So I've decided to re-upload this old story again because why not? Anyway, hello everyone and thanks for reading my story! this is my old boyxboy book with a lot of drama and sass and love that I hope you all enjoy, and please tell me what you think! also, if you don't like romance between two boys, then please don't read it  (:

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"WAKE UP RAINBOW!"

Those were the first three words I heard as I woke up Monday morning, no "Happy birthday" or "Get ready for your first day of school" just some crap yelled by my sister from behind my bedroom door.

Well, I should be used to it by now after living with her for the last sixteen years of my life but was that all I got? I mean, were my parents so slack that they couldn't come up and wish me happy birthday?

"RILEY HURRY THE HELL UP IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR GOD SAKE!" my thoughts were diminished as my mother practically screamed at me from the kitchen below. The woman really liked screaming, it was one of her finest skills actually.

"GOD IM COMING MUM!" I screamed back, before swinging out of bed and stretching my back. Before groaning in a sudden realisation of disappointment. I had almost forgotten it was the first day school today, grade 11. The best time to make a good impression that would probably fail like every year before this one, I SUCKED at first impressions, I always freaked out and then the verbal diarrhoea started... as I scratched at the mop of messy brown hair on my head I looked down at my alarm, which I had forgotten to set last night, no surprise. But as my eyes trailed across the time felt my jaw drop.

8:11

Shit

school started in nineteen minutes. I WAS GONNA BE LATE ON THE FIRST DAY, HOW WAS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? Frantically I rushed over to my closet almost tripping over a bunch of junk I was too lazy to tidy up. Quickly, I threw on a t-shirt and a pair of black shorts before flying out of my bedroom and down the stairs like a majestic bird- well, maybe not so majestic. My parents both stood in the kitchen, looking at me with a pitiful stare, just like always- well my mother was at least, my father was busy tapping away at his phone while occasionally sipping from a cup of coffee in the counter.

"Well, well, well" my mother sighed, putting her hands on her hips "I thought you said you were ready last night Riley"

STUPID BRAIN! I mentally screamed at myself for not actually doing what I was told- I never did anyway. But I mean, after almost three months of holidays it would be easy to forget to start setting your alarm, wouldn't it?

"Well, since it's you and your sister's birthday today your father made pancakes for breakfast about half an hour ago" she continued, gesturing to a plate of cold pancakes and a blob of frozen butter on top, sitting on the counter "And because I'm such a nice mother I packed your schoolbag for you, seeing as you were too busy sleeping in past your alarm, now hurry up and eat so we can actually make it to school on time for once"

Damn, my mother really was a savage.

"I thought I told Alexis to go wake you up about twenty minutes ago," my dad said, looking up at me with a tired old man expression "She did, didn't she?"

"SHE NEVER DOES!" I replied loudly so my sister could hear me before I sat down and stabbed my pancake with the fork. Well, cold pancakes were better then cornflakes I guess. On queue, my sister Alexis appeared at the entrance of the kitchen, her face drowned under a layer of makeup while she wore a white blouse that just barely covered her stomach and a pair of short shorts that were way too small to even be considered as a piece of clothing.

Alexis and I were twins, but exact opposites at the same time. She was a perfect definition of a mean girl, pretty, popular, and unpleasant with Caribbean green eyes and blond hair covered in highlights. While I seemed to be the opposite. Quiet, down to earth and generally someone you probably wouldn't notice at all. With the same eyes and face, but wavy dark brown hair. The one thing we both had in common was our absurd love for Vegemite which both our parents found absolutely revolting.

"Can we actually leave now?" Alexis mumbled as she began tapping at her phone as she came and sat down at the bench "I don't wanna be late to school on the first day because my brother didn't know how to wake up"

"You were supposed to come and wake me up half an hour ago!" I pouted.

"It isn't my job you giant baby!" Alexia scoffed as she started texting on her phone as I ate the last piece of my cold miserable pancake.

"I told you to go wake him almost half an hour ago," my dad said, sounding irritated as he finally switched his phone off.

"It's not my job to wake rainbow boy up" Alexis giggled at my stupid nickname as I rolled my eyes again. 'Rainbow' was the nickname Alexis's best friend Brittny O'Brian made when we were back in primary school, but unlike most other nicknames it hadn't gone away and was used by pretty much everyone in our year- and from that nickname people had begun to believe that I was gay- which I wasn't, of course.

