"Do I have to say it again MUTT!" Penelope screamed while I was on the floor in tears. "You are worthless and you should never have decided to turn up to school today, you know why?" Tim just stared, "Cause no one likes you, your a freak who just sits at the back of the classroom alone with no friends AND your just a genuine piece of shit to even be in the same room with!" Tears streamed down my face, as the group of people behind her just bursts out laughing like this is some big joke, I just want to get out of here but I'm completely surrounded by the vultures that they were. "You might as well just go and D-" I knew what she was about to say die  but this time she was cut off by Mr. Peterson. 

"Now don't you say a word Mrs. Penelope Hughes, I don't care who you think you are but you will not speak to anyone like that in my classroom! You will come with me now! The rest of you just leave now,  school has finished for the day I will see you tomorrow year 9's." Everyone just left, still laughing over what Penelope said to me while I just buried my my head under my desk, not because of what she said but over the fact that I had to be saved by my maths teacher. He made her wait outside for him while he came over to me. "You ok Tim?" He said with sorrow in his voice, I just nodded I wasn't exactly in the mood for talking. "This is becoming a daily occurrence now isn't it?" I didn't respond, "If you ever want to talk to someone about these things then you can come and talk to me ok?" I didn't respond to that either, I just wanted him to leave so that I could get out my books and die in piece. 

He sighed and left the room and I could hear him yelling at Penelope as he was walking down the corridor and I was shaking as I got up from my desk to get my books out. Then I got one of my textbooks out of my bag and hit my head into it, sobbing. Why is it that a teacher has to come to my aid whenever she decides that she is gonna do something to me... I'm pathetic. 

I heard a knock at the door I quickly snap myself out of my trance and wipe the tears from my eyes. "c-c-come in." I said still trying not to cry still, I just hope that whoever it is doesn't notice. As the door squeaks open I begin to recognise who's at the door, damn it's Lenard (Popular Kid), what the hell does he want. "Is Mr. Peterson- OH DAMN HAVE YOU BEEN CRYING?!" Shit he noticed, " N-N-No!" Well you can't say I didn't try. "Man you know I can tell when your lying right?" He stated, I just hung my head in shame, I will never be able to live this down now, he'll tell everyone and well you know how it goes. "Look, just take these tissues and try to calm down." He dug around his pocket and found two clean tissues. 

"Thanks." I said trying to figure out if this was happening.  

"You wanna tell me what happened?" He asked with sympathy in his voice, should I tell him or will he just make fun of me more, just before I made up my mind he frowned and said "You can tell me I swear on my life that I won't tell a single sole!" OK,OK,OK, i'll tell him, despite every bone in my body telling me not to I will, what could possibly go wrong, "B-b-b-basically you know P-P-Penelope?" He nodded, "She basically started doing what she does every day to me and Mr.Peterson had to come in to stop her." He looked at me with a confused face. "First,isn't that a good thing if a teacher comes in to stop whatever she's doing, and second what does she do I'm not in any of your classes and I don't exactly get along with Penelope." I looked at him with a bamboozled look on my face, hasn't he been through one day in this school?! "One it is not a good thing in my case, it usually c-c-comes back to bite me, and two what doesn't she do to me." Tears started to accumulate in my eyes. I expected him to just walk off or something like the rest of the popular kids, but this time not only did he stay, but he actually hugged me. WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!?!?!?

"I'm so sorry, I had no idea that she could be like that with anyone, I mean I thought she was bad but god damn." He whispered in my ear, I- I - I- I haven't felt anything like this before... I have seen people in the corridor act like this but I never thought it would happen to me... is this what care feels like. I slowly started to hug him back, the tears were now streaming down my face. What am I doing? "I-I-It's OK, you didn't know." We then separated and be then had this look in his eye.

"Hey, you wanna walk home with me tonight?" His eyes lit up at the thought of it... me.... walk home... with LENARD THE POPULAR KID!?! I started to blush. "I-I mean sure." SHITSHIHTSHIT. What the hell did I just say?!  Lenard then swiftly picked up his bag and smiled "Cool let's get going then Sir's detentions are in here soon." He said that with such pride... how could he be so confident... it's radiating off him. I rose from my seat, picked my bag up and walked out of the classroom, I was quaking in my boots. YES I'M THAT NERVOUS! I'm sorta in a panic state now... if someone else sees me i'm fricken doomed. Lenard then patted me on the back.

"Dude your gonna be fine trust me ok?" He said reassuringly, "Let's try and get your mind off you know everything. I know, lets tell each other things about each other since we don't exactly know each other that well, that ok with you?" I nodded, well this is going to go horribly wrong. "Sooo what is your faavvoorriitteee food, mine's salmon ahhhhh" His mouth started to drool at the thought of it, damn he really likes salmon. "Ummm my favourite is pizza." I giggled, "Your drooling you know." He suddenly stopped and frantically tried to get all the saliva off his shirt I burst out laughing, not taking note that there was someone in-front of me, I accidentally hit them. "Oops i'm sorry" I stated, Oh shit I just hit Penelope's best friend Tatiana... "Watch where your going MUTT!" she then proceded to push me on the floor out of her way before turning round and spitting "That's what you get for scoring Penelope a detention." Before I could get a word out Lenard stepped in-front of me, "It's not his fault that she decided to pick on him." He shouted, what the hell are you doing Lenard, before I processed what I should say I blurted "Lenard... stop it's fine, just leave her be..." I wheezed, hoping that he'd listen to me. "I'd listen to the mutt Lenard this is your only free pass."  Tatiana stood there until Lenard backed off, then she carried on her way and shouted "YOUR A PATHETIC MUTT KIDDO! " she let out a manic laugh.

