I'll apologise now for the shortness of this chapter. I'm trying to not rush the story, but i want to get to the juicy bits at the same time, so just bare with me :D Anyway, this is just setting a bit more to the story, I hope you like it.
Boarding School Hell
After Titch had finished catching up with Chris, they decided to see who else was back, after all they did not have to be back at the school for another four hours, so not everybody would be back yet.
"You coming, Halliwell?" Titch called out as they began to leave the room, "You can meet the gang."
Sure enough, did Wyatt meet the gang, well most of it. They all congregated in one of the rooms on his floor, the door read J. Read, N. Smith. This was James and Nick's room. Also in the room was Frank 'Speedy' Speed, Luke 'Teapot' Watson and Dane 'Naff' Naffelitie. Wyatt relaxed when he realised none of Chris' friends seemed to hate that fact that this was his first day and he was in his senior year. He only had one year to endure of boarding school, whereas they had already done at least two years. It turned out that James and Nick were Juniors.
"So, you play any sports?" Speedy asked the newbie, as he leaned back on James' bed, sitting on the floor. James and Luke were leaned forward on James' bed. Nick, Dane and Titch were all sat on Nick's bed, leaning on the wall while Chris and Wyatt took the two desk chairs.
"Played basketball at my old school," Wyatt nodded, "Was thinking of trying out for this team."
He caught a look that Speedy gave Chris, but was not sure what it meant. Speedy must have mouthed something, because the Perry shook his head with a slightly snigger.
"You wanna be careful with the basketball players," Naff smiled, "Especially with you being new and all. Some of the seniors won't like it too much if you get on the team."
"Naff knows because he got here the start of last year and made the basketball team," Chris began to explain to his roommate about how harsh the basketball players could be, "But then again, you should be able to handle yourself, if you got into fights at your old school."
"Why were you expelled then?" Luke asked, all the boys shared the same mischievous grin that Chris had had earlier on. The blonde-haired boy sighed with a shake of his head, he should have been ready for this question and should have made up a story, one that would not give him such a reputation.
"I just got into a fight at school."
"A fight?" Teapot's eyebrows raised.
"Ok, I was on my last warning for fights, and one of the senior football players started a fight and I just finished it."
"Finished it how? Some teachers pull you apart?" All the boys in the room seemed eager to hear this story, they were as bad a girls for the gossip.
"Eventually they did," Wyatt bit his lip, wondering whether to tell them, "The guy ended up in hospital."
Everybody in the room started laughing, except Wyatt and Chris. The Halliwell looked over to his roommate, who's green eyes were wide and seemed to be taken a deep breath. Was he worried of something?
"In hospital? You put the guy in hospital!" Speedy laughed surprised at the story. He was expecting a big fight, but not to hear that the other person had been hospitalised. He shook his head, his blonde bangs flying in front of his face.
"Watch out, Perry," Titch laughed, "Don't piss him off, he could do the same to you."
Wyatt felt himself turning red, this was the reason he did not want people really knowing. He did not need this reputation, not on his first day anyway.
"Hey, do you fancy going for a smoke?" Nick looked to the guys, "Do you smoke, Wyatt?"
No, he didn't, but what was the harm in going with them? What was even the harm in trying?
"Not really."
"Not really?" Chris asked, tilting his head to the side, as everybody started to stand, "What do you mean by that?"
"Well, not anymore." The Halliwell answered, falling into the trap of making himself seem cool to his new friends. And what was he just saying to his mother earlier on? No more trouble. Yeah right, no more trouble. Wyatt Halliwell knew he would never be able to keep to that promise. His middle name should have been Trouble.
"Where are we going?" The group of teenagers walked through a small wood, all of them, except Wyatt of course, came this way all the time. This was the one place where they could get away from the school when they needed to, or when they wanted to smoke. Of course, the school had a 'no smoking' policy, along with a lot of other things, but it would never stop the students finding somewhere to go to hide away from the teachers. The teachers would probably know where they were and what they were doing, but they never purposely came to check on the students.
"You'll see." James answered, he was the baby of the group, only turning 16 in August.
As they walked past the woods, they came across a playing field and a small hut.
"It's the old football pitch," Naff explained to the newbie, running his hand through his long brunette hair and tying it back into a ponytail, "It stopped being used about six years ago, so we always come down here to get away from that place." The Halliwell nodded his head towards the red-haired teen and followed them into the hut.
It was dark and musty in here, and full of dust. It was obvious it had not been used for years, he was surprised they dared to come in here now.
"You've had your tetanus jab, right?" Chris joked with his new roommate, as he took a packet of cigarettes out of his pocket and a lighter. Once he had taken a cigarette out of the packet, he lit it and then passed the lighter to Speedy who was sat next to him. "You want one?" the 17-year-old brunette offered to his blonde haired roommate, who declined. Chris watched the male in front of him, secretly admiring his muscled body. He would have said he was a football player not a basketball player at his old school.
Wyatt could see a smirk playing on Chris' face, as he took a drag from his nicotine stick, "You'll take it back up in a few weeks, trust me." Wyatt just nodded his head towards the brunette, how could he take back up something he had never tried? He actually began to feel a bit out of the group now. He thought he had caused trouble at his school, but all he had done was get into the odd fight here and there, if these guys were sneaking to this unused hut on the first day back, what were they going to be like for the rest of the year? How much trouble would they help him get into?
"So, you got a girlfriend?" Luke asked, looking carefully at Wyatt.
"He's only asking because he's gay." Titch smirked and then laughed at Wyatt's upraised eyebrows.
"Well do you? Or do you have a boyfriend?"
"I had a girlfriend," Wyatt managed to answer, slightly taken aback by the brunette teen's question, which just seemed to have everybody laughing, "I'm straight, dude." That comment just made everybody laugh even harder.
"Just ignore him," Speedy smirked at the newcomer, "Luke's like this all the time. And I'll warn you now about Ben, he's Bi, a few guys here are you know with it being a bit of a prison, aren't they, Chris?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Chris answered, seeing that Speedy was actually scaring off his roommate, but he could not help a smile playing on his face as he laughed at Wyatt's confused face.
"Yeah, Chris, did Bianca ever find out what you did?" Wyatt looked to see Nick smiling at the senior. Bianca? Oh right, Wyatt remembered now, Chris' ex-girlfriend.
"No she didn't," Chris smiled, "And she never will now. We broke up over the summer."
"Bad time to break up in your senior year." Speedy commented shaking his head, again allowing his blonde bangs to fly in front of his face, "What about when you get stressed from the exams while you're at home? You need some way of relieving the frustration!"
Chris smirked at his friend, with a slight laugh, and then looked at his roommate. Luckily Wyatt was not looking at him, otherwise he would have been caught out. He like this guy, he was hot, but he was straight he had just said so. Great, now he was thinking about his roommate, what a great start to the year.
The blonde haired newcomer was still trying to focus on the conversations going on in the group. Everybody still catching up on the summer vacation and telling Wyatt horror stories of the school, letting him know the people to stay away from and the teachers to stay in the 'good books' with. Everything on the first day was too much for his head, and he could not remember everything.
"Hey, do you think Ben and Stick will be back?" James asked the boys, as they all started to leave the hut.
"Let's go and find out."
ok, there's the end of the chapter. There will be a little more in the next. I just wanted to get a few of the characters in now and really get on with the story later. Hope you guys don't mind. :s
Anyway, review and you can let me know.