A tall boy with long and curly dark brown hair made his way down the few stairs beneath a white door, closing the small gate in the fence surrounding the front yard behind him before stepping out onto the street. Shouldering his backpack, he made his way towards the big concrete building at the end of the street, all the while with a frown on his face.

His name was Joseph, or as he preferred, Joe Elliott, and he was just about to graduate. He was just coming back to school after the summer break, the final year at high school awaiting him and he was definitely not looking forward to attending all those classes for one more time. The only subject he liked was music, partly because his teacher was a nice elder woman that supported him with every idea he had, but mainly because he felt like creating melodies and lyrics was the only thing he was good at doing. However, since he didn't have music class that day, he was not in an exactly good mood that day. That changed only a few moments later, though.

"Joe! Joe, will you wait for me to catch up?", a male voice shouted from behind him and he stopped dead in his tracks to turn around. He was greeted by the sight of a tall and lanky blonde-haired boy that was hurriedly walking towards him with his backpack shouldered, a wide grin on his face, and a sparkle in his pale blue eyes. It was Steve, his very best friend and also the only one he considered a real and loyal friend. Joe felt the edges of his mouth quirk up to match the beam on his friend's face in an instant, his mood brightening as if it had never been bad. The lanky boy finally arrived next to him, still a bit out of breath since he had made quite a run to catch up with the taller boy, that, on top of that, had the advantage of longer legs.

"Hey mate, how were your holidays? Anything worth telling?"

Steve's grin widened even more at Joe's question and he nodded quickly before parting his lips to spill everything he had to keep in until he saw his best mate again.

"The holidays were amazing! Guess what? I finally got myself a girl!"

Joe smirked at that answer, shaking his head a bit at his friend's antics. Steve had a bit of a problem with getting girls since he was such a shy guy, so Joe had actually predicted he'd never get a girlfriend during their time at high school. But now, in the final year, he had finally managed to do so. Joe was actually a bit impressed.

"You shittin' me? Congratulations mate!", he finally replied, well aware of what it would mean. Steve would be occupied more often now and that would result in Joe having to spend more time on his own. But he'd survive that.

Joe didn't have a girlfriend, simply had no interest in one at the moment. Especially since all the chicks at their high school were setting the wrong privileges in his opinion. He didn't need a girl that was only interested in shoes and make-up. If there would be a girl in his life, she'd have to be into rock music, that was out of the question.

The two young men continued their walk towards the school building together, laughing and exchanging the newest things, Steve telling his best friend how he met his new girlfriend and that her name was Olivia. And before they knew it, they collected their timetables in the secretary and ambled off to their first lesson. It was maths, a lesson taught by a middle-aged man that everyone liked. Since they had made quite similar choices concerning their courses, it was no surprise that they both had maths in the same lesson with the same teacher.

So just a few minutes later they were situated in the classroom maths was always being taught in, taking a seat on a desk in the back next to each other. They continued to talk until the teacher came in and their surroundings got silent, too. It wasn't because of their teacher, though. It was because of the figure entering the room after him.

"Good morning everyone, I hope you had a great holiday! Anyways, I'm sure you're all happy that you're finally back and able to do some maths again!"

Groans and cheers resonated through the room at that, but Joe didn't participate in any of it. The only thing he had eyes for was the lad beside his math teacher.

He had curly chocolate brown hair going down to his shoulders that surrounded his very handsome face, Joe especially noticing the ocean blue of his doe-like eyes. He was dressed in a pair of skintight blue jeans and a purplish top with a lower neckline, revealing a bit of the upper part of his smooth chest, the few sparkling necklaces that were visible accenting the caramel colored skin of his chest even further with their pendants.

Joe couldn't help staring at him and he apparently noticed since he raised his shy gaze and met Joe's, the sight of the bluest eyes he had ever seen from beneath long lashes taking Joe's breath away and making his cheeks heat up immediately. The fuck? What was happening?

"Well, before we start with the lesson, I want you to meet your new classmate. Would you like to say a few words about yourself?", the teacher finally asked the lad, making his cheeks heat up. He obviously didn't like to stand in the center of attention. But he said something either way.

"Um... h-hi, I'm Rick Savage, but you can call me Sav because I like that name better. I'm eighteen and my main hobbies are playing soccer and playing music, my main instrument is guitar at the moment. I hope you'll all get along with me and I can make some new friends."

His gaze shyly drifted downwards to his feet again as he finished speaking, Joe still not being able to quit staring at him. He was interested in music? The teen already knew he had to speak properly with the undeniably handsome new boy. A finger poking his arm made him finally jerk and snap out of his thoughts again.

He turned his gaze towards his best friend next to him with a sigh in return, seeing him watching him with a confused and interested expression on his face.

"Hey man, I tried to catch your attention for quite some time now. You finally hear me?"

Joe nodded and rolled his eyes, one eyebrow shooting skywards in a silent question.

"What's with that boy? You practically stared him down with that lovey-dovey gaze of yours."

"I did not!"

"I have eyes, Joe. Don't lie to me", Steve shot back and Joe was just about to introduce another one of his arguments when he noticed movement in front of their table. He quickly looked up and was met by those hypnotizing ocean blue eyes again. His breath caught in his throat and he went silent immediately. Had he heard their argument from before?

"Hey, I just wanted to ask if you could show me around the school in the break. Since I'm the new one and all."

The question was accompanied by another shy smile at Joe, a single dimple creasing each of the soft-looking cheeks and making Joe's thinking process fail completely again. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but nothing came out. The other boy looked at him expectantly and Joe's cheeks heated up once again.

