Chapter 1: Reminders

Christmas came and went, along with the New Year and the rest of the holidays. Sebastian spent most of the time in his room, doing his homework and watching movies on his laptop.

Of course it wasn't possible to completely evade his father, and as expected, he paid dearly for his sarcastic comment at the airport. To be honest, he felt like he'd had worse. But usually it was just an isolated incident, not a repeating thing for an entire school break.

So when Sebastian finally got out of his car and walked into Dalton in the beginning of January, he heaved a great sigh of relief. Sure, maybe not everybody liked him there, he didn't have that many friends, but at least he was safe.

Dropping his suitcase in front of his wardrobe, Sebastian sat down on his bed with a slight wince. He just needed a little rest before having to do all that bending and lifting. He closed his eyes and gingerly leaned his back against the wall. Of course that was when Hunter came in.

'Holy shit! What the hell happened to you dude?' Hunter was stood in the doorway to their dorm, staring at Sebastian's face.

Fuck! He'd forgotten about the black eye he'd received almost a week ago now. Every other part of his body hurt so much more that he hardly noticed it anymore. Apparently, Hunter did find it worthy of mentioning.

'Huh? Oh the eye. That's nothing, got into a bit of trouble when I went out last week. You should see the other guy.' Sebastian was quite pleased that he managed to sound so off-hand about all of it, he even gave his roommate a smirk and a rolled his eyes.

'I thought the plan was to take it easy over the holidays?' Hunter said with a grin, moving further into the room and starting to unpack.

'It was. Just so happens that my plans don't always work out as intended.' Sebastian sighed and started to get up. He knew Hunter would only start digging if he noticed Sebastian was stalling for time before he had to do anything even as remotely physical as unpack a suitcase. Lacrosse is going to be a bitch tonight. Maybe I'll call it off, give everybody some time to settle back in. Being the captain of the team had to have some benefits.


Sebastian spent the rest of the afternoon catching up with his fellow Warblers, who all seemed to be very disturbed by the fact that he had a black eye and could be so blasé about it. But once they got over the initial shock everything went back to normal, they even made a few jokes about what could have possibly gotten him into a situation like that.

That night, after a long, hot shower to get the ache out of his muscles, he fell onto his bed, utterly exhausted. Meaning to check the time on his phone, he noticed he had a message from his father: 'Don't think that because you're in a different state that I'm not watching you.'

Well isn't that nice? Feeling slightly apprehensive, he tried to find the least uncomfortable position to sleep in before he passed out, not bothering to turn off the lights.

He didn't even wake when Hunter walked in, grumbling quite loudly about something or other, and settled down for the night.


Ugh, yes I know, another short chapter. But I don't like jumping around a lot in my chapters unless it's really necessary, and it wasn't here. Next one should be a bit longer!

Also, I'm really sorry if I offended anyone by making him seem so uncaring about it, but some people just do that. Yes I'm talking from experience here. Leave a review with your thougts! :)