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Louis is the new kid in school and has a huge crush on Marcel, the school nerd: Punk!Louis Nerd!Marcel
"Everyone, this is Louis Tomlinson. He just moved from America and I expect you to treat him with full respect" The school principal, Mr. Harvey says to Mrs. Veronica's class. Marcel glances up from his text book to see a small but not too small, boy with brown/chestnut hair. "Alright Louis you can take a seat by Marcel." Mrs. Veronica said. Laughter erupted in the classroom and Louis wanted to know why. He glanced to where everyone was staring and laughing to see a small, petite boy with his hair slicked back and glasses that fit his frame perfectly. Louis realized he was starting to stare so he quickly, but not too noticeably, made his way to the seat that was right beside the frail boy. Louis stuck his hand out to the boy to try to make a good impression if he was going to sit by him for the rest of the year. "Hey man, my names Louis Tomlinson." he said with a little bit of shyness mixed with a smudge of confidence. Marcel's breath hitched in his throat. No one has been nice to him since grade 9 when he first found out he needed glasses. Before grade 9 Marcel was known as the "player" or the "Ladies man" but that all changed when he got glasses and admitted he was gay. Now in grade 11 he forgot what it felt like to be cared for and feel loved by someone. Even if they just said hello. Especially since Louis looked like a "Bad Kid" All tatted up and piercings everywhere. That was probably everyones first impression of him.
Louis quietly sat down at his desk and scooted his bag across the floor until it was resting beside him. "Okay class, today we're going to discuss chemical reaction, for this assignment you will need a partner. So I have put all of your names out of the bin and i will select random people to draw out of the bin to select your partner. Josh, you're up." Mrs. Veronica said in a stern, yet soft way. Josh made his way up to the bin and pulled a note. "Umm… I got Joe Cant." Joe raised his hand and Josh made his way over to him. As time flew by more and more people were pulled out of the bin but not yet Marcel or Louis. "Andy Samuels, please pick your partner." Louis heard barely as he tried his hardest to stay awake. "NO! I WILL NOT GO WITH HIM HE'S A NERD!" Marcel heard the jocks protests about his partner and he instantly knew who he picked. Marcel. "Um, Andy if i may. I would gladly be his partner because I'm not a self sintered person like you." Marcel looked up to see who's voice that was, and sure enough. He saw Louis staring death glared into Andy's eyes. "Fine then, you take him" "Gladly" "You should sit with us at lunch" "In your dreams." "No! in you-" "ENOUGH!" Mrs. Veronica screamed through all the bickering. "Andy pick another, Louis you have Marcel." "Hey bro, watch out because he's a homo" Marcel heard Andy say those last three words and he knew he was screwed. No one wanted to hang out with him if they knew he was gay. "Well, what if I'm gay?" Marcel hears Louis argue back. "Well then i guess being gay would be cool." "Then gay is definitely cool." "Good" "Good "Fine" "Fine" "Fine" "…Fine" And with that Louis marched back to Louis and Andy marched to Rachael. His new science partner. "I didn't know you were gay." Marcel said to Louis as he started working on the worksheet the teacher passed around. "Yep! I'm as straight as a curly fry!" Louis said trying to make a joke but it just wasn't working out. "…Dont ever do that again!" "Dont get your hopes up Marc." Louis said then turned back to his worksheet. Marcel froze right there. This is all so new to him. Since grade 9 he hasn't had any type of kindness sent towards him except for the obvious. His mum, Gemma, and his step dad. It feels like he's a child trying to figure out how to walk for the first time. Its just all so new and different from the norm. I guess he's just going to have to take it day by day and accept the un-norm.