Chapter 8
A/N: I love summer break, I can update almost every other day. over the weekend I heard the best saying, " a good friend will bail you out of jail. A best friend is sitting next to you saying ' man, we fucked up this time.'" Oh well on with the story. I'm going to skip around a lot in this chapter.
Music: the new System of a Down CD Mesmerize, it's really good. Especially B.Y.O.B and Violent Pornography.
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(Monday night) Gaaras POV
Today was great! I got to sit there with Sasuke! Happy, happy, happy! So what if I can't have him in a romantic relationship, at least we can be friends and I can dream. I pick up nibbler as I walk in. Temari is sitting on the couch, Jerry jumping at her feet. She is on her cell phone so I wait before talking
" Hey Temari."
"Hey."
" What's the number to the nursing home were gramps is?"
" Why do you need it?"
"I have to interview him for a project."
" It's somewhere in the phone book."
"Fine." I can never get any help around here. I grab our little gray phone book with important numbers written down and walk to the large mass of darkness and posters infested by dirty; better known as my room, jerry and nibbler follow me. I collapse on my mattress and sigh deeply. I am so tired, but don't want to sleep yet. I look around my room to see if the dogs he torn up anything, sure enough they did, they chewed on my headphones. " You stupid little shit faces! That is the third fucking pair you have destroyed!" I get up and inspect the damage, damn, it's bad. Now I need to go get new headphones. I shoot an angry glance at the two offenders who are sitting looking innocently in the corner, seeming to ignore my outburst. Damn dogs.
I fall back into my computer chair and decide to check my email quickly, although I never get any, and it is true with today. I grab the phone book and flip quickly till I find the number, it gets dialed into my phone and I wait for someone to pick up at the protected oaks nursing home.
" Hello, can I help you?" a woman's voice comes from the other line.
" Yes, I would like to speak to (insert grampas name here, cause I can't think of one.)"
" Oh, he's not here right now, he left."
"What?" how the fuck is my grandpa not there?
" Like I said, he's not here."
" How is he not there, he is in a wheelchair!"
" Fine, I'll contact local authorities. Thank you for calling." And she hung up. Great, my grandpa is lost! How the fuck did they lose him! Damn nursing home. I should tell Temari, so I get up and walk into the living room.
" Temari, they lost our grandpa."
" What!"
" They lost him."
" Well how the fuck could they-" she was cut off by kankuro kicking the door open holding a small shivering dog.
" Hey, guys, look! I got us another dog! His name is Seymour!"
(Tuesday afternoon at lunch)
Sasukes POV" Sasuke, you will never believe what happened." Gaara sits across from me and says. His flaming red hair in it's usual style, and the eyeliner I love draw heavily around his eyes. I wish I knew how to put on eyeliner like that.
" What happened?" I reply trying not to sound too lost in thought.
" They lost my grandpa."
"What!"
"The nursing home lost my grandpa." He leaned his head down and rested it in the crook of his arm.
" How could they lose your grandpa?"
" I don't know."
" Well this sucks."
" Yeah."
"I have the book today." Gaara's head pooped up as I pushed the well worn copy of Lost Souls towards him.
" Thanks, I can't wait to read it. Looks kind of old."
" Yeah, well, my ferret got a hold on that one."
" You have a ferret?" (A/n: cant you see Sasuke with a ferret? I can.")
" Yes."
" Ferrets are cool. All I have is two stupid dogs. Actually three since my brother brought one home."
" Ferrets do stink though. But they don't chew up the furniture, so that's a plus." The intercom crackled on and a staticy voice announced.
" All 8th graders who are going on the beach trip, please report to your science or social studies teacher for an important information packet."
" So, I guess were off to see the flamingo?" Gaara suggested, " you know, tell him we can't get the interview till we find gramps." So Gaara and me gather our things and exit the cafeteria and heads to the flamingo's nest. Gaara had been a lot cooler then I thought he would be. I mean, we're into the same books and music and lots of other stuff. I think I'm really starting to like Gaara. Wouldn't that be a shock to my fan girls, that I don't like any of them, and that I would give up a date with any of them just to have Gaara? A guy who probably thinks nothing more of our relationship then something that is purely platonic. If only he could know the things that run though my mind at night. I don't care if I only started talking to Gaara on Friday, which just shows how good we get along. That's it, I'm going to invite him somewhere before the trip. And I know the perfect place; the free concert downtown tomorrow night. And I am going to straight out tell him how I feel.
"Oh hey, Gaara, theres a free concert downtown tomorrow. You want to go with me?"
"Uh… yeah, that would be great. What time?"
" I don't know, I think 6-ish. I tell you when I find out."
" Ok."
Gaara's POVSasuke just asked me to go to a concert with him! Wow! He didn't tell me what band it was but I don't care, I'm going with Sasuke! I wonder if he is inviting anyone else, I hope not. Cause then it will be just sasuke and me! Me and Sasuke! Sasuke and me! Well we're at the flamingos room now so we go in and Mr. Austin comes over and greets us.
" Oh, hello! You came for the packet didn't you?"
" Yeah we did." Sasuke replies.
" Ok! Here you go!" he pranced over to his desk and grabbed two packets and tossed them to us. Sasuke caught his and mine went tumbling to the floor, I reached down to pick it up and got a nice view of Sasukes legs. " Oh and one other thing. You room mates in the hotel will be Naruto and Lee."
" What!"
" Well yeah, they asked for you two specifically."
" Fla- I mean Mr. Austin, don't we have any choice in the matter?" Sasuke asked in a cute whiney tone.
" No, 'fraid." The only other person left is Kiba, and he hasn't shown up all week!" (A/n: lol remember he disappeared in one chapter?)
