Change is Good - 1. Chapter 1 - Forgetting the Past

Chapter 1: Forgetting the Past

*Alex*

New town, new school, new faces, new friends, new life. I wouldn’t miss the places I once called home, after what he had done to me I don’t think I ever wanted to go back. Sometimes it is just easier to forget about all of the pain in the past, and just move on so that is exactly what I intend to do.

“Rise and Shine,” a loud bubbly voice shouted as I felt a sudden weight hit my bed. Before even opening my eyes I knew who had just jumped onto my bed.

“Do you mind, I could have been naked under here for all you know,” I said as I sat up on my elbows to scold the person on the end of my bed. The one staring back at me was none other than Tiffany my next-door neighbor and best friend. We met the first day I moved here and after a failed attempt to make me her boyfriend, I play for the other team if you catch my drift, we became instant friends and have been inseparable ever since.

“Please, like that would matter to either of us, you are so not my type,” Tiff responded before jumping off the bed taking the blanket with her. “Now get you butt out of bed it’s the first day of our junior year and I intend to find you a boyfriend by this time tomorrow,” she said as she dragged the blanket on her way to my closet.

As I finally managed to pull myself out of bed I begin to be assaulted by cloths being thrown at me from my closet. “I’ve never worn this,” I say as I look over the cloths Tiffany has thrown at me.

“Of course you haven’t, I bought them for you last night and your dad let me drop them off here in your room while you were asleep,” Tiff informed me as she ran from my room before I could hit her with a pillow.

After getting dressed and looking at myself in the mirror I had to admit that Tiff definitely had good taste in clothing picking me out an entire outfit from Aero. Now I’m nothing special, 5’9” with a light brown complexion, short dark hair, deep brown eyes and glasses to boot I’m just another average guy in my opinion. “Are you done yet in there or do I have to come in and help you get dressed,” I hear Tiff shout from the other side of my door.

“I’m all set let’s go, you’re driving today because I don’t feel like it,” I informed her as we walk outside and I get into the passenger side of her Lexus IS 250. Yeah, her family is pretty well off but she isn’t one to show it off and flaunt it in everyone’s face. It’s that trait about her that makes me love her so much; of course I would never tell her that, her head is big enough already. Tiffany hops in the car and we speed off to school.

School is pretty much like anywhere else. You have your common clichés, the jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, outsiders, Goths, etc. Tiffany isn’t a part of any of those groups but she gets along with everyone pretty well. While I find myself more in tune with the geeks but I’m ok with that as no one really bothers me about that. As far as being gay, well no one except Tiff knows that part and right now I’m okay with the way things are going. Just as I finished getting all my needed books out of my locker someone bumps into me sending me to the floor and my books everywhere else.

“I’m so sorry I wasn’t paying attention to where I was going,” a voice says as I dust myself off. When I look up I find myself staring into the most gorgeous set of hazel eyes I’ve ever seen. “Hey are you ok? I’m Shawn sorry again for running into you,” he said as he collects all my scattered books and hands them back to me.

“I…I…I’m uh Alex nice to meet you, I haven’t seen you around here before are you new?” I ask him as I take my things back from him.

“Yeah, just moved here with my folks about a month ago, I hope to be seeing you around,” Shawn waves as he rushes along presumably to get to his first class on time.

“I saw that, hmm, he looks like he would make a good candidate for your first boyfriend,” Tiff says as she hooks her arm around mine and we head off to our first class. “I can see it now, you will be forgetting all about little ole me as the big handsome stuff makes you scream in the back of his car at the drive-in theater, and oww,” I hit her arm before she could finish.

“He is definitely something to look at but there is no way he is gay, and even if he was there is no way he would be interested in a guy like me when he looks like that,” I said to her just as the teacher walks in.

*Shawn*

Well that was one way to make a first impression, its bad enough that I run into someone, but he had to be cute too. I hope I haven’t made a complete fool of myself, I know I definitely want to get to know Alex better. Who knows maybe he will turn out to be gay too, that would be one thing that would make this move worth it.