At least the apartment wasn't that bad.
Jay never agreed to this, in fact his father tried everything to get Jay excused from the GSA's senior program. However, the school responded with the proposition that if Jay evaded the experience they would have to eject him from the baseball team. That was a rough night, it was never a good night when his father came home angry. According to Nathan Castle he didn't want his son living with 'those' kinds of people, Jay flinched at the comment. It was small, but it was there.
Jay had always known he wasn't like the other boys, and it was when he met Gabriel that he came out of his shell for once and into the charming
When the GSA first announced their program, there was definitely an array of mixed opinions. He wasn't as vocal about his distaste of the program than some of his friends, if anything he was nervous. He should be on the other side of this program, but no one can find out. So he stayed rather quiet about it, aimlessly nodding his head to agree with his friends when they were complaining about it. The whole ordeal made him anxious. For him it was just entirely too risky, he hoped for just a quiet person that he didn't have to interact much with. One that would just leave him be, and he'd do the same.
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The neighboring college had lent the high school some of their apartments for the students to use. The lady at the welcome desk gave him his room key and helped him down the hall and around the corner to room 112. He inserted the room key into the door and pushed it open with his shoulder making his way into his new home for a bit. The apartment was nice, very nice. Yet, he wasn't surprised his school had a rather large budget and the college was a huge supporter of the idea of the program, so no wonder they hooked them up with the best. Maybe this won't be as mortifying as I think... He quietly peeked into the other rooms and inferred that his new 'roommate' hadn't been here yet, he was still deciding whether or not that was a good or bad thing. At least he got first pick in rooms, in which he decided to go for the room on the far right as it had a nice view into the park that sat next to the college. He placed his suitcase on the bed and slipped off his shoes wandering into the living room of the apartment and plopped himself down on the couch. Now it was simply a waiting game, and it made him more anxious than ever. He made himself comfortable and slipped out his phone scrolling through various social media to try and distract himself from the anticipation and nervousness. He had a feeling in his stomach, and he didn't know if it was from being anxious or that he had a bad feeling about who was going to walk through that door.