Sam walked through the large double doors of the aging brick building of Stonewood high school, he sighed as he made his way to his locker at the end of the north hall. He took out his wired ear buds stuffing them back in his pocket and detaching them from his cellphone's headphone jack. He then took his cellphone out from his pocket and checked the texts and smiled when he saw one was from Trevor, he read the text and smiled again as he put his phone away and imputed his locker combination with the locker dial and heard the click of the pins going out of place. He reached into his locker to grab his backpack when he heard a familiar voice say, "hey fairy what's up?" Sam sighed as he closed his locker and turned around to see a large guy in a letterman jacket along with two other boys. Sam sighed and said, "hey Kurt" The other two smiled as Kurt said, "hey fairy where's your boyfriend?" Sam frowned and said, "Trevor is probably somewhere around here he doesn't ride the bus." One of the other boys, a thin tall boy with a giraffe like neck said "aww too bad your boyfriend doesn't drive you to school" Sam did not reply and just gave them a glare , they all knew that Trevor had work release for 4th period and drove to school instead of taking the bus. Kurt frowned and said to the giraffe kid "hey Davy you quit and keep the frying up to me!" Kurt then turned to the other boy and said "Troy hold this freak to the wall while I teach him a lesson" Troy started to approach Sam as he then heard a loud authoritative voice that said "the only one who gets to hold Sam down is me" All three boys looked behind them to see a tall boy wearing a denim jacket seeing this Troy and Davy slowly backed away abandoning their leader. Kurt looked dismayed and said to Sam "whatever you fags, I got things to do anyway" He then quickly shuffled away down the hall.
Sam smiled as the boy walked over to him and gave him a good long hug. With the two together it was apparent how short Sam was being only 5' 2'' pretty and thin next to the large boy who was about 6 foot and muscular. Sam smiled and said, "thanks for backing me up Trev those guys always give me a hard time" Trevor smiled and replied "probably just projection and unresolved sexual repression" Sam smiled and said "god I can't wait to be away from there people this town sucks" Smiled and said " don't worry we'll get there someday" he then moved his hands down Sam's waist and Sam blushed and said "honey there's people here wouldn't want to get went to the office for excessive PDA. Trevor removed his hands and "what about tonight? my old man isn't home tonight so we can have some fun, drink his booze stash and watch some old DS9 reruns" he then smiled and said "maybe have some more fun after that… I even bought some condoms" Sam blushed, he knew exactly what he meant, they had been together for over a year as more then friends and Trevor had been angling for them to finally get intimate for over a month. Sam replied "I… I…. I'm just not ready" Trevor replied, "I understand I don't want to pressure you we'll do it when you're ready" Sam smiled and said, "thanks but, I'll say yes to the drinks and Star Trek" Trevor smiled and said, "sure I'll see you tonight after work". He then looked at the clock, it was almost time for 1st period he gave his boyfriend a quick kiss on the cheek and said, "I'll see you later babe, I got to make it to bio" Sam smiled and said, "I should be heading off too. see you later". The two then parted ways as he headed down the hall. Sam then once again opened his locker and looked at the picture taped on the side of his locker most of which were press photos of various superheroes like Allen Scott, superman, Dr. Fate and his favorite, Superboy, he really liked Superboy. He liked superheroes in general, he often wished that he could be one and fly away from this bum dead-end town and go Metropolis, Stonewood Kentucky made Smallville looked like New York it was so small and stagnate. He then focused got his bag, shut the locker, and then shrugged himself off and he went to 1st period trigonometry.
Sam yawned as he placed his head down on his desk, he always hated having math 1st period, then again, he hated math in general, he was not very good at the subject he would rather be in Mr. Lister's American History Class or Ms. Kessler's American Literature class. He was however stuck first thing in the morning in Mr. McGee's Trig class and Mr. McGee was a boring middle-aged man with a monotone voice, he did not make learning fun. As he was about to fall asleep when he felt a tap on his shoulder he looked over and his blue eyes lit up when he saw in was Marcy. Marceline O'Leary was rather tall for a girl being taller than Sam with her pale complexion and dyed blue hair it was quite out of place at a plain looking old fashion quant southern school. Sam smiled and said "oh thanks I was falling asleep from boredom" Marcy smiled and said "yeah monotone McGee drives you crazy, Denis couldn't stand him when he went here" Sam replied "well luckily this is only boring class of the day if I had more like this I'd be going crazy" Luckily the two could not be heard because they were in the back of a large 30 kid classroom and due to county budget cuts the student to teacher ratio was less than ideal. Marcy pursed her lips and said, "yeah this white bread town can drive anybody even a little odd crazy with its plainness" Sam replied, "yeah sometimes I wish there were more out people at this school" Marcy quick to change the subject said "oh by the way did you see the news last night about that big fight downtown?" Sam smiled and said "I heard about it on the news, Guy Gardner had some green fisted punch up with some alien" Marcy nodded smiled and said "yeah he's so awesome and cool" Sam rolled his eyes and said "Guy is asshole, I'd take Hal or John any day" Marcy rolled her eyes in return and said "I think he's hot" Sam replied "man McGee never lets up he just drones on and on and on…" It was then that Mr. McGee saw them talking in the back of the class and gave them a glance and the two stopped talking and the class went on.
Later that day…..
Sam swung open the screen door of the doublewide trailer and he heard a female voice say, "hey honey how was school?" Sam took his shoes off and walked into the entrance way and said, "Ok I guess mom" He then walked into the kitchen and saw his mom putting some dished in the sink still hearing her waitress uniform from her second job." Kendall Preston was middle aged, had long greying blonde hair and a face that had seen much" Turning to face Sam his mom said "you look more and more like your father each day Sam" Sam looked down across the dining room to a small end table that had a picture of his mom and man, like Sam he had the same dark hair and blue eyes, though he was much taller and had an almost picturesque physical figure were Sam was short and lanky. His mom noticing this said, "He'd be so proud of you, your smart and caring, a lot like him" Sam replied, "I'll never know I wish he was here with us" Mom leaned in and said, "I know honey you two would have got along very well I'm sure" After a long pause his mom said, "um you have any homework?" Sam shook his head and said, "me and Trevor are going a little while if that's ok" His mom smiled and said "that's ok honey just be back by midnight" she then gave another small smile "and stay safe" Sam seeing her little smiled always made him feel good there was always an acknowledgment and acceptance of his and Trevor's relationship, he was so glad coming out was so easy when he did. Sam gave his mom a kiss on the cheek and left shutting the screen door" His mom left the sink and picked up the picture and said "Kazdan I wish you were here; your son is growing up so fast, it's just a matter of time before he finds out".