Chapter Eight – It's a Guy Thing, Don't Worry

The next morning, Chris woke up earlier than usual at five-thirty am. He couldn't wait to see Jesse again, he yearned to see him again; he looked outside, the sky was just a royal blue. He tried to remember his dream, but it was a lost to him and he went and took a shower. About fifteen minutes later Chris was dried himself, got dressed, and was ready for school. Wyatt usually woke around this time for his morning run around the neighbor hood, Chris had so much energy he could have probably ran with Wyatt; he was fueled to the max. As he poured a glass of orange juice, he heard someone coming down the stairs. He looked up and saw Wyatt in his white tang top, blue jersey shorts and white running shoes.

"You're up early." Wyatt said putting his iPod on his arm.

"Yeah, can't wait to go to school today." Chris said smiling and drinking from his glass.

"Really huh?" Wyatt replied with an eye brow raised. "This wouldn't have to do anything with what happened yesterday and a certain someone named Jess would it?"

"You know it is."

Wyatt smiled, and selected his play list on his iPod. "So come on tell me, what happened?"

"What do you want to know?"

"Well from the amount of emotion you were in last night, I can say things got really good and you two are a couple?"

Chris smiled, it didn't hit him yet. Jesse was his boyfriend, Oh my god! He thought, he felt so happy and jittery inside. "Yes, we are."
"I told you he was digging you." Wyatt put his earphone in his ears. "So when do we get to meet him?"

"What?" Chris replied in an awe.

"Well, you're going to introduce him into the family right?"

"Well, I don't know."

"Look Mom and Dad aren't going to hate you, they might be in-different about it; but come on you tell mom everything."

"Let me think about it."

"Alright, see you at school." With that Wyatt ran out the door. Leaving Chris wondering how he was going to tell his mother about him and Jesse.

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Chris arrived outside Jesse's house a little bit early, well about twenty minutes early. He walked down the many large Victorian Houses in the area, which resembled his own house very much so. He saw, against the light sky of yellows and oranges: Jesse's house. It was a large manor that was blue and white trim, but unlike Chris' house, Jesse's was three stories. He walked every closer to the house, and he pulled out his cell phone wondering if he should call Jesse telling him that he had arrived early. He flipped it shut, he bit his lip and flipped it open again, and then shut it again. He stood by the stone steps, and looking up at the large Manor, and as he was about to flip open his phone and call Jesse, but the he saw that the doors opened, and Jesse was walking out. Jesse closed the door behind him, and was somewhat surprised to see Chris there.

"You're not a morning person, I thought." Jesse said.
"Well, I am just full of surprises." Chris added. "I was going to call you, but I wasn't sure."

"You can always call me, you know that." Jesse got down to sidewalk standing next to Chris. "Umm."

"Yes?" Chris asked.

Jesse turned to make sure no one was looking from his house, and then faced Chris again. "Can I kiss you?"

Chris laughed, "You don't have to ask." Jesse smiled and kissed Chris.

"Why is that?" Jesse asked pulling back.

"Because I was going to ask you."
The both of them smiled and began to walk down the street to school.

"So how do you feel about yesterday." Chris asked.

"Are you joking? I've never felt better." Jesse stated.

"Really?"

"Really."

"Like whoa, I mean think about it Jess, we're a couple now. A couple!"

"Amazing isn't it."

"Amazing, is an understatement."

Jesse laughed. "So then what would call it?"
Chris stopped and began to think, he looked at his feet thinking, and then he looked up. "A miracle."

"Aww, how corny."

"Aww, my butt!"

"Whatever, you know you its corny."

"Yeah, I know. How are we going to tell people at school, I mean I know Kim knows' I mean if it wasn't for her us wouldn't have happened; but what about Megan, Isaac, Derek, or Ariel."

"Well Ariel is gay, so no problem there."

"True, in fact I can't wait to see the look on her face. Hey, Ariel we're gay!"

"Its like telling her Woodstock is next week, want tickets?"
"Right." Chris smiled, "But do you really care what people say?"

