Inlove with the Gay Werewolf

I sighed and looked over at my sister, who looked extremely anxious for her first day at the school as well. She's starting high school in a completely new town, with absolutely no friends, and no idea where she's going or what to expect. I reach over and grab her hand as I put the car into park.

"Everything will be okay, just figure out where to go and go from there. Don't stress too much, alright?"

She nods her head, swallowing the lump in her throat before looking over at me. "Alright."While look up at a building that looks very similar to a prison but not one with a pasty colour with blotches of darker concrete from the sun and a collection of dirt over time.

I observed the block letters displayed at the top of the new school that I was being coaxed to attend for my senior year because my dad got a job offer about two hours away from his previous one, we had no choice but to relocate and change schools.

I take a look at her for a moment as she reaches into the backseat to grab her bag and other stuff with her hands slightly shaking, making me feel that she is still extremely nervous which isn't surprising because this is a very nerve-wracking situation. If I had to start at a new school while also starting my first day at high school, I would've never left the house but there's no way I could help her right now other than to motivate her.

Everything gets me thinking about how I will meet a guy who's not interested in girls just like me soon, the fact I have to be proud of my sexuality is another thing entirely.

I take the keys out of my car and get out with my sister. I see teenagers coming out of their cars to scream and hug their friends that they probably saw just last week because our new neighbours told us that there are always parties the week before school starts back up to mourn that summer is ending and school's back which makes me feel the school might be cool and interesting to be.

I make sure to lock my car before walking out with my sister through the parking area and up the sidewalk into the school. I notice Jasmine fidgeting with her hands as she glances around at the other people talking with their friends as they walk in.

"Jasmine, I have a dance class after school. I've talked to Dad about it and he said that he'll pick you up from work. It might take him some extra time to find his way here, so if he's late, don't worry about it okay?" I told her to try and take her mind off of everything that she was pondering right now.

"Okay, '' she replied as I held the door open for her before following her into the office that was connected to the main hallway as soon as you walked into the school. I walk up to the desk first where a blonde woman wearing a lavender blouse is typing on the computer loudly with her fake nails.

"Hi, how may I help you today?" She asks, looking up at me with a big smile on her cheeks.

"My name's Henry Diego, my sister and I are new here and We need to get our schedule. We are also told we could get maps too, I tell her before she nods her head and starts typing our information.

She looks over at the lady sitting down a few feet from her before looking over at Jasmine. "Sweetie, you can go over to Ms. Amelia and give her your name and she'll print off your schedule for you."

Jasmine walks over to the lady before giving her her name and l take a second to look outside the office windows to see people most especially guys walking in and down the halls.

I watch as the lady in front of me prints off my schedule and a map before picking up a highlighter and circling things for me.

"Okay, I circled all the halls where you have classes today.

Your first one is upstairs, so go out that door and go to the right and that's where the stairs are. All the hallways are labeled so you should be able to find your way with those," she tells me and I nod my head as a thank you before waiting for my sister.

Once she's done, I take her schedule and notice we both have to go upstairs, I lead the way. As soon as I find her room first, I turn to her and set my hand on her shoulder. "Take notes, try to talk to the people next to you when you can, and text me if you need me whatsoever"

"I will, thank you, I love you. Have a good day," she says, giving me a quick hug before walking into her classroom and finding an empty seat. I watch as one of the girls that's sitting at the desk next to her looks at her before making a small comment, surprising my little sister. I walk away, not wanting to seem too weird and embarrass her if anyone notices.

I found my classroom after circling the entire upstairs once and walked in, successfully finding a seat with not too many people around it before pulling my phone out to text my mom that Jasmine was doing fine because my parents were both worried about her since she was the most nervous one.

A blonde girl wearing a floral high-waisted skirt and a black tucked-in t-shirt walks over and sits at the desk in front of me. "Hi, I'm Isabelle, who are you?"

I continue looking through **, not wanting anything to do with this girl who probably only wants to flirt with me with the way she's staring at me, though she's looking quite pretty and from my view she's tryna seduce me.

