Chapter Twenty- Adrenaline

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^ What Will wears to his first day of school

This is Lucas ^ (You'll know who he is later)

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Freddie's POV

"Let's do this" Will orders, putting on a false image of confidence.

I ruffle his hair and kiss his forehead, before climbing out of the car. I rush to the boot and grab his wheelchair before helping him get settled into it.

With a kiss for good luck, and hearts beating like crazy, we start to move.

Here goes nothing.

We walk into school, well Will rolls, and the effect is almost instantaneous. Will is, frankly, gorgeous so I'm not surprised that they're staring. He blushes bright red and tightens his grip on the wheels.

I lean down and kiss his forehead smugly, not missing the looks of jealousy and anger that flutter around.

That's right, I think, he's all mine

It's a fact. No question about it.

A few people greet us as we travel down the hallway, but nothing major. I'm not really popular and I don't think Will was either. Who cares though, being popular sucks.

After a while, the looks stop and Will's face calms down a little bit. We move over to my locker and I shove my stupid PE bag into it.

A few people at neighbouring lockers glance at Will, then cough awkwardly- diverting their eyes.

He sighs, covering his face, and starts breathing rather heavily- my eyebrows furrow, concern instantly shooting through me like bolts of electricity.

"What's wrong?"

"I dunno how to feel about this," he says, shaking his head, "I feel like everyone's looking at me because of my eye and the wheelchair and it's stupid because I would look at me too but I feel like they're judging and-"

He hiccups loudly and starts to tear up, his fragile face crumpling. I rush to comfort him; tangling my rough hands with his. Brushing my fingers over his face, I whisper words of encouragement.

"Hey, look at me sweetie, I don't care what anyone thinks- I think you are absolutely gorgeous. Half of these people are looking at you because of your insane beauty and the other half are losers ok?"

I kiss his lips, a small peck of adrenaline-filled wonder.

Will nods, wiping his face and resting his head on my hip. His breathing has calmed down a little, but his hands are still shaking.

I'm scared that this is all a bit too much for him; I don't know what to do.

Maybe his mum was right. She was scared to let him come today; she felt like he wasn't ready. Looking at the red streaks the tears left on his face, I'm starting to agree with her.

"Let's get you to form, shall we?"

We start to move again, trying to find Will's form room and miserably failing.

"Are you sure it's n-"

There's a loud shout from further down the hallway and the sound of a locker being punched.

"Shut your gob Billy"- the words come out wild, unrestrained. My eyes widen, as we watch the fight unveil.

Billy Green. He's always starting fights with people but I think he went too far this time. He tried to beat me up once, when I bumped into him in the hallway, and landed a good punch on my face.

"Who's that?" Will whispers to me, pointing at Billy's opponent.

"That's Lucas Samuels- he's new. Apparently he got kicked out of his old school for headbutting a teacher...I don't think this will go in Billy's favour." I whisper back, biting my lip in apprehension.

"Not gonna fight? Huh? Thought not, you gay bastard" Billy taunts him- a sneer on his messed-up face.

Puberty sure wasn't kind to him.

Lucas strikes- punching Billy in the back of his head; forcing his body to crumple to the ground.

"You wanna say that again?"

He's taken away, restrained by Mr Stevens- the behaviour management leader.

Silence surrounds us, Will looking down at his lap again.

"I suppose the insults will never stop huh?" He mutters, fiddling with his promise ring- the one I gave him only days before.

Lucas' voice bellows down the hall- "Insult my sexuality again; I'll kill you"

I sigh, interlinking our hands once more.

"Don't worry Will, they won't ever stop me from loving you"

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Author's Note

If you got the option to move to a brand new planet with technology and medicine but the world is full of greenery like before humans inhabited it would you go?

I definitely would, large cities and mass amounts of people scare me.

You might recognise Lucas from my short story- 'Uncontrollable'- but probably not lol. I just thought that I'd feature him because I'm unsure about creating a new book for his story?

Please read 'intermittent tales' on my profile to see his side of things and to tell me wether you like him? That would be cool.

I'm sorry that this sucks- I'm tired and I dunno what's going on. Sorry for the lack of updates- school is just sucking the life out of me.

I'm going to taster days for college in the upcoming week and I'm absolutely terrified.

I'm also struggling to motivate myself to eat properly- eating is so boring and I hate it. It's the same with sleeping to be honest...

I suppose that's it for now- I hope you enjoyed this a lil' bit?

Have a great night/day,

El x