A bit different

Twenty three

All throughout the day he sees a sad Peyton, he seemed down all day which Cole hated. He wanted to go over to him so many times but his friends always stole him away which pissed him off.

He just wanted to go to the boy.

He also kept seeing a glaring Milo, wherever Cole was he just saw a squinted eyed Milo. Even when the boy was getting told off by a teacher for skating on his skateboard inside he glared at him. He even rode the skateboard down the hall and stuck his finger up at Cole a few times.

Which, go be fair he deserved.

But still, weren't they friends too?

Anyway it was the last class of the day, finally. He had this class with Peyton thankfully, he decided to go speak to the boy at the end of class. But he didn't follow his father's advice- to get him a bouquet. Peyton would probably be sad at that, he would want the flowers to stay in the ground where they can continue growing and be with their family.

He knew Peyton, he wouldn't have liked a bouquet of flowers.

In today's class they had to present their work to the class but because Cole hadn't brought in his work, when really he had just forgotten to do the work in general. He didn't have to present today, Peyton had to go next as he was next in the register as their last names were next to each other in the alphabet.

So he sat back as he watched the small boy stumble his way to the front, he squinted his eyes at the boy. He sort of looked different. But anyway, he had his peace of paper that he read from and he read well.

He did stutter through a few words and he did say a couple things wrong but he did his best, Cole knew how scared he usually is to preform in front of the class. He hated talking in front of others but right now he looked calm.

Until someone laughed.

And it wasn't like a friendly laugh where they laugh at something funny you just said or because they were trying to calm your nerves or anything.

It was a loud ear piercing laugh. And they laughed when Peyton stumbled over a sentence. Then another voice joined in and laughed twice as loud, Cole furrowed his brows and looked around.

Why was everyone laughing?

"Are you going to freak out again?" Someone shouted making multiple people chuckle, "aww is the baby going to cry?" Another voice said. Cole could see Peyton's eyes dart around the classroom and his hands slightly shook, his voice trembled as he quickened his pace to finish of his presentation.

Soon half of the class was laughug at him which was ridiculous, its college after all. They are all supposed to be adults so why are they acting like kids?

Cole scrunches his hands on the desk into tight fists, he glances at his knuckles turning white from the pressure as the teacher does nothing but stand by and watch the class. When Cole looks back up he realises Peyton had disappeared, his bag was gone and so was the boy.

Cole felt bad, he could have said something to them but he didn't. His presentation was good but they're just big bullies.

He stands up and hits the desk with his fists causing everyone to shut up. "Do you think that's funny?" He yells as he looks around at everyone, "to laugh and point at someone like an animal? You're so insecure you find anyone to belittle to make yourself feel good."

He then laughs, "well guess what, there's nothing to feel good about. You're all dickheads with no lives and no one who cares about you so you blame that on someone else, just grow up." He stroms out of the class and down the hall, he hates that they just made Peyton sad after he found the courage to actually go up there and perform.