Chapter 3

"Alright, so now that's off the table we have one last thing to discuss," the head of the school council, John Cena, stated, looking at the papers on the desk in front of him, while getting up from his seat at the end of the huge table, which they had put together using the smaller desks of the classroom. He took a quick look toward the other people sitting around the table, "As you should know already, the teachers have given us the responsibility to plan and arrange the schools ending party tomorrow night."

A few people around the table took a look toward each other, some starting to mumble something and others nodding in agreement. With a loud cough, John gathered the looks back to himself, starting to point at people two or three at the time, giving each team a task they would be responsible for.

"Michelle and Layla, decorating the school gym for the party is up to you," John started, making both the blonde and the brunette nod before the two girls took off from the room to check out the gym and probably start decorating it or at least start the planning, "Maryse and Eve, you'll take care of the music and I'm going to make the arrangements for all the food and drink stuff with Christopher and -"

But John was cut off as the door of the room was given a small knock and pushed open, in popping the very familiar face of the school's principal: "Sorry for the interruption," he chuckled, receiving a small nod from John as a mark that it was alright, "But I need one of you guys, the new student arrived and somebody needs to show him around, I'm a bit busy at the moment."

"Oh, it's alright," John chuckled a bit, "After all, it's for a good cause. So, any volunteers?" But before John could even finish his sentence, one of the chairs was pushed back and the person sitting on it was getting on his feet. Everyone's eyes turned toward the sound, a wide grin forming on John's face. "Ah, Jay, of course."

With a small, yet proud, smile climbing his face, Jay gave John a small nod, before directing his steps toward the door, where the principal was still standing, him smiling as well as he closed the door after Jay.

"So, the new kid is here?" Jay asked as they began to walk down the empty hallway, toward the principal's office. The older man nodded slowly, "I thought he was starting after the summer vacation?"

"Well, he is," the principal stated, receiving a bit confused look from the blonde boy walking next to him, "But his father insisted that his son would get a tour around the school before he started here, so it would be easier for him to start the next semester without, you know, being so lost."

"But wouldn't it be easier to give him the tour at the beginning of the next semester, like we do to all the new students?"

"It would be fine, yes," the principal admitted, stopping in front of the door, which led inside the waiting room, before the principal's office, "Except that he is starting as a sophomore next year and… Well, I'll explain it to you later."

As Jay nodded, the principal pushed down the door handle, leading the young, blonde man inside the small waiting room. The room was almost empty, only the familiar green-eyed secretary was sitting behind her desk, sending a small nod with a smile toward Jay, who answered back with a smile and a nod as well.

And then there was another person, a young boy, sitting on the couch of the waiting room. His face was turned toward the floor, his short, dark brown hair was covering the last bits of his forehead that could have been possible to see from his position. He looked pretty young, small and fragile while sitting there, almost being pressed into a small pile that was covered with a too big, black hoodie and dark, tight jeans with black and white converses.

The principal walked to the boy, after greeting the secretary, giving a small tap to the boy's shoulder. He shivered a bit, but didn't raise his look from the floor, "This is Evan," the principal smiled, first looking at the boy, waiting for his reaction, but when nothing happened, so he turned back toward Jay, "He will start schooling here at the beginning of the next semester. And Evan, this is Jason. He will show you around the school."

The boy still didn't lift his gaze from the floor, but he gave a small nod. A smile appeared on the principal's face as he looked down toward the boy. Then his look returned to Jay, "Take good care of him and note that he is a little shy and sensitive, when it comes to dealing with new people."

Jay only nodded as an answer, the principal taking off from the waiting room to return to his office. As the door closed, Jay's eyes returned to the boy in front of him - him actually being kind of surprised that the kid had gotten up from his seat, even if his eyes were still scanning over the floor.

"So, you are the new boy?" Jay asked, the boy only nodding to him, "I'm Jason, but everyone calls me Jay... And you are Evan, right?"

"…Yeah," he answered with a quiet voice. A small, bright light lit up in Jay's eyes as the boy finally spoke to him and actually lifted his head up a bit so Jay could see even a small part of his eyes, "Evan Bourne."

