Arthur walked with his head down. Hands in his pockets and his headphones in his ears. He tried to ignore the stares and mumbles that were thrown his way. It’s been 12 weeks since he lost his virginity to Lewis and it began to show.

Arthur was pregnant.

When he had to courage to tell his Uncle after he first read the pregnancy test, he was worried that Lance would beat him or kick him out. Instead, for once in Arthur’s life, Uncle Lance didn’t pick up his shotgun and go searching for the man who impregnated him. Instead, he waved for Arthur to come closer; and when he did, Uncle Lance hugged him and started to cry. Arthur cried too.

Lewis, meanwhile, has no idea that’s he’s bearing his child. The moment he found out that he was carrying he cut off all connections with Lewis, which really wasn’t that hard. They only had the same lunch so Arthur just went to go sit with his friend Abby in her yearbook room to eat.

He blocked his phone number and notified his teacher that he’d have to leave a few minutes early before dismissls( Lance had it covered with the front office). All in all, Arthur felt he had to isolate this. Surely, by now, Lewis had already been somebody else’s guts without a second thought.

As he came to his locker, he was taken from his mood by someone slamming their hand on the locker next to it. Arthur was startled and looked to see who it was. To his surprise it wasn’t Lewis; it was worse.

Remember that William Waters? Well, in the 8th grade he momentarily moved away for a year. When he came back, he was more ambitious about getting with Arthur no matter what.

“Who’s is it for!?” He snarled with a curled frown. Clearly, he was very pissed to not be the father of whatever baby was brewing inside the Kingsmen. Arthur held a calm face and looked back at his locker.

“I don’t kiss and tell like the rest of you.” He said as he placed his physics book inside the metal holding. William grunted.

“You clearly did more than kissing, now,” William aggressively placed his hand on Arthur’s shoulder, pushing him back on the locker hard. Bystanders, instead of helping, just stood there and took out their phones or gave looks of pity or disgust.

“Slut.”

“Dirty bitch deserves it.”

“Can’t believe he had the gull to get pregnant his first time.”

“Poor dude who’s stuck with that child.”

Arthur started to cry a bit. Why?! He did what they wanted! He gave up his virginity so he could stop the name calling from before. Now they’re punishing him for doing so?

He felt a fist make contact with his nose as a sharp pain surged through his face. He had to gasp. “You were mine! Who is the bastard I have to kill!? When I’m done with him I’ll kill that baby too! You’re fucking mine!” Arthur’s oxygen flew from his body when William’s knee hit the space between his chest and his belly. Luckily, he missed actually hitting the baby. Unluckily, Arthur’s air supply was dwindling.

“Woah dude uncool!”

“Leave Arthur alone!!”

“He never done anything to you asshole!”

There was a new string of voices, these making to former negative ones the minority. They were louder too. Arthur felt some type of relief until William grabbed his throat. “Go ahead! Film this! Little bitch will have this memory forever archived!” Arthur clawed at William’s arms as he felt himself lose more and more air.

Until there was a loud thud.

Arthur fell to the ground with his throat now free. Instantly, the Vivi girl and another were tending too him. As his ears stopped ringing, he realized that the hall was now filled with the sound of booming shouts and cheering, followed by the sound of breaking bones.

He looked to his right, only to see Lewis on top William and beating the shit out of him. Every second his fist made contact with Arthur’s attack. And the more he stared, the more he noticed how passionate the punches were.

Eventually, assistant principals and police officers were on the scene. Lewis had to be held down while William carried. His nose, eyes, everything was busted. Lewis’s knuckles now tainted red. The cops had him on the floor and put him in cuffs.

Arthur stood up, ignoring his spinning head. As the officers held the football player up, Arthur tried to talk to him.

“Why did you beat him up for?” Arthur yelled over the roaring crowd. Lewis smiled at him and managed to quickly kiss the shorter guy on the lips.

“Nobody beats up my boyfriend or my baby.” Lewis smirked as he was taken away. Arthur just stood there stunned. Boyfriend? A few nurse came to him to look him over but he was so dazed that he could barely speak a single word.

Boyfriend….I’m his boyfriend.