" Fine. Whatever." Sasuke turns and leaves and leave me standing there with the Flamingo. I wonder what he is upset about? I'll ask him tomorrow when we go out. Wow, that makes it sound like a date. Well I guess I'm going to think of it that way. Listen to me talking all confident, I bet I'll be a nervous wreck when I go with Sasuke. But at least I will be with him. I quicken my pace as I leave the room and catch up with Sasuke. I should say something, I haven't said anything since we left lunch.
" Yeah, sharing a room with Naruto and Lee will suck. But just shove a Poppy Z. Brite book in their face and that should shut them up." I say trying to force a small smile.
" Yeah."
" So… the concert. About what time will it end?"
" I don't know. About midnight maybe. That too late?"
" Uh, yeah. My Dad will be home that night, he'll probably have the deadbolt locked by then. And I wouldn't be able to get in."
" You can crash at my place. We leave the next morning for the trip right? Just bring the stuff your taking and you can ride with me."
" Uh… really? Great. So talk to you tomorrow. This is my class."
" Alright, see ya." I watched him for a moment walking down the hall before ducking into my algebra class. Hopefully this outing wont be a repercussion of Friday.
(Later that night at Sasukes house, obviously sasukes POV)
At least Itachi isn't drinking tonight. But him and all his friends are all here getting high. I shouldn't have invited Gaara over tomorrow. But too late now. Can't wait to for the beach trip. I get to share a room with Gaara; of we will share that room with Lee and Naruto. But as Gaara said, shove a Poppy Z. Brite book in their face. That should shut them up. but then they might start to suspect something about my sexual orientation. Fuck it, I want to have Gaara and I don't give a damn what anyone thinks.
" Sasuke! Where's the bat? I have to hit Kisame in the face for being stupid! not the head the face!" Itachi yelled from upstairs as I sat in my room in the basement, which I have all to myself.
" Laundry room." I yelled back up to him. I hear a loud thud on the upper level as Kisame gets hit, I hope he doesn't act like this when Gaara comes over. I can't wait till the concert, I can't wait to lighten my soul by telling him how I feel. I really doubt he would reject me, I can tell just by those little glances he gives me in class that he thinks I don't see. And he also doesn't seem like the type to say no to anyone. And then the beach trip, if he says yes to dating me it would almost like a crappy honeymoon with our classmates there. Ok, bad analogy, but somewhat true I guess.
(Wednesday Afternoon right after school ends.)
Gaaras POVI hate having classes in the trailers. It takes forever to get to my locker. When I get there Sasuke is already standing my it, #606.
" Hi." I say.
" Hey. So you got your stuff?"
" Yeah in my locker." I grasped the lock in my hands and spun the 3 digit combination in. when the lock clicked I opened it and pulled out another book bag filled with my clothes and CDs and other stuff for the trip. We started walking down the hallway towards the front of the school.
" My brother is picking us up. More then likely his pot head friends will be with them. Sorry about that."
" It's fine." We stood on the curb for what seemed like an awkward eternity. All the other students had long since left and we were there alone.
" Itachi's late." About 10 minutes later a big white van with red flames pulled up, rap overshadowed by static blared though the speakers. " That's him." He went to the side and slid open the door and stepped in, I followed. When I got in a screen of white all too familiar smelling smoke hit me smelling smoke. A strange man with blue skin was driving, the passenger seat was filled by what looked like an older version of Sasuke. Itachi I presume. There are two other guys in the back who look about 18. " So Gaara, these are Kisame, Itachi, Jason, and Zach. Don't mind them they're stupid."
" Oh shut up you bastard!" Zach yelled.
" Dick wad." Sasuke replied.
Scott turned to me and threw a football. " Do not lose the foot ball. That's your job. We're playing drunken football tonight."
" Yeah lose the football and I'll poke you in the face with the bat." Itachi adds, jabbing the bat in the back a few times to make a point.
Needless to say that was a long ride.
(At the house. Sasukes POV)
" Sorry about my brother and my friends." I say as we walk down the stairs to the basement.
" Its fine. I'm almost sad about missing them play drunken football. That sounds funny."
" Yeah sometimes it is. Other times it's just annoying."
" So what time are we leaving for the concert?"
" We can catch the bus in about half an hour." I cant wait any longer I am going to tell Gaara right now. " Hey Gaara can I ask you something?" I'm sure I had that mischievous glint in my eyes, because Gaara's face mirrored and expression of confusion.
" Uh… yeah, sure what?"
Screw words I think. I step to him and place a kiss right on his lips. Gaara doesn't pull back, in fact he goes a little into the kiss. When I pull back for breath I ask him, " yes?" he nods and leans in for another kiss. Nothing deep, just some touching of lips and a little tongue, but a kiss none the less. Then Gaara get a little embarrassed and pulls back blushing. I smile and get some sodas from the refrigerator for both of us.
I think my little plan worked perfectly.
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A/n: YAY! Finally the first kiss! And now they are in a relationship. Only took 8 chapters. It was weird. While I was typing this I was watching the movie Juwanna Mann, since it was the only thing on. And I turned and saw the skyline of my city, Charlotte. I thought that was cool since no movies are ever filmed here. Yay! I wrote a nice long chapter, almost 6 pages, for you reading pleasure. So much fluff in this chapter, and if I'm not lazy next chapter will have the concert and the start of the beach trip. Ooo! Gaara and sasuke sharing a room, foxy grin so many possibilities! Well review my lovely readers.
And if anyone has a suggestion for Gaara's grandpas name please tell me. I can't wait to bring him into the story the way Mistress of the sand suggested. (-)