Chapter 19

Now Kent and Cole are actually entering school. You will hate a new character by this chapter I think...well, I did. Maybe you will too.

Enjoy! :)

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Chapter 19: Caitlin's POV, Thursday morning at school, by the entrance

As soon as one of by friends sent me the text that she saw Cole and Kent in the parking lot, I immediately went over to the entrance so that I could see if what Tyler told me last night was true. Not that I didn't believe it, I most certainly did, it's just that I wanted to ask Cole if he was really gay since he had slept with so many of my friends, myself included, that it seemed as if it could be possible that Cole was dating, and most likely sleeping with, a guy.

It also really sucked that Cole had picked Kent Whitman; the brain of our grade with an extremely wealthy family. His family was even wealthier than mine. Yeah, Kent was kind of adorable, and he had a great body if he took his shirt off, but he was just so...quiet. I can't really picture him being even remotely social at all.

So I leaned against the wall that gave me a perfect view of the parking lot where Cole, and maybe Kent, would enter. And lo and behold, Cole walked into school holding the hand of none other than Kent Whitman. Fuck my life. I thought that I was going to win him back this year, but now with Kent in the way, I'd have to change my plans drastically. No matter, this just made it more of a challenge...and I'm very good at dealing with challenges. It also made it more fun too.

Time to put my plan into action.

Kent's POV: Thursday morning, entering school

As Cole was walking me into school with our hands locked together. Cole had a face on that seemed as if he was taunting someone to mock us just so that he could punch whoever made fun of us for holding hands. And as nice it would be to see someone who deserved to get punched in the face and other tender regions, it wouldn't really be good for Cole unless he could defend his stance of hitting someone in the first place.

Anyway, we hadn't heard anything yet, until we crossed the office wall which faced the entrance. But the thing was, it wasn't a rude remark or even a slur towards us.

It was merely someone calling Cole's name. “Cole!” I turned my head to see a girl running up to us with brown hair to down her back and light brown eyes which were looking at Cole and paid no attention to me whatsoever, as usual. “Hey, how have you been?” The girl, who looked familiar for some reason, asked flirtatiously, which made me already not like her for trying to take Cole from me; maybe she couldn't see that we were holding hands?

“Uh, I guess I've been doing well,” Cole raised his other arm that wasn't holding mine to scratch his head as if he had completely forgotten who this girl was. Maybe he did; that would be great...wait! That's mean of me to say, why am I already so jealous of this girl who has done absolutely nothing to me nor Cole? Is this what it's like to be jealous? I hated it, that's for sure.

“Well, I'm glad to hear that,” The girl began to place her hands on Cole's biceps, and I felt my face turn red with anger.

“Um, Caitlin, what are you doing?” Cole asked as he moved a bit closer to me and slid the arm that was now free from Caitlin's grasp around my waist.

“Nothing, just saying hi to my ex-boyfriend, is there something wrong with that?” Caitlin shot Cole a coy look and I rolled my eyes and tugged Cole slightly to let him know that I wanted to leave now so that nothing would happen that any of us would regret.

Cole flicked his eyes to me and nodded ever so slightly to let me know that he understood my message. “Well, Kent and I need to get going, so if you'll excuse us, Caitlin,” Cole took me and tried to go around Caitlin.

“Wait, Cole, I have to ask you something,” Caitlin finally acknowledged me and looked at me in the eyes; they were filled with hate and disgust, but the look of disdain was still better than nothing.

“Well, go on then, Caitlin, Kent and I haven't got all day,” Cole stopped and sighed.

“Well it's about both of you,” Caitlin looked at the ground. “So, I forwarded a text from Tyler that he sent me last night and it said that you were going out with him,” Caitlin pointed at me. “I just had a hard time believing him when he texted it to me, but I know that Tyler never lies,”

Yeah, because Tyler never lied to me in our little fling, I thought to myself sourly.

“And since we went out before, I just don't get it; why did you go gay, Cole?” Caitlin brushed a loose strand of hair from her eyes and adjusted her bag. “Didn't you...like it when I made you feel really good?” From what it looked like, Caitlin was trying to mess with Cole, with me standing there nonetheless, and then get into his pants.

God, did I hate Caitlin so much right now. I'd probably punch her if she wasn't a girl and if I didn't want to get expelled from school.

“Well, it wasn't you Caitlin, it's just that-” Cole was rudely interrupted by Caitlin pulling him in for a kiss on the lips. I was appalled at this; I really didn't want to be upset anymore by her and her antics. Also didn't want to watch my boyfriend kiss another person, especially a girl, in front of me, so I sighed a deep sigh of frustration and walked away from Cole and Caitlin and their saliva exchange game.

I was done with it already. I've been hurt before, and I won't let it happen again.

