Nathan "new" Ember

                                    

                                          
Nathan's POV 
Dear mental diary...possible last entry? Let me tell you how I got to be on the ground with guys kicking me. 
                          
"NATE LETS GO! WELL MISS THE FLIGHT! SAY GOODBYE TO THE FLAT AND GET IN THE CAR!" My mum calls from downstairs. I quickly grab my diar-my notebook and go downstairs. On my way out I take the photo sitting on the tele of me and Zach and I throw it in the garbage after ripping it up. 
                          
I get in the car, we drive to the airport, and we fly all the way to America. Longest flight of my life. We land in America and the first thing I do is find a snappy snack shack. I haven't been to one since my dad took me to Chicago when I was little. The slushees are the best. I'm starting a new school tomorrow so I need all the icy goodness I can get. 
                          
I wake up the next morning and look in the mirror. My hair is flat. I should really make it look cute...but if I do that I'll get harassed. I leave my hair as it is and go to the rack that has all my clothes on it. I push past the flannel shirts and find a t shirt. Big fun. My favorite band. I actually met the guys. I'm sure everyone here thinks their just some eurofags. 
I walk out the door and get in my car. I arrive at the school and the first thing someone says to me is "nice car". I'm pretty sure they were joking because there's nothing nice about a Volvo. I walk into my first period class and right away I'm bombarded with slurs. 
"Fag"
"Homo"
"Gay"
Many others. I've gotta find a girl to hang out with. Just so they leave me alone. That's exactly what I did. And that's how I met Veronica Sawyer and Heather Duke. I try to hide my accent and I say that I'm from the other town over but Now I'm against the lockers having the shit beat out of me. I keep silent except for a few painful yelps. Then things go black. When I wake up, there's a tall black figure standing over me. I let my accent slip by accident 
Good lord please don't hurt me.
                          
JDs POV 
"Don't hurt me"
Relax I'm not going to. Here. Let me help you up. I help him up. 
"Thank you. I was just trying to make myself friends instead I get beat up."
He's hiding an accent. 
"So...where in America are you from?" Veronica chuckles. 
"I- um...fuck it. Westminster....I'm from the United Kingdom." He sighs. He lets his accent slip. It's kind of cute. 
                          
By the time gym rolls around, Veronica forges all of us notes so that we could just sit and talk while we watch the other kids do exercise. Veronica and I look like we're 3rd wheeling Heather and Heather. Veronica wrote heather duke a note but she said she'd come later. I watch as the new kid walks in. Veronica quickly writes a fake doctors note and hands it to me to run it to him. He gives the note to the gym teacher and we all start talking. 
So I've gotta ask...what did you do back in the Uk? Like for fun?
"Actually we've got some really good slushee flavors that you can't get here. We go slushee hopping." 
How about after school we hit a snappy snack shack? My treat? I ask. 
"I-I'd like that very much. It'll give me a sense like being back home" he replies. I don't think he realized I was asking him on a date but it's fine. 
"So...Veronica" 
                          
Duke's POV 
I walk into the gym and crawl behind the bleachers to sit next to Veronica when the new kid asks a question. 
"So Veronica? Do you like want to go to the prom thing?" He asks. 
"Wait shit I forgot about prom" I hear Mac say. 
"No you didn't. You're going with me."
"Yay!" She kisses her girlfriend. 
"If you don't have a date." Nate adds. 
"I don't have a date yet." She looks to me. 
Uhhh yeah ya do! I reply as if she should've known this. 
"Wait what? I thought you weren't into the whole public thing?" 
Ronnie, i love you. This is starting small right? I'll be over it soon I promise. Then we can be out. 
"I mean, you saw what happened to me...you guys could go as friends" nate smirks at the word friends. 
"Depends...do I get to kiss this said friend?" Veronica stands and looks at me. I pull her into my lap. 
Name a time, name a place, you've got it! 
"How about now?" 
Fine by me. That's all they do anyways. I kiss her. 
She pulls away and puts her head on my shoulder. 
"I love you, heather."
I love you too, Ronnie. 
"So you four are all?" Nate asks. 
"Yep." JD replies. 
"I'm assuming you've got a girlfriend?" He asks JD. 
"Nope. I HAD a boyfriend but uh...he ended up getting with his best friend who happened to be beating the shit out of you today."
"Maybe we uh we could go together?" He asks JD again. 
"Sure!" JD replies. 
I knew sum was up here. But why did you ask Veronica? 
"Too look straight. I don't want to get my ass beat."
"Then don't think you can hang around with us all the time." Chandler says coldly. 
"Fair. I've heard about you guys. It's cool. I get it."
The bell rings. 
Everyone leaves and Veronica goes to get up but I pull her back and kiss her. 
Love you, babes. I say with a smile. 
"I love you too." She smiles and looks at me with her beautiful eyes. A week after prom is graduation. I'm gonna do it then. I'm gonna ask her. There's no better time.