"Alright then, Evan," Jay continued to smile at the dark haired boy in front of him, Evan probably not even noticing his smiling. "I'll show you around the school for a bit, so it won't be too hard for you to get started here next fall."

"…Whatever," Evan nearly whispered. Obviously Jay didn't hear it, since he just spun around, motioning the young boy to follow him as he stepped out of the waiting room.

"What the hell is that?" Sheamus asked with a loud laughter, pointing at a bright colored huge poster, which was taped to the wall outside the school gym. Mike just shrugged, not even bothering to turn to look at it. He already knew what the poster was saying and what the hell it was all about, "Who would ever be such an idiot and actually participate in a summer camp that was arranged by the school?" Sheamus continued with an even louder laughter.

Mike rolled his eyes at him, still not bothering to look toward the poster. He knew he was going to be one of the idiots in the camp, but just because he was forced to, otherwise he would get kicked out of school and he didn't want to disappoint his grandmother. She had done so much for him, so participating to make her happy was the least he could do. So whether he liked it or not, he needed to go to this stupid camp thing.

"Miz, you think anyone would really participate in such a stupid thing like this?" Sheamus asked, this time turning toward Mike, who just shrugged once again, while playing around with his phone. He wanted to act like he didn't know anything about it and he didn't want to know anything because he thought the whole camp thing was stupid.

"Only geeks and retards participate in such kind of things," Mike muttered, seeing from the corner of his eye how Sheamus grinned widely to his answer. But Mike's attention was distracted as he heard footsteps coming down the hallway toward them, it being really unusual, since most people during this time were at class – Mike and Sheamus obviously not being "most people."

The grin on Sheamus's face disappeared for a moment, before he spotted two figures walking down the hallway - the grin once again starting to grow as he tapped Mike on the shoulder, nodding his head toward the two figures, which were getting closer to them. Mike's eyes raised from his phone to the redheaded, Irish boy next to him. Slowly a grin started to climb on Mike's lips as well - it was Jay with some new kid, a really small looking boy, who neither of them had seen before.

"Some new meat, huh?" Mike asked with a wide grin, stuffing his phone down his pocket, as the two boys reached them. Jay didn't pay any attention to them, just motioned Evan to follow him as he walked past them, "Hey Reso, stop there for a moment, will ya'!" Mike shouted after them, just as Jay pushed the gym door open. Sighing Jay stopped, shooting an annoyed glare toward Mike. He knew perfectly who this guy was, or at least who he thought he was - the very same idiot who ruined their possibility for the championship and the one and only person you should stay away from in this school.

"What is it, Mizanin?"

"Aren't you going to introduce us to the new boy?" Mike asked, his eyes quickly shifting from Jay to Evan, who kept standing half behind Jay, his eyes turning toward the floor, "He should be meeting some people around here, right? And we happen to stand right here so -"

"Just let it go, Mizanin," Jay stated, taking a quick look at Evan behind him, motioning him to step inside the gym. Quickly the boy disappeared behind the heavy door, Jay sending one last glare toward the two guys standing in the hallway, before disappearing inside the gym as well.

Mike looked after him for a while before snorting. "Well that was cold," he muttered, Sheamus staring at the closed door with a nod.

As Evan's eyes scanned through the huge gym, Jay shared a small talk with Michelle and Layla, who were currently designing and decorating the gym for the upcoming schools ending party. Evan sat on the front row of the auditorium, looking around himself, being a bit confused – everything around here seemed to be so much bigger than in any of his previous schools. The classes lasted longer here, the whole place was huge and every single classroom and group was filled with a huge amount of people. It was the exact opposite of any of the other schools he had went to.

"So, what do you think?" Jay asked as he walked back to Evan, taking the seat next to him. Evan nodded a bit, his eyes landing on Michelle and Layla on the other side of the gym, the two best friends currently discussing which colors they should use for the lightning.

"Everything looks so big in here," Evan's quiet voice stated, this time making Jay nod.

"Yeah, I hear that a lot when new students come here," he chuckled, Evan only nodding as an answer, "But you get used to it quickly. I bet your previous school wasn't this big then?"

"None of them was," Evan admitted, the short sentence really catching Jay's attention.

"None of them? So you have been in more than one school before this?"

