first friend here at Degrassi. I'm sure my friends Clare and Ali will be too." He says friendly enough.
"I'm guessing that Clare is the one with the uniform and Ali is the one who actually has a sense of style?" I ask.
"Yup. That's them. Clare, Ali, meet Leo. He's new to Degrassi." K.C. says
"Oooh! He's cute!" I hear Ali whisper to Clare. Clare just rolls her eyes.
"I'm Clare, and this is Ali. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"It's more than a pleasure! It's great to meet a cute guy for once that's in our grade." Ali gushes.
I really hope I don't have to come out right here right now.
"Yeah. It's nice to know that the people here are so nice. Except for my locker mate, Riley Stavros." I say bluntly.
"You're locker mates with HIM?!" Ali asked in shock.
"Yeah, something I should know about him?" I asked in confusion.
"Yeah he flipped out on my brother and almost broke his nose. People say it was roid rage that caused it." She explained.
Note to self, don't make Riley mad.
"Great. That's just what I needed to know. My locker mate is a junkie, AND an ass hole! I can't wait to see what other kinds of problems he/ other people in this school have." I say.
They all laugh.
"Sorry I'm late students. Class, we have a new student joining us today. He's from North Dakota. Leo, mind telling us a little bit about yourself?" Mr. Simpson comes in and asks me.
"Uumm, sure. Why not. Hi I'm Leo Lexington, and as Mr. Simpson said, I'm from North Dakota. Not much else to say so I'm going to sit down now." I say a little nervously.
The rest of the class goes by and I have to face riley again now.
"Hey about the thing I said earlier, I wasn't thinking and I didn't want to make Peter think I was going to be nice to a niner." Riley said surprisingly nice.
"So you're not a ?" I ask.
"Well to be honest I-I think I'm-I'm too, maybe." He says nervously.
"Wow. I wasn't expecting that AT all." I say in total shock.
He snickers a little and to be honest, I think it's a little cute. "Well the only other person that knows about it is Peter, the one I was talking to earlier. I ally kissed him when we were hanging out one day. I don't even know why I'm telling you this." He says nervously.
I have to laugh at his attempts to make nice with me.
"Well I don't either but if we're going to be locker mates, I think we might want to be a little friendlier toward each other. Whether you want to be nice to me in front of your friends or not doesn't matter to me. Just so long as I know you don't mean any of the mean stuff I'll play along." I say cool like.
"O-ok. That's cool. So you're not freaked about me being ?" he asks stupidly.
"Wow. You really aren't a very observant person are you? Of course I'm not silly! Why would I criticize my own kind?" I say.
"You're too?! I had no idea! I just said that this morning to look cool for Peter. That's pretty cool. Even if you're a niner. It took me until I was a senior to come out." He said.
"Yeah. I guess. I'm not exactly out to EVERYONE. Just the people who have figured it out and the people I can trust. Well I think we better get to class. It's going to start in a little bit. See ya." I say
"Wait!" he called out.
I stopped to hear what he had to say. "Yeah?"
"Want to meet for lunch in the ravine?" he asked.
"Ummm not so sure where that is but I'd to." I said and smiled to him
The bell for class rang.
"Ok umm how about you meet me at my car and I'll drive you down there?" he asked.
"Ok sounds like a date. But you better get to class, I have an excuse to be late today, and you don't." I said and smiled.
"Oh ! Yeah I'll see you at lunch then. Bye!" he said as he dashed off to his next class.
I giggled. "Bye."
I guess Riley isn't so bad after all.
Ok. This is my first Degrassi fic. I hope you like it and if no one does, I won't post the next chapter. SO LIKE IT! Hahaha! Jk jk. But seriously. Please give me feedback. Thanx! XD
