Austin was staring blankly at the ground and barely heard the bell ring indicating the end of homeroom. Austin stood up and grabbed his backpack completely ignoring the fact that Lilly had tried to hug him. She scowled a bit as he walked away from her, but she figured he had a lot going on in his head by the way he was starring so intently on the ground. Austin left the classroom and headed for his first period class, AP Calculus. He figured that doing some math would fix whatever was going on inside his head. However, he couldn't stop thinking about the big mistake me made that summer. He couldn't figure out why he agreed to date Josh. He knew he wasn't gay, but for some reason the idea of dating Josh was so alluring. He couldn't stop thinking about the way he smiled, the way he dressed, the way he flipped his hair, or the way he spoke. He was truly angelic and for those reasons he just had to have more. Maybe it was his teenage hormones going wild and wanting sex all the time or maybe he was bisexual and truly in love with Josh. He didn't think he was in love with Josh, but he definitely liked him, because he loved Lilly. He loved her with all his heart and he could never stop loving here, but for some reason whenever he would imagine her Josh would also show up. He found the whole thing very confusing and frustrating and Austin wanted to hit himself for agreeing to such a ridiculous thing.
"Hey Austin, wait up!" A young male's voice echoed and Austin turned around and he had forgot that Josh was going to be a freshman this year, because standing in front of him was none other than Josh, Lilly's younger sister.
"O-oh hey Josh, what's up?" Austin said softly as he began walking to his class again and Josh followed alongside of him.
"I'm alright, how about you?" Josh asked smiling at Austin who couldn't smile for the fact that both of them knew what was going on.
"I'm good, um; can I help you with something? You know we're in public," Austin said rushed as if he didn't want anyone to hear their conversation. He began looking around paranoid.
"Oh calm down, do you think I'm going to kiss you? Although that does sound nice right now, but I actually approached you because I'm lost," Josh said smiling at Austin again.
"You're lost? Where are you trying to go?" Austin said stopping and looking down at Josh, who was a few inches shorter than him.
"Honors Algebra 2 with Ms. Lisa," Josh said reading off of his schedule and Austin's eyes widened because not only were her classroom right next to his, but that Honors Algebra 2 was a Junior/Honors Sophomore class, "You look surprised."
"Yeah, because that class is for juniors or really smart sophomores, and you're a freshman! Lilly never mentioned you were so smart," Austin said amazed and Josh began to blush a little.
"No, I'm not smart. I'm just really, really good at math. I'm in on level classing for every other subject," Josh admitted, but Austin was still pretty amazed about his math skill.
"Well, luckily for you your class is right next to mine, so I'll show you the way, follow me," Austin said turning to lead the way.
Austin looked around and no one seemed to notice he was talking to a freshman so he relaxed a little bit, and began walking forward. He kept looking back every now and again to make sure that he hadn't lost him along the way. He wondered if anyone would catch on that they were together, because even though the rumored freshman Friday didn't actually exist, people were still mean to freshman. Austin never understood why people hated freshman so much, because they were all freshman once too. Austin believed in treating everyone equally, but then he realized that he wasn't treating Lilly equally by lying to her about his and her brother's relationship. He didn't want to keep lying to her, but if he told her he might lose them both. He sighed and took a left as they entered the math hallway. Within a few moments they stopped in front of Ms. Lisa's room and Austin turned to Josh who was standing there.
"Well, here you are, good luck," Austin said as Josh nodded and entered the classroom. Smiling he turned around and opened his own classroom's door.
His expression soon faded from one of happiness to one of true pain, because sitting in the front row was none other than Melody Leblanc, a girl who had an obsession with him. She's been obsessed with him since seventh grade, and no matter how many times he tries to tell her that he isn't interested she won't stop. He slapped his hand to his face as he groaned. She didn't seem to notice him yet, and he saw as a blonde boy who looked about his own age came up to him followed by a dark haired boy. They stood beside him and patted his back. The blonde one was named Cody, and he was literally a genius. He was in all AP classes and had a perfect 4.0 GPA and got a 2400 on the SAT, and the brunette one was Max he was also intelligent, but he didn't apply himself enough in school. He got A's on all the tests and quizzes he ever took, but never did any homework. Teachers, parents, and all the faculty members couldn't understand why he was the way he was. They had been his friends since first grade and they all knew about the crazy Melody.
"Well, how the hell did she get into this class? She was on level Geometry last year," Max said looking at Melody who was gazing out the window.
"Yeah, and she needed to take Honors Algebra and Pre-Calculus just to get on level, but how did she manage AP?" Cody said crossing her arms, "Something doesn't smell right here."