"I'm Henry," I replied, focusing on my phone trying hard not to give her any attention and talk to her like a guy who is not interested in her at all.

"Are you new here?" She asks, reaching

out to grab at my arm before I pull away to not let her get her filthy hand on me.

"Well, you haven't seen me around, have you?" I ask.

"Hey, Isabelle, why don't you leave the poor kid alone? It's his first day, let him adjust before you make your move on him" A girl with curly brunette hair is wearing a light pink maxi skirt that goes over her stomach and a tight, white crop top to match it.

"Why do you care, Jenny? You already have a boyfriend" Isabelle says with a vicious look on her face before she crosses her arms to look at the other girl with a smirk on her face.

"Because l don't particularly want you to scare the poor guy on his first day okay?" I took a quick gaze over at the Jenny girl who was sitting next to a cute Hispanic boy with dark hair spiked up while wearing black jeans with some rips by the knees, a black t-shirt, and some black shoes that looked expensive. The other guy sitting is probably the most handsome guy I've ever seen.

They got good-looking guys in this school, I'm kinda amazed.

He has light brown hair with piercing hazel eyes along with tan skin. He's wearing some tight black jeans along with a white t-shirt, a jean jacket, and a pair of Adidas shoes. He looks up and as soon as our eyes meet, I get the most intense chills run through my body and can't take my eyes off of him. He looks shocked for a second

before he forced his eyes away from me, I could not help but slowly take my eye off his hot body with my lips craving for his.

"I think he's perfectly fine with me being

here, Isabelle says, giving me a soft smile which looks weird to me.

I scoff, setting my phone down. "I don't

think that's necessarily true."

"Well, why not? You have a pretty girl sitting in front of you that you can do anything to, so why not want me here"? She asks with a smirk.

I sigh, leaning forward and setting my hand on her arm. "Because I don't do girls."

Isabelle immediately sits back before standing up and walking back over to her desk. Jenny and the two guys chuckle a bit before Jenny comes to sit in the chair that she's just abandoned. "Sorry about her, she's a little desperate."

I smile a little, nodding my head. "No, it's

fine. Thanks for having my back though, it means a lot, and I appreciate it".

"Yeah, of course, I'm Jenny by the way. I know we didn't introduce ourselves during the whole thing" she says with a giggle.

"Oh, yeah, I'm Henry," I tell her with a smile. "So is she always like that?"

"Yeah, she does toy around with a boy for a week or two before she gets bored with them and moves on to the next one. Whenever someone new comes here, she's the first to introduce herself to them."

"Well, glad I got someone who could tell me that before she was able to get too close even after I tell her no," I say

with a chuckle.

Jenny laughed, covering it up with her hand. "Yeah, glad I could help. I would hate to see another boy hurt by her just because they didn't realize all she had

wanted was just their dick."

"Well, I would never be hurt because she isn't coming anywhere near mine," I said, leaning back in my chair as Jenny giggled again. The warning bell rings and I see kids in the hallway rush to their classrooms while a few of them come into this one to find an empty seat.

"Oh, sorry, this is my boyfriend Robert."

Jenny says, pointing towards the boy with the dark hair who gives me a small wave before she motions towards the pretty boy. "and this is our friend Archie."

Archie gives me a tense smile before avoiding my eye contact. I gave a small wave to Robert since he was the only one of the two paying attention. "Nice to meet you."

"You too, man. Why'd you come here your senior year?" He asked me.

"My dad got a job offer transfer and he persuaded my mom that this was a really good opportunity, so here we are," I say with a chuckle before checking my phone for anything from Jasmine.

The teacher walks into the room and sits down at her desk to set up her laptop before the final bell rings in a few minutes. I look out the door to see more people rushing around the hallway and a few of them are staring at their schedules while looking very confused.

"So do you know how the dance team

is here?" I ask Jenny who immediately perks up when she realizes what I have just asked her.

"The dance team is amazing. Coach Erixon runs it all by herself with some

help from her wife, who is a professional dancer who has been in a few Broadway shows. You're in it?" She asks me.

