Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:35:14 -0500
From: T B <pyro1677@hotmail.com>
Subject: Starting Over 3

Disclaimer:  If you are not 18 or the legal age in the state you live or
if reading a story about two gay boys is not what you want, then please
leave now.  Also, please read my other stories, In Time,That's Life and
Chris In The Middle.  Also, checkout my friend, Sid's stories: Faire
GodFather,I Leaned Against The Wall, Mall Punk and Arkansas Vacation.
I would also like to thanks my friend Brandon for his help on editing my
story.


			       Chapter 3


Eric stayed over that night and him, Tj, Steven and myself stayed up most
of the night talking and joking around.  We all feel asleep in the upstairs
family room.  Me and Steven on the couch and Tj, and Eric curled up together
on the love seat.  When we awoke, we found sheets on all of us.  We assumed
mom and dad put them on us.  We all got up and went to our rooms, to use
the bathroom and get dressed, when Tj and Eric went into his room Steven
couldn't resist.

"If you two aren't out in ten minutes I am calling the fire department"
with that Steven busted out laughing and I was giggling.  Tj just shot us
a grin and the middle finger and closed his door.

We all meet down stairs and ate breakfast, then went over to Eric's house.
We stayed there for a few minutes then went out walking.

Later that day mom and dad took me shopping.  I couldn't believe all of the
stuff they bought me, all new cloths, games, roller blades, books, even a
computer for my room, just like Steven and Tj had.  I was going to have my
own phone line as well.  It turns out that Steven and Tj, also had there
own phone line, and there was a separate one in dads office, but his and
moms room had the main house phone in it.  I would share all of the other
games in the game room with Steven and Tj, I didn't mind at all.

We got home, put up all of my new stuff, and put my computer together.  I
didn't bother to ask what mom and dad did but now I was curious.  I
walked down stairs to the living room and saw them on the couch cudiling
together.  When I walked in I was kinda nervous, they could tell.

"What's wrong sweetie?"mom asked me.

"Well I hope you won't be made but I wasn't wondering.  Today is Tuesday
and I haven't seen either of you go to work anywhere.  I was just wondering
what you two did. I hope your not mad." I said with my head down.  Dad just
chuckled.

"No son we are not mad.  That is very good of you to observe that.  Well if
you must know, you know that restaurant that we ate at last week and the
week before when we came and got you?" he asked.  I nodded my head.  "Well
we own that.  We also own several clothes shops and computer stories.  That
is how we could go in and get you all of that stuff.  The slips of paper
that you saw me and your mom signing weren't bills.  They were for the
inventory, so they know what we took and can write it off." he said smiling
at me.  I couldn't believe it.  WOW.

"So you mean you own all of those different places?"I couldn't believe
it.  They looked at me and sorta frowned I was scared I just messed up.

"No son we don't, WE ALL do, that includes you.  You would still have to
have one of us with you or at least have us call if you were to go there to
get anything, but you are also one of the owners as well." I got tears in my
eyes and hugged them.

"Thank you" was all I could get out.

Two months later was the beginning of the school year.  I was terrified.  I
mean it has been what, just over 2 years since I was in middle school.  I
was going to go to the private school that Steven and Tj were to go to,
called Pines Academy. I took a tour of it last month and it's a pretty
good school, nice and big and well kept.  I really didn't care if I go to
public or private but sense Steven and Tj were going to Pines, I was advised
to go but, they still asked me what I thought, so I took my chance and said
ok.

When they enrolled me, the school had me take a placement exam.  I knew I
couldn't do too well, but I wanted to do better then average.  It was a
week later when the results came back.  I was to be in about 3 advanced
classes and the rest regular classes, mom and dad sure were proud and I was
scared stiff.  As it turns out, Pines Academy was from grades k-12 but I
was still going to be separated into the middle school part of the school,
at least I knew Steven and Tj were going to be there.

School started and was terrified we really didn't have a massive dress code,
just slacks, and a button up shirt.  I could handle that.  The cool thing
was on Friday's was jeans day and re could wear jeans and a regular shirt,
now I could diffidently handle that one.

