"That was a close one rite, Chris?" Josh asked.
"Yeah."
"Something wrong? You don't seem to be yourself today."
"Nah.I'm fine, really." I responded.
Josh had this look on his face that he knew I wasn't telling him everything. He shrugged his shoulders and we continued on with our day. Our school wasn't that bad -its crowded and all- other than that, it is filled with so many cuties. But no one could compare to my greatest eye candy, Eddie. Oh, he looked so cute. And the way he talked to people with so much charm; it could make me stay in a dreamy daze for a long time to come.
"Chris.?" Josh asked, " We're going to the movies tonight. You coming rite?"
" Sure. And you got the presents for Laura, rite?" I forgot to mention Josh had this crush on Laura. Although, they've been friends for a while, Josh never got the nerves to tell Laura that he liked her. He dated with so many girls, but none of them could have had a better connection than Josh and Laura had together. They are such a pair. Sure, people had suspected me and Laura dating. But we just hang out a lot. They don't know the full extent of our 'Will and Grace' relationship.
Josh blushed a bit when I mentioned Laura. When people mention, 'cute couples', I would always think about Josh and Laura. They WOULD make a cute couple. Sigh.everybody is so lucky. They could just go and wing it. You know what I mean, to give it a try. But for me, I can't do that. It is such a big risk. For a straight person it's just a girl not LIKING you.
But for a gay guys, you are losing so much more. First, the gay guy would get abused for the rest of his gay life. Second, the cutie doesn't like you. This sucks, we get it twice as bad.
After another fun day of school, we just met everybody at the bus. But someone new was joining us on the ride today, Eddie. Why is he here? What I found out later was that Laura had invited Eddie to join us to go to the movies. I was excited, yet I felt my hopes and dreams disappear. Eddie was going out with Laura. I just couldn't help, but feel jealous. She at least had a chance with Eddie. Me, I am just here to watch. That's how it always work. But I wasn't the only one who felt tension.
I could tell Josh didn't like Eddie going out with Laura. He had this pissed off look like he was about to punch him. Knowing Josh though, he wouldn't do anything; he really did like Laura and he would try his best to respect her decision. From there, we broke the tension with Laura introducing Eddie to everybody.
"Huh.this is Eddie. We met at the beach last summer. Eddie, this is all my friends." Laura introduced - she was a little loud about it too. Eddie smiled and shook everybody's hand. Damn, his skin felt soo good. So strong, yet so soft. When he shook my hand though, our eyes met for a second. It was a special moment for me, I thought. It was that old cliche where you felt like you known the person for your whole life. This was the first time it ever happened to me.
I got scared and took back my hand. Damn it my face was all blushing now. I think Eddie noticed it too. Laura, cheery as usual jumped on Eddie's lap. I think she kinda missed and hit his balls; that's what I thought from the expression on his face. Brittany just arrived and was excited we're going to the movies, including her. " What movie we're watching?"
"I think we should watch 'Old School.' That movie looks soo funny." I suggested.
Cough cough, " I think this is MY birthday and I think the birthday girl should get to choose." Laura asked in a sarcastic manner.
"Well, what movie you want to watch then?"
" 'Old School.' She said with a funny look on her face.
We all had laughed and had a great time talking on the bus. The bus was a little cafe for us to chat. But the scenery is much better. The bus goes by place to place dropping people off their homes and I take the opportunity to look around the world through my window. Eddie saw that I wasn't talking to everybody and came up to my seat and plopped down next to me. The two seaters that we sat on was quite small and I could feel his cute butt touching mine.
He looked so cute and preppy with the school uniforms that we wore from school. But we don't like wearing it properly. Com'on it's 2003. We should enjoy our lives and not be restricted with preppy clothing. But we are, so to make the best out of the situation we wore the uniforms as sloppy as possible. Our shirts were untucked, the ties were no where near our necks, and some even cut their shirts in half so they didn't have to tuck it in their pants. That's actually a good idea. 'Note to self: cut shirt in half.'
"Hey. Why aren't you talking with everybody else?" Eddie asked
"Its nothing personal, but I talk to them all the time and sometimes I like to think by myself."
"Oh, you need some space right now or something?" He looked a little sad from my comment.
"Nah, its ok. I actually like to know more about you.
"Well, what would you like to know?"
"Huh, you."
"I'm nothing special; just a normal surfer dude."
"Then 'dude'- then there is something special about you."
"Surfing? Nah I am not even good at it."
"Don't sell yourself short. Everybody does that and you are actually a cool person."
"Really?"
Was I hearing this right? Eddie is so cool and he doesn't even know it? So, I just placed my friendly arm over his shoulders and told him, "Since you are such a cool guy and all. I guess you should know more about me.
"Ok, now this should be interesting."
"Are you intending it isn't?"
Eddie rolled his eyes with a huge ass smile he couldn't hold. I gave him my best shocked look and punched him playfully in the arm. Laura saw me and Eddie talking.
"So I guess you two are getting along pretty well, huh?"
"Actually we're not, since I'm not interesting enough for Eddie over here." I said-not able to hold in my chuckle. We both laughed and Laura didn't seem to get the joke, but laughed anyway with a confused look.
"Stupid Chinese boy." He said trying to fight back my last comment. (I'm Chinese by the way and I don't get offended by these things, we always joke around about it. And in this place, race doesn't matter to us at all)
"Stupid SURFER. 'DUDE'. I said barely able to talk right.
God I couldn't breath, you know sometimes when you laugh so hard you would just take an extra long time to recover from it. That's what me and Eddie did. We held our stomachs with red faces. I turned to face him and he did the same. When our noses touched by accident I froze. Suddenly our laughs got more and more quit. This was the first time I had the courage to actually look at his face. We were so close and I saw something in his eyes. It felt like I was staring down into his soul. God, I never saw anybody so beautiful. Something was about to happen. But before we could even make a move, the bus stopped. Josh waved at us from the other side, "Yo Jason, lets go. We're gonna be late for the movie."
I sighed .the moment something special was about to happen, it seems everything was against me. Well, its not like we were about to kiss or anything, right? Its stupid, this thing is probably just all in my imagination. Yeah.nothing ever happens for me. Nothing good or easy like this. It's all fake. I am not going to make a fool out of myself. Not like last time.
Laura jumped on Eddie's back and rode him like a pony. Both of them seemed so happy together; why ruin it? Eddie playfully lifts up Laura's skirt uniform, flashing everybody. Laura playfully slaps Eddie on the back. Me, Josh, and Brittany looked at each other and shook our heads.
"Can 'love' really make them act so childish?" Brittany stated scholarly.
"It's really embarrassing. Everybody is looking at us funny like, 'do they know those two'." I responded.
We laughed it off and separated those two before anything else happens. Took us forever, but we finally got them in to watch the damn movie.
More to come.Eddie and Laura; how long can things last?.Chris doesn't seem to understand, but he is falling for Eddie. But could this be just another crush go wrong like his last crush.
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