AAAAAND the next chapter is up! Sorry this one took so long, but the original file I had got deleted on accident soooo I had to start all over about a week ago. Anyway, I will try to keep posts going up every two weeks unless I upload earlier than that for some reason. Thanks for the reviews also! They are really helpful and encouraging when I hit a rut :D. Just know that answers to whatever questions or observations you make in them may be answered later in the story ;). Enjoy!
Jake, Callie and Felina were walking down the halls of DWMA after classes were over. It had been a week since their sparing match and since then it seemed as if they were all best of friends. Sure they had been friends before, but now it seemed that they were always together as a group. Chance however, was gone at this moment. Earlier during class he asked if he could leave because he felt sick, Sid was skeptical at first until he saw Chance's face pale. Jake offered to go home to look after him, but Chance said that he'd be okay. "Besides, I need someone's notes to copy!" he added with a wink when he left the classroom.
The trio had reached the courtyard outside the school when Felina spoke up, "Hey Jake, would you mind waiting for me and Callie here?" Jake cocked his head in confusion, "We wanna go check on Chance too. Besides, we haven't seen your guy's place yet!" She said tossing in an innocent smile
"Oh, okay sure! See you guys in a bit!" Jake said as he waltzed over to a bench and sat down as the two walked off.
Callie and Felina were walking down the halls to their dormitory. When they reached their door Callie pulled out the key and unlocked it. The she-kats walked in and set down all of their school stuff. Callie walked over to her mirror next to her bed and started to adjust her hair. "I can't wait to see the look on Jake's face when he see what Chance did!"
"Yeah! You gonna bring the camera? It's gonna be priceless!" Felina responded. Callie answered with a nod. "Jeez, if Jake loved Chance before this, this will drive him absolutely head-over-heels!" Felina thought.
Jake was sitting on the bench that Felina and Callie had left him at, he was tapping his foot out of clear annoyance. "Jeez , girls take forever don't they?" Jake tossed his head back and put his paws behind it. "Then again...Chance isn't exactly any better is he." Jake smiled to himself. Jake stretched out and then sat buck up in his original position. Jake's smile instantly faded when he was welcomed with the sight of someone he'd rather avoid. About 20 feet in front of him was Sky's partner Drake. Strangely though he was by himself. Drake's ears perked up and he turned immediately to see Jake's rather displeased gaze. Drake tucked his head in, and was about to walk away. He took two steps forward, then immediately turned back to Jake and walked towards him.
Jake stood up intently, "Where's your partner? Your not going to attack me are you?" he asked in a flat tone.
Drake shrank back from the cold comment. "Ummm..." Drake brought his eyes to level with Jake's. "I'm...I'm sorry!" Drake suddenly said as he bowed to Jake.
Jake's expression softened, mostly out of surprise. "What?" he asked, his tone now back to normal and a bit concerned.
Drake straightened up again, "I said I'm sorry...for what Sky did...has done." Drake moved his eyes away from Jake's. "I don't ….. I don't expect you to forgive either of us, but …. what Sky did is inexcusable. I...I'll try to make sure we go nowhere near you and your friend." Drake turned was about to leave until Jake put his paw on Drake's shoulder.
"Wait." Drake turned his head to see Jake, "Why are you partnered with such a douchebag? You seem to be too nice for him.."
Drake turned around instantly "DON'T CALL HIM..." Jake pulled back at the sudden outburst and Drake eyes grew wider, when he saw this "oh sorry...Sky isn't …. hasn't always been a bad guy. It's only been the past year or so that he started acting like this. Ever since his folks split..." Drake trailed off. Jake perked up at this, he recalled that Chance's parents were most likely divorced. "What if Chance had turned out like that?" He thought.
"Look...I gotta go...so.." Drake broke the silence and stepped back from Jake a couple steps.