Now don't get me wrong, I love my family but they certainly weren't easy to live with. My mother was a tough-skinned lawyer who almost always won each and every one of her cases while my father was a surgeon who worked at night and slept at day, pretty much a vampire, but instead of sucking blood it was coffee. As for Alexis- well I don't know where she got any of her personality from, a bit from my mum but the rest from who knows were.

"Well hurry up" my mother said as she smoothed down her plain brown hair and re-adjusted her pinstripe suit 'Were leaving pronto' she snapped her fingers as I quickly smoothed down my messy hair before looking at myself through the reflection on the fridge. I was kina good looking besides my knotty hair and tired eyes.

At her queue, I quickly finished off my cold birthday breakfast and grabbed my bag from beside the counter, ready to face another unfortunate year of high school. I mean, I'm not some depressed loner who walked around the school doing nothing, I have friends, Not a shit-lode like Alexis but enough to keep me content and Happy.

My mum spend down the 60-mile street towards our school while she silently fought with some co-worker over the Bluetooth phone. Alexis sat beside me focusing on texting her 'Friends' the other Jocks and popular girls in our year while I stared out the window. Unlike my sister and basically every other teen, I preferred the simple things in life like watching the clouds in the sky.

"OH MY GOSH" Alexis gasped- causing me to jump, as she dropped her phone and turned to me as I focused my attention away from what was going on outside and towards my sister, who's face practically gleaming with excitement "Guess what Riley" she said eagerly "There's a new guy in our year all the way from California- and he's coming here because-" she lowered her voice so mum couldn't hear "Apparently he killed someone"

"Really?" I turned to Alexis as I raised my eyebrow "He killed someone? If he killed someone he'd be in juvey or jail or whatever. Where did you make this up from?"

Alexis pouted her lips out "I didn't get it from anywhere Riley" she said with way to much sass then what was healthy "Erin told me. Her cousin lives in the US and she said that she has a friend that knows a guy from the school that the new guy is coming from"

WHAT? I simply stared at Alexis as I tried to take in everything she had regurgitated at me.

"Ugh, you know what? Don't worry. You wouldn't understand" she brushed it off "The only thing that matters is the fact that he raped someone and killed them"

at Alexis's last few words I froze and looked up at her. "He raped someone?" I repeated, "like as in he had..." I lowered my voice "SEX?"

Alexis rolled her eyes again as she picked up her phone and begun tapping away at the screen "Of course, what else would it mean dimwit?"

Wow, lucky for him, he'd defiantly be the centre of attention when everyone else at school found out- wait, did everyone already know? if Alexis was telling me this now then the rest of the school would already know, I was always the last person to find out about drama and it SUCKED.

"Who else knows?" I asked as politely as possible as to not anger the Demon Alexis.

"Like, everyone now," Alexis said 'Brittny, Erin and Kenzie made sure that the information got around to everyone, especially all the girls. I'm sure no one at this school wants to get harassed by some creepy rapist from America-"

The car screeched to a stop abruptly and as I looked out the window once more I saw that we were outside the school, Oaklands high ugh, the most basic and boring school you could imagine. How did we get here so fast? I would have liked a little bit more time to prep myself for the horrible year ahead. My birthday luck had been pretty crap so far.

my mother hung up the phone and turned to us, giving a happy smile "Have a wonderful first day at school" she said as we both grabbed our bags and climbed out of the black SUV "Watch out for each other, and don't get into any trouble" and with that she spread off way above the speed for the school zone, leaving us outside the entrance of school. Ready to start another year.

"Well," Alexia said putting her hands on her hips, "You best watch out this year Riley boy, you might be the new boy's next murder victim"

"WHAT? I'm a guy, not a girl!" I demanded.

"Mhmmmmm" she winked and turned on her heel, striding towards the entrance of the school as I followed shortly behind, contemplating whether I should hit my sister over the head with a hammer or not.

When we both entered the school it was all eyes on Alexis. Girls and guys we passed waved and grinned and gave quick hellos as my sister flaunted her popularity in every way possible, she smiled and waved back and even blew kisses while she strode forward. while I hung back behind her like a sad old potato, my head down and hands in my pockets. It didn't bother me too much that my sister was popular and I wasn't. She held plenty of parties at our house and I was always there at them watching as she and her friends drank and partied and basically killed their brain cells. Usually, she'd make me come play some of those ridiculous party games like beer pong and spin the bottle, and most of the time I'd just wait around and watch. I wasn't too keen on letting my brain cells die for no good reason.

