Zelda12343 - No problem! Hope you're feeling better. For some reason, ff wouldn't let me log in yesterday and locked me out too!

Dawnstar94 - I would love friends like Mercutio and Hermia!

iluvshinjimina - I had internet problems yesterday too :(

Sorry about the no update yesterday, ff wouldn't let me log in. So, Hermia and Mercutio are onto Rosaline! Wonder how Gabriel's doing. Gabriel's opinion of PE is heavily based on mine (stupid, pointless, uneducational) and his teacher Mr. Hendon is based on my old PE teacher, who made me quit keyboard lessons because I kept missing parts of her class, except the genders have been reversed.

PE sucked.

Honestly, it did! The boys in his PE class were so mean. If Gabriel ever dropped the ball, or didn't do something right because he hadn't been paying attention, they all called him 'the sissy faggoted ballerina' which always upset him. It was especially worse when they had to get changed. Gabriel had started changing in the toilets with Juno to avoid it all. Thank God he had his biggest ally with him for this crappy class.

Only, you had to work in groups for a majority of the lesson. Juno and Gabriel always tried to group together, but Mr. Hendon always tried to split them up because apparently 'they didn't pay attention' or 'they didn't work hard enough' He always put Juno into the nerdy boys group and Gabriel into the sporty boys group, as if he was somehow trying to...convert them into his idea of how boys should behave.

Last, but worse of all, was the possibility of getting injured. If Gabriel got injured, then he couldn't dance. And he loathed it when that happened. His dance teacher always got angry at him when it happened. The motto was 'Football not good. Dancing is beautiful!' and by God did Gabriel know it.

"Here he comes, Little Lord Gabriel" jeered David. Gabriel gave him a filthy death glare. Juno gave one as well. Gabriel always wondered why he wasn't yet dead with the amounts of dirty death glares he gave him.

"Boys, that's enough" scolded Mr. Hendon, but Gabriel knew he liked it when the rich loner boy got ridiculed. He wasn't dumb, he could read through people like books. Mr. Hendon hated him, because he didn't conform and didn't do what he, as a male, was supposed to do. Gabriel refused to join any sports teams, would never break out of his small social circle, and he got on better with the girls than the boys.

"Right, one lap around the field and then stretches" commanded Mr. Hendon. Juno and Gabriel were last out of the changing room, and bounced along the field. Gabriel may have been slim, but he certainly had stamina built up from dance class. He could make the run, but Juno couldn't. So Gabriel hung back a little for him. Then, for stretches, they stood apart from the other boys, and placed themselves right in the view of some female Sixth Formers with a free period. Gabriel had already knotted up his shirt, rolled up his sleeves, and Juno had copied. Mr. Hendon gave them both a filthy look, so Gabriel just smirked at him. It always unnerved the man.

"Today" Mr. Hendon began "We're running the cross country"

The boys moaned in distress. Gabriel rolled his eyes. To his left, Juno cried out in despair.

"Shut up" hissed Gabriel, nudging him "We'll just hide in that garage like we did last year"

"Oh yeah" mumbled Juno "Sorry Gabriel"

They headed towards the exit of the school field, and then bounded off. Gabriel bounced along, Juno staggered along. After turning into a residential area by the edge of the wasteland that they should be running through, Gabriel and Juno let the crowd disperse through the weeds and slipped inside the garage. It was deserted, as always. Juno sank gratefully down on a box. Gabriel flapped his shirt up and down to cool himself.

"Why...do we do...the cross country...every year...there's no point!"

"No idea" Gabriel rolled his eyes, mooching around and investigating the area.

"All they do...is take our times...It's not like...it's important!"

"I know" Gabriel waved away Juno's speech with a gesture of his hand, before sitting down next to him "Are you coming to the Moonlight Cafe after school with me?"

"We're going to the Moonlight Cafe?"

"We are now. I don't have dance class tonight, and I'm pretty sick of eating salad all day and night, so we're going"

"Of course I'll come with you, Gabriel!" exclaimed Juno.

"Good" Gabriel reached down his shirt, and pulled out a cigarette and lighter. He lit one up, and slowly inhaled.

"I thought you were giving up because it was affecting your dancing?"

"Trying to give up" corrected Gabriel.

"Oh. I see" Juno stretched out further on the box, as his breath came back. He glanced out a crack in the garage door "I think they're all gone now"

"Good" smirked Gabriel "PE is so fucking pointless. I'm fit already, so it's not like I need to learn how to not be a fat whale, and I don't exactly want to be a footballer. I want to be a great danseur noble, not a stupid brainless idle dosser kicking a football repetitively"

Juno smiled at him, but there was a crash as David and his buddies Liam, Math and George stumbled through.

"You two?" grunted David "Just what I'd have expected. The sissy faggoted ballerina and his boyfriend who has a girl's name!"

"I beg your pardon?" hissed Gabriel "If anything, this is rather unexpected. Mr. Sports Captain is flunking the cross country. Won't your own boyfriend be disappointed in you!"

"Boyfriend?" coughed David, not understanding.

"Well, you know, Mr. Hendon. So now I assume you two aren't..." Gabriel trailed off with one of his fancy hand gestures. Juno giggled in admiration. Gabriel just smirked delightedly.

"Shut up, Billy" retorted David.

"What did you call me?" demanded Gabriel.

"Billy. Like what Daddy calls you! Billy Elliot, Billy No Mates!"

"Of course I don't have mates, I have friends. Mates is a vulgar piece of slang used by chavs and common preps to describe their close acquaintances. How I hate to hear people slaughter our beautiful language!" Gabriel replied. David and the jocks looked confused, and Gabriel knew that he had, once again, outsmarted them. Why were jocks so ignorant? Why did they exist? There was no purpose for their being.

"Yeah, well, you don't have any real friends, you're just together because you're going out!" David attempted again.

"Oh David. How sad it is that you cannot accept that I am far more talented at dancing than you'll ever be at football, so you resort to insulting me and mocking my sexual orientation"

"You aren't talented, you're a loser! Face it, Gabriel, no one actually likes you. We all think you're pathetic. And by the way, we just finished the cross country. Mr. Hendon is looking for you two. You're in trouble!" David sang, trying to goad Gabriel.

"So, you're saying you completed the cross country in less than approximately three minutes, as Juno and I were running behind you by about twenty metres when we snuck in here. You either doubled back after us, or you turned into Sonic the Hedgehog in a matter of seconds and did complete the cross country in three minutes, which seems painfully incorrect, since you aren't blue. And whatever trouble I appear to be in with Mr. Hendon, I do not care. He has no authority over me unless I let him. Which I never will, of course"

Enough was enough for David. He stomped forwards and shoved Gabriel backwards. Gabriel fell awkwardly on a box, landing with a sharp corner stabbing him on his back. He cried out in pain, and Juno shrieked. Composing himself, Gabriel rose angrily.

"How dare you touch me!" he seethed "Perhaps I ought to remind you of who my half-sisters boyfriend happens to be. A certain Mr. Capulet!"

David suddenly turned white. The other jock boys muttered amongst themselves. Sure, they were the sporty boys, meaning they were the most popular and therefore most respected amongst the rest of their peers, but chavs...chavs were different. Chavs didn't answer to anyone. It may seem that David and his sporty gang ruled the school, but in reality, it was the chavs. If someone was going to get beaten up, it was Tybalt who'd give the go ahead.

"See you later, Gabriel"

David scuttled out of the garage with his friends, whilst Gabriel laughed. He laughed until he was sure they had gone, before bursting into tears at David's insults and the pain in his back, and being consoled by Juno.