"Yeah, I signed up when my parents applied for me and my sister for the school."

"We don't have too many boys interested in dance, so this is incredible news. We focus mostly on contemporary and jazz because that's what Erixon is qualified in and she always chooses two people to do a duet dance of music to their choice so maybe you'll get chosen," she says.

"Maybe," l comment before the teacher

starts teaching after the final bell rings.

Once school is officially over, I walk Jasmine out to see how her day has been. I had walked her to class whenever our classes were close together and she made a few friends in some of her classes and others, not so much. I think she overall had a good day and she looks happy even though she's stressed about the amount of

homework she has to do as soon as she gets home so she can come to dinner tonight.

I make my way to the nearest bathroom and change into some black joggers, a black t-shirt, and a pair of Converse since I'll probably end up taking my shoes off anyway because I like that better.

I make my way to the auditorium since that's where the dance team practices because the back wall is lined with mirrors and a dance bar, at least that's what my mom was

told. I walk through the doors and see some people on the stage doing some stretching in their leggings, shorts, or sweatpants.

I go up the stairs to stand on the stage and an older woman with short, curly hair in yoga pants, a t-shirt, and some ballet shoes walks up to me.

I try to look out if I'll see Jenny and maybe have a moment with Archie, I think I'm falling for him already but he's looking kinda weird.

"Hey boy, you must be Henry, I saw your name on the roster and knew I didn't recognize it. I'm Coach Erixon,' she says, holding her hand out for me to shake it.

"Oh sorry, his coach, it's super nice to meet you," I tell her after being distracted.

"So have you danced before? l want to know to see what your skill level is at and we just go from there," she tells me, holding a clipboard in her hands as she prepares to write whatever I say on it.

"I've been dancing since I was very young and I also have done gymnastics for the

last three years to focus more on my flexibility to better my dancing," I tell her.

"Well, that's great! I guess you are a great dancer, I 100% love suggestions and opinions on the routine me and assistance come up with, so never be scared to speak up and tell me anything you know" she tells me.

"I won't hesitate to do so, '' I told her. Jenny comes in alone just as Erixon starts us off with team stretching before showing us the first routine that we'll be working on for months perfecting for the recitals they hold here at the school four times a year to show off what we've been working on.

"We're going to start with a contemporary dance that will have two groups having a conversation between them with two central focuses. It's inspired by Black Swan, so there will be an evil side and an angel side, like black and white." Everyone gets excited when they hear this, but I'm too preoccupied with feeling like someone familiar is staring at me from somewhere I did not know.

I turned around to stare behind me to see who the person was and guess what? I met the eyes of my crush, Archie, who was sitting in the audience with Robert next to him with his phone in his hands. Once Archie sees me staring, he immediately averts his eyes and whispers something to his friend before getting up to walk out. I could not help but admire his lifestyle.

"How will we decide who is on which side?" Some blonde girl asks, bringing me back to everyone else who's standing on the stage. Jenny comes over and Iinks her arm with me smiling as we all walk up to Erixon's computer where she's displaying the dance.

"We'll separate everyone equally once we figure out who our two leads will be. We'll do what we do whenever I have to make that decision, which is I'll teach everyone the dance and you'll all do it together and I'll pick two of you out" she says.

We all nod while everyone spreads out for her to start teaching us. After about an hour and a half of dancing, she dismisses us and tells us to be ready to perform in groups next time. I pick up my bag and make my way to the nearest bathroom to change into some khaki pants, a white t-shirt with an orange and blue flannel, and some vans. I think I need to step up the way and dress and look good.

Once I walk out of the bathroom, Jenny, Robert, and Archie are waiting for me there. I give them a confused look. "What are you doing?" I asked gently.

"We wanted to walk out with you," Jenny says as we start to make our way towards the parking lot. "So how was your first day here?" She asks me.

I nod my head. "It was cool, not the worst, not the best."

"Did you like the dance team?"

