An antisocial boy

So I get up and with one last sad look I leave him and go to class. I'm going to go to the vending machine afterwards to bring him an energy drink. I'm sure he'll need it.

I walk down the hall and can see many girls in my class gathered around Charlotte the Auburn Goddess. They all sound sad or something as I hear sobs.

Almost all of them are gathered around her trying to console her and I tell myself that I should also be among them but then I wonder why I would do that. She only spoke to me once and then nothing. We are not close enough for me to do that so I will abstain.

I pass in front of them but I still have time to follow a few snippets of their conversation.

"Come on, calm down, Charly, you know he didn't mean it that way. »

"It's true... you know he's been busy with shoots and other commercials lately I'm sure it's just fatigue"

So they talk about Michael. It's true that when I found him he looked like he wanted to explode with rage but when I arrived he quickly calmed down his mood changing drastically I didn't want to know more and also I thought not have the right. But now that we're really friends, I'm going to ask him on the way out.

"I just wanted him to accompany me to the cinema, we were showing a film by his mother and I thought it would make him happy to see one of his successes again"

Charlotte starts crying again and the other girls rush to console her, I frown and go to class. Michaël's mother is an actress? I didn't know anything about it, I'm going to ask him I want to see one of his films too and give him my impressions. Since he is also a good model, he must have inherited his mother's stage talent, which means that she is exceptional.

I go to sit in my place to wait for the teacher and the guys in front of me start talking.

"Honestly, who does this asshole think he is to make our goddess cry?" »

"Frankly the guy is unsympathetic as not possible and haughty, no matter how much we want to integrate him into the class, he takes us like less than nothing and looks down on us. »

"He believes that beauty is synonymous with greatness but handsome guys that's not what's missing even me with a little surgery I can become a great actor"

"Pffff anything even with all the surgeries on earth you still wouldn't look like anything. »

"Hey, I won't allow you, especially since you're even uglier than me"

They continue to discuss and I frown especially that I recognize two of them in the lot. They were the ones who had come to talk to Michael on the first day and claimed to be his buddies. Now they are the first to spit on him when his back is turned. I'm starting to understand why Michaël never seems happy when he's with them, he probably felt that these guys are just big hypocrites.

"But frankly I wonder why this guy is so haughty? There's nothing wrong with making friends with him. »

"It's true, I've heard guys say that he wasn't like that in college and he even had a friend. »

" A friend ? That cold monster? Are you kidding… who would want to be this guy's friend? You have to be crazy to venture there »

"Since I tell you… he is also known in modeling but more in sport since he is an international sportsman"

" Not what ? What kind of sport? »

"Well I don't know... I don't remember everything I was drunk but I know that the guy and our cold monster were friends but not anymore who knows why"

"He just opened his eyes"

They started laughing and I realized one thing, it doesn't matter if you're an outcast like me or a star like Michaël, if people hate you, they'll put you in the same boat and won't hesitate to lynch you. Even if in both cases there will always be a difference.

While for people like Michaël they will hide to do it because they have interests behind them – example I know a celebrity; people like me will suffer their pain in public they will not put on gloves to belittle us in the face.

Even when it comes to intimidation and humiliation there are always levels.

Michaël is like me in the end, we both have to do with human wickedness.

The teacher arrives before starting his lesson and throughout the duration of it I wonder if when Michaël told me that we are friends he really meant it and that our relationship will not end. Contrary to what others want to believe, I don't agree, Michaël is perhaps not the warmest, but he is a very kind and gentle person when you know him. He sometimes has weird behaviors but I can see that he is sincere in everything he does. He's not a hypocrite.

Classes end and as always when the teacher makes the call Michaël is not marked absent, stoking even more hidden hatred and jealousy. I put my things away and I end up going out at the same time as the other students. I run first to the vending machine then to the library and I find Michaël still on his phone. Today he is not sleeping, this is a first.

When he sees me he quickly puts his phone away and his ears are red.

"Oh you are there"

I move towards my place, my gaze still fixed on him and he rests his elbow on the table supporting his head.

" What ? Do you have something to tell me ? »

And he resumed his arrogant attitude fortunately that I know that it is only facade.

I sit in front of him then hand him his drink I decide to write to him, he takes the note and stiffens his face becoming hard.

" Why do you ask ? »

His voice is low and threatening and my heart is seized with dread… what did I say wrong?