Author's Note: Ok, so here's the last part. I hope that you like it and thanks for the reviews! I greatly appreciate them. Enjoy!
Troy woke up out of a deep sleep and looked at his clock on the night stand table, it was almost 6 o'clock.
"I can't believe I slept that long." Troy said rubbing his eyes. His stomach was grumbling so he trudged downstairs to the kitchen. His mom was setting food out on the table and his dad was lost in thought.
"Hi mom and dad." Troy said uneasily.
"Would you like something to eat?" His mom asked completely ignoring his greeting. He could tell that she was disappointed by what happened.
"Yes." Troy said sitting at the table. She put a plate in front of him and his dad and sat down. No one had said anything for awhile and Troy was getting annoyed. He couldn't stand to have his parents mad at him, so broke the uncomfortable silence.
"Do you guys want to hear what happened?" Troy asked setting down his fork.
"Yes, I do." His mom said.
"I've had heard enough today." Mr. Bolton said getting up to leave but his wife pulled him back down to sit.
"So where do I begin?"
"How about from the beginning. Your father has been quiet all afternoon about this." Mrs. Bolton said.
"Ok, well it all started about a week and a half ago. Ryan and I were assigned to do a project together and I didn't like the idea of it because he's… well gay. I went over to his house and it turned out that he was a pretty decent guy and that's when it all started." He paused for a moment and then continued his story. "Well, then after that I went back over to his house and we decided to watch some TV instead of doing our project. Then, I suddenly left his house without an explanation and ended up ignoring him and Gabriella for the rest of that week. Gabriella got mad at me and confronted me at school. I completely ignored her and when I got home you," he said pointing to his mom, "said that Ryan was waiting in my room. I honestly didn't want to talk to him and now I'm glad I did because I found myself." He said sighing.
"What did you two talk about?" His mother asked.
"Well, he wanted to know why I was avoiding him and I told him that something weird happened." He said not knowing how to put it in words.
"What happened, Troy?"
"I felt…something and he felt something too. That's when I toldhimthatIwasgayandwekissed." He said really fast.
"What?" His mom asked confused.
"He said that he was gay!" His dad said, his first time speaking in a while. Troy hung his head not wanting to see his mother's face. He finally looked up to see her staring at him in shock. He could tell that she wanted to say something but she couldn't fix her mouth to form the words.
"But how?" Mrs. Bolton asked.
"I don't know, it just happened." Troy whispered.
"So you just started to hand around a gay boy and stopped being straight?" Troy's father asked him harshly.
"It just happened dad!" Troy said angrily and his father stormed out of the kitchen.
"What about Gabriella?" His mom asked completely ignoring the slam of the front door.
"We broke up and she is ok with me being gay. She promised that she wouldn't tell anyone." Troy said.
"So when you went out last night with a friend, it was Ryan wasn't it." She asked slowly.
"Yes, it was."
"Why didn't you tell me or your father?" She asked looking hurt.
"I didn't know how. I mean look how dad is acting now. I only could tell Gabriella and Ryan. You two wouldn't have understood. Plus it all happened so fast that it was a little overwhelming. I couldn't even tell my best friend, Chad. I guess dad didn't tell you why I was suspended." Troy said and his shook her head no.
"Well, Chad had spray painted the word…'fag' on me and Ryan's lockers. He found out about us yesterday when he saw Ryan and I…kiss." Troy said, he couldn't believe he was saying all of this.
Mrs. Bolton began to cry, "Troy, honey I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine how you must have felt." She said hugging him and he hugged back.
"I'm ok now mom. I'm just worried about going back to school." He said breaking lose from his mom's grip.
"You don't have to worry about that now. You have two weeks of not worrying, and your father and I will deal with the issue later ok?"
"Thanks mom, for understanding. I just wish that dad could do the same." He said.
"Don't worry about him. He will come around sooner or later. I will make sure of that." She said taking his hand into his for reassurance.
