Summary-Alberto and his friends go to a club down off in the village, to unwind and get Alberto's mind off of Arthur. While they're there, Alberto spends part of the night sitting in the booth and the other part with Danny, a guy who wants to meet up with him again after they share a conversation.
Chapter7-Clash pt. 2
Alberto had gotten in last night pretty late and not to mention he wasn't completely sober when he stumbled through the door. He was just lucky that they had managed to get home without being stopped by the police, but surprisingly Kevin had taught himself to drive threw a drunken haze, which was not one of his most attractive qualities. He had told them to call him when they got home just to make sure they hadn't crashed or had an accident. Once that was out of the way he had went to the bathroom to empty his full bladder and in the process tripped and hit the shower door.
"Ow"
Once he was finished her had dragged himself out of the bathroom, but was surprised to see when he opened the door his little sister standing there.
"Gah!"
Vicita stared up at him with a questioning look, her hands on her hips.
"V-vicita, you almost gave me a heart attack" Alberto whispered, holding his chest
"It's three o'clock in the morning"
"So"
"So you just came home didn't you?" Vicita asked
"Yeah, so"
"Mom and dad are going to be mad" Vicita said, smirking
"Vicita I'm twenty one years old, I don't have a curfew, I can stay out as long as I want" he said, poking his tongue out at her
"I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the fact you're almost drunk off your ass right now" Vicita said
"I am not and how many times do I have to tell you, stop saying bad words" Alberto said
Vicita rolled her eyes and sighed, before pushing him out of the way so she could go to the bathroom.
"Oh yeah and next time you come in late, try not to make such a ruckus" she said, closing the door
Alberto silently mocked his younger sister, before going to his bed room and shedding his clothes like a snake until he was in nothing but his boxers. He flopped down into his bed, facing the window and looked over next door to see that surprisingly Arthur's blinds were open. They had been closed ever since the two of them had went on their break.
Alberto's once tired eyes seemed wide awake now and he found himself staring into the dimly lit room.
'...'
It was silent for a while and nothing moved and for a minute Alberto thought maybe he was asleep, but that theory soon changed when he saw Arthur walk through the doorway. He closed the door and walked over to his computer, where he turned the dark screen on, revealing he had been doing something with the machine. Alberto wasn't able to see much because of the dim lighting in the room, but he saw Arthur turn off the computer and at that moment he barely took into account that the boy was still fully dressed.
'What was he doing?'
Arthur got up and pulled his shirt over his head, making Alberto's breath catch in his throat and he found himself quickly sitting up. Thank god is was dark in his room or Arthur might have been able to see his sudden movement.
He knew what he was doing was...perverted, but he just couldn't stop himself. He had to look, he had to watch.
Arthur continued to undress, until he was clad in nothing but boxers. At this point Alberto felt his heart rate speed up in excitement. Oh yeah was definitely a pervert now. But his excitement soon died down as Arthur put on a t-shirt and slipped into his pajama pants and then stood there, facing the window and for a moment, Alberto thought he had been caught. He stopped breathing and froze as he waited for Arthur to close the blinds, but he didn't. Instead he walked closer to the window and stared out, up at the sky.
Alberto hadn't been able to make out his expression, but he didn't miss the tears that slipped from his eyes. If it hadn't been for the moon's light he would have never caught it. His heart then gave a painful clench, watching the one he loved distressing so much. Part of him wished he could comfort him in some way and for a moment he was tempted to call him and do just that, but then his better judgement took over. He knew that would be a bad idea and instead just sighed, dropping back down onto the mattress.
Arthur wiped his eyes furiously, before going into the room and turning off the lamp, the room darkening instantly.
Alberto only stayed awake a few minutes longer, thinking about what he had just seen. After contemplating a while, he began to feel the heavy burden of guilt take over him. He felt guilty for meeting Danny, he felt guilty for going to the club at all, he felt guilty...for giving up Arthur.
~11:40 AM~
Alberto was still sleeping when it turned eleven forty and he wasn't even remotely interested in getting up. He knew he should have set his alarm clock, but he didn't because he had forgotten with all the events that had taken place yesterday. Besides that maybe this was fate's way of saying he wasn't suppose to meet Danny.
Vicita, who was wondering why her older brother was sleeping in so late, had took it upon herself to go and wake him up. Alberto usually was up at ten, even when it was the weekends. So, taking a stick with her, she headed to Alberto's room. She cracked the door open to see he was still sleeping. Smiling deviously, she began to make her way into the room, trying not to step on her brother's discarded clothes. When she reached him, she looked at his face to see he was indeed sleeping.
"Perfect"
She then began to repeatedly poke him in the head, until he began to stir, shooing her away. But she didn't stop, instead she started poking him even more, until he had, had enough and sat up grabbing onto her stick and snatching it away.
