Chapter 63

And sure enough, there was somebody who took a seat only a few seconds after Alex left. "So,Sky, I'm not sure if you got my message because you never responded. Anyway, how are you?", it was this Meggie girl, the one that wrote me while I was getting ready. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see your message, my phone kinda sucks these days. I'm fine and you?", I force myself to smile, feeling a little uncomfortable with her just randomly popping up. "I'm good too. Are you alone here?", she asks, twirling a strand of curled dark blonde hair between her fingers as she grins at me. "Uhm, no. Are you?", I was too scared to tell her that it was my boyfriend I'm here with, not if he's not actually around to protect me from her in case she gets mad or anything. "So, do you have a girlfriend or something? Since I've never seen you with anyone except for Claire, but she's with Dillon,isn't she?", why I is she so persistent of finding out if I have girlfriend or not?

"Yes, she's in a relationship with him. And uhm, I don't have a girlfriend.", it's not even a lie , I don't. Nathan is not a girl, therefore I don't have one. "Oh,I would have never guessed since you're such a nice guy.", she places her hand over mine. Only now I realize how stiff and uncomfortable I am with just talking to her. "Uhm, thank you, I guess.", I feel the sweat running from every pore of my body, my gaze hurriedly skipping from my surroundings back to the girl sitting in front of me, trying to find either Nathan or Alex or even Mika."Do you want to dance?", she asks, a little blush forming on her cheeks. "I'm sorry, I don't really like to dance, you know,because of the whole deaf thing.", I just want her to leave me alone, I'm not interested in anything that has something to do with her.

"Oh come on, it'll be fun.",she grabs my hand, trying to pull me towards the packed dance floor."No, please let's just talk or something.", I try to persuade her, leaning myself away from her. "Oh pretty please?", she bends towards me, her cleavage right in front of my face. I'm not going to lie, she's very pretty and the turquoise dress she is wearing match the dark blue in her eyes. "No, come on, let's just sit down.",I almost beg, trying to maintain the fake smile that started to actually hurt. "I can't convince you, can I?", she grins,sitting back down. "I'm afraid not.", I grin back, the muscles in my face starting to tremble. "Well, too bad, then let's just talk.", I nod, praying to whatever god who's listening that I need somebody to safe me from her. "So, uhm, are you here with someone?", I ask, hoping she won't get this the wrong way. "No,unfortunately I'm single and alone here, but you know, there are chances everywhere, wouldn't you agree?", she rests her head on her hands, leaning closer to me. "I guess you're right.", I smile, cursing myself for letting Alex go.

"Say, do you want to do something this summer break? We could go to the pool or something like that.", she asks, her fingers twirling a strand of hair again."Sure, I wouldn't mind.", of course I would, this girl is creeping me out. Why can't Nathan come here and tell her I'm already taken, because I can't. "Awesome, I'm looking forward to it.", she giggles and claps her hands lightly. "So what are you looking for in a girl? What do you prefer?", where did that come from? I clear my throat, shifting in my chair in embarrassment, since I wasn't all that comfortable with talking about something like this with someone I hardly know, or am kinda afraid of. "Uhm, I like people with short black hair and uhm... I really dig green eyes. Maybe the same height as me, but I want them to be kind, nice,protective and funny. And a little dorky, you know?", I just described the person I'm already in a relationship with, seeing him as the type of character I'm attracted to.

"I see, well that's unfortunate, but I won't give up.", she gives me a challenging smirk. "Do you want to know what my ideal boyfriend should be like?", she adds, leaning even closer to me, making the whole reading lips thing quite hard without looking at her boobs. "I like blondes with beautiful blue eyes and I want him to be nice and maybe even shy and more silent, but caring and sympathetic.", I know the description matches me at some points, but I was too perplex at the blunt way she put it. Suddenly, two arms wrap around me from behind pulling me close to a muscular chest. His familiar scent filled my nose and I almost started to cry. Nathan. Thank you so much for saving me. "Oh, is that you're friend?", she asks, leaning a little away from me like we just got caught or something. I didn't know what Nathan said to her, but after the vibrations of his talking stopped and Meggies smile turned upside down and she starts to glare at us, mostly me, with a look of disgust in her eyes. "You're a fagot?! And I wasted my time trying to flirt with you!", she raised her hand, about to hit me but Nathan snatches it before it made contact with my face. He tightens the grip around her wrist, making her fist open from the pressure. I know he was glaring at her,probably even threatening her to stay away from me. A pained expression washed over her face and she pulls her hand out of his grip and turns around with one last look of hatred directed at me.

Nathan walks around me, taking the seat that weird girl had occupied for way too long. "Hey are you okay?", he cups my cheeks on his hands, leaning closer to me."Now I am.", I smile, a feeling of relive washing over me as Heresy's his forehead against mine. "I told you she was hitting on you.", he pinches my cheek, "Why didn't tell her or write me or even your sister?" I hold my cheek, pouting at him. "I'm sorry, but she confused me.", I admit, leaning back in my chair, finally being able to relax. "I should have gone with you.", I laugh,looking at the black haired boy who was eying me carefully. "I shouldn't have left without you.", he states, before pecking my lips gently. "Let's state something with all the other potential serially frustrated singles in this gym.", he takes my hand in his pulling me to my feet carefully and leading me to the dance floor where dozens of other students were already moving in unison. The last time we did something like this where others could see us was at Dillon's party and thanks to the alcohol we were probably forgotten or not cared about.

