Chapter 1: A new school...

Arthur was happy. Of course he was happy. He moved away from London to South Carolina, US, in a nice town named Greenville. A new town, a new school, a new start. He was excited. He was thinking that maybe at this school he will be treated like every other student.

The bus stopped, that's when he realised that he just arrived at his new highschool: Locklear Highschool. It was a huge building, all painted in a copper color. Right above the student's entrance was written in black with huge letters the school's name and next to it the logo: A roaring tiger. The forecourt was full of students, organised in groups. You could distinguish the groups from the way the students talked, dressed, act. There were the cheerleaders, the goths, the jocks, the nerds, and so many others. Arthur walked by every group, with his palms sweating. From the moment he enter the school property he was expecting for someone to show up and just push him or worst, punch him in the face. But none of that happen. He enter the school and start walking straight ahead on the school hallway until he reach to his locker. He opened the locker, took his history books and realised that he has no idea how to get to the classroom. The break would end in 5 minutes and he needs to find that classroom or else he will be late in his first day of school at Locklear.

After 20 minutes of hunting the whole building he finally reached to the door that was written on "US History". He was so nervous that for a minute he thought that maybe he shouldn't enter. I mean, what could posibly happen. It's just one course, next time he won't be late because he found out where the classrooms are. So, he eased up from the door and went straight outside the building, next to the football field. He walked aside from the field. The entire court was empty. Everyone was in class. And Arthur thought for a minute that he should be inside as well, but that thought was gone from his mind in the moment he found a stunning image: at 100 metres away from the field was this little orchard, probably part of the school property, and in the middle of it was a young maple tree, and under it's branches was a wooden bench. The branches were shadowing the bench, and for Arthur looked like the perfect place to waste some time and relax. He went to the bench and sit down. Now he felt relaxed. The wind was slowly blowing through his blond locks of hair. His emerald green eyes were now partially closed and he was officially day-dreaming. He then took a deep breath and just chilled on the wooden bench, until his next course was about to start.

So, there he was again on the long halway of the school, searching for the Economics Classroom. He finally found the classroom, but in the moment he wanted to enter he remembered that he forgot to take his book from the locker - "Bollocks, I'll be late again!" - he thought to himself. But not this time, he started running down the hall until he reached to his locker, he opened it as fast as he could and took the book from it, but when he was about to close back the locker his eyes met the most beautiful human being he ever saw: a tall blond boy, with garish blue eyes, and soft pink lips...And now he was staring, he just couldn't stop, but in the next moment the gorgeus young man turned to Arthur with a scowl and approach the british boy with an impending tone:

"'Da fuck you lookin' at?"

And with that line Arthur's dream was destroyed. How can someone so handsome be so rude? Arthur looked at him confused:

"I...um...well...you see I was just..."

"I...um...a...um..." -The blond boy was mocking Arthur and then he became more serious: "I don't want to see you staring at me again, you got that? " Arthur looked at him and just nodded.

The blue-eyed boy turned around and just walked away. The rest of the students from the hallway were staring at Arthur. Arthur was now the one being stared at and the feeling wasn't nice at all. With shivering hands he closed his locker and went straight to his class, trying to ignor the other students. He finally got into class and just stood alone in one of the back seats.

When the luch time came, Arthur was pale and feeling sick. He knew that he had to go to the cafeteria to have lunch. What if the blond boy was there? He would be so embarassed to met him again. -"Wait a second, if I think again it's not that big of a deal. I can apologize and maybe I will solve this bloody problem"- He was confident now. All he had to do is to go over to the blond guy's table and just tell him "sorry". When he enter in the cafeteria he went to buy him something to eat first and while standing in the line he was trying to spot the boy...and there he was, staying at the same table with THE JOCKS. "FUCK", he thought again to himself "From all the tables in this bloody cafeteria he had to stay with the primates". Arthur hated the athlets. He knew what sort of people were: mean, arogant, violent, stupid...animals. He hesitated and then he took a deep breath and got closer to the jocks's table in order to aproach the blond boy, who was now chatting and laughing with the other boys. One of them, tall, with brawny features, white hair and red eyes, spoted Arthur first and whispered something to the blond boy.

"Excuse me, I hope I am not breaking in your conversation, but I just wanted..."

"Actually you are ." And just like that Arthur was cut short by the blond who was now standing up from his chair and looking at him frowned, with an evil smile. "First in the hallway, now here. What the fuck do you want? Are you a faggot or something?"

And there it was. The word that Arthur hated the most. The word that turned his life into a nightmare. The word that he used to constantly hear back in London. He was frozen in front of the other boy, with a hurt look in his eyes. What could he say now? What should he say now?Nothing, because the other boy just ended the conversation, throwing his tray with food on Arthur's uniform. He was all covered in gravy and vegetables, and if it wasn't enough the whole cafeteria was watching now, laughing and pointing at the new kid. Arthur just shifted, holding his tears, until he got into the boys bathroom. He locked himself inside one of the toilet and just stood there, with tears falling down his cheeks. He couldn't understand why that boy treated him like that. Did he really deserve that sort of treatment. He wiped off his tears and got out of the toilet to the sink, and with some tissues he tried to clean his uniform. In the next moment he heard a door opening from behind, and a japanese boy, with dark shiny hair and deep brown eyes was looking at him with saddening eyes:

"Hey! Are you ok?"

"Yes...I fell outside...in some...mud... "Arthur answered stutering

"I see...I'm Kiku by the way."He said holding his hand to meet Arthur's.

"Oh... I'm Arthur Kirkland. I'm new here."

"I thought so; I haven't seen you around, until today in the cafeteria"

So he knew. He saw the big scene. This was really emarassing.

"Alfred is such a jerk. He's always been like that, considering himself the most interesting and important person around here. " Kiku said, trying to break the silence.

"So that's his name? Maybe it is my fault too..I shouldn't tried to talk to him.I thought that he's a nice guy, but I was wrong. Like I was wrong with everything about this new school!" Arthur said with an angry tone.

"Easy boy! This school is not that bad. You'll see for yourself that there are nice people too. Even Alfred...you just need to get use to his behavior. If you want my advice: you should stay away from him and his friends, for now."

"You mean those gorillas?"

"Um...yes...those were Gilbert, Ivan and Ludwig. They are in the football team together."

"Yeah, of course they are. The jackets made it pretty clear to me." Arthur said with an annoyed tone.

"Well, we should go to class. I think we are already late. " Kiku changed the subject with a smile on his face. "What course do you have next?"

Arthut was silence for a moment than looked at Kiku with seriouness "None...I think I'll go home."

"What?...Are you sure?"

"Yes. Thank you for ...for...Well, good-bye."

"Bye! I'll see you tomorrow then!" Kiku yelled at Arthur who just got out from the bathroom, and went straight home. He didn't care that he might get in trouble because of skipping classes, he just wanted to get home and close himself in his room. And that's what he did.

Arthur woke up, after a long nap. He was now staring at the ceiling, while the embarassing moment from today was rolling like a movie in his mind. "It's all the same again". He felt the same pain he used to feel in London, when the sudents from his highschool were chaffing and ridiculing him for being gay. He felt weak and letargic, when thinking that tomorrow he had to go back there. But wait, there will be Kiku, who was really nice to him today. Maybe the next day won't be that bad after all.

A/N: This is the first chapter. I hope you liked it.

Firstly I just want to say that English it's my second language so please excuse me if there are a lot of slips in spelling.

Secondly, I would like to say that I got the inspiration to write this story from Keane's song Somewhere only we know .

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