~2 days later~
*The third day at school, I didn´t think it would be this hard! So much homework…
I already know I´m going to fail English and my dad is not going to be happy about that... If I could only pass this class, maybe the work load wont be so much later on.*
~English class~
Finn looked around at his students.
"Well, I´m glad to see that everyone is here today. Could I sense that everyone isn´t happy about the work load?"
The class all nodded as he continued.
"It is only for this week, I want to find out what you know and what you are good at. Today we are just going to talk about a little bit of everything. So todays homework will be for tomorrow instead." Finn said
How lucky I am, maybe I would understand todays homework a little bit better if I studied more. Maybe, I should ask Will if he wants to study with me, he is good in English.
"Ok, pick somebody to do this assignment with." Finn instructed
Jake and Ham looked at each other. They both decided to do the assignment together.
"I want you to ask your classmate what does he want to learn in English, what should you learn in English, and then together come to the conclusion of what we should do during the rest of this summer."
Jake and Ham just sat there and didn´t have a clue on what to say or where to begin.
"Jake, are you any good at English? Ham asked, " Cause I´m not, so what? Do you have some ideas?" Hamilton asked
"Nope", Jake replied looking over at Will.
"But from the looks of it Will has, we should ask him?!"
They moved over to where Will was sitting.
" Hi Will" Jake started.
"Will, so do you have any idea on what to do in English?" Hamilton asked him
" Hi Jake, Ham"
"Yes, but Scout here don´t want to listen, he thinks that my ideas will end up in a bunch of homework."
"Hey, they are good ideas but not for this class." Scout replied
"So what are your ideas?" Hamilton wondered
"Maybe we could recite some poems, do some plays or something like that. I have always loved Shakespeare." Will shrugged
"Hey,that are some good ideas,could we use them?"
"Yes, of course, Scout doesn´t seem to amused by them so I will try to find out some which would mean less homework, and that Scout can handle!."
" Hey!" Scout said when they all burst out laughing.
"Ok,so, while we are talking about homework, I´m like Scout here, English isn´t my favourite subject, do you have some time after class to go over tomorrow´s homework with me?" Hamilton asked him.
Again Scout said " Hey!"
"Both Scout and I have to work at Friendly´s today".
* Great* Ham thought to himself, * who else can I ask?*
"I´m free this afternoon, said Jake.
Ham thought for a while and then said "Ok, we´ll study after class.".
"So, have you come up with some ideas? Scout do have something to say?" Finn finally asked.
"Um, well I thought, oh, I mean we thought" he said after Will gave him a look.
"that meaning of English is that you must learn to express yourself in many ways, learn to know yourself, because if you can´t explain or understand yourself how could you understand other people and in the end the world." Scout stammered.
"That was profound." Finn commented.
"So, lets see have Jake and Hamilton come up with some ideas for us to do in English?"
"We thought maybe we could recite some poems", Jake began.
"And maybe read some plays, from for example Shakespeare", Ham finished.
"Ok, guys we already have some good ideas, but I have to go, I´m running a little bit late for a meeting,. So I´m sure you wont mind being let out a little early?
Finn laughed s they all nodded in agreement. "Class dismissed."
"Finn was nice today, letting us go earlier", Hamilton said to Jake as they gathered their things up.
"Yes, he was, I thought maybe we could study at my room, it will be so much quieter there."
"Don´t you have a roomate?" Ham asked as they started walking.
"No, I´m one of the lucky ones with a single room." He answered with a smile.
"Ok, lets go. "
~~~
"Scout what do you think about Hamilton and Jake?" Will asked watching Jake and Ham walk off.
"Hamilton is alright, but there is something about Jake. I don´t know there is just something there."
"Don´t you also feel that something is going on…" Scout said, unsure of what he was saying.
"Between those two, yes but I think they are two people how really need a friend and now they are very happy to have found someone to have as their friend." Will suggested.
"Yeah, Will, maybe you are right."
~Jake´s room~
"Shall we start then? Jake said.
Hamilton sat and thought for a while.
"Ok, grammar is not my thing, neither is the whole English subject, butif I don´t pass this class my dad will kill me." Hamilton told Jake smiling.
But Jake didn´t smile back
"At least you have someone who cares." He mumbled.
"Did you say something?" Ham asked.
Jake went a bit red.
"No, it was nothing."
"Come on, did I say something wrong?" Hamilton asked confused.
"Hamilton just let it be, can we please start with this."
"Ok, ok." * Something is definitely up* Ham thought to himself, but he dropped it.