"Yeah…" Evan muttered with a small shrug, his eyes traveling from Michelle and Layla down to his hands, "My dad travels a lot because of his work, so…"

"Oh… So you move often?" Evan nodded again, his eyes not jumping back up from his lap, "Must be tough."

Evan just shrugged as the silence fell between them. Jay excused himself for a moment, skipping his way to Michelle and Layla as it started to look like there would be a cat fight coming soon, since the two girls didn't agree on the color of the light or the flowers. Evan looked after him under his brows, starting to think how tough it actually was to travel and move so often. During his sixteen years long life he had moved over ten times inside the States and had actually lived twice abroad as well. And every single time his father got a new project to work on, it was in a different state. And then they moved again and he needed to change school.

And if something was tough, that was. To change school in the middle of the semester wasn't easy for anyone, especially not for Evan, since he was the quiet, shy and new boy, it was always him, who got picked on, which made him even more quiet and shy. It had happened in all of his previous schools and so far it didn't look to good around here either - he would be starting as a sophomore next fall, but he had fallen so much behind in every possible subject he could think of and he was the new one when everyone else knew each other. So it was pretty obvious that the same thing that had happened so many times before, would end up happening once again.

"Alright. Evan, are you ready?" Jay asked, once appearing next to the young boy. Evan looked up at him with a slight of confusion in his eyes, "Let's get going, I'm going to show you the cafeteria and after that we head outside."

With a small nod Evan pushed himself up on his feet, following Jay back to the doors leading to the very same hallway they had traveled down only minutes ago.

Mike and Sheamus was still standing in the hallway, chatting about something that Jay couldn't care less about.

"There you are again," Mike started as soon as he spotted Evan walking in his field of vision from the gym, "Are you now going to introduce yourself to us?" Evan didn't even bother to look at him, he just took a quick glance toward Jay, who shook his head.

"There is no reason for you to get to know those two," Jay said to him, loud enough for both Mike and Sheamus to hear it as well, "They are nothing but bad news."

"Hey, if I want to meet new people, you are not the one to tell me who I can and who I can't meet," Mike snapped, making his way to Evan past Jay. Jay just shooting a glare toward him, hoping that Mike wouldn't do anything stupid to make Evan embarrassed or something similar to that.

"Hey, I'm Mike Mizanin," Mike stated, offering Evan his hand. Evan just kept his eyes plastered to the floor, giving a small nod to Mike. Lowering his hand down, Mike stared at the boy in front of him for a while before saying, "So, what's your name then?"

As the silence around them got longer, Mike crackled a few chuckles, hearing Sheamus laughing behind him as well, "So...you don't have a name then, or did the cat get your tongue?" Sheamus snickered to Mike's supposedly funny comment as a wide grin started to form on Mike's face.

"Hey boy, I asked for your name," Mike started to get annoyed with the silent boy and he gave him a small poke to the shoulder. Jay's hand quickly lowered on Mike's shoulder, trying to pull him away, but Mike just removed his hand, keeping his concentration on Evan, "And when Mike Mizanin wants something, he gets it. So come on, let's hear that name of yours."

"I said let it go, Mike," Jay stated annoyed, grabbing Mike by his shoulder and forcing him away from the young boy. Mike's eyes finally traveled from Evan to Jay and a dirty smile climbed his face.

"Oh, standing up for your boyfriend, are you?" he asked with a smirk plastered to his face, Sheamus just continuing the cracking and idiotic grinning in the background. Jay sent him one last annoyed glare before gently pushing Evan forward down the hallway.

Mike and Sheamus watched them take off, as they finally disappeared behind the corner. Mike let out a snort: "I hate that attitude of his. I so hope I won't get to be in any classes with him the next semester… This year's math classes have been such a big pain in the ass, just because he was there."

~ Later the same day ~

"But I don't really wanna go," Emma sighed, sending a begging look to Tiffany. The blonde just shook her head, grabbing her shorter friend by the shoulder and started to direct her toward the gym doors, "Why did I need to participate in this stupid thing? It wasn't even my choice, you can't make me!"

"Young lady, do you want to fail your English and math classes?" Gail asked with a caring smile, Emma answering with a tiny shake of her head. "Exactly, so if you want to get through those classes and the whole semester without any further problems, you are going to come and participate."

