Chapter 2

The person in the picture above is Jake

Once the end of the day came, Jackson went into the principals office like the vice president had told him to, but was a bit surprised to see others in the room with him. "Jackson, student council president got busted for something?" Max asks in a sarcastically amused tone, with his arms crossed. 

"Shut it Max, I don't need any of your smart remarks today. I will not mention any of the wrong doings that you all have done,  but you all have done something bad to be brought into my office today. I'm pretty sure all of you know what you've done?" The principal questions, looking at all the boys standing before him.

"I personally don't know what I did wrong." Kevin answers while looking at his nails with an un-amused expression on his face. 

"If you need to stay back and let me clarify that for you, Mr.Chu I can do that." The principal says in a harsh tone which Kevin rolled his eyes to. 

"I'm sure none of you want to get suspended." The principal says, now folding his hands on his desk. 

"I don't mind" Max interrupts, sounding like he didn't even want to be in the room for another second. 

"Well Mr.Park, if I give you another suspension, I would need to expel you. If you have any intention on getting past high school, i recommend you don't get expelled." The principal explains, still sounding pretty harsh. He then continues to say "as I was saying, if you don't want to get suspended I have another option for you boys." 

"What's the other option?" Todd asks in curiosity. 

"You're all going to have to join a club-" 

"Nope, no can do. Todd and I have basketball practice." Carter interrupts, looking at the principal with a serious expression on his face. 

"Well you should have thought about that before you did what you did. The club is called the 'social justice' club. It not only helps our school community but also helps with the world around us. Some of you might actually benefit from this. You might learn something that will give you a new light to change your ways." The principal explains in a smile. 

"Social justice club? I've never even heard about that type of thing before?" Kevin asks, looking at the principal in confusion. 

"It doesn't have many members, so you guys will keep the club running." The principal says while standing up. "I'll show you where the club room is, the club is every day. If I find out any of you didn't go without a legitimate reason, then suspension." He explains before walking towards the door to leave the office. 

The group of boys followed the principal down the hall to the last door, at the end of the hall. The room was an old English room that wasn't used anymore. It was pretty much abandoned. Some people even made up stories about it, saying it was 'haunted.' 

As the principal opened the door to the club room, there was only three people in the room. "This boys, is the social justice club." The principal says, looking at the only three other members who were in the room.

"Um sir, I'm not a part of the club. I'm just technology." Jacob says, looking over at the principal from the top of the laptop screen before looking back down. 

"You're still here every day anyway Jacob." The principal says in a dull tone. 

At the same time, a very baby-faced looking boy walked up to the principal with a faint smile on his face. "Who're these people, sir?" He questions in a faint, polite tone.

"These are the new members for the social justice team. I'll give you more details about it after, but for now just let them introduce themselves to you and explain the club to them. I'll be in my office if one of them gets out of hand, or if you need me for anything." The principal explains before giving the group of boys a serious expression on his face. It was like he was telling the boys to behave with eye contact before he left the room. 

As the principal was finally gone and the room was dead silent, the club leader coughed a bit to get everyone's attention. "I-I'm glad we have more members. You know, it was getting a bit hard to do things with only three people in our club." He says, rubbing the back of his neck and chuckling softly.

"Two people." Jacob says, reassuring him that he wasn't a part of the club.

"W-Well everyone why don't you take a seat and we'll introduce ourselves. I'll explain what this club is all about as well, okay?" The leader asks, trying to smile at everyone. 

All the boys listened, but Max mumbled rude things under his breath about not wanting to be there. Once everyone took their seats, The leader stood up at the front so everyone could see him. "Some of you might or might not know me, but I'm Nate. I'm the leader of the social justice club. Basically what we do here, is try making justice happen for people in our school community, and people around the world."

"Isn't that student council's job to make our school community a better place?" Carter asks in a joke, looking at Jackson while smiling. 

"I didn't even know a social justice club existed." Jackson replies. 

"W-We're not a very well known club yet, but I believe with all of you joining, that might change. The other members here are Ryan, and Jacob." He says, pointing to the two others who were also at the front. Ryan was standing off to a side while smiling and Jacob was sitting at the teachers desk, typing away at his computer. 

"I'm not a part of this club." Jacob says once again, which felt like the hundredth time he's explained it. 

"This is great, I'm stuck in a room with losers." Max groaned in a loud tone, saying it for everyone to hear once the room got quiet, bringing everyone's attention onto him. 

"Losers?" Todd repeats, looking at Max a bit offended but smirked to show he wasn't afraid to fight. 

"Yeah, losers. We have the religious bastard over there, the nerd on the other side, including the twink who's in the middle of them. I'm in a group with the emo freak, rich snob, quiet jerk, and the two basketball players who think way too much of themselves and oh, the president of student council. I'm stuck in a room with a bunch of freaks." Max explains, kicking his feet up on the desk. 

"And we're stuck in a room with someone who has anger management." Carter puts in as a side comment. 

"What was that?" Max asks, already sounding angry. 

"You heard me" Carter says, loud enough for Max to hear. 

"No, come and say it to my face." Max demands, already standing up from his seat. 

"Come on you guys please don't fight...we're not suppose to be fighting. This is a social justice club. We can't do things for others, if we can't get along with each other first..." Nate says, trying to calm the boys down. 

"No one cares about this stupid club, Fate" Max yells. 

"It's Nate..." Nate quietly tries to correct. 

