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Jared sat on his bed and stared at his journal. After a long minute he dropped it on his bed, stood up and began pacing the room. His boyfriend of six months, Jensen, was a werewolf. He was certain, the journal pretty much confirmed it, fuck. Falling heavily back onto the bed Jared grabbed his journal again and flicked backward to the day he’d met Jensen.
September 1st
For the fifth time in his 18 years Jared was starting a new school. Being the new kid in an established senior class in a small town was going to suck, he just knew it. Being the new gay kid would probably just make it that much worse.
Jared tried to appear small and insignificant as he waited nervously for the kid who was to show him around. The school secretary had just told him to wait, that, Jason, he thought she’d said would be here in a few minutes. Apparently they would be in the same homeroom and had 3 or 4 of the same classes. Jared had nodded his understanding before folding his 6ft 4in self into one of the plastic chairs to wait.
A few short minutes later a tall boy with broad shoulders and short cropped blondish brown hair entered the waiting area. “Hey Mrs Singer I’m here for the new kid.” he called out as he entered, his gaze sweeping the area. Reluctantly Jared stood up, waving awkwardly, this guy was too hot to be allowed. He must be a model or something Jared thought.
“Jensen” the lady at the counter, Mrs Singer began, “this here is Jared Padawaki” she passed Jensen a copy of what Jared recognised as his own timetable, “Be sure he settles in OK.”
“It’s Padalecki, Jared Padalecki” Jared blushed, he hadn’t meant to correct the secretary.
“Nice to meet you Jared Padalecki, I’m Jensen.” the boy, Jensen, smiled brightly, as he reached out a hand to Jared. Jared took it and steadfastly ignored the heat that travelled up his arm at the contact. Jensen’s smile faltered and his nostrils flared slightly. The change was so brief that Jared could almost convince himself that he had imagined it. As Jensen turned to lead them out of the room Jared covertly sniffed an armpit, did he smell, what was with the nose flare.
Jensen had them stop by a set of lockers before they headed to homeroom. “This here is me” he indicated the locker they were in front of. He opened it and swapped out a book. Jared could see the inside of the door when it opened. His eyes nearly bugged out when he saw topless photos of men taped to the inside. There was a Taylor Lautner New Moon promotional postcard type thing, Teen Wolf’s Tyler Hoechlin also topless, and that dude from True Blood who Jared had no name for. And yeah we was topless too. Jared tried to control his excitement, forcing himself to breath normally. He could be reading things wrong but it seemed totally possible that the beautiful boy beside him was as gay as the next guy. Assuming the next guy was Jared.
Jensen slammed his locker shut and Jared jumped, “Easy there Jared” Jensen soothed, a hand wrapping around the top of one of Jared's arms and squeezing slightly. Jared swallowed thickly and tried to smile. Jensen seemed to take pity on him and realeased his hold, Jared hid his disapointment at the lose of contact.
Tapping a locker two over from his, Jensen indicated that it was Jared’s.
Jared fished the combination he’d been given out of his pocket and tried it. “It didn’t work.” he turned to Jensen for assistance. Jensen smiled and stood in real close, his chest nearly pressing against Jareds side.
“You have to spin in three times to reset it, then around to the first digit, anti clockwise past the second digit stopping on it the second time round, then clockwise to the third digit, see?” a quick tug and Jared’s locker opened.
“Yeah, I don’t think I got that. Can you show me again?” he asked hopefully, he totally got it, he just wanted to keep Jensen close for a minute longer.
“Sure” Jensen shut the locker and demonstrated how to open it a second time. “No you try it.” he suggested.
Jared shut the locker and copied what Jensen had done sure enough the locker popped over with no trouble. Jensen grinned up at him (yeah, Jensen was tall but Jared had an inch or three on him), “See now, easy as pie.”
“I love pie” Jared nearly slapped himself in the head at his stupidity, why had he said that! Jensen just chuckled and replied, “Me too” before leading Jared to homeroom.
Jared had dreaded the whole stand at the front of the class and introduce yourself thing. He’d gone through it several times and it never got any easier. But the teachers in this school seemed to be blessedly kind, they all just pointed to a vacant seat and handed him the necessary books.
The other thing Jared liked about his new school was how very tolerant everyone seemed to be. He’d spotted a few obvious same sex couples holding hands and occasionally sort of nuzzling each others necks and no one but him seemed to be paying a blind bit of attention to them. It took him a few days but by Thursday he was getting used to seeing it and could mask his surprise. He refused to admit how happy it made him to notice that Jensen didn’t seem to be that close to anyone. He sat amongst a large group of boys and girls at lunch sure, but he didn’t nuzzle close to anyone or hold hands.
Jared was only out to his Dad, and that only happened because he’d caught Jared kissing a boy on the couch when he came home from work early two years back. He’d been completely understanding, Jared didn’t know why that surprised him, it shouldn’t have. His father had been there for him his whole life, unlike his mother who he’d never known.
Jared didn’t know what happened to his mother she was never mentioned beyond his Dad saying she left when Jared was a newborn. And if he was honest Jared didn’t really want to know, he was grateful everyday for his father. Even if every few years he had them up sticks and move. He’d sworn this move was the last, that his little town Wolf Grove was where he himself was born and where he had been heading the whole time.
So far Jared liked what he knew of the place. Their house was comfortable, the school seemed OK, and then there was Jensen. Jensen who every day checked in with Jared to be sure he knew how to get to his classes. Jensen who picked Jared first for his dodgeball team in gym class. Jensen who volunteered to help catch Jared up with their English course. Jensen whose green eyed freckled face filled Jared’s thoughts almost constantly, and most particularly when Jared succumbed to temptation and jerked off.
Jared's journal entry for September first read - "New town, new school, new boy?"