A kiss ain't always a kiss.
The noise from screaming and playing children was nervewrecking, so most of the teachers spent their break inside. Only one teacher was there to have an eye on the kids, Mr. Eaton. He had taken a seat because he was exhausted. Being a teacher wasn't always easy. His eyelids slowly closed and his head fell forward.
The boy with the shaggy brown hair had watched the slightly older girl form a distance where he was sitting in the shade of the huge tree on the school property. While he nibbled on his piece of peanut butter bread, his bests friend's mum had thoroughly prepared for him, he studied her sunbleached blond pigtails. She had been the cause of the fight a few days before. As he studied her some more he realised that he was really glad that he wasn't a girl and didn't have to wear a dress and fancy hairdoes. It was enough of a burden that Rafe's mum always insisted on him wearing pants without holes, shoes and combing his hair, which was still sticking up in the back despite all her efforts.
The young girls tounge quickly ran across her lips to make them smooth and shiny, when a voice behind her made he turn. "Hey, Em!" Rafe said as he sat down next to her.
Danny straightened up a few meters away. "What..?" he mumbled. He couldn't take his eyes of his best friend talking to her. What was he saying or what did he want from her? Danny's eyes narrowed. He listened carefully but just couldn't hear their conversation because of the permanent noise. According to his taste Rafe was sitting a bit to close to her. Then he could see Rafe touch her arm, smile and whisper in her ear. That was too much! Anger and jealousy building up inside him, he jumped up, threw the rest of his food on the ground and went away.
Emma said to Rafe: "That's kinda cute. Thanks, Rafe!". He nodded in reply claiming: "That's what I`m like!", smiled a very self assured smile and walked away to tell Danny about his conversation with Emma.
Just when he left, John approached her. The fight with Danny had left his traces on his face as well as his mind. He simply had to pay that little shit back. So he had thought up a brilliant plan, as he had told his friends. Now he was in full action of pursuing his great idea. He strolled around, suddenly turning towards Emma, grabbed her face and pressed a wet but very passionless kiss onto her cheek. The poor girl was taken by complete surprise and all she managed to accomplish was turning bright red and gasping for air. Then she yelled loudly:"You idiot, what do you think you`re doing?!" A second later she punched him in the face tearing her napping teacher from his dreams.
Rafe had found Danny behind the main school building. He was leaning on the wall and staring off into the distance. Rafe casually approached him and joked:"Hey, ya know, there's a bathroom inside!" Danny turned his back towards him and mumbled:"Funny!" Immediately his friend knew that something was wrong:"What's the matter, Danny?" "Nothin." Rafe walked around him to face him:"Have I said something wrong?" The younger boy almost exploded inside. How could his best friend do that to him. But he stayed silent. "Danny! Have I done something?" Rafe demanded to know. He wasn't gonna let it go. "You tell me." Danny hissed through gritted teeth. "What?" An angry look was all the reply he got. Rafe shook his head:"You know you should be thankful not mad at me. I've just talked to...Emma." Danny's stare got more intense and Rafe finally realised what was bothering his mate. "C'mon, I talked to her for you. You have to talk to girls in a sweet way. I asked her whether she'd seen the game and how you kicked John's butt and I also said ..." he looked on the ground before he found a way to tell Danny:"that you kinda like her...a little...you know..." Danny still stared at him making Rafe rather insecure whether he had done the right thing:"You know that she never would have know, if I hadn't told her."
Noise and angry shouts suddenly interrupted them just before the bell rang. Danny looked away from Rafe and walked around the corner leaving a rather confused Rafe behind, who wasn't sure whether his friend was still mad or finally came to his senses. He followed him around the corner where they saw the source of the noise: Mr. Eaton dragging John and, to the boys surprise, Emma along into the building: "What do you think you two are doing, kissing on the school ground?" "I didn't kiss that terrible guy!" Emma protested.
A few meters away Danny's jaw dropped when John, who was dragged by him, gave him an evil grin. He was ready to jump at him but thought better of it in the presence of Mr. Eaton. He couldn't beleive what he had heard. Before they dissapeared through the door, he could hear Emma shouting:" That stupid dickhead came up to me and simply kissed me. I didn't do a thing." "You punched him, young lady, and better watch your mouth!" Then they were gone.
