The next day
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Charlie cackled loudly as he played the Pornhub intro loud enough to grab everyone's attention, and probably loud enough for people outside the locker room to hear it.

"The hell are you watching?" His friend Johnson snickered as he walked over to him.

Just a typical day in the boy's locker room.

I looked at my locker, before putting my combination to open it, hearing footsteps make their way towards my direction.

"Hey, what's up?" Jonas grinned like he usually did, walking over to me, since we happened to have lockers close to each other.

"What?" I shouted, since I couldn't hear him. Loud rap music and other shit was blasting through some speaker that one of the seniors brought.

"I said what's up." He repeated in a louder voice.

"Taking my PE clothes out, what else?" I responded as I took them out of the locker.

"Fuck, I hate PE so much." Jonas chuckled. He lifted his shirt off after he unlocked his locker, taking his gym clothes out and changing into them.

"Look who's here, its the gay dude." One of the guys shouted loud to grab everyone's attention when Gabriel walked into the locker room.

Gabriel ignored all of stares he recieved from peers as he passed by and went to his locker, trying to unlock it. He seemed to have trouble unlocking it, so I walked over to him.

"Hey Gabriel."

I decided to start the conversation with a greet, even though I wasn't really into small talk. He jumped at the sound of my voice, his books slipped out of his hands and fell to the floor.

"Oh hey! Nice to see you again." He mumbled, picking up his books that were now scattered all over the floor. I picked some of them up, placing them on the same bench he placed them in.

"You need help with your locker?" I asked him.

"It's fine. You still need to change, I don't want you to be late because of me. I got this." Gabriel assured with a toothy smile.

"It's fine, dude. I know how to work those things." I insisted as I walked up to his locker. "It'll only take a few seconds." I reached for the locker at the same time as him.

He quickly let go, looking down at the floor. "Alright, thanks.."

I started going through the combination he gave me, it only took me a few seconds to open that thing. I looked back at him, following his eyes that were looking in another direction.

"What?" Jonas snapped at him as he put his gym shirt on. "What the hell you looking at?" He walked over to Gabriel.

"What now? You wanna see what's under my pants next?" He gibed, shoving Gabriel aside before grabbing his backpack.

"H-hey give that back!" He shouted, making a grab for it but Jonas moved it away.

"What? You got something to hide? Lemme guess, you have some lotion in here to get off to all the naked bodies here, right?" He snickered loudly as he started to unzip his backpack. "You know what? I actually don't wanna know what you have on your backpack so here you go. Take that shit and get out of here, weirdo." He said as he tossed Gabriel his backpack back after the bell rang. The sudden weight caused Gabriel to fall, but that didn't matter to Jonas.

"Hey Isaac, you coming?" Jonas asked, as he started heading to the exit. I ignored him and helped Gabriel get up.

"Thanks.." He mumbled, before grabbing his things and walking into one of the changing rooms.

"What?" Jonas said as I gave him a look as we started walking out of the lockeroom.

"That dude was staring at me like some weirdass. " He grimaced.

"I think you guys take it too far." I said, talking about everyone in general. "I mean what's it to you if he's gay?"

Jonas stopped us from walking to our class. "Dude, what the hell are you doing?" I asked him as he dragged me to the bathroom.

"Are you...?" He looked around before taking me to one of the stalls. He locked it before finishing his sentence. I sighed and shook my head, he didn't need to finish his sentence I already knew what he was gonna ask.

"If you do, you should tell me right away dude." he said seriously, locking the door.

"No, I'm not. I'm just think its wrong to taunt him cause of that." Despite the fact I hardly knew him, I felt defensive over the dude. Maybe it's cause I was starting to realize the kind of person I have been myself throughout these past few years .

"Are you even hearing yourself?!" Jonas shouted, in disbelief at my words.

"What happened to you, Isaac? You used to be so eager when it came to beating those weirdos up, and anyone else who fucked with us, look at you now.. I don't even recognize you anymore. It's because of that Audrey, right? You're doing this for her-" I clamped a hand over his mouth since he was being so damn loud.

"No, I'm not. I'm just starting to realize some of the shit we do crosses the line." He gave me a look of disbelief.

"Who are you?" He mumbled quietly.

"I'm still me!"

"Are you really?" Jonas inquired, before he started unlocking the stalls.

"Of course I am." I groaned, sighing as I felt a headache forming. I had to deal with my dumbass dad's bullshit yesterday already.

"Look, how about we stop arguing and just get to class?" I suggested. "We're gonna be late." Jonas nodded, and walked out of the stall. I was about to do the same until I heard a whole bunch of dudes greet Joe.

"Sup Jo?" One of them greeted.

The guys glanced at me as I walk out of the same stall as Jonas, giving us weird looks and I walk over to them.

Noticing this, Jonas grabbed one of them by the hem of their shit.

"What? What?"

"Nothing, nothing!" The dude defended. "It's just.."

I dragged Jonas out of there, arguing with idiots wasn't worth it, I was barely starting to understand what my mom would mean by that. My mom...

"Dude, you didn't even let me explain myself to them!" Jonas whined as we walked out of the bathroom, the bathroom echoed with laughter. Jonas faced the bathroom but I forced him to keep walking.

"Who cares what they think. Anyway we're gonna be late for class." I reminded Joe as I pointed at the clock.

Jonas' eyes bulged as he looked at the clock and realized we only had a few minutes to get to class. "Shit.. You're right, let's get out of here."