"Whatever, let me just punch him in the face so he can't play basketball." Max says, now walking up to Carter. 

"Guys, we should seriously calm down." Jackson says, now standing up as well. He stood in front of Max, trying to stop him from walking towards Carter. He knew what Max was capable of doing, and knew that Carter wouldn't stand a chance. 

"Do you guys want to go back to the principals office or not? Come on Max, just sit down." Kevin says, looking up at Max since he was standing in front of his desk. 

Max stared at Jackson for a while since he was still standing in front of him and rolled his eyes. "Whatever" he slightly says before turning around and sitting  back down in his seat. 

"Carter, please don't provoke anyone, we're all here to become friends." Ryan says, now walking to stand up beside Nate. He knew Nate usually got scared easily so he knew he wouldn't talk to the boys to stand up for himself. 

Nate smiled at Ryan as a thank you and then turned to look at the boys sitting down in the desks once again. "I think we should all go around the room to introduce yourselves. I personally don't know who everyone is, and it'd be nice to know everyone's names." Nate says in a smile, looking at the most innocent person in the room, in his opinion, which was Jake. 

Jake saw Nate looking at him and then looked at everyone else who was in the room. He opened his mouth to speak, but when he spoke everyone didn't hear anything come out of his mouth. "Speak up Jake, no one can hear you" Carter says. 

"My name is Jake" you could just about hear him say this time. Everyone accepted it as an introduction since they figured he wasn't going to speak any louder then that.

"I'm Todd, I'm on the basketball team for anyone who didn't know." Todd explains in a confident tone as he went after Jake. 

Carter figured he'd go next by saying "I'm Carter, who is also on the basketball team." 

"I'm Kevin." Kevin says in a simple explanation. 

"I'm Jackson, for the people who don't know I'm your student council president." 

"I'm Max, you all probably know me though even though I'm not in any sort of club." Max explains while crossing his arms. 

"Who wouldn't know you? You ruin everything good that this school ever does." Jackson glares, looking back at Max while Max stuck his tongue out at him. 

Everyone then looked to the person at the back of the room who didn't say anything. "What's your name?" Nate asks, looking at Ethan who was sitting in the corner. He had a black hoodie on and was looking down into his lap with his arms crossed. You couldn't really see his eyes because he was looking down and his bangs were covering them. 

Ethan didn't answer, but Carter answered for him. "His name is emo freak" he says which made a couple of others in the room laugh.

"His name is Ethan" Ryan says for him, telling everyone his name. 

"You know him, Ryan?" Nate asks, looking at Ryan surprised.

"We met this morning, the catholic club was praying in his classroom this morning when he walked in." He explains in a smile. 

"Well this will be fun, there's so many new faces I'm excited about what's going to happen-" Nate then got cut off when he heard the door slammed open. 

Everyone turned their heads to see who had entered the room. The person entered the room with a huge smile on his face and a strong jawline. "Who're you?" Nate asks, looking at the boy confused. 

"This is the social justice club, right?" The boy questions while sounding a bit excited. 

"Yes it is, why?" 

"I wanted to know if I could join. I heard a bunch of people just joined and I wanted to be in on it! What, is 'social justice' just some boring cover up for what this club is really all about?" He questions, closing the door behind him as he entered the room.

"No, this really is a social justice club." Nate reassures, looking at the boy a bit offended in a way.

"I'm not a club member." Jacob says to the boy who had just entered the room. Just so that he didn't misunderstand. 

"Really...huh, then why did everyone join? Woe, Max Park is here? What's up man!" The boy asks, looking at Max with a big smile on his face.

"Who're you?" Max questions while raising one eyebrow, looking at the boy in confusion. 

"Well I'm a new student here, I just came here today to look around and stuff but we met last year at the summer house party. Don't you remember me? Yet again we were both really drunk-" the student says with a light chuckle. 

"Oh shit" Max says, his eyes opening wider a bit in shock and standing from his seat so he could run out of the room. 

The student saw Max's shocked expression on his face and reassures "no, no, I'm not those people! It's me, Lucas." 

Once Max heard it was Lucas, he looked at him un-amused and rolled his eyes. "Oh you" he says before sitting back down in his seat. 

"Can one of you two update us on what's going on because I think everyone is completely lost." Todd questions, looking back and forth from the two boys.

"Max and I were hook up buddies last summer until he said he found someone new and didn't want to do it with me anymore." Lucas explains in a smile. He didn't seem like he was hurt at all, more like he sounded happy for the memory. 

"Wait so you two...did it...and you're both guys?" Ryan asks, looking  back and forth from Max to Lucas confused and a bit startled.

"Oh yeah he's a catholic freak, we shouldn't have mentioned anything 'gay' related around him." Max says in annoyance while rolling his eyes. 

Ryan looked down at his feet to hide his confused and concerned expression. 

"Well that's good then, social justice club fights for the equality of everyone, even gay people." Nate ensures in a smile. 

"Makes me barf." Max mumbles.

"This seems like a cute club, can I join?" Lucas asks once again, looking at Nate with a big smile on his face. 

"Sure, it's our first day with this many people anyway. Our next meeting is tomorrow after school and we'll decide what we're going to do for the school and the littering at that meeting." Nate says to end things off.

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I don't know if you guys like this story or not, is it okay? Obviously it's going to get more dramatic with upcoming chapters but thank you for reading it, it means a lot to me. 

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