"Hey, Kissane."
Lex observed the other kids as they socialized after the first five periods were over. He couldn't say that he understood anything that the teacher said but he copied notes like the rest of the class and there was another thing Bodie would soon come to learn about him...
"Yeah...?"
Lex watched the guy named Kissane walk over to join two other guys. The one that called his name and the other that seemed like he was shivering. Kissane was the other guy listening to the girl called Emersyn in the morning.
"Aren't you feeling cold? There's a draft coming in."
The guy talking to him was referring to the fact that Kissane had been staring out the window since the teacher left. He sat in front of Lex and they both had window seats.
"I'm freezing, dude."
The other guy next to the guy calling Kissane said. He was wearing a thick cardigan but he was still shivering. Lex sat right at the back of the open windows spurring chilly air into the classroom, but he couldn't feel the cold at all.
"Oh, sorry Troy."
Kissane said and walked back to his seat and closed the sliding windows. He and Lex coincidentally made eye contact with each other while he moved out of his seat to go back to his friends but Kissane flinched and scurried off to meet them. He didn't want to annoy the new guy since he beat Dominique who was at the top, he'll be the new head of the food chain.
"Fuck! Because it's winter we can't go out during lunchtime to play soccer either, don't you feel frustrated being cooped up in here and sitting down every time?"
Kissane rubbed his stiff neck while he walked back to them.
"Yeah, my whole body feels tired and lethargic from the heater."
The one who called Kissane offered him a seat but he ignored him.
"Ah, fuck it! What's the use of this useless school cardigan? It doesn't help at all. I should have just brought my own jacket."
Troy grumbled as he rubbed his arms more.
"Hey, what do you think is taking Dominique so long?"
Lex still didn't know the name of the one who called Kissane over but he was the one who asked that question.
"Yeah. He's supposed to be out of the teachers lounge by now."
Troy said looking at the wall clock in the classroom.
"I suppose he'll be back before lunch break ends."
Kissane took the risk of looking in Lex's direction and so did the other two. They blanched and swiftly turned away when they saw him staring at them silently.
"Hey, Lex."
Lex turned from the left to regard the person sitting in front of him in Kissane's seat.
It was that girl from before. The one that caused the whole fight before the first period.
***
"What the fuck the did you just say to me, bitch?"
Seppi was glaring at Bodie and angry enough to breathe fire, he clenched the collars of Bodie's shirt tighter. He had been lifting him by the collar for a few minutes now, Bodie's sneakers weren't even touching the ground.
Yeah, Seppi was that burly.
"I said, so what?"
Bodie stared him right in the eyes. It seemed like he was really gonna get beat up this time. It'll hurt like hell but these sorry excuses for thugs were going to have it worse than him when they return to their houses. He had prepared a little surprise just for the four of them.
"Hahahaha, crazy bitch."
Bodie's eyes riveted to Temir, who was laughing like a freaking idiot and back to their hairless leader.
"Bodie, isn't our cafeteria really quiet?"
Seppi asked and Bodie didn't even try to reply to him. Of course, the cafeteria was dead silent Seppi was the head of the food chain and nobody wanted to get on his bad side.
Bodie wouldn't even be at a crappy school like this but he had to stay low for a while because of his sister. She was having a lot of scandals flooding social media these past few months and it'll be detrimental to him if he becomes affected by it.
"Everyone but you follows my orders pretty well, that's why I fucking love our school."
Seppi added and his lackeys kept jeering and cheering him on for his pathetic use of fancy wordplay.
"Hahahaha."
"Sigh. But this silence makes it harder for me to talk in secret with my beloved Bodie over here."
Seppi added and hurled Bodie down by a few feet on the cold tiles.
"There's no getting around it, we'll have to have our secret talk on the rooftop, Bodie."
Seppi said and collected the juice box from Bodie's food tray.
"Yeah, get your ass up bitch."
The lackey with long hair and a scrawny neck and upper abdomen kicked Bodie repeatedly and made sure he followed Seppi and the others to the rooftop.
They passed by a few classes before they reached the fleet of stairs that gave them unauthorized access to the school's rooftop. One of those classes was Lex's.
"Why is this class so noisy?"
Lex heard the muttering from the hallway and so the boys idling strolling by. He almost looked away when...
"Wait, isn't that..."
He pushed passed Emersyn and walked to the door of the class.