Heading for the Surface

Disclaimer : The characters are mine. The story is mine, and the world is mine. Well, perhaps not the last...
English isn’t my mother tongue so I’m sorry if I make some mistakes ( not to say a lot ). Hope you’ll enjoy!

Warning : Since you’re all suppose to have 18 to view this, I don’t think you will be shocked but to make everybody happy : there will be some NC-17/MA , so if you want your poor virgin eyes to stay pure, don’t read .

Heading for the Surface
By Dilandau

CHAPTER 1


Black. That’s all he could see. He couldn’t feel himself, like he didn’t have consistency anymore, like he was made of void and what surrounds him was solid. He had the feeling that he was so light and so sensible that he could feel what he wasn’t, like this moment before falling asleep when you are still conscious without being truly conscious. That was strange but...oddly pleasant. It was a long time he hadn’t feel this secure. That was so good he didn’t want to wake, just drowned himself in the sensation. But of course, somebody needed to spoil this moment ! He was under the impression that someone, far away from him, was screaming his name. And those thud thump, it was certainly this person knocking at the door. With a mental sigh, he forced himself to wake up and open his eyes.

_ “Noah ! Are you here ? Hey ! I know you’re in here so open the door !”

The knocks at the door became more loud, Noah resoluted himself to stand up and open the door to see what the hell Jin wants. It was undoubtedly him because Jin was the only one who knew where Noah lived. The moment Noah had open the door, Jin was on him and hugging him so strongly that Noah was sure he could hear his ribs crackle.

_ “What do you want ?”
_ “What I want ? WHAT I WANT ? Make sure you’re fine you little brat ! You know, when someone knock at the door, you’re supposed to open !! Otherwise, they worried.”
_ “Yeah,yeah I know...I was...asleep,or inconscious, I’m not really sure...”

Noah said this with a voice so soft, it was nearly a whisper.
With a sigh, Jin let him go. In front of him stand a sixteen-year-old boy, who barely reach his shoulder, 5’3 perhaps and so thin that Jin was sure he could feel his bones under his shirt. His chocolate-colored locks were falling on his midnight blue eyes full of tiredness and sadness. An his skin was so pale...

_ “Noah, are you okay ? You seem...exhausted.” Silence. In front of this lack of answer, Jin keeped on talking “ Sid tells me that you run away last night. Did something happen ? Did a client hurt you ?.....Answer me !”

A client hurting him...Jin really didn’t know Sid very well. He selected his clients with a lot of attention, especially Noah’s ones. After all, he was his favorite. Five years ago, Sid took him from the streets. Today, Noah still didn’t know if he must be grateful or not. Noah was a street-rat, draging himself here and there for two years. One day, when he was running away from a store where he had stole an apple, a man seized him by the arm and asked him if he was hungry enough to steal. Noah had nodded and the man had told him that he could give him food, clothes and a roof. Starving and chilled to the bone, Noah had followed him without any questions. “You know, men like pretty boys like you.” Sid told him “ Give them what they want and they’ll give you what you want.” That was right. Noah was one of the most popular boy-whore in town, and one of the most well-paid. With his androgyn body and his delicate features, Sid had a lot of require for him.
Next year, Sid brought a japanese prostitute, it was here Noah met Jin, a nineteen-year-old young man, he was one head and half taller than him and slender but with a thin muscular ( unlike Noah who was skin and bones ), and his hair was black like his eyes. In no time, he became his best friend, and perhaps the big brother he never had, making fun of him and teasing him all the time. It wasn’t easy to make friends in this milieu. Emerging from his daydreaming, Noah answered him.