Jesse was quiet for a few moments, "Not really. I mean we're on the swim team, we're always called Fags and what not, so might as well embrace the stereotype."
Chris looked at Jesse. "I love you, you know that."

"Aww," Jesse said, "I love you too." He moved in and kissed him again, but this time it was longer and more intense then the earlier kiss. Jesse then pulled back, and breathed in deeply, "Wow."

Chris smiled, "Right back at ya. In a kissing mode are you?"

"What, can I help it if I like kissing my boyfriend?" He said, looking back at Chris. Chris didn't say anything except smile at the notion that which Jesse just used, he had just called Chris his boyfriend. A Miracle indeed.

The two of them stopped at Starbucks and got coffee, since they started their trek to school earlier then expected, and they came to their first mini fight as a couple. Who paid? Chris obliviously had money on him, and Jesse had his credit card, Chris had said that he always paid when they went out, why should now be any different? Jesse differed in his views and said that he was not going to be the chick in this relationship, but Chris didn't say he wasn't a chick. So they decided that Chris would pay, and then Jesse would buy the next thing they would buy, and then Chris, and so on. They left Starbucks with Mocha Frapp's (Coffee, Milk, and Ice), and was at Hyde High in only a few minutes.

The two of them took their usual spot, which was a table by the library that Chris, Jesse, and all their friends would meet, talk, and eat at. They all knew Kim knew, but they kept running over scenarios in their heads on how each of them was going to react, until they saw Kim, she was always the early one. She saw them and smiled and walked over. They watched the blonde hair, blue eye, tall All-American girl make her way over to them. She put her purse and backpack on the table, and greeted them.

"Hey boys." She said, "Oh, Chris can I have sip please!" Chris handed her his Frapp, and she took more than a sip.

"Fine finish it." Chris said.

"Thank you, I thought you never say." Kim replied with a wink and smile. She then pulled out her Chem book. "Are you guys ready for the big exam?" She began to read from the book.

Chris and Jesse looked at each other, and smiled. They never studied they were too busy with other more important matters, it wasn't like each of them needed the class for graduation. They made voiceless gestures to each other, trying to figure out the best way to tell Kim. Jesse made a motion for Chris to stand behind him and hug him, but Chris made a gesture for them to kiss.

"Guys, are you ready?" Kim asked, she kept reading on. She rolled her eyes, "Guys." She looked up and saw Chris and Jesse, had moved, and they were standing next to her, holding hands. She looked up and saw Jesse was mindlessly drinking from his Frapp and Chris was just watching her. She dropped her jaw.

"Oh my god Jess, how can you drink at a time like this!" Kim snapped.

"Whoa, what?" He said looking her. Kim got up from the table, and screamed.

"OH I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU TWO!" She yelled, "I KNEW IT WOULD WORK! OH MY GOD!" Jesse and Chris looked around and saw that people were looking over in his direction, and Chris saw the girl of the class who loved gossip, look over and be dumbfounded.

"NO WAY!" She yelled. Chris and Jesse kept their hands together, as Kim was freaking out, and Laura, the gossip girl. Kim turned around, "Way, Laura!" She said, "Can you believe it?"

Jesse and Chris found extremely amusing and then Chris let go of Jesse' hand and put it around his back, Jesse smiled he could have kissed Chris there, but it would probably given Laura a heart attack, which wouldn't have been a bad idea.

"Oh my god, they are too cute!" Kim yelled.

Laura a very materialistic girl with red hair and flawless skin stood in awe next to Kim.

"You are straight!" She said looking at Jesse, "And you, oh my god you should be straight." She motioned at Chris. "This is joke right, tell me this is a joke."

"Are we laughing?" Jesse asked Chris.

"Nope, I am not laughing, are you?"

"Nope." Jesse replied.

Laura's eyes got bigger. "So you two are gay?"

"Uh, yea." Chris replied.

"Kiss." Laura said, "If you two are really dating then you guys will kiss."

