It was a new week, I haven't heard much from Jace about any upcoming prom committee meetings but Liam approached me earlier and told me about a Torvux meeting on Tuesday after school.

Come Tuesday, I was stuck in maths class, I didn't like maths class because neither Ben nor Jace nor anybody from Torvux were in it. The only people in the class that spoke to me were a group of girls that I could have a decent conversation with but it wasn't the same. Sometimes they'd all smother me with their perfume and I'd honestly feel like I was going to suffocate and die in the worst way possible but today, only three of five of them sat with me and spoke to me so the smells weren't so strong.

We spoke about prom and as soon as the word was said out of my lips, they all asked in unison who I was thinking of taking, which was creepy, but then to make it even more creepy, they all blushed and came even closer to me.

"I don't know yet." Of course, I know exactly who I'll be taking, I'm just unsure how to ask in the most romantic and meaningful way.

Then came the next and last lesson, Biology. This time last week, when I was ill, I disrupted the lesson by calling out Flynn and physically hurting him. Did I regret it? No. I would've thought that boy had boundaries and morals but he doesn't, he slept with my brother's girlfriend. It wasn't even once, I don't think, it was on multiple occasions.

I walked in the room, unsure where to sit because I usually sat at the back with him but I saw that his bag was on the stool next to him and I didn't feel like sitting with him anyway. Instead, I opted for sitting at the front where I could have an entire empty row to myself because nobody tended to sit at the front.

I could feel the stares on me and it was driving me to the point of feeling the need and turning around to give them all what Flynn earned last week.

God, I didn't even realise how violent my thoughts were.

Our teacher kept asking questions to me in the lesson, obviously surprised at my sudden appearance at the front and obviously, seeing the opportunity to punish me for disrupting his lesson last week seeming as Flynn lied and told the headmaster that he provoked me and that I shouldn't be punished.

Jace came up to me earlier around lunchtime and asked if we could meet up after school so I agreed to it and said he could come over mine but he'll have to wait until the meeting is over.

The lesson ended and I couldn't be more relieved, I rushed out of the room like my ass was on fire and headed over to the meeting room that wasn't too far from me because it was in a science room. There was a class already inside, still waiting to go, so I leaned against the wall and watched the empty halls fill up with students.

They all chatted and for a second, I felt like an ass. Since I've met Jace, I've alway hung around him and I've completely forgotten about everyone else. I can't remember the last time I went with the guys from Torvux out somewhere, outings with them were usually a hell of a lot of fun, just us guys, no girls to interrupt us. We'd monkey around, play childish games like tag, maybe even some truth or dare or duck duck goose, rarely, we'd play strip truths and if so somebody doesn't answer the question, they'd have to take off an item of clothing. Maybe today I'll ask if they wanted to do a bonfire at the park sometime or a barbecue seeming as the weather was beginning to get its shit together.

Through the window, I could see the class in the room of the meeting starting to pack up their belongings. I saw a few of the guys from Torvux including Calvin approaching the room and when they did, we all exchanged fist bumps and bro hugs.

The class in the room finally starting leaving the room and we all headed inside and took our seats. Flynn entered through the room and I ducked my head and looked at my bag on the table as if it was the most interesting thing in the world. Wow, it's so dirty. Where did all that come from? It's disgusting.

I heard a stool being pulled up and it sounded like it came from directly behind me but two maybe three rows far. Flynn took his seat and I slipped my phone out of my pocket and texted Jace to meet me by the school gates in about half an hour or so.

The rest of the guys came in, loud as ever, and took their seats. Liam plopped down next to me and took his awesome leather jacket off that I've never seen before.

"Since when did you get that?" I cocked a brow.

"Since mum and dad said I can get a motorbike after you start driving so that you can take my car." He smirked.

"Who said I want your car?"

"Who doesn't want my car?" He grinned.

