Chapter 30: Enjoy it while it lasts... I'm off to edit
Garber can't handle it and goes in after then And thatst when he walks in on the scene of luis seating on the laps Of home room teacher.
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Garber looks at Luis and then at the teacher.
Lyis immediately gets off the teachers laps and garber is suddenly furious. He goes to Luis and grabs his hand about to drag him out when Luis struggles.
He feels his heart break that Luis doesn't want to go with him and he's like you need to come with me but luis says no that he doesn't want to that he has a choice to do anything and everything that he wants and the teacher stands up and looks at Garber then pretends to suddenly recognize him, like, “you're that kid whose parents got divorced because your mom Couldn't accept that your dad was gay?
Garber lashes back like “do what? A lot of people get divorced And the teacher scoffs and is like.
At least they can remain friends but what do you want with this innocent shy gay boy when you come from a homophobic family.
Theb lyis finally let's his hand drop as he walks behind the teacher as shield.
So garber is going to have a private Confrontation Later, or maybe when he drags rollang by his collar then rolland reminds him that it was gin who said they qhsould ignore eachit3hr and never act like they know Eachother.
“You dont want peipke to nnow your mom fucks a gigolo cos she desperate, rugth” he sneers before garber Throws him off.
Garber leaves.
Chapter 15
As Soon as garber leaves luis feels guilty and wrong cos he qas happy that garber came for him.
He tells Rolland that he feels like he is being a hypocr for pretending like that and he thinks that he himself as a.person is fake.
But Rolland tells him.that it's just his bodys reaction to standing up for himself and it a sign of him breaking from the hold Garber has on him.
Then he assks. Why does it feel like a painful well is continously dug in my heart. Then rolland tells hik to take some time to breath.
Then he takes out chocolate and tells him to distract himself a bit so it doesn't feel overwhelming.
At the middle of the chocolate, he does start to feel better. And he smiles and hugs Rolland.
He feels rolland freeze before hugging him.back.
Assignment he leaves rollands office. Class goes well.
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GARBERS Pov
Garber feels like he needs to go home. becauee that's the oy place he can confront rolly. Bit at the same time he feels the need to deal with Luis.
So he dies so during lunch break.
Luis is alone now. No chen but then he notices that a girl goes 6o approach Luis.
So thanks to his sisters bullying, he ditched his glasses and jo wears contacts. And garber sees he's getting attention front girls.
And even other boys arw jealous but they can't bully him cos they'll be jerksbin the eyes of girls.
So he has two girls on his table, but garbwr naturally has them in flocks.
And he's so pissed When he sees Luis smile.
It's like someone else is reaping his efforts.
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So in garber’s attempt to get Lyis’ attention, he relapses. People aroudn him seem to be talking about Luis and it’s messingw ith his head, so when one girl who is the black girl in blonde wig from that video that went viral says “I wish Big G would kiss me right now, in the middle of the cafeteroia.
“Her friends say she’s crazy only for them to hear, somtimes wishes come through fromGarber’s mouth and she goes up to him and kisses him. Her overdramatic friends “In garbers monologue” are the ones who gasp and tart screaming first.
He doesn’t do anything but this girl is doing alot. Thenhe glances at luis’ table and their eyes meet.
In his mind he is liek now do you see what you make me do?
IU;m so jealous i’m kissing a girl I can’t een stand just to get tyou to look at me. But then, luis looks away and as if that’s not enough, lyis gets up.
His mind raes and hes so happy that he bites teh girl’s lower lip, but she takes it as encouragementa and announces that Graber is the best kisser and asks if they can go againa d garber is in the middle of nodding when he realises something is wrong.
First luis wasn’t walking towards him to pull the girl off him and ask him what he was doing wile raging with jealousy, instead he was walking towards the exit. thre w his half eaten barely eaten food in the waste basket and leaves. T thsi moment the throws the girl off his laps.
She exclaims but quickly reovers by kneeling in front of him, but he is too shocked and that gives him a reputation.
Luis pov cont
So luis leaves the cafetaria.. Doesn’t know where he is going, but just can’t stand seeing garber like that..like it was enoughthat they had that painful moment for him in the morning and now Garber was letting someone else blow him in the cafetaria. He just wanted to cry and scream his heard somewhere and that’s when he bumps into Rolland. Like they literally bumb into eachother, he doesn’t know who until rolland hold him an asks whats wrong.. Tat’s when he starts to sniffle in rollan’ds hold. Rolland says they should gp somewhere private and then they go to his car, but someone sees then on their way and he doesn’t take it as anything serious.
