The pact

That evening Mrs. Fuentes brought diner at Vic’s room, so I didn’t have to leave my bed. To be honest, I was treated like a princes here and it felt amazing, because I was used to being treated like trash.
Me and Vic were listening to music and talking for the rest of the evening until I eventually fell asleep at ten past eight. Normally I don’t fall asleep until eleven, but I was so mentally and physically tired lately. It’s just that so much has happened the last few weeks.
Sometimes I thought about my life before September 2000 and I compare it to my life after. My life has changed so much. Different friends, habits, school, problems, clothes, music and most important a different attitude.
I don’t really know if my attitude changed for better or for worse. I had definitely grown more self-conscious. I used to be very confident. Shy, but confident. After everything that had happened with my mom and because of all the hate I had gotten at school, I had grown more conscious of myself. The weird thing about it is: I know these people are the bad guys, but somehow I still believe them when they say hateful things. Why does the human mind work like that?
At the other hand, I became more accepting of things. I wasn’t as afraid for certain things anymore. Things my mother used to warn me for, that turned out to be pretty fucking great.
The next morning Vic’s alarm went off at eight o’clock and I found myself sleeping with my head on Vic’s chest and my was arm wrapped around his waist.
I looked up at him to see that he was already awake. He just smiled at me and said: “Good morning, babe.”
I giggled. “Babe?”
“You don’t like it?"
“I do, I just need to get used to it.”
“That’s okay, babe.”
After that I showered and changed. Luckily I had remembered to take my clothes with my to the shower. I was not yet comfortable enough with Vic to walk into his room with only a towel wrapped around my body.
Instead of my skull tank top, I wore Vic’s blink-182 shirt that he had gotten at their tour. It was way too big for me, as it was already too big for Vic. But it actually looked really cool with my black skinny jeans. I’ll never forget the look on Vic’s face as I walked in with his shirt on.
We went downstairs to have breakfast, which was pretty fucking awkward. Mr. and Mrs. Fuentes definitely suspected something going on between me and Vic. I was also quite sure that Mike might’ve told them.
Speaking of Mike, he was grinning at us the entire breakfast. I think he thinks we had sex. I was pretty sure he, and Jaime and Tony, would tease us about it and that was exactly what I didn’t want. Although, maybe not Jaime, he knew practically everything about my fear of commitment.
Speaking of Jaime, I really needed to talk about this. I had to know if he was alright with me and Vic being together. I wasn’t sure if he still had a crush on me, but if he had then we needed to talk about it. Jaime was so good at hiding feelings that it was scary, so I couldn’t really see what he thought about it.
After breakfast we went to school. I had called Jaime the day before using the phone of Mrs. Fuentes to tell him that he didn’t need to pick me up at my house this time. As we opened the door he was already there and we walked to school with the four of us.
It was an awkward walk. I was pretty sure Mike and Jaime wanted to ask if me and Vic were together, but they didn’t. I wasn’t going to tell them, and I knew Vic wasn’t going to tell them either. We were both more of the ‘We’ll wait until they ask about it’ kind of people.
The third class of the day was chemistry, and to be honest, I was looking forward to it all day. After the lesson ended me and Vic walked through the hallways together.
Suddenly he took my hand. Out of shock I pulled it back, but wish I hadn’t when I saw the look on his face.
Maybe I had this instinct of pulling my hand away, because I was afraid of people to know we were together. Then I remembered, that I didn’t give a fuck about anyone at this school.
