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This is my first time ever writing anything other than an essay or for school so please don't hate me too much, I am Dutch so if my writing contains some weird structure or lack of American High school knowledge just know I try.
First day of sophomore year was upon me and I was kind of scared. I mean now that I was not a freshman anymore I had to put myself out there more and establish some kind "coolness". Which I was definitely not great at. I am not that much of an extrovert and this being the second year after me moving from Holland did not help either. I mean I had no trouble making friends. Much to my surprise being from Europe really does make you quite a special kid. Everyone wanted to know how Europe was like and after a week I had already made some good friends. "Hey babe!" someone yelled. I was quickly pulled out of my little daydreaming and realized I had been standing still in front of the school for maybe two minutes, and people were looking at me weirdly. "Fuck, not the best way to start of" I thought to myself. I quickly turned around to see who had called out my name but I already knew. It was Emily, and somehow, she had gotten waaaaay hotter over the summer. "Hey babe!" I yelled back, and starting walking towards her.
This was our standard greeting for over a year now. She had just gotten out of her car which she got as a present from her parentswhen she had turned 16 a couple of weeks before the holidays. It was a really expensive jeep. I came up and hugged her and she hugged me back. "How have you been?! How was Europe, omg did you smoke weed in Amsterdam?". Typical Emily she was so excited about my holiday back in The Netherlands. "It was great, I got to see a lot of my old friends again and I loved it. They were all really jealous of me though, and NO I didn't smoke any weed alright" I told her. "How was your holiday? I got snaps from Hawaii! I did not know you weregoing there?". I did know since she had been talking about it non-stop for over a month before the holidays but decided to just play with her. We started walking towards the entrance just as the first bell rang. "Don't play with me boy!" she laughed it off of course.
Just then our other friends showed up. "Hey what are you two doing all smooched up to each other here?" Jack said. I felt myself turning red but Emily decided to play along and just started leaning into me and putting her arms around me. "What? We got back together last week?" she said.
I forgot to mention that Emily and I had dated for over 10 months last year but I called it quits after, well.. "OMG what?" screamed someone, no multiple, people right next to my ear. "Ouch! Stop screaming we are attracting way too much attention Jesus." I said as I was trying to get my ears to calm down. "No, it was just a joke calm down, you should have seen all of your faces though!" Emily said while laughing. I quickly glanced around our little group of five while still all red. Emily was of course dying of laughter but damn she was so pretty. Lucy stood next to me still trying to remain as calm as always but she started cracking up too. "O god you really had me there" she said smiling. Lucy is a little geeky and very smart, and just like me an introvert. I guess that is why we get along so well. She is not that tall but has red hair that she always has tucked behind her ears and glasses.
I'm sure that if she tries she will look hella fine, but she likes it this way. Next to Lucy was Jack, our school's very own Brit. He was around 6 feet tall and very well broad. He was of course one of the football players, and very popular but secretly he likes to hang out with us the most. He has dark hair which is always a deliberate kind of messy and makes him look so hot. O wait I did not say that, let's continue. Next to Jack stood Adam. Adam can be described as kind of nerdy. Almost like Lucy but not really that smart. He is around 5 feet 8 and just slim. He is super fun to be with though. He is also openly gay, but no one gives a fuck in our little circle so when he came out we just congratulated him. We kind of all already knew as his background pic was a half-naked boy. This was after I had just moved here.
I guess you are wondering now what I look like? Well I am 6 feet 2 which is supposedly tall but I just shrug those comments off with a "I'm Dutch" comment. I am average looking but I like to work out and this really shows since I am sort of lean. I consider myself smart but not as smart as Lucy. I have blond hair kind of short. I don't do much with it but people tell me it looks nice so I just let it go. They also told me I have a really cute face which is good I guess. Oh, and last year I figured out that I'm gay which is also the reason I broke up with Emily, she took the news quite well and was not surprised though which shook me. She told me that I had always been too good with girls to be straight which had made me laugh.
