Closer than brothers
"Come on nerd cough it up"
I tell the guy i have pinned up agents the lockers. He goes into his pocket, pulls out $20 then hands it to me. I smile before shoving him away; he picks up his fallen books and runs away as i laugh.
"Sup man"
i turn to find my best friend, the school party bad boy Jon moxley aka mox. No party happened without Jon knowing coz of his good alcohol, drug and prostitute connections. People wonder why Jon never gets in trouble well it's simple really his prostitute mother is really good at sucking or fucking his way out of anything. There's only one class he continuously attends and that's auto shop mostly coz he likes the teacher Mr McGill.
"Nothing much how about you?"
"Just had a test, seriously I've never been so board in my life, a whole class of silence with nothing to do but sleep or draw"
"You could have done the test"
He chuckles
"Yea I'll do that when i quit drinking or smocking"
I smile
"That's never gonna happen"
"Exactly"
He brushes the long strands of dirty blond hair from his eyes "you coming over tonight?"
"I got training"
"Oh come on would you rather play football or get drunk with your best friend?"
He play punches my shoulder
"I'll drop by after training"
The second bell rang loudly threw the hallway
"Watcha got?"
"Maths, you?"
"Auto, i think i might chill there for the rest of the day"
"K man"
We bro hug and he pulls my long black hair free of its ponytail
"You look better with your hair down"
He smiles before turning and walking off down the hall
"Fuck you Jon"
I yell
"Love you to"
He yells back flipping me off. I tie my hair up with my spear hair tie and head to class. I never get told off for being late, being the school football star and jons best friend has its perks, like at lunch we get decent meals like pizza instead of the dog food that the rest of the kids get, we also get it for free. They don't call my parents when I get into trouble just Jons mum. Some people think I'm using Jon but I would never, ever use him. Jon and I have been friends since we wore 8, a week after me and my family arrived in the states I was out riding my bike when I came across a police officer yelling at a boy maybe a few months younger than me, I hear the end of the conversation
"...Jon just admit you wore selling dope"
"I..."
"Oh there you are"
I say walking over to them "is there a problem officer?"
"Do you know this boy?"
He asks me
"Of course we wore playing catch when Jon threw it too far and I went to go get it"
I pull out a ball I had found earlier
"Ok you got lucky this time moxley but next time I'm gonna get ya"
The cop walked away and once out of sight the boy turned to me
"You didn't have to do that"
"I know"
I offer my hand "I'm Roman"
"I'm Jon"
He placed his hand in mine "but people call me mox"
And with that our friendship began. Since then we've incapable, he was the one who talked me into trying out for the football team, growing my hair long and my tattoo. He's not just my best friend he's my brother. After class I head to the cafeteria and grab a large pizza. I arrive at auto shop to fine Jon fiddling with an engine at the back of the room
"Afternoon Roman"
Mr McGill says noticing my presents, I hand him a large slice of pizza "thanks"
I smile before walking over to Jon; I like Mr McGill and always gave him a bit of our lunch coz he's the one guy who will give back the same shit Jon dishes out. I could see Jon getting frustrated so I sit next to him and embrace him so his shoulder rest agents my chest, he lets his head fall to my shoulder, I look at Mr McGill who smiles before giving us the room.
"What's up Jon?"
I ask rubbing his other shoulder
"It won't work"
"What wont?"
"Everything"
I tilt his chin up so his eyes meet mine
"Take a deep breath"
He did as he was told "good let's try and figure this out together"
He smiles before showing me what he was doing. We quickly repair the damaged engine and i look at my watch "shit"
"What?"
"I'm late for training"
"Who cares?"
"My coach"
"Na come on I'll walk ya to training and say you wore helping me with something"
We exit the auto lab and head to the football fields "go get ready and I'll talk to coach ok"
I nod and head to the locker room to change. I exit the locker room to see Jon talking to my coach, coach pated him an the shoulder and smiled before heading out on the field "told ya I'd handle it"
"So I'm off the hook"
"Yea"
"Thanks man I appreciate it"
"You still coming by tonight?"
