Lunch came and Beau was hungry for once, though he doubted he would get much either way, he walked through the line grabbing things he wanted to eat. As he turns to go look at something else Jessica nearly knocks his tray of food out of his hand.

"Guess who asked me to prom?!" she says, her voice going up a few octaves.

Once Beau regathered himself a bit he smiled softly "who?" he acted clueless to who it could be, he was happy though that Mike took his advice, now things might not be as tense.

"Mike!" she giggles as Angela comes up to them with her tray, "I thought he was totally going to ask you... but then he asked me! and... and this alright, right?" she asked.

"Yeah, totally... you two will be adorable together" Beau offers a smile

Beau follows them to the table where the boys are already sitting, Beau squeezed himself in next to Eric, they seemed excited by something.

"La Push Baby!" Eric says with a big smiled wrapping an arm around Beau.

Beau furrows his eyebrows together "am I supposed to know what that means?"

"La Push is a beach by the reservation you know? we're planning on going there on Saturday, it pretty cool" Angela explains.

"La Push Baby, what do you say?!" Eric insists once more.

"Okay" he pushes Eric arm from around him "I'll go if you stop saying that" Beau says making the other laugh and he tries to start eating the pizza he got, the talking his friends were doing become background noise, he tried to ignore the feeling of being watched he was getting he looks behind him, seeing Edward sitting by himself instead of at the Cullen's regular table, he smiles and waves him over.

"Is it just me of is Edward Cullen waving you over?" Jessica says, he can sense a hint of jealousy in her voice.

Beau sees all of them look over to Edward "I should go see what he wants..." he says grabbing he try and quickly walking over to the other table placing his try down but not sitting "I thought you didn't want to be friends" he says matter of factly as he sits down.

"Shouldn't... I said we shouldn't be friends, I do want to be friends with you Beau, I just think it would be best for you if we weren't" Edward explains.

"Then why did you call me over if you if you're so bad for me?"

"I'm hoping you'll come to your senses and not want to be around me eventually," Edward says.

"Well... I've always had poor decision-making skills" Beau starts to eat his food, he has room to spread out not being squished between Eric and Angela.

Edward closed his eyes and sighs a bit as if a little frustrated running his hand through his hair before opening his eyes once more and watching Beau eat "Beau?" he finally breaks his silence.

Beau looks up and messes with a strand of his long hair, each time Edward uses his name it cause his head to go fuzzy and it feels like his heart skips a beat "yeah?"

"I asked you this before... but I have the feeling you weren't telling me the truth... why do you prefer being called Beau?" he asked.

Beau stares at him for a moment before shaking his head a bit "You aren't truthful with me, why should I be truthful with you?"

"You still don't believe me?" he sounds surprised by this.

"Why would I?"

"I can't tell you..." Edward says simply, giving into the fact that Beau may never believe him.

"What if I guess?" Beau asks.

"I would be very surprised, but be my guest"

Beau scrunches up his nose a bit trying to think of what theory made the most sense to him, what one made him feel like he was on to something "Well, I thought about superheroes, you know like getting bitten by a radioactive spider, or being exposed to radiation of some sorts"

Edward simply chuckles and shakes his head "No... now...will you answer my question?"

Beau tenses a bit playing with the bit of crust he has in his hand, his stomach feels tight again, like he might throw up, almost how he felt when it first hit him that he was trans, he didn't know if he was ready to tell people, would Edward accept it if he just explained that to him. He looked up meeting Edwards golden eyes, something about Edward always made Beau calm, made him want to trust the male in front of him. He leans in close dropping the pizza back on the try, he notices Edward go still, stiller then humanly possible.

"I'm... not a girl," he says carefully, feeling his stomach tighten, even more, he only gets a confused look from the male in front of him "I don't think I've ever been one... I just... I just..." the reality of the situation seemed to crash down on him all at once he very quickly backed up from Edward and got up, panic overtook any calmness he had about him as he rushed out of the building leaving Edward and his tray full of food behind, he felt like all the air had been sucked out his lungs.

Beau walked over to his truck and hopped in the back sitting against the cold steel, he shivered a bit hading forgot his jacket near the door in his rush out. He caught his breath a little and felt tears well up in his eyes. He hated how emotional he is over it, but he just told someone and now he was worried Edward would tell everyone, or at the least thought he was a freak. He sniffed a bit maybe the cold would overtake him and he could die in the back of his truck, he gripped the sides of his pants as he buried his face into his knees, hugging himself.

"You know, it's not very nice to run out some on like that" Edward's voice makes him tense, he doesn't want to look up but he feels Edward throw his sweater on him, he pulls it around him like a blanket.

"Just forget what I said!" Beau says his voice muffled by his knees "and don't you dare tell anyone!" he lifts his head glaring at the male pointing a threatening finger at him.

"Calm down, I don't care that your transgender"

Beau's breath hitches as he put on his sweater, Edward saying the word so casually, the word that still terrified him a little bit, he looked up Edwards meeting the male's eyes, they seemed to care at the moment. Edward got in the bed of the truck with Beau and sat down next to him.

"You don't?"

"' Course not... I just wish you would have told me sooner, I would have stopped my dad from calling you 'miss' at the hospital"

"No!" Beau quickly said "You can't tell anyone! I haven't even told my dad yet, what if he found out?!" he said panicking once more at the thought of having to explain it to his dad earlier then he wanted to.

"Beau... my family won't tell anyone" he tried to reassure the boy "don't worry, I won't spread it around if though," he says carefully.

Beau seems to calm down at this and Edward spends the rest of lunch calming him down and just sitting with him. He skips out on the class after lunch feeling too worn out to deal with Jessica or Angela in that class. They walked to their last class together, to Beau embarrassment Edward rest a cold yet calming and on his back... how is his hand so cold? They sit down and Beau takes out his notebook. He can't help but think about the fact that Edward doesn't have many friends... sure Beau's kind of the same way, but he has some friends, and none of them is his family. He bites his lip wanting to invite Edward out with them to the beach... he decided maybe Edward would have fun or at least get out a bit.