My first day of school was some what scary.  Not knowing anyone and still
learning what was going on around the school.  I meet a few people but,
because of my shyness, not too many.

My homeroom was ok. My teacher, Mr. Barley was pretty cool, he introduced me
to the class and I told them a little about myself, just that my parents
died
last year and I was adopted this summer. I told them I was from Virginia,
but had lived down here the past 4 years.  After that I sat down and just
keep quite.  A few of the boys seemed to kinda snicker at me but I didn't
care, a few of the girls on the other hand were real nice to me,
unfortunately for them, I"m gay, so I wasn't not worried about it.

My first two classes were advanced English, and advanced History. I loved
both of those classes from when I went to school the first time, so I knew
I would love these too, BUT when I walked in ,I found I was the only 7th
grader in the class, with a bunch of
9th and 10th graders, now I was scared.  I sat near the front and kinda
keep to my self.  One of the other boys snickered and made a joke about me
being in the wrong class, that I should be in the kindergarten English. I
was hurt and didn't say anything, but the teacher did.

"Well Jerry, the thing is that when Alex here got tested for English, he
could have been in advanced English on the Senior level, but they decided to
keep him with students closer to his actual age level.  His scores were
better then yours" with that the teacher got on her way and introduced us
to Advanced English.

History was pretty much the same way with the same students, turns out that
this English teacher also teaches the advanced history as well.  Jerry
almost made the same comment but decided against it just in case I was
better then he was.  We started the class the same way as English, but this
time we got into ancient Greece, my FAV subject.  I just listened. I
wanted to say a few things, but keep my mouth shut instead.  I think that
the teacher was trying to see how much we actually knew by changing a few
of the dates.  I finally had enough.  I raised my hand, and when the
teacher called on me I asked her about the dates and I told her the
correct ones, some of the other kids kinda snickered about it thinking I
was stupid, but Mrs. Barns just smiled.

"Your right Alex, I did change those dates to see if anyone could get the
right ones.  Very good." She then continued with her lesson.  After those
two classes were over there was a 15 minute break.  I went to my locker
not noticing any of the guys following me.  I changed my books and turned
around to see Jerry and a few of his friends there, I was scared for a
minute, until Jerry smiled.

"Hey dude, sorry about that, I was just having fun.  You really know all of
that stuff don't you?" he just asked me.  I just gave a shy smile and
replied.

"Umm yeah, I love history, especially ancient history. So I made sure I knew
what I needed to."

"Well, that's cool. Maybe we can all get together and study." he said
holding
out his hand.  I was scared at first, not knowing if this was a good thing
or a bad thing.  Maybe they were just trying to get to me and hurt me.  I
saw Mrs. Barn walk by and she just nodded and smiled at me.  I shook his
hand and we agreed to a study session this Friday at my house.  I think
they decided my house so I could learn to trust them.  We all agreed and
went on our way.

My next class was Algebra.  I'm not real good in math, but I do ok. I
wasn't really that worried about it.   We did the introductions, then we
talked about what we would learn that semester.  After we finished the
basics,
the teacher let us have the rest of the time to meet each other.  I was
just going to sit there and not do anything till one of the boys in my
class came up and started talking to me.  He said he saw me talking to
Jerry, Ricky, and James and was wondering how I knew them.  I told him,
he couldn't believe it.  I was a 7th grader in advanced History and English.
Well that kinda spread around by lunch, and everyone thought I was some
kinda
of a brainiac. If only they knew the truth.

My forth class was Advanced Geography. Turns out that Mrs. Barns's sister
teaches that one in the same classroom as my advance history class AND
most of the same students were there as well.  When I walked in Jerry saw
me and his eyes got kinda big, but He just kinda snickered and pointed to a
seat by him, Ricky and James.  I took my seat and we chatted a little about
where I came from.  I was finally making friends.  Mrs. Barnes came in, saw
me and smiled.  She had heard about me from her sister and liked the fact
that I was in this class and was making some friends.  After class was
lunch. I ate with Jerry, along with Ricky and Jame. We all had the same
lunch and they asked me to join them.  I accepted and we went into the
cafeteria. We got our lunch and then sat down to eat.  I saw Steven
and Tj walk in with some of there friends including Tj's boyfriend, Erick
They saw me and couldn't believe I was around a bunch of 9th graders talking
and having fun.  They smiled at me and waved. I waved back.

