Anthony Padilla-Personal Narrative

Anthony Padilla had no idea that when he woke up this morning his life was going to change forever. He thought it was going to be ordinary, just like any other, simple day in high school. Though when he walked in his first period, a normal, regular day was the furthest thing from his mind.
Walking into English class, he noticed a boy in the very back next to his assigned seat. As soon as his eyes landed on the indiviual, the air in his lungs evaporated, leaving him breathless. He was gorgeous.
Now before anyone starts to get confused and judgemental, Anthony is bi. He's not dated many guys but he is experienced with it, the best part though is all his friends and family know and are ok with it. So when he does decide to date a guy, or get interested

he doesn't feel the need to keep it hidden, but he also doesn't say much either. Just when relatives ask the usual questions he informs them name and a couple details.
Walking back to his seat beside the boy, he was mesmerized. He couldn't keep his eyes off him for anything. And was actually surprised that he hadn't felt his eyes staring at him yet.
He took his seat cautiously, trying to think about what to say to the beautiful guy, sitting right beside him.
"Hi" it was really the only thing he could think to say so he left it at that. He looked over at Anthony, the breath catching in his throat seeing the man's face up close. His eyes were the first thing he noticed about him, they were so blue, almost bluer than the sky. He didn't know why but his eyes seemed to be perfect for his bowl hair and caramel locks. It made him absolutely stunning.
The boy gave him a side smile and a tiny nod before looking back to the board.
Anthony didn't want the conversation to end just like that, so he tried to continue speaking, "You must be new here, I just assumed because I've never seen you around before."
Once again he smiled and nodded before turning his attention back to the board.
Anthony found it odd that he hadn't spoke one word to him, only smiled and nodded. Though he could easily see that this boy was shy, he figured that he would at least say 'hi' or something.
At about that time Mrs. Rola, the English teacher, called Anthony up to the front. This made him a little worried, considering she was one of the nicest teachers in the whole school. So the fact that she was calling him to her desk, gave him a bit of a queasy feeling.
"Mrs. Rola?" Anthony asked, twiddling with his fingers, he wasn't the type to get in trouble a lot, so if the nicest teacher in the whole school was the reason he got in trouble, he knew a couple people would be pissed.
As if reading his mind, "Don't worry Anthony, you aren't in trouble. I called you up here to ask what you thought of the new kid?"
She looked back to him, and so did Anthony, just to see him with his head down, keeping his interests on the wooden desk he was seating in.
"Yeah, he seems like a sweet kid, and he's definitely got my full interest."
With Mrs. Rola, he felt comfortable talking about this stuff. Infact, considering Anthony is one of the few in the school having his eyes for men, she actually encourages him to talk about it. And seeing that she's a better guidance counselor than the actual guidance counselor, Mrs. Rola was the one Anthony talked to when he was feeling unsure about his sexuality, she was even the to help him come to terms with it.
"Well I thought you might want the all the facts, incase you tried to talk to him and thought he was being rude."
"What do you mean all the facts?"
"Anthony it's kinda hard for any of the teachers, especially me, to talk about," she stopped in the middle of her sentence to collect herself, as she kept her attention to the ground "first of all his name is Ian. Ian Hecox, as you can tell he's very shy, he just recently moved here because of bullies at his last 2 schools. Which if you asked me, his parents made the wrong decision, considering the amount of assholes is greater at this school than the last two combined."
She chuckled a bit, and looked up at Anthony to see him smiling at her.
"But Anthony, you should probably know that Ian is special. And I don't mean personality wise."
Anthony was utterly confused now, did Ian have a condition he didn't know about? Somewhere in the back of his mind, he was putting the pieces together, but it still wasn't making much sense.
"Ian is a thing called mute, which basically means he can't talk. But the worse part is he never could learn sign language, so when he wants to talk, he has to write it down or hope that someone can read his lips."
Now Anthony was in shock, the gorgeous boy who seemed to be flawless, only had one. He was also a little down to, thinking that he would never get to hear the angels voice. Though this seemed like a huge obstacle, Ian's condition wasn't enough to make Anthony run away. Inface, it only made him want to be Ian's friend, and maybe more, sooner.
Once again it was like Mrs. Rola read his mind "I was thinking since you said you're interest, maybe you can be his friend. Not being able to talk, on top of being extremly shy, it isn't easy to have someone to be able to trust. Maybe Anthony, that could be you."
Anthony only smiled and nodded, walking back to his seat and trying to think of what to say.
He looked over to Ian, with his mouth slighty open thinking of his next words.
Honestly, he wasn't sure how long he had been staring for, but somewhere in the middle of gazing Ian felt him staring and caught him in the act.
Staring at the chocolate eyed teenager, he waved and nodded just like he did once before.
He wasn't sure how to ask someone about their condition, so he just put bluntly, as that was the only way he could think to put it. "So...you can't speak?"
That's when Ian tore his gaze from the teen, and looked down, embarrased. Refusing to stare back, now.
"Hey Ian, it's ok. It isn't like it puts a dent in your personality. You're still human, from what it seems like, you're a kind and generous human."
He looked back up to Anthony, a slight red tinted his cheeks, which Anthony found adorable.
Suddenly he reached down into his backpack pulling out a pen and paper, and began to write.

