Warning this book contains
LGBTQ+
Self-harm
Use of the word (fag or fagot)
A drunk father
Kissing
Extreme bullying
This book is meant for mature readers only
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Chapter 7
We get on the bus to head home and the kids start teasing Yooki. “Hey Yooki, who’s the friend,” the new boy in the middle seat asks.
“He’s not my friend,” Yooki says rubbing the ring on his finger but no one except me notices that.
“Then who is he?” the boy asks, waving his hand. I guess he doesn’t know that Yooki’s gay since he’s new.
“Yooki you don’t have to answer I will,” I say patting his head and he catches on to what I’m going to do.
“Who are you then?” the boy asks leaning on his hand.
“His boyfriend, duh,” I say shrugging.
“Really? Prove it.” the boy says leaning up straight.
“Ok,” I say and lift Yooki’s chin and kiss him. Most of the kids say ‘ew’ but to my surprise, the new boy says ‘awe’. Yooki and I go to our normal seat in the back and the boy moves to the seat in front of us and a girl follows him.
“My name is Eli and this is my twin sister Elly.” the boy says and the girl waves with a smile and then boops Yooki’s nose and giggles and calls him adorable.
“My name is Kinkay and this is Yooki as I guess you knew since you said his name earlier,” I say wrapping my arm around Yooki.
“Yeah, we have English class together,” Eli says smiling.
“You two are such a cute couple.” Elly says booping Yooki’s nose again causing him to put up his hood and hide his face in my shoulder which makes Elly say ‘aww’.
“So you two are gay?” Eli says nudging Elly to sit down and leave Yooki alone.
“Yeah, well he is I’m bi,” I say poking Yooki and he leans up and takes off his hood.
“Cool, I’m trans, my sister is lesbian she got a little mad when I got the surgery though.” Yooki and I both looked up when he said that, we couldn’t even tell that he used to be a she. The surgery must have gone well.
“Wow, I couldn’t even tell,” I say and hear an ‘ew’ from Subree in the seat across from us.
“Why is every boy I think is cute turns out to be-how do I put it- gross,” she says and Eli looks over at her and puts his hand on his hip, and does the gayest move ever.
“I take that as a compliment, I may be gross but I look gorgeous.” Eli flips his head as if he still had long hair and Yooki and I laugh.
“Whatever,” Subree says and looks out her window. I feel Yooki lay against my shoulder and fall asleep.
“He must have been tired,” Eli says and Elly looks at Yooki and leans to boop him again but Eli slaps her hand and she sits back down.
“Yeah he hasn’t been getting much sleep I guess.” after I say that I look down at Yooki and listen to his small snores and I feel my face heat up.
“Oh my gosh, are you blushing?” I look up at Eli and he gasps.
“You are blushing, that's adorable,” Eli says and runs his hand through his hair, and sits down. I look at Yooki and smile.
We finally got to our stop, Eli and Elly waved at us, and Yooki and I held hands as we walked off of the bus. We start walking to our houses and I see my dad standing on the porch, Yooki and I quickly let go of each other's hand and I nudge Yooki for him to run to his house and he does. I slowly walk up to my dad and he grabs me by the arm yanking me into the house. When he lets go I back up against the wall but he throws his bottle at me and it shatters against the wall causing the glass to cut me. “I told you to break up with him.”
“I’m the only person he has,” I say and run off to my room quickly locking the door. I look out the window and see Yooki crying so I climb out and walk over to his window.
“Are you ok?” Yooki says reaching over and touching one of the cuts on my face making me wince in pain. He walks over to his desk and grabs a few bandages and covers up the cuts.
“I’m fine, at least now that I'm out of the house,” I say with a small smile but he flicks me in the nose.
“This isn’t something to smile about dumbass,” he says and walks over to get some cut cleaning stuff. When he walks back he takes off the bandages.
“First off, language, second off, Ow, that hurt,” I say leaning away.
“You big baby,” Yooki says purposely ripping off one of the bandages.
“Ow!” like before he may be cute but he’s evil. After making me hurt and getting the cuts clean he gives me a kiss on the cheek and a pat on the head.
“So I'm guessing you're probably staying the night here,” Yooki says plopping onto his bed.
“Well, I don’t want to go home so I guess,” I say shrugging and standing up.
“Ok, then you're sleeping on the floor,” he says, throwing a pillow and blanket at my face. I stick my tongue out at him and he does the same but I licked his tongue causing him to blush and kick me out of his room.
“Aww come on Starboy I’m sorry please let me in,” I say banging on his door. I sit down and lay back against the door and decide to sing ‘do you want to build a snowman’ from Frozen. Yooki opens the door causing me to fall back.
“I hate that song,” Yooki says and walks away leaving the door open. I walk in and he sits down at his desk and I plop down on his bed.
“We haven't had dinner, wanna go to a restaurant?” I ask sitting up.
“Sure,” Yooki says standing up.
“Actually, can we just have a picnic at our spot,” he says walking over to me.
“Ok, sounds good to me.” We both walk into the kitchen and make sandwiches.
“Oh, I need to get something out of my room,” I say and climb out of his window and into mine. I grab my acoustic guitar and go back through his window and we both walk to our spot almost tripping over the tree stumps. We finally make it to the waterfall and we lay out my checker blanket and sit down and eat.
“Hey, checker boy?” Yooki says laying down his sandwich.
“Yeah?” I say taking another bite of my sandwich. Yooki looks away as if he’s shy and mumbles something I didn’t understand.
“What?” I say setting down my sandwich. He’s silent for a little while so I poke him in the cheek making him smile his sunshine smile.
“Ok ok, all I was going to say was ‘I love you’ ok.” when he says that I feel my face get warm and I smile.
“I love you too, Starboy.”
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