Danny and Rafe exchanged bewildered glances. Then Danny suddenly grabbed Rafe by his shoulders and dragged him back behind the corner: "Rafe, you gotta show me." "Show you what?" "How to...er..how to kiss a girl!" Rafe raised his eyebrows:"Are you mad?" "No, c'mon Rafe. I need to know. How do you do it properly?" The older boy could clearly see the despair in his friend face. So he swifted from one foot to another: "How should I...I mean, you know how to kiss. You kissed your mom, didn't ya?" "Yeah, but that's not the same. Not on the ..." he looked to his shiny shoes before he finished his sentence in a low voice: "lips." Rafe raised his eyebrows. Then he slowly whispered:" I see, so you wanna go all the way?" A short nod confirmed his suspicion. Rafe drew a deep breath and looked around to check that nobody was watching: "Ok, hold up your hand sideways. Your two fingers are the lips. This is how you do it: You lick your lips, so they won't be dry!" Danny nodded and followed Rafe's example by licking his lips. "Then you close your eyes, you have to-never forget that-softly put your lips on hers, very gently, not too fast." He showed him on his own hand. "And then, this is the tricky part. You suck a bit. But just a bit, not too hard, you don't wanna swallow her lips. And if you're really good you make a smaking sound at the end of it. Try it!" Danny embarrasedly kissed his own hand and sucked on it producing a nice flopping sound before he gave Rafe a triumphant smile. "Well done."
A minute later they were back in class getting told off for being late. While they slumped into their seats looking as rueful as possible, Rafe gave Danny a secret grin.
After school Danny decided to go for it. He waited for Emma to come out of the headmasters office, where she had spent at least half an hour. Rafe was waiting behind the next tree. Emma's blue eyes were red from crying. She rubbed her nose and walked down the sidewalk where Danny approached her:"Scuse me." The girl looked at him and walked on:"Hi, Danny." "You know my name." "Yeah." she said blushing a bit. Danny swallowed as he walked next to her passing by Rafe's tree, who remained hidden there as Danny could tell out of the corner of his eye. When they were out of hearing distance Danny said: "Are you ok?" She nodded looking straight ahead. Danny looked ahead as well. He wasn't sure how to make this conversation work. When he didn't say anything she studied his profile. He looked at her, too, and their eyes met. Within a split second both looked away again. When they finally reached the nearby forest path, Emma broke the silence:" I have to go on here." Danny nodded. Of course he knew and both of them were aware that Rafe's house, where Danny lived, was off to the left. So Danny said:"I think I'm gonna go over to old Johnsons. Mind if I walk there with you?" "No, I don't." For the first time a cute smile crossed her lips. Danny smiled back, which broke the ice. Emma admitted:"Ok, let's go. I actually wanted to talk to you before." "You did?" "Yes, but then my friend told me that you said that you didn't like me." Danny shifted from one foot to the other:"That's not true. I think you're nice." "I think you're nice,too." "Good."
They walked on and Emma told Danny that she was really mad at John for what he had done. Danny casually said:"So you don't like being kissed?" She grinned knowing what he was driving at:"Not by him." They came to a halt beneath a large oak, which let small rays of sunlight through its dense leaves. The light reflected on the children's hair. Danny swallowed. Should he really ask his next question. At the same moment Emma crossed her fingers-could she make it any more obvious? She had had a crush on Danny for almost 5 months now. After all she was 'already' 12. Once again Danny swallowed and his hands got wet and shaky. How could it be so hard to pop a simple question. He would jump off a rock into a lake, he would fight older guys but he couldn't ask a girl a question. So he forced himself to finally get it out: "Who by then?" Emma couldn't hide a brought smile, she wasn't smiling at him but about him. But then she simply said: "You for example." Danny's brown eyes became wide with fear and excitement: "Really?" "Really!" She looked at him expectantly. Danny stared back at her at a complete loss of competency. He recalled what Rafe had showed him. The girl's blue eyes were locked on him waiting-almost dissapointed. So Danny gathered all his masculine strenght, licked his lips and moved forward to kiss her. He saw her close her eyes , her lips forming a smile. Quickly he closed his eyes, adrenalin rushing all through his body. He moved closer until he could feel her breath. His lips met hers. They were so warm and soft. And she obviously had kissed before because she immediately began to suck on his lips. After a few seconds they both let go and grinned. It almost seemed as if time was standing still for a moment in that forest.
It had been Danny's first kiss although he would never have admitted it to her. It had been short but its effect had been enourmous. It had left a warm exciting feeling inside him for the next few weeks. He considered himself a man now although Rafe had claimed that they were only men when they had smoked a cigarette and been drunk once but that's a different story, which I'm gonna tell you later.
(Oh, I actually didn't want it to get so long cause I need some sleep-going skiing tomorrow-but I got carried away. I really like this-what a piece of genius work;-) Don't flog me! But review, please.)
