Page 29 of His Untoward Hate

“Oh, I forgot. My brother’s going to the locker area too. Come on, let’s get going. We still have five minutes before the bell.” Jasper grabbed Jude’s hand, which took him by surprise, and signaled his brother to come along.

Jude glanced at Sky and smoothly removed his hand from Jasper’s grasp, although he wanted to hold Jasper’s hand longer. Jasper, with his knowing look, gave Jude a slight smile. Jude did not want Sky to think that he was flirting with his brother in front of his eyes. He might kill him on the spot. He also did not want students to think that he was an attention seeker and a whore, which they already associated him with.

At that moment, all Jude wanted was to hide from the Grangers.

“Dre, aren’t you going to the locker?” Jasper asked audibly when Sky went the other way.

Sky did not answer Jasper and continuously walked down the opposite hallway.

Jasper rolled his eyes when he looked at Jude.

“Never mind,” he muttered.

They walked in silence, and a vast relief poured over Jude due to Sky’s disappearance. Some of the students’ eyes were still on them, especially since Jasper was walking at his side.

“Hey, sit down for lunch with me.” Jasper broke the silence.

Jude did not know how to respond. Everything happening between them felt surreal, and so fast, far from anything he would consider normal.

“I mean, if you want to. But it’s okay if you don’t—”

“Y-eah. Sure, Jasper.” Jude did not mean to cut him off, although he was trying to make his voice as low as possible.

“Oh, great!”

Even though this was something kind of strange to Jude, he could not help but feel some sense of joy with the way Jasper had been treating him recently. This was something he had only ever imagined, and now that it was finally happening, it felt like a dream come true.

When they arrived at the locker area, there were a lot of people: some were chatting, some were leaning against the lockers, flirting with each other, and many were looking at Jude while whispering, mocking, laughing, glaring, with looks of contempt, and every negative expression pasted on their faces.

“What’s with them?” Jasper asked when he noticed their eyes.

Jude did not respond to him because he did not know what to answer. Instead, Jasper strode towards his locker in bewilderment.

Jude suddenly felt nervous. Although he was nervous when he woke up this morning, this time it was much worse. He already had a hint.

Using his unique code, Jude opened his locker hesitantly to get some books. The moment it opened, laughter suddenly erupted around him. Heat instantly rushed to his cheeks as he stared at the countless pictures of himself from the party plastered inside.

Jude was completely stunned. His body felt frozen, unable to function properly as overwhelming humiliation consumed him.

“Oh,” Jasper gasped.

Jude did not notice that he was already beside him when his locker was in the left corner, while Jude’s was in the middle.

Jasper glanced at Jude and immediately noticed how devastated he looked. He immediately snatched the pictures and put them inside his backpack.

“Hey, it’s okay, Jude. It’s fine.” Jasper comforted him while still detaching the pictures from the locker.

Jude could clearly hear a lot of derogatory remarks thrown around.

“Faggot,”

“Attention seeker,”

“He’s embarrassing,”

“He’s always gonna ickkk me,”

“Party wrecker.”