Title: You Love Me But You Don't Know Who I Am
Author: alienangel19852003
Summary: Leo kills Gideon before Chris fades away and he manages to heal him. Chris is unable to return to his own time so he is stuck in the present. The Elders give him a new charge and Chris has to start over.
Rating: M
AN: This is an AU story. It is rated M for a reason and that is because it contains a substantial amount of swearing abuse physical violence and mention of rape and incest. Also guy on guy action.
Chapter 5
"I swear I'll help you with the school stuff." Jack said.
"Next period won't be so bad. English is pretty fun. Ms. Gold is pretty nice but she's sort of high strung. We think she might be going through menopause. She keeps getting hot flashes and she leaves the class to go get mass amounts of ice." Jack said as the headed toward English class.
Ms. Gold was a tall woman with curly bleached blonde hair. She had a southern drawl that Chris found fascinating. Chris took a seat next to Jack as the other students filed in. He was acutely aware of the eyes on him. Ms. Gold came over and introduced herself quietly not making him go in front of the class.
Ms. Gold went on with her lesson. First they had to copy spelling words off the board. The words were pretty easy. Junior high easy and he was thankful for that.
By the time all the lessons had been put away and everyone was just sitting around the novelty had worn off him and all of the students went back to talking among themselves except a boy with reddish blond hair and delicate features kept watching him. First with curiosity but later Chris sensed jealousy.
"Who is that guy?" Chris asked Jack in a low whisper.
Jack looked up to see where Chris was indicating. It was Matt Cramer. Jack blushed when he met Matt's eyes.
"That's Matt Cramer." Jack said in a nonchalant whisper.
"Why is he looking at me like that? He keeps staring at me. He obviously doesn't like me." Chris said.
"No he doesn't like me." Jack said.
"Ex- boyfriend?" Chris asked in a whisper.
"Yeah. How do you know these things?" Jack asked.
"It explains why he keeps giving me these 'Back off Bitch' looks." Chris said.
Jack laughed.
"Are you okay with that?" Jack asked.
"No I kind of want to slap him." Chris said.
"No the part about me liking guys. Are we still cool?" Jack whispered.
"Of course we're cool we were just holding hands a while ago." Chris whispered blushing hotly.
A noise on the other side of the class room distracted them from the conversation.
All eyes turned to see Ms. Gold fanning herself.
"Lawd! It's hot in here. Can someone turn the fan on? Can we get some air?" The southern teacher exclaimed.
It was seventy five degrees perfect weather. And all the windows were open letting in the slight breeze.
Chris knew she was hot. He could feel it along with her frustration. Chris stared along with Jack and the other students as the teacher went over and started fiddling with the air conditioner.
"I'm suffocating. It so hot." Ms. Gold moaned fanning with her hands.
"I'm going to get some ice." She said and then she ran out of the room.
The bell rang and Chris followed Jack out of the class room.
"That certainly was interesting." Chris said as they walked down the corridor and out on the courtyard
"Yeah, every day is an adventure at Truman High." Jack said dragging Chris over to the nearest coke machine.
He gave Jack a dollar and leaned against the wall.
"What do we have next?" He asked.
"Spanish. The funniest class ever." Jack said with out a trace of sarcasm.
Jack handed Chris a drink he wondered a second later if he even wanted that kind.
"Did I get the right kind I forgot to ask." Jack said.
"I'll drink anything with caffeine in it." Chris said.
Other students were already sitting on benches or standing and talking.
Jack tried to ignore the fact that Missy was watching them. It was bad enough that Missy had been hanging out with Courtney lately. But did they have to talk about him. He was deathly afraid one would find out what he did with the other and it would be World War III.
Jack tried to focus on Chris' rant about the gym uniforms. But he knew the girls were watching them. When he looked up again they were walking over to them.
"Hey Jack, long time no see." Missy said folding her mouth into a pout.
"Missy." Jack said trying not to sound nervous but he didn't exactly pull it off.
"Hey Courtney." He said in an unusually high voice.
"Hi Jack." Courtney said.
Both girls were looking at Chris quizzically.
"Aren't you going to introduce us to your new friend?" Missy asked flashing a bright white smile.
Jack blushed.
"Missy, Courtney, this is Chris Perry. Chris, these lovely ladies are Missy and Courtney." Jack managed to say after a few seconds of humiliating silence.
"Hey." Chris said giving the girls a smile.
"There's a lot of buzz going around about you." Missy said matter of factly.
"I hope it's a good buzz." Chris said with a wink and a dazzling smile.
Jack couldn't help but sigh along with Missy and Courtney.
"Totally good." Missy said dreamily.
"Like the whole school thinks you are a guitar playing rebel who got booted from a big house out in Cali and a family with loads of money." Missy said.
Chris smiled.
"Is that so?" He said cocking an eyebrow.
Missy and Courtney nodded.
"We were wondering if you guys want to go to the Alley to night. Double date at eight?" Missy asked.
Jack didn't want to go on a double date with Missy and Courtney and Chris unless Chris was his date. He blushed a second later for having thought that.
Chris knew Jack didn't want to go out with the girls. Chris didn't either and even if he wanted to he couldn't he had to get settled in his apartment. He had a job interview at 5:00 anyways.
"Can we take a rain check? I've got a job interview and I need to get settled in after the move.
"Yeah sure." Missy said obviously disappointed.
Chris didn't need to be an Empath to know that. The bell rang.
"You don't want to be late for Spanish." Courtney said as Missy led her away.
Chris looked at Jack and they started laughing.
"That went better than I expected." Jack said.
"Man, how many people at this school have you banged?" Chris asked. Jack laughed.
"Just the three." Jack said as they started to class.
"How do you know this stuff? Are you like a mind reader or something like that?" Jack asked.
"I guess you can say I'm a heart reader." Chris said as they walked into Spanish class.
"What?" Jack asked.
"I'm just kidding. Did you think I was serious?" Chris asked.
"No." Jack said, sighing in relief when he realized Chris was joking.
But he did consider that could be the reason why every assumption Chris had made about him was right on the money. But he didn't believe in magic powers. Jack didn't believe in anything. Growing up with Grace McCallister as a mother he could not unless he wanted to presented with an opposing argument.
They took seats in the back far away from Courtney and Missy as possible. The tardy bell rang before Mrs. Day came to class. She was a young black woman with a light complexion ghetto accent and the type of personality Jack would never expect to find in a Spanish teacher but in a hairdresser on Jefferson Blvd. maybe.
When she did come in she was talking on her cell phone.
"Yeah girl, I'm a have to call you back." She said and she pressed a button on her phone.
"What's up? I see we got a new student. You want to tell us where you from?" She asked.
"Who me." Chris asked.
"I don't see no other new students in the class." She said.
"I'm from California." Chris said.
"Oh so you representing the W.C. Speak any Spanish? You do know California and Texas are merely suburbs of Mexico." She said.
"I speak Spanish fluently." Chris said.
"You want to teach the class today? I got to call Shaquan back." She asked.
Chris blushed but Jack could tell that he wasn't going to back down from a challenge.
"I'm just playing with you boy." She said.
The class erupted in laughter even Chris and Jack.
"Shut the hell up!" Mrs. Day commanded and they all laughed some more.
Mrs. Day was even laughing. Then she struck the pointer down hard on the table.
"I mean it if you keep quiet you guys can talk or whatever you want." She said sitting down in her desk.
"What did I tell you isn't this class fun." Jack said.