Nick and I have been friends for eight years. We know almost everything about each other; there isn't much I don't know about him. I know he hates thunder storms the best way to help him through is to cuddle with him on his bed watching cartoons with the volume up very loud.
He loves coffee (two and a half sugars). He likes to go to bed at 11.30 on a school night, loves horror movies - but always has nightmares and so the best way to comfort him is to cuddle with him in bed and so on. He knows all about me; how I hate horror movies but will watch them with him as long as we cuddle and I have a pillow to hide behind, Coffee is life (two sugars).
I always thought I knew everything about Nick, and I was sure he knew pretty much everything about me, but you find out that it isn't the case and everything changes.
The sun reflected off of the Dalton Lake and I sighed happily, looking over to my best friend who was staring out at the murky water. The summer was the best time for Nick and I to hang out, neither of us go home for the holidays and it means we get to spend more time together than we usually do for the whole year. It's the second week in and after spending the morning complaining how we were so bored, Nick suggested we sit by the lake for a while. At first I was dubious, but anytime I get to spend with Nick is great, so I agreed.
"Nickyyyyy," I moaned as I lied on my back looking up into the sky through the trees. "I'm soooo bored, can we do something?"
"How about we cool off in the lake?" he suggested, finally averting his eyes from the dirty water.
"But it's all disgusting in there..." I sighed. The next thing I know he is pulling me up and covering my eyes with his t-shirt that was laying on our blanket
"I have a surprise for you," he whispered, grabbing my hand.I freaked out momentarily and stiffened as I felt his hand touch mine, shivers running up my spine. I let him lead me to wherever he wanted to go and sighed as we stopped.
"Keep your eyes closed okay?" he said excitedly.
"Erm okay then, where are we?" I asked confusedly.
"Secret, Jeffy," he giggled. Man his laugh is the cutest thing I have ever heard. Everything is cute about him to be honest though; his beautiful eyes, his gorgeous smile. No. Jeff, you cannot think like this, he is your best friend and not gay. My totally heterosexual daydream was cut short as I found myself flying through the air into what I could only assume was the lake.
"NICK!" I shouted once I had emerged from under the water. I looked up, waiting for him to reply and sighed as I felt more water flying my way as he jumped in beside me.
"What?" he grinned, as he pushed his hair back from his face.
"You know what Nick! I told you this water was disgusting," I replied angrily. Nick burst out laughing.
"Loosen up Jeffy. I was only messing about and I bet you are so much cooler now," Nick said still smiling cutely at me; his eyes staring at mine gave me a confused look as I continued staring at him, mouth agape.
"Erm, so what shall we do now?" I asked awkwardly staring at my hands.
"How about this...?" I looked up and was met with water hitting my face again.
"Nickyyy," I complained, splashing him back. We decided it would be fun to splash water at each other like children for 20 minutes and when we were tired out from all the laughing and choking on the water we moved closer to each other, both stopping in front of each other, staring into each other's eyes. His lips look so soft and beautiful. I wondered what they tasted like. Oh god I needed to stop that. That's when I noticed he was staring at my lips. He was leaning in; oh my, he was kissing me and so I kiss back.
"Wow," I exhaled as we rested our heads against each other, slowly opening our eyes.
"Erm, sorry, oh god, I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking," he blurted out rushing to get out of the lake.
"Wait," I called after him. "Wait, do you...l-like me?" I asked as we jumped out of the water.
"Erm... Well, yeah, yeah I do... sorry. I understand if you don't want to be friends anymore if this is too awkward for you... It's fine I'll just leave you alone now and go to visit my…" I smiled before pressing my lips against his again, shutting him up. He deepened the kiss this time, his soft lips grazing against mine. He ran his tongue along my bottom lip, asking for entry so I opened my mouth letting our tongues dance magically together.
"Sorry, I had to get you to shut up," I breathed, resting our foreheads against each other. He laughed breathlessly. "So… erm what does this mean...?" he asked, slightly confused.
"Well I.. I think I like you too…" I replied shyly.
"So. Jeff. Would you like to go on a date with me?" He asked sweetly.
"oh.. err.. yeah okay where shall we go? Why don't we go for a picnic? Oh my, Nicky how cute would that be? Can we nick?" I started jumping around getting excited before finding myself being hurled through the air and landing in the lake again. Apparently Nick prefers to throw me in water to shut me up instead of using my tactic and just kissing me.
"Heyyyy," I shouted whilst pouting. "What was that for?"
"Someone got a little over excited so I thought you could do with cooling off," he replied with a wink. "Give me your hand, we'll have the picnic."
