Mad About You

Summary: Expectations. They ruled my life. What would everyone say when they found out the girl of my dreams, the love of my life, was a guy? Slash, Peter/Riley.

A/N: Alright, so I know Riley's only out to Peter, but I made him out to everyone in this story to make it work a little better. Don't worry, I'll explain it. This is based off a book I read, except the book was with two girls instead of guys. I decided I could make it work with guys. Hope you like it!

Peter's POV

The first time I saw him, it didn't even cross my mind. He was new to the school, just starting up his senior year here. He had longer, curly hair then and I remembered thinking that he looked like a tough jock……the type of people I didn't hang out with. I had Sav, Danny and Spinner, my band, my music buddies. I had Darcy too, and was completely happy with her. So could I ever predict the crazy future for Riley and I?

It turned out we were in the same science class together, and had assigned seats next to each other. We started to grow closer, and eventually ended up becoming friends. He was a lot nicer and different then I thought. I guess they're right when they say don't judge a book by it's cover. We had a lot more in common than I thought. He played football and soccer and ran track. I liked to run and Riley convinced me to go out on a whim and try out for the track team. That's when things started to get weird.

We both trained for track together, going for runs in the woods, and we hung out a lot more than usual. We started going over to each other's houses and hanging out outside of school. I actually really enjoyed it. I wasn't really used to having friends, and didn't really know what it was like, so having Riley around was kind of a milestone for me. I was in a strange place relationship wise, since Darcy had just broken up with me I and was sort of dating Mia, but being with Riley made me forget about all that. Until one day he decided to try something.

It was a totally normal day. We were at my house, playing Wii, hanging out like we usually did. I was having trouble with some of my boxing moves, so he agreed to help me out and show me some. He was showing me some stances, and the next thing I knew, his hands were clasping my wrists and he was staring into my eyes. Before I could say anything, he closed his eyes, leaned in, and pressed his lips to mine forcefully. I was completely shocked. I had no idea what to do, so I rejected him and pushed him off of me.

"Whoa!" Was pretty much all that left my mouth. It's all that could. And it wasn't because I was upset that he had just kissed me. He clambered over to his bag embarrassed, and quickly left.

I remember watching as he rushed out the door, feeling shocked, scared and excited after what had just happened.

So there was a little bit of an awkward stint in our friendship. He was embarrassed to no end about the kiss and I kept nagging him about it. Luckily, we were finally able to talk it through and work things out and just go back to being friends again. That was a good thing too, because shortly after we became friends again, he started taking steroids to make himself more manly, and it was Peter to the rescue on that one to try and convince him he didn't need steroids to make himself more of a man.

So we worked through that one too, and I was convinced he was ready to move on and come to terms with his sexuality. I was wrong. He decided he wanted to use the new girl at school. I guess he decided she was the perfect beard for him. I felt kind of bad for her. She was nice, and didn't deserved to be used like that. She could have been out dating real, straight guys.

And that's when I was convinced Riley had gone insane. The new girl, Fiona, broke up with him due to her suspicions that he was gay and he basically tried to date every girl in the school. He was determined to do anything to prove he wasn't gay. He even tried to see a psychiatrist to make him "un-gay". I really started to worry about him. He wasn't himself. Me and him went out one night to pick up chicks and he got so drunk he was puking for almost a week afterwards. I brought him home, completely shit-faced that night, and suddenly the next day, he came up to me in the hall and told me I was right; he was gay.

I was honestly happy for him. I had watched him pretty much go through hell trying to deal with being gay, and now that he accepted it, things would be a lot different. They were different for me too. Mia left me for modeling, naturally, and I became addicted to meth. Fun. If Riley hadn't been there during all of that, I wouldn't have been able to deal. I sold my loft to Spinner and moved back in with my mom. Even more fun. I get to go back to her constant nagging about college applications, school, grades, girlfriends and my social life. Didn't miss that much. Sav, Danny and Spinner basically kicked me out of the band and replaced me with a girl(thanks guys, that says a lot about your thoughts on me) so I was back to being a loner.

Except I wasn't. Riley was still always by my side when I needed him. I helped him in his time of need, and he helped me in mine. He even managed to help me get a girlfriend. After working things out with Fiona, he managed to convince her I was a good guy and set us up on a date. Shortly after that, we started dating and we've been a couple since.

So everyone was happy at last. For a week, anyways. Riley told me that he didn't want to come out officially until after high school. I totally understood that. He didn't want to deal with the crap from people at school. At least at college he'd be with a whole new group of people. But unfortunately, high school is high school and things spread like wildfire. Someone saw Riley going to a Gay Straight Alliance meeting……and everything went downhill from there.

He got it all……the names, the insults, the gestures, the whispers and pointing in the hallway. But he amazed me……it didn't bother him. He let it happen. He got so much crap from the guys on the football team, it scared me. I was afraid he was gonna get bashed. But he was tough, and I knew the guys on the team didn't want to mess with him because he could easily murder all of them.