"Touché bro, touché." I turned away from him and to the front where Calvin was plugging a USB stick into a laptop that was connected to the projector. Since when do we ever have meetings that involved something with the projector? They're usually just quick catch ups that Calvin or the other highers talk he through.

On the screen showed two people on it. Two guys, one picture was from when they looked really really young...

Holy shit.

It's me and Flynn.

"What is this?" I glared to Calvin. I hated the spotlight with passion but all he seems to do is put me in it all the time.

"It's come to our attention you and Flynn had an argument."

"No shit Sherlock." I gritted my teeth. Why can't he mind his own business?

"We've all had our small quarrels in the past, but we got past them. We're all brothers here, right?"

"One, who the hell says quarrels? And two, you can't just butt into my life like that!"

"We don't tolerate arguments. We stick together, as brothers should. I've had my fair share of arguments with the guys, then we got over them." Calvin motioned to a few of the guys that were in his year.

"So what are you saying?" Flynn piped up.

"You two are going to put your problems out in the open and we discuss as a group." Calvin smirked to me.

"Some of those problems could be private." Liam shrugged, I knew what he meant.

"Yeah, I'd very much like to keep my private life private." I crossed my arms over my chest.

"Ignorance won't help though, will it? We're not girls, we don't just blank each other." Another higher spoke up. "Come on, out in the open."

"Fine." I took a deep breath, "Flynn is an inconsiderate manwhore who fucked my brother's long term girlfriend without thinking about the consequences."

"Zach is a two faced bitch who sucks up to people and doesn't give a toss about this clique. He'd much rather spend time with Benjamin, I saw them together yesterday."

A few of the people in the who gasped and Liam turned to me with his lips pursed.

"Oh dear, I'm allowed to hang with whoever I want! Ben's actually a cool person, and as much as you like to admit, you started it by bullying him, I was always there for him because I thought you were in the wrong for doing such a thing." And then cue make gasps...

Calvin cleared his throat, "anything else, Flynn?"

"Ben's beat me into a pulp, if you don't remember. I can't believe Zach's backstabbing me." He growled.

"You provoked him and you're the one who backstabbed Liam!" I retorted. "Screw this, I'm out." I started standing up but Calvin stopped me.

"There's more to say." He said and I sat down again. "We will continue this another time. For now, stop with the violence, stop with everything. Just ignore each other for the next few days, we don't want anybody getting suspended or getting into anymore arguments."

"Fine." I muttered in unison with Flynn. Calvin walked over to his laptop and pressed on the arrow key to show the next slide.

"Next thing: Liam we are sorry about your break up with Naomi, so we've made an exception to allow you to take back your bracelet, we wouldn't usually allow this but she cheated."

I buried my face in my hands, this was so incredibly boring. Can I go sleep now?

"Last and final thing," Calvin cleared his throat, "Flynn, Kyle, it's come to my attention that you've... Hooked up."

Woah.

I looked up and saw how pale their faces both were. Everyone was staring at them and they just sat rigid in their seat, nervously fiddling with their fingers as they tried to not look anybody in the eye.

"We've never had a situation quite like this-"

"Who told you?" Flynn narrowed his eyes into slits.

"I can't tell you-"

"It was Zach wasn't it?"

"What? No?" My jaw literally fell to the floor.

"No it wasn't, don't point fingers." Calvin reprimanded as if Flynn was a child. "How would Zach even know?"

"I know that he batted for both teams but I didn't know about Kyle or that they hooked up." I put my hands up in surrender.

"Fair enough." Calvin said and then he looked to the highers as if he genuinely had no idea what to do.

"If it wasn't Zach then who was it?"

"I told you I can't tell you!" Calvin huffed. "Now, as I was saying, we've never been in a situation like this so I will discuss with the others and then we will decide the best procedure."

"Nobody here is homophobic are they?" Kyle piped up, almost mouse like. I glanced around the room to see the guys shrugging and muttering a series of 'no's' or 'I don't think so'. "Good, then I'll officially like to tell you all that I am as gay as they come." He let out a small laugh and the guys started laughing along.