~An hour and a half later~
"Fianally we are finished. You are really good at English." Hamilton said as he stretched.
"Maybe it comes from having to hear my mom read all the roles she has gotten in plays out load… I just thought of something. Have you developed the photos we took?" Jake said smiling and looking at Hamilton when he packed his pens and stuff.
"I was going to do it today but this homework came in the way." Hamitlon told him, so happy he was interested.
"Does it take long to develope them?"
"No, but wanted to develope them twice so you could also have them too." Ham said.
"We have time on our hands, can we do it now?"
*What the hell am I doing, asking him to develope his photos with me. Why, Jacqueline, why did you have to fall inlove with him! What I am inlove with him? This was not supposed to happen. How can I get out of this mess?*
*Noone has really understood me the way Jake has done. He really does take an intrest in my hobbies, maybe he could be a really good friend to me, yes I think he could even now be my best friend, but why do have this feeling that it is something more…*
"Sure, we could develope them now." Hamilton answered, distracted.
~At his house~
"Nice house you have. " Jake told him while looking around.
"Thank you ."
"Munchie is that you?" a woman's voice called.
"Mom, stop calling me that , I´m here with my friend Jake. " Hamilton answered, blushing.
"Are you going to eat dinner with us?" Hamilton's mother asked them.
"No, we are going to eat later when we have developed some photos." Ham said giving him a " I´m sorry about this " look.
"Ok, nice to see you Jake."
"Nice to meet you too mrs Fleming."
~After a while~
"So they are ready, I hope they came out good, I´m not a proffesional so you know." Ham said.
"They look fine to me. " Jake said as he looked thruogh them
"Here are your photos. Now, I´m hungry lets go and eat."
"You´re always hungry arent´you?" He asked curiously.
"Yes, but that´s me, that´s why my mom calls me munchie, but I hate it when she calls me that." Hamilton answered.
"Ok, I feel that I owe you something here." Jake said
"What would that be?" Hamilton said, raising his eyebrows.
"A drivinglesson on my bike!!! Oh, yes , the CATCH." Jake said enthusiastically.
"We have sometime until the curfew starts, so maybe we could do it today?"
"Yes, why not" said Jake.
~After they have eaten, and they are now outside~
"Hamilton, my bike is gone!"
"What, the groundskeeper must have taken it. "." Hamilton said thoughtfully.
" You think so"
" Yeah,"
" You told me it was a safe place to hide it on. " Jake said upset.
"Yes, it was, but he must have come here , maybe he just took a walk and just found it." Hamilton offered, feeling so bad.
"What am I going to do, that bike means a lot to me. " Jake said.
" Ok, I will find a way to get it back... it´s ok, Jake" Hamilton promised. "...I know where the groundskeeper has the things he confiscates. Ok, we should try to get it now, he always watches Felicity now- he loves that show, he'd never notice that we are here if we are quiet." Hamilton finished.
"Thank you for helping me, Hamilton." Jake said sincerely.
"That´s what friends are for. No can we please get the bike out of here, I don´t want be here one more second ."
"So, Hamilton where can I put my bike now?" Jake asked.
" I know a place, I don´t think the groundskeeper will find it, it is bit further from school though."
"I don´t mind, only, as long as my bike is safe." Jake said
"Can I ask you why you have a bike, and why it is so important to you?" Hamilton asked.
"It just that I couldn´t see myself driving a car, not yet I mean. I have always loved motorcycles, so then I bought one. I could always just take my bike and drive away when I wanted to. I have great memories with this bike. My mom didn´t even notice that I bought one, until recently. " Jake told him
"It was her you were talking about in your room, wasn´t it?" Hamilton asked slowly.
"You heard me?" Jake asked surprised.
"Yes, and I felt it was a touchy subject so I didn´t want to pressure you about it."
"My mom, is just the mother who sometimes can´t remember she has a child."
*Damn I was going to say daughter, I must remember that I am pretending to be a guy now.*
"Can I tell you something?" Hamiton asked as they walked.
"What would that be" Jake said looking at him.
"I just wanted to let you know I am enjoying our talks, and your company. So I think I have succeded in my challenge." Hamilton said.
"You mean the one that you will make some friends here, yes I think you have succesfully succeded in that area." Jake smiled.
"I think it is past curfew, maybe we should go back." Hamilton said
"Yes, I´ll see you tomorrow Hamilton."
"See you tomorrow Jake."
~Next day~
"Thanks Jake for helping me out with English, maybe I´ll even pass English this summer." Hamilton said
"It was nothing, I forgot to thank you for last night, Jake said."
