Chapter Three

 The pictures came, luckily, on a Friday three weeks later.

 Logan didn’t understand that normal people wanted to go to school without a hangover, or actually wanted to make it to school the next day without missing it because they had passed out somewhere in his house. If the pictures had come even on a Monday, Logan would have insisted of having the party on the exact day of the picture release.

In short, Logan was wild and reckless. Sort of a party animal. Casper had to guess this was because his parents never said no, or didn’t care what he did as they were always out and busy with their careers. Casper had some sort of idea that they were both lawyers or into politics or something.

So most of the time it was just Logan, in his massive house that could hold up to more than a dozen people with their own room, all on his own. It used to be him and his sister but she had married and moved away to the other side of the world. Logan wouldn’t say it, but Casper suspected he was unbearable lonely. In a big house all by himself. He supposed his parties were sort of a relief and always had an excuse for having one... not that anyone was complaining

Casper was relieved to find that his single picture came out great, almost too perfect. His blue tips on his fringe brought out the blue in his eyes. He was proud of it.

 If only he could have said the same about the class photo.

Of all the pictures they had took that day, it just had to pick the fifth shot.

 Right, slap bang in the middle of the picture was Casper with his tongue sticking out, aimed directly at a smug looking James.

 Just bloody fantastic.

“Say what you will but I think it is mega cute,” Daisy gushed, staring fondly at the picture.

Casper groaned,” it’s horrible! He has to ruin everything!”

“I agree with Daisy,” Hedgehog gave a sly smile.” It’s adorable.”

Casper’s face grew hot as he heard the implying tone in her voice, the two girls stared at him. They all had the same look about them, a look that Casper had come to understand over the past few months.

Somehow, his friends had gotten it into their heads that Casper and James were secretly in love with each other and that they were the ultimate couple. All their bickering, heated arguments, name-calling and fist fights were just some way of the two boys to show their affections or sexual tension for one another. Jasper, Daisy announced one day, the three of them – Hedgehog, Daisy and Logan had laughed all lunch time at Casper’s face as he caught on straightaway at what Daisy had done. James had said nothing on the matter. Casper was sickened at the idea; they couldn’t be further from the truth.

He was glad James was kept back in P.E. with Logan. James would always go along with Daisy hanging all over Casper and Hedgehog sitting there with this facial expression and wiggling her eyebrows, trying to embarrass him even further. It did just that, also it grew his hatred for the taller boy even more so. He did this.

“How are you getting to Logan’s, Casper?” Daisy asked. James and Casper lived a ten minute drive away from Logan’s house.

“I’ll probably walk or something,” Casper replied, trying to eat his chicken mayonnaise baguette without the chicken falling out or get mayonnaise anywhere near his face. This shit was fucking impossible but undeniable delicious and so worth all the trouble.

“No, you can’t! You’re cute little ass with get raped or some shit.”

“Well, I can’t exactly ask my mum for a freaking lift can I? Not since she hates Logan from the last time he tried stick his tongue down her throat!” he accused. Casper’s mum had kept serious tabs on him after that incident. He never made the mistake of letting any of his friends enter his house again, well, at least, when his mother was in.

“Dude, in my defence I was way high and, also, you’re Mum is fucking hot!” Logan held up his hands and laughed as he approached the table, his eyes crinkling around the edges.

Casper groaned in disgust and covered his ears. Though, it wasn’t effective to muffle everything as he clearly heard the sound of hard slaps and then yelps coming from Logan. At least he wasn’t the only one grossed out by him.

“It is true though.” Casper froze, he was here. “Your Mum is hot, I had always thought so.”James smirked.

“Right Man!” Logan cheered and they both fist bumped. Casper rolled his eyes and saw Hedgehog and Daisy do the same. Some guys were just plain gross.

Now James’ mum? That was a different story.

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The party was going to be full of people he saw nearly every week, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t go all out to look good.

Capers outfit was based around the colour of dark blue, like the colour of a Scottish flag, which was exactly what was spread across his top. His dad has brought it back for him when he had spontaneously went down to Edinburgh with his mates for a day. He had laughed at the cheesiness of the gift as his dad whipped it out of the bag when he got home. Surprisingly the top became sort of his favourite and wore it whenever he could. He was Scottish after all; he wore it proud with full dash of sexy.