His hand sneaks around my body,pulling me closer to his warm chest. I'm feeling embarrassed and scared, I mean, Meggie wasn't all too excited about me being gay so this isn't quite the perfect start to being found out. Nathans lips brush over mine, like he was testing my boundary or if I'm ready to let the other students at this school know that we're officially a thing. I'm not sure, I'm scared and I'm unsure if this is the right thing to do. But why not risk something for once in my life. The past few weeks were the complete opposite of what I'm used to and the whole relationship thing is totally new as well.

I lean against his lips, letting them brush over his as well. It wasn't quite a kiss yet, more like trying to find each other and sure enough, he was the first one to deepen this. One of his hands rests on my cheek sliding back to my neck and tugging at few strands of hair. I wrap my arms around his waist pulling him closer to me. My surroundings seem unimportant,unnecessary, I have what I want and what I love most. His tongue traces over my lower lip, asking for entrance which I gladly accepted. We move in unison, in harmony even though the whole school was staring at us, although I don't know if it was in a sympathetic way or more like Meggie looked at us when she found out. I try to ban these thoughts from my mind, wanting to focus on what's going on right in front of me.

We part a few seconds later,grinning at each other, both of us anxious about the response. "A lot of people are talking about us right now.", he informs me, his grin growing at his statement. Suddenly, two pairs of arms fling around the two of us, pulling us into a small circle. Alex and Mika,who else. "You guys are goals, you know that.", Mika states as the two intruders let go of us and smile widely. "I think so too.",I look over at Nathan, grinning at us with an idiotic expression. "So do I.", he leans closer, pecking my lips for a second. My sister points at a group of students that almost stared at us with an intense look. I swallow hard, exchanging a glance with my boyfriend. Now it's time to wait for the response and I'm really scared of what it will be.

"It's going to be fine, let's just sit back down.", Nathan takes my hand in his, leading me back to our table which was luckily still unoccupied. "Do you want something to drink or eat?", he gives my hand a light squeeze as I was finally sitting again because the nausea started to make me feel dizzy. Too much excitement. "Could you get me some water, I don't feel too good?", I ask with a small smile, running a sweaty hand through my hair. "Sure thing, baby.", he pecks my lips, before heading over to the drinks, the stares of half the people in this gym rested on his back. "I can't believe we just did that.", I sigh,turning to my sister and Mika, who both sat down with me. "What?",he leans closer, the music must be really loud. "I said, I can't believe Nathan and I just did what we did.", I repeat, louder this time. "I think it was awesome and I support you guys so much.",he smiles, his white teeth shinning in the dim light. "Thank you Mika, this really means a lot to me.", I sigh gratefully, returning his joyful smile.

My sister reaches forward,putting her hand over mine. "You did good, you guys have the right to love yourself openly without having to keep it a secret in front of others.", her eyes flash with pride and happiness for what we just did there. "Thank you guys, really. You mean so much to me.",I smile at both of them, truly happy to have friends and family like them. "You sure are welcome.", Mika grins, putting his hands over my sisters, which was still on top of mine. I notice her cheeks turning a sight shade of red at the connection with the girlish boy. Come to think of it, they both should be the same age since he's the younger brother of someone from my year.

Nathan walks back over to us, an amused smile on his features. "Whats up with you?", I ask him as he puts a bottle of water in front of me and places a kiss on my nose. "You don't even know how many people asked me if I'm together with you, a lot of them were really happy for us.", he sat down on my lap sideways, putting an arm around my shoulder. "I think it was a good decision, you know, showing them you belong tome.", he leans closer for a kiss, both of us smiling into it.

We stayed like this for another half an hour or something like that before grabbing a few snacks and drinks and heading back to the dance floor to dance. "I'm happy we got to go here.", Nathan smiles kissing me for the thousandths time this evening, like, he really wants everyone to know I'm not available. "Me too.", this time I'm the one who kisses him, if only for a short period of time because he pulled back in surprise,looking over his shoulder at someone standing behind him. Or let's say a group of people. At the top of them, nobody other than the blonde girl that used to stalk me and of course Meggie, who must be pretty mad at me. Behind them a few other students, nobody I actually know. "We want you to leave.", Meggie states, her arms crossed in front of her chest and chin high up. "Yes, we don't want you fagots at our prom.", my ex-stalker spits at us a disgusted expression on every single one of their faces.

I turn to face Nathan, a mixture of embarrassment and fear welling up inside me while he just glared at them. "And why should we do that?", there it is, the scary Nathan, the one I met at the bus stop that day. The way he looks at his victims with this pure power and confidence, but also annoyance and boredom. He makes you feel uncomfortable with just one glance."So what, since when do I care about what you want?", I keep my eyes on him, not quite daring to look back at the group of people. More students have started to form a circle around us and it didn't take long for Alex and Mika to swoop next to us. The three of them verbally fought with the others, trying to defend us and our relationship. "Nobody cares about your opinion and I bet nobody even likes you that must be the reason you are here all alone,looking for someone to make out with, isn't that true?", he tilts his head, eyes squinted like he was trying to read something faraway. "Oh, did I hurt your feelings? I'm sorry.", I didn't want him to be like this, I don't want him to be mean to her, even though she's a little homophobic.