"Okay." Jesse said, putting his drink down. And Chris put his arms around Jesse's neck and kissed him once more. He loved Jesse's kisses, he would kiss him all day if he could. Kim tried to keep in as she giggled as she watched them, and Laura looked pale and like she was about to faint. They kissed for a long time, and Laura looked around and noticed that other people were noticing this as well, she smirked. Jesse and Chris pulled back, but not before Chris gave Jesse one last quick kiss.

"Well that's fine," Laura snarled, "The whole school now knows or will know by the end of the day."

"Uh, okay." Chris replied.

"Everyone in the school." Laura stated once more.

"And you're point is?" Jess asked.

"Its okay fags, don't worry about it." Laura said walking away. Chris and Jesse smiled at each other, and as Laura walked away they saw on the other side of the Courtyard their sophomore, brown hair, rocker looking friend, Ariel. Ariel stood still looking like she had just been slapped by god's hands, totally dumbfounded. Jesse and Chris then walked over to her, who looked at them like they hold this massive secret that was going to tell her fate and destiny.

"Hey Ariel." Chris said with a smile.

Ariel just stared.

"Uh, having a good day so far? I know I am, are you?" Jesse asked Ariel then moving his attention to Chris.

"Perfect day."

"How." Ariel asked, "How? Why? How? What? How? Explain!"

Chris began to laugh.

"Alright." Jesse started, "Basically the relationship between Kim and I have been on the rocks for the past few weeks and then she asked me one night if there was someone in the picture I said well yes and no. I said that I had strong feelings for someone, but it wasn't who she thought it was, and that's when I told her about Chris. She smiled and said she knew it, and we broke it off so that Chris and I can make this happen."

"But you," Ariel said, still dumbfounded, in Chris' direction. "You, you, straight! HOW!"

"Appearances are never what they seem." Chris simply stated. "It's a guy thing, don't worry."

Ariel looked at the both of them like they were hiding something, but then she smiled. "More gay power, welcome to other side." She said and hugged them. "But seriously this is going to take some getting use too. But how long have you guys been going out?"

"Uh, about twelve hours or so." Jesse said, "I don't mean to technical."

Chris put his arm around Jesse's waist once more and then three of them walked to their spot by the library, but not first as people watched the boys walking holding each other.

"Oh my god, did you hear!"

"Jesse Orlando and Chris Halliwell, like shocker of the year!"

"More like, freaking crazy!"

"They we're both straight yesterday, and like what the hell!"

"Chris, this means he's out of business, who was he with last? Who turned him off from us?"

"I am going to kill who ever did, cause damnit!"

"He was so worth the money, no!"

The notorious twins Ashely and Lindsay, Britney and Summer all met up again in the girls bathroom, discussing the news they had received from their morning classes. The news of an openly gay couple was surging through the school faster than anything in Hyde High history.

"They're going to get their asses beat." Said Summer said smoking a cigarette.

"Why is that? I think its honorable." Britney stated.

"Honorable?" Ashely asked.

"Big words, for a girl dumber then a rock." Lindsay said taking a cigarette out herself.

"What?" Britney asked the girls, "Do you know how much guts it took for them to come out and do this, and here you guys are acting like you know all this shit. No one saw this coming, and so far people are just shocked, don't hate."

"The blonde makes sense." Summer said as the smoke left her lips, and taking her spot on a bathroom stall.

"Whatever," Ashely stated, "Lindsay and I are going to convert him back to the good side.

"We have a genius plan. No boy that hot, and that hung is getting away from that easily."

"Oh my god, please tell me you two are joking." Britney said completely shocked.

Summer raised an eyebrow, showing she was interested.

"No, today after swim practice, we're going." Lindsay said.

"And we're going to trap him in the boys locker room." Ashely continued.

"But this little deal with Orlando, please he's going to be yesterday's news."

"Chris was ours first, and ours last."

"No fucking fag is going to take him away from us. We need him."

"uh, wow." Summer said under a whisper.

"Oh my god, could you two be any more low as of this moment?" Britney yelled, "You two fail all your classes, you smoke like no ones freaking business, all you do is party and get high. And now for the first time in a while Chris is actually smiling, and he's happy and you're going to take this away from him!"