"You should come out to the beach with us on Saturday, get out a bit," he says.

Edward seems reluctant already "I don't know..."

"Oh come on, you should socialise a bit... I want you to come, and I'm sure the others would be excited to have you" Beau try to convince him.

Edward shakes his head a bit, he seems to be thinking about, almost interested "What beach?"

"La Push" Beau notices any interest that was there seemed to melt away with the mention of the beach they were going to.

"I'll think about it..." Edward says.

Beau frowns a bit, knowing that meant that most likely Edward wouldn't come, but he tried to keep his hopes up despite everything. Everything else seemed to be a blur after that. Edward walked him to his car and said goodbye, again to Beau's surprise he left him with a small pat on his head. He couldn't help but scowl a bit as he tried to suppress a smile. He got into his truck as soon as Edward walked away and brought out his phone to text James.

I may have done something either really stupid or amazingly smart! I told Edward that I was Trans... Well okay, I didn't say Trans, I said I 'wasn't a girl' and he sort of just got it... He promised not to tell anyone but I'm still really nervous, and oh yeah, we're taking a trip to Seattle together to visit my favorite book store next weekend and I'm excited about that! And you should be proud of me :P I'm going out with friends this weekend to the beach... I probably won't get in the water but still, at least I'm getting out!

Beau drove home with a smile on his face, his cheeks almost hurt, he cleaned around the house as soon as he got home, grabbing an energy bar from one of the cupboards. He sat down on the couch looking at his phone to see an answer from James.

Beau this is something you call me about not text! OMG! You're going to get yourself a mans before me that's not fair! I have been looking longer then you have :( and you move to a new town and guys are just falling out of the sky and into your lap!

Beau laughs at this and goes to his computer logging into skype hoping that it will work and he won't just be stuck on the login screen forever. He smiles when it does load and goes to James' and his chat.

let's call on here!

The familiar tone of a skype call hits before the actual answer screen does. He answers the call as quickly as the computer will allow him to. He fixes the camera on top to make sure it can see him properly, he scrunches up his nose as he looks at himself in the corner, he needed a hair cut... he looked at James and smiled at he popped up on the screen.

"Okay, so tell me all about him, who manages to make Beaufort Swan fall head over heels in love with him, and come out?" Jame's smirked.

"Shut up, I'm not in love with him! He's just cute but I don't know, he's a little weird if I'm honest" he shrugs "the main reason wanted to call is because I need a little help with this... Trans thing... I have no clue where to start and was hoping you knew something" he said with a small huff.

James give a small smile "You know I always got your back, I know a bit about it because my uncle... well my aunt is trans but that a completely different side of trans... when you finally admitted it I asked her a few questions and she told me what she knew about the female to male side of being transgender so I'll give you all the knowledge I got from her... though I suggest going to the library with faster computer and looking up things" he says, every now and then the screen stutters. James starts explaining everything he knows about, the processes, the surgeries, different ways to come out, how to socially transition before medically doing so, shots... yuck needles, Beau hated needles...

"What about... I need a better way to hide my chest" he says "you know other than wearing clothing that I drown in" he said.

"You know what, I'll send you some videos and links and stuff to binders that you buy and other things that you may want to look at," James said with a small smile toward Beau.

"You're amazing James, thank you so much!"

"Of course I am! How dare you doubt it! and when you're ready to come out to your parents I'll be here as well" he smiled at the boy.

Beau didn't want to think about that at the moment, he still couldn't believe he told Edward... "Enough about me, what about you, what's going on in Phoneix?"

"Oh... not much, its hot as always, and the homecoming dance is coming up for us, no luck getting anyone to ask me out, I swear this town is too straight sometimes, or at least our school is" he huffed, James ran through all the drama that went on.

It was nice just to talk to his old friend for a while. They said goodbye and hung up when Beau's father got home. Saturday morning he was woken by a call from Eric, he answered reluctantly. Before he could say anything Eric belted out;

"La Push Baby!"

Beau heard a distant laugh from someone else with Eric, he groaned a bit and thought about hanging up on the male altogether. There's was some noise of the struggle, then Mikes's voice came through the phone.

"Come on! Don't tell me you're still asleep, it nearly ten" Mike said.

"It's the weekend..." Beau groaned "I can sleep in as long as I want"

"Well get your butt up girl! because we're coming to get you!" Eric said.

Beau huffed and sat up "okay okay, I'm up, I'll be ready by the time your here" he grumbled before hanging up on them. He got up and grabbed some clothing when he looked at his weather app it seemed as if the forecast had changed, so he grabbed his sweater and longs warm pants and ran downstairs, stealing his dads coffee cup right out of his hands and drinking from it to get some energy.

"Yeah sure... made that for you," Charlie said giving Beau a look, and pouring himself some coffee in another cup.

"Sorry dad, need some energy" Beau smiled innocently "going out with friends today!" he said.

"Really?" Charlie seemed surprised.

"Yeah, Eric, Jessica, Angela and Mike all wanted to go to La Push to swim"

"A little cold for that isn't it?" Charlie said glancing outside at the nonexistent sun.

"Yeah, I won't be swimming anyway," Beau said.

A honk from outside along with about four cheers and yells alerted both of them that his ride was here. He downed the rest of the bitter-tasting coffee and waved to his dad.

"Be safe!" Charlie quickly called.

Beau was already out the door and getting into, what seemed to be, Mike's car. He buckled up, now that he was fully awake he was looking forward to today, and having fun with his friend. and of course the small possibility of seeing Edward.