"You're seriously going to do it?" Gary asked curiously making me stare at him in confusion.
"Yeah I mean…what if I don't?" I questioned testing his impatience. Strangely, he was literally fucking cool as cucumber most of the time.
"I'll tell everyone that I saw you and Petey making out in the school bathrooms." My jaw dropped. "That'll be something to talk about." The scarred teen snickered.
"You wouldn't…"
"Try. Me." Gary spoke slowly and threateningly making sure I know that he's not messing around.
He's got to be joking. I'm sure nobody will believe him right? I can take bullying, I don't really care. Petey on the other hand, he's so fragile. All he wants to do is make friends. If the rumor goes around then our friendship might be ruined. People will see me and Petey walking down the halls, bullying us both together because we are supposedly a 'couple'. Petey would want to stop hanging out because he would get sick of the bullying. Then my first best friend here will be gone. Gary knew that too. He sees me and Petey hanging out together often. He wants to make this hard for me and him. I thought Gary was Petey's friend. I guess I thought wrong.
"You cannot tell anyone that I made you do it. I'm sure you don't want people to know that you're putty to my hands."
Without saying another word, I took my shirt off and began to unbutton my pants. Gary looked away quickly and started folding his arms. Is he…blushing?
"Hurry up and get out there. I don't want to see you half naked." He growled low but loud enough for me to hear.
"Weren't you…" I paused while wiggling out of my pants. "…the one who told me to do this? So don't complain."
Gary rolled his eyes as I looked down at my batman boxers. It could be more embarrassing. I debated on wearing my shoes or not. I run a lot faster without them. I slipped my shoes off as it began to hit me. Why the hell am I listening to Gary? I began to furrow my eyebrows remembering.
Oh right, for Petey's sake. I'm doing this to save Petey's reputation. I seriously don't give a shit about mine. I'm a pretty likable guy, I can easily make friends. Petey needs to be let out of his comfort zone for a little while. I took a deep breath looking out of the door. I sprinted out of the bedroom and yelled into the air,
"FOR PETEY!"
Everyone in the dorm hallway stared at me and started to point and laugh. I made a quick left and bolted through the entrance door nearly knocking over Algie and Thad.
"And they call me weird." Algie commented while snorting.
I continued running in a normal pace looking at all of the shocked faces of the little kids. I ran between the group of guys with leather jackets. I got yelled at by their leader.
"Ay I'm walking here!" Johnny yelled in an accent that I couldn't really comprehend.
"Oh my! He has really nice abs." Lola commented as Johnny glared at her. "I mean…he likes abs. So I've heard."
I continued to run around feeling the breeze go through my hair. I felt like I was on top of the world. I would NEVER imagine myself doing this at all. I feel like I'm free and have been lifted. It feels awesome. My smiled faded away when I see a prefect close behind me. I started to run faster as the prefect yelled for me to stop. Of course I wasn't. I think that everyone in the school saw the little chase that occurred.
I kept running to a corner then I was dragged into some bushes nearby. I look to see Jimmy shushing me looking over at Petey who was watching over the bush. The prefects sped by as Petey signaled us that the coast was clear.
I emerged from the bushes with Jimmy as Petey noticed that I was in my underwear and blushed.
"What were you thinking Matt!?" Petey yelled as I shrugged at him.
"Streaking seemed like a possibly fun hobby." I joked as Petey shook his head.
"I thought it was awesome." Jimmy laughed patting me on the back. "But seriously, you need some clothes. Here, I got some spare ones."
With that he took his backpack off of his shoulder and threw it to me. I looked inside to see a grey hoodie, jeans, and a pair of shoes. Petey and I stared at Jimmy.
"I'm not even going to ask why you have spare clothes."
"You never know what's going to happen Matt." Jimmy remarked leaning on the wall. "First you're having a normal day and then next thing you know you have to change your appearance from the authority chasing you down. That's the circle of life boys."
