School Girls' Stories - New Generation

Chapter 26 – Darrke’s Secret

“Leela couldn’t make it today?” Frost asked of Darrke as he entered the classroom looking grim, as always.

“No, she had swim practice,” Darrke grumbled and dropped his backpack at any random table. “What do you need me to do? I need to get this over with. I have things to do.”

“Like going to buy drugs?” Frost asked, erasing the notes that were on the board from the class earlier. “Or are you and Leela going on a date after her practice?”

Darrke glared at Frost’s back. If he had a knife he probably would have plunged it into the leather-clad teacher’s back. “Yes, she and I are going to set up a fake dating ritual so no one knows I’m gay, and that she’s a raging whore.”

Frost turned around on Darrke and glared at him for a moment, lavender eyes turned to flames. Darrke gave his teacher, and mother’s friend, a malevolent smile that made him feel better. “You didn’t think we knew you were gay?” Darrke asked. “You don’t think we remember about the guy who used to come with you to the Christmas parties when we were younger. And suddenly you are straight and marrying Shinwa’s sister? Doesn’t sound right to me.”

“You need to put the beakers on the right way, Dane, you seem to just be putting them anywhere,” Frost pointed out, ignoring the biting words that his young student was shooting at him. Frost turned his back on Darrke who only grew angrier with every passing second. How dare he be ignored?

“Does Lilis know you are gay?” Darrke snapped. “Does she know that you are using her?”

Frost slammed the eraser down so hard that the pen holder along the dry erase board snapped in half. Darrke stepped back, a bit worried he might have stepped over the line as Frost turned on him and stomped over to him. He stood in front of Darrke, practically breathing down the boy’s neck. “You have no right to speak to me that way,” Frost rumbled. “In this classroom I am your teacher, and I am the authority figure. If you do not like my lifestyle it is of my choice, not yours. You need to figure out why it is you are so angry with me.”

“Because you are proving that it’s not right for a man to be gay,” Darrke snapped. “You are showing that we can’t be open about it, or admit it.”

Frost suddenly saw where this was going, and he had never expected it of Shai’s youngest boy. “I am a teacher, Dane,” Frost pointed out. “It is unacceptable for me to be gay, whether it is my lifestyle or not. And so I am marrying Lilis as a cover up, and she agrees with it completely because she is in love with someone else anyway, who will one day, hopefully, accept it.” Darrke turned his back on Frost, not wanting to address this subject any longer and just continue to do his punishment, which was to put the beakers in their correct positions while Frost wrote the notes for tomorrow on the board. “Are you gay, Dane, or bi?”

“That isn’t an appropriate question to ask your student,” Darrke snapped even as he started to turn red from blushing. He was turning so red that even through the unmanageable dark hair Frost could see Darrke’s ears turning red.

“I’m not asking my student,” Frost pointed out. “I’m asking someone who looks like they need guidance.”

“Like I need guidance from you,” Darrke snapped. “You can’t even admit anything about yourself, so… fuck you. You know what, finish this yourself, I’m out of here.” Frost let Darrke stomp out on him, afraid that stopping him might only make things worse for both of them.

Darrke stomped out into the hallway only to be greeted by his second worst nightmare. Lilis Kiseki stood there, bubbly and smiling as always, and turning that kind smile to Darrke. Before she could even blurt out one of her inane niceties he was turning on her, not that he was ever on the busty woman’s side. “You and he both are liars about who you are,” Darrke roared in his slowly talking, smooth way, with all of the anger in the world built into a fire that was at the tip of his tongue but would never reverberate over any walls. “You are in love with someone and he’s gay and yet you are getting married. What kind of role model for students are you?”

“The kind who has a job at the end of the day,” Lilis said in just as sweet of a voice as ever.

“Who is it?”

Lilis cropped up her picture perfect eyebrow, but she did not play the dumb blonde that she usually had down so well. “I do not feel the need to air out my dirty laundry to you, Darrke,” she pointed out. “If you have something on your mind you wish to discuss, feel free for I am your friend and teacher, but if you just want to be mad at me for what is going on in your life, the I am dismissing you, have a good day.”

“That it?” Darrke asked, almost stunned. “At least Frost was willing to be slightly honest with me. You, you just dismiss me like that.”

Lilis leaned forward, her breath against his skin the same way Frost’s had been earlier, but her breath was sweet like sugar where his had smelled of black coffee, which he seemed to have an unhealthy addiction to. “I know your secrets, Darrke,” Lilis smiled. “Despite what you believe of me, I am a smart girl. You are in love with your teacher, and you do not want him to marry me.”

“You are only half right,” Darrke snapped. “I am not in love with him, but I certainly do not want him to marry you.”

Lilis stood back up straight and looked down on Darrke. He hated being so damned short for a man, and he glare at Lilis, hating her for being taller than him, though the four inch whore heels probably had a lot to do with her height advance. “Darrke, have a nice day, I will see you tomorrow in class.”

Darrke huffed off just in time for Frost to go out and meet his fiancée in the hallway. The two of them both watched the boy stomp off down the hall in comfortable silence. “Gay?” Lilis asked of Frost.

“I don’t know,” Frost said. “He seems bitter at everything, and confused about it. I think he’s gay, but he might also lean the other way. What do you think fucked him up? I mean, Shai raised him, childhood couldn’t have been that bad for him.”
Lilis laughed and sighed at the same time. “You’d be amazed what those close to you can do to you in a short time,” she breathed. “Harmony seems pretty fucked up as well.”

Frost shrugged his shoulders. He could not really argue that point. He just hoped they were not following in the footsteps of a family that had run away from him a long time ago. “He’ll figure it out, and when he does I have a feeling you and I will be the first to know.”

“I can hardly wait,” Lilis laughed, and the two went into the classroom in companionable companionship.”