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The Pissing Off and The Facebook Insults
Morgan has been an emo since elementary and he doesn’t like being around people. People had addressed him with different names like ‘alien geek’ and such but he doesn’t care as long as the jerks don’t get in his way. It was perfect for him until the stupid Cameron suddenly showed up. The show-off transferee had challenged him into an academic battle. Morgan had called it stupid and didn’t take the stupid challenge. Morgan knew that he has been the top student since elementary and nobody had been his rival since then but now that Cameron is his schoolmate, not to mention his classmate, the two of them are battling to become number one.
It’s been two whole weeks since the guy with silver hair and green eyes arrived in town and he’s still not getting used to it. He will never get used to having a jerk follow him around like crazy.
He ruffled his hair. He’s getting crazy and he doesn’t want that to happen.
“Thinking about something?” the smirking face of Cameron showed up before him.
He ignored the other guy and continued drawing a sitting angel with three kids cuddling beside her.
“Wow, you really are talented.” Cameron continued as he looked at the sketch pad in front of Morgan. “Did you inherit that or something?”
Morgan didn’t answer; instead, he added a few more details to his drawings before pulling his colored pencils out of his bag.
“Hey, how come that you are smart and talented but you do not have any friends?”, he asked again as he pushed off a lock of his hair away from his eye.
Morgan just looked at him blankly then turned back to his drawing. He didn’t know that Cameron really is a dense idiot not to notice why he has no friends at all.
“Oh, I know!” he said as he pounded his fist onto his palm. “Maybe because you are too amazing that people around you get insecure because of that.”
Morgan continued to ignore the other teen.
“You really do not like me, do you?”, Cameron asked.
“No, I don’t.”, Morgan finally answered. He made sure that his voice is icy cold so he can let Cameron feel what he just said.
“Why?”, Cameron asked and his voice suddenly turning quieter than his normal voice.
Morgan looked at him with a brow raised. “Why?” he repeated what the other teen said. “Because I do not like people like you.”
“People like me? What do you mean?” Cameron’s voice is tainted with pain and anger.
Morgan stared at the obviously hurt teen in front of him but didn’t show any emotion whatsoever. “People who are show-off, doesn’t mind their own business and doesn’t leave me alone.”
Cameron now grinned. “Oh, so that’s your problem, huh?” he said. “Well, I am very sorry, mister, but before this month ends, you’ll definitely love me just the way I like it”
“Oh, yeah?” Morgan asked as he raised one of his thick eyebrows. “How’s that, huh, annoying-show-off-kid?”
Cameron leaned forward which made their face be away by only a mere inch that took Morgan by surprise. “I’ll make you pay for calling me that later.” he said as he stood up.
Morgan scoffed. “How?”
Cameron put his index finger before his lips in a ‘shush’ sign. “That would be a secret, honey.” he said as he laughed before walking away from Morgan.
Morgan glared at Cameron for calling him that disgusting word. “Curse you, Cameron Robb.” He shook his head before continuing what he was doing.
Cameron doesn’t know what he had seen in Morgan that excited him so much… too much. Well, the stoic red-haired guy with maroon eyes is rather exciting himself.
Cameron chuckled to himself. Maybe transferring to a new town isn’t that bad anyway. It was his idea after all. He walked home directly after pissing the hell out of Morgan. Even he didn’t know why he called Morgan honey.
“How’s school, Cam?”, his dad asked when he heard his son enter the house.
“Oh, just fine, dad.” Cameron answered as he walked towards his dad and kiss the older man on the forehead.
“Is it as exciting as before?”, his mom asked as she entered the living room wearing an apron.
Cameron embraced his mom lovingly before giving her a kiss on the cheek. “Yes, mom.” he answered.
“Well, we’re glad that you’re having fun in your new school, Cam.” his dad said with a smile on his face.
“Me too, dad. Me too.” he assured his dad.
He was about to go up to his room when his little sister suddenly caught one of his legs. “Hey, Can, let me go now before I strangle you.” he jokingly said.
“Let’s play hide and seek!” Candace said as she pulled the sleeve of his uniform.
He smiled at how cute his sister is. “Later, okay?”
His baby sister pouted but let go of his leg anyway.
“I promise we’ll play later.” he said.
“MM is a better than you!” Candace said.
“Candace, you’re brother said later, didn’t he?” their mom said lovingly to his sister.
“Who’s MM?” Cameron asked curiously.
“Her new baby sitter whenever your dad and I aren’t around.” his mom answered with a happy smile on her face. “Very sweet child.”
“Child?”
“Yeah, just your age.” his dad said.
Cameron shrugged before going to his room; completely forgetting about this MM his family is talking about. He took his guitar and started playing the song that he had written for his first love, Nelson. He admits being gay and his family accepted that fact when he told them about it. He had known it since he was hardly 13.
He could still remember Nelson bugging him into singing his favourite song. Nelson would start with bribing him with cookies and if that trick doesn’t work, the brunette would just look at Cameron with those big, blue eyes of his and Cameron would just sigh in defeat and start singing Nelson’s favourite song.
Nelson had been his best friend since elementary. They were inseparable. They were titled ‘The Perfect Duo’ of their school because they were the number one and two of the whole school. They’ve won every contest there is. They were inseparable until Cam told Nelson he liked the other teen and Nelson looked at him with disgust. Cam didn’t need to wait for Nelson to say those painful words. He was already heartbroken. He ran his way home and asked his parents to transfer to him to another school and his parents sacrificed everything just to give him what he wanted. They loved him so much after all.
He cried for lots of nights in his mom’s arms; wishing he would just disappear into thin air and forget everything that had happened. Everything changed in his life since that day. His usual confident attitude crashed down and his very alive personality died in an instant.
He was in that broken state until he saw a person he knew will become his new friend… Morgan. The other teen was kind of interesting to him. Morgan was an introvert, obviously.
Cam shook those memories out of his head and stopped playing the song. He started playing a different song and this one; he doesn’t even know who he was referring to.
He sighed as he stopped playing the guitar and put it in its usual place. He took his laptop and opened his facebook. What he saw made one of his thick eyebrows to twitch.
Nelson’s status had changed from single to in a relationship. But then again, it seems that he didn’t give a freaking damn anymore because he started to type into the comment box. Congratulations, Richard. He had never called Nelson Richard since they became close. Nelson’s real name was Richard Nelson but since Nelson hated his given name, he asked his closest friends to call him Nelson instead.
Then somebody posted a comment too. Jealous, Cammy boy? or should I say, Cammy gay? haha… commented Jarie Brenda, the horrible bitch of their batch. Everybody in his former school called him Cammy boy. Well, because the name Cameron is obviously bisexual and he has a girl classmate who had the same given name so to distinguish them, their schoolmates called them Cammy boy and Cammy girl.
He was about to post another comment when Nelson suddenly posted his own comment. Shut your sorry butt, Jarie! Give the kid a break.
Cam clenched his fist. Nobody ever called him ‘kid’ before because he hated being called that way and Nelson is well aware of that. He kept reading as more people posted their rude comments. He felt his patience snap and he typed his next comment. First of all, Jarie, I am NOT jealous. Richard was just my friend and by saying that I liked him doesn’t mean that I like him romantically. And those who just insulted me, at least, I know who I really am. My family accepted me for what I am and that’s all I need to live. Then he hit enter.
No more rude comments came after that. He signed out of facebook and turned his laptop off.
“Cam, honey, dinner’s ready!” he heard his mom said loudly from downstairs.
“Coming, mom!” he said before returning his laptop to his study table.
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