The noise from screaming and playing children was nervewrecking, so most of the teachers spent their break inside. Only one teacher was there to have an eye on the kids, Mr. Eaton. He had taken a seat because he was exhausted. Being a teacher wasn't always easy. His eyelids slowly closed and his head fell forward.
The boy with the shaggy brown hair had watched the slightly older girl form a distance where he was sitting in the shade of the huge tree on the school property. While he nibbled on his piece of peanut butter bread, his bests friend's mum had thoroughly prepared for him, he studied her sunbleached blond pigtails. She had been the cause of the fight a few days before. As he studied her some more he realised that he was really glad that he wasn't a girl and didn't have to wear a dress and fancy hairdoes. It was enough of a burden that Rafe's mum always insisted on him wearing pants without holes, shoes and combing his hair, which was still sticking up in the back despite all her efforts.
The young girls tounge quickly ran across her lips to make them smooth and shiny, when a voice behind her made he turn. "Hey, Em!" Rafe said as he sat down next to her.
Danny straightened up a few meters away. "What..?" he mumbled. He couldn't take his eyes of his best friend talking to her. What was he saying or what did he want from her? Danny's eyes narrowed. He listened carefully but just couldn't hear their conversation because of the permanent noise. According to his taste Rafe was sitting a bit to close to her. Then he could see Rafe touch her arm, smile and whisper in her ear. That was too much! Anger and jealousy building up inside him, he jumped up, threw the rest of his food on the ground and went away.
Emma said to Rafe: "That's kinda cute. Thanks, Rafe!". He nodded in reply claiming: "That's what I`m like!", smiled a very self assured smile and walked away to tell Danny about his conversation with Emma.
Just when he left, John approached her. The fight with Danny had left his traces on his face as well as his mind. He simply had to pay that little shit back. So he had thought up a brilliant plan, as he had told his friends. Now he was in full action of pursuing his great idea. He strolled around, suddenly turning towards Emma, grabbed her face and pressed a wet but very passionless kiss onto her cheek. The poor girl was taken by complete surprise and all she managed to accomplish was turning bright red and gasping for air. Then she yelled loudly:"You idiot, what do you think you`re doing?!" A second later she punched him in the face tearing her napping teacher from his dreams.
Rafe had found Danny behind the main school building. He was leaning on the wall and staring off into the distance. Rafe casually approached him and joked:"Hey, ya know, there's a bathroom inside!" Danny turned his back towards him and mumbled:"Funny!" Immediately his friend knew that something was wrong:"What's the matter, Danny?" "Nothin." Rafe walked around him to face him:"Have I said something wrong?" The younger boy almost exploded inside. How could his best friend do that to him. But he stayed silent. "Danny! Have I done something?" Rafe demanded to know. He wasn't gonna let it go. "You tell me." Danny hissed through gritted teeth. "What?" An angry look was all the reply he got. Rafe shook his head:"You know you should be thankful not mad at me. I've just talked to...Emma." Danny's stare got more intense and Rafe finally realised what was bothering his mate. "C'mon, I talked to her for you. You have to talk to girls in a sweet way. I asked her whether she'd seen the game and how you kicked John's butt and I also said ..." he looked on the ground before he found a way to tell Danny:"that you kinda like her...a little...you know..." Danny still stared at him making Rafe rather insecure whether he had done the right thing:"You know that she never would have know, if I hadn't told her."
Noise and angry shouts suddenly interrupted them just before the bell rang. Danny looked away from Rafe and walked around the corner leaving a rather confused Rafe behind, who wasn't sure whether his friend was still mad or finally came to his senses. He followed him around the corner where they saw the source of the noise: Mr. Eaton dragging John and, to the boys surprise, Emma along into the building: "What do you think you two are doing, kissing on the school ground?" "I didn't kiss that terrible guy!" Emma protested.
A few meters away Danny's jaw dropped when John, who was dragged by him, gave him an evil grin. He was ready to jump at him but thought better of it in the presence of Mr. Eaton. He couldn't beleive what he had heard. Before they dissapeared through the door, he could hear Emma shouting:" That stupid dickhead came up to me and simply kissed me. I didn't do a thing." "You punched him, young lady, and better watch your mouth!" Then they were gone.