The only bad thing was that when she wasn't around her friends- well, the football players and popular guys really, would usually turn on me and the taunting would begin. So when it was Alexis's queue to go off somewhere, it was usually my queue to follow.

As we walked down the main corridor, Alexis pulled her bag off of her back and begun rummaging though, before letting out a long and rather off-putting groan.

"Oh no!" she whined out loud as a few people glanced our way, "I think I forgot my algebra book!" she quickly snatched up her timetable from inside her bag and let out a sigh of relief "Oh that's okay, I have algebra in third period today. Riley" she turned to me with an all-too-serious look on her face "I'm gonna need you to give me your algebra book at recess so I don't, like, get in trouble or some shit like that, got it baby brother?"

"Uh- sure" I shrugged giving a warm smile. I was a good guy, willing to help anyone in need, including my rather ungrateful sister.

"Thanks, Ry-guy" she hugged me tightly for about a millisecond before turning on her heel and striding off over to were her friends all stood around talking. Speaking of friends, I needed to go find mine.

I Cautiously followed my timetable to my locker, number 345 which wasn't too far away from the cafeteria which was good news- the food here was SERIOUSLY good, especially the chocolate muffins. My locker was surrounded by a bunch of other people in my year, but the news got better as I saw that my oldest and best friend, Sam Gardener's locker was practically opposite to mine.

Sam was one of the greatest friends someone could ever ask for. He was funny, smart, loving, funny, loyal and brave- pretty much all the good stuff- and the guy was pretty good looking too if I had to admit myself. He was about average height, muscular and strong with tanned skin, dirty blond curly hair and aqua blue eyes, not to mention he was quite the charmer when it came to talking to girls which he always said was his best skill. And although he actually did play football, he wasn't like the rest of the Jocks and fuckboys in our year who treated everyone else like shit.

"RILEY!" he yelled coming over as we both high-fived "How's it going my man?"

"Terrible" I sighed overdramatically "I got a cold Birthday breakfast and my parents almost forgot I EXISTED'" I loved to act overdramatic around my friends, Sam especially. I had known him the longest so he was the guy I felt most comfortable around, we could both be pretty crazy sometimes.

"Aw poor Baby" he made a puppy-dog face as I shoved him in the shoulder playfully, but moments later Sam's eyes widened "Oh man your 16 now aren't you" he gasped "I almost forgot until I saw you"

I pouted at him "So you didn't get me a present?"

"Nope lol"

"So much for being my best friend, meany" I bumped my shoulder against his oddly muscular arm which only made him chuckle.

"I'll get you something tomorrow Riley, I promise" Sam winked at me "Pinky promise"

"Fiiiiiine" I rolled my eyes.

"Oh, by the way, have you heard the news?" Sam said as I pushed the last of my books and files into my locker There's a new guy in our year-'

"Yeah, yeah from the USA" I butted off Sam as I rolled my eyes, "Alexis told me in the car. She wouldn't STOP talking about it. Said the guy's coming here because he raped and murdered someone, but I don't believe it"

"Well my sources told me he definitely screwed someone," Sam said closing his locker and coming over to stand beside me "But I agree, I think the murder part is just a rumour. Have you seen him yet? I wanna see what he looks like"

"Mhm me too" I agreed, wondering what his name could be, from what I had heard people talking about in the corridors was that no one really knew what his name was or where he was at the moment. I wondered what he actually looked like- not that I cared, but I did want to see what category he would slide into with looks- no homo tho.

"But guess what" Sam continued as he leaned against me, practically pushing me out the range of my locker "Apparently the person he raped was a guy"

I froze, and turned to Sam who raised his eyebrows "You like that Rainbow?" he smirked.

"DON'T CALL ME RAINBOW" I whined "And NO, I'm. not. GAY!" why did people always assume I was gay? Sure, I acted a little feminine at times and I hadn't had a real crush on a girl before, but girls were kinda pretty, meaning I was straight? Yeah, defiantly.

I was quickly interrupted as the first Bell Rang, indicating that class was starting. I grabbed my things for first period as Sam did the same.