"Who are you waving to Alex?" Ricky asked.  I pointed to Steven and Tj,
and there friends.

"Those are my brothers, Steven and Tj. the only one I know out of there
group is Eric, the boy sanding by Tj" I said. They said that was cool and
James got up to get us a soda.  When he came back he was talking to Steven.
Turns out he asked them to join us.  Most of the cafeteria kinda quieted
down seeing a bunch of 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th graders all talking, like it
was something new to them.  I was kinda nervous. "Umm guys what is going on?
Why are people staring at us?" I asked visibly shaking.  Jerry just put his
hand on my shoulder.

"Don't worry little dude, they aren't used to seeing this many different
grades sitting and talking together.  Most of them think that what ever
grade you are in, is who you should stick with" he said, patting me on the
back. I just nodded my head and we kept talking.  I saw this one boy
just sitting there and not doing anything but reading and eating.  He seemed
to be about Tj's age. Maybe a year or so younger and shorter the he was.  He
seemed kinda quite, but I didn't think too much of it at the time.

We all joked and kidded with eachother. They REALLY let into me about being
a brainic and stuff. I just blushed and shrugged it off.  A few minutes
later the bell rang and we headed to our next class.  For me, that was gym.
I was really scared now, having to shower in front of the other boys. Afraid
I
was going to get hard looking at them.  Turns out that Steven, Tj, Eric,
James Ricky and myself all had the same gym class, Jerry went to Physics.
At least I knew a few people in there.  We all sat down and  talked until
the gym
teacher came in.  He went over the rules and the fact that we were to ALL
shower no matter what.  We had to.  I was kinda nervous and the teacher
told all of the new boys there not to worry, we all had the same thing.
Yes, some boys do get erections and that it is normal and they should
NOT be teased because of it.  I sighed a sigh of relief and saw Tj, Eric,
and Steven looking at me and knowing why I sighed.  We didn't do anything
that day, except talk about the class and how things went.

My next class was Biology. I was actually in an regular, 9th grade Biology
class (what can I say, I was to advanced for physical science) the only
person I knew in there was Ricky, at least I knew someone in there.  We sat
by each other and I got ribbed again, but Ricky took care of that, telling
them how smart I was and I actually made some cool friends.

After Biology I went to Computer typing, now here is where everything REALLY
paid off.  I was really good at computers. I was concedierd a hacker. We
went over all of the rules once again, and after about 10 minutes we took
a typing test. We had 5 minutes to finish it and I  was through in about 2
and a half.  The teacher came up to me to see why I was finished and kinda
just stared at the screen.

"Where did you learn to type so fast?" she asked me.  I just shrugged my
shoulders and looked at my hands in my lap.  She patted me on the back.
"Well, where ever it was, you are good." She then went around and saw
how everyone else was doing.  She told us what we should read in our books
to get ready for the semester.  We were aloud to talk the last 15 minutes
of class, then the bell rang to go home.  I went to my locker and got out my
bbooks that I needed for homework.  Now this is messed up. What teacher
gives out
homework on the first day.

I went out side to wait on Tj, and Steven, when Jerry and the gang walked
out.  They saw me, waved, then headed to the parking lot. I guess one of
them
had a car.  A few minutes later, Steven and Tj walked out.  We talked about
our day and how things went.  Mom finally pulled up and we headed home.  We
told her one at a time about our day. She was happy that we all had a
good time and made some new friends as well as rekindeled some old
friendships.  She said she was VERY proud of me for trying to make friends,
and succeeding. I told her about Rick, Jerry and James and about us
studding together this Friday if it was all right with her.  She said that
was fine. I just smiled back.  We got home, changed to after school clothes,
did our homework and then played in the game room till dinner was ready.
Dad
got home and we told him about our day as well.  He was happy for us and
was glad we all made new friends.  He told us about the restaurants and
stores
and what had been happening.  After dinner we took our baths or showers and
got ready for bed.  We watched TV for a while then finally went to bed. I
didn't think I could sleep. I was SO excited, but I was able to fall asleep
quite easily

