And this is how the pack deals with the rush from work and school.


Chapter 7: Rush

As the next morning comes up, Noah was the only one wide awake as he got himself ready for school and he got all of his papers and other stuff together and out comes Travis, Jonah and Sam coming in and they see Noah right in front of him and Jonah said, "Morning, Noah."

Noah looks up and sees three of the Mosley brothers and he said, "Hey, guys."

"College is fucking brutal." Travis added.

Noah grabs all of his stuff and placed it on his back and he said, "Who you telling? I gotta go. I'll grab some breakfast at campus."

"We'll meet you there." Jonah added.

"Yeah...about that; one of the assistant editors of the paper has called in sick and want me to fill in for him. I told him to be careful when it comes to eating raw clams and shrimp." Noah responded.

Jonah could tell that Noah's more busy than ever, but there's nothing he can do to stop it and said, "Yeah, I understand. We'll see you...whenever."

"Glad you guys understand." Noah said, before taking off.

After Noah left, Jonah felt completely disappointed by all of this and most of the pack's busy schedule and financial struggles are really starting to get to him deeply and he lets out a deep breath and said, "What's happening to us, guys?"

"More stuff than we could handle. We all have our own things to do." Sam replied.

"This place used to be fun." Jonah added.

The three got a couple of quick breakfasts to go; Jonah got some pop-tarts, Travis got a granola bar and Sam has got himself a fruit bar as they left the house on their way to school and after they left, Diego, Lars, Brent, Cody, Max, Frankie, Mike and Hawk made their way downstairs to head off to both school and work and Lars asked, "You got the keys?"

"Yep." Diego said, getting the keys out of his pocket.

After they left, Cyrus was heading to school already and he wanted to see if Ryan needed a ride to school and he went upstairs and went to his room and he asked, "Hey, Ry...you need a ride to the campus?"

"No thanks, Cy. I got my skateboard. But I'll meet you there." Ryan said, quickly.

"Okay. I...guess I'll see you there." Cyrus said, a little disappointed.

Soon afterwards, as most of the pack are either heading off or sleeping due to their night shifts, Ryan took his time to get himself ready and the minute he stepped out of the door with his skateboard, he received a text from Kendall and it reads, 'Waiting for you at my house.'

Ryan texted him back and he typed, 'On my way.' and puts an emoticon that gives him a kiss and blows it and sent it afterwards. He puts on his helmet, places hid earbuds on his ears and turns on his Whopod and it plays a punk-pop song as he's riding his way over to Kendall's place.

10 minutes later

Ryan finally made it to Kendall's house, where he saw him standing at the house with his backpack and skateboard and he walked over to him and said, "Good morning, Kenny."

"Hey, Ry. You ready to go?" asked Kendall.

"Yeah. I just hope I don't run into those jock guys again." Ryan said, a little worried.

Kendall puts his hand on Ryan's shoulder and said to him, "Don't even think about them, Ry. Just ignore them. They don't know you better."

Ryan nods his head in agreement and he hopes that he'll get through this day with Kendall around and he took his word for it and both of them skated their way to the campus together and when they actually made it, they placed their own skateboards in each other's bag as they walked in the campus.

Suddenly, Ryan became a little nervous as he was walking when he saw four of those jocks come in and one of them said, "Hey, look...it's the gay nerd and his trusty partner."

"Yeah, is there a course in fag-ometry?" another jock said.

The four jocks started laughing and high-fiving each other and it literally get on Ryan's nerves and all he wanted to do was just fight him back, but he's not the type of person that could be completely violent. However, he does feel really helpless and defenseless against being surrounded by stereotypical peers that always focuses on his sexual orientation and Kendall could tell Ryan's getting a little tense on this one.

"Don't focus on them." Kendall added.


You saw just a little bit of the jocks and what Ryan has to deal with. You'll see more of the jocks later on in the story.