"See you at Recess" he smiled and walked off down the Hall as I begun to stride the opposite way, however as I turned the corner, I caught Sam watching me for a moment before he continued on walking. I frowned, Sam had always been playful and a bit over the top like me, but he had been acting a little off since we started today, but I shrugged it away and continued on down the hall. I had maths first today, egh, I HATE maths, it was stupid and frustrating and it always made my brain hurt. 

Once in class, I met Mr Brown, my maths teacher who seemed worse than the teacher I had last year. Mr Brown was an old, bald, glassy-eyed man who was literally a pear with arms and legs and a fat round head, plus he smelt of cats and dust which made me wanna gag.

I strolled into the classroom and took a seat at the middle-end section of the class, the back rows were already taken but hopefully, I was far enough so I wouldn't smell Mr Brown, Eew.

as the last few people came into class, I found that the seats either side of me were empty- which some people would take as an offence as no one wanted to sit next to you. I simply saw it as more room to stretch out on and I NEEDED to stretch my aching legs badly. I had gone running yesterday and finally learnt WHY you stretch before you run. Mr Pear probably wouldn't care if I sat with my legs up on the seat beside me, and I was right, he didn't even notice a thing.

"I'm very thrilled to be teaching you all this year" Mr Brown continued as his huge pear body waddled around the front of the class "I'm sure that we'll all be best friends very quickly"

Haha NOT.

"We will be going through our schedule for this semester in class today and begin some work if there is time, but before we can continue I was like you to introduce a new student"

In seconds there was murmuring and whispering around the class, I guess everyone had heard already, I didn't know my sister and her friends could spread gossip THAT fast.

I sat up and shot my head around the classroom to look for any new faces- but no, just the same boring people from last year and the year before that and so on. And besides, there was bound to be plenty of new kids in our year, the chances of it being this one particular mystery bad boy were slim, right?

Right?

"We're very lucky to have him in our school" Mr Brown continued "He's all the way from America, I would like to introduce- Caden Grand"

Almost in sync with the introduction, the classroom door opened and our mystery boy now known as Caden appeared. It was like everything went in slow motion as he walked over to were our teacher stood and hot damn, the guy was actually really good-looking- in a heterosexual way of course.

He was perfectly tanned, while his face was handsome, symmetrical, with a mop of dark brown hair, a small scatter of freckles and Memorizing grey eyes hinted with green. he wore a black and red short-sleeved hoddie and grey track pants. He was muscular too, yet not a complete beast like some of the football players in our year, but muscular enough that it made him look perfect- wait WHAT?

"Why don't you tell us something about yourself Mr Grand" Mr Brown continued as everyone watched the new boy in dead silence, I would have thought for sure that he would have been even the slightest bit awkward, but he just smiled.

"Not much to say about myself, I'm from California and I've come here because of my Dad's company" wow, he had a good voice too. Deep and strong. I did like the Californian accent, it was really attractive, especially on a guy... WHAT? Why did I just think that?

"Well Caden, how about you go take a seat so we can begin talking about our schedule this year" Mr Brown shuffled his pear body over to his desk as Caden began to stroll down the lines of desks. He passed by an empty desk at the front beside two girls, and at that moment I realised that there was not only ONE empty desk next to me but TWO empty desks on either side of me- was he coming to sit next to ME? He passed another empty desk and I felt my mouth drop open.

Oh god, my worst fears at this current time had come true. The hot, gay, molester was coming over to sit next to me! WHY ME? WHAT WAS I SUPPOSE TO DO? Keep cool? oh god, what was that gonna do? I didn't wanna get raped on my birthday! I was too busy mentally screaming at myself to notice him as he collapsed in the seat beside me before leaning back in his chair. In fact, my stupid brain probably would have continued screaming if it weren't for a voice in my ear.

"Hay"

I felt my body go stiff and rigid at Caden's words. And it really didn't help with every single freaking person in the class watching us, GOD how could this get any more uncomfortable? But I managed to keep it cool.

"-Hay" I murmured back as people slowly turned back to face the front "I- I'm Riley. Riley Cain" why was I telling him my name?

"Nice to meet you Riley Cain" Caden leaned back in his chair with a grin on his face as I quickly turned back to the front, trying to focus on what the pear had to say, but something to my right was making me anxious, distracting me.

Oh god.

The new boy was smirking at me. 

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And there's the first chapter of my book! Yay. I really hope it's not terrible! it doesn't have a lot of romance yet but I promise there will be in the coming chapters :) 

I'm also hoping to post a chapter every Thursday/Friday since my life is completely crazy haha.

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