Authors note: Robbie has just come out that he's gay. He likes Kim. Kim likes him. Noah likes Robbie too. Tasha is now friends with Robbie instead of his girlfriend.
"Rob, why don't you just tell Kim you like him?" Tasha was pressuring him again to tell Kim the truth. "I mean, you've come this far right?" Robbie rolled his eyes slightly. "I can't tell him, because I don't know what he's ganna say." "Well your not ganna know till you ask." "Okay okay. I'll think about it. Can we just drop it for now though?" He paused for a split second before continuing. "Good, now lets get to English, we're already running late." He started rushing hurriedly to the nearby room, knocking into Noah as he did so.
"Uh sorry Noah! Oh no, you've drop all your work and everything. I'm really sorry, I'll help you pick it up. I'm so clumsy you know, you wouldn't believe it." Everyone in the English room bent their heads to see what was going on. Robbie bent down to collect the fallen papers. Noah forgetting where he was for a moment, strained his eyes to look at Robbie. "There you go." Robbie handed over the work to a dooey-eyed Noah. "Oh right. Thanks mate." Noah replied, giving him a friendly slap on the back, then hurrying off down the corridor to avoid anyone noticing what he'd just been looking at. No one could know how he was feeling right now. If the department knew that he had feelings for a 17 year old boy who he was meant to be counselling not gawping at, then he'd be jobless as well as making an idiot of himself. It was even worse now that Robbie had come out to Noah a couple of days before about being gay. It made 'the forbidden fruit' as Noah put it, even more tempting.
"So, when's your next session with Noah?" Tasha asked Rob as they wondered down the beach during lunch. "Uh, whoops it's actually in ten minutes. I better go. Sorry about lunch Tash, I'll make it up to you." "That's okay. See ya later."
Robbie ran, eagerly to the school and found Noah there in one of the classrooms. "Hey, sorry I'm late, I got a bit caught up with stuff." "No worries. So, how's school been?" Noah asked awkwardly. Robbie noticed his edginess straight away. "You okay? You seem a bit on edge." He said as he dumped his bag on one of the nearby tables. "Actually you look really hot, I can go…" "So do you." Noah blurted out before he could control his mouth. "What? I don't feel hot. Do I look it?" "Yeah, extremely." Robbie still hadn't twigged what Noah was talking about, until what happened next.
Noah couldn't handle himself anymore. As Robbie stood a few metres away from him, Noah moved towards him, placing his hand round Robbie's waist and thrusting his lips onto his. Robbie, completely taken aback, didn't fight it. It felt so different than what he imagined it to be like, so much more real and exciting than he'd thought it would be. They gripped each other in a tight clinch, Noah backing Robbie into the door, pushing it back in a mad rush, the door slamming shut. Noah, absorbed in the kiss as much as Robbie was, back away slightly. "This is wrong." "Then why did it feel so right?" Robbie said, truthfully, taking Noah's hand. "I'm sorry Robbie. This can't happen again. It never should have happened in the first place." With that, Noah rushed out the room, leaving a very confused Robbie behind.
Kim on the other hand, was anything but confused. He knew he liked Robbie, for more than a friend. All he had to do was find out if the feeling was mutual. Easy really. Well, it would have been for both of them if not for the moment that occurred between Noah and Robbie that day.