Chapter 2
Kevin's POV
It's the third day of school and I have done a good job of avoiding Eddward so far, even in the three classes we have together. After this week, we don't have to stay for study hall though and as long as I can keep my grades up I can leave. We have first homeroom together, and calculus, I can manage around him. The first day was harder than I thought to escape him but now it is Friday and I can go hide in my room till Monday after this.
"What do you think Kevin?" Nazz asks me, bringing me out of my daydream.
"Think of what?" I ask, and she sighs at me. I told her what happened that night, she is the only one who knows I am gay, well except Eddward now, but she does not know it was Edd and that I will keep to my grave, if not for my sake then for his.
"About the mo…vie…." She pauses, and I look up at her from the floor. She gives me an apologetic look and turns around and runs. I am beyond confused until I feel warm breath on my neck I freeze instantly.
"You have been avoiding me Pumpkin." Eddward whispers into my ear.
"M-maybe you s-should take the h-hint then." I stutter, and he forces my back up against the locker next to me. He grins while closing in on my ear.
"I am not particularly skilled at taking hints. How about you tell me right now." He whispers and I shudder again. I sigh and look down, absolutely defeated.
"Why can't you just forget it ever happened?" I say and look back up at him. "Why don't you just go to Marie, i'm sure she will help you forget." I finish with anger in my voice I didn't realize I had. I had thought a lot over these few days, and I loved what happened but I know it wont turn to anything more, so I am stuck wanting to forget, and wanting more. Eddward leans back and gives me a quizzical look.
"What makes you think Marie could top what we had." Eddward says and backs up walking away. I stand there with my mouth open utterly confused, watching him walk away.
"You should close your mouth before the flies make it their home." Nat says and I turn to him closing my mouth with a snap. "So what did Edd do this time to give you that face?" Nat says.
"O-oh, nothing" I finish with a whisper and continue on to class. What did he mean by that? Does this mean he likes me? Could this mean….no Kevin, stop. He was just trying to play with your head.
Eddward's POV
Sitting in calculus with Kevin is pure torture. All I can think of is that idiotic geek, think of how ridiculous that sweater is and how soft his hair is, and his lips. 'Eddward, concentrate on something else.' I think as I look away from Kevin and down to my empty desk. I never need to pay attention because I already know most this information. I just come to school to patronize the system. I smirk when I see Kevin glance at the clock for the hundredth time. It is almost lunch, and I have decided that I was going to sit next to him, and his friends, I will try to be nice but well, we will see what happens. This is all a little game to me, and seeing him squirm around is a lot of fun.
Finally, the bell rings and Kevin bolts out of the room like a bat out of hell. I smile to myself. 'Aww pumpkin, you can't get away that easily.' I think and head to the cafeteria. By the time, I get there Kevin, Nazz, Nat, and Rolf are sitting at the table. There is a spot next to Rolf, right in front of Kevin, so without hesitation I walk over and slide myself into the seat, leaning my shoulder against the wall. Nat has an angry face, Nazz is suspicious, Rolf decides to ignore me, but Kevin, his face is my favorite. He has an utterly speechless mixed with shock face on. I smile at him, then look to everyone else.
"You may continue with your endeavor, I will not bother you." I say and pull out my phone, texting Marie that we need to talk this weekend if she was available. The silence is aggravating as I lift up my head and it seems the whole cafeteria is looking at our table.
"Problem?" I bellow, and everyone turns back to their respective people, probably to gossip, I smirk to myself and look back to Kevin. He has an exceptionally angry face on, and he is blushing something fierce.
"Eddward, can I talk to you, over there." He motions with his head and goes to stand up. I shrug my shoulders and get up to follow him. He pulls me around the corner so no one can see us and throws his hands in the air.
"What the fuck do you think you are doing!" He hisses quietly and I shrug my shoulders before leaning against the wall.
"Thought I would annoy my favorite geek for a bit. That a problem?" I ask, and he leans against the wall in defeat.
"Just tell me," he says and looks up at me, and the pathetic look cuts straight to my ice heart, melting it just a little. "Why are you doing this to me? Why can't you just call me a fag, smack me around and just go?" He asked, and I just stare at him. Show weakness or be an ass? If I be an ass he might not stick with me, I should pick my battles and show weakness this time.
"Honestly, I don't know Pumpkin. I just can't let this go, whatever this is," I say with a flippant hand movement. "And I just.." I pause thinking, I look up at Kevin and stare into his jade green eyes. "I will make no promises, but I would appreciate us to not go back to just the shark and the minnow." I finish holding out my hand. Kevin stares at me, skepticism, suspicion, and what I hope is hopefulness in his eyes before he shakes my hand with a sigh.
"Ok, but stay here while I attempt to explain why you are going to sit with us today." He says and walks back to the table. I smirk and then feel someone behind me, I whip around and see Jonny and Jimmy, both scowling at me. I stand to a full stature and look at them.
"Problem?" I ask.
"Yea, actually there is. What are you doing sitting with the dweebs?" Jonny says, and I get up close, silently threatening him. He shrinks back, and I smirk.
"What I do is my own business, however if you must know, I have calculus with the geek. And teacher wants us to work together." I finish hoping they buy the lie, but I don't genuinely care. Jimmy looks at me skeptically and Jonny stands back up holding plank.