By the end of theday, there’s already a dating rumour.
And it would have been better if it was just student teacher dating.. But the rumour basically says that Luis is pushing himself on the new teacher who is basically everyone’s heartrob ad.
This earns Luis enemies as well as a conviction that tjis hate was targetted.
So atthe end, he is wondering why someone wants him to be cursed at by girls so much that by the end of the day he is convijved someone is targeting him and he doesn’t know who.
Garber’s POV he is depressed.
And violent.
So when he gets home… he immediately confronts rolland cos his mom is not around and rolland says what rights does he have to confront him afterall, LUI’S clearly said that they were nothing to eacgother and he is pathetic for hurting someone(luis) like that. And garer is just so angry that he punches Rolland in the face.
Rolland tel ls him that he is justa coward and that he should man up, because Luis is a good person and they are friends and he might just shoot his shot and take advantage of luis’ innocence and garber roars ‘fuck you’ and is about to hit him agaian whne his mom coomes in and asks what’s going on.
Rolly’s lip is bursted but garber says nothing and expects him mom to come to him, but she runs towards rlly instead and starts tending o his bursted lips saying that she is sorry for her sion’s misconduct. And garber tries to walk out but his mom calls him back to apologize.
And he sees rolland smirk and thinks to himself that why are people just making him apologize to rolland who is two faced. H feels like rolly has a problem but hes the only one who notices.
This is when his mom calls him out fro being ungratefula nd that Rolland was the one who found him half dead in the middle of the street after he had escaped from teh hospital and made a call after almost fainting from loss of blood.
And itw as rolland who jumped into the water to drag him out despite not knowing how to swim.
He doesn’t think and justraises his voice like ,”he saved me, so what? I don’t owe him my life cos of that.” and his mom slaps him and says he would respect her man.
Garber is just so pissed and says does she mean gigolo? Then he turns around and walks out f the house.
He hears his mom shouting, “that boy will be the end of me,” as rolland pacifies her but thenhe thinks to himself “wait till you find out I’m gay” He gets into the car and is aboutt drive outwhenanother car drives in.
He is forced back in and ewhen the erson in the car comes out, she is a fourteen year old girl and he calls her nam and asks, “Mia why are you back.”
She looks at him with scorn and says , “shouldn’t you be more happy that your little sister is back home? I heard that mom and dad are getting divorced..’
He feels hd heart drop to the ground as he sees her stuff getting brought out of the car.
When she takes off her classes and he sees teh scar right underneath her bangs, he stumbled backwards and remembers how bloody dshe had looked when she came home withit, but she still had a smile on her face…
“Why are you not in boarding school?” he feel shaky and scared as he digs the key into his palm and asks this but she tells him hes too noisy and that she is back home and he should be happy and that hope he isn’t going out, cos they are having dinner thai night together.
He says okay and enters back. Their mom is so happy she goes to hug her daughter, but even her freezes when the daughter says “ i don’t care if you both are divorced… I united dad for dinner.” then they hear the honk of the car outside and her mom immediately sends rolland out, treating him with utmost disrespect, but even this time, garber is not in the mood to gloata s he subtly excuses himself to enter his room and promises to be down for dinner.
He enters his rom, locks tehdor and drags a alcohol bottle from under his bed and says “the deviolis back witha depressed tone as he just gulps the drink in utmost depression.
Luis’ POV
He gets home,, feeling really depressed, cos he knows he can’t sand up for himself or he might implicate Rolland further and drag him down with ihim cos this person attacking is doing so from the shadows.
Then he runs into his sister who isnisted on makin dinner cos she’s in a good mood.
And he doesn’t want to ruin the mood so he forces hs mile and tries toe scape them. But clrissa insists on going to his rom with him while finally compromising that she would only cook the rice and her mom an make the chicken.
He thinks sh eis being btchy again but when he is about to tell her to leave hims room, she pulls him into a hug.
He is shocked and tries to push her off, but then he realises that hr hug is filled with love amnd sinceritya nd he feels ome burdens being listen from his shoulder and he leans into the hug and says thanks you.
After a while, she releases hima nd tells him, “I know you don’t want to talk about it, so I’ll g first.”
Ad he asks her what does she mean? So she tells him that