He had painted another coat of black on his finger tips and carefully drew blue lightning bolts on each ring finger. He renewed his make-up, this time colouring his eyelids with dark blue eye shadow and outlined his eyes with eyeliner (like he would ever leave the house without it on). Black skinny jeans, striped black and blue fingerless gloves and his blue converse. Let’s just say he had been planning the whole outfit for a while now.

He told his mother that it was going to be just a big sleepover and would be back before three in the afternoon the next day. He’d learned from the last parties Logan threw were tiring and at the end of them you really couldn’t be bothered getting up to go home.

Grabbing a black hoodie and his mobile, he walked out the door.

He walked out the door exactly the same time he did.

“Oh, hi there.” James waved, acting like one of those overly friendly neighbours in a sixties movie. Casper stared at him in pure disgust before deciding to not even acknowledge his existence and walked to the pavement to begin his journey to Logan’s.

“Wait up!”He heard him say.

Like hell he would. He forced his short legs to quicken their pace.

“Whoa. Any faster and you might start a fire,” James chuckled, matching Casper’s pace easily. That pissed him off even more. Stupid people with their legs and their ridiculously tall genetics.

“Go to hell.” Casper hissed.

“Only if I meet you there.” He winked.

Casper rolled his eyes to the heavens. God hates me, he thought.

It took ten minutes to walk to Hedgehogs for a lift and all the way Casper and James bickered and shouted at one another (only tiny bit of violence was involved). 

So far Casper’s night was turning into the worst ever.

“I can’t believe I still need to put up with you for a whole car ride.”  Casper whined, approaching Hedgehog’s door and pressed the door bell viciously.

Hedgehog’s Dad agreed kindly to take all four friends (Daisy, James, Casper and Hedgehog) to Logan’s house. Casper hadn’t known James had also been offered a ride, if he had he wouldn’t of agreed whole-heartedly to Hedgehog earlier. He just realised he was half way to her house, thinking that James was only trying to piss him off by following him.

“Well, we are so we may as well enjoy it.” He licked his lips and gave a toothy grin.

“In your dreams.”

“Always.” He breathed making Casper blush. He was impossible.

Hedgehog’s dad was the one to open the door.  For a while Casper had been scared shitless of Stuart Monroe. The guy was a walking mountain. He was easily the biggest guy Casper had ever seen in both height and width.

 Before Hedgehog had come out to her family, he had been incredibly protective of his only daughter to the strange boys she hung out with. He absolutely adored Daisy so she never felt the wrath that was Stuart Monroe. The man’s hairy crossed arms, extremely furrowed brows with his super piercing glance was not one to be messed with. He even remembered Logan and James being extremely more quiet in his presence. Not that they liked to admit that.

Turns out Stuart was one of the nicest guys ever, and a big softie despite his scary manner.

“Hello boys,” he greeted gruffly. “They’ll be down soon, I hope.”

At that moment Hedgehog came thundering down the stairs with Daisy at her side, both looking amazing as usual. Hedgehog had made her spikes look extra sharp and colourful and based the rest of her outfit on spikes; spiky leather jacket and thick soled spiky boots, spike bite marks under her lips, chains hanging from her ears and black combat trousers. Daisy had gone for an innocent look, straight natural honey-brown hair, light make-up and floaty white dress with white Doc Martins.

“Well let’s get this show on the road.” Stuart said, pressing his car keys to open the car.

As soon as he did so Hedgehog and Daisy gave each other a sly look and raced towards the open car.

“Shotgun!” Hedgehog cried, flinging herself into the front seat of the car. Daisy proceeded to do the same for the back seat next to the furthest window. Casper didn’t understand why the sudden rush, until he realised that he had no choice but to sit with James no matter what seat he chose.  God definitely hates me.

This was going to be a long car ride.

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Okay, I am hoping the next chapter that something is going to happen and I'll try to make it sort of long because I noticed the chapters are pitifully short and suckish... 

I hope you liked it and continue to read future chapters because they will be up hopefully soon if tumblr doesn't ruin another seven weeks of my life like it did my summer by finding me and never letting me go! 

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