"Fine whatever, come on Jonny, Sarah will start to scream if we don't get to her." Jimmy says and I nod my head at him, acknowledging his escape. Jimmy is remarkably perceptive and probably knows more about any of us than even any of us know of ourselves. I turn back around and walk over to the geek table, sitting down in my spot left vacant I look at Kevin.
"Everything is acceptable over hear I take it?" I ask and he nods his head looking down at his sandwich.
"So, what kind of assignment is it you both have to work on that requires you to sit with us." I look to Kevin and he sighs looking exasperated.
"Nazz don't be so rude." He says, and I look back to her with a smirk.
"I am just asking a simple question, I am sure the genius can answer this." She says as she turns to me. While they were talking however I texted Kevin in hopes to help me with this.
Mind filling me in on the details?- I text him.
I told her we are working on logarithmic differentiation and the rules behind it-K
I stare at her before answering. "Someone like you might not understand this, but we are working on logarithmic differentiation. We need to-" she cuts me off.
"Ok I get it!" She says, and I smirk. She scowls at me and sighs looking at Nat. "I have to go to the library anyway. Would you like to join?" She asks Nat. He looks at me and back at her nodding. "Rolf?" She asks him, and he also nods. I smirk at them and flit my fingers in the air.
"Toodaloo" I say and look back to Kevin. "And then there was two" I say with a grin, and he shutters.
"So.. Umm" he says and rubs the back of his neck with his hand. He looks around, anywhere but at me.
"You should eat, you need the nutrients." I say and he only nods nibbling at his sandwich. I sigh and stand up. "Come with me." I walk away and hear his footsteps behind me. There is still around 15 minutes till our next class and so I walk.
Kevin's POV
I scramble to get up out of my chair and grab my bag. I follow Eddward, and I have no idea where we are going, we are twisting and turning till finally we end up at the locker rooms. He opens the door, and I stand outside waiting. He pauses and looks at me confused.
"What are you waiting for?" He asks.
"I assumed you were grabbing something, and I would wait.." He grabs my arm and pulls me inside locking the door behind us and pushing me against the door. "Here!" I squeak before he pushes his lips to mine. I freeze but then start to kiss him back. I tentatively lift my arms to rest them on his shoulders, and he pulls me closer to him so I they wrap around his neck and I am on my tippy toes. I tilt my head to make the kiss deeper and run one of my hands into his hair under his hat. After a minute, we break the kiss to breathe, and I let go of his neck to run my hands down his chest. I look to the ground panting as I try to figure out what is happening. He pulls my face up with his finger under my chin. His eyes are penetrating, like they are searching for something but that something I don't know. After a bit, it seems like he finds it because he leans back down and presses little kisses around my mouth.
"I hate to break this moment…." I start, but he silences me with a full kiss before mumbling on my lips.
"Then don't," he says before kissing me again. I sigh and continue with the kiss before pushing him away. I feel myself trembling.
"I-I am not your b-booty call. T-thank you for helping me with Trey but-"
"Oh believe me, Pumpkin, I am not done with that meathead" I jerk my head up at the pure aggression in that statement and see the anger in his eyes. I nod my head.
"Well whatever you plan to do I honestly am extremely grateful. However I can't just use you, or be used by you, especially when you have a current relationship." I finish backing up to the door waiting for him to hit me. However, the hit never comes. There is only silence for a while, but I never open my eyes.
"Pumpkin, be ready for me, tomorrow at three." He says grabbing me by the back of my shirt and moving me out of the way.
"What do you mean be ready? Be ready where?" I ask him and he turns around from opening the door. He rolls his eyes and flicks my nose. I grab my nose.
"At your house dork" he throws over his shoulder as he walks away. I sigh and walk out of the locker room, I have enough time to get to my own locker and get to class but then I feel someone behind me. I move to turn around, but I am shoved into the locker.
"Looks like the swim captain has a new play thing." Trey whispers in my ear. I panic and try to squirm away but he presses his body against mine, holding me still. "I didn't get to have my regular fun with you last week. So tonight, we are going to go out." I pause in my squirming. Completely confused.
"Going out?" I ask timidly.
"Yes, going out. We will go to a place where we can be alone." He says and my eyes open wide.
"S-so like a d-date?" I ask. He looks at me and smiles.
"Yea a date and you can even dress nice for me." He says before looking around and leaning in to kiss me. Its harsh and his lips feel nothing like Eddward's, which I guess is a good thing, but it makes me sick. He leaves, but not before hitting me in the face.
"Just so no one asks too many questions" he says with a wink and smile, then walks away. I sigh and the bell rings. I make my way to art class, forgetting my locker and after art I walk to the study hall. I walk in and not many people are here yet, but enough that when they all look at me I feel self conscious. I sit in my normal spot, and the kid in front of me turns around.
"Dude what the hell happened to your eye?" He asks. I look at him confused.
"What do you mean?" I ask and he pulls out his phone, opening the camera and hands it to me, I fiddle with it to see front faced and there on my eye is a nice, big shiner. I knew it hurt, but I had assumed he didn't hit me that hard enough to bruise, again. I give him back his phone and sigh I look down to my desk then back up to respond to him when I hear a loud bang. I jump and look over from where the sound came and there are materials all over the floor, I look to the person who dropped them, and Eddward is staring straight at me. His mouth is slacked open, and he looks absolutely shocked. "Uh oh" I mumble under my breath.