Unaware that some of their classmates heard there conversation, they turned around and found them standing there.
*Again, why should this happen to me, the deans son, what should they think about me.*
*I wonder what he is thinking about, I thinks that I have embarrassed hin in front of the whole school. Why can´t I just shut up sometimes. I should go.* Jake thought.
Jake went to his (her) room, and Hamilton just stood there.
Hamilton went to the library and then home. After an hour he went to Jake´s room and knocked.
"I want to show you something. "
"Ok, you can come in you know." Jake answered.
"Not here , come with me".
~On the roof top~
Hamilton looked around.
"Sometimes I just come here, to be alone , to have a quiet moment." Hamilton told Jake
"It is a nice place. What are you doing? " Jake suddenly said, slightly louder and moving away.
"What? I gotta pee" Ham answered.
*Damn, you got to get the hold on yourself this is what boys do, you are a boy now Jacqueline. Why is he so cute. He´s done, he is sitting down next to me, damn now I´m really inlove, I think.*
All of a sudden, Jake leaned over and kissed Ham.
"Jake what are you doing?" Hamilton shouted.
"I´m so sorry, it just happened. I´m not gay, Hamilton, it just happened." Jake assured him.
*I must get out of here.* Hamilton thought
Hamilton runs to the door and Jake just sat there.
*Finally I am home. What the hell happened over there. And why does it feel wrong but at the same time feels so right. I´m not gay, I have always liked girls, but Jake… I must think about it, since I started hanging out with Jake I have feelt some strange feelings.
No, I´m not gay, he is just my best friend, or maybe was. I must tell him that I´m not gay.*
~An hour later back in Jake´s room~
I´m not gay, how can I explain it to him, he will never forgive me. . I can't take it only being friends with him...*
Knock, knock.
Who could that be?
Jake opened the door. Hamilton rushed inside and Jake closed the door.
"Hamilton , what are you doing here." Jake asked
"I just wanted to say that I´m not gay."
"Good, because I´m not either.
" But the kiss?" Hamilton asked confused.
"I´m sorry about that. We are still friends, I hope?"
"Yes , I think so." Hamilton replied even more confused and walking to the door
"See, you tomorrow then." Jake said
"Yes, see you tomorrow then."
*The third day at school, I didn´t think it would be this hard! So much homework…
I already know I´m going to fail English and my dad is not going to be happy about that... If I could only pass this class, maybe the work load wont be so much later on.*
~English class~
Finn looked around at his students.
"Well, I´m glad to see that everyone is here today. Could I sense that everyone isn´t happy about the work load?"
The class all nodded as he continued.
"It is only for this week, I want to find out what you know and what you are good at. Today we are just going to talk about a little bit of everything. So todays homework will be for tomorrow instead." Finn said
How lucky I am, maybe I would understand todays homework a little bit better if I studied more. Maybe, I should ask Will if he wants to study with me, he is good in English.
"Ok, pick somebody to do this assignment with." Finn instructed
Jake and Ham looked at each other. They both decided to do the assignment together.
"I want you to ask your classmate what does he want to learn in English, what should you learn in English, and then together come to the conclusion of what we should do during the rest of this summer."
Jake and Ham just sat there and didn´t have a clue on what to say or where to begin.
"Jake, are you any good at English? Ham asked, " Cause I´m not, so what? Do you have some ideas?" Hamilton asked
"Nope", Jake replied looking over at Will.
"But from the looks of it Will has, we should ask him?!"
They moved over to where Will was sitting.
" Hi Will" Jake started.
"Will, so do you have any idea on what to do in English?" Hamilton asked him
" Hi Jake, Ham"
"Yes, but Scout here don´t want to listen, he thinks that my ideas will end up in a bunch of homework."
"Hey, they are good ideas but not for this class." Scout replied
"So what are your ideas?" Hamilton wondered
"Maybe we could recite some poems, do some plays or something like that. I have always loved Shakespeare." Will shrugged
"Hey,that are some good ideas,could we use them?"
"Yes, of course, Scout doesn´t seem to amused by them so I will try to find out some which would mean less homework, and that Scout can handle!."
" Hey!" Scout said when they all burst out laughing.
"Ok,so, while we are talking about homework, I´m like Scout here, English isn´t my favourite subject, do you have some time after class to go over tomorrow´s homework with me?" Hamilton asked him.
Again Scout said " Hey!"
"Both Scout and I have to work at Friendly´s today".
* Great* Ham thought to himself, * who else can I ask?*
"I´m free this afternoon, said Jake.
