Malik's Wold

y pooper who cornered me in the bathroom. His name is Rahim Abdul, whom just transferred here from London bu

and. I have been trying my best to erase his memory, to become a character in my story. Bu

eeds to come and help me because

ker he will not come betw

th Mr Abdul later, I

k green quarter-zip sweater over a white undershirt. Tailored black p

e are the types of clothes I've always wanted to wear. I

y phone chimes. It's from the group ch

Hurry

ah, Malik

're here.

DM's not through the group chat

ll be down

te

ry up. I've

I'm dating the guy I've been in love with

my room. I dance until I'm running downstairs, and I'm close to the door.

TTER THAN TH

Are you ready to g

me to go back to my room. But I have to re

, okay. And no drunk dri

o

lege of enjoying... my privilege. I go to chill at the pool, I have breakfast in b

love this

orry about anything,

She comes closer to me an

u later

later,

ouse. My friends are shouting my name. I see an empty passenger s

ederico shouts, sh

or your boo?" Pamela asks and speaking of boo. He's smiling at me right now and gosh

ack leather loafers with a glossy

e wants to kiss me, a

ed by our friends. I can feel myself

off, but we're not driving

down, screaming at the top of our lungs. We're living, laughing an

ple are envious of us, they want to be us. I'm so happy

ed. Of course it's packed, it's a party created by Victor King. While ou

t and others begin to cheer for us like this

I'm in a pretty fairytale

brown gay boys getting their

bout me and people like me finding

This time I don't have to lie my way to

r way. I feel like I'm in one of those two-thousand

ucking love

to some

re a couple. I smile, my smile grows wider at every praise and cheers. That's un

g here? This idiot is go

es to wink at me. I'm going to

his cup fall with my mind. He looks at his spilt drink, then at m

on my face, and I w

from Sharaf? What does he want me to pass then? Hopefully I'm not too blinded b

o far. I dance, I drink,

k, make out

ake the fuck o

people are talking about parties that

'm a huge party head or anything. I just love the fact that I'm being included, and

wn in a magical land where all things are possible. Mr William Hall and Georgina Hall are the CEOs of a fashion company called Lumi

aving dinner with

uys for dinner," I say, and

blushing. "Is that what you want me to say, that you're the be

ha

is it,

f that's what I w

t would

you were the on

t of this is that it looks like he does

ir

," I say, looki

me to come

ly I didn't mean to yell at him like that. "Sorry, I mean, I'll b

e, but I ignore them. Jesus, why are they acting like robots all of a sudd

ee who the culprit

again. What the

s wrong. It

starting

ffects of w

bro, I

o be suffering the consequences of you

running toward a major event that's happening. Rahim and exchange looks, and we foll

e's not listening. iInsteadshe's in tears; she's

which is creepy as hell. We'

around to see if anyone's looking at me but they're not looking at me, they'r

ar loads of people as,y an

hat you w

what y

TAKE IT

Malik Hussein

the puppet master, he'

s s

the only thing we can

g to kill

ll be

LL BE

MALIK