"I'm sure he would. The name's Steve and this is my best mate Joe. You're Sav, right?", Steve finally said from beside him, saving Joe from awkwardness and also helping him to find his voice again. Steve extended his hand towards the curly-haired one who took it and shook it shyly with that beautiful smile still painted onto his lush rosy lips.

"Right, sorry. Of course, I'll show you around, no problem", Joe finally said and Sav looked at him again with his smile widening. He gave him a slight nod and then wandered off to the back of the classroom to the only free table in the last row.

As soon as he was gone, Joe took a deep breath to calm himself before looking at the blackboard in the front to copy the few terms they had to solve first to repeat some of the basics they would need again for their new topic. And as soon as Joe had solved the first one, Steve started whispering towards him again.

"Have I witnessed that correctly? He actually managed to get you speechless? You? Speechless? Even I am not able to do that!"

"Just shut up about it. It's nothing."

Steve snickered at his answer and Joe just forced himself to concentrate on the terms he still had to solve again, hoping to get his best friend to shut up, and apart from that, the new curly-haired boy out of his head. But sadly, it was not that easy.

"To me, it looked like love at first sight, Joe."

"Fuck off! I'm not in freaking love with him! I like girls and apart from that, I only just got to know him."

"If you say so."

"Just give it a rest. I need to concentrate."

"Clark! Elliott! If it's something important you are free to tell it to the whole class but otherwise quit talking! You're disturbing your fellow classmates with it!"

The teacher addressing them was enough to make Steve shut up immediately, Joe simply dropping his gaze to his college block and continuing to solve the terms. Steve was quite shy towards people with authority and Joe almost thanked the teacher for saying something because it was the only way to get his mate to leave him in peace for once.

The lesson went by without further incidents though, and before they knew it, the bell rang to introduce the break. Joe quickly packed his things into his backpack, telling Steve to hurry, too, and finally left the classroom. At the door, he almost bumped into the new boy, his cheeks heating up again on their own accord as he remembered what he had promised to do. Sav just looked at him attentively out of those big blue eyes with his backpack shouldered, waiting for Joe to give some instructions.

"Well, I... Is it okay if I put my things into my locker first? Don't wanna carry them all the time", he finally asked and the curly-haired nodded in return with that damn beautiful smile painted onto his lips again, waiting for Joe to lead the way. The taller boy did so and noticed Sav strolling down the corridor right behind him in order to not lose him in the crowded space, one hand cautiously placed on the back of Joe's backpack.

They both finally stopped in front of Joe's locker, the taller teen opening it and storing his books inside of it. Sav meanwhile leaned against the locker next to his, watching his action with interest, especially as he saw the band pictures cut out of magazines plastered onto the inner walls of the locker.

"Is that Mott the Hoople?"

Joe's head snapped up as someone said the name of his favorite band, his eyes finally coming to a rest on Sav again, who apparently had asked the question. Surprise was etched onto the older boy's features, a slow smile touching his lips.

"Yes, some of the pictures are from them", he replied, grazing his fingertips over a few pictures on the left and in the middle, "you like them?"

Sav nodded with a smile and got closer to be able to take a closer look at the images, Joe stepping a bit to the side to let him.

"T-Rex, Slade, the Sweet, Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin and hey, there's Queen too!"

Joe watched with admiration as the younger teen figured out each band shown on the images, getting especially excited after seeing a picture of Queen. Joe figured he liked them the most.

"Amazing. The only person I know who figured every one of them out was Steve so far, but he's also the only one who likes them as much as I do. I had a few friends who pointed at Freddie Mercury and asked me who it was."

Sav laughed at that and Joe felt his heartbeat hitch at the sound of it, the image of the sparkle in the younger's eyes as he laughed imprinting itself into his mind instantly. But he shook his head to clear it again, not wanting to get lost in his thoughts.

"What's your favorite band, Sav?"

"Queen, forever and ever. I just love the songs and Freddie is the most amazing singer I've ever heard. They were also the reason why I started playing the guitar. I want to see them live so badly but apparently, I'm quite broke at the moment", he replied and Joe smiled, directly knowing that he had met a true fan of music that also seemed to have a lot in common with him.

"Oh yeah, they're amazing. Mott the Hoople will stay my favorite though, they were the ones that really got me for the first time so the memories get me kind of stuck on them. But Queen follows close after."

Sav smiled at him, obviously having a lot more to tell, but Joe remembered what they had wanted to do in the first place.

"Well, I guess I should start showing you around, the break isn't that long after all. But I'd like to continue this conversation either way while we're walking around."

The younger teen nodded in return, following Joe along the corridor again and listening to him explaining the most important things at the school and where the most important rooms were located. He also showed him a few of them, like the cafeteria or the sports hall.

"Hey, you said you played soccer earlier when you presented yourself, do you have a favorite team?", Joe asked as they were making their way back to the lockers after he had shown the new boy the sports hall.

"Oh yeah, Sheffield Wednesday will always be my favorite, even though they're quite bad at the moment. You got one, too?"

"Sheffield United, guess we're enemies in that aspect then", Joe replied with a chuckle and Sav gently nudged him with his shoulder, joining in on Joe's laughter. The taller teen felt sparks on the bare skin of his arm as it touched Sav's, willing the feeling away with all his might but not being able to. His heart took flight as those blue blue eyes met his again with that beautiful sparkle in them and Joe noticed how he lost himself in the ocean blue. He was drowning with no intention of getting back to the surface.

Maybe Steve had been right. Maybe it really had been love at first sight.