A Wave Of Desire

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Makai

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I wanted to comfort Ocean. I wanted to take his hand and tell him that everything was going to be OK. I wanted to hug him until all of his stress was gone. I wanted to do so much, but I couldn't. 

All I could do right now was walk to class silently while we ignored the rumors that people were whispering about us. I heard them. The other people in the halls weren't being all that quiet while we were walking past them.

"Do you think it's true?"

"I don't know, that's just what I heard."

"What a waste. They're both such a catch."

"How, though? I mean, Ocean was with Brittney. It can't possibly be true."

"Hush, Makai is looking this way."

"Do you really think that he is like that? I mean, he's new here, could they be wrong?"

"From what I heard, someone saw them together. Like together together."

"I can't picture it."

"I won't believe the rumors that Brittney spreads. She has it out for Ocean."

Not all of the whispers were negative, but I just knew that Ocean was going to focus on the bad ones instead of the positive ones. We had allies among these people. They either didn't believe her, or they just didn't care. Not everyone was going to turn against us.

I looked over at Ocean and the desolate look in his eyes. His face was a mask, a perfect poker face that didn't have a crack in it at all. His only weakness was his eyes. His emotions were plain as day and clear for everyone to see in their beautiful gray depths.

'Be strong, my love.' I offered him my silent support as we got to the door to our first class. We had made sure that we were getting to class with barely any time to spare. This way, no one could say anything before the bell rang and Coach Dickson started the lesson.

Well, that had been our plan at least. Waiting in the classroom for us was Brittney. This was the only class that we had to worry about seeing her. Justin was in a few of our other classes, but this was the only one that this bitch was going to be able to ruin for us.

"Ocean!" She snapped at him the moment he entered the classroom ahead of me. He did good, though. He just ignored her and went to sit in his seat at the back of the classroom. "Don't you dare ignore me, Ocean." Brittney stalked over to him as Ryan and I took our seats on either side of him.

"Go away, Britch, I mean Brit." Ryan spoke in an angry tone of voice as he interceded on Ocean's behalf.

"Fuck you, Ryan." She snapped at him. "I will talk to him about this now."

"You can watch your mouth and sit in your seat if you don't want to go right to the principal's office." Coach came in then and glared at Brittney. She didn't look very happy at the moment, but she started to turn away.

"Fine, I'll leave the three queers alone for now." She glared at Ryan like she was making fun of him as well.

"Ha, that just proves how stupid you are." He spoke under his breath but she still heard him, it was clear by the look on her face that she had heard every word he said.

The moment that the bell rang, the three of us were on our feet and on our way to our next class. We were out the door before she was, and that was a good thing. That would put people between us and make it hard for her to catch up to us. Not to mention, that we all walked a lot faster than she did.

By the time that she was even remotely close to us, Ocean and I had caught up with Ben and were almost to our next class. Brittney was still chasing us down, calling after us.

"Stop running away from me, Ocean. I demand answers from you. I deserve that much after you lied to me all that time."

There were eyes on all four of us as we nearly jogged through the halls, but it was worse now that she was yelling at us as well.

"Do you think it's true?"

"No, he was totally into her. He wasn't stringing her along."

"But they are together all the time."

"Their schedules are totally in sync with each other."

More whispers, more rumors, more talk about stuff that didn't even concern them. What the hell was wrong with people? At my last school, back in Florida, there were no issues with someone being gay. Seriously, I think half the damn school was gay. It was an everyday occurrence to see a same sex couple walking along the halls. And in this era, with the way the world is now, can they truly act like it's such a novel issue. There are gay people everywhere, even in politics dammit. Let us be.

My internal ranting was interrupted when the four of us burst through the door to our next class. Waiting there for us, close enough to the door that we almost ran right into him, was Justin.

"Oh look, the Tinkerbells are here." He smirked at us like he had made the perfect joke. "Don't you four think you should just leave. No one wants you here. And I refuse to ever let you in my pool ever again."

"Get out of the way, Justine." Ben snapped at our teammate, making fun of his name at the same time.

"If I were a girl at least I'd be safe from a disgusting pervert like you." Justin was obviously trying to hurt Ben in any way that he possibly could.

"You're a fucking idiot, Justin. Ben isn't gay, but if he was, he wouldn't want someone as stupid and ugly as you. This JUST IN, Justin is a moron." Ryan snapped at Justin then pushed past him. That prompted the three of us to follow him and take our seats at the back of the room.

"None of you are fooling anyone, you know. We all know that you're a bunch of fruits. Ocean and his new boy toy that he picked up after Brittney deemed that he wasn't worthy of her, and Ben and Ryan, the longtime closet couple. That is the most shocking to me, honestly. How long have you two been diddling each other? How long have you perverts been ogling the rest of us in the locker room? Same goes for you, Ocean. Why did you string along Brittney? Why did you date her and make her think you loved her when in reality all you wanted was a big fucking cock?"

"JUSTIN!" The teacher had just walked in when he yelled that across the room for everyone to hear. "Out! Get out of my classroom right now! Mitchel, make sure he makes it to the office. I will be calling ahead to let them know what happened."

"Yes Ma'am." Mitchel, who was sitting near the door, stood and followed Justin out of the room. He was still looking over his shoulder and glaring at us as he left.

"The rest of you, open your books to the same chapter as yesterday. Review it and then move onto the next one. I will be back shortly."

She retreated to the prep room that was between our class and the next one over to call down to the principal. Ocean didn't move to get his book and neither did I. Actually, Ben and Ryan hadn't either. I could see a shell shocked look on Ben's face and one filled with laughter on Ryan's.

I knew that Ben was wondering how everyone else figured out his secret while Ryan was thinking that Justin and Brittney were morons for thinking that he and Ben were gay. He firmly believed that Ben was straight and that this only helped me and Ocean out as we went through this issue.

This was not going to end well for them.

The rest of our morning passed easily, now that Justin had been sent home. He was apparently given a two day suspension that covered the rest of today and then tomorrow, he wouldn't be back to school until Wednesday. That was a slight relief. That meant that we didn't have to deal with him in the other two classes that we shared with him, or at lunch. It also meant that practice was going to be a lot more smooth as well.

The only problem that was left for us was lunch. That would be when Brittney was going to try to bombard us again. That wasn't going to be a pleasant time but as long as we just did our best to stay calm and didn't rise to her bait then we would be good.

I didn't know what was going to happen though, and that made even me nervous. I wasn't nervous on my behalf. I was nervous on Ocean's behalf. I didn't care what anyone said about me. I only cared about my boyfriend and what he was going to go through. He had so recently entered this lifestyle. He wasn't as used to it or open to it. I had known before meeting him that I was into men, he didn't. I was his first boyfriend and that caused our experiences to be completely different. I just wanted to protect him more than anything else.. I would do anything to make sure that he didn't suffer at all.