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History was O.K.

Gordo still wouldn't make eye contact with him for some weird reason but it was still O.K. Science was fine, so was english and chemistry was a blast since he didn't have to worry about Marcus anymore.

Lunch was fun, he spent it with Adam, Bree and Chase the same way he did everyday. It was nice, normal.

Well as normal as his family could be anyway.

Adam had an eating contest in which he raced against the clock in the pursuit of finishing three football players worth of cafeteria food in less than a minute. Bree tried to console Caitlin since Bradley Clark refused to admit to anyone that they were dating despite the fact that Caitlin and Brad only spoke once when Brad asked her to hand him his pencil when it rolled underneath her chair during spanish this one time. Chase was in the middle of another nerd war with one of the physics geeks and spent most of lunch planning his next project which will help him make Arthur O'Brian cry like a little girl at his awesome display of centrifugal force or whatever.

God, he's such a nerd.

All in all, it was nice.

Calm and relaxed.

Chase walked him to P.E and gave Leo a kiss at the back entrance of the gym while Adam and Bree just rolled their eyes.

Yeah, very nice.

But now, Leo's in hell.

The teen was breathing hard as he braced his hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath as the rest of the class continued to run their laps or at least attempted to run their laps since most of them looked close to collapsing at this point.

Janelle came to a stop beside him swaying on her legs as she tried to catch her breath as well while sweat streamed down her face. The girl's hair was up in a pony tail away from her face, but that didn't stop her from looking frazzled beyond repair.

Things didn't work out between him and Janelle, but they're still close friends, despite Leo basically dumping her before they'd even properly gotten started and of course Janelle wanted answers but Leo didn't tell her.

I mean what was he supposed to say?

I dumped you for my step brother?

That would not end well for anyone.

So instead he just said that he realised that they weren't right for each other and even though Janelle gave a nod of understanding and a soft smile, she didn't buy any of it. Something is up.

Leo's been chasing after her even going as far as making a complete fool of himself just to get her attention since forever and then a few weeks after they start dating he just calls it quits just like that?

No, somethings going on. She just needs to find out exactly what that is and the only way to do that is to play nice, at least until she's figured out exactly what happened.

But for now, they're both being tormented.

"I-I-I can't, I can't-"

"Breathe?" Leo finished as he glanced at the girl and she gave a nod as her legs buckled all over again, Leo would have laughed if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't breathe either.

"Yeah." Janelle wiped her hand across her forehead while Leo tried to stand up straight only to fold back down at the pain in his side.

"Ow! Ow ow ow, cramp! Cramp!" The boy said as he leaned against Janelle and the girl gave him a tired glare and was about to shake him off, when she realised that she was too tired even for that.

"I-I think might be trying to kill us." Janelle said as her lungs finally caught up while Leo rubbed at his side. "Might? He is trying to kill us."

He of course referring to Mission Creak's recently hired gym teacher.

Coach Trent.

Leo wanted to growl in annoyance at the cocky ex-jock that went strutting around the gym, calling out random exercises to every random student that just happened to walk by him in the gym.

He blames Chase for this of course, the whole Daven-glasses thing was his idea in the first place. Now Leo's stuck alone with his own personal torturer while Chase sits in math doing whatever while he suffers alone.

He is so making up for this later.

Of course Trent tortures everyone in school, but everyone also knows that Trent would probably crawl over hot coal and broken glass if it meant getting the opportunity to make Leo's life miserable. So they never got it as badly as he did.

And Leo could never understand why.

"Well well well."

Leo groaned at the voice that spoke up right behind them and he could hear Janelle do the same as she forced herself to stand up straight as they turned to look up at into the gym teacher's smug grin.

"If it isn't Dooley and not-Dooley. Taking a little break are we?" Trent asked and Janelle just rolled her eyes while Leo whined, "C'mon Trent, we've been running laps for more than half an hour can't we just stop already?"

Of course it was a lost cause but Leo decided that appealing to his once bully now teacher's rational side couldn't hurt could it?

"You know what Dooley, you're right." Trent said as he turned back to the gym and Leo blinked in surprise while Janelle started to smile.

Did that actually work?

Trent blew loudly on his whistle and the entire gym came to a halt with more than half of the students breathing hard, while others collapsed onto the floor and chose to just watch Trent from the ground since they were too weak to stand.

"Alright students, laps are over now we're finished," the entire gym let out a collective sigh and Leo smiled as he leaned into Janelle a little more when Trent suddenly beamed.

"With those and now we're starting with push-ups! Thirty push-ups, thirty sit ups and forty squats!"

Groans of deep harrowing sorrow filled the room including those coming from Leo and Janelle and Trent looked back at them as he gave a large grin, "And once you're all done with that, you're doing ten more laps around the gym. Compliments of Dooley. Everybody say, 'thank you Dooley'!"

The whole gym glared at Leo and Janelle quickly scooted away while Leo just stared up at Trent in disbelief, "WHY?!"

The ex-jock walked up to Leo and his grin grew even more as he leaned down until he was at eye-level with the boy, "Because Dooley, that's why."

"Now, move move! Get your lazy butts moving maggots!" Trent called as he walked away while Janelle gave his back a pat and Leo groaned since he could feel the collective hatred of more than thirty students pressing down on him.

"Well at least it can't get any worse." Janelle said and Leo just sighed as he got ready to join the fray.

"Trust me, it can always get worse." Janelle smiled while Leo fought back the urge to pout and the girl frowned a bit as she looked around the gym.

"Hey where's Gordo, isn't Trent usually torturing both of you at the same time?"