"Hey..." Jake rubbed the back of his head, "I...forgive you." Drake raised his head from it's usual drooped position. "I'm pretty sure I can't forgive Sky just yet but..." Jake stared directly into Drake's eyes, "...ummm, maybe give into him less? Don't stop being his friend, sometimes all it takes is a real friend to turn someone around,but stand up for yourself sometime." Drake didn't say anything. Jake gave him a slight smile, "Maybe then you can bring him back to how he used to be." Drake responded with a nod and a smile. He waved as he turned and began to walk down the stairs leading up to DWMA.
"Well, at least I know he's not such a bad guy." Jake thought
Jake sat back down on the bench he was on and resumed waiting for Callie and Felina. A few minutes later the two she-kats finally reappeared. Felina was toting her backpack with her. After Jake complained to them about taking so long he finally took note of the backpack, which he thought she would put away.
"I've brought some stuff to give Chance and help him feel better!" was all she said to Jake's puzzled looks. Jake simply shrugged and the trio walked toward his and Chance's apartment.
The trio walked along making typical conversation until..
"So you excited to be an adult -on-18?"
"If you really call that being an adult then suuuuuuuure!" Jake said with a slight sarcasm
"What, you don't think you're an adult at that age?" Callie questioned
"Just look at Chance!" Jake replied, causing all of them to laugh
As the three were walking along they passed by a small store without really taking notice to it. Jake had a thought just then.
"Hey, hold up a sec!" Jake said. He quickly turned and ran into the store leaving Callie and Felina waiting outside. A few minutes later Jake came back out with a single bag in paw.
"What did you get?" Callie questioned
Jake smiled as he opened up the bag to show the she-kats. "I got Chance some licorice and a couple of chocolate bars!"
Callie giggled, "I didn't think Chance to be the type to have a sweet tooth."
"He's usually not," Jake said as they started to walk the last bit to his and Chance's apartment, "but he absolutely loves licorice! I've never seen him turn down chocolate either" Jake said while sticking out his tongue
"I'm not exactly sure candy is the best thing for a cold though" Felina said with a slight chuckle
"Well it'll make him happy at least!" Callie chimed in
Chance opened up the curtains that Jake had put over the door leading to the balcony from their apartment. He saw Jake carrying a bag and walking with Callie and Felina. "Perfect! Just as planned!" he thought to himself. He closed the curtains and turned around to everybody in the apartment. "Alright everyone get ready!"
The trio walked into the apartment lobby. They took the stairs up to the top floor where the apartment was located. "Okay, here we are!" Jake said when they got to the end of the hall to apartment 310.
"Corner apartment. Nice!" Felina said with her usual fervor, trying to hold back the excitement she felt. Jake pulled out his key and stuck it in the lock. Huge grins played across Callie and Felina's faces. Jake opened the door, "Chance are you feeling..."
"SURPRISE!" At that moment several people let off confetti poppers. Jake jumped back out of shock, right into Felina and Callie, who were prepared to catch him.
"Wha?" was all he could say as he tried to make sense of what just happened
"It's a surprise party silly" Callie said with her wide smile. She and Felina walked Jake into the apartment. Jake took a look around as he walked in, he saw the entire group standing around the apartment, all smiling at him.
"Happy birthday buddy!" Chance said as he walked up to Jake. Callie and Felina let go of Jake and took a step back.
"Who?" Jake asked, still not fully able to process what was happening
"It was all Chance-kuns idea!" Tsubaki chimed in
"Wait but...you weren't actually..." Jake questioned
"Nope, when does Chance Furlong ever get sick?" Chance answered
"So, Callie and Felina took so long..."
"To make sure everyone had time to get here." Jake stood aghast for a few seconds, until he dipped his head down. Chance's smile changed to a slightly worried one, "Hey, you o..."
Jake suddenly jumped up into the air while thrusting his fist upward, "LET'S PARTY!" Chance jumped back and tripped making him land on his butt. Everyone started laughing, including Chance as he stood back up. The group did exactly as Jake had suggested, for a while there was a variety of music being played, courtesy of DJ Furlong who had put some of Jake's favorites ahead of time. Everyone was talking to each other and in general having a great time.
