A/N: Enjoy!
Chapter 4
"Alright everyone settle down and take your seats!" The teacher instructed.
"Welcome to science class, the person you are sitting next to you is going to be you're the lab partner for the rest of the trimester." He informed.
"So I want to take a minute and introduce yourself to one another." Mike looked over to see the young cheery curly haired boy.
"I'm Josh! Nice to meet you man!" He greeted holding his hand out. Mike smiled taking his hand.
"Michael, or just Mike." He introduced.
"Looks like we're lab partners!" Josh grinned.
"Looks like it." Mike replied.
Mike laid on his bed staring up at his ceiling remembering when he had met Josh. It was his freshmen year of high school. He liked Josh he was a cool guy, caring, funny, and not bad looking. Who wouldn't like him? So it made sense for Chris to have fallen for him considering he had known him since they were younger. Mike rolled on to his side, why couldn't he and Chris have meet in the third grade? Why did he get the pleasure of meeting Chris in high school?
"This is stupid…" Mike scuffed getting up ruffling his hair messing it up.
Mike walked down the hall of the school heading for his locker till he came to a stop to see the group of boys.
"You won't mind if we borrow this right?" The boy asked holding the paper in his hand.
"Yeah, we're just gonna compare answers!" The other laughed as the blonde haired boy with glasses frowned saying nothing back.
"We'll be sure to give it back to you this time." The third boy assured.
"Why don't you morons put a little more effort into your studies?" Mike spoke.
"Huh?" The boys looked over to see Mike glaring at them.
"Pfft! Fuck you pretty boy!"
"Oh I'm flattered but you're not my type." He replied as he approached him. It only took Mike a few minutes to beat some sense into the bullies and get the boy's work back.
"You ok?" Mike asked looking down at him. The boy nodded sniffing.
"Uh h-hey don't cry!" Mike panicked.
"Thank you…" The boy smiled Mike blushed. Why was he getting flustered over a guy he helped?
"Uhh, don't mention." Mike replied.
After the incident they went their separate ways. Josh had invited him to join him and his friend for lunch.
"Miiiiike!" Josh greeted as Mike smiled taking a seat across from him.
"Hey man." Mike greeted.
"Where's your friend?" Mike asked taking a bite from his apple. Josh sat looking around.
"Dunno." He replied.
"Ah! There he is!" Josh pointed Mike looked over his eyes going wide to see the boy who was being harassed by the punks.
"Sorry I'm late." He apologized sitting next to Josh.
"It's cool, let me introduce you! Mike, Chris, Chris Mike!" Josh smiled. Chris sat looking at Mike smiling.
"Hi, nice to meet you." Chris greeted holding his hand out. Mike smiled shaking his hand.
"Likewise." Mike replied. He sat watched the two talk he noticed the way Chris was behaving around Josh.
"Does he…?" Mike thought to himself watching the bashful blonde smile.
Chris laid on his bed scrolling on his phone he was on his social media, bored till something caught his eye. Chris sat up holding his phone in hand his heart sinking to see the image that was posted.
"Josh?" Chris asked clicking on the image, a post from Beth.
"Enjoying the family vacation in Greece! And so is my brother Josh!" The text read as Chris stared at the photo of Josh rubbing lotion on the back of some random chick.