Trouble by Me =/ (read ebook pdf txt) 📕

"Really? Cause you call being locked in a closet at least two hours a day, surviving." He sneers causing me to flinch. I sigh and go to my new bedroom without another word. I decide fo go to bed early that night, sleeping in just my boxers briefs. 

I wake up the next morning feeling refreshed, but still nervous to start school. Sighing, I get up and go to the bathroom that's connected to my room, and take a nice, hot shower. When I get out, I put on grey sweatpants on over my boxers, and a baggy black hoodie. I'm trying to go with a 'Not interested' look. I guess after not having friends for so long, it gets super scary to even imagine yourself with anyone.

"Hey Sky, you ready?" I ask when I'm fully ready downstairs and she comes in. She nods and sits down on the bar type stools next to me, as we wait for Jade, who comes down soon after. "Alrighty then. Let's get this show on the road!" I exclaim, with sarcastic excitement. They laugh at me and we head out, dropping Jade off first.

"Matt?" I glance at the fifteen year old, letting her know I'm listening. "Will you tell me this time? If anything like that happens again?" She looks so sad, I can practically feel my heart breaking a bit more.

"Oh course pumpkin." She smiles a bit and then we're at the school. We walk to the office together, and there are two people sitting there already. I glance at them but they seem preoccupied with each other, so I just keep walking until we hit the desk, with a probably mid fifties, woman sitting behind it. She has cat like hazel eyes, hidden by glasses resting on her nose as she types away on her computer. Her red hair has a few white streaks in it, and is pulled back into a tight bun. 

"Uh, hi?" Sky says sort of awkwardly, although successfully getting her attention.

"Oh! Hello dears. What can I do for y'all?" She asks, a slight southern accent peaking through.

"Hi. I'm Matthew Frey and this is my sister Skylar. We're new here." I state, not knowing how to continue.

"Ah. Okay, so schedules?" I not at her and she digs through a messy pile of papers on her test. "Here we go. Matthew and Skylar." We thank her and go to leave, when the two girls from before stand up.

"You two are Matthew and Skylar, yeah?" The blonde asks. I slowly nod. "Okay. I'm Kaylee and this is my older sister Tessa. I'll be showing the chick around and Tessa will be showing you." She barely spares me a glance before dragging my sister off.

"Hi. I'm sorry about her." Tessa says, as we walk out of the office. I shrug in response. "Well, like she said, I'm Tessa."

"Um, nice to uh, meet you." I sigh at the end of my sentence, at how much I let my past affect me. I'm actually afraid to talk to people now! "You can call me Matt." I tell her, collecting myself, ignoring the confused and concerned look I was getting.

"Okay Matt. So, why dont we get this started? Let me see your schedule..."

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Tessa finished up the tour pretty quickly, but I still got all the information I needed. My locker is actually just a few down from hers, and she even invited me to sit with her and her friends at lunch. We have the same schedule, so we head to our second hour class, although it was in the middle of it. Tessa hands the teacher our passes and she makes me introduce myself, and let's a few people ask questions about me.

"Where are you from?" Someone asks.

"Uh, just a couple hours from here." I answer, and I know my cheeks are red from all the stares.

"Why did you move?" Someone else asks.

"Um... My uh, my dads job." I lie on the spot.

"How many different schools have you been to?"

"Three including this one." I respond. Someone else goes to ask a question but Ms. Torres stops them. Ms. Torres cant be anymore than twenty-five years old, and she looks like she could be a super model. Her dirty blond hair is hanging down over her shoulders, complimenting her sky blue eyes. Shes wearing a purple dress, with black heels. After I sit down next to some kid, named Kai, she starts the English lesson again. The next two classes fly by, and then its lunch. Tessa grabs my hand and drags me to the lunchroom, where her friends apparently sit.

"Guys, this is Matt. Hes new here. Matt, these are George," she signals to the guy with dark blue eyes, and brown hair, who waves at me. "And this is Kyle." She points to the other one, who has dirty blonde hair, and blue-green eyes that could put you in a trace. Familiar ones at that. My breath catches in my throat as I see him.

"K...Kyle?" I stutter, and I feel tears fill my eyes.

"Matto?" He uses the name he gave me way back when. He stands up and that's all I need to rush over and wrap my arms around his toned body. "I missed you so much." He whispers and I can practically hear the tears forming in the deep pools he calls eyes.

