Lets get this over with now: I own "Life's Expectations" and every character in the story. There are some events that have actually happened to me, but all the characters are fictional. If it is illegal for you to to view this in your location, then GTFO. You're probably gonna ignore that so have fun. Boy on boy happens in this story so if your not a fan of that, what are you doing here? Donate to Nifty, cause they give you awesome stories and you love them for it.
So after looking up certain information, I have set date ere for my story. The school year that is happening is 2009/2010. So currently its September 2009, roughly the 9th, at least that was the date for last chapter. So I ask for some help: I need some events that happened with in that year. Like awesome video games, albums, and other stuff you think is important. Email those to me please: kuragari129@hotmail.com
Last chapter we met the grade 9s, Lucas, Shane, and Chester. You also met Annie and got a glimpse of Gabe. This chapter, we are gonna get more into the theater and the tech crew. Which is mostly the characters that have been introduced. This will also be the last chapter of just the 3 boys' points of views, as I will be giving some other characters points of views. Rest assured though, every chapter from now on will have at least 3 POVs probably more. There may be some chapters with less, but I'll inform you if that happens.
WARNING! The nest paragraph has a bit of spoilers on how I plan on having the stories go about. If you don't wanna know skip it.
The story will stick to those boys so you need no worries. Gage's part will be mostly about helping Sam come out. Nick will be playing the field a bit before settling down with someone. Nick will also be facing the most bullying out of the group for his sexuality. Zach has to become accustomed to the new environment, and has a few skeletons in his closet to share.
Well I hope you like the last couple chapters and this one as well. Thanks for reading!
Zach's POV
So its been a week since school started and I'm already old news. To many people have asked me if I was Miss. Albore's nephew in the first week. Almost all of them saying she was hot, or pretty. Yesterday, Monday, there was a lot less people asking, so that means they all know or don't care now, right?
So I've spent most of my time with Gage and his friends during class and breaks. Gage is the guy who's everyone's friend, and Sam is the shy guy. Kyle is the music expert and Matt handles video games. Shira is the know it all, and Quin is the Leader. Chester is the gossip hound and I'm the new kid. Oh and Gabe... ya he's the kid who distracts the teacher regularly.
The group manage to convince me to see what tech club is all about. Gage said to wait till telethon to form an opinion, and so that we can still sit together at lunch. So here I am in Science class with Gage and Kyle trying to sell me tech club. I mean the 60 foot projection that can be used for video games is pretty awesome. Getting into performances for free and getting the volunteer/work hours needed to graduate while hanging out with friends. On top of all that I'll be able to hang around everyone a bit more.
So the bell goes, Kyle and Gage wait for me, and pretty much drag me to the theater. Once we get in there we all take seats in the front row of center house, that's what they called it at least. A few minutes pass, Quin is up siting on the edge of the stage.
A young looking guy comes down the stairs and sits on the stage, like 3 feet from Quin. I mean he isn't that young, like 25 – 30 but still young. "So this is tech club, My name is John Stein, and I am the Technical director of the theater."
So I look around now, and most of the crew are Gage's group. Some others in the higher grades, but most of them are fresh grade 8s. I was probably the only newbie that was in grade 10 or higher.
So John goes on about how we help out with the productions that come though the theater and hands all the newbies a study sheet. "To enter tech club you have to pass a simple test. Get 16/20 and you'll be in. Read the sheet and then you'll be able to take the test. Once test per meeting, and if you fail 3 times then you can't take it anymore."
Everyone else went on reading or writing the test, as did I. It was rather simple, just safety stuff. The test was easy to, got 18 on the first try. After everyone had taken it Gage, Quin and Gabe get up on stage saying they are gonna do tours of the theater.
Nick, Isaac, Tanis, and I go with Gage, Gabe gets the grade 9s and Quin got the grade 8s. The tour was cool, we started at the pin rail. It's where you fly in and out the drapes and stuff. We then went to the FOH, or front of house, where all the lights are hung. It was above all the seats facing the stage. We also went into the dimmer room, the room that has the machine to let you dim the lights. And then we went to the booth, where the light and sound boards are. John is usually on the sound board during the shows.
After the tour we still had like 20 minutes before Gage, Kyle and I are siting in the booth just talking anime and manga, "Dude Sasuke is gonna get his ass kicked! He's fighting the Raikage!"
"We haven't seen the Raikage fight yet Kyle. We don't know yet." Gage and Kyle get like this all the time, they never agree on who is gonna win a fight. You should hear them go on about if Jiraiya and Oruchimaru fought.
"Ya but Raikage beat the shit out of Jugo in like an instant. Even after being hit at point blank."
"I'm pretty sure he dodged. There wasn't even a bruise on him. What about Tobi, why would he tell Naruto about Itachi and about Madara and the 1st."