I grabbed his hand and tangled my fingers between his. He looked down at me smiling.
“I’m sorry, I was just shocked.” I said to him.
“It’s okay.” He said.
“No babe this time?”
He laughed. This was going to be our thing. Making fun of the world babe. It was such a stupid word to be honest. I could already tell that we weren’t a typical couple.
When we almost reached the cafeteria, we heard Jessie behind us. “Awww, how cute. Not. You guys are like the ugliest couple ever.”
I felt a little hurt at first, but then Vic did something quite unexpected. He used the hand that wasn’t holding mine to hold up his middle finger to Jessie.
It was such a stupid, unexpected gesture that the hurtful feeling immediately disappeared and I started laughing. Vic joined along in my laughter until we saw Ryan, Justin and Peter doom up in the back ground. They were walking really fast and looked angry.
I felt Vic pull my arm and we started running, hand in hand. It felt like we were Bonnie and Clyde. We weren’t afraid for them, we just laughed while they were chasing us.
As we ran into the cafeteria we ran towards the usual people of our lunch group, who were all looking confused at us.
We just stood there for a few seconds, out of breath while still laughing. I saw Tony and Jaime look to each other confused and chuckle.
“Why are you guys laughing? What happened?” Leah said with a huge grin on her face.
Me and Vic tried to explain, but not much useful came out. The story we were telling didn’t make sense, because we burst out in laughter at every attempt we tried to tell it. Eventually Vic just shook his head and said: “You had to be there.”
“So you’re doing alright again?” Tony asked me with still a slight look of confusion on his face.
I sighed. I was finally breathing normally again. “Yeah I’m okay. When I woke up this morning I already felt a lot better.”
“Maybe it’s because you woke up in my brother’s bed?” Mike said, grinning and he moved his eyebrows up and down.
Vic and I both turned red. “It wasn’t like that…We didn’t like do anything.” I said
The rest laughed, including Vic. “You did do something…you guys were sleeping.” Said Jaime and he winked at me.
“Smart boy.” Leah said as she gave Jaime a pet on the shoulder.
“I know right, I should win an award.”
“For biggest dickhead?” Mike said. That earned him a soft punch from Jaime on his shoulder. “If someone should be winning that award, it’s you.” He said.
“but hey, you’re wearing his shirt.” Leah said.
I sighed. “Okay guys, just ask what you guys want to ask, don’t act all awkward.”
“Are you guys together?” Leah, Mike, Jaime and Tony said in chorus.
Vic slapped the palm of his hand against his forehead and shook his head. “You guys are such idiots.”
“We’re very curious idiots. So just spill.” Jaime said, faking an annoyed voice.
“Define together.” Vic said with a huge smile on his face. He was definitely enjoying teasing them with this. I just shut up and let him do it, because it was hilarious.
“together as in, boyfriend and girlfriend.” Mike said, he was really annoyed.
“Boyfriend and girlfriend of who?”
“of each other!” Leah said.
“You guys really have to be more clear.”
“Are you guys in a relationship, with each other? Is Luna your girlfriend? Are you Luna’s boyfriend? Do I need to be more clear?” Said Tony to my surprise. He was a never a person to sound or be pissed off.
Vic looked a bit taken back, but was on the point of saying ‘yes, you need to be more clear’ and continuing the torture, so I stopped him by covering his mouth with my hand. “Yes, we are together.” I said and I felt Vic laugh behind the palm of my hand.
Then the four of them exploded in cheering and shouting all kinds of things through each other. I didn’t understand what they were saying, but I heard the word ‘congratulations’ a few times, so I just mumbled. ‘Thank you’
They seemed really happy for us and that made me very happy. Vic swung his arm around my shoulder. By the look of them I could see that they still needed to get used to it, but so did I.