I felt like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders, sure, my bro's aren't all that homophobic but what about the rest of the school? What would Calvin's plan of action be?

"Nothing that has been said between us gets out, understood?" Calvin said and we all muttered a series of agreements.

I felt Liam nudge my arm a little and I knew what he meant. I sudden jolt of confidence burst through me and I honestly felt like shouting out my preference for lollipops instead of tacos.

So I did.

I shot out of my seat and a few of the guys jumped a little at the abrupt movement but I waved it off and looked at Liam who I knew would be with me a hundred percent of the way even if I did say that he was a terrible person earlier for bullying Ben.

My heart pounded in my chest, each thump feeling as if I could go into cardiac arrest anytime soon. Then, the words rolled of my tongue, each word annunciated slowly and clearly. I was looking down at the table but I could feel everyone's eyes on me. "And um, yeah.. I'm glad I got that off my chest." I finished off.

Then came a series of hollers and applause and I found myself grinning from ear to ear, I sat back down and then looked to Calvin.

"Does anybody else want to get away from Narnia then? Or is that it?" He said jokingly, but a guy had already stood up to announce that he was questioning and then two more said the same thing and earned a round of applause. Perhaps Flynn could be of service, experimentation is normal, right?

"Right. Onwards with our lives." He clapped his hands and turned the projector off and took his USB out and closed the lid of his laptop.

"I was thinking that since I've missed hanging out with you all, we should do a bonfire at the park, just us. No girls, no other students..." I trailed off, "But I'd really like to bring a plus one if he wants to come."

"Sounds good; everyone can bring a plus one but it can't be a girl." Calvin said, and everyone muttered agreements. "Is everyone free Saturday night?"

Everyone let out another series of agreements and then we packed up and left the room. I checked my watch and saw that is been a little over half an hour and Jace is waiting for me by the gates. If it were the other way round, my impatient self would drive me to spam his phone with texts.

I embraced him as soon as I saw him and gleamed with happiness as I rambled on about coming out to my clique and about how they weren't homophobic but instead, uneducated in the sector.

"Holy crap, that's awesome!" He tightened his hold on me and after a few moments, I let go. "I don't suppose you would like to join me and the other guys at a bonfire this Saturday? It'll just be them, no girls, no other students..."

"I'll think about it, wouldn't they suspect something between us if I did go?" We started walking down the road in the general direction to my house and I kept my hand at his waist.

"Yeah, that's likely, we don't have to make our relationship public if you don't want to, it'll only be them that know and they can keep secrets, trust me." I looked behind us and saw a few of the guys walking in this direction too. They didn't really take any notice that my arms were around Jace and if they did, they weren't doing anything about it.

"Are you sure?"

"More than sure."

"Okay." He smiled and his hand brushed against mine and then he intwined his pinky around mine.

Minutes later, Liam beeped at us and we hopped in the car. Well, that saved us a forty minute walk home. He pulled into the driveway and opened the door, I followed suit and kept my pinky tightened around Jace's as we walked up the porch and walked inside the house as soon as Liam shoved the key inside the lock and opened the door.

He, like usual, went upstairs to rest a little before he goes out again to go to the gym. I kicked my shoes off and Jace did the same but them he tucked his nearly against the wall and I remembered his neatness habit and started giggling.

He sent me a look with his lips pursed but with a hint of amusement in it and I slapped his bum before walking into the kitchen where mum was lighting a candle. She had a thing for candles and it explained why the house always had new scents wafting around.

"Mum! Guess what!" I shouted excitedly and loud enough to scare her. Oops.

"For Christ sakes, Zach." she glared at me, "what is it?" I grinned and told her the whole story, usually, repeating things would annoy me but I honestly didn't mind repeating this story more than a gazillion times. I told her about how I wasn't alone in it and that there were four other people involved who came out too.