"You get in a lot of trouble don't you?" I chuckled slipping on the clothing as people walk by still wondering what was going on.
"Yeah, so what? I like trouble. I'm just that kind of guy." Ha added shrugging his shoulders as if it didn't matter.
"That's what I like about you dude. You don't take anyone else's shit. I respect that." I nodded at him as he gave me a small smile. I looked down at the new clothes. The pants fit okay but the hoodie was a bit too big. It stopped mid-thigh but you know. "Thanks for the help Jimmy."
"No problem. I gotta bail. I have serious business to do."
He hopped on his skateboard and took off. I looked at Petey who pointed his thumb to town.
"You want to go grab something to eat? I don't want to eat Edna's dinner." Petey then made a face that made me laugh.
"Yeah, that sounds cool." We began walking towards the front gate. I sighed and rubbed my arm. I kind of wanted to get away from Gary anyway. He's been really weird. That kiss…
The memory was snapped out of my head from someone yelling for me and Petey. We turned around to 4 of the preppies, wearing those Aquaberry sweater vests with pride. The tall one, I think his name is Bif, spoke up.
"Matt Erikson, we have someone who wants to see you."
"Who?" I asked folding my arms. Not defensively, I'm on no mood for a fight.
"Derby. Now let's go peasant we don't have enough time." The other one spoke up.
"Derby?" Petey asked just as confused as I am. "Why does he need Matt?"
"What did we say? Let's go!" One of them said as two of them grabbed me and the other two grabbed Petey.
"Hey! We have our right to know where we are going!" I yelled as they ignored me continuing to drag me and Petey.
I have a strange feeling that this isn't good.
…
Petey and I were dragged by those snobbish pricks into some beach house. They opened the door and threw us on the ground. When Petey whimpered in pain, I crawled over to help him?
"Are you okay Petey?"
"…yeah." He managed to breathe out.
"Ahem."
We both looked up to see Derby Harrington sitting in a huge red chair. He had a random red robe on and that was the moment I realized that I didn't know what the fuck was going on. The blonde stood up as the preppies stood beside him.
"Now Matt, you're probably wondering why I bought you here." He spoke with his weird accent showing.
"Um ye-"
"Well…" he interrupted. "…if you must know. Some of my guys saw you and Petey hanging out almost every day. I also heard that you were parading around the school half naked. This is sudden strange behavior Matthew." He made a sudden dramatic pause making me stare at him to continue. Seriously, what the fuck does his guy want? "You were also seen by my men just about to go on another rendezvous."
"Wait what? Petey and I are-"
"Are having relations with one another." He interrupted again. "I know. I don't quite like that at all." Why wouldn't he? He dramatically took a deep breath as if he was going to reveal a secret. You see Matt…" he walked towards me and grabbed my face looking into my eyes. "…I'm in love with you."
"WHAT?" everyone else in the room screamed.
The rich kid let go of my face and looked around at his comrades and Petey. "Yes I said it. I am in love with Matt Erikson." All of the Preps didn't say anything but look at each other in confusion. Petey and I still had that shocked look on our face. When the hell did Derby Harrington fell in love with me? He smiled then turned to me. "I study you while you walk down the halls every day. I make my comrades take simple notes about you." He stated taking out a notebook that seems to be full of information. Simple? How did they get that much about me in two weeks?! I am so confused that it hurts.
"Excuse me." Bif spoke up and stepped from the bundle of his group. "I am a gentleman with over achieving needs as well, but what the fuck?"
That was the exact same question I have been thinking ever since they brought us to the boat house.
"Bif, if you were actually as loyal as you claim that you are, you wouldn't let this affect the gang." He pointed at all of them. "That goes for the rest of you as well."
They were all silent for a long time before Derby looked back at me and smiled.