"Yea straight after training"
"Ok cool I'll just stay and watch then"
"You don't have to"
"I promise not to laugh"
"Fine you can stay"
"Sweet"
He smiles "dude you've got something in your hair"
I reach my hand up "I'll get it"
He pulled my hair tie from my hair and snapped it with a large grin on his stupid face
"Fuck you"
He pats my shoulder
"Love you to bro"
I watch as he walks up to the 3rd row of bleachers sits down and lights a cigarette. I turn my attention from Jon to my girlfriend Kate who's leading the cheerleaders in a cheer; I creep up behind her and lift her into the air.
"Ah"
She sequels "put me down"
I put her down and she turns to face me "hi"
"Hi"
I lean down and kiss her
"Get a room"
I hear Jon yell from the stands; without breaking the kiss I smile and flip him off.
"So what you got planed for us later?"
She asked breaking our kiss
"I'm gonna hang at Jons tonight"
"I wish you wouldn't hang out with him"
"He's not that bad, you would like him if you got to know him"
She lets out a long sigh
"Just be careful ok"
"Always"
I kiss her again before running out on the field. Throughout practice I got loud boos from Jon every time I did something and every time I look over at him he would smile and wave trying to look all cute and innocent. coach made me run some drills after training for being late so when I got to the locker room there was no one there, I have a quick shower, I walk out I find Jon sitting on the bench with a bottle of jack Daniels in his hand
"You sucked out there"
He said and handing me the bottle
"You don't even know how to play so how do you know I sucked?"
I take a big skull and hand it back
"Your right but I do know that was quite a hard hit you took out there"
I sit next to him and he swings one of his legs over the bench so he's facing me, he places his hand on the bump which had begun to form on the back of my head "dose it hurt?"
"Na, I've had worse"
"Yea I've hit you harder than that"
I smile at him "oh you through I forgot that night you through you could take me, yea I remember it real well I locked you in a cross face chicken wing and you begged me not to brake your arm"
He pats my leg "you know I would never hurt ya right"
"Yea I know"
I turn and swooping my leg over so I was facing him "I don't get you sometimes Jon"
He smiled as I lean over and brush his hair from his eyes "I'll make you a deal"
"Ok"
"I'll keep my hair down if you keep yours out of your eyes"
"Ok"
He spits on his hands and slicks his hair back, I burst out laughing
"You look like some evil villain"
"I am evil"
"Yea you are"
He smiles a very sadistic smile "ok I should get changed"
I stand and open my locker pulling out a pair of sweet pants and a black singlet; I pull the singlet over my head and drop the towel to the floor. I smile as I feel Jons gaze on my lower body. It wasn't the Jon had seen me unclothed but like the first time it has a strong effect on me, it sends a shiver up the length of my spine. I bend down to pull up my pants and my smile enlarges when I hear him hiss out a breath, I pull my pants up slowly making shore he couldn't see the effect his gaze has on me. I turn back to find him lighting a cigarette, he hands me the almost empty bottle and I finish it off. "Come on before they lock us in"
Jon rises from the bench and put his cigarette out on the floor
"It would suck to be stuck here all night, through with you can make being anywhere fun"
I smile as I pack my bag "yea the company's good but the lack of liquor and smocks here would drive me crazy."
We leave the locker room and take Jons pride and joy his green dodge charger to his place. I remember the day we found it. We wore out exploring one day in the woods when we wore 12 and we came across this beat up run down car, Jon turns to me "this is the coolest car I've ever seen"
"Yea to bad it's out here and not on the road"
He smiles at me
"Let's try and fix it"
"Do you think we could?"
"Yea let's go back and grab some tools"
We spent the next year fixing the car up with my dad's tools and once it was done we drive out of the woods to a nearby lake. We sat on the hood of the car for hours before Jon said "i think I'm gonna keep it"
"You do deserve it you did most of the work"
That had to be the 2nd happiest day of my life well after meeting Jon of course.