Below The Radar
This story is for you forstlasten11! I'm thinking of having this one novelette length, but who knows maybe it'll be a hit. For those of you wondering we'll get into the "M-Rated" stuff in later chapters.
Chapter 1 - Done With Girls
Jonah Beck has been described as the perfect boyfriend if that is the case then why has none of his relations ever worked out? If it wasn't him them it must have been them. First with Amber who made him do things that he didn't want to, she was manipulative, and in the end Jonah just had to cut her out of his life. She left him off with the words you'll regret this Jonah Beck.
Till this day Jonah has not regretted breaking up with Amber, maybe she was just saying that to scare him for leaving her without a boy to toy with. Now with Andi there was never a moment of peace, it was always some new drama whether the source be something he said, or did, or a new person that just walked into their lives.
It frustrates Jonah how no matter how hard he tries he can never succeed in pleasing either of his girlfriends. Amber always wanted more, and what he did give she took the wrong way like with the makeup for example. She thought he was calling her ugly, and on top of that it was the wrong brand.
With Andi things were somehow worse. Jonah would work for hours writing a new song for Andi, sure it earned him one kiss, but after that everything went downhill. Jonah meant them as a kind hearted gesture to show his love, and how much he cares for her. But Andi interpreted it as offensive, and a invasion of privacy. Just in general Jonah swears that most of his anxiety is from Andi.
The simplest of things like what to wear each morning becomes a stressful thing to do. He can't dress too nice, and maker Andi look like trash in comparison, and he can't underdress, and appear as he doesn't care about her. Jonah felt like every decision he made was made with Andi in mind.
Probably the thing that makes Jonah the angriest with Andi is friends. Jonah is never allowed to hang out with girls like Natalie or Libby, cause Andi gets jealous. Then again he does not have much room to speak, but the thing is he does not restrict Andi from being friends with Walker, and Cyrus. Oh boy Cyrus he is always with Andi, Jonah wouldn't be surprised if they were secretly dating behind his back.
Nowadays the Beck boy couldn't care less if Cyrus swooped in, and stole Andi from him. In fact why doesn't he just dump her already, literally everything with her is a negative impact on his life? Jonah can't even answer the question of why he is staying with her, she is impossible to please, and above all she is a bitch, not that he would ever say that to her face.
Since Jonah has no reason to stay with Andi he came to the conclusion that he will just dump her, and cut her out of his life much like he did Amber. Much to his surprise Andi already beat him to it. She, Andi Mack broke up with him. She had no right to do that, Jonah treated her like the princess she thinks she is. He should have been the one to break up with her.
Oh well it didn't matter they are finally through, and Jonah is free, and doesn't have to worry about the little things like everyday appearance. Now he just had to wait, and see if his vest friend Cyrus would end up dating her. Honestly he feels sorry for Cyrus if he does end up dating her. It'd be a shame to see one of his best friends go down the same dead end road he did. In the end Jonah was just done with girls.
On a similar note Marty found himself in a fairly alike situation with Buffy. Marty gave himself mental pats on the back for being boyfriend material when he did such acts like getting extra napkins for Buffy. Marty felt that it was their thing, sadly Buffy did not feel the same, now while his heart is weeping she is off getting extra napkins from Walker. Now Marty has no competition left, Buffy just kinda ran out on him.
He missed her smiles that she would shoot him at random times out at the track, or inside the school. Now he doesn't even wanna see those heartwarming smiles, they all remind him of the one thing that he cannot have. What was so different from their friendship when compared to a relationship? Nothing Marty thought, so why would she not go out with him? It frustrated Marty, he did not feel good enough or worthy.
The only thing Marty held onto was his track record that was his accomplish, but Buffy had to tie with him on that, so it no longer feels special. Marty even had to put up with Buffy's crap like when she dunked his sneakers into the toilet ruining them. All in all it was just a bad relationship, maybe it was for the best that she turned him down.
Girls are just too complicated, and not worth the effort is what Marty started to believe. She never once thought about how he felt, only how she felt. He wants someone that will actually consider his feelings. That's the thing Buffy is so competitive that she only saw him as a fun little game, and never a real person with emotions. It was days like these that Marty swore he was just done with girls.
Canoeing had been so much fun out on the Great Salt Lake that they had to go out again. This time they expanded their crew bringing along TJ, and Marty which was mainly Amber's idea since we knew she would be attending this time. Jonah wanted to talk to CyGuy about the whole situation with Andi, but knew that he shouldn't since he still might like her. Marty was unsure of who he would partner up with, but one thing was for sure, and that was he was not getting in a canoe with Buffy after what happened with them, besides she already partnered up with Walker.
It was to be expected that the only person willing to put up with Amber was Andi, as they boarded a canoe together joining Buffy, and Walker out on the lake leaving just the four boys. Jonah had a quick glance with the runner realizing he didn't know him all too well, and he was not onboard with getting all buddy buddy with the man that single handedly harassed Buffy. Surely Jonah could strike up a conversation with Marty about how troubling girls are, and hey maybe he could relate.
"You wanna?" Marty started off pointing towards the open canoe while taking a step towards Jonah.