"That's nice." Was all she said. "I didn't know Flynn was bi, though, now that I think about it, he does dress like he's going for an interview all the time."

"Recently, he hasn't." Jace bit his lip and sat down at the breakfast bar. "he was wearing sweatpants yesterday and the end of last week and that was so weird to see."

"I didn't really notice, I've just been blanking him." I frowned and mum looked at me with sympathy and put a candle that smelt of cinnamon in front of me as if it would help anything. "No mum, the candle does not make me feel better, as delicious as it smells."

She patted my head as if I was her pet dog and went back to stirring whatever she was cooking for dinner. I think she mentioned this morning that she'd make burritos with Mexican rice.

I tugged on Jace's hand and led him upstairs, then we lay on my bed with our backs against the headboard and my head in the crook of his shoulder. "So what was so important to talk about?"

"Oh it's not important but as much as I know you, I feel like I don't know you as much as I should, so, what are you hoping to do after GCSE?" He said and ran his hand up and down my back.

I've thought of my future plans a billion times but I don't think anybody has ever asked me about it, "go to sixth form, study business, economics, maths and geography, then, get a bachelors degree and perhaps a masters after that."

"Same, except, different subjects." He said, so I asked what subjects he wanted to take and what he wanted to do a degree in. He told me he wanted to do Maths, further maths, physics and music or sociology. Then he spoke about going to UCL to do something with maths and physics and he spoke about how good his grades would have to be.

"Have you looked at universities?" He asked.

"A little, I've looked into Kings College and I've looked into UCL in the past but I don't know if I'm good enough for it." I sighed, and he rubbed my back soothingly while muttering about how I will.

"Do you mind if you show me your report?" He asked hopefully. I suppose I didn't mind so I got up and went over to my desk and found my most recent report in a folder and handed it to him hesitantly, I knew Jace was way smarter than me-

"Woah you're predicted an A* in business and an A in Eco?" His eyes were as wide as saucers as he scanned my report card even more.

"Yeah but none of my other grades are like that." I bit my lip and pointed to the bottom half of my report where my grades were C's.

"Yeah but those are the useless subjects like RE and it's a pass in English so it's fine. At least you're getting good grades on the subjects you want to take for A Level." He smiled but I kept my lips in a fine line so he sat up and brought his hand to caress the right side of my face and then he kissed me.

I sunk into the kiss and without breaking it, I sat next to him and ran my hands up and down his sides before I delved in and poked my tongue out, curling it with his and massaging his with my lips. His mouth tasted minty so I was guessing he had been chewing gum unlike me, whose mouth must've tasted disgusting.

His hands tugged at the hem of my shirt and I broke the kiss momentarily to take it off, he took his off too and grinned at me before he dove into the crook of my shoulder and peppered it with kisses all the way up to my ear, licking at biting it, forcing a small moan to escape my lips. His hands went around my neck and he pulled me down to the mattress with a strong force so that I lay on top of him with my thigh in between his legs, gently massaging him through his jeans. Our hands ran everywhere, touching every spot of each other, kissing every inch of exposed flesh, discovering each other's weak spots.

I sucked and licked at his neck and jawline, causing darkening red marks everywhere. He flipped us over and did the same, mainly at my shoulder because he knew well enough where my weak spots were, he knew how to force out a moan from me. I grabbed a fistful of his hair and dishevelled it completely, wanting to make him stop but not at the same time because the pleasure was into overdrive. After making his mark, he went back to kissing me on the lips, biting and nipping at my bottom lip and causing bruises.

For what felt like hours, lasted only a matter of minutes because Liam opened up my door and awkwardly stood there clad in his gym gear with his sports bag slung over a shoulder.

"I was just coming here to tell you that dinner is ready but I'll just tell mum you're busy." He scratched the back of his head and left the room, leaving Jace and I not even remotely turned on anymore.

Damn it.