I kept thinking about that locket at night. I kind of felt happy and relieved to be a boy but somewhere in my mind I missed Alex and Abigail together.
Should I tell my friends about my gender?
Yeah, I should.
Anyway, that night I saw Melis' dream. Maybe she didn't want me to see that.
Melis and I were together in a room and we were kissing. Apart from thay, I didn't see any bad dreams so I slept peacefully.
I didn't wake up early. Just 30 minutes before school was about to start.
I had my breakfast and I was surprised when I stood in front of the mirror, judging my looks for a long time because I usually didn't care about my looks.
Maybe I wanted to look handsome for Melis.
I looked at my whole body. Isn't it odd that I did not know all these years that I was a boy?
Anyway, I smiled when I looked at my eyes in the mirror.
I loved those blue eyes. Abigail had grey eyes , which kind of made her look like a ghost (Just kidding).
I met my friends in front of the bus stop.
Alex raised an eyebrow and said,"Hi".
"Hey", I said.
"Um, I want to tell you something", I said.
"Okay", Adrian said.
"He is not talking to you , idiot", Melis told Adrian quickly.
"No, to all of you", I said.
They started making a serious expression.
"It's nothing serious", I said.
"Okay, go ahead", Alex said.
"Um, I came to know yesterday that I am actually a boy", I said.
I waited for a reply.
"What a great discovery!!", Alex said , uninterested.
"Actually, we have been knowing it since yesterday", Melis said.
"Seriously?" I asked.
"Yeah, your dad told us", Adrian said.
"When?", I asked.
"Yesterday", Alex said.
"Yesterday when?", I asked.
"Before school", he said.
"How come you guys didn't tell me?", I asked.
"Your dad didn't want us to tell you", Alex said
"It's okay,man being a boy doesn't make a difference, does it?", Alex asked.
I kind of felt a little odd. I thought that to Alex, me being a boy would matter.
"You are not surprised?", I asked
"Uh, yeah I was when I first heard it but then I realized that I would love you the same . I just don't care if it's Abigail or Zacharius anymore", he said as a matter-of-fact.
"Until then , we can be best buds or maybe brothers, right Adrian?", he asked.
"Uh, best buds would be better", I said.
"Ok , then", Alex said and suddenly he came forward pulled my cheek, ran his hands through my hair.
"What was that?", I asked surprised.
"That's what best buds do ", Adrian explained.
I smiled.
I kind of felt happy that my friends were happy too.
But my mood changed when I entered school . School hadn't started yet so everyone was hanging out in the ground.
When I passed my classmates, I heard one of them say ," Tomorrow's incident must have been related to him", he said pointing towards him.
"That's what I think", someone else said .
"Stop pointing towards him. What do you Know, he will come and knock you out", his friend said .
So , this is what my so - called friends think?
"Don't hear", Alex said.
"They're just messing you up", Melis said
"Should I knock them out?", Adrian asked.
He was short-tempered who couldn't tolerate his friends getting bullied.
"Yeah, maybe he is one of them. How come he is not a Nutellion when his godamn sisters are?"
"I don't believe that he is not a Nutellion"
"He wasn't at school when Antonio ...., did you notice that?"
"Who knows he might be a Nutellion. Didn't you notice he wears full sleeves even on hit days ? Maybe he wants to hide that sign"
I couldn't take it anymore?
I turned back and said," How come are you sure that you are not one of the Nutellions?"
"What ? What's there to be sure about? Everyone knows."he replied immediately.
"Really?", I asked.
"Then why weren't you present at class when Antonio just got disappeared?", I asked.
This time my friends were literally trying to pull me out of the fight I was involving myself.
"Do you know who you are talking to?", he asked
He came and suddenly punched me on my face.
I fell down and then he pulled me by my sleeves and punched me in my nose which started bleeding immediately.
Meanwhile, Alex and Melis tried to pull me apart and I kicked the person in his ribs.
"Hey, stop fighting. It would get viral ",Melis said pulling me away from him.
It was then that I noticed that almost everyone was taking a video of our 'great' fight.
I was so angry that I literally snatched the phone from Shawnna and threw it on the ground.
It felt good, really.
And that's when the fight started getting more serious.