"Yeah," Jonah said joining Marty as they got into the canoe.
Thus leaving TJ grinning while he said, "alright looks like it's just me, and you."
Once out on the lake drifting towards the shoreline where the cast shadow of the trees were Jonah broke the ice, "I heard you, and Buffy are good friends."
Marty turned back to face Jonah was in the back of the canoe to correct him, "were good friends… now it's like she doesn't want anything to do with me."
Jonah picked up on the teens sad vibes, he knew what they felt like all too well. "Wait did you have a crush on her?"
"Kinda, but now I don't even want to date her if she did like me. She is just so frustrating, I wouldn't expect you to understand." Marty turned back up front, and swished his paddle around in the mucky water.
"Can I let you in on a little secret?"
"Yeah," Marty answered becoming all ears.
"I know exactly how that feels, Andi recently broke up with me before I had the chance to break up with her. Now if we wanna talk about frustrating, Andi is legit the definition."
Marty grinned as he positioned himself to face Jonah with his hands together between his knees ready for a competition. "Oh yeah well did she ever act like she was really into you, and turns out she never wanted to make it serious?"
"Sorta, but did she ever lie to you, and say she loved the gifts you got her?" Jonah asked getting brought back to a simpler time like at the renaissance fair when he had friendly competitions with Buffy all day. Marty's competitive nature was one that Jonah sure did enjoy much better than Andi' judgmental aurora that she carried with her anywhere she went always ready to storm off throwing a fit.
The two boys went back, and forth asking their questions as if it was a competition of who had the more frustrating girl that just left their life. It was actually a beautiful thing that they found someone that could relate so much to. It's like having a connection already made before they really got to know each other.
Meanwhile TJ sat at the front of the canoe groaning, "ugh it feels like you're not even rowing." Cyrus stayed silent in his own embarrassment, it not come as much of a shocker to him that he managed to lose his oar again. TJ turned around to see what was going on to see Cyrus without a paddle with a guilty look on his face. TJ put a hand to his face in shame saying, "what I am going to do with you UnderDog?"
"Sorry," Cyrus said apologetically. He didn't mean metaphorically, and literally send his friend up the creek without a paddle.
"Well if you can't paddle why not make yourself useful, and tell me a story or something."
"Uh okay," Cyrus said as he thought for a moment. "One time I went on a date, and ended up throwing up into my own shoe."
"Okay gross, and that is not what I had in mind for a story. What can you do?" TJ asked.
"I can correct the teacher when they turn bias during one of their lessons, and make them annoyed."
"Hm, so I was right you are annoying, I thought it was just to me," TJ said remembering the time TJ flat out told Cyrus that he found him rather annoying.
"If I'm so annoying then why am I your friend?" Cyrus asked hoping with all his heart that he would say something like, because I love you so much, and we should kiss. Alas that was just another one of his silly little gay fantasies that won't ever come to life. He knows from experience with all the frisbee team captain ones he has had.
"..." TJ opened his mouth, but no words came out. Thankfully Cyrus could only see the back of his head, he didn't need to see his front where his cheeks had turned pink. Cyrus sat back there smugly actually kind of glad that TJ couldn't provide a answer right away. Finally TJ came up with something, "because you're nice."
Really TJ, the most childish excuse for liking someone? Cyrus thought. Cyrus slowly shook his head, as he said, "sure lets just go with that."
Jonah had ran out of questions to ask about Marty, and his frustrations with Buffy, and vise versa. Marty was still sitting on his seat backwards to face Jonah, as their canoe rocked a bit when it brushed against the shoreline that stood erect from the ground about two feet high. Marty laughed under his breath as he joked, "yeah girls are so much trouble, we should just date."
The oblivious teen had not detected the joking manner in his voice when he nonchalantly said, "okay."
"What? I was joking," Marty said as Jonah frowned making Marty immediately missed the smile that used to be there on his face. "But if you really wanna… I mean I'll give it a shot if you will, like I'm not even gay."
The ears on the side of Jonah's head rose as a cheesy grin grew on his face, "me neither, but we should do it anyways. I think it'll be fun, maybe we can prove that girls have been the problem the whole time."
"You know what yeah this actually does sound pretty great. You understand how I felt from what Buffy did, and I, you. So I know you'd never treat me like she did, and the same goes for me to you," Marty explained to him.
"Great, but we're not going to tell anyone about this right? We're just experimenting."
"Right," Marty said, "oh, and we can have a safeword if one of us does end up falling for the other."
"Deal, the safeword can be…" Jonah stumped himself having difficulties coming up with a safeword to use. "Tablecloth," Jonah beamed acting like he just came up with the most advanced word in the universe.
Marty blew air through his nostrils as he agreed, "sure, tablecloth it is."
End Of Chapter 1
There yah have it, the start. I'm definitely not stealing ideas from that Everything Sucks tv show, no way that'd just be ridiculous. Heh, I hope no one has seen that show… Seeing as this is just the first chapter, what are y'all's current predictions for them four boys, TJ, Jonah, Cyrus, and Marty? Who's going to end up with who?
~Banana
