Ship(s) in this chapter:
-Luaxx🤍❤️
- Highschool AU
-Requested by: BAHAHAHZAAHHAHA
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- They/ Them Pronouns for Luca
-He/ Him for Jaxx because I screwed up
-⚠️Trigger Warning: Mentions of Bullying
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❄3rd Person POV
As in every typical high school, there were always the popular kids and there were the outcasts. Of course, they both had their own groups. The outcasts weren't at all known to anyone, and the popular kids were the faces of the school.
According to adults, High school was supposed to be the best years of your life. They forgot to add the fact that it was only easy for the popular and well-liked people. If you weren't well known, small and fragile-looking, or in the category of "weird kids," you weren't safe at all.
For example, Luca. Luca was in the robotics club and they were an easy target in the group of popular kids. It was so bad to the point where Luca had to be taken out of school for two weeks, had teachers walk them into the building, and had to find a different route for them to safely get into the building.
Today was another one of those days, except Luca had been caught.
Luca was slammed into a locker, a shadow towering over them. They looked up to see who it was, and it was the same person as it always have been. Every single day, it was always the redhead, the "leader" of the group is what they called him. His name was Jaxx. It fit him really well with how they acted.
Jaxx smirked, "Well, your little route didn't work?"
Luca couldn't speak. Only stare up at the redhead that was way taller than him. Luca tried not to show any fear, but it was hard when someone who was extremely stronger than them was looking down at them and could throw, punch, kick, or even kill them any second.
They began to sink down the locker, but Jaxx pulled Luca back up by their arm. It sent a shock of pain up Luca's arm, but they didn't show it. they groaned, but not loud enough for Jaxx to hear. Luca didn't want Jaxx to have to satisfaction of hurting them, but Luca couldn't really do anything about it.
Jaxx pulled Luca closer to him, "Now if you ever try to run away from me again, trust me, I'll end up finding you either way. And it'll hurt a lot more than before. Got it?"
Luca rapidly nodded their head, closing their eyes to avoid contact. Luca felt an evil energy radiating off of Jaxx, which made a heavy feeling of fear rise up inside of Luca. But then, before Jaxx could do anything, they both heard footsteps and keys down the empty hall.
Jaxx sucked his teeth. "Once I catch you alone, you're done for."
Before Luca could respond, Jaxx threw Luca harshly into the locker. Luca fell onto the ground hard. Jaxx snickered as he walked away from the helpless boy. Luca sighed to themself, picking up all of the books, papers, and folders that had fallen out of their bag. Before Jaxx had Luca against the locker, he had ripped Luca's bag from their back and dumped almost everything out.
Luca didn't want to cry, but they felt something filling in their eyes. They quickly zipped up their bag, stood up with their bag, and walked away. Every time they felt tears streaming down their face, they quickly wiped them away as if they'd never existed. Luca knew that today was going to be another hard one for them, and they were going to have to keep their guard up at all times.
{Timeskip to The End of The School Day}
School was out and everyone was now attending their After School Clubs and sports activities. No one was available to work on the machines in the Robotics Club, so, Luca decided to stay after school and work on it.
Luca had their earbuds in while peacefully working on the machinery. In the club, they were currently working on bringing a small robot to life. It could clean and do anything you wished, if only it'd work. Luca was messing around with the red, blue, and green cables connected to different plugs and messing with small screws, making sure everything was well structured.
Their music wasn't blasting, but it was loud enough to where Luca couldn't hear the classroom's door open. Jaxx had just finished football practice and saw Luca alone in the room. He didn't have any plans of scaring or messing with Luca.
In a long time, this was the first time Jaxx has seen Luca not upset or scared. Luca was undisturbed, looking closely at the machine in from of them. Jaxx stood in the doorway, admiring Luca.
Luca sensed a pair of eyes on them. They glanced quickly over at the doorway, then dropped everything they were holding and quickly stood up. They backed away from the machine and close to the windows.
"Chill, I'm not gonna hurt you," Jaxx reassured, walking into the room.
Luca didn't respond. They stared at Jaxx, fear and worry now filling their eyes. Jaxx stared back at Luca, unfazed. Jaxx walked over to the machine and sat down on the stool on the opposite side of where Luca was previously sitting.
Luca watched Jaxx. "Please... Don't touch that..." Luca quietly spoke, trailing off.
"What is it?" Jaxx asked, eyeing the machine. "It looks... Interesting, I guess."
Luca stayed silent. They kept their eyes on Jaxx and watched every move he made. They were on edge and ready to run away or defend themself if Jaxx were to suddenly try and attack them.
Jaxx looked over at Luca. "Can you come over here? I won't do anything, I swear."
They knew not to fall for silly tricks like this. They stayed in the spot they were standing in, staring at Jaxx.