"Hey Chance!" Soul called from the living room.
Chance turned his head toward Soul from the kitchen were he, Jake and Jackie were talking, "Whats up?"
"You got anything good for this?" Soul said pointing to Chance's xbox
Chance got a huge grin on his face and looked at Jake, who immediately knew what Chance was going to do. "Wait Chance!". But to no avail, Chance had already run off to the back of the apartment where he kept all of the rockband equipment. Everyone waited in more-or-less silence waiting on Chance, as Jake was dragging his paw down his face as he waited for the embarrassment to come. After a few minutes Chance came back out with all of the equipment, his grin not having faltered a bit.
"So who want's to play!?" Everyone got excited and immediately started groping for the instruments. "Now hang on, hang on!" Chance said as he walked over and began to set up everything. "I think Mr. Birthday-boy over there should play first!"
"Yuuuup, exactly what I thought he'd do." Jake thought flatly.
Chance walked up to Jake and held out the mic expectantly. "I don't think I really wanna..." Jake said, obviously nervous.
"Come on, please buddy?!" Chance's eyes widened
"DAMN IT I CAN'T SAY NO TO THOSE EYES!" Jake screamed in his mind
"No way he can say no now!" Jackie and Felina thought
Jake heaved out a sigh and smiled slightly, "Fine, Chance. But I'm only gonna do ONE song!" Jake said as he took the mic from Chance's paws
Chance smiled his toothy grin and walked back in front of the television. Jake followed him. "Alright who wants bass and who wants drums?"
"Oi, I'll take drums!" Soul chimed. "And Maka will take bass!"
Soul ran over and grabbed the bass guitar and shoved into Maka's hands. "But I don't know how to play!" She retorted
"So what song are we gonna do?" Soul questioned ignoring Maka
"I dunno, Jake gets to pick!" Chance replied
"Hmmm..." Jake hummed to himself as he scrolled through the available songs. Nothing really caught his eye, there was Journey which was always good but he wasn't feeling it. He was about to just give the pick over to Soul or Maka until. Jake gasped "WERE DOING PARAMORE!" he shouted almost out of nowhere
Everyone fell into an awkward silence. "Way to be subtle there Jake" Jackie thought to herself
Jake made note of the silence and turned from his position in front of the television. He rubbed the back of his head and giggled slightly out of embarrassment
"ALRIGHT PARAMORE!" Chance bellowed as he selected it. The silence was effectively broken with everyone's chuckles and snickers. Jake was a bit relieved, but still nervous as all hell though.
"They're not gonna make fun of you, they're your friends. Besides I'm good at this, and Chance will back me up on that." Jake though, a smile playing across his face as the song had just started. Chance was hitting every note like he usually did, Soul and Maka were finding it hard to adjust to, especially so for Maka, but they made do. Jake waited for the song to start, he knew the exact time it did as he had listened to the song many times. "Deep breath" he though just before the first lyrics came up. "NO, sir. Well I don't wanna be the blame, not any more." Jake began. He didn't even need to look at the screen to know what notes to hit. He hit every single one flawlessly, his anxiety clearly abated. Everyone was quite as Jake was singing, many of them caught in pure awe. Felina was snapping pictures all the while.
"I didn't know Jake could sing!" Liz whispered.
"Yeah he's really good!" Kid responded. Many more of these whispers went around, not too loudly as not to distract Jake. He still heard them though and this only drove his mood upward, he really got into the song, moving around as certain parts came up and even dancing slightly. He even got Chance to join in on some of the vocal parts, apparently Chance had known the song too. "And that's what you get when you let your heart win. Whoa-oa-ho-hooo" Jake finished the song and everyone clapped and cheered.
"Whooo Jake!" Jackie called from the kitchen
"Your so good!" Maka chimed
"Encore!" Callie cheered
Chance walked over and put his paw on Jake's shoulder, getting his attention. "See, nothing to be nervous about!"
Jake smiled shyly, "Damn, read me like a book hunh?" Chance responded with just a smile.