"Yeah, it was good. I like the ideas Coach Erixon has and I think the routine will look amazing if it's executed correctly" I tell her.

"Why'd you get all dressed up?" She says, pulling at my flannel a bit with a small smile playing along her face.

"I'm going to dinner with my family to celebrate the first day, I guess. I don't know too much about it"' I chuckle as we walk out the doors and into the parking lot.

We stop at a black car that looks pretty new and expensive, telling me that Robert must be well off when he pulls the keys out of his pocket before throwing his bag in the back. Jenny reaches over and gives me a small hug before walking over to the passenger side.

"I'll see you tomorrow, all right?" She tells me with a questioning look.

"Yeah, of course," I told her and I guess I could say today was successful because it seems like I made at least one friend since I don't exactly know how Robert and Archie feel about me just yet, falling in love with Archie on my first day in the school seems so weird.

Robert and Jenny get in the car as I start to walk towards my car which is deeper in the parking lot I notice that Archie's walking a few feet behind me. I realize that he hasn't said even a word to me today even though I've caught him staring at me a bit and even right now, he seems very

tense and weird.

"Why are you so tense?" I ask him with a smile as I slow down to be at the same pace as him and his shoulders freeze up even more from us just being so close to each other. He looked up at me. "Since when am I tense?"

"Like the whole day," I say with a light chuckle looking straight into his bright hazel eyes. I get next to my car and pull the keys out of my bag, I see his arm reach out to grip my neck as he slams me against my door. His hazel eyes shift into a bright, electric blue colour and my eyes widen as I notice how unbelievable that is. I reach up to grip his arm to try to pull it away from me, but I feel his metal grip tighten as I touch him, so I pull my hand away and try to kick him, but his free hand catches my leg to throw it down. OMG what the hell are you doing, struggled to say that.

"What did l ever do to you?" I gasp out as his grip tightens on my throat, cutting off my oxygen supply even more.

"Don't spread your nasty ass gayness on me," he snaps into my ear before taking his hand away and starting to make his way to his car that seems to be a few rows down from mine, my eye widens with shock, not expecting him to talk about it so soon.

"It's not a fucking disease, you asshole!" I scream at him as I feel my throat start to throb and tears start to come to my eyes as l watch his retreating form tense up even more at the sound of his voice. feeling disappointed by what he did just now.

"Fuck you bitch!" He screams as he gets in his car before speeding away and out of my sight.

I unlock my car before getting in to set my forehead against the steering wheel to calm down my beating heart that's still reeling from the panic that man, that homophobic asshole, caused me. I sit there for a few minutes before l get the courage to start my vehicle and pull out of the parking lot to fake a smile at my family's dinner and try to understand what the hell just happened.

I woke up with a killer headache and my throat raw from what happened yesterday. I manage to roll out of bed and get dressed in some light blue jeans with some rips, a white t-shirt with cuffs decorated with rainbows, and black Vans. I finish getting ready and make my way

downstairs where my grandmother is sitting at the table with a cup of coffee and a book in her hand.

"Good morning, Grandma," I tell her, kissing the top of her head before going to the medicine cabinet to get some for my headache.

"Good morning, pumpkin. How'd you sleep?" She asked, setting down her book that seemed to be How To Kill A Mockingbird. She and my grandfather are staying in the spare bedroom for a few days until their new house is officially theirs and they can move in.

"Fine, but I woke up with a bad headache," I said, taking two of the pills as she got up to probably start on breakfast for the whole house.

"My poor baby," she said to me. I picked up my phone and saw that I had a text from Jenny because sometime yesterday, she had gotten my number and texted me when she got home. We texted a bit last night and I can see that she's genuine and just really wants to be friends with me, but I honestly don't know if I can

do that if she's going to be friends with Archie after what he did to me, cause what the hell was that he frightened me.

What happened between you and Archie? She texted me and I sighed, not wanting to get into it with her right now, so I put my phone in my pocket as Jasmine was coming down the stairs.

She was wearing black jeans, a white t-shirt with a denim jacket, and some vans with her hair done up in a side braid.