'What's your name,' he saw written quickly on the paper.
"I'm Anthony" he extended his hand out to the shy boy, which Ian took gladly.
'How did you know my name,' Ian wrote giving Anthony a questioning stare.
"Oh, the teacher, Mrs. Rola, kinda spies on all the new kids for me."
Ian looked over to the English teacher, with huge saucer like eyes, and mouth open just enough to make him look in extreme shock.
Seeing the look on the boys face made him chuckle. He knew he was falling for him, but sitting here and talking to him, made his feeling seem all the more real.
"Don't worry dude, she just likes to look after her students, she's really kind in that weird family relative way"
They both started smiling and laughing at how weird the comment sounded.
Before either could say anything else, the class started.
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The class seemed to slip by very quickly. He figured out afterwards that he doesn't share any other classes with Ian which was a real downer. What made it worse was that he didn't share lunch with him either, he knew it was probably hard for Ian to get anyones attention, he also knew that Ian would sit all by himself with no one to talk to. Considering he seemed to be Ian's only

friend.
He just hoped that Ian would be alright until the end of the day, because he most certainly had plans to hang out with him again.
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Ian and him had made plans to meet up once the day ended, they had also decided to meet up outside of the school and they would walk back to Anthony's house.
But now he was getting worried because he had been waiting for him for almost 30 minutes.
Deciding 30 minutes is plently of enough time to wait, he walked back into the school.
His first instinct was to check his last class, which was geometry, but he found the door was locked. Which meant for sure, Ian wasn't in there.
The next idea was to check the bathroom, this time though he didn't come up empty handed.
Walking in there, he saw Ian on the floor with a dazed look on his face, covered in a little blood. And standing over him was 4 guys who instantly recognized, he wasn't sure of the name of the other 3 but he knew the ring leader's name was Lucas, the gang that he absolutely despised.
"What the hell do you idiots think you're doing!" He couldn't hide his anger it took all of his strength to not punch them so hard that they knocked out from one hit.
"C'mon Anthony we were just having some fun with the kid," smirk plastered and sarcasm dripping from his voice.
"Fun? Because to me, it looks like you were beating up the new kid just because he's vulnerable. Nice move dick." Anthony said, with a fake smile.
Looking down at Ian he was pissed, and wasn't finished talking. "And if you ever lay a hand on him ever again, you will be truly sorry." His tone was deadly, and looking into Lucas' eyes he saw just a smidge of fear there.
Not giving the assholes another minute of his time, he bent down to pick Ian up, swinging his arm around him, and leaving the school.