What is this Feeling?

Here we go Again

Art by: rileyclaws on Twitter (all rights and respect to them :] )

Hiiiiii! Sorry about the wait 😭😭😭 I had a lot of shit happen to me, and that includes losing my job, moving (again) coming out as trans to me mum, and lots of DnD to cope with my crumbling life. Sooooo I did a short chapter this time, but I'm leading to something big okieeee, hopefully the wait won't be as long as last time, okay! Enjoy!

Word count: 1684

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RIIIIIING. Hunter snapped out of his daze "alright class remember homework is due tomorrow!" Hunter grabbed his bag and yawned, it was time for lunch! And he was hungry.

"Hi!" A voice said which nearly made Hunter jump out of his skin he raised his arms like he was ready to block an attack. "Oh! Sorry! Hunter right?" The person asked and Hunter got a good look at this person for the first time. She was tall, around his height, she had on a jersey, a baseball cap and had on some baggy cargo pants with tennis shoes. "I really didn't mean to scare ya. Just wanted to meet ya because I've seen you in a few of my classes" she said with a smile.

"Oh- yeah! I'm Hunter, heh- sorry, I never caught your name." He said feeling bad, he never really paid attention to anyone else.

"Charlie" she said "word goes around fast in this school" she said walking with him to the cafeteria and jumped in front of him and began to walk backwards "and word says you got yourself a few cool tricks up your sleeve. Like we are talking ninja level skills! Sooo is it true?" She asked.

"I mean, yeah I can do a few flips and kicks but I wouldn't count them as cool. Kinda normal where I come from" he said with a shrug.

"What!? That's awesome, I wish I grew up where you grew up" she laughed, her laugh was kinda contagious, so it made Hunter chuckle.

'No you don't' he thought while laughing.

"Not many people can do impressive things like that." She said with a smile "so... I notice you hang out a lot with a few others, especially the one that is like a beast when it comes to sports?" She said in more of a commenting way than a question.

"Oh Willow? Heh- yeah. She is great" he said as his ears turned red and he got a dazed look on his face again. With that Charlie sorta pieced it together just from how he acted.

'This dude is falling harddddd, well there goes my thought of thinking he was cute' she thought. "Well, actually there was a reason I wanted to talk to you. We are short a few members on our kickball team. And I have heard of yours and Willow's skills. So I thought I might as well ask you to join" she said.

Meanwhile at the lunch table, Willow was eating a sandwich with Gus "you know, it's disturbing how the lunch meat doesn't scream here" Gus said.

"Shhzezezch" Willow said, looking at the door. Gus looked at her then followed her line of sight. She was looking at Hunter, who was talking to one of the athletes of the school.

"Ohhhhh, I seeeeeee" Gus said as he rested an elbow on her shoulder "jealous?" He asked with a teasing grin.

"No! Don't be stupid, the author isn't nearly brain dead enough to throw us into a love triangle" she said and whacked him on the head. He giggled as he had managed to get that reaction from her. "I just worry about him. I'm glad he is making friends... but just yesterday he was being picked on, and he didn't even know it until I pointed it out to him. What if he makes the wrong friends? What if those friends use him?" She listed her concerns. Don't get her wrong, she loved the fact that he was being so open to having new friends now, when just a few months ago he refused to have any at all, it was great progress! However, back then when he was too closed off and easy to aggravate, now he was far too much of a push over that thought standing up for himself meant that he was just as bad as Belos. Both extremes were not healthy for him. And the fact that he was getting worse sleep than ever did not help his judgment. He stayed up all night, watching the doors, pacing the house like he was on guard duty. She had tried to convince him to sleep, but she couldn't. Hunter was very much wearing himself out.