"He has a dentists appointment." Leo growled out as he started walking forward, "He got lucky."

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Gordo sat in the front seat of his mom's sea green station wagon, while mrs Kowalski tapped her fingers along the steering wheel as she belted out the notes of Elastic heart in a way that he's sure Sia would never be able to do.

The boy probably would have smiled if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't feel his mouth, or the fact that said mouth was filled with cotton balls. So he just looked on fondly as his mother bobbed her head every now and then, watching as a strand of red hair fell over her blue eyes until she caught sight of her son's gaze and threw him a grin.

Usually that meant that he should sing along but since she knew he couldn't she decided to make up for it herself and sing louder.

Gordo shook his head.

His mom's insane.

It's no wonder she and Leo got along so well from the moment they met.

Leo Francis Dooley.

They've been friends since forever, ever since Trent and the rest of the football team took to torturing them every chance they got. They sort of bonded over the daily escapes from bullies at school, after all they're both short and athletically challenged.

If they didn't look out for each other then no one would.

But somehow, over the years, Gordo's realised that no matter how much of a dork everyone else thought he was, Leo has always been cool.

Leo's funny and smart and he was always the first one between them to do things first.

He was the first one to work up the nerve to talk to one of the cheerleaders... before the football team found out and chased him around the school.

He was the first one to actually pull a prank on principle Perry and live to tell the tale.

He was even the first one to get a girlfriend after he started going out with Janelle and now... Well-

Gordo looked away from his mom sure that there was a blush spreading right across his cheeks right at that moment.

Leo's also the first one between them to get a boyfriend.

Or at least, that's what he thinks is going on, but what else could it mean?

He hadn't meant to catch them it just sort of happened.

Class hadn't started yet and mr. Michaels wasn't there so Gordo figured that he could sneak off to the bathroom and back before class started.

He really needed to go and Leo wasn't in class yet either, so he figured it was safe.

It was always safer being late with Leo than alone, most of the teachers liked him and it always seemed like he could talk himself out of anything. You know, as long as principle Perry wasn't involved.

So he got up and made to leave class when he saw them and he froze for a moment before darting back into the class room and into his seat. Completely forgetting about his bathroom break as he tried to process what he'd just seen in a way that wouldn't leave mental scarring, but Gordo failed miserably.

He didn't know that Leo's gay, Leo was always so hung up on Janelle that, that didn't even seem like a possibility but apparently it was.

And Chase?

Gordo's always been a little bit jealous of Chase and Leo's relationship. I mean, they used to do everything together until Leo's mom got married and he got three new siblings. After that, hanging out with Leo became rare.

The whole death spiral thing a few months back, when Leo chose his new brother instead of him cut Gordo a lot deeper than he'd ever admit.

They made up afterwards and things started going back to normal, but then Leo was suddenly always busy with Chase. It was always, "We're working on one of our dad's projects" or "Chase is forcing me to go study with him after school" or "Chase asked me to help him with something, maybe next time"

They never got to spend time together anymore and Gordo sort of felt like he'd lost his best friend. And then of course there was Clayton after he started hanging around Leo too.

Things got a little better after the monthly schedule changes principle Perry always made and he shared a few more classes with Leo so sometimes they'd walk to classes together or he'd sit with the Davenports at their table at lunch.

Even then, Leo still always seemed closer to Chase than him and Gordo felt a little hurt at that fact.

But I suppose now he understands why.

The ginger ducked down in his seat a little more sure that his blush was bright red by now.

It was so unreal, seeing two guys like that.

Seeing his best friend like that with his brother.

Gordo wondered how it started, when Leo broke up with Janelle and what Leo's mom thought about all this.

But more than anything Gordo wondered what it was like.

After all, he saw how Chase was basically all over Leo and how Leo just sort of let Chase touch him like that. Leo seemed to like it, of course you're supposed to like it when someone kisses you but is it the same as kissing a girl?

Not that Gordo knows anything about that since he's never even kissed a girl before, but...

What's it like?

I mean girls are supposed to be soft right, different from boys?

So I guess they'd be tough?

But Gordo's pretty sure he isn't tough and neither is Leo.

Spine-less jellyfish like principle Perry always likes to call them.

But what would it be like, kissing another boy? Chase and Leo seemed to like it so it couldn't be too bad right?

Gordo's never even considered thinking about another guy like that before, he's never had a reason to.

It's just that... Well, it's Leo.

Leo's always been so cool. He's Gordo's best friend and they used to do everything together. Leo was always the first to do something and Gordo would feel inspired and curious enough to try it too. Even when he failed, Leo's always been there. Cracking jokes and making the failure seem more fun than it probably was.

Now, Leo has a boyfriend.

Now, Leo's kissed, and judging by the way they'd basically made out in the hallway, probably done more than that before.

And now...

Gordo's curious.

A/N: I really like elastic heart, I have no idea why.

The music video is interesting though, a lot of people are all like it's paedophillic and some other shit, but I think it's really artistic.

I mean seriously sex with children is not the first thing that came to mind when I saw the video.

I don't know I kind of liked it.

Anyway, I'm babbling and getting way off topic.

Things are finally slowing down, so I've got more time to write. I even got back to working on a Lab Rats lemon request I got a long time ago and that's turning out to be a lot of fun.

I'm hoping the next chapter for New born glitch will be finished soon, but I'm not sure.

As for this one, tell me what you think.

I was thinking about including Victor and the bionic soldiers in this but I feel like that's just a whole different fanfic all together. So we're keeping this one as simple as possible, with a few aspects of the newer episodes like Trent as the gym teacher but otherwise none of that other stuff.

Anyway

Please review.