章 3: The Signs part 2
Today there is a football match between the school's teams and another sports match, just a friendly competition for sports day. Jean and some of his friends also participate; Jean, Warren, and Ken are in the same club, so they join a football match. Although Jean is just a backup player, he still hopes to be part of the team today because he and his friends are predicted that Warren won't attend the match. When they arrived at the football field, Yohan and their captain came to them. Yohan is a striker, and Lucas is the team captain; the coach personally selected Lucas because of his ability to lead the team. Also, he has something substantial that convinced their coach to put him into the captain position.
"Where is Warren?" Lucas asked.
Jean and Ken stared at each other for a while to ask each other through their telepath who would answer a question from the captain, aka Lucas, and then they decided Jean would reply Lucas. But Jean suddenly got choked when he answered Lucas' question; from that choke, he had difficulty breathing.
"As usual, Warren got a little problem." Ken deputized Jean to answer Lucas.
"Y-ya, as usual," Jean added with his hand on his chest reflectively because when he took his breath now, is like he surrounding by thick smoke, even though his breath was short when he tried to talk usually.
"Are you okay?"
Again, Jean feels like choking when Lucas is sonant. He doesn't know why his reaction to all Lucas has done lately feels so strange; Lucas is more intimidating, has a strange aura, and something absurd that makes Jean feel choked. Jean sees Ken, and Yohan seems to ask him, but he can't hear what they are asking about; he sees their lips are moving, and his focus is being parts to his chest and trying to understand what they are saying. He doesn't know what happened to him, but when Lucas pats his shoulder, it startled him, and all he feels are disappeared snappily. He thinks he should check his body at the clinic; maybe he has abnormal allergies.
"I-I'm okay." Jean glanced at Lucas and tried to put a smile on. "I'm just thirsty." He added.
After he answers Lucas, Jean immediately leaves to take a cup of water and go away from Lucas and the strange aura that makes him feel choked. "You often got thirsty lately," Lucas mumbled, but what he said was still can Jean hear even though he was far enough from him; for a second, Jean stopped his step and turned and stared at Lucas, but after just several seconds, he continued his walk.
Jean put a big smile on his face because now he was on the edge of the football field wearing a jersey of the school team and ready to run to the area chasing a ball, but unfortunately, Warren arrived on time, it's meant Jean failed to be one of player. Jean roughly sighed when Warren was in front of him and put his hands on his waist while staring at Warren, upset; he hated being a backup player; that silly captain Lucas didn't trust him to get into his team directly because he knew Lucas thought he was a formidable rival. Yeah, just Jean's thinking; he thinks Lucas has the same think as he is, that he is a formidable rival.
"Hey, backup man."
Dion and Louis sat next to Jean on the bench player like they were allowed to sit there as an audience; they came here just to mock Jean, who failed to be a player today. Jean feels like he wants to kick Dion on the butt and direct him to the opposite goal and get one point because he called him like that; everybody knew that he hated being a backup player, and Dion, on purpose, called him a backup player!
"I will call coach Dan," Jean said to threaten Dion, and he immediately grabbed Jean's wrist to hold him to call his coach to kick them out.
"Hey, come on, I was just kidding, don't be like that. Your emotion is no different from babies' skin," Dion said.
Jean grunted. "Indeed, my skin is like babies, soft and slightly sensitive," Jean replied exasperatedly, and Dion chuckled.
"Let's go to the basketball court, you won't get a change in here," Dion said, and Jean truly wanted to kick him.
When Jean will kick him on his butt, Louis stops them with something that distracts Jean. "Jimmy is in trouble, and we gotta take him out from there."
What is Jimmy do again this time? When Louis and Dion tell Jean what happened to Jimmy, who is screaming at Gerald for that containing his confession toward him through a reason cheering him while he was playing a basketball match, they say Jimmy used the noise from the audience to do confessing. And the worse, Louis said he also saw Renan not far enough from Jimmy to cheer his lover, but because of what Jimmy did, Renan seemed to disturb because of him.
That heard severe enough, but Jean still wanted to be here, watching the game and hoping his name would be called soon. And when Dion and Louis followed him to stay in there, coach Dan came to them and told them that they were not team members and should go to their place; audience chair.
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Ten minutes after the game ends, Jean never be called, which makes him so upset; he decides to get out of there to find Dion and Louis at the basketball court because they want to pick up Jimmy from there. The school's team is about to win, so he thinks it wouldn't be a problem if he got out of there. The score is one, and the opposite team is zero, but when he takes a step, what the broadcaster says about the game makes him stop and look at the field. The opposing team succeeded and got one point, which meant they had the same score as his team; because of that, Jean groaned.
"It's because y'all didn't allow me to join the game, take that!" Jean screamed, and the captain who the one who noticed him.
Jean turned his head when his eyes met that eagle eyes and continued his will to get out of there; he didn't care about the game anymore.
Jean went to the basketball court, sweeping his eyes to all corners to find his friends. Jean glanced at the scoreboard and saw the school's team win the score for a while, and then he walked through the audience chair to find where they were, but someone grabbed his wrist and pulled him; when he turned his head, he found that cute tiny boy Louis trying to bring him out of here.