"Great little display! you had me too" said Adam. He looked quite shocked though. "Well if you are all done looking like shit shall we get our locker and schedule?" Emily said. Always the blunt one. We started walking towards our homeroom while talking about our holiday. Everyone was really interested in my holiday though. As I said, Europe really interests high school kids. We just casually walked towards homeroom. Lots of freshmen were running around yelling and dodging us. Which was good I guess. We however did our best to dodge all the juniors and seniors who were strutting down the hall. I sighed, guess high school hierarchy rules are still around. "Soo, have you hooked up with any hot Dutch hunks?" Emily whispered to me. I chuckled, "well, there was one of my old friends, we were drunk though so it does not count." Emily looked at me surprised "really? Wow do you have pics, please tell me everything!"
I was about to answer but no words were formed. I was just left gawking at the football gang that had just turned the corner. More specifically I was looking at Carter Wilkins. Carter is one of the players, don't ask me what position or anything because after two years I still don't understand shit about that game. I just like to watch the guys in their hot uniforms. Carter is a junior, about 6 feet and just insanely hot. He has black hair that always looks amazing. His face is super cute and he is so lean. He is wearing some figure hugging t-shirt and pants that accentuate his calves and, well, butt. Emily, still waiting for my response, saw my eyes follow the team as they walked through the hall. All the freshmen quickly disappeared before their feet.
She turned around to see what I was staring at, then quickly looked back at me and started smiling. "You are so gay omg". That quickly got me out of my trance and we started walking again. I got a little red and just tried to laugh it off. "Sorry I don't know but did he just get hotter over the summer or something?" I said to her. Just then I looked up just in time to prevent walking into a junior who was looking angry already after being in school for 5 minutes. I quickly stepped aside but that was a mistake because I slammed into a body. A really strong body to be exact. I almost fell over but someone grabbed me just in time. "Are you alright?" someone with a very sexy voice said. I almost fell over again because damn, I was looking right into the amazing eyes of Carter. Had I mentioned that his eyes are the most beautiful color of blue? Well I do now. "Uhm, yeah no problem man". I was kind of in shock that he talked to me. Had I mentioned that his eyes are amazing? "Alright cool cool cool, see ya around man" he said smiling and then walked towards his group again. I just stood there for a second trying to contemplate what had happened. "Jesus boy you are falling hard" of course Emily was there to throw me back into reality. "Oh yes sorry". She started laughing and we finally continued towards our homeroom. Our group was looking at us weirdly. Homeroom had already started and we so happened to be late together, just after Emily pretending to be back together. With my cheeks still red from my encounter with Carter.
We all got our schedules and lockers. One might say that because my native language is not English I would need extra help. I smashed those secret thoughts quickly enough and I now take AP English. Back in Holland I was also top of my class in English and spoke it fluently even before I came here. I also took AP history, AP economics and AP geography. I would be taking history and English with Lucy, and to my surprise economics with Adam, and Jack. I will be taking regular German and physics. I didn't have to choose a language since I already spoke two but I wanted to and our whole circle has German so why not. I sadly had no one of us in geography but that should be no problem. "I didn't know you would be taking AP courses Jack? I thought football would take all your time up." I said to him. Everyone just looked at Jack because he was always kind of the, quote, dumb jock, unquote. "uhhh yeah I wanted something of a challenge this year, but I will probably fail anyway so don't worry." He said actually looking embarrassed. "No you won't fail! If you have anything less than a B I will personally tutor you young man!" Lucy said. This made us all laugh. Lucy would never let any of us fail a class. "Oh damn watch out man she will haunt you forever if you fail that class" Adam joked. We continued teasing Jack for a bit and then decided to head off to our first class. "Don't want to be late for your first class of the year guys!" Emily said and then headed off to hers.
I watched her walk away and saw that I was not alone. Quite a few guys turned around and sneaked glanced at her. I guess I had not been the only one to notice how much she has grown up over the holidays. And she also noticed. She turned around to wave at me with this big shit eating grin on her face and I cracked up.