"You look pretty," I tell her as I pour. some of the coffee in the pot into a travel mug to help me wake up a bit on the drive to school. My parents come downstairs in their work clothes as grandma keeps cooking. Once the food's done, Jasmine and l rush to eat before saying bye to everyone and heading out the door for our second day of school.

"Who was that girl that you talked to in the first block yesterday?" I asked my sister as I pulled out of our driveway and waved at Dad who was walking out of the house as we were leaving.

"That's Emilie, she's new too, so she didn't have anyone else to talk to, " Jasmine says and I can see a faint smile on her face, telling me that she might have made a good friend yesterday.

I kept quizzing her the entire way to school just so I could know how she was handling all of these crazy changes in such little time. Once we get to the school, we make our way through the parking lot and once we get inside, someone grabs me and pulls me to the side and Jasmine gives me a confused look.

I look at Jenny who's staring at me and holding my arm before I look back at my sister. "Can you make it to class yourself?" I asked her.

She looks around before nodding

slightly. "I think so."

Once she starts to walk in the way of

her class, I see Emilie making her way over to her and she immediately perks up, making me feel a lot better about letting her go on her own. I look back at Jenny who is now inspecting my neck to look at the slight bruises.

Henry, I'm so sorry. I would've never left

you alone with him if I knew he would

do this." Please kindly accept my apology. This is all my fault.

"is there a real reason why he would do

this?"

"What'd he say to you?" She asks and I'm immediately brought back to the moment that has messed me up since then.

"He told me to not spread my gayness

on him," I say and she averts my eyes

for a second, which tells me that she knows something that I don't. "I'm so sorry, Robert already talked to him because I forced Archie to tell me what he was hiding because I knew he did something.

I just didn't think it would be this way," she says, confusing the hell out of me because this way?

What the hell does that mean?

"Wait, what do you mean?"I ask and she averts my eyes again before grabbing my schedule that I was holding in my hand to find my first class of the day.

"We both have gym first, so let's go," she says, linking arms with me before guiding me to where the gym is since l had no clue where anything was.

"Are you going to tell me what you meant?" I ask her.

"Probably not. So the first day of gym, they don't make you change or anything, they just go over everything and then have an optional game,"

She tells me, making me roll my eyes because I want to know what she means. After all, there's a secret between her, Robert, and Archie that I don't know about.

We talked and made our way into the gym where we sat down on the red bleachers and I noticed that Archie and Robert also had this class when they walked in and sat with a group of guys that I didn't know. Seeing Archie makes me so nervous and what happened yesterday is so fresh in my head as if everything that he was was a dream.

I was sitting with some of the dance girls and we all started a conversation about the routine that was happening this afternoon.

"Hey, how long have you been dancing?

" Some girl who I think is named Tyler asked me.

Everyone looked over at me, immediately making my cheeks heat with the attention I was given. "Uh, I started when I was very young, about nine because I didn't like any sports so my parents put me in dance. I did gymnastics the last three years to focus more on my flexibility to better my dancing."

"Wow, so you're the most experienced out of all of us," someone else said while everyone else looked a little admirable at my experience. I noticed that Coach Erixon was one of the gym teachers, which made me feel good to have a familiar face thrown into all of these new ones.

"We're your teachers for your senior year. This is Coach Erixon and I'm Coach Gordon. We are just going to go through safety and using the equipment and sports teams, then we will play an optional game,' The man said.

We listened as the coaches talked until it was time to play the optional game of two-hand touch football and they announced that it was optional for everyone but football players just to get in some extra practice before the game on Friday.

Archie and Robert got off the bleachers and went to play, which surprised me because they never once mentioned football, even Robert, who surprisingly talks quite a bit once he gets comfortable with you.

"They're football players?" I asked Jenny, who nodded as she watched her boyfriend participate in a game that looked pretty competitive.

"Yeah, Archie was the quarterback last season until he stepped down at practice during the summer because of some personal stuff," she told me.