Jaxx sighed and stood up from the stool, back up from it. He looked at Luca and motioned to the seat on the other side of the counter. Luca knew that Jaxx wasn't going to leave them alone until they did what he asked. Luca slowly walked over to the other side of the counter and sat down on the stool.
Luca avoided all eye contact with Jaxx. They didn't want to strike up a conversation with them either, they wanted him to leave them alone.
"Can you show me what it does?" Jaxx asked, looking at Luca.
"It doesn't do anything yet," Luca answered, shrinking back.
Until now, Jaxx hadn't noticed how much he's scared Luca. He hadn't noticed Luca much and didn't notice the fear he had caused him. Jaxx wasn't even doing anything, just simply asking Luca a question, and they were too scared to say anything and were watching their tone and words closely. Jaxx knew it was his fault and felt bad about it. He also knew that a sorry wasn't going to do anything and that he couldn't take it back so easily without making it seem like a manipulation trick.
Jaxx looked up at Luca again and saw them trembling. Luca was trying again not to show any fear or any signs of being scared but was failing miserably. Luca's fists were balled tightly on their lap. Jaxx didn't want them to be scared right at this moment, but they had every reason to be.
Jaxx sighed, "You don't have to be scared of me right now, ya know? I'm not planning on doing anything." Jaxx sat down on the stool across from Luca.
Luca hesitated. "I... I can be scared of you. You said that as soon as you found me alone, I'd be done for..."
"I know," Jaxx said. "But, I don't want to hurt you."
Luca didn't bother to look up. They continued to stare down at the counter's matte black top. Jaxx didn't know what to do. He knew he couldn't redeem himself at all, and couldn't be Luca's friend or get close to them, but he just wanted Luca to hear what he had to say.
"Can I at least apologize?" Jaxx asked. "You don't have to forgive me."
Luca quickly glanced up at Jaxx, "Trust me, I won't."
Jaxx nodded. "I want to apologize for scaring you. And for pretty much making your life a living hell. I know apologizing won't do anything, but I just wanted to get that out there. I honestly didn't even mean for it to go this long, it was supposed to be that one day and that was it. It was just easy to get a reaction out of you, which still isn't an excuse to hurt to you like this. If I could make it up in any way, I would. But, I know nothing will cover up for everything I've put you through. And again, I'm sorry."
Luca stared at Jaxx, not knowing how to react to anything he had just said. Luca wasn't going to forgive Jaxx, that would never happen. But, they couldn't react. They were still too scared to. What if Jaxx was trying to manipulate them, then hurt them later? What if this backfired and Luca turned into the one thing they hated the most?
Luca sighed, "I guess, thank you for apologizing... I won't forgive you, but thank you for it. Right now, there's no way for you to make it up to me, the damage's done. And, you've scared me and hurt me in the worst ways I could possibly imagine. At least you came to your senses and saw how damaging it was... But, again, thank you for apologizing."
Jaxx nodded. There was an awkward silence between the two. Then, Jaxx asked a question that you wouldn't expect him to ask.
"Have you ever fallen for someone?"
Luca nodded. "Yeah, you. But, after... Ya know, I began to lose feeling, but then they'd come back and then leave again and... And it was just confusing."
"Oh," Jaxx replied.
"I..." Luca hesitated. "I want to get rid of my feelings for you. But, I can't. I want to be with you, but I don't want to be hurt. I don't want to have to deal with you or any of your friends, I don't want to cry over you anymore. I want it all out of my head."
Jaxx commented, "That's reasonable. Say, do you want to maybe get a bit closer? Not like friends or anything yet, just... To see if you're okay with me still being around."
"Not now. Not today, not this week, or this month. Maybe, if you give me some time to think on it, I'll see if I have an answer."
Jaxx nodded once again. Then, Jaxx looked back at the machinery. He asked again what it did or was supposed to do. Luca relaxed a bit and began to explain to Jaxx what the machine was for. Luca wasn't expecting anything that had happened today and was completely confused about it, but just rolled with it. For the rest of the time the school was open, they both worked on the machine together until they were able to finally get it to work!
But, the time came to an end. Luca was packing up their stuff, making sure to zip up their bag really tightly. Jaxx was already at the doorway. Jaxx wanted to walk with Luca home but knew that they wanted him to leave them alone for today. Jaxx waved goodbye to Luca and walked out of the classroom and down the empty school hallways.
Luca thought back to everything that had happened and rested their hands on their face. They felt their cheeks warming up, they didn't know why. They threw their backpack over their shoulder and left the classroom. Today was really confusing, but Luca got to talk to Jaxx.
Luca smiled slightly to themself, "I got to talk to Jaxx."
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To make up for this, I'll write a Luaxx fluff, I swear.
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