AUTHORS NOTE

I just want to say before hand that I am still continuing my Pewdiecry story, I just had a bit of writers block and wanted to write a new story along with it, so don't worry Pewdiecry fans!

Church sighed as he made his way into the school parking lot, after seven months he was back at the school again. Nothing seemed to have changed really, not that he thought it would, the school was a dreary and dull brick building, there wasn't much that could be done to make it look better. Church did note though that some new flowers and trees had been planted. The teen put his gray sweatshirt hood over his head, he didn't want anyone to recognize him. Church used to be top of the school, he used to be popular and cool, then he moved and everything went to hell. He couldn't let his old friends see him so... broken.

To be honest Church didn't know why he came back if he didn't want his friends to see him. He could've gone any where in the world but he chose to come back here. Maybe Church just wanted to relive the memories of the good old days, when the world was a happy place, or maybe some part of him wanted to see his friends, make sure they were okay and maybe even try to get everything back to normal. The teen sighed, things never could get back to normal. Not only because of what happened to him, but the fact he abandoned his friends when he left, he wouldn't be surprised if they were pissed at him, if they never wanted to talk to him again.

Church was snapped out of his thoughts when the school bell rang, 'Well here goes nothing' he said to himself as he started to fight his way through the crowd. Church made sure to keep his hood on covering his face as he entered the school, he didn't care about the weird looks he got. The teen walked to the main office, remembering where it was from the last time he was here, and went to the front desk to be met by the secretary.

"What do you need?" She asked, Church laughed a little to himself, the attitude here didn't change much either.

"I need my schedule." He stated, it was halfway through the second term of the year so the only place he could go to get his class list was the offfice.

"Name?" The secretary asked as she went to the computer to search the database for his schedule.

"Leonard Church." Church replied, the secretary typed in his name and with a click of the mouse printed out his schedule.

"Welcome back, Leonard. You're schedule is on the printer behind you." She said, Church just nodded in response. He grabbed the piece of paper and left the office. 'Looks like I have math first.' Church said to himself, he made his way to his old locker deciding no one would miss him if he was late to class. Before he could even attempt to open the locker though he was stopped by someone pushing him against the wall.

"Who are you and why are you going to that locker?" A feminine voice asked angrily. Despite his anger for being pinned to the wall Church still managed to smile when he recognized the voice as Tex.

"Well hello to you to." The black haired teen said sarcastically, Tex stepped back a bit, allowing Church to get a good look at her. She had her red hair up in a pony tail and was wearing a green t shirt, jeans, and black converse. Most guys wouldn't be able to keep their composure around her because of her looks but Church different. He wasn't too stunned by it, sure she was pretty and all but he wasn't that attracted to her.

"Church?" Tex asked in a whisper, Church's smile widened.

"The one and only." He said, she seemed to doubt it at first but when Church took his hood off she quickly recognized him.

"What are you doing back?" Tex asked, her expression went from surprise to anger and she pushed Church up against the wall again.

"Woah, I thought you'd be happy to see me again." The black haired teen said.

"You left without even telling anyone." Tex said sternly, Church's smile dropped.

"I know." He said averting his gaze from the red head.

"You didn't even talk to me." Church sighed again, it was true, he hadn't talked to anyone after he left, he just couldn't... It was too much to bare.

"I know." The black haired teen said once again.

"Why didn't you tell me you were coming back?" Tex asked angrily, Church rolled his eyes.

"Maybe I wanted it to be a surprise, or maybe I just didn't want anyone to know, why does it matter to you?" He asked, pushing Tex away slightly so he wasn't up against the wall anymore.

"It doesn't." The red head replied.

"Oh really?" Church asked with a smile, Tex just kept a straight face.

"Yes, really." She said, Church turned to his locker and started to work the lock.

"Okay." He said humorously. The teen finally got his locker open and started to put stuff in it.

"So are you going to tell the others you're back?" Tex asked, Church shook his head.

"I wasn't planning on it, I'd rather keep this on the downlow... I don't want anyone to know I'm here." He said, Tex nodded.

"Yeah, you wouldn't want all your fan girls to see you with that nasty scar would you?" She asked humourously. Church grumled to himself, he knew Tex would bring it up sooner or later after seeing his face. On the right side of his face he had a scar that ran across his eye, and the said eye lost it's cobalt color and was now gray and a bit clouded over.

"How'd you get it anyway?" Tex asked, Church looked at her angrily.

"I'm not talking about it." He said, it brought back to many bad memories, the memories he was trying to run away from.