"I bet ya he's not even Madara! Just Obito like everyone online says he is!"
I just laugh, I have read up to when Tsunade beat up Oruchimaru, and that's not very far, "I need to catch up before I get to much info out of you guys."
"Spoilers are for the weak!" Kyle could be heard all the way across the theater cause everyone looked at him. "Get to the Sasuke Retrieval Arc. Best fights in the younger days."
"Who's your favorite character so far Zach?" Gage tries so hard to get on a topic that I can be on, he's a nice guy.
"I would say Gaara, cause of his craziness. I also like Shino though."
"Older Shino sucks, he's way to whinny. Gaara's cool though, read more god dammit!"
"Stop trying so hard to spoil it for me. I'll read it on my own time and pace."
"You know what I just realized..." It was Quin standing outside the booth in the House of the theater.
"What?" All three had the same reaction apperantly.
"You said you swear a lot but I think I've heard you swear like 3 times Zach."
"You know she's right for once." That got Kyle a death glare from Quin.
Me and Gage just laugh, "I usually watch me mouth at school. I'm horrible while playing online."
So from then we go on to what video games that are coming out and what games we are playing right now. That took up the rest of lunch and so Sam and I were off to Cooking.
Shane meets up with us just outside the Theater, "Hey, you guys in the tech club?"
"Ya, this is Zach's first year and my Third. You thinkin' of joining?"
"Kinda, what does it take?"
"Just a little test, I passed so you should pass easy!" I usually get high C low Bs and Shane gets As all around. "It's all about Safety, common sense really."
A bit of non-sense chit chat and we're at the cooking room. I didn't bring a lunch cause we were making pizza so I was hungry and 'sampling' everything. Shane caught me once, "Get your fingers out of that you!"
"Eh, I was just sampling."
"Sure, why not go to Pizza Hut and 'sample' their buffet." He smacked my hand away but still had a smile on his face, "Now stop it before I hit you harder."
Our cooking group only consisted of the 3 of us. We had a rather small cooking class, we were the only group without 4 people. So as we put the Pizza in our oven, Shane takes out his Socials stuff and starts working on his assignment, due tomorrow.
"So I take it you like Pizza Hut?" I'm just staring at him taking in his beauty. He has almost nerd classes but not quite. He's got just the right look too! Quick Silver everything, even his boxers that were showing just a bit. Oh god I'm obessing.
With in the week I've known Shane I have learned a few things. He doesn't get a lot of hassle from the school, not like last year when he was outed. It seams that he also likes to help the kids who are struggling with not only their classes but with their sexualities. He's taken a few boys his age, never older than 15, out on a date. Just to the movies or something, he let them have freedom to choose how far they go with PDAs. Usually nothing more than hand holding and snuggling he says.
His ex-friend actually went on a proper date with him. A rumor then started saying that they were dating, and the guy outed Shane to the entire school. Apparently Shane had already told some people and there was nothing more than a rumor going around. After that he stopped doing the 'dates' for a bit. He did a couple during the summer, but hasn't gotten any since school started.
"Ya, its usually where I take the guys to on the 'dates'. Free food is good no matter where you go though." Oh did I mention his charge is you pay for the date. He doesn't spend a lot though.
"Well would you wanna go there this weekend with me?" He gave me a strange look like if I was bi-curios. "Like on an actual date? We could go to the movies too."
Shane smiled beautifully and his face just lit up, "Okay!" Then he giggled, "Wait are you even.... out? Cause I'm not going out unless I can tell my friends."
"Go ahead and tell them, I'm not gonna go around and tell everyone. Don't get me wrong, if someone asked I would tell them the truth. I'm just not gonna shout itt to the world." I was talking in a normal tone and I saw a couple of whispers while staring in my direction.
Shane noticed where I was looking, "Well you have a rumor now, by the looks of it. Lets say we meet at my place at 3 on Saturday. After school we can go and see you Auntie, that way she knows who I am. My parents will want to meet you is all."
"Sounds good, text me your address when you can, I should be able to find it."
With in a week, I may have outed my self to the entire school, but I got a date with Shane. He seams like a cool guy and all, I'll just have to get to know him better is all. This year started like it would be shit, now I'm loving it!
Nick's POV
After a week of school, the jokes still haven't stopped. It's mostly my Jake's crew and almost always when I'm with Isaac. He says it doesn't bother him but I still can't help but feel bad for him. It feels like it's all my fault that he's getting made fun of.
At least I have science class with Annie and Lucas. Lucas always makes my day, mostly by calling Jake a looser. Me and Lucas usually turn around and work with Annie and Jade, the person who sits beside Annie. We usually gotta help Lucas and Annie.
