Chapter 5: Freddie

TWs: Abuse, Homophobia and Bullying

Flashback Start/End = -

It was 7:00am and it was the first day of secondary school for young Freddie, but little did he know that today was also going to be the day that this normal and simple life would turn to absolute hell.

Freddie had known he was gay since he was a very young age, he was still young at 11 years old. He never dared to come out to anyone, not yet at least. His dad was very homophobic and his mum left them when he was only five years old. Luckily, his dad was fine after and kept well, helping Freddie with schoolwork and making him food.

/

"Have a good day at school Freddie" said his dad as Freddie stepped out of their car.

"I will" Freddie responded.

"Hey, don't be nervous, mate, it will be fine?". His dad sensed his son was nervous about the whole thing and tried to calm his nerves.

"I'm fine" answered Freddie.

His dad waved him off and Freddie started to walk away, towards the school.

As soon as heard entered through the doors of the school, he instantly heard a kid shout the word "Fag" right at him. The kid who shouted the slur at him walked up to Freddie, staring at each other, the kid broke the silence "Why are you here, faggot?".

"I'm not a faggot" Freddie replied, internally cringing at the slur he just said.

"Yes you are, your wearing a pink shirt" said the one who Freddie would learn their name to be Jack.

"That doesn't mean anything" Freddie spitted out.

The spit earnt him a quick punch to a gut by the kid named Callahan.

"Hey, it's the first day, let's just leave him alone, he hasn't done anything wrong" said the third of the three boys called Punz.

"He's a fag, that's something that is wrong" Callahan answered, staring at the kid on his knees, holding his gut in pain.

"That's not wrong for goodness sake" shouted Punz, not caring about everyone around them.

"Yes it is" Jack replied.

The three of them got in a heated argument and Freddie took the opportunity to get away from the situation but as he was trying to get away, Jack quickly saw and pulled on the collar of Freddie's shirt, pulling him back into the situation.

"Where do you think your going, mate?" questioned the surprisingly threatening Jack.

"To tutor of course" answered Freddie, hoping it was the right answer and he would be let go.

"Oh no, we're not done yet, I want to take a photo with you" said Jack.

Callahan took out his phone and waited for Jack and Freddie to get into a pose, a simple arm over the shoulder and took the photo. They had promised to Freddie that they weren't going to do anything with the picture but Freddie probably should have realised that that was a lie.

/

Apart from what happened at the start of the day, the school day went fine for Freddie apart from some people giving him weird looks and stifled laughs at him, it was fine, he had no idea what they were laughing and staring at him but looking back it was obvious. He had made a couple of friends in Tommy and Tubbo and he had met some great teachers like the pe teachers Dream and Nick/Sapnap, the history teacher Mr Davidson, the geography teacher Mr Soot and even the principal Phil. Of course there was a few teachers that he didn't really like, especially the maths teacher Mr Schlatt, he was a prick to say the least. Schlatt, he had an in with the three that bullied Freddie at the start of the day so the teacher constantly sent Freddie threatening glares and stares every few minutes, it was not fun.

Freddie had to take the bus home as his dad was working at the time of day, so he was used to taking a bus. Jack, Callahan and Punz were all on the bus as well but none of them bothered him during the ride, luckily. Punz looked ashamed and even a bit upset about something, Freddie knew that he didn't want to be apart of that group but since Freddie's first day and first run in with the group he had tried to get Punz out of the group but nothing would work, and it just made the beatings and name calling worse so after awhile he just stopped.

/

Once he had got home, he knew he still had a couple of hours until his father would get home so he spent the time getting changed out of his uniform and playing Minecraft on his gaming computer until he heard the sound of a door opening.

Leaving his room to greet his dad, he immediately noticed the angry expression on his father's face.

"What's wrong?" wondered Freddie, his father immediately answering with "Tell me what this is?" handing Freddie his phone. Freddie gave his father a confused look before staring at the phone with wide eyes.

It was the photo that Callahan took of Jack and Freddie, and it had a caption of "Here with a fag in school". This made Freddie petrified.

"It's not what it looks like" Freddie said, nervously.

"What it looks like is your gay" his father shouted.

"No, they thought I was gay and started to pick on me but I'm not gay".

"You better not be one, it's wrong!" the angry and stern voice of his father made him scared.

"It's not wrong!" Freddie tried to stand up for himself.

"Yes it is!" the father shouted, walking over to his son and giving him a hard slap across the face that made Freddie wince in pain.

He never understood his father, to this day he still hadn't come out to anyone apart from Tommy, Tubbo and the teachers at school he knew he could trust but yet just because of that one comment to his father on that one day he had earnt almost daily beatings from his dad.

"Fuck him" shouted Ranboo, standing up from his chair and storming out of the classroom.

Where was he going?

To be continued.

The End of Chapter 5.