"Alright give me this!" Blackstar walked up and took the mic from Jake's paws, "I'll show you all how to do it right!"
Jake and Chance gave each other a look and shrugged. Chance handed the guitar to Liz and the two rejoined the crowd. The new group selected Everlong by Foo Fighters. As soon as the first lyrics came up Blackstar began singing...horribly. Everyone was covering their ears
"Ahhh, I think mine are bleeding!" Soul cried
"It's like torture!" Felina yelled. Tsubaki just stood at the side with an embarrassed smile
Chance and Jake were equally covering their ears with their paws. "Well he's got character that's for sure" said Jake. The song finished, to everyone's enjoyment, and Blackstar had a huge smile on his face until he turned and saw everyone looking …. well almost in pain.
Suddenly there was a loud banging coming from the room below them, followed by some yelling. "PUT THE OTHER GUY BACK ON!" Everyone stood for a couple seconds until they all simultaneously broke into a huge laughing fit, including Blackstar.
The group continued to play, this time excluding Blackstar from the mic. Jake took it up a couple more times and received nothing but praise and applause. After a while it had gotten late and...
"Alright everyone!" Chance called out. Everyone grew quiet. "I've been waiting all night for this, let's give Jake his cake!"
Jake perked up out of confusion, "Hunh?" without any time to properly ask, Jake was gripped by his shoulders by Callie and Felina and led to the table and sat down. Chance was doing something over at the counter and Crona had dimmed the lights. Everything got silent as Chance turned around, a large birthday cake in paw, with 18 candles lit up.
Chance walked up to the table, everyone gathered around it and Jake, Felina whispered in Jake's ear, "He baked it himself." Jake's eyes slightly grew at this. Chance set the cake down on the table.
Chance's expression was genuinly soft when he set it down and looked at Jake. "Happy birthday, bud." Jake looked at the cake, it looked just like one that you could find at a bakery ,you couldn't deny Chance's skills in the kitchen. "Make a wish!" Chance said his smile widening as he saw Jake admiring the cake.
Jake dipped his head slightly, tears beginning to well up in his eyes but not quite forming. "I'm so damn lucky. To have all of them...but especially you Chance" he thought. Jake leaned forward and with one breath put out all of the candles.
Everyone clapped, "So what did you wish for?" Maka asked
Jake gave a small glance at Chance, "Doesn't matter" he said with a huge smile. "I think I'm okay with Chance just being my brother for now...just for now." Jake thought
Chance cut up the cake and everyone stayed and hung out for a while longer. After some time everyone began to head home, the last one's remaining were Jackie and Kid, although Kid was there mostly to make sure everything ended up being symmetrical. After everything was cleaned Jake and Chance led the two out of the building. After seeing the two off, they walked back to their apartment in silence, but it was in no way awkward. When they got to the apartment Chance opened the door and held it open for Jake, and then closed it after Jake was through. Chance heaved a contented sigh and turned "So did you like your.." Chance was cut off by a hug from Jake. "What's this for?" Chance asked with a slight chuckle.
"Thank you." Jake answered. Chance cocked his head in a bit of confusion. "I've...never really had a party before, at least not like that. I never really had that many friends, so when it came to birthdays it was usually just me and my parents, and maybe a couple people from school, but they were never really friends. Jackie was the first consistent friend I had ever had. But now...thank you so much Chance!" Jake tightened the hug a bit.
Chance smiled warmly and returned Jake's hug, "Any day buddy, any day." The two held the embrace for a while then Jake pulled back and looked at the clock, it was going on 11.
"Jeez, time flew by! I guess I should hit the shower." Jake said with a wink
"Yeah, you don't exactly smell good" Chance said while pinching his nose and sticking out his tongue. Jake lightly cuffed him on his head and walked off toward their bedroom to fetch his towel, Chance waited to hear the bathroom door shut, then walked over to the closet in the living room. "I can finally get this down without him noticing!" he said with an exasperated sigh. Chance ran back to the bedroom and set Jake's gift, wrapped in a long box with blue wrapping paper and a golden bow. "Thanks for the tips Jacqueline!"