Jade is around my height, and has green eyes to match her name. Shes got brown hair going just past her shoulders. Her favorite colour is green and she gets straight As. I think she's even smarter than me.
So we were working on changing things from meters to something else and Lucas just wasn't getting the work we had to do. "Why and how do we have to show our work? I mean, I know 3.26 km is 3260 m so why do I gotta show the work."
"Don't know but the work is easy, let me show you." Jade showed him all the work she had done.
"Nope not getting it." Lucas sighs, "Nick help me?"
I just shook my head, "So you start with 3.26 km, and you have to change it to meters."
"Which is 3260 m, that I know."
"So then the work is easy, you make a set of brackets, and put a line down the middle. I usually use two lines on my page for it. Like this," I showed him the question I was working on, I was on that step anyways. "So to get rid of 'km' you put it below the line, as if you were gonna divide it."
"Cause when something is divided by it self it gets neutralized, I know that!" He had a huge grin on his face and we all could help but laugh.
"So above the line you put 'm' cause that's what you wanna keep. So it should look like this: (m/km)." He was going along and actually had everything done right. "So then on the higher amount you put a 1 in front of it."
"What!? How does that make any sense?"
"To get ride of it you have to divide 1 by 1, in theory." Jade's key line, of what I've heard is 'in theory', "Theories are nice"
"So the bottom should look like '1 km'. On the top, you put the difference between the two amount, that's 'km' and 'm'. The difference is..."
"One Thousand!" Lucas practically shouted it. The entire class just looked at him.
Miss. Albore looks up from her computer, "Is there a problem? Do I need to make you turn around? You've been rather good with handing homework before class is done, but you're being noisy today."
"No ma'am, Nick is just helping me with the problem I'm on." She seamed to accept that and went back to her computer, probably putting in her attendance or marks.
"You problem should look like this: 3.26 km = (1000m/1km) = ?m" And his did, "So from here you make it into an equation in your head. Because there's two 'km' they cancel each other out so its just: 3.26 x 1000. Which equals 3260." He had done all the work with me explaining it to him as I did my question, just different numbers.
"So I gotta show all that work when I can do all that in my head in 5 seconds?"
"Pretty much."
Lucas just sighed, "I mean with math class, I don't know the answer so I go through and do the work, but I know the answer to this one!"
"Lucas, let me show you why." Miss. Albore gets up and goes to the board and starts writing down a problem. "In grade 11, if you will learn about the 'mole'"
"The 'mole'?"
"In chemistry we use the number mole: 6.0235 x 10 to the power of 23." The entire class had a look of confusion on their faces, "A really big number. You will have to use this number like you are using liters or kilometers. So instead of waiting till then we get it into your head now." The entire class had a look of horror on their faces now. I think I was the only one who actually laughed, mostly at their faces. "Also on Thursday you'll be going from millimeters to kilometers, and that is is no easy feet."
"1 kilometer has 100, 1000, One hundred thousand millimeters in it!"
Me, Annie, and Jade gave him a round of applause, "Okay how bought this then Lucas. Do the work like you have been doing and you'll pass the course, fair enough?" She didn't address it to just Lucas but to the entire class.
"Yes ma'am." The entire class responded and we got back to work. I was done in a matter of minute and started to help Lucas till he said he think he got it. Me and Jade started to help Annie, but he said two people saying the same thing is confusing.
Once we were all done we got talking, "Its my birthday on Friday!" It was Annie's birthday, we all knew about it. He still hadn't invited anyone yet.
"Who are you gonna invite? What kind of birthday you gonna have?" Jade is rather straight forward with her questions.
"Well my birthday is a surprise for all those who I am inviting."
"So its a surprise party for the guests? Interesting idea, I guess." Lucas had this skeptical look on his face.
"Not just the guests, I told my dad to do everything secretly. I don't even know the venue yet."
"So that's why you haven't invited anyone!" It was my turn to tune into the convo.
"Exactly! Dad is gonna give my the time and the venue when I get home after school today I can't wait!" He was literally jumping his chair. "Oh! You wanna come over after school Nick? Tanis said that he would, Isaac said he had something to do."
This was the first time Annie had asked me to over so I was rather caught off guard. "Tanis is going, when did you ask him?"
"This morning when you were almost late, again." Okay so I've been late for the first class of the day like 5 times. Its only been like 5 actual school days... so like everyday I've been late.
"Oh, yeah.... hehe" I really don't have an excuse for it at all... I just take forever to motivate my self for school. "Ya sure I'll come over, where do you live?"
"Downtown, but my dad is coming to pick me up. You and Tanis will of course be getting the ride too."
"I'll ask my mom quickly before next block." I'm sure it'll be a yes, but never hurts to ask. "I'll meet you outside of our classes okay?"
