"Tom? What are you doing here? What are you...?", stunned, Billy asked. His face was as if he'd seen a ghost.

"Yeah. I'm gay. And I've had feelings for you ever since we fucking met. Was that really that oblivious to you?", Tom asked.

"I... I didn't know... wait... is that why you didn't want me to be with Emma? That makes so much sense...", it clicked in Billy's head.

"Yeah. And now seeing you with the nerd over here being all sweet and whatnot is killing me? I mean why weren't you as sweet like that towards me? Or maybe do you have feelings for him too?", said Tom angrily. "You're a horrible person, you know that, right?", now Tom was going at it with the personal insults.

"Maybe you should have just told him how you felt instead of being a coward about it.", I said out of the blue. Maybe I shouldn't have. Maybe I should have just left the room as this wasn't my drama to be in.

"Who are you calling a coward, you twat?!", Tom started to approach me, which made me go a few steps backward. I was saved by my personal bodyguard Billy when he stood in front of me.

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"He's right. I'm not a horrible person. You should have just told me.", said Billy.

"Tell you? Weren't you like a raging homophobe? Isn't that why you were picking on Nate there?"

"That's... that's different...", exclaimed Billy in shame.

"Different how?! I didn't want my best friend to hate me. Of course, I couldn't tell you. Well, ex-best friend.", there was a hint of sadness in his tone.

"Tom... I...", Billy was at a loss of words.

"Save it. I don't want to see you ever again. Now go and cry yourself a river in Nate's arms. If I mattered to you and you regret losing me that is. Doubt it... you were always obsessed with Nate anyway."

Tom stormed out of the classroom. I guess he couldn't stand to face Billy anymore. I mean it makes sense. I always knew both Tom and Billy hated me more than the other ones, I just didn't know why. The other guys were bullying me just for fun. It's actually sad when you think about it – their reasons had nothing to do with me.

Also, what did he mean by 'obsessed with Nate' when he was talking to Billy? I wanted to ask him that, but I didn't want to risk getting yelled at, so I just put my hand on Billy's back, hoping that would provide him some comfort and release of the stress he had to go through.

I have no idea how I ended up in the middle of this drama. Some people would like being like that, but I absolutely hated it. Why do I have to be in the middle of their personal messes? Fuck sometimes I wish I could just run away from everything in life.