Jenny and I started a conversation with the dance girls and Coach Erixon about the routine because a lot of them were very confused about some of it. While some girl named Cara was asking a question, Jenny hit my shoulder and pointed over to Archie, who was waving me over to the locker

room.

I shook my head at him, definitely not wanting to be alone with him. "Hey, maybe he wants to apologize for everything that happened yesterday". Jenny said

I shook my head at Jenny. "I doubt it.

"Just trust me, if anything goes wrong, I'll step in. I promise you" she tells me and I looked down at her with her soft smile that was silently telling me to do it.

I sighed as I got up, making sure that neither of the coaches was watching me. I crossed my arms as Archie walked into the locker room to wait for me to join him. Even after all that happened yesterday, I was still majorly attracted to him. He was wearing some tight dark jeans, an orange t-shirt with a picture of some waves printed on it, and some Converse. I admire him so much.

"This is so stupid" I muttered to myself as I pushed the door open. He stood against the wall with one foot pressed against it. As soon as the locker room door shut behind me, he stood up fully and opened his mouth to say something but nothing left it. He averted my eyes and didn't try to talk

again, I wanted to leave, but he finally

caught my attention.

"I like you," he blurted out. I slowly turned around again to look at him and he was fidgeting with his hands while looking to the side.

"But you told me yesterday..." I started

to say, he shut me up immediately by talking about it.

"Everything I said yesterday was complete bullshit, just forget that ever happened," he said, finally looking up to meet my eyes.

"Just forget it?" I asked, starting to feel that anger rise inside of my chest because everything he did to me yesterday wasn't just something I could easily forget. It was very scary and something I've barely ever had to deal with, so having to deal with it with a stranger at a new school is not something I had mentally prepared for.

"Yeah, it didn't mean anything," he said, but I knew he was just trying to play it off like it wasn't a big deal when it was a huge deal, at least to me.

"Do you not understand that I had to go meet my family at a restaurant when I was utterly scared for my life?" I snapped at him and his face shifted into a guilty expression that told me that I might be getting through his thick head and that he truly scared me.

"I didn't mean to do that, I didn't, I just didn't know what to do about what I was feeling, and it all just-"

"And what were you feeling?" I asked, crossing my arms to show that I was still mad about the whole situation. "I felt like I liked you and wanted to have a connection with you," he softly whispered.

"I thought you were straight," I whispered, my voice breaking from shock and embarrassment because I didn't think l even moved throughout the last few seconds.

"I thought so too."

I cleared my throat. "You don't get to do this, Archie, you don't get to hurt me and then think you can make it up to me by saying that you're questioning your sexuality when you're just another one of those straight guys that will never act on his feelings".

"But I want to, I want to act on them. I promise you. I've never felt this way, never felt such a strong attraction to someone without ever even talking to them" he said, running a hand through his fluffy hair that flopped every time he would move his head too quickly.

"Then why don't you?"

"Because I'm scared. All my life I've

been known as one thing and I think

completely changing it will mess a few things up and I don't know if I'm ready for it" he told me and I could see the genuine fear building up on his face.

I cleared my throat again, feeling it getting dry every time I looked up into his eyes. "You'll have to do it at one point or another, so why not now?"

He crossed his arms before leaning into the wall. "I don't know."

I don't know why the hell I'm helping this kid because he physically hurt me yesterday and I could still feel it on my neck. There was just something about him that made me drawn to him.

It wasn't even that he's godly attractive, even though that's a plus.

"You gotta make a choice at some point, but for now, leave me out of it," I tell him even though it physically hurts me to tell him to forget about me because I don't know how I would even react without him because there was something in my head telling me to get to know this boy and I wanted to.

"Friday, uh, is the first football game of

the season, would you want to come? He asked me and I noticed how nervous he was by the way he fidgeted with his hands and tried to not make direct eye contact with me.

I completely forget about what I just told him because if he's asking me to do something for him, then obviously he's willing to do something about the way he was feeling. I know how hard it can be to finally decide to act on your sexuality or come out because it puts so much pressure on your chest the entire time you're even thinking about it. When I came out, I was off for months because l couldn't find the courage to just get over it.