"Sounds like a plan home-slice!" Did I mention Annie besides to be a gangster once in a while. "Oh and all three of you are invited to my party. I'll tell you two the details tomorrow?"
"Word!" Lucas and Jade say it at the same time just as the bell rings.
I get out as quick as I can and go down the hall to my mom's classroom. I enter and she's going from a grade 11 English class to grade 10. Shira and Quin give me a quick wave as they leave.
"Mom, I'm gonna go over to Annie's after school, okay?"
My mom turns and see's its me, with a rather surprised look on her face, "Who is this 'Annie' girl?"
"Annie is my friend, and he is a boy!"
My mom blushes at her mistake. "Sorry about that, I would like to meet him before you go over okay?"
Just then Annie walks through the door, "Nick, I just thought that...." He saw the look on both mine and my mom's face, both smiles. "Uhhh hi, I'm Anthony"
"Convenient timing! Mom this is Annie! So is it okay now?"
"Anthony Justice, never would have thought that you'd have the nickname Annie."
Annie blushed, "It's mostly for girls, but I let some guys say it." He smiled very shyly and scratched the back of his head, "So I'm guessing you wanted to meet me?"
"Yes I did. I don't mind, Nicholas, call home at 5 okay?"
"Okay mom! Come on we don't wanna be late!" I drag Annie out of the classroom and down the hall. We were late by a minute or so but that's okay. Me and Tanis tried to pry why Isaac wasn't going over but he wouldn't budge.
Gage still has to share all his techie knowledge with me. I bet I can make him do it tonight.
Gage's POV
I was happy when I got both my brother and Zach to try out Tech club. They looked like they enjoyed the tour I gave them. Nick kept asking about certain stuff and I answered the best I could.
After the meeting I went to Drama with Kyle, Gabe and Chester. It was as normal as any Drama class could be. Crazy people running around, which was being called acting. I love this place.
Afterwords me, Kyle and Chester meet up with Zach and Sam for Math. Sam saved me a piece of pizza like he promised, he's so nice to me. Zach had this grin on his face that I'm sure I'll hear about later either from Chester, Zach or Sam.
Just as the class starts me and Sam start our math class ritual writing back. I couldn't help myself with Zach's face when I saw him so asked:
Gage – wat's up with zach?
Sam – hes got a date
Gage – wait with who!?
Sam – remember shane? the kid you helped last year?
Gage - shane asked zach out, or the other way
Sam – zach asked shane out when we were waiting for the pizza to be finished
they are going to pizza hut and then a movie on saturday
Gage – good job zach
Sam – ya... you mind if I come over today... I wanna talk
Gage – no problem I bet mom will even let you stay for dinner
Sam – sounds good, lets just hope hes not home after school
Gage – ya or else we gotta say to leave us alone and go down stairs
By that time the notes/examples were done and we got our work. So me and Sam start talking aloud about nothing in particular.
The bell went and we both had a few questions left so we left them for latter. Me and Sam went on our way to his mom's room. We got there just as she started the dish washer. "Oh hey boys, what's up?"
"I'm going over to Gage's, okay mom?"
"Okay, don't fall asleep this time got it?"
Sam has one of the most amazing blushing faces, "Yes mom."
"See you latter Mrs. Little." And with that we were on our way to my mom's room. I stick my head in, "Hey mom, Sam's coming over. K thanks bye!"
Before she even got a word out me and Sam were on our way. Sam comes over every other day so she would have shouted that he couldn't so everything is fine.
I see Nick and he runs over, "I'm going over to Annie's today, I'll see you later."
So he runs off to who I presume to be Annie and Tanis, and gives a final wave before going off. I just look over to Sam, "Well there goes Nick for the afternoon, lucky us."
"Definitely"
We head to our lockers and then head to my house. Sam had this thinking look on him the entire time and didn't say a word. I usually just let him think things through before hassling him. Lets just hope this conversation is about what I think its about, cause then it'll be a repeat... hopefully...
Okay so trying to get the 2009 manga chapters of naruto was kinda hard. But I'm going by mangareader's dates so hate me if you want.
Next chapter will have my official announcement about the fourth character. Yes I'm trying to get suspense in and failing horribly. Anyways, in the next week or so it'll be up. I got my nephew's birthday on Saturday and my friends are coming into town on the same day.... so I will try and get lots of writing done before then.
So as a result of Dragonborn coming out I restarted Skyrim and just best the Dawnguard dlc, so I am starting Dragonborn now! Imma ride dem dragons!!!!!
Thanks for reading, email me suggestions and/or just tell me you like it. I'll get the next chapter up asap! kuragari129@hotmail.com !gogo!