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"Hey Jake, Ham, you guys wanna play some football?" Jake and Hamilton looked up from Jake's laptop and saw Will and Scout headed towards them. Hamilton looked over at Jake and she nodded.
"I'm in," she said. Hamilton nodded in agreement. Scout and Will gave each other a knowing-sort of glance. Jake was the only one who caught the look and called them on it.
"Stop with that. Hamilton and I aren't some sort science experiment for you two to analyze." Scout was taken aback, and Will answered with a "Sorry."
"Okay then, let's go." Jake snapped her laptop shut and stood up. Hamilton got up and brushed his pants off. Will and Scout started back to the other guys, with Jake and Hamilton close behind. Jake and Hamilton ended up on opposite teams, but that didn't bother either of them one bit. Hamilton loved it because this gave him the chance to be in close contact with his girlfriend with out people thinking it was strange or out of place. He would tackle Jake for no apparent reason and then keep Jake away from the rest of the game. Jake didn't mind at first, but it did start to get to her after awhile. She decided to talk to him about it later. And she did, later on when they where back at the docks hanging with Will.
"Hamilton, I need to talk to you about something."
"Um, okay, Jake." Will felt slightly uncomfortable and asked if he should leave.
"Uh, should I go?"
"What? Oh, no, that's okay, you can stay, this will only take a minute." Jake then proceeded to talk to Hamilton in a low voice.
"You really shouldn't have done that today during the game. I mean I understand why you did it, but don't just tackle me because I'm smaller than you!"
"That's why you thought that I was tackling you? You know, you really can be dense--"
"I know why you were tackling me! Jesus, Hammie, don't do that." Jake took the defensive and practically yelled at Hamilton. Hamilton was slightly surprised and answered with a bitter "Fine."
Jake looked at Will, suddenly remembering that he was there too. "Yo, man, you want to go eat? I'm starved."
"Man, you're always hungry!" Will joked, laughing. Jake laughed back.
"Yeah, well, gotta keep on feeding myself so I can do some fast-paced hacking!" Hamilton laughed at Jake's response, and then started to get up.
"Yeah, let's eat." He reached down a hand to help Jake up. Jake took it and got up.
"Yeah, Hamilton can come with me on the bike, that is, unless you wanted a ride, Will?" Jake turned to Will.
"Nah, I never really liked those things."
"Oh, okay. Come on Hamilton. We'll meet you there." Hamilton and Jake walked off, leaving Will behind, staring at the two of them.
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"You were going to give Will my seat on the bike?" Hamilton asked, slightly offended- in a playful way. Jake laughed.
"Don't be such a baby, you know that no one could take your place on the bitch pad." She gave him a sideways glance. Hamilton smiled to himself.
"I know, still." They arrived at the bike and Jake pulled out her keys.
"Just get on, okay?"
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"Hey, Scout, what's up?" Jake asked as she sat down. Scout turned around to their table and came up to them with an order pad, all set to go.
"Hey, not much, what do you guys want?" He asked, looking back and forth between the two 'boys' and Will.
"Just a burger and fries," Jake ordered, her usual. Deciding that it sounded good, Will ordered the same thing.
"Yeah, same here."
"Hamilton?" Scout asked while scribbling down their orders.
Without looking up from the table, Hamilton replied with an "Um, I'll just have a burger, too."
"Wow, not much for variety, are we?" Scout asked with slight nervousness.
"Nah, we're just plain ol' plain ol'!" Jake joked to him.
"Yeah, sure thing, Jake."
Scout was definitely trying his best to keep calm, he wasn't really sure how he felt on finding out that all the rumors were true, he thought that he would have been able to handle it, but he was obviously wrong about that. "God Scout, give it a rest," he thought to himself, "they're your friends, if nothing else, but you've got to keep you're cool about their whole relationship." Scout went and got their food. Jake had noticed how Scout was acting, even though nobody else did. She decided to go and talk to him about it.
"Uh, guys, I'm just going to go and ask Scout something, I'll be back in a few minutes."
"Yeah, sure thing." Will answered, and Hamilton just nodded.
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"Scout?" Jake asked while walking into the kitchen. 'I could get into some serious trouble here,' she thought to herself, knowing that she shouldn't be back there. Scout jumped a mile in the air at the sound of his name interrupting his thoughts.
"Wha--- Oh, it's you, sorry, you startled me." Scout turned around and glanced around the room nervously. Jake smiled in apology.