A few days ago
Chance pulled out his cell while he was at the store, he had managed to slip out while Jake was busy with homework. He played off a story that there were some food items they needed, but really he was looking for a second gift for Jake.
After a few rings the person Chance was calling picked up, "Hello?"
"Hey Jackie! Could you help me real fast?"
"Sure, what's up?"
"Okay so I'm looking for a second gift for Jake, I already got him this sweet Linkin Park hoodie but I don't know what else to get him."
Jackie thought for a few seconds, "Oh, you know that watch he always wears!?"
"Yeah?"
"Why don't you get him a cleaning kit for it? I don't think he's ever cleaned it and it's got some rust spots and nicks. There are some pretty decently priced one's I'm sure!"
"Alright! I'll go see if they have any! Thanks Jackie!"
"Yup! And be sure to wrap it up in either blue or a goldenrod color!"
"Hunh?"
"Those are some of Jake's favorite colors!"
"Oh alright, Thanks!"
"Yup bye!"
"That cleaning kit better be extremely effective! I payed $35 fort it! Jake deserves it though." Chance thought. He heard the shower turn off and quickly stuffed the present underneath Jake's bed. HE then ran over to his bed, quickly stripped to his boxers and lied down. Jake came strolling in without a shirt on a few minutes later, obviously in a good mood.
He looked over to see Chance lying down flipping through one of his textbooks. "I see someone's ready for bed" Jake joked. He put his stuff into his closet and took off his jeans. He went over to turn off the lights.
"Hold up!" Chance said abruptly just before Jake had actually managed to turn off the lights.
"What?"
"Before you do that, go take a look under your bed." Chance motioned toward Jake's bed with his head and winked.
Jake's expression became puzzled, but he did as Chance said and walked over toward his bed. He reached under and felt the present that was sitting there, not knowing that it was one until he pulled it out. "Whaaaat? Chance, you didn't have to!" Jake said as he admired the wrapping job, they were his two most favorite colors, and done so well too!
"Yeah I did! Go on open it!" Chance was now sitting on the edge of his bed
Jake sat on his bed and slowly undid the wrapping as he didn't want to ruin his friends work. After carefully pealing back all of the wrapping paper he opened the box that everything was held in. "Whoa!" Jake said seeing the hoodie with the Linkin Park label facing him. "This is awesome!" he aid quickly pulling it out. He heard a slight thunk on his bed when he did so and lowered the hoodie to see what else had fallen out. He saw a black kit of sorts and picked it up with a puzzled look.
"It's a cleaning kit for your watch!" Chance said with his toothy grin
Jake suddenly perked up, "Does it..."
"Yup! Removes rust, stains, and nicks!"
Jake lowered the kit from eye level and got a warm smile on his face, "Chance, I don't know what to say."
""Thank you" usually works!" Chance said with a giggle
"No, that's not enough." Jake's smile hadn't faded...but now a few tears were rolling down his cheeks.
Chance's expression became worried instantly. "Whoa, whats wrong buddy?" he asked in a soft tone. Chance stood up, but Jake put his paw up in a "stop" motion.
"It's nothing." He said as he wiped the happy tears away. "It's just, even though we've only known each other for a short time, I feel closer to you than I have anyone else in my life. " Jake turned his head to Chance, his smile widening. "And, I'm really happy that we became friends Chance."
Chance smiled, he could tell that Jake was more than sincere. "I am too buddy, and..." Chance sat back down on his bed, "I feel the same, more-or-less." Chance smiled warmly back at Jake. They held eye contact for a few seconds.
"Oh yeah!" Jake quickly got up and ran to the kitchen area where he had left the bag he got for Chance earlier. He came back in a matter of seconds. "I got these for you when I thought you were sick!" Jake said handing the bag to Chance. Chance opened the bag, puzzled, until he saw it's contents.