"Snappy much. What did you get your ass kicked in a fight or something? Because that would make sense." Tex said, Church shot her another glare as he closed his locker.

"Can you stop being a bitch and just leave it alone?" He asked, his voice laced with annoyance. Tex crossed her arms.

"Can you stop being such a sensitive asshole and calm the fuck down?" She asked in return, Church groaned.

"Whatever, I'm going to class." He said, Tex leaned over and kissed him before walking off.

"Okay, see you later." She said with a small wave. Church rolled his eyes and smiled as he put his hood on, that was their relationsihp, angrily calling eachother names and then kissing like it never happened. Sure it could get tireding, but what could he do, Tex was all he had.

The next couple hours went by in a blur, Church's math teacher wasn't too mad that he came late, he just used the excuse that he got lost. In most of his classes the teen sat in the back, he kept his head low and didn't talk to anyone. Luckily no one payed much attention to him, he just kept to himself, writing down notes when needed and doing his work. Church felt like he didn't miss much, he understood mostly everything that the class was learning. He didn't try much in class yet he managed to be one of the smartest kids in his grade, it surprised everyone, even Church himself.

Now it was time for lunch, Church walked into the cafeteria and sighed, his claustrophobia kicking in. There were people everywhere, Church found a round empty table and sat there, he really didn't want to deal with people right now. The teen just looked down at the table lost in thought, he didn't realize until he heard a chair being pushed next to him that a person was there. Church looked up slightly to see a guy with beach blonde hair, a pink shirt, and tight grey jeans sit next to him. The black haired teen instantly recognized it as Donut. Church groaned, he didn't want to talk to anyone, especially not the over friendly, flambouant Donut.

"Hey there!" The blonde said with a large grin. To be honest, his kindness sickened Church, the only person he could deal with that acted as nice as Donut was Caboose. Church shook his head, he couldn't think about Caboose right now.

"What do you want?" The black haired teen asked angrily.

"You were alone here, so I thought I'd give you some company." Donut said unfazed by Church's harsh tone.

"Well just fuck off." Church said, snapping his head up and sending a glare to Donut. He didn't realize until it was too late that his hood fell off, revealing his face.

"Oh. My. God." Donut said, his face was schocked and his lips turned into a smile as he recognized who was before him.

"Grif!" Dounut called. Church looked over his shoulder to see the said man with ginger hair and freckles perk up.

"Fuck me..." The black haired teen whisperedto himself. His cover had been blown and now he was going to have to deal with the lazy ass motherfucker everyone knew as Grif.

"What do you want?" Grif asked walking towards the two, Donut bounced up.

"Look who I found!" He said motioning towards Church. Grif smiled smugly and crossed his arms.

"Well I'll be... Leonard Church came back." He said, Church groaned.

"Just leave me alone." He said clenching his fists, but Grif had other plans. The ginger turned to the rest of the people in the cafeteria.

"Hey everyone! Look who returned from the dead!" Grif yelled, Church froze in his seat as all eyes went on him. He could feel it, their stares burning into him, he heard the whispers throughout the lunch room. 'Who is that?' 'Is that Church?' 'What's he doing back?' 'What's with that scar on his face?' Church couldn't take it, anxiety welled up inside of him. He hated the stares, the whispers. He felt like he couldn't breath. The black haired teen sat up from where he was sitting, he put his hood on and walked out of the cafeteria, hoping to avoid having a full on panic attack. He was pissed, pissed at Grif, pissed at himself, pissed at everyone. Was it too much to ask to not be noticed?

"Maybe I can sneak out, skip the rest of the day." Church whispered to himself. He started walking towards the entrance of the school when he heard yet another familiar voice.

"Hey Church!" Church groaned and kept walking, but the person ran up next to him.

"Woah, where are you going? You were going to leave without saying hi to me?" Church looked next to him to see Tucker. The black haired teen sighed.

"Hey." He said casually, he stopped walking and now just stood there looking at his friend. Tucker didn't change much, he was still taller than Church, though everyone was, had dark brown curly hair and very tan skin.

"Don't just 'hey' me. What are you doing back here?" Tucker asked, before Church could answer the sound of footsteps bounding down the hall cut him off. The black haired teen turned around juast as he was tackled to the floor. Church looked up to see the ever so familiar face of Caboose.

"Church, is it really you?!" The blonde asked, Church rolled his eyes.

"Well, if it was anyone else they probably would've punched you by now." The black haired teen said. Caboose smiled and hugged Church tightly. Church didn't know when the blonde's constant affection stopped bothering him, but now he didn't really mind it, he actually kind of liked it. Church shook off the thoughts, and started to push the blonde off of him.