_ “No, but I catch sight of someone I know...He was going by my corner when a client was about to take me and I think he might have recognized me.”
_ “Someone you know ? From your school you mean ?”
_ “No...I think he is the brother of one of my classmate, Pauline...I know him by sight., when he comes at school to pick his sister.”
_ “Is he handsome ?”
_ “Jin !! This is not the question...I freaked out and run, I believed that I was discovered and that I will be oblige to desert school and that Sid will have to hide me and, and...”
_ “Hey !!” Jin cut him afraid that Noah hyperventilates “ Don’t worry, this guy can’t have recognize you, you’re not the same in day and night, so relax !”
_ “Sorry...but what am I going to do if he had recognize me ?” Noah sighed and took his face in his hands.
_ “A blowjob for his silence ?” Jin snigged.
_ “Jin !! You’re a real...a real...” Noah released his face and his cheeks were a beautiful red color.
_ “ Yeah, yeah, I know. Now stop worrying and get ready, I take you out for breakfast, before school starts.”

With a last sigh, Noah began to go through his dresser, he pulled out an old fadded blue jeans with razor cuts on, a red shirt with a mouse skull on it and a black tight jacket with the shadow of a red-eyed black cat on the back. The brunette changed his clothes, catch his school bag, his sketch book and his keys. He put on his black converse and followed Jin in the stairs.


_ “ So, you dumped your client in the middle of the street ? If you want my opinion, he’s going to yell at Sid, but since you’re his favorite, you’re not going to be punished so bad, like always...”

Jin keeped on talking as he drank his coffee and ate his blueberry muffin, Noah wasn’t really listening to him, he was used by the Japanese non-stop chattering. He contented himself with nodding when the young man asked him “Are you listening?”, and checks his sketchbook to make sure he made all the work he was supposed to do for his Arts teacher. Since the start of the new school year, Noah was enrolling in a high level Arts School. He has a gift for drawing, painting and photography. Become a painter, it was his dream. He had been working every days, the whole day to reach his dream, and infortunately...every nights too. The material he had to provide for school coasts a lot of money, he had to pay for his rent, food, clothes and his enrolment each term. Oh surely, he could have scholarship and find a real job to make up his expense, but he couldn’t quit his current job like this, Sid would never let him go, most of the profit comes from him.
A slap on his head bring him to reality.

_ “ I knew you weren’t listening to me...well, little one, you’re arrived at school, see you tonight, I’m going to go to bed ! Bye !”

Waving at Jin, Noah noticed that,in fact, he was near by his school, he had just to turn left and he will be before the front door. Shaking his head in order to drive away his thought, he resumed his walk on the pavement. He was about to turn when suddenly an elbow came hit his temple. On his knees and half knock out, the brunette let his sketchbook slip out of his hands.

_ “ Well ! What have we here ? It’s been a long girly boy !”

“ Crap... Not them again...” was all Noah could think. In a few months, Noah became the pet of most of his teachers, and to his regrets, the target of a group of 2nd years from the “ Industrial Design” department. Never would Noah have imagined that stupid people like those guys could have been in an Arts School, well...industrial design..., for him, that wasn’t Art, but it was popular among boys students and his school DOES need this popularity. Noah didn’t bother and tell them, a few weeks ago, that they didn’t deserve to be in this school...what had stir up their hate for him a little more.

_ “ Let’s see what you have to show us, Mr-The-Great-Artist. What’s that ? The Jocond isn’t it ?”

One of the boys laid his hands on Noah’s sketchbook and browsed it, stoping over his day’s homeworks: a copy of The Venus of Milo. The brunette remained silent at the mistake, not wanting to be in more trouble.

_ “ Did you loose your tongue girly boy ?” asked him another guys nammed Greg if he knows “ you’re not as chatty as usual!”
_ “ I gave up the idea of making you learn some Arts’notion other than your colour books.”

Oops. Came out by itself.

The only thing he next saw was Greg fist collide with his eye before feeling the pavement under his back and the feeling that his right eye was into his socket. He feel someone grab him by the collar and waits for the smash. But nothing came and he feel the grip on his collar loosened. When he dared open his eyes, Noah could only see a figure, standing in front of him and making gestures towards the boys to drive them away.

_ “ You’re alright little one ?” his rescuer asked.

