GUYS! IT'S FINALLY OVER! THIS IS THE FIRST FIC I AVTUALLY BOTHERED TO FINISH IN A LONG TIME! After this I'll do Hug Therapy primarily and then finish the rest… yeah. Maybe. Here's hoping.

It's been a few months since then, now I'm in the spring of the second semester. In time I'll be moving on to my Junior year and I won't even get to watch him in class anymore. I've become invisible again and it makes me sad because I don't think Gilbert can see me like he used to, I feel like he might have forgotten me. It doesn't happen often but he bumps into me in the hall, like the first time we met but that's all. We've also stopped the math tutoring since then.

I was always like this. It wasn't hard before but now… now I feel like crying all the time. I thought I could go back to being invisible. I thought I could go back to when it was just me, Alfred, Alice, and Kiku. But the thing is, now that I know what's outside my walls it's become impossible for me to want to build them back up. I liked being out there, I liked being free, I liked Gilbert. But that time is over. That time will just be a dream I remember. I never want to forget it.

And then someone bumped into me. He was in a rush, on his way to the classroom. It was Gil- Mr. Beilschmidt. I sighed and expected him to run off like he usually did but this time he sighed too and stayed. It was quiet and then he said,

"Hey kid."

I stared at him for a minute but didn't say anything.

"I've been thinking… Matt, Matthew, Birdie," he threw that last one in to annoy me, but it didn't. It just brought me back to the dream.

"Matthew, I think it's time I gave up teaching math."

"What?"

"I've also quit smoking."

"So you're a quitter now? Moving to the beach so you can bum around?"

"Only if you'll come with me."

I stared at him and then kicked him in the shins, "Don't go saying shit like that after abandoning me for like three months!?"

"I didn't abandon you!"

"Yes you did! For a while there you couldn't even see me and was always knocking into me!"

"What!? I never stopped being able to see you!"

"Yes you did!"

"I knocked into you because I could see you! Jeez," he said the next part more quietly, "I thought it would be romantic. Like passing notes of something."

"Gilbert you're an idiot."

"Hmmm, that so?"

Then he dragged me back to his classroom where an equation was written on the board, shit am I gonna have to solve that? I glared at him only for him to wrap his arms around me and just sigh, "That's better."

"Gilbert? What are you doing?"

"You know what I'm doing, don't asks stupid questions."

I pulled my arms around him and hugged him too. I clung to him and tried not to cry, "You're a teacher… you're supposed to say there are no stupid questions."

I thought I could go back to being invisible but then you stopped being able to see me, but you never forgot me like I thought you did. There's nothing we can do about it, I'm just being a brat. But would it be okay for him to hold me like this a little while longer?

"Don't quit being a teacher Gilbert, that's just stupid."

"Hey, are you crying?"

"Ugh, I can't seem to stop…"

And then he pressed his lips to mine and it was dope. I mean, yeah. You know those fireworks I was talking about that never happened, I think they were waiting for this moment. Fuck yeah Disney channel!

"Have you stopped crying?" He asked with that signature smug smile.

"… not completely."

And then he kissed me again. After that our world revolved around exams and Gilbert and I were gonna try to do the after school tutoring until we found out I actually learned something and guess what, I got a full one hundred percent on the final! Fuck yeah! Pancakes all around!

Gilbert and I parted ways after that year; I moved onto eleventh grade and didn't take calculus, or any math courses. I decided to take a few online over the summer to fill my credits. I never wanted to have anyone else teach me math, that was a special right for the Gilbert I knew when I was sixteen. Now it seems I'll have to leave that behind… That is until I walked into my English Class.

"Hello students, my name is Mr. Beilschmidt. I was a calculus teacher last year but I'm obsessed with Shakespeare or whatever you're supposed to learn in this class so I'll be teaching English three and four from now on. How did I switch over? Well that's none of your business," he said winking at me, though it seemed to be at the general class. I knew it was for me, that's just how it is.

"I think it's time I gave up teaching math," he said.

Screw him, he was planning this from the start. That whole heartfelt goodbye was all bullshit. Whatever, it's fine by me. Now was the time for me to finally venture outside of my walls and when I graduated the year after Gilbert and I went to see the world.

The End… Maybe.

Alright guys! It's done! Yay! Look foreward to the epilog!