My first day fared pretty well. I mean the classes were just the teachers introducing themselves and then giving us some work to do and afterwards we could talk about our holiday. Which was fun. Lucy told me all about her camping trip with her parents. She had gone to Canada and had loved it. During economics Jack told me about this insanely hot junior he almost hooked up with during his holiday. "I mean her tits were just cannonballs and her face was superb! I was so close to kissing her when she just turned around and started puking. It was awful." "Oh wow that sounds awfully close yes!" I said sarcastically, but with a smile because it was actually quite funny. "Oh you are just a dick, so did you hook up with any hot chicks?" this caught me off guard. Adam looked up from his phone and I just couldn't help it and turned red, again. "Oh shit you did, didn't you!" fuck this is bad. I mean he was really hot yes but I don't want to tell Jack about me being gay just yet. I decided to just tell them the story but change the he's into she's. "I guess I did yes." This time Adam started asking the questions though. "Oh really? Tell me how did it go down? Were they hot?" I looked at him in surprise. Did he just say they? Does he know? Jack however did of course not notice it "dude come on spill it!" he said. "Alright, but it was just for one night. She was an old friend and I guess we always had this click." "Wait one night? Did you go further than only kissing?". Jesus Jack was really eager to know all about my hook up. "Well yes, but not all the way don't worry you did not miss out on anything.." "Wow, was she hot?" "I guess so yes, but enough with that it was just for one night don't worry man. It was nothing special." Adam just looked at me with this smile on his face. I started to worry again that his gaydar actually miraculously works or something because this was scaring me. "Alright man I was not asking for the details anyways" Jack said with a little bit of sadness. Just then I was luckily saved from this interview by the bell and I immediately ran off to my last class of the day: geography.
Mere seconds after I entered the classroom I facepalmed myself. I had totally forgotten about me being alone in this class. I quickly glanced around to see if anyone here was someone I knew. Of course, this was not the case so I decided to just sit in the back of the class and see if someone would sit down next to me. I would happily sit alone though. Sitting alone helps me concentrate more and that would be good. More people walked into the classroom but sadly no one I talked to more than necessary. I was unpacking my stuff when someone started talking to me. I had my Airpods in though so I had to quickly double tap my left pod before asking if they could repeat their question. "Sorry I wasn't listening what did you say?" I asked while turning around. "I can sit here right man?" to my surprise it was a boy named Dylan. Dylan and I are on a `hey whatsup base' so I guess this would not be too bad. "Yeah sure man no problem let me just make some space." I silently facepalmed myself for the second time. I hadn't expected anyone to want to sit next to me so I had spilled all of my stuff all over the second table. I quickly glanced up and then I remembered something. He was Carter's little brother. He has the exact same hair and he is also a football player, but not for the varsity team, yet. He is already pretty lean and from what I understood he was going to be the next Wilkins to be quarterback of the football team. (Yes, I remembered the name now)
The lesson progressed and we actually got along pretty well. He was smart and funny too. He was also not that much of a troublemaker so I guess that I had been blessed enough to not have someone bounce around next to me. After class we walked to the car park together. I drive my own car and always take Lucy with me. Dylan said goodbye and walked over to another car, which to my surprise was his brother. He got in and they said some things and Carter looked at me. God even from these 20 feet I could still see his beautiful eyes clearly. He looked at me with I guess a questioning face and then smiled and drove off. Damn what a day. Carter looked at me twice today! Jesus how can I be falling for a straight boy this fast, and hard? "Hey Thomas, are you coming or not?" Lucy yelled at me. She was standing at my car. "Yes coming!" This morning she had pitched a ride from Adam. We drove home and we talked about our first day and homework. I know we were both kind of nerds after all. I couldn't stop thinking about Carter smiling at me though, and Adam's weird `They' remark during economics.
Thanks for reading my first piece, hope you liked it! More parts are coming.
SL