"Besides we will be there as well," Tiffany smiled, Emma just rolling her eyes at her two friends as Gail pulled the gym door open, all three girls entering.

Mike's eyes traveled to the doors as soon as he heard them opening. Watching how three girls from their school walked into the gym, he let out a small sigh of relief - so far he hadn't seen many familiar people around. Sure, after yesterdays game almost every single person in the school knew who the dumb ass, who ruined their possibilities for the championship, was, but as far as he was concerned, there were no one paying any special attention to him, there weren't any people who sat next to him during classes or got detention because of only ones he recognized were Randy and that black-haired girl from detention. Mike was just thankful that a certain Irish –

"Miz?"

At the very moment that word reached his ears, Mike knew it was too late to try anything at all, from hiding to running away or even pretending he didn't hear that. That he didn't hear the oh so familiar Irish accent calling him by that stupid nickname he didn't even like, but which he let Sheamus use anyway.

Mike took one quickly look toward his orange haired friend, who was standing there by his side, before returning his eyes back to his hands. Sheamus looked around them for a moment before taking a seat next to Mike, eying the other students around them, sitting on their places in the auditorium, most of them chatting with their friends.

"The hell are you doing here?" Mike asked with a low voice, Sheamus's head almost immediately turning back toward him.

"Participating this madness because I'm forced to. Principal said I'm going to fail so many classes that if I don't participate, I'm not going to -"

"Yes, I know what happens if you fail and don't participate," Mike's annoyed voice cut him off, leaving Sheamus eying him as Mike just continued to stare at the doors as they were once again pushed open - this time by the new boy he had spotted earlier with Jay.

"Hey, check that out," Gail cut off Tiffany's talk about why she and Gail were participating this whole thing even though they weren't forced to. Both Tiffany and Emma turned to look the way Gail was looking, spotting the young boy walking inside the gym class. "Who is that? I don't recall seeing him before," Tiffany wondered out loud, neither of the other girls noticing how Gail's eyes were glued on the guy as he walked a little bit awkwardly across the huge hall before getting up to the auditorium, taking a seat in the front row – just a second before someone's voice took his attention, him getting back on his feet and climbing up a few rows before sitting next to a few members of the school council.

"He must be a new boy," Tiffany finally stated, bringing Gail back from her trans as she turned to look her blonde friend again. "I remember hearing some of the school council members talking about a new student who was going to start here the next year…" The last of the blonde's sentence didn't reach Emma's ears though, since she had already spotted something more interesting than the new kid.

"What is Jay doing here?" she wondered to herself, her mind not allowing her eyes to leave the blond man sitting next to the new boy, obviously introducing him to the other members of the school council who he was sitting together with. "I didn't know he would need to take part in this -"

But a sudden cough cut her thoughts off and every single pair of eyes turnws toward the sound - meeting the smiling face of the principal himself, standing in the middle of the gym class with few of the other teachers standing by his side.

"Hello and welcome, my dear students. I'm so glad to see that so many of you have arrived in this short informative function about the upcoming summer school camp that your school has organized specially for you this year…"

Pixiella's A/N: Oh dear God, I'm sooo horribly, horribly sorry about this! It's been so long since the story was updated last time, I promise this will never, EVER happen again! And if it does, I mean when it's my turn to update.. Hit me with a spoon! I promise this is the last time you have to wait for this long for another update for this story! I seriously feel myself as a really bad person now, oh God.. Can you forgive me if I promise this wont happen again? ;_; And it was all my fault, me being the lazy ass here, it has nothing to do with Cucu (..yes darling, you have a nickname now) - she's an awesome and fast beta reader, this delay is all my and my laziness's fault!

*pulls herself together* ..Anyway. This chapter doesn't really have that much in it, it's pretty much only the first real introduction to the summer camp idea, the whole real deal (..weird sentence, I know, but don't bother yourself with it, it's getting too late for even my brain to work properly) of the actual story.. Which we will get even more into after the next chapter! Which will have nothing to do with this chapter, really, but it's an important one! ..And I don't know what I'm talking about. So, yeah, anyway.

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