"What do you want?" he asked, frowning angrily
"It's eleven forty jack ass" Vicita said
"I-it is?" Alberto asked
"Yeah, but you probably would have known that if you weren't out drinking last night" Vicita said, smirking
"...you've been hanging with DW a little to much" Alberto said
'Bzz, bzz'
Getting up, Alberto grabbed his pants off the floor and began to shake them, till his cell fell out.
"Hello?"
"A-alberto? It's me, Danny"
"Danny" Alberto mumbled, his eyes widening
"Danny?" Vicita said
"A-alberto, you still there?"
"Oh yeah, sorry" he said, sitting down on the bed, Vicita standing a few inches in front of him and listening to his conversation
"I just thought I'd call and see if we were uh...still meting up this afternoon" Danny said
"Oh uh, well..." Alberto looked at Vicita, who was giving him a questioning look
"Who the hell is Danny?" Vicita asked
Alberto frowned at his younger sister, making a shushing sound.
"I understand if you have other plans, or if you don't wanna come" Danny said
"No, no...I'm still coming" Alberto said, rubbing behind his neck
"Really? I mean, great, c-can't wait to see you" Danny said
"Yeah, me too" Alberto said
"So I'll see you in about, fifteen, twenty minutes?" Danny asked
"Yeah, sure"
"Great"
"Uh, Danny I might be a little late though, just to let you know ahead of time" Alberto said
"T-that's fine, take all the time you need" Danny said
"Thanks, well bye" Alberto said
"Bye"
With that being said, Alberto hung up his phone and sat it on the bedside table. He put his face in his hands and let out a long sigh.
"Who is Danny?" Vicita asked again
"Vicita" Alberto sighed
"Is he your new boyfriend?"
Alberto snapped his head up and stared his sister with a look of pure...shock.
"What?"
"Get out"
"Why?"
"Get out" Alberto said, standing up and beginning to direct his sister to the door
"What the hell is your problem? All I asked you was a simple question and you go crazy on me" she said, frowning at her brother's unnecessary behavior
"Just leave me alone, okay"
With that being said, he closed the door in the stunned eleven year old's face.
"God, someone needs to get laid"
Alberto sighed, leaning against his door and looking at the wooden floor between his legs.
He hadn't meant to snap at Vicita. It wasn't like she didn't know about Alberto's sexuality, she knew he was a bisexual and she fine with it, now. At first she had been a little confused on the manner and had begun to avoid Alberto because she thought he had changed and he wasn't himself anymore. But with a little talking from his parents and from himself, his sister had quickly learned that Alberto was still Alberto, he just liked girls and boys.
He wasn't sure why he was so quick to defense. Or maybe it was because it made him feel like a low down, dirty two timer. He and Arthur were just on a break, they hadn't really broken up. He had said so himself.
Sighing and deciding thinking about it only made it worse, Alberto got up and began to get ready. What was done was done and maybe this was suppose to happen. Maybe he and Arthur really weren't meant to be, like he had hoped.
~Cabona Ave.~
By the time Alberto had reached Cabona Avenue, it was twelve thirty. He felt guilty for making Danny wait so long, but part of him was also hoping that Danny wouldn't show up or take his late timing as a sign that Alberto wasn't interested and would go home, but he was wrong. As soon as he stepped onto the sidewalk of Cabona, he spotted the blonde leaning against the street sign, playing around with his cell phone.
Stopping, Alberto thought about if he really wanted to go through with this...
'...'
Swallowing, he slowly made his way over to Danny and put a smile on his face, trying to mask his true emotions as best as possible.
"Hey"
Danny looked up from his cell phone and smiled brightly at Alberto.
"Hey, I was sort of beginning to think you weren't coming" Danny said, putting his hands in the pockets of his jeans
"Yeah, sorry for making you wait, I woke up late" Alberto said, smiling
"It's okay, happens to all of us at least once" Danny said
With that being said, Alberto and Danny began to make their way down the sidewalk, heading only god's knows where. As they walked though, Danny talked to Alberto about school and Alberto was partially listening. He had been to busy looking Danny up and down. He hadn't noticed last night, but Danny was kind of tall. He was at least tow or three inches taller than Alberto and not to mention, he looked a lot better in casual attire. It made him seem more like a twenty four year old, than that blazer did.
He was wearing a green t-shirt with the number 32 sitting on a tan line, that went around the green fabric. He was wearing blue jeans, a pair of brown shoes, his glasses and had a messenger bag with him. He was also wearing a watch and a bracelet around the other wrist. He looked really nice, cute almost.