Instead of answer him, Noah freezed, among all people who could have been passing, it’s have to be Him: tall ( about 6’), slim, black hair and green eyes, wearing an old fadded olive drap baggy and a black vest with red evil’s wings in his back and “Diabolik” written next to the same draw (in more little) on his chest, in other words : Pauline’s brother, the guy who met him last night when he was with a client. Noah always had plead with Sid to do him work far away from his house or school, he thought that he had find the perfect display for his double life, but...he was just hoping that the young man will not spread around what he saw. Noah was sure that the other boy saw him, why else would he help him? Was he going to beat him, call him names, make fun of him? The brunette was already feeling his head spin.

_ “....hear me ? Oi ! Hey brat are you okay ? Are you stun or something ?”

Little by little, Noah came back to reality. A hand grasped his shoulder and helped him standing.

_ “ Do you want me to take you at hospital ?”
_ “ Hum...no, thank you, I’m going to be alright...” Noah answered without cut the eyes contact.
_ “ They messed with you pretty good, you’ve got a slash under your eye, you should go to the nurse.”
_ “ Yeah... I will go, thank you...but, why did you help me ? They can have come down on you, that was risky.”
_ “ Don’t worry kid, I can defend myself, and if I helped you, it’s because I saw you last time.”

An expression of pure fear passed on Noah’s face.

_ “ Yeah, you were helping my sister to carry his school project, it was nice, I owned you one.”
Relief.
_ “ Oh, okay...I’m going to go now...”
_ “ No problem, by the way, my name’s Adrien.”
_ “ Noah.”
_ “ Noah...that’s a pretty name, well, take care, see you!”

With that, he get away, his hands in his pockets. Noah remained standing without moving, following him by sight, then picked up his sketchbook and ran to school.


Sitting in one of Sid’s arm-chair, Noah was brooding over. The whole day he hadn’t stop thinking of what happen with Adrien. Like each evening, Jin had come to pick him at his apartment, seeing his wounded eye, his first reaction was “ Sid is going to kill you!”. So kind...not even a nice word to cheer him up. On their way to go at Sid, while Jin was driving, the brunette was telling him the day’s occurrence.And now that they were waiting in front of their boss’ office, they were still discussing on it.

_ “ And you say, he interposed between you and them without any reason, just ‘cause you helped his sister..., if you want my opinion...”
_ “ No thank you.”
_ “ Well, if you want my opinion, he’s got a crush on you !”

Noah rolled his eyes, Jin and his cranky theory...

_ “ Stop that...why would he be interesting in me ?” Noah asked, a slight interest in his voice.
_ “ Kitten, how can you still believe that you don’t attract people ? Did you see yourself ? You’re one of the most beautiful boy I’d never see, and him, he’s pretty good too, ne ?” The japanese winked at the brunette.
_ “ That’s not what I’m talking about... I don’t think he’s interesting in boys, he’s this good looking punk guy who fell all the chicks.”
_ “ Sweetie, with your pretty face and your nice little ass, even the militants of the death penalty for gays must dream of fucking you...”

Noah could have bet his face was as red as a tomato, while Jin was laughing his head off next to him. The young man was always amazed to see how Noah was still so shy and prudish in spite of his “job”. Well, basically, he was still a kid.
They were interrupted by two men leaving Sid’s office, they tell them that Sid was ready to welcome the boys.

_ “ No, just the brat.” One bodyguard said as he held back Jin when he was trying to follow the younger boy in the office. This one turned round and saw Jin mouthing “ I wait you here” before the door slammed at his nose.


Yippee ! First chapter closed ! The next chapters are waiting in my laptop, they just need to be checked for mistakes, I will do that tomorrow in college if I got tired.
Well, how did you find this first chapter ? I like Noah, he’s soooo cute. Jin is a little weird but he’s funny, I make him look like my best friend ( psychologically speaking ).
Tell me if you want to read more !

Baibaille !

Dilandau.