*

It was after school and we were walking to the empty classroom we were a few days ago. We were going to have a meeting there with all the leaders of the lunch groups.
I was both excited and scared for this meeting. Excited because, this could finally make a difference at this school. Scared because, I didn’t know how they were going to react. Maybe they didn’t want a revolution at all and they would just shout at us or something.
I shook those thoughts of me. I looked behind me and saw Jaime walking alone. I took it as my chance to talk to him. I let go of Vic’s hand and walked towards Jaime.
I smiled at him. “Hey Himes.”
He shot me his usual dorky smile. “Hey luunster. What’s wrong?”
“why does there have to be something wrong? Why can’t I just talk to you for no reason.”
Jaime raised his eyebrow. “I know you longer than today, Luna.”
I sighed. “Okay, I was just wondering…If you…Uhm…still like me? As more as friends?” It was hard for me to talk about it because I was afraid to sound stupid.
"Why? Already getting tired of Vic?” He said smirking.
“No! That was not what I meant!” I said fast, waving my hands.
He laughed at me. “I know, Luna. I was only joking. You want to know if I mind that you and Vic being together?”
I let out a breath. Of course he would get what I meant, it was Jaime. I nodded.
He thought for a little while before he answered. “Look, you’re the first person that I fell in love with that turned me down. It’s not going to be gone in such a short time. But I can say that I’m well on my way of getting over you. Did it hurt, when you kissed Vic in front of me? Yeah it did, but only at first. After like three seconds the hurt got replaced by happiness because I was happy for you. I know how hard it was for you to make a romantic connection and I was just happy you finally found it.”
I felt very warm inside. “Thank you so much, Jaime. That means so much to me. I’m sure I will be the one being happy for you very soon!”
Jaime shrugged and blushed. “Yeah maybe very soon…”
“Himes…What do you mean?” I said as a smile grew on my face.
“It’s nothing…We just talked…but she seemed really cool.”
“OMFG JAIME DID YOU MEET SOMEONE?”
He put his index finger in front of his lips. “sssh! The guys don’t know yet. And it’s nothing. She probably doesn’t even remember me anymore.”
“What’s her name?!” I whispered loudly.
His cheeks flushed red. “Jessica.” He said. “She’s in my math class.”
“I’m so happy for you!” I said. I was actually a little bit relieved by this news. I cared a lot about Jaime and I didn’t want him to feel hurt. He was like the little brother I never had and seeing him hurt, made me hurt. He didn’t know this, but I was very protective of him. Even when he was ignoring me, I kept an eye on him.
Jaime didn’t get a chance to say anything back, as we arrived at the classroom. It was already open and a few people were already sitting in on the chairs.
Two boys and a girl. The girl was in the group of the dorks, basically the group who were really into dressing up as their favourite movie character.
One of the boys the leader of the skater group and the other of the nerds. In the next fifteen minutes another ten people arrived. When everyone was here Mike stood up and slammed his hands on the desk of Mr. Brown to get everyone quiet. “Silence, you pussy’s!” He shouted and I tried my best not to grin.
“This is a very important meeting.” He continued. “We are here to start a revolution.”
“We haven’t agreed to anything yet.” A boy with black curls said. I knew he was with the goths.
“I know, that’s why we are going to persuade you.” Mike said. “We need to do something, things are getting out of hand. People are getting hurt.”
“People always got hurt. Since Ryan was twelve, our type of people got hurt. Why do something now?” the dorky girl said. “We never did anything.”
“Exactly!” Said Mike, pointing at the girl. “We’ve always been the victim and we have to get back at them.”
“That’s easy for you to say. Ryan always left your group alone.” A girl from the punks said. “You’re popular, they never hurt you. You were basically the only one who could do something, but you didn’t.”
Mike slammed his hands on the desk again. “Excuse you?! You think my group didn’t suffer of Ryan and his group? Tony was bullied by Ryan and Peter for years! And I had to miss my own brother for three years!”
I looked over at Vic who was standing at the other side of the classroom. He was staring blankly ahead of him.
“But you didn’t do anything about it.” The girl snapped back.
“Well firstly, I did, I took Tony into my group. Secondly, what the fuck do you think I’m doing right now?” Mike said.
“Speaking of your brother.” The skater boy said. “I know what Ryan did to him was wrong and all, but I actually want to know the real story about what happened when Ryan got into the hospital. My group won’t do anything if you don’t tell me.” the boy leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms over his chest.
“I was there.” Mike said. “Ryan was shouting all these things at him. Vic snapped and gave him one blow.”
“How can someone get in the hospital from one punch?” The punk girl said and she shot Mike a bitchy look. I could already tell that I didn’t like her.
Mike shrugged and looked over at Vic, who was still staring blankly ahead. When it was clear that he wasn’t going to say anything, I spoke up. “The doctor’s said that it was a unfortunate punch. A little bit of bone came off and got into his brain.”
“That’s all very interesting, but am I the only one thinking that it’s a bit weird, that his girlfriend has to tell it for him. Why can’t the guy speak for himself?” the nerd guy said and he pushed his thick black glasses further onto his nose.
Vic sighed and backed away from the wall. He walked over to the desk and stood behind it. “Look, I’m not asking for sympathy from you guys. If you still don’t want to talk to me, that’s okay, ignore me.” he said. “I punched the guy, he is now half deaf. I know what I did was wrong, but I also know that some time I have to forgive myself if I want to change things in this school. If your people break the pact, it will have not only an effect on me, but also on the other people in this school that get bullied. Your people! Your friends! I know as no other how Ryan and his minions treat them and what effect something like this can have on a person.” he glanced down at his wrists before he spoke up again. “I know you guys are scared of getting hurt yourself, but if we’d just all stand up for each other, we could might prevent a lot of damage. Not only physically, but also mentally. They won’t stand a chance against all of us. Mostly because we have a goal, peace. All they want is hurt people, acting cool in front of their friends. You say that only Mike can do something, but I think only we can do something. As a group.”
All of the people inside the classroom stared at him. Eventually I started clapping. The others joined in pretty quick. I think he just bought us some soldiers.

Notes

heyy guys,

Sorry if this sucks. I haven't had time to reread it, so I have no idea if it's correct in anyway. I will check it tomorrow and edit it. i just really wanted to update.

little fact about my life: I have music class in school. For our exam performance we're gonna do the pokemon theme song as a group XD of course we're gonna do serious songs do by ourselves, but I just found it funny to tell.

xxxx

Nicky