Around that time, the football players were coming back to the locker room, being done with their morning practice. There were other guys in the locker room who were getting ready for P.E. class, so for the moment, it was fairly crowded in there. And for one individual, it was nearly heaven.
"Hey, you fag. Stop staring at my junk," spat Randy Goodman, one of the jocks who was getting undressed to go take a shower.
"That's that new kid, right?" another jock (Phil Summers) asked a different jock (Danny Foster).
"Yeah, he just transferred here," Danny answered.
"Is he really a faggot?"
"Yeah. I saw him earlier kissing some faggy dude. The guy is definitely a queer."
"Don't listen to them," said a voice right next to Julian, the new transfer student that the jocks were belittling.
Julian turned and saw the boy who had talked to him, without teasing or tormenting him.
"The jocks are nothing but a bunch of neanderthals when it comes to sexual preferences. They haven't quite caught up with the twenty-first century yet."
"Hey," another of the jocks (this one was Steve "The Stud" Farber, who was a notorious womanizer) called out. "Don't talk to that guy. He might give you gay cooties." Then Steve bursted out in laughter.
"I'm Pete, by the way. Pete Roberts," said the guy who had been talking to Julian.
"Are you ... gay?" Julian asked.
"No, I'm just more enlightened than those homophobes over there," he said, gesturing towards all the football players getting undressed and heading into the shower room.
"Well, it's nice to meet you," Julian said, with a smile. It was nice to know that he had at least one friend at this new school. "I was badly tormented at my last school, when I came out. I was hoping that this school wouldn't be more of the same."
"Yeah, well, I think you're going to get some abuse wherever you go. But just stick near me and I think you'll be okay. I've dealt with those jocks more than once." He paused for a moment, then continued. "Hey, maybe after school, I could introduce you to my friends - Jon, Tim, and Karyn."
"Sure, that'd be great," Julian said, before turning and eying the last few naked jocks heading into the shower room. One in particular was Steve Farber. The jock had a nice ass.
