I started walking home. As I was walking, I pulled out my phone. Still twenty new messages. I sighed and opened the messages.
Where are you?
You're late.
Answer me you gay whore.
I'm gonna kick your ass...
There were so many...
I shook my head and pocketed the phone. I decided not to worry about it right then. Right then, all that was on my mind was Yao.
Who was he? Why wasn't he afriad of me? Why did he even give a fuck about me?
I arrived at the apartment. It was a shitty apartment that had lots of criminal activity. But it was all we could afford.
I opened the door to see my scowling dad.
"So you finally decided to show up, huh?" I swallowed.
"Dad, this guy picked a fight and I-"
"Oh so you had detention? What'd you do, fuck the guy?" I was past used to my dad's taughting.
I held back a retort and said simply, "No."
He snorted.
At that exact moment, Yekatrina decided to walk in.
"Would you two stop bickering?" By now, Kat had surpassed my father in power. She was the one keeping a roof over our heads, so my dad stepped down.
"But he-"
"I don't fucking care. I have a headache and I'm not in the mood. Ivan, you got detention?" I looked down and nodded. She let out a sigh.
"Is this your first time?" I looked up. She was pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Mmhm." was all I said. She nodded.
"Okay. Then you're off the hook. But if I catch you one more time.." She didn't even have to finsh. I nodded quickly. She turned to Dad.
"Go get some fucking booze and leave us alone, okay?" My dad nodded begrudgingly and went to the kitchen to get something to drink.
Kat gave me a stern eye and grabbed my wrist, pulling me to her bedroom. She sat me down on her bed and locked the door behind us.
There wasn't much to her room. A twin size bed in the corner, a cheap wooden bureau to the left of it and a desk in another corner.
She sat cross-legged next to me.
"Give me the story. Now." I sighed and began talking.
"Oi! Fag! Over here!"
I heard the call from that stupid American in the hallway. I continued walking, ignoring the attention lover.
He roughly grabbed my shoulder and forced me to face him.
"What." I asked coldly.
"What? On your way to suck off another guy?" He asked, smirking.
"No. Leave me alone." I turned to walk away, only to be yanked back by Alfred again.
"Where you goin', gay-wad?" I glared at him.
"Away. Let go of me."
He sneered, "Make me."
I threw my books on the, making a loud noise and stood up to the obnoxious boy.
Alfred growled and shoved me. I grabbed his arm and wrenched it behind his back.
"How's it feel, huh?" I snarled.
Alfred growled and kicked behind, hitting my leg, and unbalancing me.
By now, we had attracted a large crowd.
He took the moment to escape from my grip. He turned to face me. He punched at me. I dodged and grabbed his wrist again. I took the chance to punch him in the jaw.
Alfred reeled back, clutching his jaw. He started to charge at me when a teacher stepped in and grabbed both our wrists roughly.
She led us to the office, where punishments were delt.
I sighed when I finished. Kat looked at me, concern in my eyes.
"I'm so sorry, brother. I didn't know it was that bad..." I shook my head.
"It's okay. I think I won anyway." I smiled. She laughed and nodded.
"Yes, I do believe you did." I looked away, still smiling.
"And plus.." I stopped. Should I tell her?
"What?"
Well I guess I don't have a choice anymore.
"I ran into someone on my way here. Literally. I smacked into him while I was looking at Dad's messages."
Kat burst out laughing.
"I'm serious! But you wanna know the best part?" She stopped laughing and looked at me intently.
"Hmm?" She asked, curious. I smiled.
"He wasn't afraid or intimidated by me. But he was seething! He didn't even think twice about my body size!" She smiled. I continued.
"But I helped him pick up his groceries and we started talking-"
"Is this why you were so damn late?" Kat interrupted me. I blushed and nodded. She smiled.
"Go ahead and continue." I nodded again.
"We talked, and turns out he's a sophomore at my school. And he doesn't hate me." I grinned happily.
"He also gave me his number." Kat gasped excitedly.
"Oh my God, brother's gonna have a boyfriend!" She exclaimed happily. I quickly covered her mouth.
"Not so loud! Dad might hear and I'll never hear the end of it." She nodded and I removed my hand.
She grinned. "What's his name?" I bit my lip.
"Yao."
She smirked. "Yao, huh? Already sounds sexy." I screeched.
"Kaaat!" She giggled. "You're so easy to embarass." I pouted a little and she smiled and ruffled my hair.
"C'mon brother, let's go eat dinner." I nodded and stood up and followed her out of the room.
Natalia was already out in the kitchen, setting up the table. My dad was nowhere in sight. I raised an eyebrow at Natalia. She shrugged.
"He went into his room with multiple bottles of liquor earlier."
I shugged as well and sat down to eat the cheap box-recipe food Yekatrina had so thoughtfully cooked.