The Other Way Around

By Jonathan Cog

Imagine a world where a guy loving a guy and a girl loving a girl is normal. In this short story, we follow Will, a guy living with two fathers. Whenever he runs into the new girl, he instantly falls in love, which is considered unnatural. Will this girl be the one he has been looking for, or be just another girl that means nothing? Find out in The Other Way Around.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329723528

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Chapter

     I am in the middle of math class. We are learning about the order of operation for the billionth time. I start to get very board because I already know this too well, I want to learn something new. I'm just doodling on a piece of paper a picture of me and my crush kissing. No one is paying attention to me because they are all so focused on this super boring lesson. All of a sudden, a huge guy, most likely a football team member, rips open the door and screams my name, Will! I start to tense up. I don't even know what I did. You shouldn't be in here. My math teachers say. The guy throws him across the room onto his desk, splitting it in half. He then runs to my desk, again for no reason at all. He picks up the sketch I was drawing and starts to laugh. Look, everyone, Will is a faggot! Everyone starts to laugh and point fingers at me. I feel like I want to crawl up in a ball and just die. The guy picks me up and throws me toward a huge window. Right before I hit it, I wake up.

I start to hyperventilate and frantically look around. everything looks