Nate Donalds has survived high school by hiding behind books But when his private journal his darkest secrets, therapy struggles, and forbidden love for Cole Michaelson is exposed, the walls he built around himself shatter. Humiliation, betrayal, and bullying threaten to destroy him for good. Cole is the school’s golden boy with secrets of his own, steps in to protect Nate but at a cost. He’s bisexual, trapped in silence by his abusive father and terrified of losing everything if the truth comes out. Between stolen kisses, hidden meetings, and the relentless cruelty of high school, Nate and Cole are forced to ask: is their love strong enough to survive the lies, the fear, and the betrayal waiting to tear them apart?
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I landed flat on my face the very moment I stepped into school.
I sighed, this was supposed to be a good year, what an amazing way to start things. I had tripped into a trash bin and I picked myself up as the guys around me who had pushed me laughed out loudly. I ignored them and started walking away, my leg hurt so I started limping."Yo Nate, why are you walking like that?", one of them asked.
"Too many shits been into his asshole for sure",the other one, Kendal said laughing out loudly. "Take it easy on your butthole Nate, else you might start having to wear diapers ", another of his friend, Newton said and they laughed again. I got to class and went to my seat and ignored everybody. "Why do you smell like garbage?", my friend Ethan asked coming to sit beside me. "Kendal and friends", I said calmly. "Don't does creeps ever stop, the hell?". "I just hope I can survive one more year in this school and just disappear", I said. School for the rest of the day was normal, which was so new to me, maybe I can manage them a little, it's not so terrible Usually everyone just stared at me like I had a disease. I use to be a normal kid that never went noticed, just known for being a brain and that was it, until my best friend, Jamal leaked that I was gay and made me come out when I wasn't ready to, he exchanged it for popularity and to roll with the Big four, since then everyone sees me as a weird creep.Which was weird because I'm not the only gay person in this school, so I wonder why my situation is worse.
The Big four? who are theyKendal, Newton, Andre and then Cole Michaelson.
They were of course the hotest boys in school, of course every girl worshipped them, of course they had special treatments, of course their lives were better than ours. They were all bullies, and the fact that Jamal thought that leaking my secret was going to make them add him to their friends group was insane honestly, because we all know for a fact that they would have never done that. They ended up turning him into their servant and he still can't see that he is being used, but as long as he got to hang out with them, he didn't care . Honestly, only one of them wasn't a bully, and he stood out to me, it was ; Cole Michaelson. He is a family friend of mine, we use to be friends when we were younger, hung out at each other's places and I started developing feelings for him, in all honesty, he was the one that made me realize I was gay. For some reasons, he just stopped talking to me, he cut me off swiftly and I never got to see him again. He is the cold one in the group, barely ever spoke, just played basketball and bagged girls without even talking. Everyone said he went cold after his mother died, but I knew it was something else. School was over and I went into my locker to drop my things off and go home, my driver was already waiting for me at the packing lot. Immediately I I dropped the books I didn't need and closed my locker, I felt a cold liquid all over my body. I looked at myself and I was covered with paint from the top of my head down to my feet, I was furiously shaking. I looked up and saw Newton and Andre laughing. "C'mon Nate, laugh it's funny, it's the first prank of the year, you know how we do it here", Kendell said laughing. I was foaming, furiously. I can't even do anything about it, I can't fight them I could barely hit a fly, and reporting was useless, they had special treatments of course no one was going to do them anything. Everyone had their phones out laughing, I honestly didn't see what was funny. "Guys that's enough, give the boy a break, c'mon Nate", I heard a very familiar voice say behind me. I turned around and it was Cole Michaelson, my heart started beating rapidly fast. "Since when did you start feeling sorry for the gay boy?", Andre asked. "I'm doing charity work", he mumbled grabbing my back pack and leading me outside away from the crowd as everyone watched me , laughing. He took me to the parking lot and then my driver looked at me crazy. There was no way I could go in there. Cole scratched his head and then took a hose and then turned it on and all the water hit me, Washing off the paint from my body. Why was he helping me? we haven't spoken in years. The paint was out but I was now completely soaked. My driver got out and put a large water proof sheet on the chair of the back seat, that could help. "Uhm... t... thanks for helping me i-", he didn't let me finish, he just jogged off back into school. That was so strange. The drive back home was a long one, I had already made up my mind, I was going to transfer, I don't care if it's the last year, I can't deal with them anymore. When I got back home, I took a proper shower and then went downstairs to have lunch. "Hello Nate, how was school today?",my mother asked. I shook my head, "I want to apply for a transfer, I don't know if it's last minute", I said. She looked at me, a little bit stunned. "A transfer? why so soon, what happened?". "Got kicked into a trashcan and had paint spilled on me", I said calmly eating my food. "What! that's just too much, I'm going to contact your school and -" "Mom you've done that too much and they've done nothing about it okay? honestly I'm tired, let's just leave ", I said. "But, an old friend of yours needs your help with school, he was hoping you'd tutor him at any price you wanted ", she said. It better not be Jamal. "Friend?", I asked.Almost immediately, the door bell rang.
