Chapter Three

Disclaimer: I do not own Silent Hill or any of the characters used. I own only the story itself.

This is a high school AU. None of the events of Silent Hill have occurred, and some facts about the characters and the setting have been changed to match this AU. If you have any questions regarding these changes, please feel free to PM me. No flames, please.

Warning: Eventual slash

Murphy was taken aback by the intensity of the boy's glares. The blonde, who the teacher called Sullivan, looked at him with the utmost anger. The other boy, Sewell, seemed a bit off in his glare. It was almost as if he was…hungry.

Murphy turned away from them and lightly tapped on Henry's shoulder, who was sitting in front of him. "Hey, Henry." Henry turned with an expression of curiosity on his normally apathetic face. Murphy guessed that as a sign that he was accepting Murphy as a friend- or at least, a familiar acquaintance.

"Hey, do you know those guys over there? Sewell and Sullivan? I don't think they like me very much." He told his shy new friend. Discretely he pointed in their general direction, trying not to catch their attention. A swift glance told him that they were no longer paying attention to him, instead working on the study guide the teacher had passed out. Murphy turned back to Henry, who was still looking in the other boy's direction. He seemed… troubled by them.

"Hey, Henry? What is it?"

"This is study time, Mr. Pendleton, not talk-freely-amongst-yourselves-time. Get to work or I'll send you down to the principal's office." The teacher stated out loud, glaring at Murphy the entire time. Murphy gave a glare back that seemed to startle the teacher before turning to his work. He knew this class-with the two boys and this lame-o teacher- would be a hard one. Add that to the fact that it was a math class, too.

Thankfully the class was just beginning a unit that Murphy's previous school had just finished-functions. It was also one of the few parts of math that Murphy was good at, so he breezed through the study guide in no time. Once he was done he quickly wrote a note to Henry and, out of the teacher's eye, threw it on his desk.

So who are those dorks?

While waiting for Henry to reply, Murphy began to surf the internet on his tablet, looking for cool recipes to add to his journal. He seemed to find a lot of good ones on a site called Tumblr. He didn't know too much about the site; only that a lot of fangirls had blogs dedicated to crying over fictional characters. He tended to stay away from there.

He didn't have to wait long for a reply from Henry. He had casually thrown the note to the back of him while the teacher wasn't looking.

This place is full of dorks, be more specific.

Murphy sneered at Henry, who giggled at him. When the teacher had-once again- turned his back them Murphy threw the note to the back of his sly friend. The two passed notes back and forth for a while, avoiding the (un)watchful eye of their teacher but unknowingly gaining the attention of said "dorks."

Walter Sullivan was not a happy student at the moment. Granted, he was never truly happy at school-who was? With all the work the teachers gave them- but now he was definitely not happy.

He had heard throughout the day of the new kid at school, Murphy Pendleton. It had irked him all day that he had yet to meet the guy, and now that he could see firsthand how he was Walter was pissed.

Henry, even though he didn't know it, belonged to Walter. The entire school knew that, except for Cynthia Velasquez, that whore. He used to have a crush on her, before she rejected him in the eighth grade in front of all her friends. Walter had been pissed, and had vowed revenge upon her. Now he was the most popular guy in school, along with his best friend George, and he was so close to stealing who was to be Cynthia's man.

But he didn't expect competition from the new kid!

Walter watched, irritable, as Murphy and Henry passed notes back and forth for a while. 'What could they possibly be talking about…?' Walter wondered in mock amazement. 'The dude's only been here for one day!'

Meanwhile behind Walter someone else was seething. George Sewell was used to getting whatever he wanted, but at the current moment in time what he wanted was paying attention to another guy!

Sewell had seen Murphy earlier that day when he had walked into the office and immediately claimed the boy for himself. Walter was in the midst of trying to get Henry, and Sewell had been getting pretty lonely since his break up with his ex, Anne Cunningham. She moved away with her dad and "wasn't ready to handle a long distance relationship," blah blah blah. Sewell didn't really care about her anymore, plus she was kind of a bitch when he was dating her. He just missed the constant companionship of a romantic partner.

