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Will sat in the very back of the car. Staring out the window with his headphones on, playing instead of the sounds of his siblings arguing. They were almost back to Minnesota, and he was nervous. Nervous about starting a new school with semi-new people. Nervous about what people would think of the new him. Nervous about his future.
He wouldn’t say he missed Texas, but he had gotten familiar with it. Sure he’d miss his family, but the constant transphobia wouldn’t be missed. He was glad to be out of that god forsaken state. He drowned out the music playing in his ears and rested his head on his arm as he continued to think about what his old neighborhood would bring. As he thought he slowly drifted off to sleep.
“Wake up, Will!”
Will stirred as his sister Kayla shook him awake. “Come ON we’re here!!!” She shook him harder.
Will gasped “Huh what? What’s going on?” He looked around and saw a brown duplex out the car window.
“We’re here.” Kayla repeated rolling her eyes and walking away.
Will checked his phone. It was 5:38 in the afternoon. He sighed and got up to stretch his legs. Most of his family was already carrying stuff into their new house as he stood there watching. “Well don’t just stare at us! Grab something you dummy!” Shouted Kayla again.
Will shuffled back to the car and grabbed his backpack then walked inside. They were moving into the bottom floor of the duplex. Will was slightly upset that they couldn’t move back into their original house but understood. He sighed and put his bag down next to the door. The house was almost completely empty and most of their stuff was coming up later in the week.
Will was lying on the floor in the room he had decided would be his with a blanket and pillow, staring at the ceiling. Most of the time he would be able to fall asleep quickly but tonight he just couldn’t, he was nervous about how his first day would go tomorrow. He thought about all the possible things that could go wrong and ruin his entire reputation. He wondered is any of his old friends would still recognize him, and if they would even still get along.
He wished he didn’t have to go back to school tomorrow. He thought about begging his parents to let him be homeschooled so he wouldn’t have to go. Then he remembered he didn’t want to be a homeschool freak so it’s probably best he went. He sighed and turned onto his side forcing himself to go to sleep.
“CAN’T STOP THE FEELING SO JUST DANCE DANCE DANCE I CAN’T STOP THE FEELING”
Will groaned and snatched his phone to turn off his god forsaken alarm. He had set that song as the alarm when he was 14 because he had been obsessed with Trolls but now it’s just annoying. Turning onto his back and covering his eyes as he woke up. He grabbed his toothbrush and toothpaste from his backpack and begrudgingly got up, dragging his feet to the bathroom. Squinting as he turned on the bathroom light. Most of the time he was more of a morning person but he guessed he was so tired today because of his lack of sleep. Great, that’s just great.
After using the bathroom and brushing his teeth Will felt more awake. Having to skip breakfast because they didn’t have any food Will went back to his room to get dressed.
Emptying out his backpack and putting his school supplies back in it. He then put on the clothes he had brought on the drive. He had on some baggy jorts and a baby blue undershirt with a light yellow tee with an apple on it. He didn’t have anything else to do so he just sat on the floor anxiously fidgeting with his sleeve and wondering what his first day was going to be like.
After a while Austin knocked on his bedroom door. “Hey are you ready? We got to go..”
“Oh yeah! One second I’m on my way!”
Will grabbed his backpack and pocketed his phone as he opened his bedroom door his siblings were already waiting at the front. He put on his shoes and walked to the bus stop with his siblings. He had owned his own car back in Texas but they couldn’t bring two cars up so he had to sell it.
“Hey guys?”
Kayla and Austin looked at him.
“Are you nervous too..?”
Kayla chuckled and put her arm over Will’s shoulder and pointed to herself with her free hand.
“Don’t worry little bro, if anyone gives you shit I’ll beat their ass!”
Will pulled away from her. “I’m older than you.”
Austin laughed a little and looked at Will. “Don’t worry, everything will be fine.”
Everything was not fine. Will had NO idea how to navigate the new school. He spent the whole morning scrambling around trying to figure out where his English class was. When the bell rang he panicked even more. He didn’t want to be late on his first day! He had to make a good impression!