"I showered today, I promise!" Max said defensively and they both gave him a look of disgust, because Max was lax on hygiene. Melody turned her head and her eyes widened as she saw Austin. She began to smile and Austin looked terrified. She got out of her seat and ran, literally ran, at Austin hugging him tightly.
"Oh my god, oh my god, I'm in the same class as you for once!" Melody said in a shrill voice hugging him to the point of which he couldn't breathe.
"Get…her…off…can't…..breathe," Austin said in between gasps for breath; Cody and Max pulled Melody off of him as he caught his breath, "Melody, how in god's name did you get into this class?" He asked regaining his composure.
"Well, I realized that if I had any chance of getting to know you it would be through being in one of your classes. So, I knew science wouldn't be it because you are taking Anatomy, and I can't stand dissections," Melody explained.
"How did y-," Austin said shocked that she knew what class he was taking.
"Then I thought about History, but you're taking AP European history and I have to take US History 2 so I couldn't be in that class. You are taking Honors English so I took that, but they're so many honors English classes that I couldn't take any chances, and then I thought world language, but you take Spanish and I take French so that wasn't a possibility either, but then I thought about math and knew there was only one class and one period of that certain class. So realizing I was drastically behind you I took both Honors Algebra and Pre-Calculus over the summer and here I am," Melody explained and all three of them stood there utterly shocked. Now Melody wasn't an ugly girl. She had long flowing brown hair, hazel eyes, and rosy lips. She had on a pair of black converse, girly black jeans and pink blouse. She was rather attractive, but Austin was off put by her crazy and obsessive personality.
"Melody you've reached a whole new level of criminally insane," Max commented and Melody gave him a death stare and Max backed away a little, because she was a little bit frightening too.
"Melody, I appreciate all the trouble you went through to be with me, but you know that I'm still dating Lilly, and love her with all my heart. We'll never be together Melody," Austin told her gently, but she looked like she was about to kill a bus full of children.
"I don't understand what you see in that dumb cheerleader. She doesn't do half the things I do for you, Austin. I would give you the world, and I'd do anything you wanted. I'd give you everything you ever wanted, Austin," Melody said beginning to plead and Austin didn't want this to become more embarrassing than it already was.
"Melody please listen to me, I don't love you. I don't have any feelings for you, and I don't want the world. I want Lilly, and I will ALWAYS want Lilly. So if you would please leave me alone that would make me the happiest," Austin said and Melody looked a bit hurt, but she backed off and went back to her seat mumbling about how he'd be hers.
"Crazy bitch," Murmured Cody and they all looked at him surprised, because Cody was never one to curse, but Austin didn't disagree with him.
The class went on pretty normally, and he counted the times Melody looked at him. Melody had looked at Austin forty-two times in one class period and he was beginning to get annoyed. He didn't want to tell Lilly, because she was the head of the cheerleaders and the last thing he wanted was to start drama, but he was getting pretty uncomfortable with the fact that this girl was all over him. He sighed with relief as the bell rang indicating that the class was over, and Austin looked at his schedule realizing he had Honors Concert Choir next, then Spanish, then English, then History for 5-6, and then lunch. He sighed and hopes everything would be calm until lunch, because he was too damn tired for drama.
He arrived in the concert room, and to his surprise Josh was sitting there with all the other freshman boys who had made honors concert choir, but Austin was part of the selective group that actually were the best. He didn't even realize that Josh sang let alone that he made concert choir. He wondered why Lilly hadn't told him this, and he wondered if she even knew. Josh saw him enter and his eyes lit up surprised that he was in the same period as him. Josh walked over calmly and grabbed his arm pulling him over to the freshman. Austin didn't hate freshman and he didn't want to meet freshman either.
"Guys, this is Austin, THE Austin," Josh explained and they began whispering to each other and Austin hoped to god he hadn't done what Austin thought he had done, "He's the one who is dating my sister and has the amazing voice."
"I don't believe it," A boy with short brown hair exclaimed looking at Josh up and down, "He looks like another Justin Bieber wannabe."
"A wannabe you say? And who might you be, little freshman?" Austin said as the freshman stood up and got in Austin's face.
"The name is Chase, Chase Springfield," Chase said smiling and Austin felt a weird aura coming from him, and Austin couldn't tell if he was jealous or naturally angry.
"Okay Chase calm down," Josh said touching Chase's arm and Josh's persona changed from one of confrontation to a calm one as he hugged Josh.
"Thanks for calming me down," Chase said rubbing Josh's back and Austin noticed how Chase's hand slightly, and ever so lightly grabbed Josh's ass. Josh didn't seem to realize, and Austin understood what was going on. He smiled to himself a bit, and realized he couldn't get mad at the kid, because it'd give him away. Just then the teacher, Mrs. Dubois walked in and she took her position at the front of the classroom.