"I missed you too." I respond.

"Ummm.... Did I miss something?" Tessa asks, obviously confused. I look to Kyle and nod, knowing hes asking permission to tell her instead of me.

"Ya know the guy I was talking about when I first came here? My best friend? That had to move away at the same time as me, and I lost touch with?" He asks and both George and Tessa nod. "Well, you've finally met him." He says. 

"So, you're the person they never stop talking about." George states, studying me before admitting, "I think I might agree with them. I like you. You can stay our friend." 

I laugh at his comment and thank him before his words hit me. "Them?" 

"Yeah. Kyle's brother. Hes our friend too but he got suspended for two weeks yesterday for beating up a kid. You'll meet him right before we go on winter break." I look around after Tessa explained this, and realized that Kyle had left to go get food. 

"Wait... Kyle has a brother? I thought I knew everything about him?" I ask confused. Tessa and George make eye contact for a bit, having a silent argument (from what I understand from it) and finally look back at me.

"Um yeah-" George doesn't get to continue, as Kyle returns. Now in even more confused.

 ~Matt~

Despite the confusion, I took a liking to George right away, since I was already sort of friends with the other two. George and Tessa sat across from Kyle and I, George cracking jokes the entire lunch period. I figured out that second and third periods are the only two I dont have with all three, and those two I have with Tessa. I was about to respond to another one of George's jokes (which I'd already heard as it was pretty common-- What do you call a deer with no eyes? No eye deer. I didnt think it was funny the first time I read it, until I said it out loud, and it sounded like no idea) when some girl came up to our table.

"Kyle, where is your brother?" She sticks her lip out in an annoying pout and even though this is my first, even sort of, encounter with her, it takes everything in me not to gag.

"Maybe you should ask your boyfriend. You know, you do have one of those, you really should spend some time with him instead of fucking with every single guy in this school." Kyle responds, not even glancing at her, and I cant help but laugh a bit. I haven't  seen him in six years but before he would have never said anything like that.

At the sound of my laugh, her red hair covered head, snapped over to me. "You must be new, because everyone knows me and everyone knows not to disrespect me." She flips her hair and stomps away. She doesn't even make it a few feet before our group erupts into a sea of laughs and giggles. If she would have talked to me and I actually had to answer, I never would have laughed, but she didnt, so I did. I dont know what it is about this group of my new friends, but I just feel so comfortable with them, its unbelievable. I can barely talk to my own father comfortably!

"Matt? Can I talk to you for a second before lunch is over?" Kyle asks as it nears the end. I nod while getting up, telling the others I'd see them soon. We walk out to the locker bay, and he looks at me for a moment before pulling me into another bone crushing hug. "I missed you Matto." 

"I missed you too Ky." I tell him, squeezing a bit before backing up a bit. He looks at my choice of apparel and his eyes land on my arms. "Kyle, I havent. Two years." I tell him and his eyes light up.

"Really? I so proud of you!" He exclaims. I smile back at him but it's a dim smile. He seems too happy to notice though. And I'm just happy to have my best friend back, and to have made two new friends. "How have you been doing?" He asks.

I take a deep breathe and give him the short version if my current situation. "I have a homophobic stepmother and stepbrother and a half sister. I moved here because I would be locked in a closet about half the school day, and then pushed around by the steps at home, who we left back there for now, but I dont know how long that'll last." I tell him. "But hey, I'm out now so." Kyle is the only person that knew until Tiffany went snooping around. He looks at me with pity which angers me. "Dont fucking pity me Kyle." I snap, turning to leave but he grabs my hand, spinning me around into his arms for the third time in an hour. 

"I'm sorry." He rubs his thumb up and down, hitting his hand before going up as far as it can reach and repeating it, calming me. 

"No I'm sorry." I apologize, feeling horrible for my actions. "You shouldn't have to deal with this anymore. I thought I was better." Its been like this since everything happened when I was little. I havent been able to control it.

"Hey, I understand. Talk to me whenever okay?" He runs to a locker next to mine, three away from Tessas and grabs a piece of paper, scribbling his number on it and giving it to me. "Now, what do you say we get to class? Being early was never a bad first impression." He smiles like my miniature outburst didnt just happen, and I'm thankful for this. We head to class and the rest of the day pretty much goes the same. Introduce myself.