Plus he really wanted to get laid.

Murphy was a cutie, Sewell wouldn't deny that. From the looks of it, he didn't have any dame from his old home, otherwise he would've seemed down and lonely. He seemed pretty happy, passing notes back and forth with Henry. But that was the problem. Henry was Walter's boy, though the naïve idiot didn't know it yet. Sewell could already see the gears of revenge turning in his best friend's mind.

"Hey, Walter," Sewell whispered to him. Walter turned around to face him, slightly annoyed that he was disrupted from his internal cursing of Murphy Pendleton.

"What is it?" Walter whisper asked him, trying to avoid the attention of both Murphy and their lame teacher.

"Before you go on to plan ultimate punishment to the newbie, let me check him out. Like it or not, the kid's adorable." Sewell told him.

He watched as Walter pursed his lips in part annoyance, part thinking. Sewell didn't have to wait long for an answer, though- Walter nodded in approval.

"Just make sure they don't hook up. You know he's-"

"Yours, yes, Walter, I know." Sewell ended for him. "It works out best for the both of us, right? You get your little guy and I get the cute newbie. So everyone wins!"

At that Walter nodded. Yes, that plan sounded great. Both boys snickered as the plan went into effect.

Meanwhile, James watched the two pairs of boys with his notebooks open and his pen at the ready. For "THE ROOM," James was imagining Henry and Walter to be enemies. Walter had always kind of freaked him out, so he would definitely work at the villain. And Henry was the strong and silent hero-that-no-one-would-think-of kind of guy. He would so work for the main protagonist. As for Murphy and Sewell, he knew the two of them were to be at ends with each other. He just got that vibe. But how could this work? He opened up a brand new notebook and started to sketch designs for the both of them. All of his characters were generally older than their current age, except for Heather and her dad and any of the adults he modeled characters after. James was stumped though- he knew how he wanted this game to be, but what to call it? Reasons for the characters being the way they were? What were the back stories?

While James was contemplating this, yet another boy was watching him. There seemed to be a lot of boys who did this, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the story and therefore should not be thought about. This boy was called "PH," short for "Pyramid Head." No one knew for sure his actually name. They just called him that because every Halloween without fail he'll dress up with this freaky Pyramid thing on his head and go around scaring kids. He was also one of the toughest boys in school, so everyone was too intimidated to ask what his real name was. He also didn't seem to mind the nickname.

Anyway, PH was watching at James focused on his video game ideas. James was an interesting character- quiet, kind of an idiot but not really, pretty brave considering he sometimes talked to him, and a bit on the cute side. He went on to think some more about James when a small paper airplane was thrown in his direction. It read:

PH- watch out for the new kid, make sure he doesn't get "too" close to H. Walter's orders.

-G.S.

p.s. you're staring at Sunderland a bit too much, dude. It's kinda creepy.

PH threw Sewell a glare before crushing the airplane. Sewell, the arrogant bastard, actually had the nerve to smirk too. But PH still nodded, knowing his newest assignment. Walter and Sewell were PH's best friends, making the three of them the most intimidating students in school. All three of them watched as Murphy and Henry continued to pass notes back and forth.

Seems like Murphy was going to be learning who ruled the school very soon.

At the same time this was going on, another pair of eyes was watching them. They belonged to a person that no one in school, not even the "big three", would get involved with.

But that was to change in the near future.

Wow I finally got it done! I'm so sorry for the wait, my dear readers, so much has happened since I last uploaded. And by that, I mean school work. But I just finished a big English assignment, and turned it in today! So in celebration, I finished this chapter! It was actually supposed to be shorter, but I liked the parts I added. Hope you do too!

I shall try my best to get the next chapter written and uploaded as soon as I can! Thank you again for reading, reviewing, faving, and following! I love you all, my dear readers!

Oh yes, one last thing- if anyone can guess who I am talking about in this very last bit, you get to choose a ship that will be featured in this story! The ship may not stay canon the whole way through, but it'll occur for a whole chapter, I can assure you. Thanks again for reading!