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Henry stared at Liam. Liam looked like he was one more second away from crashing out. Honestly, so was Henry.
Look, they could stand Sean and Milly. Sometimes even Hailey! But the two people Henry and Liam could collectively not tolerate, were Zander and Luke.
Listen, they don’t hate the couple. Just strongly dislike.

“Luke! Don’t tease me!”

“Haha you are just too cute honey bear!”

“What the actual hell…” Henry mumbled

Liam was two seconds away from puking.

“This is too much PDA at 8:00am in the morning.”

“Erm, actually,” Henry started to say. “It’s technically 8:32am.”
Liam stared at Henry.

“Kill yourself.”

5 minutes later :);

“Wow second period is as boring as ever.” Henry whined.

“Yeah like why do I need to know anything about the quadratic formula.” Liam agreed.

“Boys! Settle down!” Mr. Garcia growled.

Zander and Luke snickered in front of them. Sharing a table with these freaks was starting to get really annoying.

“What are you laughing at, freak?”

Zander’s eyes narrowed at Henry’s insult.

“Stop Zander… It’s not worth it…” Luke said.

Henry laughed .

“Seriously dude, you act like an NPC. Is your only dialogue line, ‘Zander, baby! They’re not worth it!! UwU’”

Liam laughed.

“For real though like you are not nonchalant…”

Liam and Henry looked Zander and Luke up and down judgmentally.

“What is your guy’s problem?”
Luke asked, embarrassment clouding his expression. “You don’t act like this to any of the other club members.”

Zander was really upset now.
“Yeah! They probably bully us because they have internalized homophobia.” Zander started grinning.
“And they probably have huge crushes on each other!”

Liam didn’t want to say that Zander had described them perfectly, but he definitely did.
Except for the fact that Liam and Henry weren’t just crushing on each other. They were dating.
“That’s so not true!” Henry countered.

Liam piped up, saying,
“Yeah we’re not gay like you two freaks!”

“Boys! Do I have to separate you two?” Mr. Garcia warned.

Henry glared at Zander.
“No sir,” Henry muttered. “We’ll stop.”

Luke and Zander had satisfied smirks. Henry doesn’t hate a lot of people. Does he hate Jake a little? Sure, but he knows Jake will come to his senses and Drake can finally get back together.
Does Henry hate Luke? Kinda!
Does Henry hate Zander… yes.

After school;

Liam was walking up and down the halls with Henry. Usually no one was around at this time.
But just too be sure, he pulled Henry in an empty classroom and shut the door.
“Liam? What are you-“
Henry’s question was interrupted by Liam kissing him. Henry’s arms wrapped around Liam’s neck, while Liam held onto Henry’s waist.
They used to kiss a lot during school since they could hide it pretty easily.
But once, the janitor walked in on them, so they stopped. Now, they mostly just meet during lunch. Henry was just about to start kissing Liam’s neck when they heard a crashing sound outside the door.

“What the fuck?” Liam send questioningly.

“I’m sure it’s nothing!” Henry kissed Liam again.

“I’m sure I heard…nggh…never mind….”

Band room:

“Milly! Get off the paino!” Zander shouted.

‘You’re such a buzzkill, Zander!”

“You guys, stop it.”
Hailey said exasperated.
“I need someone to go get the sheet music from the printer in the art room.”

Luke perked up.

“Me and Zander can do it!”

Zander rolled his eyes.
“Ugh fine”
Secretly, Zander was thankful to have some alone time.
They walked into the halls and held hands. Luke gazed into Zanders eyes.
“Zander. I love-“

Luke’s sentence was cut off when Zander said,

“Is that who I think it is?”

Zander was looking into a classroom that had its door shut. Unfortunately for Henry and Liam, the blinds were wide open.

“Oh my god! They are? Oh my god! This is gold!”

Luke looked closer and sure enough, Henry and Liam were making out.

“Hurry! Zander, we can’t let them see us!”

They dove behind a conviently placed vending machine.
The two boys struggled to catch their breath.
And once they did?
They booked it to the Music Club Room.