Tyler was bored out of his mind. He had arrived 20 minutes late to biology but had played it off as a problem with getting his schedule. Mr. Russel was the biology teacher, he was an elderly beta and seemed nice enough. He had introduced Tyler to the class and pointed him towards a seat in the back at one of the black tables. The tables weren't like the desks in the other classrooms, two people sat at each so they could work on labs together. Tyler glanced at the kid next to him. The boy was a blond alpha, he was sleeping peacefully with his head on the desk. Tyler watched silently as one of his elbows slid off the table, jerking him awake.

"Dude, I swear this class is so boring I sleep through it everyday" said the boy, apparently to Tyler. "Uh yah I don't like biology either... my name's Tyler" he said awkwardly to the still sleepy boy. "Yah I heard we were getting a new student, I'm Josh"

The boys sat quietly for a while, unsure of what else to say before Josh piped up "So are you gonna try out for basketball tomorrow?" Tyler smiled, basketball was one of his favorite activities and he was happy to find someone else who liked it.

"Yah I've been playing since 2nd grade I love Basketball!"

"Really?! Me too, are you watching the playoffs?"

It turned out that the boys had played each other's teams in middle school and both had admired the other's skills. They were laughing at the memory of the ref getting hit in the face with the ball when they were interrupted by Mr. Russel warning them not to talk during class.

They stayed silent until Mr. Russel continued with his lesson and then promptly proceeded to talk about basketball for the last 10 minutes of class before the period ended. Unfortunately, the bell rang, pausing their argument about the best point guard and bringing them back to reality.

"Shit man, I gotta get to History, Ms. Stewart will be mad if I'm late."

Tyler was a little sad to see his new friend go, he checked his schedule and saw that he had English next. "Alright bye, see you next period!" Yelled Tyler down the hallway as Josh hurried off to history.

He looked back down at his schedule, apparently English was in classroom 18B. He couldn't remember passing any classrooms with that number and sighed again. Great, thought Tyler, he had no idea were that was. He decided he might as well wander around, he would eventually find it, and if he didn't he could always ask someone. Plus there was always a chance he would see the boy from earlier again in the hallway.

He walked down the hall, reading the numbers above the doors looking for his classroom. He would have asked someone but everyone seemed to be in such a rush that he didn't want to bother anyone.

As the hallways emptied he found himself next to a door labeled 15A and decided he was definitely lost. Tyler heard footsteps approached and planned to ask the person for directions. He opened his mouth, planning to ask them as he spun around and promptly stopped dead in his tracks.

The same omega from earlier, Ivory, was walking down the hall. He was standing up now and Tyler could see that Ivory was a good 6 inches shorter than him, and his sweatshirt was much too

big. As soon as Ivory noticed Tyler he started backing up, back the way he came.

"I um I sh-shouldn't be h-here I-I have to, I have to go" he stuttered under his breath, avoiding Tyler's hazel eyes.

Tyler stepped forward towards him "no it's fine I was just looking for someone to help me find my classroom and..." Tyler's voice trailed off as he stepped closer and saw why the omega was trying to get away "what happened to you?"

It looked like Ivory had been beat up. He had a bruise on his jaw and his lower lip was cut. He looked up with wide eyes, his tongue swiping across the fresh cut on his lip.

"N-nothing I'm fine, just, just leave me a-alone" Tyler obviously didn't believe him, taking another step forward and reaching out to touch the omega's shoulder.

Ivory flinched away from him "No pl-please I'm okay it's b-better if you just l-leave it alone" Tyler opened his mouth again to protest but Ivory was already on his way back down the hall. Leaving him with unspoken words for the second time that day.

Eventually Tyler found someone to point him in the direction of his class and he only arrived 10 minutes late. He was once again introduced to the class and told to sit in the back, this time at his own desk.

Sitting next to him on his left was a group of girls talking about some famous YouTubers and on his right was a brunette beta. The girl on his left leaned across the isle and whispered "You're Tyler right? Josh told the whole group chat about you, I'm Maddie." Tyler nodded, he was tired from his late night and confused from his encounter with Ivory, not really in the mood for a whispered conversation.

Instead he put his head down on his desk. The teacher, Ms Cox had a calming monotone voice. Her constant lecture on participles was slowly putting him to sleep.

Tyler's eyes drifted closed, his mind wandering far from the classroom and back to the omega in the hall. He remembered Ivory's big eyes glancing up at him and wondered who had hurt him. Before Tyler completely dozed off he decided he would find out what happened to him and try to help. Finally he fell asleep, his mind still on the omega with the scared blue eyes.