7. Bathroom incident

Suddenly the door to the boys toilet opened and would show Austin standing in the doorway, looking surprised.

"What's going on here?"

He looked at the situation, almost seemed like he tried to figure what happend with these guys and us.

"Dude, nice that you're here! Come here, we're having some fun with these weaklings! Do you want to mess with them too?", shouted the biggest guy, who was with Gabriel.

Austin only exchanged a look with me, most likely to check if I'm ok, before he turned back to the guy.

"Daniel, what were you thinking to pick on people again?" Austins voice was menacing and ice cold. ,,The last time you messed with people, you promised me to stop this bullshit! Because I beat the shit out of you, have you forgotten that already?"

"Calm down, man! This tiny crybaby here is crying no matter what you do to him. And the other one walked in, so we had to keep him from telling on us. So it's no big deal."

Austin grabbed Daniels hair and put him off Gab. He draged the big guy out of the door.

"If you don't want the principal to find out, you better get out here now, and stop this nonsense! ... Oh, and don't you dare talk to me ever again. I've put up with your shit for too long and I won't take away the blame for you anymore. Get out here and get yourself together!" With these words Austin slamed Daniel the door in his face.

When the main problem was gone, Austin turned to the both sidekicks who were with me.

"What's with you dorks?"

"Austin, we're sorry that happend. Please forgive us, we didn't want that to happen.", the two guy apollogized.

"What were you thinking to work together with Daniel again? You both know what he's like."

 "Do you remember what he got against us in his hand? It wasn't so easy to break with him."

"Guys, I know you aren't bad people, but you can't let yourself get dragged into this stuff. You just hurt the people around you and yourself. ... Also, just so you know, today you picked on my crush and his friend."

Hearing that made me break out with a big blush, made my heart flutter and wish that I wasn't right here at the moment.

"WHAT?? Our buddy has a crush? On who?" asked JD confused.

"JD, JD. Look at the blonde haired dude. That must be his crush.", JH pointed out the obvious.

While I was burning up from shame and blushing, I could feel Gabs stares of confusion and disbelieve into the back of my head.

"Man, do you want us to help you? We're here for you buddy, if you need love advice." JD was overly excited.

"Now don't embarrass the man in front of his guy!" JH pushed his elbow into JDs side.

I had the feeling my state got worse with every comment of them.

"Man, Austin, you could have told us that you're gay. We could've introduced you to some nice guys."

"True, JD, but we never knew his type and his type is quite small and cute. We don't know many guys that type, so it wouldn't have worked either way.", interfiered JH.

"Guys, we had one Date till now and I confessed my feelings, but let's not exaggerate things." The brown haired clarified.

They all would have went on, if Gab in the background wouldn't have started to wagger  and to bulp. So much that he stumbled and fell forward, luckily didn't fell flat on his face, but into JDs arms.

"Gab!" I squeaked.

"Hey, shortie, you ok?" JD looked definetly worried for him.

"What? Of course he wouldn't be fine. Your friend shoved him in the toilet! I shouldn't have get distracted in the first place. We need to get him to the nurse office!" I started panicking.

On the way to the nurse office JD carried him and  throwing glances at the little guy in his arms.

We were all totally relieved when the nurse told us

"It's nothing serious. Maybe he will catch a little cold, but I guess the reason for his break down was a mental breakdown."

After that I could leave Gab with JD and go home with no regrets after classes.

Holy shit, that was a crazy day!

When I wanted to leave the school that day, a hand grabbed me and made me jump in surprise.

"Ashley, it's me."

"Austin! You surprised me."

"Sorry, I didn't meant that. ... I wanted to ask ... Would you maybe want to go home with me? I have some things to talk to you about."

There is the old hot soccerguy that I know. Back in the toilet I almost didn't recognised him, because he was so out of character. Not complaining though, he saved our butt back there.

" ... yeah, I think it would be a good idea if we could talk."

He gave me a bright eyed smile, which made me a bit too happy.

Austin knew a shortcut through a park which was beautiful in the late summer and quiet, so I thought this was the perfect place to talk.

"Let's sit down here, it's beautiful near the little pond." I pointed towards a bench nearby.

My companion agreed, he seemed to get a bit nervous.

"So, what did you want to talk about?", I wanted to give him the chance to start the conversation.

"I just wanted to ask if your ok after the incident at the toilet. Were you very scared?"

"Don't worry, it's ok. I'm glad that you were there on time before things could have gone worse."

"Ok, I'm glad that your doing well. ... I'm sorry for for putting you on the spot again."

"Do you mean that your buddies bullied us or that you called me out here after you apollogized for confessing in a rush?"

"All of the above.", he said abashed.

"And here I thought you wanted to talk about how you called me your crush."

"Don't worry, it's ok. I'm glad that you were there on time before things could have gone worse."

"Ok, I'm glad that your doing well. ... I'm sorry for for putting you on the spot again."

"Do you mean that your buddies bullied us or that you called me out here after you apollogized for confessing in a rush?"

"All of the above.", he said abashed.

"And here I thought you wanted to talk about how you called me your crush."