Chapter 20
Written by: Sister-Cousin and Degrassicutie1
"I hate my life." Toby shouts while in the bathroom. "Everybody hates me!"
JT walks into the bathroom alone and heads over to the sink. Then he sees Toby standing besides him and gives him a dirty look.
"You know what JT a lot of this has to do with you."
JT said, "Me?"
"Yeah you! This would've never happened if you haven't become friends with Paige, Hazel, Jimmy and Spinner. You dropped me for people who barely know you."
"They do know me. At least they don't keep secrets from me or embarrass me like you did."
"Oh come up with a better answer. Anyways you got what you wanted. Everybody hates me and I have no friends. Yep it looks like you've won. Congratulations."
JT watched Toby leave the restroom and left shortly after him. In a way JT felt sorry for Toby, and suddenly found himself confused of what to do.
Ellie and Marco were in study hall together. Marco was staring at a piece of paper in front of him.
"Marco are you okay? You haven't said anything since we got here." Ellie asked.
"No, I'm not okay. Everything is a mess!"
"It will be okay."
"No it won't be. I need to get this field trip permission slip signed by my parents in order to go."
"It's just a lousy trip to the museum. Look if it will make you feel any better I won't go either. We can skip school instead and go hang out just the two of us and maybe Sean."
"Ellie that's NOT the point. It's been three days and my parents haven't called. They hate me. They don't even care where I am."
He shouted angrily, but a tear ran down his face. Ellie looked around the room.
"Let's not talk about this here. Come on lets go somewhere else."
"But we can't just ditch." Marco replied.
"Yeah we can. The teacher's asleep. She won't even notice we're gone."
"Okay."
Marco and Ellie decided to go to the park. They got ice cream on the way there and sat on a bench.
"So are you ready to talk?" Ellie asked.
Marco nods. "Ellie believe it or not I miss them even though they hate me."
"They don't hate you! There is no possible way they can hate you. It's just going to take them a while to accept the fact that you're gay."
"But how much longer?"
"I don't know."
"I can't stay with you forever. I need to go back home and take a stand."
"Today?" Ellie asked.
"Yeah."
"Fine, but be ready."
"I am." Ellie smiled at Marco and then they hugged.
It was after school and Jimmy, Hazel, Paige, and JT decided to go to The Dot. They were on the drive there and Paige was driving.
"It's strange not having Spinner here. He even missed band practice yesterday." Jimmy announced.
"He was giving me the evil eye today. I thought he was going to attack me." JT said.
"Yeah well Paige and him have been going out for awhile before you came along. They were Degrassi's highschool sweethearts." Hazel replied.
"I guess now I'm going to have to live up to that title, huh?"
"Yeah. Well it's what people expect of you."
"Guys I'm right here. You act as if I weren't even here and stop scaring JT with your horror stories." Paige shouted..
"We're just giving him tips." Hazel said.
"Yeah don't tell us you haven't thought about this! It has people talking." Jimmy said.
"It's not important what other people think."
"Hazel I think Paige has lost her mind." Hazel giggled, while JT stayed quiet.
"I think it's amusing how shallow you think I am." Paige replied.
"We would never call you shallow...to your face." Hazel said and Paige grunted. "Paige I'm completely joking. You're not shallow."
"Thank you, but please stop talking about this. You're making JT uncomfortable."
"Oh sorry JT."
"Yeah little man."
"Um thanks."JT said.
The car stopped and everyone walked into The Dot and took a table by the window.
"Oh don't look now but Spinner is by the counter." Paige said.
"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea." JT said.
"JT stop worrying so much. I'm with you now and only you."
"Isn't he like bus boy or something?" Jimmy asked.
"He was, but he just got promoted to waiter."
"Great."
Spinner walks over to the table with a smirk across his face.
"Oh isn't this cute! May I take your order?"
"Yeah combo number five and for the lady cheese burger, fries and a coke." Jimmy replied.
"Um I'll have a Caesar salad and lemonade." Paige says. JT remains quiet and looks like he is on some kind of daze. Everybody was looking at him wondering if he was going to say something. Finally Paige patted him on the back.
"Hon, it's your turn to order." She said.
"Oh I'll have the same." JT replied and looked out the window. He saw Toby walking by.
Spinner said, "Alright it's coming up."
"Um guys can you excuse me." JT asked.
"But you ordered just ordered."
"I'll be back."
"Aright."
JT quickly got out of his chair and walked outside. He ran up to Toby and started walking beside him.
"JT what are you doing here?" Toby asked.
"Hi Tobes. I thought about what you said earlier and you're right it wasn't right of me to treat you that way. I mean we were best friends and I shouldn't have a abandoned you for some people I barely know." JT said.
"What are you saying? Are you going to break up with Paige?"
"Hell no. What gave you that idea?"
"Oh I don't know. So JT can you make it clear of what exactly you are saying because I don't understand."
"What I'm trying to say is that I miss us being friends. Yeah believe it or not I miss your company."
"But do you know all the trouble I caused. I mean if we were friends people would talk about you."
"I'll deal. I mean it was a pretty crappy thing you did. No a really, really crappy thing to do, but I'm willing to give you one more chance. You gotta promise me one thing though in order for this to work."
"What?"
"If you ever pull a prank like that again it's over!" JT said.
Toby smiled. "I promise."
"So we're friends again."
"Yeah friends once again like old times." JT said and they did a friendship handshake.
Marco and Ellie are holding each others hands and are standing in front of his house. Marco is taking deep breaths.
"Are you ready?" Ellie asked.
"As ready as I am going to be." Marco said and rung the doorbell. Marco's mother says that she is coming and when she sees him tears run down her face.
"Hi ma." Marco greeted. She doesn't say anything. All she does is hug him tightly.
"Come on. Come in." She said and Ellie and Marco follow her to the living room.
"Hello Ellie."
"Hi Mrs. Del Rossi." Ellie smiled.
"Look I'm happy to see you here, but Marco where have you been? Your father and I have been worried sick about you."
"I'm sure he was," Marco said, sarcastically.
"Actually, I did."
"Dad?" asked Marco.
"We both missed you a lot Marco," said Mr. Del Rossi.
"I thought you hated me," said Marco.
"You liking boys is hard for me to believe, but Marco you're my son and I can't hate you like this."
Marco can tell that his dad is trying hard not to cry. He sits up and hugs his father.
"I'll try to accept this, one step at a time." said Mr. Del Rossi.
"Thanks dad," said Marco. "So am I welcome back?"
"Marco, how could you even ask? Of course!" said Mrs. Del Rossi.
"Let me go back to Ellie's and get my stuff, okay?" said Marco.
Marco and Ellie were walking to Ellie's house.
"So how does it feel to come out to your parents?" asked Ellie.
"Relieving! Now I don't have anything to hide anymore. Everyone knows what I am and I am proud!" said Marco.
"I told you your parents wouldn't hate you. They were just shocked," said Ellie.
"I suppose it is some heavy news, but I'm just glad that everything turned out good," said Marco.
The day had started out cloudy and gloomy, but by the end of the day the sun was shining. Marco got a feeling in his heart that everything was going to work out for the best.
The End!
Author's Note: Hey all I hope you enjoyed this fan fiction because Degrassicutie1 and I enjoyed writing it. Sorry it took so long to finish. Review por favor!