Andy's P.O.V
Everyone in my life was smiling. Every person I passed was talking to everyone but me, seeing as someone a few years ago made a rumour saying that I was an 'emo faggot little boy who no one loved'.
Whenever I walked passed the kids in my school, they stopped talking and laughing and started to point and whisper saying things like; "Look! There's that little emo boy." A part from one guy. He had brown hair, brown/blue eyes. He was looking at me with a look of sadness. Pfft, yeah, right. Like someone would care about me. The rumours weren't even true.
I was new at the school, when they started, and of course I had no friends. I was the only new kid, moved from Sydney to a small town I can't even remember the name of. Then some jock came up to me, pushed me around and I snapped. I beat the shit out of him. I wasn't someone you wanted to mess with. Throughout my life I had been taking lots of different defence classes. I was so good, that all my instructors came together to put together all different techniques into one. No one could do that in any of my classes. I was unbeatable.
But since that day, that kid held a grudge against me. He didn't come near me, but he told rumours of how I cut myself and my parents hated me. That when he came to talk to me, be my friend, I beat him up. Making me look like the bad guy.
"Hey, you... you ok?" I was in my own little world beating the shit out of the punching bag in the gym. I turned around, seeing that kid with the brown hair.
"Fine." I continued to beat the shit out of it.
"Want me to hold the bag?" he dropped his bag and came over.
"If you want." I stopped to let him get into his position. Looked like he'd done this before. He knew where to stand and put his hands so he wouldn't get hit.
I hit the bag with a lot of force. It made him loose his balance for a second.
"Wow... I've been doing this for years and no one's ever been able to knock me of balance..."
I had momentarily forgotten he was there and that's why I had hit it that hard. My bad...
"Sorry, I don't normally have people holding the bag for me..." I looked down, brushing my blonde hair out of the way.
"I know. I see you walking around alone, and sometimes when I'm in here packing up, you're here alone... I've heard the things Jack have said about you..." He reached down and grabbed his bag.
"Not true. He's upset because 3 years ago I beat the shit out of him." I grabbed my things and walked out, into the fresh air. It was after school and no one was around.
"Hey! Wait up! I don't even know your name?" I turned around and looked him in the eye.
"Andy. Andy Clemmensen." He had reached me and only 30 cms were between us. God, this is what I wanted. Him. I never really myself accepted my sexuality, but I had to if I wanted to continue with my life.
"Is that short for something?" He blinked down at me. I was shorter by about 15cms.
"Yeah, Andrew. But no one calls me that. My fathers' name was Andrew. He died. He was my hero. And now I have to live with his name." Oh, my god. I cannot believe I told the cutest guy ever that my dad was my hero... not cool for a 17 year old to admit...
"I'm Shaun. Shaun Diviney. Not short for anything. My dad's a drunk dickhead and my mum died last year." Poor guy. My dad was caring, his dad is not. His mum died, and probably meant a lot to him, as mine does to me.
"Sorry about your mum..." I looked down at the ground, it had started to rain, and my hair was stuck to my head. But I didn't care, anytime with Shaun, no matter what weather, was better than nothing.
"Sorry about your dad." He lifted my chin with his hand and looked me in the eye. Little space was between us now, and he covered that quickly. He kissed me on the lips, not softly, but not hard. It was... nice.
He pulled away, ashamed of himself.
"Sorry..." He looked away.
"I'm not..." I quickly kissed him again and kinda ran out of the rain, towards home.
My first kiss... in the rain... it was awesome. And no one saw. That was a good thing. No more names.
Even though I could fight, and people were bullying me, I don't believe in starting fights. I just end them.