That first week blew by, making friends and everyone sitting together at
the table like we did that first day.  I was having a blast.  Then Friday
came. We were waiting after school for mom, we knew she was going to be
late.
She had already told us.  I saw the boy that I had seen that first day that
was sitting by himself in the cafeteria, being chased by three other boys.
I saw this, and saw RED.  When Burt got me, I was shocked. I couldn't
react, but this was different.  I started running after them, Steven saw me
take off, and him and Tj followed.  I saw them push the boy down and kick
him.  Some of the other kids that were left over were  yelling about
the fight.  I ran through them and into the open.

"Leave him alone" I said.  They stopped and looked at me.  The bigger one
just saw red.

"Get out of here brainic, this doesn't concern you, only the FAG here" he
said pointing to the boy.

"Why are you beating him up?" I asked again. The older boy was starting to
really get annoyed now, and faced me again.

"If you must know, it's because he's a FAG! And if you know what is best for
you,
yourself, you'll just leave."

"No, you're just assuming he's gay...I have an idea, if you want to beat up
a
real fag, then beat me up." `Did I just say that!?`  Everyone turned to look
at
me. "Yeah,that's right, I'm gay. So what are you going to do about it?" I
said, just staring him down.

"Boys, let the shrimp go" he said. The other two let him fall to the ground.

"Get out of here man, NOW!" I said.  The boy crawled to the other side. I
saw someone helping him up, I noticed it was Jerry. He just kinda stared
at me.  I gave him a half smile and then turned back to the advancing boys
coming towards me.  I took my stance.  They saw this and chuckled, they
started to run towards me.  I was able to kick the leader in the nuts and
he went down hard.  When he was on his knees I took my knee and got him in
the nose.  Now he didn't know which was in more pain, his nuts or nose.

The other two saw this, and at first didn't know what to do. But they
decided
to try and get me at once.  They came at me and I did a round house, kicking
one into the other and they both went down, HARD.  I knocked one of them out
at least.  The third got up and saw me and decided to get me on his own. He
through a punch and I blocked it. I grabbed him with one hand and went down
on with his back over my knee and him looking up side down.  I
had one hand around his wrist and another over his shoulder.

"I can break both in less then a second. Do you understand me?" I asked him.
He was to scared to speak. He just nodded and took a deep gulp of air.
"Good, now if I see you bothering him again or hurting anyone else ,I, WILL
come after you myself.  I HATE to fight, and because of YOU MORONS, I just
outted myself to the school." I said looking at everyone in the circle.
No one said anything.  "I may have lost ALL of my friends because of you
but you know what, I DON'T care.  I HATE bullies." With that, I dropped him
on the ground,, grabbed my book bag and started to walk back to the school
grounds where I saw mom waiting. I just started running to the Navigator
and jumped in the back seat.  Steven and Tj jumped in as well. I didn't
know they were right behind me. I just started sobbing and didn't know
what to do. I was SO upset and scared.  Mom asked what was going on and
Steven told her. She looked at me astounded.

"I didn't know you could do martial arts." she said.

"When Burt hit me, I was too stunned to do anything. And by the time I
could you all came in. I'm sorry mom, I didn't mean to out myself. They just
made me SO mad. I couldn't help it. OH GOD I don't have any friends anymore,
I'm all alone again." I just sobbed out.  Tj, unhooked his seat belt and
hugged me.

"You still got us" he said giving me a hug.  I just hugged him back and
cried harder.  When we got home we all got out, I saw dad's SUV in the
drive way. I knew he was home. I ran to the door almost knocking him over
when he opened it.  I ran straight upstairs, slammed and locked my door. I
through my book bag down and laid on the bed crying. I didn't know what
to do. I didn't have any more friends. I knew I had Steven and Tj, hell
even Eric, but by Monday, it would be all over school, what I did, and what
I am.


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