Teenage Kicks Chapter Seven
Dallon woke as the sunlight came gently through the curtains. He sat up and stretched to look around him. It was the morning after the party and a group of people had decided to spend the night at Spencer's rather than go home in the early hours. Spencer had bought down loads of blankets, duvets and pillows to cover every surface in the living room with so people could just crash out as they wanted. It was very cosy, everyone had just fallen asleep next to whoever happened to be there the night before. Dallon woke up lying on the floor resting against a couch, Brendon was lying on the couch, his hand dangling inches from Dallon's face. Two of their friends lay on the floor in the middle of the room and another one on a second couch. Spencer and his girlfriend Linda lay cuddled under a duvet on his armchair. Someone else moved on the floor, it turned out there was a third person in the tangle; their friend Breezy. She sat up and stretched and looked around. Dallon mouthed "Everyone else is asleep, do you want to get breakfast?" she nodded and dislodged herself from Kenny and Ian, who she had fallen asleep next to last night.
Dallon and Breezy carefully tiptoed around everyone and into the kitchen. Breezy was wearing fishnet tights and a spider web skirt from the night before, paired with somebody's t shirt that she'd found after the party. Dallon had his police shirt on but had taken off his trousers and replaced them with pyjama shorts. Dallon yawned and stretched, "I have a hangover like hell right now." Breezy smiled and replied, "Same, I reckon we just need some food. What do you feel like?" Dallon thought for a moment, "Does he have any bacon?" Breezy laughed and opened the fridge, "Yeah quite a bit, enough for everyone anyway!"
"How about bacon sandwiches then?"
"Sure, find me a frying pan and we can surprise the others." Dallon got a pan out of the cupboard and poured a glass of water for each of them "To help with the headaches." Breezy began oiling the pan and tossing in bacon and Dallon found a loaf of bread to slice. "How did you enjoy the party?" Breezy asked him. They'd been friends since they first started school so he found it odd that she was being a little formal. Formal considering they were both hung over wearing a mish mash of pyjamas and Halloween costumes. "Really good fun, especially playing for everyone," he realised Breezy was giggling. "What?" he asked. "Well," she began trying not to laugh "Me and Sarah arrived quite early so we were going to go and find a room to enjoy some alone time" she said meaningfully "before it really began. But when we went upstairs we were going to go into this bedroom but we heard moaning coming from inside." She had to stop to control herself for a moment, Dallon realised where it was going. "Specifically your moaning. So we walked away to find somewhere else, and we came back a while later and Brendon was just leaving" she collapsed into a fit of giggles. Dallon blushed furiously. Breezy was trying not to laugh, "I'm sorry you just didn't seem the type and me and Sarah were just surprised that's all."
"By what?"
"By you and Brendon! Are you two going out or just having fun?" she asked. Dallon hesitated, "At the moment just having fun I guess." Breezy noticed him hesitate, "Is that all?"
"Well we were just talking last night and it was really romantic and we said we're going to give the band our best shot and see how far we can go with it." He trailed off and looked at her, "But I don't know how Brendon feels, I mean to be honest I don't even know how I feel, it's all very new to me."
Breezy had been a really close friend of his for so long and he felt completely comfortable with her. Also, she had "come out" about a year ago so he knew he was asking the right person for advice about his potential feelings for Brendon, having never experienced anything quite like it before. He also really admired how well she knew herself and how well she could understand other people's feelings and interpret them to give advice. She genuinely cared about everyone and could probably relate in a way to his situation so he decided to go ahead and tell her.
"I've never felt like this about any guy at all really, or even girl. I hate to put labels on things too much so I've never really classed myself as 'straight' but I've never felt quite like this about anyone, it's more than just sexual and that scares me because what if he doesn't feel the same, or if he's just not interested?"
Breezy laughed, "Oh honey, from the sounds you were making last night he had to be interested!" Dallon laughed back and Breezy went on, "Well you know how you've never really got too emotionally involved with people, like all you relationships are sex based or are just friendships?" Dallon nodded, "Maybe that was because underneath it all you're worried that people won't be able to reciprocate your feelings and some of that could have been because you've felt your feelings for guys weren't 'normal' as such." Dallon was looking at her intently, he was clearly close to getting emotional. "Well you shouldn't worry so much. Gender's not as big of a deal as it may have been in the past, I mean I'm a girl who likes girls and lots of other girls like girls too. You should never be ashamed of your feelings for someone, they may not feel the same towards you but I think with Brendon you can be pretty sure that he does." Dallon was speechless for a moment, so instead he just hugged her tightly. "Thanks Breezy," he said quietly. They pulled away and she pretended to not notice him wiping his eyes. "The bacon's done anyway!" she said. "And if you ever have any worries come and talk to me, I don't want you being sad." Dallon nodded and they began to make sandwiches, with a generous six slices per sandwich. Breezy got another lot of bacon going and Dallon put the sandwiches under the heater so they wouldn't get cold.
"So, you and Sarah?" he asked. Breezy smiled at the pan she was concentrating on. "Yes, me and Sarah. She's hot." Dallon laughed. "Yeah we're just having fun, she's not sure how she feels and I'm completely fine with whatever she wants. Kind of a like great friend with amazing benefits, you know?" she winked at Dallon took the plate of bread from him. "Anyways let's hurry up before that other plate gets cold."