"Heart to heart"
"Hey Rocky."
"Adam, what's up?" he said shutting his locker.
"You heading home now?"
"Yup and you?"
"Me too."
"Let's go," Rocky said.
The afternoon sun was beaming against the cloudless skies. The balmy winds breezed through the air as the boys made their way home from school.
"Adam, you got those notes from Mrs. Rodriquez's class right?"
"Sure do. Do you need them?"
"If you don't mind."
"No problem, I can give them to you whenever we get to your house."
"Thanks man."
"So…Adam I'm curious about something…" Rocky said trailing off.
Adam turned to his best friend, not knowing where he was going with this.
"Curious about what?"
"What happened to you and Tanya? You guys didn't meet up with us at the beach club that evening so I was just wondering what happened to you guys?"
Adam snickered; he didn't realized that he hadn't told Rocky what happened between him and Tanya.
"We went out that evening to a movie and dinner."
"Really? As on a date?"
Adam nodded.
"Dude, seriously? So you finally got around to asking Tanya out then?"
"I did."
"Yo, man that's great!"Rocky said slapping Adam hard on the back.
"Yeah, it is. I'm really glad that I did." Adam replied rubbing his injured back.
"Well, took you long enough."
"Forgive me for not asking her out sooner."
"If you waited any longer…she may have…" he said trailing off.
"She may have what?" Adam said peering at Rocky.
"Nothing," Rocky said laughing.
"So, what did you guys see?"
"Some movie called Broken Path,"
"How was it?"
"It was decent, tons of action and blood, you know the good stuff."
"You took her to see something like that?"
"Well, I asked her what she wanted to see…she said it didn't matter to her so I just picked that movie…" Adam said trailing off.
"Man, whenever you take a girl to a movie so go see one of those chick flicks."
"Chick flick?"
"Yeah, you know those movies that have all that love and romantic stuff that girls' like to see."
"Rocky, I think I get were you're coming from but I don't think all girls like that kind of stuff."
"Well, of course most of them don't but that's not the point…you go to those kind of movies to get closer to the girl. She sees all that lovey romantic stuff and then you guys get you know…" Rocky said sly to Adam.
"No…what?"
"Well, you know…"
"No, I don't know…you should tell me," Adam said challenging his statement.
He had to know where his best friend was going with this.
"C'mon man, you know making out and holding hands and all that kind of stuff."
"Oh…right!"
Rocky glances over at Adam.
"Why do I get the feeling that we were not thinking of the same thing."
Adam snickered.
"Anyway, after the movie we went and grabbed dinner at that dinner downtown. We ate and I walked her home and that was that," Adam said as of matter of fact.
"So you didn't kiss her?"
"No…"
"Why not?"
"I don't know…we just didn't."
Rocky shook his head.
"What?"
"Adam, man I don't understand you, you like really like her right?"
"Well...yeah," Adam chided.
"Well, what are you waiting for then?"
"The right moment perhaps."
"Man, you don't need to wait…just go for it."
"Rocky, man I don't think I need you telling when I should kiss Tanya and besides we are just dating we're not actually a couple."
"Not yet right."
"Right…I think we are just trying to flesh things out right now and see where it goes."
"I see."
"Do you really?"
Rocky nodded.
"How about you?"
"What about me?"
"Have you gotten around to asking Jennifer to the carnival?"
"I have."
"You did?"
"Yeah."
"So…what did she say?"
"She said yes."
"That's awesome!"
"I know right. It will be great getting to see and hang out with her again."
"Yeah, I bet. I think she really has a thing for you man."
"Yeah, I know…she is just taking her time to come around that's all."
Adam laughed; he couldn't help but to laugh at his friend's bold arrogance.
"What's so funny?"
"You are." Rocky glared at him.
"Whatever, the important thing is that she agreed to come with me…and she will come around with her feelings towards me." Rocky said proudly.
"Right, she will, for sure," Adam replied…
"Hey man thanks for the notes."
"No, problem hopefully you can read my scribbling," Adam joked.
"Cool, well I will give these back to you this weekend if that's cool?"
"Yeah, definitely."
"Alright man…catch you later," Rocky said slapping Adam's hand.
"See you later Rocky," he said gesturing back to his friend.
Adam stepped away from Rocky's yard, started making his way back down the street over to his home that was a couple blocks away...
Adam arrived home; he rushed off to his bed throwing his backpack aside. He flopped down onto his bed, his body melding into its softness. He thought to call out to his parents but then he remembered that they were still out of town and that they wouldn't be coming home from South Korea till this weekend. Normally the quietness of didn't bother him but for some reason this time it was getting to him. He wasn't sure why it was bothering him…then again he started thinking that maybe it was stemming from the events that unfolded between him and Tanya this week.
Yes, that seem to be it, why the silence was getting to him, it was allowing him to get more into his own head and think about the things that transpired between the two of them. He was really happy that both seem to share the same feelings for one another. He started thinking about how things would go when they went out to the carnival together this weekend. The conversation he just had with Rocky started replaying inside his mind, despite what his friend said, Adam felt he knew how to gage their relationship and how far they should take things.
They were still in the early stages of this getting to know one another outside their friendship, so it seemed natural for them to take things slowly. It's not that he didn't want to kiss her, by all means that was certainly something he wanted to do, but last night was not the right time to do so. He just tried to shake off Rocky's silly qualms regarding what guys are supposed to do whenever they date girls. All these thoughts continued swirling around inside Adam's head until those thoughts he slipped into a quiet comfortable rest.