Our first date was more perfect that I could have ever imagined. We went to the park with a picnic blanket and laid down under a tree I made ham and cheese sandwiches, packed some crisps, some cakes and a big bottle of Coca Cola and I ended up buying Nick and I an ice-cream each when he complained he was still hungry. After we finished our food he laid his head down on my chest and we sat the in a comfortable silence, caught up in our own thoughts as the day passed by.
"So, Nicky? How long have you been crushing on me for then?" I asked cheekily.
"Erm…Only…A… Few... Months," he replied, slowly getting quieter. "Didn't you notice me getting more affectionate?"
"Well, yeah but I didn't think anything of it really and besides, I thought you were straight..." I said slightly embarrassed. "Why did you kiss me?"
"Well I saw the way you was looking at me today and I thought you may have liked me so I thought, what's the harm in trying?" he giggled again.
"Well I'm glad you did, Nicky." We shared a quick but passionate kiss as we were in public. As the summer went by we went on more dates, Nick took me to the cinema to see the midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. I took him out to dinner at a fancy restaurant. We were on our way home from our latest date. We went on a lunch date to breadsticks where Nick paid again. On the drive back from breadsticks there was a comfortable silence till I spoke up. "So Nick, where are we going now?"
"Well I'm not going to tell you that now am I?" he replied cheekily
"Whyyyy? You know how I hate surprises," I moaned. "We are almost there Jeff stop complaining!" he laughed.
We finally arrived back at Dalton, much to my surprise. "What are we doing here, I thought there was another part to the date..." I stated. "Oh my, I hope you wasn't thinking sex, Nick I'm not ready." I started "We haven't even started going out yet I'm not like.." He pulled me in for a quick kiss "You are so cute when you freak out and ramble on," he replied kissing my nose lightly. "Of course I wasn't thinking sex. Now follow me, Jeffy" he said as he skipped off. "Why did you bring us to the lake Nick? There is nothing to do here." I moaned as he laid the blanket down on the ground.
"Do you ever stop asking questions?" he replied sounding a little frustrated. "Sorry," I mumbled going to lay down. "Nope, before we lay down I need to ask you something," he grabbed my hands. I stiffened slightly still not used to the affection but soon relaxed into the touch.
"Okay, I like you so much and these past few weeks with you have been more amazing than the past eight years. It took me seven and a half to realise how much I liked you and now I've realised I don't want to let that go so will you, Jeffrey Sterling, be my boyfriend?" Holy fuck he just asked me out. Oh god I need to reply. Oh.. Ermm.."Of course. It took me so much longer to realise how I felt about you but it doesn't matter we got there in the end." I replied smiling so hard. We laid down for the rest of the afternoon, with my head on his chest whilst he played with my hair.
"Only a few more weeks until everyone comes back" Nick said as we got up to leave the lake.
"Oh, that means school is starting in a few weeks," I replied sadly."Don't. Be. Sad. Jeffy" he replied in between kissing my face until he got to my mouth. His breath ghosted over my lips
"Nick," I moaned under my breath. I grabbed the back of his neck to bring our lips together in a passionate kiss that ended all too quickly for my liking. We walked back to our dorm in silence until I closed the door.
"So, do we tell them or not as they don't know we are gay?" I asked as I went to sit next to Nick on the bed.
"I don't mind it's up to you, I'm sure they think we are together anyway," he replied moving closer to me. I laughed at that, it's true we are as close as two people could ever be. We were always sitting next to each other cuddled up, making sexual jokes and having private conversations.
The summer finally came to an end, much to my annoyance and everyone began to return to Dalton. Nick and I ran up to each of our friends as they returned, each time holding hands no one said a word but there were a few confused glances.
"This is going to be so fun," I said to Nick when we were back on our dorm that evening. Nick looked up at me confused
"What do you mean?"
"Didn't you see the way they were looking at us?" I asked as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"No... I only have eyes for you baby" he smirked.
"Erg, stop being so cheesy. I prefer the old Nick, bring him back please," I replied, winking.
"Sorry," he mumbled into my lips as he went to kiss them, pulling away before he did.
"Nickyyy you are such a tease," I moaned childishly.
He just giggled and pushed me onto my... I mean our bed and straddled me, kissing a trail down my neck undoing my shirt at the same time. He pulled me up by the back of my neck kissing me passionately as he pulled my shirt off as I started to undo his buttons. He pushed me back down as he started to trail kisses lower down my chest.
"Oh my god, Nick?"
We both broke apart and I pushed Nick off of me as I saw who it was.