Ham thought for a while and then said "Ok, we´ll study after class.".
"So, have you come up with some ideas? Scout do have something to say?" Finn finally asked.
"Um, well I thought, oh, I mean we thought" he said after Will gave him a look.
"that meaning of English is that you must learn to express yourself in many ways, learn to know yourself, because if you can´t explain or understand yourself how could you understand other people and in the end the world." Scout stammered.
"That was profound." Finn commented.
"So, lets see have Jake and Hamilton come up with some ideas for us to do in English?"
"We thought maybe we could recite some poems", Jake began.
"And maybe read some plays, from for example Shakespeare", Ham finished.
"Ok, guys we already have some good ideas, but I have to go, I´m running a little bit late for a meeting,. So I´m sure you wont mind being let out a little early?
Finn laughed s they all nodded in agreement. "Class dismissed."
"Finn was nice today, letting us go earlier", Hamilton said to Jake as they gathered their things up.
"Yes, he was, I thought maybe we could study at my room, it will be so much quieter there."
"Don´t you have a roomate?" Ham asked as they started walking.
"No, I´m one of the lucky ones with a single room." He answered with a smile.
"Ok, lets go. "
~~~
"Scout what do you think about Hamilton and Jake?" Will asked watching Jake and Ham walk off.
"Hamilton is alright, but there is something about Jake. I don´t know there is just something there."
"Don´t you also feel that something is going on…" Scout said, unsure of what he was saying.
"Between those two, yes but I think they are two people how really need a friend and now they are very happy to have found someone to have as their friend." Will suggested.
"Yeah, Will, maybe you are right."
~Jake´s room~
"Shall we start then? Jake said.
Hamilton sat and thought for a while.
"Ok, grammar is not my thing, neither is the whole English subject, butif I don´t pass this class my dad will kill me." Hamilton told Jake smiling.
But Jake didn´t smile back
"At least you have someone who cares." He mumbled.
"Did you say something?" Ham asked.
Jake went a bit red.
"No, it was nothing."
"Come on, did I say something wrong?" Hamilton asked confused.
"Hamilton just let it be, can we please start with this."
"Ok, ok." * Something is definitely up* Ham thought to himself, but he dropped it.
~An hour and a half later~
"Fianally we are finished. You are really good at English." Hamilton said as he stretched.
"Maybe it comes from having to hear my mom read all the roles she has gotten in plays out load… I just thought of something. Have you developed the photos we took?" Jake said smiling and looking at Hamilton when he packed his pens and stuff.
"I was going to do it today but this homework came in the way." Hamitlon told him, so happy he was interested.
"Does it take long to develope them?"
"No, but wanted to develope them twice so you could also have them too." Ham said.
"We have time on our hands, can we do it now?"
*What the hell am I doing, asking him to develope his photos with me. Why, Jacqueline, why did you have to fall inlove with him! What I am inlove with him? This was not supposed to happen. How can I get out of this mess?*
*Noone has really understood me the way Jake has done. He really does take an intrest in my hobbies, maybe he could be a really good friend to me, yes I think he could even now be my best friend, but why do have this feeling that it is something more…*
"Sure, we could develope them now." Hamilton answered, distracted.
~At his house~
"Nice house you have. " Jake told him while looking around.
"Thank you ."
"Munchie is that you?" a woman's voice called.
"Mom, stop calling me that , I´m here with my friend Jake. " Hamilton answered, blushing.
"Are you going to eat dinner with us?" Hamilton's mother asked them.
"No, we are going to eat later when we have developed some photos." Ham said giving him a " I´m sorry about this " look.
"Ok, nice to see you Jake."
"Nice to meet you too mrs Fleming."
~After a while~
"So they are ready, I hope they came out good, I´m not a proffesional so you know." Ham said.
"They look fine to me. " Jake said as he looked thruogh them
"Here are your photos. Now, I´m hungry lets go and eat."
"You´re always hungry arent´you?" He asked curiously.
"Yes, but that´s me, that´s why my mom calls me munchie, but I hate it when she calls me that." Hamilton answered.
"Ok, I feel that I owe you something here." Jake said
"What would that be?" Hamilton said, raising his eyebrows.
"A drivinglesson on my bike!!! Oh, yes , the CATCH." Jake said enthusiastically.
"We have sometime until the curfew starts, so maybe we could do it today?"
"Yes, why not" said Jake.
~After they have eaten, and they are now outside~
"Hamilton, my bike is gone!"