Danny and Rafe exchanged bewildered glances. Then Danny suddenly grabbed Rafe by his shoulders and dragged him back behind the corner: "Rafe, you gotta show me." "Show you what?" "How to...er..how to kiss a girl!" Rafe raised his eyebrows:"Are you mad?" "No, c'mon Rafe. I need to know. How do you do it properly?" The older boy could clearly see the despair in his friend face. So he swifted from one foot to another: "How should I...I mean, you know how to kiss. You kissed your mom, didn't ya?" "Yeah, but that's not the same. Not on the ..." he looked to his shiny shoes before he finished his sentence in a low voice: "lips." Rafe raised his eyebrows. Then he slowly whispered:" I see, so you wanna go all the way?" A short nod confirmed his suspicion. Rafe drew a deep breath and looked around to check that nobody was watching: "Ok, hold up your hand sideways. Your two fingers are the lips. This is how you do it: You lick your lips, so they won't be dry!" Danny nodded and followed Rafe's example by licking his lips. "Then you close your eyes, you have to-never forget that-softly put your lips on hers, very gently, not too fast." He showed him on his own hand. "And then, this is the tricky part. You suck a bit. But just a bit, not too hard, you don't wanna swallow her lips. And if you're really good you make a smaking sound at the end of it. Try it!" Danny embarrasedly kissed his own hand and sucked on it producing a nice flopping sound before he gave Rafe a triumphant smile. "Well done."
A minute later they were back in class getting told off for being late. While they slumped into their seats looking as rueful as possible, Rafe gave Danny a secret grin.
After school Danny decided to go for it. He waited for Emma to come out of the headmasters office, where she had spent at least half an hour. Rafe was waiting behind the next tree. Emma's blue eyes were red from crying. She rubbed her nose and walked down the sidewalk where Danny approached her:"Scuse me." The girl looked at him and walked on:"Hi, Danny." "You know my name." "Yeah." she said blushing a bit. Danny swallowed as he walked next to her passing by Rafe's tree, who remained hidden there as Danny could tell out of the corner of his eye. When they were out of hearing distance Danny said: "Are you ok?" She nodded looking straight ahead. Danny looked ahead as well. He wasn't sure how to make this conversation work. When he didn't say anything she studied his profile. He looked at her, too, and their eyes met. Within a split second both looked away again. When they finally reached the nearby forest path, Emma broke the silence:" I have to go on here." Danny nodded. Of course he knew and both of them were aware that Rafe's house, where Danny lived, was off to the left. So Danny said:"I think I'm gonna go over to old Johnsons. Mind if I walk there with you?" "No, I don't." For the first time a cute smile crossed her lips. Danny smiled back, which broke the ice. Emma admitted:"Ok, let's go. I actually wanted to talk to you before." "You did?" "Yes, but then my friend told me that you said that you didn't like me." Danny shifted from one foot to the other:"That's not true. I think you're nice." "I think you're nice,too." "Good."
They walked on and Emma told Danny that she was really mad at John for what he had done. Danny casually said:"So you don't like being kissed?" She grinned knowing what he was driving at:"Not by him." They came to a halt beneath a large oak, which let small rays of sunlight through its dense leaves. The light reflected on the children's hair. Danny swallowed. Should he really ask his next question. At the same moment Emma crossed her fingers-could she make it any more obvious? She had had a crush on Danny for almost 5 months now. After all she was 'already' 12. Once again Danny swallowed and his hands got wet and shaky. How could it be so hard to pop a simple question. He would jump off a rock into a lake, he would fight older guys but he couldn't ask a girl a question. So he forced himself to finally get it out: "Who by then?" Emma couldn't hide a brought smile, she wasn't smiling at him but about him. But then she simply said: "You for example." Danny's brown eyes became wide with fear and excitement: "Really?" "Really!" She looked at him expectantly. Danny stared back at her at a complete loss of competency. He recalled what Rafe had showed him. The girl's blue eyes were locked on him waiting-almost dissapointed. So Danny gathered all his masculine strenght, licked his lips and moved forward to kiss her. He saw her close her eyes , her lips forming a smile. Quickly he closed his eyes, adrenalin rushing all through his body. He moved closer until he could feel her breath. His lips met hers. They were so warm and soft. And she obviously had kissed before because she immediately began to suck on his lips. After a few seconds they both let go and grinned. It almost seemed as if time was standing still for a moment in that forest.
It had been Danny's first kiss although he would never have admitted it to her. It had been short but its effect had been enourmous. It had left a warm exciting feeling inside him for the next few weeks. He considered himself a man now although Rafe had claimed that they were only men when they had smoked a cigarette and been drunk once but that's a different story, which I'm gonna tell you later.
(Oh, I actually didn't want it to get so long cause I need some sleep-going skiing tomorrow-but I got carried away. I really like this-what a piece of genius work;-) Don't flog me! But review, please.)
