Originally published: Sometime in 2016

Connor's POV

The next day I wake up to a wet stain on my pillow. I cried for a long time last night. I sit up and grunt at the pain in my stomach. I lift my shirt to find a large bruise.

"Shit..." I drop my shirt and start to get ready for school. I shower and put on my clothes and cautiously walk out of my room. My dad was unconscious on the couch. Beer bottles littered the floor around him. I let out a sigh of relief. I walk into the kitchen and make myself some toast, then off to school I go.

When I get outside the school I felt someone wrap their arm around me. "Hey Connor." I look at the boy next to me. It was Devon. "Hey Devon, what's up?" I smile at him. "Nothing much." He takes his arm off of me and we walk into the school.

"I heard you joined the art club." He said poking me in the ribs with his elbow. I flinch a little bit. "Are you okay? Did I hurt you?" He asked, a look of surprise on his face. "Um, no. I'm fine." I give him a reassuring smile. "Are you sure?" I nod and look at the ground.

He doesn't take his eyes off me. "Alright." He sighs and finally looks away. We stayed silent as we continued to walk down the hall.

The bell for lunch rang and I walked to the lunch room with Devon. We were hanging out but it felt very awkward and silent. We get our lunch and sit at a table. "Okay, can we please talk about earlier?" Devon said breaking the silence. "Why?" I ask, looking down at my tray. "Because something's wrong and I know it. Just tell me, I'm your friend and you can tell me anything." He gave me a look of concern.

"I really don't want to talk about it..." He keeps his eyes locked on mine. "Well well well, what do we have here?" I voice says. I turn to see Tyler and Kyler standing there. "Oh, hi." I wave. "So, you guys met?" Kyler asks crossing his arms. "Yeah, we have." Devon said finally looking away from me and to the twins.

"Well, it seems like you guys are really into each other." Kyler says with an evil smirk. "Why would you think that?" I ask. "Maybe it's because you two were staring into each other's eyes dreamily." Tyler says in a mocking voice before shrugging. "Well it's not like that." I say quickly, looking away to hide my blush. Devon looked down with a slightly aggravated look on his face. What's wrong with him?

"Yeah sure." They both laugh. "Whatever." I roll my eyes. "So, if you guys aren't into each other then why were you gazing into each other's eyes?" Kyler asked, the evil smirk still plastered across his face.

"I was trying to get Connor to tell me something." Devon said. "Hm, Connor's hiding secrets?" The twins said in unison. "We wanna know to." I sigh. "No, I'm not going to tell you guys anything. It's private stuff. I don't want to talk about it." I begin eating my food.

"Are you sure?" Kyler asks. "Yes, I'm sure." "Are you sure you're sure?" Tyler asks. "Yes." My eyebrow twitches. "Are you sure you're sure you're sure?" They both ask. I sigh. This is going to be a long day.

(A/N: everyone's commenting about Spongebob and I haven't even watched that😂 I just heard my friends say that)