"Hello class and welcome to Honors Concert Choir. Here we will be learning popular songs of today as well as classics. We will also be performing at multiple concerts throughout the school year. Austin, since you've been here for a while would you like to start off the school year with an Adele song," Mrs. Dubois said and Austin stood up and stood beside her.
"Which Adele song?" Austin asked and she thought for a moment before replying. Josh watched him intently and Chase watched him with a hint of jealousy.
"Oh please sing "Set fire to the rain"," She asked and Austin nodded clearing his voice.
"I let it fall, my heart and as it fell you rose to claim in," Austin sang digging deep for the soulful voice he possessed, because singing Adele involved a lot of soul, and this kind of soul couldn't be faked, "There's a side to you that I never knew, never knew," He sang so beautifully that it had the whole class spell bound, and Austin smiled as the chorus came in, "'Cause I set fire to the rain!" He sang and they all made sounds of being impressed. As Austin finished the song they all clapped and even Chase clapped a bit realizing he had been best.
"Well, that was perfect as always Austin. How about we let a freshman test out their voice, hmm?" Mrs. Dubois said looking around the classroom before pointing at Josh, "You, please come up here and sing "I'm yours by Jason Maraz."
"I'll try my best," Josh said as he cleared his throat, "Oh you done done me and you bet I felt it. I try to be chill, but you're so hot that I melted," Josh sang his voice being a bit higher than Austin's and Josh looked at Austin as he sang the word 'hot' and Austin couldn't help to blush a bit, "And I fell right through the cracks, and now I'm trying to get back," Josh sang and Austin cringed a bit as he held one of the notes longer then he should have, "Oh I won't hesitate no more, no more It cannot wait. I'm yours," Josh sang and he was about to continue, but cut him off.
"That's enough. I've gotten all I needed, very good," She said and Josh nodded as he sat back down.
The bell rang twenty minutes later and they left the choir room, and Austin didn't want to be caught alone with Josh. He hurried to his Spanish class and entered it without a problem. He leaned his head back as he sat down in the chair with his name tag on it. He could finally relax, and he looked down and to his dismay when Josh was singing it gave him a hard on. He sighed deeply and tried to focus on the class making it go away. He thought he didn't love Josh, but now he realized maybe he did love him, and this whole situation just got a lot more complicated than he would have liked.
The rest of the day until lunch went pretty smoothly, and Austin was happy to hear that he didn't have English with that crazy ass girl Melody. It was finally time for lunch and Austin was starving because he decided to skip breakfast this morning. He walked into the lunch room and because he was so early he was able to get in line early. He grabbed a grilled chicken wrap, a container of fries, a soda, and a cookie. He paid for his lunch and sat down at his table sadly. Cody was the first to arrive, and he always packed lunches because he didn't trust the school food. He was followed by Max who surprisingly was talking to Lilly. Lilly quickly ran off and bought a salad before returning to the circular table where they were sitting. The circular tables had five seats and they always left the last one open for space.
"Austin, you look like you just watched someone getting murdered. Are you okay?" Lilly asked him rubbing his neck.
"Yeah I'm fine. I just had a really rough day," Austin said opening his soda and taking a long drink out of it before placing it down.
"The first day of school always sucks," Max said as he opened his bag of chips and ate one.
Lunch proceeded smoothly, and about five minutes into it Josh came rushing in. It looked like had had gotten lost on his way to the cafeteria and as he walked in he looked around and realized the place was packed. He looked down and realized he had missed his chance of getting somewhere to seat. Lilly spotted him over by the door and then she looked at the empty seat and Austin hoped she wouldn't do what he thought she was going to do.
"Josh, there's a seat right here. Come sit with us," Lilly said flagging Josh to come over and sit with them, and Austin frowned because she did exactly what he hoped she wouldn't do.
"Thanks sis, I got lost on my way here," Josh said as he sat down and looked around the table feeling very uncomfortable and Lilly decided to break the ice.
"This is Cody and Max," Lilly said and they both extended their hands with introduction, and Lilly turned to Austin smiling.
"Hey Lilly, can I come over today after school and study with you?" Austin asked and Josh's eyes lit up as he said this.
"Um, I have cheerleading practice then a doctor's appointment, so unless you want to wait at my house for me, I don't think so," Lilly replied.
"No, he can help me with my English homework," Josh said knowing exactly what he was doing.
"Oh? Well then great! Do you mind helping Josh with his homework?" Lilly asked Austin who looked at Josh who gave him puppy eyes.
"No of course not," He replied having a feeling that homework wouldn't be the only thing that Austin was going to help him with tonight. He smiled at Lilly before looking away sighing.