"LICORICE!" He cried quickly taking the candy from the bag and tearing it open, his tail swishing behind him.
"Thought you'd like that!" Jake said. He walked back to his bed and plopped down.
After a few ravenous bites from his treat Chance spoke up, "So, What's up with that watch anyway? I always see you wear it."
Jake turned to look at Chance, then to his watch. It was a metal banded watch with a lot of fade spots and rust. The crystal was nicked in many places. "It was the last gift my grandmother gave to me before she passed away."
"Oh, you were close to your grandmother?"
"Yeah, I spent a lot of time with her as a kid. In fact she kind of took care of me more than my own mom." Jake looked over to see Chance's sad expression. "Oh, not like she was a bad mom at all!" Jake said while waving his paws, "Both of my parents had jobs that took up a ton of time. After a I turned 10 or so my mom got a different schedule with a promotion and was able to spend more time with me. I still saw my grandma a lot though."
"So the watch is kinda a remembrance thing?" Chance asked. Now having shifted his position so that he was laying on his belly and a pillow under his head.
"Yeah, you prolly think it's stupid hunh?"
"Nah, I think it's kinda cute actually." Jake blushed. "What, guy can't say something's cute?"
Jake shook his head. "Nah, I actually hate all of those types of dispositions" Jake said while sticking out his tongue. "Eh, he didn't directly call me cute, but I'll take it!" Jake thought, a small smile dawning on his face. He turned to notice that Chance was still looking in his direction and, admittedly, panicked a bit. "So, uh, on this topic, whats up with the necklace?"
Chance pulled up the necklace from it's resting place on the pillow, "This?"
"No what other necklace?" Jake said snidely with a smirk. Jake had never really looked before but he noticed the necklace pendant was a paper airplane
Chance flipped Jake off making Jake chuckle, "Well it's nothing quite as intricate or emotional as yours. This was just kind of a going away...well more of a friendship gift than anything. My friend Gary that I told you about gave it to me just before he left for Germany."
"You ever gonna call him?"
"He didn't bring a phone, and I only just recently got this cell phone so he has no clue what my number is."
"How are you two ever gonna meet up again?"
"He said he'd be coming to DWMA a few years from now and I told him I'd see him here." Chance said with a smile
"I like that plan." Jake said. Jake stretched out, as he had been sitting in the same position for a while now when he noticed Chance's guitar sitting on it's stand. "So, do you think you can ever make good on playing me something on that thing" Jake motioned with his head toward Chance's guitar.
"Maybe tomorrow, but it requires my amp which can be pretty loud. And seeing as it's.." Chance looked at the alarm clock on his desk, "past one, I don't think our neighbors would be so appreciative."
"Yeah prolly not!" Jake laughed
"So mind if I ask another question?"
"Sure!"
"What is that universalist-uninarian thing you were talking about a while back?"
Jake giggled, "Unitarian, and lets see." Jake thought of how he would explain it to his friend. "It's more or less a religion of peace. They accept every other religion and person regardless...with the exception of satanism and such" Jake laughed. "If your gonna ask why, I went to that church because it gelled with me, I share a lot of their basic ideals and I personally hate it when other religions put certain one's down.." Jake stopped and put his paws over his mouth having realized what he just said
"If you think you offended me you didn't, I hate that too, and everyone who knew me at church knew that too."
Jake heaved a sigh of relief , "So," Jake shifted uncomfortably, he was just about to ask something that may make his friend mad. "Ummm..." Jake, tried to find the best way to approach the question, but there really wasn't one, "were your parent's ….divorced?"
Chance's expression changed to an angry one. No, anger didn't quite describe it, it was more like rage. Jake winced back when he saw the expression, he had never seen such a face on Chance. Chance's expression went back to norm when he saw his friends reaction, "Sorry, that wasn't you. Let's just say me and my dad aren't exactly on good terms. " Chance heaved out a sigh, "But yeah they were divorced, for 5 years now."
"So why the...resentment for him?"