-Cole's POV: Thursday morning, at school-

I was just patiently waiting for Caitlin to end her obsessive kissing and release me so that I could tell her that no one had actually made me gay, it's just that Kent 'awakened' the gay in me; I had to be gay the entire time, right? Well, that's what Kent told me when I had asked him if someone could actually be turned straight or gay. He said that people were all born with a certain sexual preference, it's just that some people's preferences made themselves dormant inside of the person for some time. I guess it made sense....

“So, does that make you remember anything?” Caitlin said as she 'adjusted' her tank top to show off even more of her cleavage than she was already showing, if that was possible.

“No,” I said, brushing past her to find Kent since he wasn't standing next to me or even near me, and this made me upset and frustrated: why wouldn't he tell me if he was leaving?

I muttered a long string of profanities and stormed off to Kent's locker, hoping that he was there waiting for me. Boy was I wrong; well, not about the Kent being there part, Kent was there at his locker, it's just that he didn't look happy at all.

The thing about Kent that I've learned through my time with him is that his emotions are fairly easy to read if he's upset or angry, and the more upset or angry he is, the more apparent it becomes as well. I guess it was a good thing and a bad thing too just because of how I would always see if I needed to cheer Kent up or something...or just leave him alone based off of his facial expression. Just like the one he had on his beautiful face now. Dammit, I thought, he's really pissed off at something; hope I wasn't the cause of it....

“Hey, Kent,” I said, trying to pull him into a warm hug, something that Kent always loved, no matter what.

“Don't touch me, Cole, I'm not in the mood right now after seeing you make out with our ex-girlfriend while I'm still standing there as, what I thought that I was to you anyway, your boyfriend,” Kent took out an AP Biology book from his locker and slammed it closed with a conspicuous amount of force.

“But Kent, I just never wanted to-” I never really finished my sentence at seeing Kent's back facing me as he walked further and further away from me.

I guess people were right when they said that true love was worth fighting for, since I'd be willing to cause World War III and even a fourth if that meant that I could talk to Kent to try to get him to listen to me.

I was about to chase after him to tell him that I didn't, nor would I ever again, want to kiss Caitlin, or any other person, as long as I knew that I had any kind of shot with Kent. But then the bell rang, so I knew that I wouldn't be able to even see, much less talk to Kent, until lunch.

Although, maybe it was a good thing since it would give Kent some time to cool off and time for me to prepare what I'd say to him to try to get him to stop being angry at me. And if things were going the way that they seemed as I wrote out what I was going to say to Kent, instead of listening to a lecture on commas and appositives in English class, I'd need as much time to prepare myself and my speech for what my convoluted mind had devised to get Kent to talk to me, and maybe just a bit more too....

Although, after I had finished writing what I was going to say, my mind drifted back to Caitlin. I knew that I had absolutely no feeling for her at all, but it seemed like she was trying to accomplish something from what she did to me this morning that was more than just kissing me....

I wonder if it could have something to do with Tyler; Caitlin and Tyler were pretty good friends after all since they both were crazy and mentally unstable people. It seemed completely natural for them to be friends.

I sighed and waited as the day dragged on until I got to third period which was, luckily, right before lunch. Also, Caleb was in this class with me.

I was sitting in the chemistry class with my eyes and thoughts wandering outside of the classroom to Kent and about how he might feel after lunch. He would either totally hate me forever, or love me unequivocally like I loved him. I was hoping for the first option to be truthful.

“And so, because of the Carbon's special property with being able to bond with four other atoms, it is a very versatile atom,” The teacher said as he drew something on the board. “No, what is this special property called, Cole?”

My eyes widened with horror; I really couldn't care less about this. Would I ever need it? No, no I wouldn't.

“Uh,” I hesitated, looking frantically at Caleb who was busy snickering at his phone under the lab bench; it was probably another picture of one of the cheerleaders naked or at least topless. Caleb is so helpful sometimes....

I quickly glanced at some kid's notes in front of me to search the word that my teacher wanted. After a bit of awkward silence, I found the word.

“Tetra valence?” I said saying it as if it had randomly popped into my head and I was uncertain.

“Good, but next time, please pay attention, Mr. Bradley,” He turned back around and continued with the lecture.

Seeing as the period wouldn't be ending for a bit, I decided to just scribble in my notebook until the bell rang.

So I flipped open to a blank page and stated letting my hand move freely across the page without me knowing at all what the hell it was doing.

I managed to keep busy with this until the bell rang and as I looked to see what mess of the page I had made, I was surprised to see a name along with my own name repeatedly placed in hearts across the page.

It read: Cole & Kent 4ever in hearts which encompassed the entire phrase.

I smiled at the page, proud of what my conscience thought of when I didn't use it.

I just hoped that Kent would understand what he meant to me, and hopefully what I was about to do would prove it to him too.



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So this was an uneventful chapter, but I have a plan with it, so bare with me please! And how do you feel about Caitlin? Just curious.

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~Michael