Life's a Show - Chapter Two

"Yo Parker." Warren said as he walked up to the strange new boy in the hallway. Parker was bent over, reaching into the bottom of his locker. He straightened up at the sound of Warren's voice.

"Well hey there Warren, what's up man?" Parker replied. He shut his locker door and pulled down the bottom of his shirt. It was slightly too small, and kept riding up, exposing his stomach slightly.

"I was thinking... still wanna go have some fun?" Warren asked, smirking slightly. Parker opened his mouth slightly and Warren raised his eyebrow suggestively. Parker smiled and ran his hand through his hair.

"Sure man." He moved forward and touched Warren's chest "What made you change your mind?"

Warren looked over to the other side of the corridor, where Will and Layla stood watching him. Will had seen the exchange and looked pained. For a slight moment, Warren wanted to go over and comfort him, but then he remembered. He winked at Will before turning back to Parker.

"Visit from an old friend." He said, and tugged on his jacket. Parker laughed, understanding Warren's meaning. He too looked at Will, who stood scowling at Parker. He giggled and blew Will a kiss, before taking Warren's hand and leading him into the male toilet at the end of the hall.

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Will watched them enter the toilet and sighed. He turned away to face his locker.

"Will. I'm sorry." Layla said. She rubbed his back "I'm sure Warren only wants to make you jealous. Once he gets over this silly misunderstanding, you guys will be right on track again."

Will turned to face Layla. "You sure about that?"

He slammed his locker door shut with such force that the metallic door broke off of its hinges. He kicked it across the floor.

"Damn it!" He yelled.

"Will. Calm down" Layla said. Today she wore a long green dress and bright pink shoes. "God. I can't imagine how you must be feeling."

"Layla." Will said quietly, almost whispering. "He's right. I should have believed him. But I didn't even listen. He would have done anything for me, but I... I didn't even try to help him."

She rubbed his back again. "Will maybe you sho..." Layla began but was interrupted by a loud bang from down the hallway.

Will turned to look towards the sound. A large chunk of the wall had been knocked out, and, emerging from the hole was a large robotic figure. Within an instant the thing had smashed another hole in the wall next to it. It walked through, into the mad science lab.

Will ran down the hall and through the recently created hole in the wall. A moment later a shirtless Warren ran in after him. They both looked at each other for a moment, before running towards the figure. Will swung a punch at it, but the robot was fast. It dodged effortlessly and swung its arm around to hit Will. The sound it made as he connected with Wills body made Warren cringe. Will sailed through the air, and hit the whiteboard at the front of the room. Warren snarled, enraged. He threw a series of flaming balls at the robot. It easily hit them back at Warren, each one hitting him squarely in the chest. Warren sank to the ground in pain. The robot turned back to face Dr. Medulla, who had been cowering in the corner. He pulled the man up by the collar and held him in the air.

"You have something I need." Its metallic computer voice rang out.

"No. No no no no no." Dr. Medulla whimpered.

The robot reached its hand into Dr. Medulla's lab coat pocket and pulled out a small piece of metal. It then tossed Dr. Medulla across the room, where he landed in a heap on top of Will. It the quickly exited the way it had came.

Warren stood up slowly, groaning slightly as he did. Even though the fire ran within him, evidently it hurt the outside part a lot. He walked over to Will and extended his hand to help him up.

"Thanks." Will said as Warren hauled him to his feet. He looked down at his hand, which was still enclosed in Warrens and marveled at how much bigger Warren's hand was than his. He jerked it away, feeling slightly embarrassed.

"No problem. Any idea what that thing was?" Warren asked

"No, but it got whatever it wanted."

"Yeah. Looks like we might have to wait for him to wake up to find out what though. Never a dull moment huh?"

"It seems that way." Will said glumly. He paused for a moment before saying "So uh. What happened to your shirt?"

Will looked a the ground. He already knew. The tears were building up in his eyes already. The thought of Warren being with someone else made him feel like he would vomit. His heart ached as he wondered how things had ever gotten this way.

"Um. I was just... you know."

"Yeah. Parker's new here right. He seems...ok there isn't anything I can finish that off with that won't be violent." Will said. Warren laughed.

"Do you... are you guys together together?" Will asked.

"No. It's nothing like that.' Warren said. They both remained silent for a moment. Will looked down at his feet, trying not to cry.

"Warren I wish that I..." He began, but was interrupted by Principal Powers entering the room, followed by The Commander and Jetstream, who had been called in immediately. The three adults looked at the two boys for a moment. Principal powers broke the silence, by rushing over to Dr. Medulla. Jetstream ushered her son and Warren out of the room.

Both boys walked into the hallway silently. Hey looked at each other again for a moment, before turning away, and walking in opposite directions.

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Warren turned away from Will and walked back towards the toilets to collect his shirt and jacket. Parker smiled at him, as he stood in one of he stalls in his tight blue underwear.

"Hey stud." He said "all sorted."

"Get dressed." Warren said gruffly "I'm not interested."

"What!" Parker yelled "what's happened in the last few minutes to make you suddenly... It's him isn't it?"

"I'm sorry." Warren said as he stretched is arms out to put on his shirt "I don't love you. It wouldn't be right."

Warren walked towards the door, leaving Parker staring after him incredulously.

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AN: I know not a lot happened in this chapter. Ok so Warren almost got a little dirty and the robot thing was lame, but it will be explained in the next chapter, and its not gonna be the new big bad, its more of a minion really.

I dunno. All of this tension between Warren and Will is horrible isn't it? I just wanna type, "and then they kissed and were happy again".. but that's no the story sadly. The actual story is kinda starting to sound familiar. Take away the super powers and make things a little less extreme (RE: Prison) and you got my life...

Love it? hate it? ideas and comments welcomed, so REVIEWS please.