"Sorry man, listen there's something that I got to ask you."
"Uh, yeah, shoot." Scout was getting more and more nervous by the second and Jake noticed this.
"Dude, calm down, I'm not gonna hit on you or anything if that's what your worried about, your not my type." Jake looked Scout in the eye. He looked a little relieved, but was still nervous.
"I- I'm not?"
"Uh, no, you're, well, you're too damn straight. Anyways, I need to talk to you, about me and Hamilton." Scout's eyes widened when he heard this and he began to stammer over his words.
"Um, Jake, listen, I---"
"Shut up, Scout, let me finish," Jake interrupted. "I noticed earlier that you were looking uncomfortable around us. We're just like you, except for the fact that we love each other, and not some chick." Jake tried to explain it to him simply.
"Uh huh." Realizing that she wasn't really getting through to him, Jake pressed on.
"Look, if you were in my place, would you want me to act weird around you every time we bumped into each other? It would make you kind of upset, wouldn't it?" She raised an eyebrow. Scout took a few minutes to think that over and replied carefully.
"Yeah, I'm sorry, Jake, it's just going to take me awhile to get used to this, I guess." Scout looked at Jake for a bit and then turned around to finish getting the food together for her, Hamilton, and Will.
"Yeah, okay." Jake turned around and walked out of the kitchen and back to Will and her boyfriend.
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"So, you and Jake, huh?" Will said, as casually as possible. Hamilton sighed.
"Yeah, Will, me and Jake, the freaks of Rawley." His reply held severe irritability. Will, slightly offended at Hamilton's tone tried to calm him down.
"Hey man, don't flip out on me, okay? I was just wondering about your relationship, you two totally seem to dig each other. I wish that Caroline and I could have that kind of relationship." Hamilton could tell that Will was being sincere, so he calmed down a bit.
"Yeah, except you would either have to be a girl, or she would have to be a guy for it to work the same way," he joked.
"Maybe," Will said laughing. Hamilton continued on with an explanation.
"You see, we first met on the boat, I came up to him about the bike, told him to watch it, because someone might snitch, we later started hanging out and we were getting ready to tap into a satellite so we could speed up his laptop, and out of all the damned things to talk about, we were talking about sex, and then he kissed me, out of the blue, freaked the hell out of me. I actually threatened to beat him up if he tried to pull that again. I fought with myself for a long time about him, and he seemed to wait for me, like he knew that I was going to come around. We met Lena, and she took a liking to him, said that he looked like an ex of hers. That didn't settle to well with either of us. She first tried to get together with him, but it didn't work, for obvious reasons. Then she asked me to go with her to the Cotillion and I agreed, even though I had already agreed to go "stag" with Jake. Lena gave me some great advice at the dance. 'Throw caution to the wind,' and I did. I went up to Jake, chickened out, and then ended up following Jake into the bathroom, and I threw caution to the wind."
Will was intrigued by Hamilton's story and asked for more. "What did you do?"
"I kissed him, duh, what did you think I did? Threw him out the freaking window?" Hamilton laughed. Will shook his head and shot back.
"No, I just, I just didn't know that's all." Hamilton shook his head.
"Yeah, well, what would you have done, seriously?"
"Hey, some Will and Hamilton bonding moments!" Jake said as she approached the table with Scout.
"Yeah, and how's about the Scout and Jake bonding going?"
"Well, hey, you know, we did some talking and cooking. Oh yeah, there was that little kiss." She winked at Hamilton.
"Dude, don't do that!" Scout said, alarmed.
"Sorry, Scout, but like I said your not my type, so don't worry about it." Jake sat down next to Hamilton, and he put his arm around her. Scout put down their food and joined them. They talked and ate for awhile until Hamilton said that he had to get back to Rawley. He and Jake got up and went to her bike. She was just about to get on when Hamilton stopped her. He turned her around and kissed her.
"I have wanted to do that all day! OK, so you don't tell them anything about you, and we let them think that we're gay, and everyone's happy." Jake looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
"Even you?"
"Yeah, even me. I just want to be near you, and hold you, and I'm just glad that the whole sneaking around charade can finally be over, and we can go on as a normal couple." Jake laughed.
"Normal, Hamilton, our relationship is anything but normal."
"As normal as our relationship is or isn't, I still just want to be here, with you, my little cross-dresser, because I love you so much."
"I know, and I love you, too" They ended their conversation with a long kiss and got onto the bike to go home.
