1 Chapter 1

Author's Note:

Hi everybody, thank you for reading my story.

Just reminding anyone who didn't notice that this is a boyxboy so if you don't want to read this then please don't.

This is the first story that I have written so hopefully you enjoy it and any constructive criticism that you have is greatly appreciated.

This story is set in Australia because I thought it would be a new perspective since most stories are set in America and if I'm being honest I don't exactly understand how school works over there haha.

There won't be too many graphic scenes in this story and so I don't think any trigger warnings are necessary.

I will try to update regularly.

Anyways please enjoy and let me know what you think :)

Chapter 1:

Joe's POV

"Joe wake up!" my mum yells from the kitchen. I rub eyes eyes and groan, I grab my phone to check the time and it's 7:30. I put my phone back on top of my unpacked boxes and stretch, my joints cracking as I go.

"Joe!" She yells again.

"I'm up ma" I yell back at her while I swing my legs off the bed and make my way to the bathroom. I place my hand on the unnervingly cool door knob and push however to my dismay it is locked.

"Rosa! Get out of the bathroom I need to shower" I yell as I bang my fist in the door in annoyance.

"Shut up Joey!" She yells back at me and I roll my eyes but I stop my banging. "I'm almost finished" she informs me and I roll my eyes and stalk back to my room to grab my phone. I scroll though my instagram until a small body jumps on to of me.

"Morning Joey" my little brother cries as he continues to jump on top of me. I grab him around the waist and begin to tickle him.

"Ahhh Joey s-s-stop" he cries as he squirms under me.

"This is what happens when you jump on me Ollie" I say as he continues to laugh and squirm. Rosa appears in the door frame I can see that she spent a little extra time on her make up this morning and I roll my eyes at her. I know she wants a boyfriend this year but she really does not need makeup to look good.

"The shower is free now" she tells me as she ruffles Joey's hair.

"Why do you wear all that makeup Ro?" I ask getting off my bed and she gives me a huge eye roll.

"You would not even begin to understand these things Joey" she tells me and roll my eyes at my sister once more and make my way into the shower. I strip down out of my pyjamas and adjust the water until it is just right. I step in and let the water run down my back calming myself. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't anxious about staring at a new school half way through the year, I mean what if I don't make any friends and I end up being a loner who sits by his locker? Then there's the issue of my deep dark secret. Nobody knows, not my old friends, not my family, nobody. I want to be myself at this new school but it's hard. I've never even said the words out loud. I am gay. I don't want to hide anymore but I am nervous to tell my family. It's not like they're close minded or anything but it's always hard to know how a Catholic-Italian family will react to something like this.

Once I finish rising off I step out of the water and dry off, I spend longer than I would like to admit styling my hair. I rush to put on my school uniform just as my mum yells out for us to get in the car.

# # #

The vice-principle gives Rosa and I a small tour of the school while showing us our classrooms, the cafeteria and other populated areas. She hands me my lock and leads me away from Rosa and towards my locker. I have a bottom locker which I hate because even though I am short I have to crouch down. I slide my bag in and start to organise the few books that I have. I check my timetable and groan at double English, I actually like English but the books we have to read are always boring and I never do well. I jump when somebody taps me on the shoulder, I turn to see a small girl with dirty blond hair and ridiculously blue eyes smiling at me.

"Hi?" I try to sound confident but it comes out as more of a question.

"Hey" she says giving me a wave "I'm Ally"

"Oh hey, I'm Joe" I tell her and she smiles at me and then pushes a lock of hair behind her ear. She is ridiculously pretty, with natural good looks and smooth skin, if I wasn't gay I would be extremely nervous right now.

"Well I'm assuming you're new because I haven't seen you around before" she says.

"Yep just moved from Sydney" I tell her and her eyes light up.

"That's so cool, I love Sydney" she tells me and moves to the locker above mine and begins to turn the lock putting in her passcode.

"Looks like we're locker buddies" she says placing her bag in the locker and reaching up to grab a book off the top shelf.

"Yeah I guess so" I say shutting my locker and locking it.

"I need to warn you ahead of time that I drop a lot of things so your head might get crushed" she says and I chuckle and lean back on the lockers.

"Consider me warned" I say as she closes her locker dropping her pencil case just to prove that she wasn't lying.

"So what do you have first?" She asks bending down and picking up her fallen object. I notice a couple of guys staring at her ass as she bends down and I mentally roll my eyes, straight boys are not subtle.

"Um double English" I tell her and she smiles at me.

"Oh me too, which pastoral group are you in?" She asks and I glance back down at my time table.

"Umm 11B" I say and she smiles again and snatches up my time table.