"Ok, that's enough now." The black haired tean said, Caboose got off of him and the two got to their feet.

"Church, I missed you so much! I wasn't sure if you would ever come back!" The blonde exclaimed.

"Yeah, what happened anyways Church? You kinda just left... You didn't even tell anyone you were going." Tucker said crossing his arms, Church scratched the back of his neck.

"Well what can you say. Families move." He said.

"So why did you come back?" Tucker asked, Church averted his gaze.

"It's a long story." The black haired teen responded. The bell rang indicating that lunch was over and it was time to start heading back to class. Church sighed in relief, he no longer had to answer that question. He started to walk off but was followed by his two friends, he groaned to himself in irritation.

"Church, what happened to your eye?" Caboose asked. Honestly Church wanted to lash out at Caboose for mentioning the scar, he hated to even think about it, but he knew that if he lashed out at the blonde he'd feel terrible later... like he kicked a puppy or some shit.

"I had an accident." Church said, trying not to give away any information, he really just didn't want to talk about what had happened in the past seven months.

"Are you like York? Can you even see out of that eye?" Caboose asked, Tucker elbowed him whispering something like it's not appropriate to ask something like that.

"Nope, can't see anything out of that eye." Church said, both friends were shocked that he had answered the question without getting pissed off. The black haired teen stopped in front of a classroom.

"Well, this is my class, I guess I'll talk to you guys later or some-" Church was cut off.

"Hey, why don't we all hang out like old times." Tucker suggested. Caboose perked up with this.

"Yeah! Church, will you hang out with us?!" The blonde asked excitedly. Apparently Tucker, Caboose, and Tex hadn't really hung out much after he left... It seemed Church was the glue that held them together some how. The black haired teen sighed, knowing he had no real choice, he didn't want to upset Caboose. Anyways, how bad could it be, right? This would be a good way to forget about everything that had happened.

"Sure..." Church said, and with that he walked into the classroom leaving his two friends behind.

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The group all ended up going to Tucker's house, his parents were on a business trip right now so it was a good place to hang out. They started by playing video games and now were just sitting around talking about life. Somehow they managed to get on the subject of dating.

"So are you and Tex together now?" Tucker asked, Church thought for a moment, he didn't really know what him and Tex were.

"I guess you could say we're together. I mean she kissed me earlier and things seemed the same as before I left." The black haired teen said with a small shrug. For a moment he thought he saw a look of sadness on both Tucker and Caboose's faces but it disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared.

"So what about you guys, are either of you with anyone?" Church asked, Caboose just shook his head without a word.

"I'm not with anyone, though I did get it on with Kaikaina last week." Tucker said with a small laugh, saying his infamous catch phrase after. Church rolled his eyes, at this and laughed along with him. Caboose on the other hand stayed silent, his blue eyes focused down at his hands.

"Caboose are you ok?" Church asked, the blonde was very talkative earlier, so he didn't know why he was so quiet now. Caboose looked up nervously.

"Uh, yeah... I, uh, It's starting to get late. I think my parents are going to start worrying." He said, Church looked at his watch, it was 1:30 am and they had school the next day.

"Oh, shit, Tucker, we need to go." The black haired teen said. Tucker nodded and the group all sat up and walked to the door. Tucker grabbed his keys and they made their way to the car. They decided to bring Church home first since his house was closest. The black haired teen shrunk in embarrassment as they pulled up to a crappy apartment complex.

"This is where you live?" Tucker asked shocked, Church shot him a glare. He knew why everyone was so surprised, Church's family was never really poor, they actually were very well off... They could be classified as rich.

"Well it's just this is a sketchy place." Tucker said, Church sighed.

"Yeah... Well it's good enough for me." He said getting out of the car before anyone could ask anymore questions.

Church started walking up to his apartment. This day had turned out... interesting. Surprising none the less. Nothing seemed to change much. Yes, he didn't want to see his friends earlier, but that was because he thought they would hate him or not get off his case for why he left and what had happened... That didn't happen though, sure they asked questions, but they didn't press too much for answers and let it be when Church told them to. 'Maybe things really can get back to normal.' The black haired teen thought to himself as he unlocked the door to his apartment and walked in. Church was going to his room when he saw his reflection in the mirror above his dresser, he walked over to it and looked at himself. He stared at his scar.

"No... Things won't be the same... They never will." Church whispered to himself defeated.