Lenard then rushed over to me "The heck was all that about?" He asked with the most confused face I've seen in years. "It's what I get every time a teacher gets involved at all, this time she let me off easy, it's usually a lot worse." I got up and brushed off. 

Le time skip (about 10-15 minutes)

Me and Lenard talked for ages before I got my keys out to go home and realised that Lenard is my neighbour?! What are the odds? Guess I'm always home late so I never noticed before. 

"Are your parents not in or something? Their car hasn't been here for months." He asked with a concerned look on his face. "My parents don't live here, it's just me, i'm the only one that lives here, my parents just transfer me money to live off and pay my bills, I haven't seen them for months." I kept a straight face as this was just my life, ever since I was 11 I have lived on my own so I didn't really see a big deal. "That's awful, it must be hard." Huh I guess he does live with his parents. "Not really, ever since I told them I was gay they bought me a house and told me I was living there since they realised it wasn't just a phase." I looked at Lenard and his face said it all... He was shocked, guess he never knew anyone like me before. Huh figures. "Dude, that's rough, if you ever need anything let me know... Ok?" He had tears in his eyes,  what is happening does he... actually care about me? No way he's only known me for a day, that's not possible. He's one of the most popular people in school... there's no way he'd actually care about me. I just nod at him as I rummage around my pocket to find my keys. "I'll see you later Tim." He cheered as we both separated to our gardens, I put my keys in my door and opened it, I waved at him while he knocked on his door to get in. 

I closed my door and locked it once again... I'm not in the mood to go back out again. I throw my bag under my stairs and head towards my kitchen. I go to my fridge and pull out some vegees and some beef from the freezer and start to cook, one of the few things that I learnt before getting kicked out. Sweet Jesus I love the smell of beef when it gets cooking, mmmmm, i'm getting really hungry now I can smell the thing! I quickly shot towards the cupboards and slid out a plate. I just want to get my food and eat it now, it smells yummy! I pull out a knife and fork to scoff this delicious meal, I mean who wouldn't! Just as I was about to start eating there was a knock at my door, ugh probably one of those people trying to sell me bibles again, would they ever stop. "Coming!" I yell as I find my keys and slowly unlock the door. As I unlocked the door I looked into the spy hole to see... Penelope and Tatiana?! The hell does she want. I only open my door a little bit. "Hey MUTT THANKS FOR LANDING ME A DETENTION!!!" She boomed, "L-l-l-look I-I-I'm sorry- " Tatiana cut me off "Look unless you want a beating tomorrow you will bring both me and Penelope some sweets, then and only once we've got the sweets will we back off. You've got till last period tomorrow." They both pull the door shut letting out a large bang that shook anything that wasn't fixed in place. Why is it always me they come after? What the hell did I ever do to them, I sat in a ball behind the door, I didn't care at this point whether it was open or closed, I just want to cry. Then there was a softer knock on the door, and a familiar voice came from behind the door, "Hey Tim, are you ok?" It was Lenard again, I open the door wider than I did about two seconds ago, "Y-Yeh i'm fine..." I could already tell he didn't buy that one bit. "I just heard the commotion, I just wanted to check that you were ok." There it was again, that concerned face..."I'm fine, i-its just another price I have to pay for sir stepping in. It was that loud hu?" 

"*Nods* Am I alright to come in? It's just a bit cold out here and I don't want you to be cold." He asked, wow...literally no one has ever asked that before.  "Yeh sure, come on in." I was flattered, he wanted to come into my house... I've never seen this side of... well anyone! "Wow your house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside!!! Its hhuuugggeee!" I started to laugh.

"It's not that big ya know *giggles*" I couldn't contain myself, "Dude this is bigger than my house acually its bigger than 2 of my houses put together!" He was getting more and more excited, I kinda liked it. "You want some food or drinks or anything?" His eyes then had stars in them, "You made foooooooooood??" Has he eaten in the past month haha. "Ye you want anything?" I said kinda nervously, no one has ever actually found out that I cook before, no one's bothered to really take any sort of interest in me so this... it's all brand new to me. "Na I'm good, whatever you made smells good, what have you made?" 

"I made some vegies and beef." I kinda blushed. "It's my favourite meal that isn't pizza." We wandered into the kitchen and he just looked at my food and - would it be bad if I said he was cute. "Dude you should be a chef from the way it looks, it literally looks like it was made by Gordon Ramsey (Feel free to correct me on spelling)" He looked so impressed, "You want some?" I asked, the hell did I just ask that for!!! I must be ill. "You sure it is your dinner after all." My mind was just telling me he's right you know he's-"Go ahead, just leave most of it for me." My mind just face-palmed. OK now i'm positive that i'm ill. He literally just gobbled it all up, welp he was certainly hungry. 

When he looked back at me, he had the biggest smile on his face that I've ever seen on anyone "It's delicious, I would have this 50 times over and still be this impressed!" I blushed like hell, no way he actually likes it?! "T-Th-Thanks." His pocket then buzzed and he looked like he was reading something "Sorry I've gotta go, my mum wants me back home, I may have forgot to clean my room hehe." 

"It's all good, I'll see you tomorrow then?" He nods and waves at me while he left, I shut the door and wondered what's this feeling in my belly, it's like they're are butterflies in my belly. 

Le time skip (Around 2-3 hours)

I have finished the washing up from my cooking fiasco and I decide that i'm gonna have an early night, I just can't stop thinking about Lenard... Could I have fallen for him... Let's just see what tomorrow brings.