Over the past two weeks, Troy's dad had become more comfortable around him, which was a good thing because Troy thought that he would never look at him again. They had sat and talked and it ended with an 'I love you son' and a hug. Gabriella had come to visit some days after school just to see how he was doing. She told him that the noise had died down a bit and the graffiti had been cleaned from both lockers. He asked her if Ryan was ok and she said that he hadn't been to school for most of last week because of the name calling, which was weird because Ryan never really cared what people said about him. The day before Troy was due back at school there was a knock on the door. He heard his mom answer it and greet the person and then heard footsteps coming towards his room. At the door was standing Ryan.
"Hey." He said uneasily.
"Hi," Troy said back. They sat in an uncomfortable silence for a while, neither knowing what to say.
"So are you going to come and sit down?" Troy asked and Ryan smiled a bit before sitting next to Troy on the bed.
"I've missed you." Ryan said looking Troy in the eyes.
"I've missed you too. The past two weeks have been miserable with out you. Why haven't you come to see me?" He asked.
"I don't know. I guess I was just scared to. You know, I didn't know if you were going to break it off with me because of what happened. I guess I was just afraid of rejection." Ryan said honestly.
"I don't want to break up with you." Troy said taking a hold of his hand and they sat in silence for a while before Troy continued. "Gabriella told me that you haven't been going to school all last week."
"I just couldn't take it. Every time I would walk in the hallways, people would just stare, whisper and giggle. Word had gone around fast the day that you got suspended about us. I couldn't stand people talking about you or me. It just hurt too much." Ryan said looking down at his hand entwined with Troy's.
"Look at me," Troy said taking his free hand and lifting up Ryan's face to meet his, "You don't have to face it alone tomorrow. I'll be there the whole entire way."
"Thanks Troy." Ryan said before embracing his boyfriend into a hug.
"I love you." Troy whispered against his ear.
"I love you too." Ryan whispered also. They let go of each other and Troy spoke.
"Tomorrow, I'm going to walk with you to school and we are going to flaunt our relationship around."
"What?" Ryan asked confused.
"Tomorrow we're going to hold hands and kiss in front of the whole school. It's no sense in keeping it a secret anymore." Troy said.
"Are you sure? I mean what about everyone…"
"Forget everyone; what we do is not any of their business. I love you and I want to show it to everyone." He said cutting Ryan off.
"Ok." Ryan said smiling and Troy did the same. They then kissed each other long not caring if Troy's mother came upstairs and saw them. Troy somehow ended up on top of Ryan and they were now in a full blown make-out session. Ryan moved his hands to the small of his back while Troy was running his hands over Ryan's stomach. They were both so caught up in the moment that they didn't even see Troy's mother come into the room. She then cleared her throat.
"Excuse me boys, I don't mean to interrupt." She said before starting to leave.
"No mom! What is it?" Troy asked as he and Ryan were straightening themselves up.
"I was just wondering if Ryan wanted to stay for dinner." She said.
"I would love to." Ryan said slightly blushing that Troy's mom just saw them making out.
"Oh great, dinner will be ready in 10 minutes. You boys behave." She said smiling before retreating downstairs to the kitchen.
"Oh my God, I can't believe that just happened." Ryan said laughing.
"It's ok. She's totally cool with it and so is my dad." Troy said and then kissed him again. After they broke away they went downstairs to eat.
The next day, Troy and Ryan walked up to the school hand in hand and before they entered the building Ryan turned to look at Troy.
"Are you sure about this?" Ryan asked for the millionth time that morning.
"Yes, I'm positive. I'm not ashamed to be with you." Troy said and it caused Ryan to smile. The two of them walked into the school building and people were starting to look at the both of them and their hands together. They ignored the looks and continued to walk to Ryan's homeroom class. The two of them stopped at the class room entrance and stared lovingly at one another.
"I'm glad that we're doing this." Ryan said.
"Me too. It feels right you know?" Troy smiled.
"Yeah it does."
"I love you." Troy said for the second time this morning and then kissed him. There were a couple of grossed out noises made but once again they ignored it.
"I love you too." Ryan said before the bell rang.
"I'll see you later, ok?" Troy said before walking off to class.
"See you." Ryan said smiling and then went into his classroom.
Author's Note: That's it! I hope that you guys liked it! Thanks again for all of the reviews. Oh and please check out my new Ryan and Troy story called Poison. Trust me it's not using the same old plot that has been used plenty of times before. Peace out!
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