"What, the groundskeeper must have taken it. "." Hamilton said thoughtfully.
" You think so"
" Yeah,"
" You told me it was a safe place to hide it on. " Jake said upset.
"Yes, it was, but he must have come here , maybe he just took a walk and just found it." Hamilton offered, feeling so bad.
"What am I going to do, that bike means a lot to me. " Jake said.
" Ok, I will find a way to get it back... it´s ok, Jake" Hamilton promised. "...I know where the groundskeeper has the things he confiscates. Ok, we should try to get it now, he always watches Felicity now- he loves that show, he'd never notice that we are here if we are quiet." Hamilton finished.
"Thank you for helping me, Hamilton." Jake said sincerely.
"That´s what friends are for. No can we please get the bike out of here, I don´t want be here one more second ."
"So, Hamilton where can I put my bike now?" Jake asked.
" I know a place, I don´t think the groundskeeper will find it, it is bit further from school though."
"I don´t mind, only, as long as my bike is safe." Jake said
"Can I ask you why you have a bike, and why it is so important to you?" Hamilton asked.
"It just that I couldn´t see myself driving a car, not yet I mean. I have always loved motorcycles, so then I bought one. I could always just take my bike and drive away when I wanted to. I have great memories with this bike. My mom didn´t even notice that I bought one, until recently. " Jake told him
"It was her you were talking about in your room, wasn´t it?" Hamilton asked slowly.
"You heard me?" Jake asked surprised.
"Yes, and I felt it was a touchy subject so I didn´t want to pressure you about it."
"My mom, is just the mother who sometimes can´t remember she has a child."
*Damn I was going to say daughter, I must remember that I am pretending to be a guy now.*
"Can I tell you something?" Hamiton asked as they walked.
"What would that be" Jake said looking at him.
"I just wanted to let you know I am enjoying our talks, and your company. So I think I have succeded in my challenge." Hamilton said.
"You mean the one that you will make some friends here, yes I think you have succesfully succeded in that area." Jake smiled.
"I think it is past curfew, maybe we should go back." Hamilton said
"Yes, I´ll see you tomorrow Hamilton."
"See you tomorrow Jake."
~Next day~
"Thanks Jake for helping me out with English, maybe I´ll even pass English this summer." Hamilton said
"It was nothing, I forgot to thank you for last night, Jake said."
Unaware that some of their classmates heard there conversation, they turned around and found them standing there.
*Again, why should this happen to me, the deans son, what should they think about me.*
*I wonder what he is thinking about, I thinks that I have embarrassed hin in front of the whole school. Why can´t I just shut up sometimes. I should go.* Jake thought.
Jake went to his (her) room, and Hamilton just stood there.
Hamilton went to the library and then home. After an hour he went to Jake´s room and knocked.
"I want to show you something. "
"Ok, you can come in you know." Jake answered.
"Not here , come with me".
~On the roof top~
Hamilton looked around.
"Sometimes I just come here, to be alone , to have a quiet moment." Hamilton told Jake
"It is a nice place. What are you doing? " Jake suddenly said, slightly louder and moving away.
"What? I gotta pee" Ham answered.
*Damn, you got to get the hold on yourself this is what boys do, you are a boy now Jacqueline. Why is he so cute. He´s done, he is sitting down next to me, damn now I´m really inlove, I think.*
All of a sudden, Jake leaned over and kissed Ham.
"Jake what are you doing?" Hamilton shouted.
"I´m so sorry, it just happened. I´m not gay, Hamilton, it just happened." Jake assured him.
*I must get out of here.* Hamilton thought
Hamilton runs to the door and Jake just sat there.
*Finally I am home. What the hell happened over there. And why does it feel wrong but at the same time feels so right. I´m not gay, I have always liked girls, but Jake… I must think about it, since I started hanging out with Jake I have feelt some strange feelings.
No, I´m not gay, he is just my best friend, or maybe was. I must tell him that I´m not gay.*
~An hour later back in Jake´s room~
I´m not gay, how can I explain it to him, he will never forgive me. . I can't take it only being friends with him...*
Knock, knock.
Who could that be?
Jake opened the door. Hamilton rushed inside and Jake closed the door.
"Hamilton , what are you doing here." Jake asked
"I just wanted to say that I´m not gay."
"Good, because I´m not either.
" But the kiss?" Hamilton asked confused.
"I´m sorry about that. We are still friends, I hope?"
"Yes , I think so." Hamilton replied even more confused and walking to the door
"See, you tomorrow then." Jake said
"Yes, see you tomorrow then."