So the world knew Riley was gay(except for his family)and they knew that Fiona and I were an item. They knew that Riley and I were best friends and were almost inseparable by now. I was happy. Very happy. But with Riley, things started to change. I started to get a little too happy with him.

"So, I take it you had a "good" night last night?" Riley asked, approaching me at my locker. I looked over at him and grinned.

"I don't think "good" describes it exactly. More like……great, awesome, fan-fucking-tastic." I said, describing my sex with Fiona. Riley and I high-fived.

"Alright man. Well done. I couldn't even get that far with her."

"That's because you wanted the same thing that was in your pants to be in her pants too." I joked. He blushed and hit me. My stomach fluttered when he touched me. That was weird.

"Hey, I know I'm "out and proud" by default, but that doesn't mean you have free reign to make gay jokes anytime you want."

"Aw, are you becoming one of those really insensitive people who finds everything to be offensive?" He smiled.

"Maybe I am. Are you becoming one of those people who has to make a joke out of everything?"

"Maybe I am" I said as we headed to the locker room to change for our track meet.

When we got in, some guys from the hockey team were in there. They were getting ready for their practice. A couple of them noticed Riley and I walk in and smirks instantly came across their faces. I was nervous, but Riley seemed totally fine. He was used to this.

"Hey, you guys might want to hurry up and put your clothes on. Homo-boy's here." They joked to their friends who were in the middle of changing. Riley rolled his eyes and ignored the comment. We both headed in the opposite direction of the guys, and right as we were walking past the showers, they made another remark.

"You and your boyfriend going to take a shower together, Tinkerbelle?" Riley stopped dead in his tracks. My heart started beating faster. Riley didn't turn around.

"I would shut the fuck up if I were you, Johnson." He said.

"Why? What's gonna happen if I don't? Are you gonna rape me? I bet you'd like that, wouldn't you?" He laughed. Riley clenched his fists and ran back to the kid, grabbing him and starting to punch him. I ran to Riley, trying to pull him off of the kid, who was bleeding like crazy. The kid's friends were trying to pull Riley off of him too.

I finally managed to get him off and hold him back. The kid quickly got up and left the locker room with his friends. Riley was panting and looked like a rabid dog. It finally registered in my head that I was holding onto him tightly while he was panting and breathing heavily and my heart started beating faster again. I got a……different image in my head. I quickly let go of him and tried to push the thought of Riley and I doing dirty things together out of my head.

"Christ, I hate assholes like him." Riley said, opening his locker, grabbing his clothes from it and slamming it shut.

"I still don't know how you do it dude." I said. He shrugged, pulling his shirt off. I gulped loudly, feeling nervous again. Why did this keep happening?

"You just saw how I do it. It's their choice, really. Most of them shut up after the first one or two comments and I just move on, but if they don't, they get what's coming to them." I nodded and started to change too.

I tried my best not to look at him to avoid the weird feeling in my stomach and the sexual thoughts about me and him. It worked, but it worked too well. I forgot why I wasn't looking at him, and looked over at him to ask a question. I turned my head and froze when I realized he was only in his underwear. I just stood there, staring at him.

Holy crap. He was……hot. Really hot. I couldn't take my eyes off of him. He slid a pair of shorts on and looked over at me with a confused look. The confusion on his face quickly changed to surprise and he stifled a laugh.

"Um, dude……uh……" He nodded his head downward. I quickly looked down, and turned around, trying to shield the enlarged part of my body in front of me. I stood with my back to him for a while, to embarrassed to speak. He finally spoke.

"Uh, hormones getting to you?" He asked. I blushed, not facing him.

"Hormones, yeah, can't stand 'em." I laughed, nervously.

For the rest of the time we changed in silence. It wasn't hormones. I knew that, and I know he did too. He caught me staring at him in his underwear, and then I got a boner. Right, that's just my hormones. But I appreciated that he didn't confront me and lied to make me less embarrassed.

What did he think of me now? I already rejected him once and I wasn't gay. I kept getting all these weird feelings around him now, though. What did that mean? Was my body just in the mood to experiment? I didn't want to experiment. I had a girlfriend, and I liked her too much to want to mess around with another guy behind her back. That would just be……weird. Riley was a friend and only a friend. We'd never end up being anything more……right?

Fin

Alright, so I know that there are probably some Marco/Dylan like elements in this and they'll probably continue to appear, but not because I'm really unoriginal and want to steal all of the Degrassi writers ideas. I want to do a gay relationship with Peter and Riley and it's not my fault Degrassi already beat me to it with Marco and Dylan, so if anything seems ripped off, it's only because it had to be to make the story work. Also, I appologize for summarizing and recaping so much early on in the story, but that also had to be done. So please don't kill me. Review instead.