"What the hell has gotten into you?" Ashely asked.

"Seriously, what happen to this, 'Chris is god' speech." Lindsay asked.

Britney laughed, "Oh man, I never fucked Chris. I actually talked with him, and he helped me with my History project, and he's a very nice guy. I am still a virgin you stupid hoes, and will be till marriage. I just can't believe I called you guys my friends."

Summer dropped her cigarette and was so set back at what was happening she looked with even more interest.

"You never fucked him?" Lindsay said

"What's wrong with you? Sex is everything here."

"No sex isn't everything!" Britney yelled, "School, Grades, Friendship, those things get you places! Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol those will get you shit. You're going to realize when you come back for your ten year reunion that everyone got a life, they went to college and got a life and everyone will be looking and you three thinking, they are some paid plastic bitches that are still trying to act like their eighteen."

"Stupid bitch." Lindsay stated throwing her cigarette in the sink.

"You calling us hoes?" Ashely yelled back.

"You know what you're not worth it." Britney picked up her bags, and left the bathroom.

"That's right leave bitch, if you come back we'll kill you!" Ashely yelled back, "We'll kill you!"

"She' doesn't know what's she missing." Lindsay said to her sister.

"Seriously, people like that never get anywhere in life."

"You need a man to feel good, everyone knows that."

"And drugs and vodka are the escapes everyone uses,"

"Except her. God, she's such a waste."

"She needs a life, like seriously!" Ashely said, then the twins looked at Summer who had taken her cigarettes out and flushed them down the toilet.

"What are you doing!" Lindsay yelled at Summer, "Those cost so much money."

"She's right," Summer said, "I am not going to be a hoe, and you two are the worst and are you listening to yourselves? Need a man? Needs a life?"

Lindsay and Ashely just looked at her.

"You know what, you two are sad, and angry everyone sees it. You think you have a crappy life so you take it out on everyone else, but when really you two let yourselves have the crappy life. So fucking shape up and get one, and stop living everyone else's life." Summer began to walk out, but then she turned around and got in the twin's faces.

"You try anything and take this away from Chris, who I barely know by the way, and I will make sure both of you pay. And I am not alone."

"Why?" Lindsay asked.

"What do you care?" Ashely yelled back

"Chris is happy, Jess is happy, and Jess is a good friend of mine. So back off."
With that Summer left the bathroom leaving the twins standing in their own self misery.

Wyatt sat in his Physics class, this was his least favorite class. He still got mildly good grades in this class, but it was physics. He looked up at the massive projection screen on the wall, and his teacher was explaining the various forms of energy and the nine planes of natural existence.

"Albert Einstein proved that in the natural world, our world, there are nine planes of natural and artificial energy, in which we all live on; we live on the first plane. The theory that the more energy produced by natural and artificial products, we have more planes of energy. Last year, a scientist in the Ukraine said that Einstein's theories were wrong and instead of nine, there are actually twenty six."

Wyatt felt someone touch his back, he turned and a girl with long red curly hair handed him a note. He looked over and saw that there was about six other people at the lab table ignoring the lecture, and looking at Wyatt, two of them had what looked to be evil smiles. Wyatt opened the note: Is it true? You're brother is really gay? The note read. Wyatt looked up and rolled his eyes, this was the third time someone has confronted about him and Chris being gay. He then wrote back, Yes he's gay. Got a problem? He then crumbled up the note and threw it over his shoulder. The girl with the red curly hair opened the note with excitement. She read and smiled. She didn't have to say anything, and instantly the entire room froze. Wyatt turned around, he didn't have his mother's power down to a science, but he used when he needed to. He looked at the girl who was reading it, he saw a guy with blonde hair on one side of her, and another blonde girl on the other reading the note on the other side, and both were about to break out in laughter.

Oh my god, Chris is gay! He heard inside of his head which was the girl with Red hair, before he froze the room.

Wyatt grabbed his stuff and left the class room, and as he walked out the door, the room unfroze.