Riley walked into the school, looking very refreshed and glad. His hellish one month training with Adrian was finally over. Although he felt sad, since Donovan didn't return home all the while he stayed at Donovan's house, but he was glad since he learnt a lot from Adrian.
Natasha walked closer to him and gave him a nudge with her left elbow. He looked at her and smiled a toothless smile.
"Damn. Why do I feel like my place would be empty without you?" she said, divertin her eyes from him and looking at the sky.
"Don't jinx it Nat." he said with a soft laugh.
"Oh please. Even Adrian said things would never be the same again." she looked him in the eyes and smiled. She didn't need anyone telling her that things were going to change as soon as Riley leaves their place. She and Adrian had gotten used to his presence.
"Why don't you spend some more time with us?" she asked with a cute face, hoping that would make him waver.
"No thanks, I think I will pass"
"Come on."
"I have to study for our upcoming exams, and I definitely can't do that at your place, since Adrian will force me to train my body some more, then I will be left with little amount of time to sleep, not to then think of studying. True, I'll get better physically, but I might end up failing my exams woefully."
Natasha rolled her eyeballs as she stepped into the class.
*****
Bram walked along the corridor of his class, looking disinterested in whatever gist was circulating among his classmates. He entered his class and went straight to his seat. He noticed some girls staring at him while he went to his seat, but he was not a bit interested in girls who looked at him as though he was prey.
As he sat on his seat, he received a pat on his right shoulder from his behind. He looked back and saw some of his friends, the one who gave him a pat was already beside him. While the other two were just entering the class through the back door.
"Hey Allen." Bram said as he shook hands with the one beside him.
Allen sat on Bram's table, looking at Bram's exhausted face.
"You must have been really busy as of recent?" Allen asked while trying to mimic Bram's bored face
"Why do you say so?" Bram replied with his right eyebrow raised.
"You are starting to have eyebags. Are you planning to ruin this handsome face?" Allen said while holding Bram's chin and turning it from side to side.
Bram slapped away Allen's fingers that were on his chin.
The other two were now by their side.
"What Allen, finally told Bram how you truly feel about him?" The only girl among them said, with an amused smile on her face.
Allen looked at her with a disgusted look.
"I ought to cut out your tongue and feed it to your boyfriend, who seems to have no leash on you."
"What am I? A dog?"
"Well, you are whatever you call yourself. So, who knows, you might have been a dog in your past life."
The two of them stared daggers at themselves, but Bram and the other guy beside the girl were not bothered at all. They had gotten used to seeing those two fight all the time.
"Why are you all here? I'm very sure we aren't on break, neither has school closed for the day. This is just a few more minutes before the first period starts, and we don't belong to the same class." Bram said with a tired expression.
"Seriously? I wasted my time and energy coming here, and it seems like we are not welcomed here." Allen said as he looked at a tired Bram.
"I have some hot news for you." Allen went on to say, ignoring the look of disinterest on Bram's face.
"What is it?" Bram just wanted them out of his hair at the moment. He was not in the mood for their early morning gist.
"Cheer up mate, it's some really good news." the other guy said as he sat on the chair beside Bram's seat.
"Come on Charles, make some space for me." The girl in their midst said, waiting for Charles to move his chair further away from the table, so she could sit on his legs.
"Remember that group that came up after the Handsome Maniacs failed?" The girl asked as soon as she sat on Charles' legs.
"Those idiots that have nothing better to do?" Bram said with a hint of anger evident in his voice and face.
The girl had a smirk on her face as she looked at Bram. She had suspected something was off with Bram for some while. Whenever the so-called group was mentioned, or whenever people were speaking in a nasty manner about the boy involved, he would get angry. At first, she just thought he didn't like the way the boy was being targeted by bullies, but studying him closely, she found out that whenever he spoke about Riley, he spoke of him in a loving way. Whenever the name Riley was brought up, he felt all sort of emotions. It was cute to watch the aloof Bram show emotions whenever that name was mentioned.
"Yeah, those idiots. They've finally decided to carry out their disgusting plan. You in?"
The look of disgust as she asked him that question was amusing to her.
"You know, I'm really curious as to how his moans sounds, that has been driving the boys in this school crazy."
"When?"