He eventually found the classroom of “Mr. Blofis” and hesitantly opened the creaky door, making it creak even more. Everyone stared at him. He felt like melting into nothingness. Mr Blofis looked over at him too. “Who are you?”
“I’m uh Will.. I’m new.”
“Oh yes! The new student. I guess I’ll have to excuse your tardiness. If you have a free desk next to you raise your hand!”
Will looked to the sea of desks and students. He saw one boy in the middle half raise his hand and scurried over to the empty seat next to him.
“Hey.” The boy said nonchalantly.
“Hi…” Will muttered grabbing a notebook and pencil from his bag to copy the notes on the board.
After half assing the notes for like 40 seconds Will decided to look around the new classroom. As he turned his head his eyes laid on the boy next to him.
And oh wowhe was gorgeous. He had shoulder length dark hair that curled at the ends and big doe chocolate eyes with long naturally curled eyelashes. He had a Roman nose and a sharp jawline. His skin was lightly tanned with a couple birthmarks on his skin. Will’s eyes moved down to his chest. The boy was wearing a grey shirt with a skull in the middle the sleeves of the shirt clung to his arms showing off his muscles and he was BUFF. Will couldn’t stop himself from staring.
“This class is pretty boring, huh?”
Will jumped realizing the boy he was staring at started talking to him.
“Sorry um, what?” Will spluttered, embarrassing himself,
The boy just smiled with his eyes closed. His teeth were straight and white and his lips were full.
“I like your shirt.” He whispered to Will.
“Oh uh thanks! My sister gave it to me…”
“You seem super familiar to me, have I met you before?”
Will furrowed his brows and frowned a little. He knew someone would ask that eventually.
“Oh probably, I lived here when I was in elementary school, and just moved back.”
“What was your name again?” Will asked, maybe he knew this dude.
“Nico.”
Oh shit.
Will paled. This couldn’t be happening. Nico?! As in his childhood friend who he had a crush on?? This can’t be happening. He knew he would see him but was secretly hoping Nico had moved back to Italy or something.
“Umm are you okay..? You look kinda sick…”
“HAHAH I’M FINE! Everything’s normal! Yep!” Will laughed awkwardly and rubbed the back of his head before dropping his face back to a normal expression. The teacher side eyed him only to roll his eyes and go back to the board.
Nico furrowed his brows and looked concerned and confused.
“Uh.. okay..” He turned back to his notes.
FUCK! Will totally messed up a conversation with a cute guy! And the cherry on top is that the cute guy is his ex best friend and crush! The rest of English went by slowly as Will copied the board. When the bell finally rang, As they were packing up Nico looked to him. “Well, it was nice to talk to you, Sunshine. See you around.” Nico walked out of class
“Uh yeah see you!” Will flushed at the nickname and scurried out of the room. He had math with a “Ms. Dodds” and he wasn’t late this time as he had slightly learned the room system during first period. He found an empty seat in the back and sat down he made a circle with his arms on the table and plopped his head down on it.
“Hey is this seat taken?”
Will looked up and saw a short boy with messy curls and cinnamon skin littered with freckles.
Will just nodded at him and put his head back down. He heard the chair next to him scrape against the cold floor as the boy sit down.
“Soo are you new here? I don’t think I’ve seen you before!”
Will looked back up and the short boy was smiling at him resting his arm in his left hand while his right hand fidgeted with his sleeve.
“Yeah, I moved up from Texas but I was born here and lived here during elementary school.” Will responded.
“Ohh” the boy nodded, “that makes sense, I moved here before freshman year so that’s probs why I’ve never met you!” The boy gave him a toothy grin and Will notified he was missing one of his central incisors.
“So what’s your name?? I’m Leo!” He smiled again
This guy sure smiles a lot.
“I’m Will.”
“Well nice to meet you Will!”
“You too.”
The bell rang so Will sat up straight and looked at the board.
