I want to live

Chapter 16

Without realizing it he had almost spent the whole lunchtime with this new group. The bell rang and they all bid their farewells. Elijah ran down the stairs and walked through the halls with a small smile on his face, he had never been complimented so much in his whole life, it felt good somehow.

With a skip in his step he went down to the teacher's lounge again to meet his homeroom-teacher, he knocked lightly on the door, since there was no answer he slowly creaked the door open and also instantly regretted it when he saw two of the homeroom teachers making out. kind of freaked out, he quickly slammed the door shut, probably shouldn't have done it so loudly but no turning back now. He went over to the other side of the hall, resting against the wall as he slowly pulled his phone out so it would look like he had nothing to do with the previous events.

The door gently opened, and a head peeked out with plump lips, messy hair and a flushed face. He made eye-contact with Elijah and quietly whispered "D-Did you see that...?" You could clearly see the blush on his cheeks become darker after every word.

"Sorry! I didn't mean to walk in on you guys..." It was kind of weird on your first day to walk in on your homeroom-teacher making out with another MALE teacher, sure there's nothing wrong with being gay... Hell, Elijah himself was, bit was just weird to walk in on it when it’s your teachers.

Elijah remembered the nickname the people at school call him, Top. They said that if they call him the bottom of the relationship, his face would turn bright red and he would start stuttering wildly. Saying how he was definitely 'top.'

Elijah felt relieved that at least people didn't judge being gay at this school. He sighed. "I won't tell anybody what I saw, don't worry." The teacher smiled and slowly disappeared into the lounge once again.

When he came out this time, he had fixed his shirt and hair. He coughed and put on a professional expression. "I will show you to your Homeroom class. This is a class that ONLY students from this class can attend. It is also a class that is required for all students to take." He read through some papers he was holding as he walked down the halls

The rooms were spacious, and the students were quietly listening to the teachers talking and lecturing them, Elijah noticed some familiar faces. almost all the guys from that group of boys he met on the roof, were in classrooms there were close to each other. He made eye contact with one of them and he gave a smile, waving.

•~•

After one full hour of 'Top' showing Elijah around, explaining all the rules, explaining the history of the school -for no reason, he was finally able to go exploring himself. He at first wanted to do that in the lunch break but he was kind of... distracted?

There was a specific room that he was interested in, the music studio. It didn't seem like there was anybody there and it would be so awesome if he could work from school instead of using almost all his free time after school and barely get any sleep.

And with work, it was sometimes helping rookies-groups with rap-lines and the rest of the time was editing and making beats. He was mostly known as a producer, but he didn't want a title that big and just decided to stay in the shadows while still doing the same as a producer did.

Elijah walked into the studio and looked slowly, he looked over the massive amounts of buttons.

An idea came to mind since he was alone, and everybody was in class, nobody would see anything if he recorded some lines.

A childish feeling came over him like he was breaking the rules, it was a thrilling feeling somehow. He really wanted to do it, so he thought 'f**k it! Why the hell not.'

Since he was used to the equipment at Greendale Studios it was kind of weird to not know where the buttons were.

Anyhow, he was able to get it to work and he slowly walked around the table, walking over the many cables spread across the floor.

He hummed the melody as he went into the recording studio, put the headphones on.

He breathed in through his nose and out his slightly agape mouth, his eyes and expression changed from an already focused expression to one that looked like he shut out the whole world and just focused on one thing, the song.

Sing a song unto the world

Rising the high the clouds unfurl

Gazing at the twilight's sky

Broken by a newborn's cry

Changes from the smallest things

Gazing at an angel's wings

Fall down fall down falls the rain

My life's not in vain.

Light and bouncy in the wind

Sing a song unto the world

Rising high the clouds unfurl

Fan the flames into the past

Here now our lives will last

We'll never know the times of pain

Fall down fall down falls the rain

My life won't be plain

Light and bouncy in the wind

Sings a song unto the world

Fall down fall down falls the rain...

My life won't be plain

The high notes rolled off his tongue like he was born to do it. Like he was born to sing.

He had written the song himself but hadn't created the music, only the melody was finished now. It wasn't the first song he had created. He also made two before. With this, it would be the third completed one. He had made one as a duet and wanted to do it with Luke, he just couldn't get himself to ask. Shaking the thought out of his head he smiled proudly to himself and walked out of the instrument-filled room and into the button-filled one.

He pulled out his phone and connected a small cable to that and the computer. The worry of someone walking in on him fiddling with equipment THIS expensive, he would surely get in trouble. So, he quickly transferred the song to his phone and deleted it from the computer files and fled the scene.

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The Six Idols' POV

It was fun having classes together. They all knew each other for a long time so when they decided to go to the same school, they made sure they had at least SOME classes together. They were all interested in different things, so they decided to have creative writing together, it was something all of them enjoyed.

Right now, they were having this special class and they were all surrounding a table in the courtyard, since this time they should write a poem about the beauty of nature.

The two eldest, Roman and Leo, were already writing theirs while the two youngest were just chit-chatting. Tyler was drawing, saying it inspired him more.

And their pitiful leader was sleeping on the table because of the lack of sleep. Some of the first years wanted help with understanding something and him being the kind soul he is agreed with helping them after school, not knowing the fact that what they needed help with took almost four HOURS to completely explain.

Sure, he was nice, but his body was taking a toll. He couldn't keep up with the massive lack of sleep he ended up having. So, he did what he could to catch up with it from sleeping in school.

And even though Roman and the others were worried for him he just said that it was his fault.

He was the stubborn type...

•~•

The bell rang and the creative-writing students slowly began scrambling inside the big building again.

Theo woke the sleeping hyung up and they all walked inside as a group, of course, Ryan at the head of the group. They were welcomed inside by girls screaming and guys groaning. most of the guys liked the affection while Jonathan hid behind Theo, shy from all the attention he was getting from so many girls. It was ironing in a sense that the guy known to be able to do anything, couldn't even talk to girls without becoming a stuttering mess.

They all went separate ways as they left for their lockers.

It was the same as always for them, except, they were all keeping an eye out if they 'coincidentally' bumped into their new shy friend. It was probably the three youngest who was the most excited for his presence. not even a few minutes after they left each other, they would begin talking about what to do if they could hang out after school together. They would talk about what they thought Elijah would like and dislike. Roman and Ryan sometimes joining their weird conversation to tell them what he had told them in the nurse-room.

It was kind of exciting, none of them had ever thought the person they saved was going to go to the same school. But it also left another feeling that none of them could figure out what was, it was a feeling urging them to protect him from dangers of any kind. It was weird but they all concluded that no matter what, they would protect him from his boyfriend at least.

A person like him didn't deserve to be tormented by a person he loved. That just wasn't fair.

So, while also discussing what to do to make him happy he also talked about how to get him to move on from Luke and find new love. As their talking ended their plan was set in motion. Plan 'Make Elijah So Happy He Finally Sees He's Too Good for A Guy Like Luke'

And it was starting with giving him the best time of his life!