"Yes yes, I think that's him, go and check the door ", she said. "Mom". "Come on now, go and check", she said again. I took a deep breath in and then went to the door. I swear to God if it's Jamal I'll have his head buried in- Oh shit. You will not believe who I'm standing face to face with. Cole MichaelsonCHAPTER SIXI told myself not to stare, but my eyes betrayed me.Cole sat across from me at the desk, his perfect blonde head bent over the notebook, brows furrowed as if Newton’s laws had personally insulted him. The lamplight caught the line of his jaw, the curve of his mouth.Every few minutes he would glance at me to see if he was getting the answer right, and every time I nearly forgot how to breathe.This was our rhythm now.Tuesdays and Fridays, in his room or sometimes the dining table, textbooks stacked like walls between us. For a while, I could pretend we were just tutor and student, nothing more. But then he’d laugh at one of my sarcastic comments, or nudge my pen away with his longer fingers, and the illusion cracked.“Got it,” he said finally, scribbling an answer down. “Acceleration equals force over mass. Easy.”I gave him a small smile. “Yeah, easy. Took you twenty minutes, but easy.”He smirked and tossed the pen at me, and for a heartbeat we were two normal boy
CHARLIE I swallowed hard, this is going to end crazy.I led him inside."Where are you your parents?", he asked."Dad got back yesterday so, they're kinda enjoying their little moment together so we went ok a little outing", I said."Cute", he said and I led him upstairs to my room ."Still have this Teen Titans poster on your wall?", he asked."I haven't gotten over them, not any year soon", I said.We settled down on my table."So, uhm, what are we starting with?", he asked."Everything ",he said dumping all his text books on my table."Which subject do you think you like a little, just a little?",he asked.He shrugged, "Art I guess, Fine art, cuz it's the only thing I actually enjoy doing, that and basketball ", he said.I nodded, "Okay and what's the worse subject?"."Maths "."Great, so we know your strength and weakness, what's the best grade you've had asides art"."Physics, I had a C"."You're not that terrible I've been worse", I said.Then we started with physics, I was bas
COLE"Hey uhm, guys I need to tell you something", I said."What's that?"."There's this kid you guys pick on, his name is uhm, Nate", I said."Oh yeah the Dude we paint dipped on, what's up?"."Can y'all like, chill on him, he's kinda a family friend of mine and, his mom is really complaining about his mental health", I said.Andre laughed, "Since when the fuck did we care about mental health", he said."Look just cut him some slack ok, go pick on some other dudes"."Who is he talking about?", Newton asked."That gay dude", Kendal said."Oh oh right right, of course how could I forget, dude he is so cool to play around with, I can't stop messing with that dude", Newton said."Just cut him some slack okay? plus he is tutoring me"."You got a tutor?", Newton asked."Yeah, he's like the smartest kid in this school, he's my only way that Harvard", I said."Why the fuck will you get a gay dude to tutor you, do you want him to jerk off to you pronouncing words or saying his name?", Andre a
My hands were shaky as I opened my car door, I honestly never wanted to come here again, put them just doing this for Cole, so honestly if he lied to me and these people keep bullying me, I'm just going to go home I never come back again.I got out of the car and then walked to the hallway carefully.No one seemed to notice me because there was a fight between two girls and everyone was involved in betting on who was going to win.My friend Ethan came and stood behind me."What's the fight all about?", I asked."They found out they've been sleeping with Andre for months now and they didn't know he was playing them both but they're so stupid to fight for him, I can't believe how dumb these girls are"."I want to strongly believe these guys are using voodoo on them", I said as we ignored them and walked to our class ."Honestly, I mean Andre is not even that hot to be fighting for, I'd rather do that with Cole".I dragged him into our class."You have no idea what happened to me yesterd
CHAPTER 2He didn't talk to me, he just walked pass me into the house. "Hi Cole", my mother said smiling."Hello Mrs Thompson", he said and kissed the back of her hand, of course he is very charming and has his way with people."Mom... what's happening?", I asked."He will explain everything to you, I have to go and pick your Dad from the airport, I'll be on my way now, give me feedbacks when I'm back", she said stuffing her face with some fruits and then hurriedly left the house, and I could almost swear she did this on purpose.I turned back to Cole who was standing right in front of me.He was clearly obviously taller than me, he was a perfect blonde, blue eyes, chiseled jawline, everyone would want him of course."So... what's happening?", I asked him."You still have paint at the back of your ear ", he stated."Yeah thanks to your new friends ", I said still remembering I was pissed and went back to the table to continue my food."I'm sorry about their actions, I really am, I ju
CHAPTER 1 I landed flat on my face the very moment I stepped into school. I sighed, this was supposed to be a good year, what an amazing way to start things. I had tripped into a trash bin and I picked myself up as the guys around me who had pushed me laughed out loudly. I ignored them and started walking away, my leg hurt so I started limping. "Yo Nate, why are you walking like that?", one of them asked. "Too many shits been into his asshole for sure",the other one, Kendal said laughing out loudly. "Take it easy on your butthole Nate, else you might start having to wear diapers ", another of his friend, Newton said and they laughed again. I got to class and went to my seat and ignored everybody. "Why do you smell like garbage?", my friend Ethan asked coming to sit beside me. "Kendal and friends", I said calmly. "Don't does creeps ever stop, the hell?". "I just hope I can survive one more year in this school and just disappear", I said. School for the rest of
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