"So what school do you go too Alberto?" Danny asked
"Oh, I uh go to Elwood University" Alberto replied
"That's a good school" Danny said
"Yeah, I worked my butt off to get in" Alberto said
"Well a lot of universities are really picky about who they let in" Danny said, smiling
"Yeah, I noticed when I saw the entrance requirements" Alberto said, making Danny chuckle a bit
"Well, here we are"
"Where?"
"The café"
Alberto looked up and his eyes widened in pure horror. They were standing in front of Urban's, the café Arthur and his friends always came to.
'Oh god'
But he quickly calmed himself down. It was the weekend, he knew that Arthur and his friends had to be doing something else rather than sitting in a café drinking coffee and tea all day.
"Something wrong?" Danny asked, placing a hand on his shoulder
"O-oh no" Alberto said
"Have you ever been here before?" Danny asked
"Yeah, I come by here sometimes on Monday's and get coffee to keep me awake" Alberto said
"Same here" Danny said
With that being said, the two males walked into the café, Alberto following next to Danny, with his hands in the pockets of his khaki shorts.
"So you drink coffee right?" Danny asked as they stood in line
"Yeah"
"Alberto!"
Freezing, Alberto felt a feeling of dread rush through his body. He knew that voice, it was that rich girl who had been coming onto him at Arthur's birthday party. By now, Danny had turned his attention towards the voice who had called Alberto, Alberto doing the same.
His eyes slightly widened as he saw all of them were sitting there. How had he missed that? They were sitting in the table directly in front of the window!
"..."
Then his eyes met with the main person he had prayed to God wouldn't have been there, Arthur. His heart skipped a beat as he stared into the slightly wide eyes of Arthur.
"Alberto, are they friends of your's?" Danny asked
"Y-yeah" Alberto said
Alberto slowly made his way over to the table, hands in his pockets and heart beating a thousand miles per minute.
"H-hey guys" Alberto said
He felt like someone had just shot him and he wanted nothing more than to keel over and die right then and there.
"We didn't know you came to Urbans" Buster said smiling
"Y-yeah, I come here every once in a while when I need something to keep me uh awake" Alberto said, beginning to tap his foot
"Who's your friend?" Sue-Ellen asked, motioning to Danny
"O-oh"
Alberto couldn't stop himself from looking into Arthur's eyes, that seemed to be silently demanding the same answer.
"T-this is Danny, uh we met in the village" Alberto said
Alberto looked at Arthur, who had now put his head down, hiding his eyes from him and Alberto felt his heart clench painfully.
"Well nice to meet you Danny" Buster said, standing up and offering him a hand
"Nice to meet you too" Danny said, taking the hand and shaking it
Soon everyone began to stand up and introduce themselves to Danny, everyone except Arthur who was sitting there staring down at his lap. Alberto stared at Arthur, feeling his self control about to snap in two.
"Arthur"
Arthur looked up at Francine who was staring down at him, as everyone else talked to Danny.
"Aren't you gonna introduce yourself" Francine said, frowning
Arthur got up, shoulders limp and walked over to Danny. Danny looked down at him, as Arthur held his hand out to him.
"My name is Arthur" he mumbled
"Well, it's nice to meet you Arthur" Danny said, taking the hand and shaking it
"Excuse me, I have to go" Arthur said
They all stood there and watched as Arthur calmly fled the café, until Alberto put his hand on Arthur's shoulder.
"Arthur...please"
It was a whisper and no one had saw his gesture. Arthur shrugged Alberto's hand off his shoulder and continued to walk away. Alberto grabbed his hand in a desperate attempt to get the other boy's attention.
"Arthur, it's not what it looks like" Alberto whispered
Arthur didn't turn around to look at him, just snatched his hand away and quickly left the establishment.
"Arthur!"
All of the others had turned their attention to the two now and watched as Arthur went out the door and started running down the sidewalk, Alberto running after him.
"W-what just happened?" Muffy asked
"I..I don't know" Francine said
Danny stared after the two with a raised eyebrow, before looking down at the group of teens.
"Uh, I'm sorry, did I miss something?" he asked
"No, Arthur's just been bummed out ever since his girlfriend broke up with him" Buster said
"Yeah, but what does that have to do with Alberto?" Sue-Ellen asked
"Isn't it obvious" Muffy said
They all turned their attention to Muffy
"Obviously Alberto is the reason for their break up" she said
"And how did you reach that conclusion?" the brain asked, crossing his arms over his chest
"Actually Brain, it makes sense" Fern said, shrugging her shoulders
"Yeah, it kind of does" George said
"...maybe, but how do we know for sure, when we didn't even know who Arthur's girlfriend was" the Brain pointed out
"I don't know, but we'll find out eventually" Francine said
They all stood there, staring at the door the two had previously ran out of.
Tbc
