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Coy Piso, A junior In highschool, had been stuck in a looping routine of the same day over again since his first day at that school. Wake up, go to school, sleep through classes, get harassed by the same few popular kids, go to theater rehearsal, go home, text Lord Patterson with no response, and go to sleep. He's been repeating this same timeline for years and inevitably, he's sick of it. When nothing changes for so long, you get bored after a while. Until this year. His homeroom had a new student in it this year and for some reason chose to sit next to him. It's not like there were no other seats and he was just overthinking it either, there were tons, but this new kid, Will, had chosen to be by him.
"Yo, what's your name" He whispered to Coy. He blinked dumbly at him before answering. "Coy." Will smiled at him. "And I'm Will!" Coy gave him a half smile before dropping it and fidgeting with the hem of his shirt.
"Could I get your number so we can talk more and stuff. Im kinda new here so I don't really know anyone yet." Will smiles again, prompting Coy to continue the conversation. He didn't quite feel like talking, but he felt it'd be rude not to answer so he wrote his number on a slip of paper before passing it to Will.
"Thanks dude!" Will exclaims happily as the bell rings, "Catch you later?" Coy looks at Will standing up and getting his things together to go to first period. "Yeah, sure." Coy smiles properly for the first time that morning. After pausing for a moment to process that he may have just made a friend on the first day of school, he decides it's time for him to get to class.
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Coy arrives home that afternoon preparing for his day to continue just as it had for so long, but things had already begun looking up for him, so he began to text Lord Patterson while silently hoping he'd get an unexpected call from Will.
Things decided to keep changing that day, for better or worse, as Lord Patterson actually answered him!
Coy: pat
patterson
are you busy
why aren't you answering me
Patterson: listen, we gotta talk
Coy:???
what's up
Patterson: We're done. Sorry but I just don't think it's working out between us. I have a reputation to uphold and your just not popular
Coy: oh
Fuck. "Why won't my messages go through?" He waits a minute before realizing he's been blocked, and he breaks into an obnoxious symphony of sobs and hiccups. His crying becomes so loud he almost doesn't catch his phone ringing. He flips it open and reads the caller ID. Will. He picks it up, sniffling as softly as he can.
"Hey dude you wanna hang out. I can come pick you up and shit i just wanna do something." Will says excitedly. Coy chokes out one short sob and immediately regrets it, wiping his face to stop crying so he can reply before he says something. Too late.
"Yo you good?" Will asks in a slightly worried tone.
"Im fine," He breathes in quickly, "Yeah we can hang out or whatever." He reads out his address and hangs up the phone. Will shows up quicker than expected, turns out he only lives a few houses down from Coy. A knock on his door makes Coy jump and he heads down stairs. Opening the door, he's met with the face of his new friend(?).
"Are you okay man? You look like you've been crying." Will asks once Coy shuts the door behind himself. "Yeah I'm good, don't worry about me." He mumbles, putting up the best smile he can muster out.
"You sure? I know we only just met, but you can trust me dude." Coy sighs before looking down at the ground. It's just this guy at our school." Will has a puzzled look on his face, waiting for coy to say more. "There's this guy at our school, his name is Lord Patterson and uhm.." Coy's voice trails off for a second before he gets back to what he had been saying, voice cracking as he continues. "We were, you know..dating and he broke up with me because he had a reputation to uphold or something but like I said its whatever i'm fine." He laughs as much as he can in an attempt to brush it off. Will looks at him as his brows furrow.
"Shit dude, I'm sorry." He half hugs Coy. "What was it you wanted to do?" Coy looks at him as they let go, asking curiously.
"Well, I made some more friends and we're meeting up like a block away and you're joining now because I mentioned you and they said you could come so I figured we'd walk there." Will smiles happily and Coy laughs, his mood lifting instantaneously. Will seems to have that effect on people.
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Coy freezes. Will had mentioned only a little about the people he'd be meeting up with, but he didn't mention it was the senior class president and the star quarterback. Shit. He tries to act natural but his best wouldn't be considered good enough for the people he's talking to. He didn't know Will was a senior. Why is he in a Junior homeroom?
"Hi, I'm Hanbon!" The older girl speaks to him excitedly, waving her hand at Coy. "Anthony." The boy spoke, smiling, but not in the condescending way Coy had expected him to. "And I'm Will!" Will states. That made coy laugh a little, as did Hanbon and Anthony.
"What's your name?" Hanbon asks, looking at coy again. Actually, everyone was looking at him. God he hated this attention.
"Coy.." He mumbled nervously. He didn't want them to think he was weird but he wasn't able to act as nonchalant as he wished he could. Hanbon begins speaking to him again, and despite how badly he wanted to leave, he stayed because he didn't want to ruin the night for the others, and he didn't want to blow his chance at having friends.
"So why have I never seen you around school before? You new too?" Anthony looks at him. Before he can think of an answer, not that he would've anyways, Will answers for him,
"Coys a junior so that's probably why." He makes a note to thank Will later for saving him from embarrassing himself. Anthony hums in response. The four end up talking for quite a long time, not really parting ways until about 9pm. Turns out they all live on the same road. He needs to get to know his neighbors. He had a better time than he expected, and ended up getting both Anthony and Hanbon's numbers before he left. He lay in bed that night replaying all that happened today. Hanbon's a really energetic girl, Will is definitely gonna be his best friend, and Anthony.. He wasn't sure about Anthony. He's in the same social group as the kids that harass him all the time, but he isn't nearly as mean as them. He was actually really nice compared to the other people Coy had talked to in years prior. The more he thought about it, a feeling of dread washed over him. The way Anthony looked at him made him shiver and he wasn't sure why. Then he had a feeling of realization, then guilt, then regret. God he wished he hadn't been at school that day. (1,265 words)