“Good morning everyone!” Ms. Dodds moved to the middle of the room.
“Let’s see who’s here today hm?”
Will started sweating. He hated first day attendance. He payed extra attention to the names the teacher was calling waiting for his own. She went through the list in alphabetical order. Will listened to the letter she was on. H.. R.. she started listing off the S names and when his never got called he furrowed his brow. What? Was he in the wrong class? He needed to calm down. If he was in the wrong class then he’d just wait until she finished attendance.
Once she listed the last of the names he was about to speak up before she continued on.
“Oh! And it looks like we have a new student! Is Lillian Solace here?”
Will tried not to let his voice crack.
“Uh.. H-here.. and I go by Will.”
“Oh. Okay. Well it is great to meet you Will.” Will half relaxed. He was great she at least said it. But there was a lot of malice in her voice. He could tell he would hate this class.
As the teacher rambled on about the lesson Leo continued to whisper to him.
“You know I was born in Texas!”
“Really? That’s cool.” Will turned to him.
“Yeah, then my house burned down so we moved here.”
Will was shocked by the sudden trauma dump and blinked a couple times.
“What?!”
“Yeah… Don’t worry though, I’m fine!” He chuckled and gave Will his toothy grin.
“Well I’m glad you didn’t like die.”
“Thanks! Me too! Soo have you been catching up with all your childhood friends?” Leo asked him. What is this dude on? That’s such a random question!
“Well kinda. I met my best friend from elementary school again but neither of us knew it was eachother until he told me his name… I didn’t tell him it was me because he only knew me pre-transition and I kinda embarrassed myself in front of him.” Why is Will telling this guy everything?
“Ohhh damn that suckss…. Who was it?”
“Nico Di Angelo.”
Leo hit his hands against the table. “No way!!! He’s my ex!”
“What? Ex?” Will was confused and kinda excited. He didn’t know Nico was gay!
“Yeah, we dated for a couple months freshman year but then we broke up because I thought we would be better off friends.”
“Damn. That’s crazy! Is… is he dating anyone now..?” Will asked half hoping.
“Hmmm nahh he’s single af.” He grinned at him toothily again. “Why you got a crushhh?”
Will flushed “Maybe..”
Leo giggled. “Man you’re cool. Do you wanna eat lunch with me and my group?”
“Okay! I don’t have anyone else to sit with..”
“Sweet! Let me give you my number so I can text you!”
Will handed Leo his phone and watched as he typed his number in, then texted himself. He handed back Will’s phone to check his own phone and text Will again. Will checked what Leo had said. He had changed his name to “Admiral Leo” in Wills phone. Then he checked the texts.
Will: Hey Leo! You’re so cool and hot! Definitely my best friend!
Leo: Why thank you kind sir! You’re cool too! Definitely not as cool as me but still!
Will rolled his eyes and smiled.
When the bell rang Leo waved his goodbye and rushed off to his next class as Will packed his bag. His next class was History with Mr. Brunner. Will caught up on the sleep he had lost last night, he just didn’t care for history.
Will checked his phone to see if Leo had texted him.
Admiral Leo: Heyyyy wref in the libarywy
Will: K
Admiral Leo: oh ok. 🙄
Will: What?
Admiral Leo: sighhhb whatevwr…..😢😢😢
Will turned off his phone and headed to the library. As he walked into the library he scanned over the tables that people were eating lunch at and his eyes landed on a table with Leo waving at him grinning, again. There were a lot of people at the table and Will got a little nervous but just walked over.
As he got closer he could see the people more clearly. They looked kinda familiar. There was Leo, and next to him there was a tall muscular blonde guy with scarily blue eyes and a small scar on his lip. Another dude with messy black hair and green eyes. Next to him there was a girl with curly blonde hair in a ponytail. A girl with a choppy haircut and hazel eyes. Another girl with short black hair. A very large guy with short black hair and dark eyes. A short girl with dark skin, curly brown hair, and amber eyes. And next to her was Nico. IT WAS NICO.
Shit.