I nod my head at him, immediately seeing his demeanour change into a form of confidence that I hadn't seen inside of him the entire time we were here. "I'll be there."

"Alright, cool"' he tells me before we sneak back into the gym. He goes back to the game while I go back to sit next

to Jenny. She gives me a look like 'what's going on' while I pretend like I don't see her to make her continue to wonder for a few more seconds.

"You better tell me what just happened or I'll slap you," she threatens and I chuckle, leaning over to her ear to start to tell her all about what was just discussed.

Once I'm done, she reaches over and grabs my arm with a huge smile. I chuckle at her huge expression. "You look so creepy right now, I don't even know what to do."

She giggles. "How do you feel about it? "I mean, I'm still mad about what happened, but I understand more of why he did it now. I'm willing to stick with him and see what happens, but I think he knows now that if he pulls something like that again, I'm gone.

She nods her head. "Yeah, but I do

want you to know that he does care

about you. When we got home yesterday, he asked so many questions about you and felt bad about what had happened. I've seen him struggling for a while and now that I know that it's because of his

sexuality, I think he just needs to find his outlet and that might be you."

Did she just say 'home' as in they live together? "What do you mean you

got home? Like do you live together or

something?"I asked.

I notice the panic in her eyes before

she pushes it down to shake her head.

"No, I just spend a lot of my nights at Robert's house who is neighbours with Archie."

I know she's hiding something, but I push it to the side to take in what she's just told me. "So you don't think that this is just some straight guy trying to experiment? You think that this can be real, right?"

She nods her head. "I know it's real, Henry. The way he talked about you is not how he's talked about all the girls He once dated. He truly likes you and I've never seen him like this with anybody else."I nod my head. "Okay, well, Friday it is, then."

"We'll plan everything out later, but right now, let's just prepare for the routine later today," she tells me as she gets up to join all the rest of the dance girls who are talking with Coach Erixon.

After dance practice, Jenny and I walk out of the gym to see Robert and Archie standing there waiting for us. They're wearing athletic shorts and jerseys while sweating profusely.

Archie's hair is an absolute mess probably from him running around during football practice and running his hands through it.

"How was dance practice?" Robert

asked Jenny who wrapped her arm

around his waist.

"It was good, " she says and starts to tell her boyfriend that I can't hear where I was. Archie walks behind me as we walk out through the back door to the parking lot before he comes back next to me in silence while the other two are whispering stuff to each other.

"How was the dance for you?" Archie asks, finally saying something to me since

earlier today in the locker room. l clear my throat before looking up at him to see his soft expression, which is different from how he looks at everyone else that I've seen.

"Good, pretty hectic, but good," I say, not knowing how else to explain it because it was so hectic with all the groups performing the routines, and a lot of the girls got lost halfway through a difficult part and had to step out.

"Uh, excuse me, it was more than good for you, you got the lead' Jenny said with a confused look along with a playful smile.

"You got the lead?" Robert asked in bewilderment because l don't think he quite understood how much dance experience I had. After all, I didn't talk about it too much to not seem like I was bragging at all.

"Yeah, the male lead," I tell him. He reaches his hand out for a high five as he tells me 'congratulations' and 'good job, man' while Archie pats me on the back in a silent way of telling me 'congratulations' Jenny comes over as we reach her car to hug me. "I'll see you tomorrow, all right?"

"All right," I tell her as I continue my walk to my car along with Archie who was following me, probably not wanting to be with Robert while he says bye to Jenny.

"You have a nice car," Archie tells me as he lightly kicks the tyre while l unlock the doors to put my bag in the back, he looks inside to probably see what the interior is like.

"Oh, thanks, I got it two years ago for my 16th birthday," I told him before walking back to the front where he stood and leaned against my grey car.

He comes to stand next to me and leans on the car as well. I can't help but be fascinated by his handsomeness. I can't wait to get a kiss from him after a long while.