"Hey we have a lot of classes together" she informs me as she starts walking down the corridor and I quickly follow her, for a short girl she sure moves fast.

"Huh, you're kind of a nerd" she says as she gestures to my timetable and I snatch it back from her a give her a glare.

"Hey!" I grumble folding my timetable and shoving it in my pocket.

"Ok calm down Joe" she says with a little laugh "I'm a nerd too, I told you we have most of the same subjects"

"Ok fair enough" I say as I follow her into a class room and sit down in a chair next to her. I glance around the classroom. It's not very big but there's a lot of posters hanging off the wall. My eyes wonder over to a guy on the opposite of the class. He has spiky black hair and dark skin I barely get to glance at him before the teacher walks in and I snap my attention towards her.

Once pastoral is over Ally and I walk to English and the teacher comes over to me to make sure I know what we're doing and I assure her that I will catch up and then she walks back to the front of the classroom and begins teaching.

The lesson is over fairly quickly and then Ally is dragging me back to the lockers to grab our recess. A tall guy with curly brown hair makes his way over towards Ally and steals some of her food.

"Hey!" she says but doesn't stop him from shoving the food into his mouth. He glances at me with furrowed eyebrows and I guess realises that he hasn't seen me before so I stick out my hand.

"Hey I'm Joe" I say as he reaches towards me and grabs my hand.

"Josh" he says while shaking my hand.

"He just moved here from Sydney" Ally pipes up and steals a bit of Josh's food and I chuckle a little at their closeness.

"Hey that's awesome" he tells me with a toothy grin. I follow them outside and we sit under a large tree with a large shadow. I notice that Ally and Josh are sitting fairly close to each other.

"So what do you have next?" Josh asks picking some of the green grass out of the ground and rolling it between his fingers.

"Italian thank God" I say and Ally's head snaps towards me.

"You speak Italian?" She asks with enthusiasm which I notice makes Josh frown slightly.

"Yep" I say popping the 'p' and taking another bite of my apple.

"That is so sexy" she says and I chuckle trying to ignore Josh's glare.

"It's really not. My family's Italian" I inform them as and then the bell rings so Ally and I walk back into the school and go back to our lockers. Ally dropped her History book on top of my head and it really hurt, that book was hella thick.

"See you later Ally" I tell her as I walk down one of the many long corridors in this school while trying to navigate myself to my Italian classroom. When I finally make it the teacher is already in there.

"Ciao, you must be Joe?" She asked looking up from her paperwork and smiling at me. She had a very warm smile that I couldn't help but return. She was quite short with red hair and dark eyes, she handed me a booklet.

"I'm going to give you this quiz so I can see where you are at" I grabbed the quiz from her and said a small thank you. "By the way, I'm Mrs. Banci"

I settle myself down at a desk and pull out my pens. I finished the quiz in 15 minutes and when I handed it to Ms. Banci she was really surprised that I already finished and then she directed me to my text book to complete the exercises with the rest of the class.

# # #

My first day of school didn't go too slowly and when the end bell rang I made my way to my locker with Ally. I let her go first to save my head from her clumsiness. Once I grabbed my bag and closed my locker I was about to go find Rosa when I heard my name being called. My head snapped up to the bubbly red-headed teacher making her way up to me.

"Hey Joe can I talk to you for a minute?" she asked pushing her glasses up the bridge of her nose. I turned to Ally and gestured for her to go ahead with out me.

"Yes Mrs?" I ask starting to worry that I did something wrong on my quiz.

"You got 100% on your quiz" she informs me handing me back the quiz with full marks and I smile down at the paper.

"Oh thanks" I say grabbing it from her and she cocks her head to the side a little giving me a glance over.

"How did you get 100% and it only took 15 minutes?" She asked and I shrugged.

"I speak at home sometimes" I tell her and she grins at me.

"Do you think you'd be willing to tutor one of your classmates. He just needs a little help and I thought it might be good for you to give it a shot, I would really appreciate it" She says with hope in her eyes. I didn't expect her to ask that and I don't know if I would be any good at tutoring. I can be pretty shy but I do also want to try new things and make some more friends at this new school.

"Um ok... but I don't know if I'll be any good" I tell her and she just grins at me and shakes her head a little.

"You're going to be fine. Is tomorrow after school good?" She asked me and I think about it for a second and then nod my head.

"Yes tomorrow should be fine." I tell her

"Ok meet me at my office after school, it's just down the call to the right" she tells me gesturing down the hall and I nod.

I then make my way outside and smile, maybe this school won't be so bad.

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Alrighty that's the first chapter, please let me know what you think.

I'll be updating within the next few days so keep a look out.