((Okay, waited more than long enough...)) Ben glared at Crawford, waiting for a response. Did this kid have the balls to stand up to him? There was all that anti-bullying stuff always being thrown around, and every other dumbass thought that they could practice that stuff on him. Like they thought i...

Ben turned around and scowled at Webster. It was bad enough that there were idiots in the who couldn't keep up: Teitel just slowed down the material for them. To some degree, Ben could sympathize since he was a lot worse at math than most other subjects. What Ben couldn't sympathize with, was when t...

Ben should've taken another class. He didn't need calculus to graduate. He'd already done Statistics last year, after all, and that had actually been interesting. And useful. So far in calculus, all they'd done was learn about limits. That stuff had been blindingly obvious. Of course approaching a n...

Well, that wasn't much of a surprise. Marcus would've liked to be pleasantly surprised but that would probably happen later  in the night anyway. Still, it was a relief of sorts that Joe had also come alone. It's one thing to know that there are guys coming to prom without dates, and actually knowin...

Marcus suspected that getting dropped off at Prom by his dad was not what would be considered the "typical prom experience". Not that anybody would notice considering how early he was getting dropped off. His dad was probably trying to spare him the embarrassment of getting dropped off aft...

Marcus wasn't entirely surprised when Laura snapped at him again. It was a perfectly reasonable response, after all. She was pregnant, and she probably did think that her life was falling into pieces. It wasn't the end of the world, but Laura probably wasn't in the frame of mind to understand that n...

Maybe he'd been a little bit intrusive. Maybe he'd been stupid to try to do this now, instead of months or at least weeks ago, before the rumors and gossip had built up. Nothing he could do about it now though. He just had to tough it out, with her. Laura had been defensive at first. People usually ...

Marcus had been so stupid. It had been almost a month after school started before he'd heard about the pregnancy, and he'd sat on his butt for almost another month before he finally got around to doing something about it. He hadn't been trying to ignore it. Kind of hard, considering how many people ...

Peter didn't need help. He was fine. No you're not. Peter hated feeling weak. He didn't like to rely on others' support, whether physical or emotional, to do what he needed to do. He was a man and it was his job to be support for others. Shut up. You like it when people are concerned about you. Make...

It was a relief to hear Sora laughing and asking if Peter was okay. It meant that he wasn't angry or hurt from being fallen on. Or maybe because the whole situation was pretty idiotic and a bit embarrassing. In any case, as good as it might feel, it would probably be a good idea for Peter to get off...

Peter knew something was wrong when his anchor point started wobbling. Oh right, Sora probably wasn't the most stable thing to grab onto. Next thing he knew, the two of them were falling to the ice. Ice isn't a particularly soft surface; falling on it tends to hurt a bit. Experience had taught Peter...

In hindsight, asking Sora to help him up was probably a bad idea. Sora weighed a great deal more than Peter, and had the upper body strength to prove it. Sora was more than strong enough to be able to hoist Peter up to his feet. Here's the thing about the ice: unlike the ground, being pulled or push...

Peter gulped when Sora turned to face him and locked eyes with him. Not that he didn't want to look at Sora, but looking into another person's eyes generally made Peter a bit uncomfortable. It's probably a good thing that Peter wasn't good at reading people by their eyes either, or he'd probably get...

Peter stifled a laugh as Sora went down like a sack of potatoes. The big guy really was a wimp on the ice. "Sorry about that man," Peter said as he took Sora's hand. "I didn't realize you were that unbalanced on skates." Sora's hand was cool, probably from landing on the ice. Pet...

((Peter Siu continued from Shopping for SOTF )) Peter loved skating. Mainly because it reminded him of the many times back in Vancouver he'd go skating with friends in the wintertime. Except right now it wasn't winter and there was only one friend to be skating with. These kind of things would be ca...