Chance sighed again and shifted to lying on his back. "He..he was a god damned addict, Jake." Jake's mouth fell open slightly, but he didn't say anything. He knew that for times like this it was sometimes just better to listen. "He missed some things in my life but that wasn't the big thing. The worst was how he'd treat my mom when he was under. He wouldn't ever do things like hit her, but the things he said..." Chance winced, when he recalled. Jake got up and moved over to Chance's bed, where he sat on it's edge. "It always kept me up at night, when he'd yell and scream. I'd...I'd always find her in tears. But she loved him, she loved him a lot. So she "couldn't" leave him. So, when he filed for divorce..."
"Wait it was him that filed?" Jake couldn't help the curiosity
"Yeah,he said he couldn't stand putting her through that, but that was all damned lies. He just didn't want to be kept from his drugs in any way. My mom was a wreck when it had gone through, her last words to him that day were "I still love you." But no, instead of dealing with things like a man, he just ran away and ended up hurting more people than when he was with her. ...We lost all contact with him more or less, aside from when he'd call on my birthday, or the alimony checks. I don't see how he kept his CEO position, but he did, and my mom was a well known nurse so we did just fine financially. ..She never dated, she never went out, she still had pictures of him everywhere, I think she was clinging to some hope that he'd get better and come back. But I knew better, he would never change, he'd just hurt her even more if he came back. He never even talked to her when he called, aside from getting her to put me on the phone. "
"So I guess he was the one who originally helped you pay for the apartment?"
"Yeah, and that required more contact with him than I ever cared for. Besides that..." Chance was interrupted by Jake pulling his pillow from underneath his head. "Hey, what.."
Jake put the pillow in front of his belly, "Punch the pillow." was all he said in response. Chance cocked his head. "It's not good to build up so much anger and not let it out." Jake replied to the confused look. Chance paused for a moment and opened his mouth to talk, "You can tell me more some other time, now just do it!" Jake stopped him. Chance sat for a couple seconds, then he readied his fist. In one smooth motion Chance let a powerful punch into the pillow...and of course into Jake's stomach. Jake winced back at the impact, the pillow absorbed some of it, but it still hurt. Jake couldn't help it, he doubled over and held onto his stomach due to the pain.
"Oh god! Sorry Jake are you OK?! Ahh, I didn't realize I punched that hard." Chance was standing up now in front of Jake's position on the bed, holding onto his friends arms.
Jake chuckled slightly. "You know," Jake sat up so that he was facing Chance, "Your cute when you're worried." Chance blushed a bit and stepped back. Jake started to panic and quickly came up with an excuse, "What?! I...I' thought you said guys could say things were cute?!" Jake stammered.
Chance paused for a second and then chuckled a bit "Guess I did hunh? That pillow thing really helped too!" Chance said with a smile
Jake heaved a sigh of relief when Chance bought the excuse, "You are getting WAY to close Jake!" He thought to himself. Just then a cold Autumn wind blew in through the open window. Jake and Chance, both still only clad in their boxers, shivered as it brushed past them.
"I don't know about you..." Chance started, "But I could go for some hot cocoa about now!"
Jake smiled, "That sounds awesome!" Jake and Chance walked to the kitchen and started preparing their drinks. They ended up staying up for a couple more hours, simply talking while watching a favorite movie of theirs. After they had stopped talking and actually began to watch the movie, Jake had quickly fallen asleep. Jake fell over from his position on the couch and his head landed into Chance's lap.
Chance was stirred from his partially asleep state when he felt the sudden pressure on his lap. Chance smiled, "I really do feel at least a little better buddy, thanks for just being there." Chance whispered. "Hunh?" Chance put his hand on his stomach, it felt kinda like he had butterflys. "Prolly just gas or something." Chance shrugged it off. Chance then gently moved Jake off of his lap,stood up with almost a drunken stopper due to the lack of sleep he had, picked Jake up without waking him and carried him off to their bedroom, where he lied him down in his own bed. After putting a blanket over him Chance lied down in his own bed and quickly fell asleep, with a smile played across his face.