"Hey, isn't Jimmy in there—"
"Sst! Be quiet. He is outside talking with Renan." Louis said, cut off what will Jean says.
Is there a fight between Jimmy and Renan there? Jean thought when he saw there were Jimmy and Renan; if it's true, maybe Jimmy could win since his body is tall and bigger than Renan's. Louis pulled Jean to hide behind the shrub, watching Jimmy and Renan's conversation.
Louis made a gesture for Jean to follow him to come over to Dion, and they are doing squat-walked to order Jimmy and Renan couldn't see them because the shrub hid their body when they were walking like that. When Dion is closer to Jimmy, so they will hear what those boys are talking about, Dion puts his finger in front of his lips when Jean and Louis arrive next to him. Jean, Louis, and Dion do snoop.
"You are too naive. You know that I want to snatch Gerald from you, and if it happens, I'll never let you see him, even his perfect nose."
What kind of drama is it?
After that, they hear someone steps away and then sobbing. It isn't like Jimmy's; even that boy is pathetic but not crying like that. "It's not him," Dion mumbled to tell whose crying was, and then they assumed it came from Renan. Jimmy is not crying as well as he is; when he is crying, the sound will be so crazy.
They did that again, squat-walked through the shrub until they thought they were far enough from Renan, and then they immediately ran to catch up with Jimmy. Jean is part of the school's football team, even if he is just a backup player, so his run is faster than Dion and Louis; when he is close to Jimmy, he immediately reaches Jimmy's shoulder and turns him. Jean was surprised when he saw the tears in Jimmy's eyes fall out from his cheeks, more surprised when he immediately pulled him for a tight hug, and he cried while hugging Jean.
Jean stroked his back gently, calming him, but instead of being calmed, Jimmy was even crazier with his cries; straight away, Jean released the hug and covered his mouth. That kid, when he cries, it's crazy, like he is in horrible pain. "You want me to look like the villain in here?" Jean glared at him.
"Yeah, Jim, be calm. Let's talk while eating some snacks and ice cream." Louis said and then patted his shoulder, and when Jimmy nodded quietly, Jean released his hand on Jimmy's mouth.
Jean, Dion, Louis, and Jimmy didn't care about the sports day; their priority was Jimmy and his problem now. They need a peaceful place to have a proper conversation with Jimmy; although Jean and Louis skipped something important, fortunately, Dion heard it all. Dion shrugged when Jean and Louis stared at him to ask for an explanation. They are in a cafeteria; Louis talks for real about snacks and ice cream that he told before because he ordered them all like he was starving, while Jean, Dion, and Jimmy just ordered ice cream they had not even touched yet.
Need a few minutes to calm Jimmy and is ready to tell them what happened between him and Renan. While they wait for it, Jean spills his anger about the football match today, and also Louis tells them about the basketball team and the basketball club where he wants to be; Louis loves basketball, but he doesn't have a chance to join the basketball club because his parents want him to join academics club than sport.
Jimmy spoke up when Jean, Louis, and Dion enjoyed their conversation. "I... maybe I'm not telling you guys yet." He said, and they immediately became quiet. "In-in the past, before I met you guys, Renan and I were friends, a friend that..."
Jimmy depended on his sentences; he played with his ice cream, making them curious about the other words.
"A friend that is so close to each other?" Louis guessing.
"The best friend?" Jean added to guessing.
Jimmy stopped with his ice cream for a while; he took a long sigh. "I and Renan ever in a relationship." He said.
"What kind of relationship is it?" Jean asked curiously.
"A lover." And Jimmy answered immediately.
Jean widened his eyes and dropped his jaw when he heard that; if it was an animation, his face might look more dramatic with his jaw touching the ground, precisely like some animation he usually watches on the weekend. What is he saying? A lover? all this time, Jean and his friends didn't know about the fact that Jimmy ever had a relationship like that and just assumed that they hated each other because they had a crush on the same guy and the lucky one who could be that guy lover is Renan, so that's why Jimmy hate him.
"Everything changed when Gerald pulled us out apart." Jimmy stabbed the ice cream spoon in a sadistic way and then clenched his hand tightly. "We broke up because we realized that we are got same interest as Gerald, and now he got him. I... I'm happy but got hurt at the same time. I fucking hurt because the person I used to love and a guy I have a crush on are being together. Isn't it ironic? fucking irony." After telling them the story behind his hate for Renan, Jimmy laughed, but not for long; he started crying.
Wow, it is a thing that they just found out about Jimmy, Renan, and Gerald. They didn't know why Jimmy hated Renan that much before. Is it kind of complicated enough?
"I knew it." Jean and Louis turned and stared at Dion. "I've ever seen them kissing. You are so fucking close to him up to a step you kissed him."
Oh, that's right, Dion had the same school as Jimmy at junior high school; he certainly knew about it even a bit, but why did Dion never tell them about it and play around with that? Probably because he respects his privacy as a good friend.
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