"That moment when I asked if you had a pencil in class and you gave it to me, I kept it the whole day because it smelled like you. I love how you look people directly in the eyes while talk to them. What else is this feeling?" Derby continued on as his face tinted redder and redder. This is getting pretty creepy. "I…will you go out with me?"
The whole room was silent. I turned to Petey as his jaw didn't move an inch from the ground. I turned to the other preps as they just stared at me waiting for my answer. I turned to the snob and simply answered him.
"No."
"E-excuse?" he asked as his face showed anger and hurt.
"I said no. I refuse to go out with someone who thinks that they are mightier than other people. A person with as much ego as yours makes me sick. It's also not because you are a guy either. You're not my type and I don't want to see you again." I finished as I turned towards the door. "C'mon Petey."
"Okay…" Petey answered following me.
"I can change." I stopped to turn at Derby to see him running towards me and pulling me into an embrace. I widened my eyes in shock trying to figure out how he ran to the front door so fast. "I will change for you Matt. You gave me the motivation to do so. Please…"
"No." I answered again.
"Okay, will you not want to not want to go out with me?" he begged really fast as I stared at him.
"Um…no?"
"They you DO want to go out. Splendid." He patted my face lightly as I glared at him. Damn it. "Would you like a drink?" he released me and motioned his hand towards the mini-bar that I didn't even notice.
"No Darby! Besides, aren't you dating your cousin?" I asked pulling away from him folding my arms.
"Yeah!" Petey jumped in. "You're dating Pinky remember?"
"Forget about her." He scoffed. "I found my real true love. Mommy and Daddy are just going to have to accept you." He trailed into thought.
"I'm…I'm out of here." I huffed as Petey and I walked out of the door.
"Wait! Walk me to class in the morning! We shall continue this conversation tomorrow." He called before closing the door to the beach house.
Petey and I walked down the streets of Old Bullworth Vale. We were both trying to figure out what happened and laughed about it. It could have been worse, they could have beat us up. I still don't think that Derby kid is okay in the head.
…
I waved Petey goodbye as I stumbled into my dorm room seeing Gary reading some random book. He noticed me walked in and slammed the book closed.
"So you did it huh?" He sneered not even looking at me.
"I sure did. I still thought it was a stupid idea." I complained laying back into my bed.
"Well idiots do idiotic things you know."
I glared at him as he smirked at me. The smug off of his face disappeared when I noticed the hoodie.
"Who's hoodie is that?" he asked quickly with a hint of anger in his voice.
I was almost too scared to answer him. I stared at the arm of the hoodie while answering.
"Jimmy's."
Gary's face showed the emotion that he was feeling. I could definitely tell he was pissed. "Why are you wearing his hoodie?"
"Why do you care?" I snapped back as he glared at me.
"I don't." he looked lower and scoffed. "Are those his pants too?" he began to yell as I stared at him feeling…guilty? What the hell? Seeing that I didn't answer, Gary took the hint. "Wow…"
He walked to the other side of the room and ran his hands through his hair. I bit my lip before speaking up again. "I didn't have any spare clothes. Jimmy had some in his bag and gave me his spare ones. That's what friends do Gary…"
He abruptly turned to me. "It's always Jimmy and Petey with you! I don't want to hear about them again."
"I thought that they were your frien-"
"I DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS!" Gary bellowed as I stepped away from him. He realized that he lost his cool and started taking deep breaths in order to calm himself down. I looked at my feet sadly. I didn't know Gary felt this way about people. "I'm sorry."
What?
I looked up to see him staring at me apologetically. "I didn't…" he paused cautiously stepping closer to me. "I didn't mean to yell at you."
I didn't see why he had to apologize. He didn't technically do anything wrong but yell at me. I probably hit a nerve that I didn't mean to hit. I just don't get Gary. He's hard to read. He's like a 200 page book with a beautiful cover but no words contain inside.
"It's fine…" I looked down again scratching my arm.
"Matt…"
He leaned closer within inches from my face. Butterflies began to form in my stomach. Why am I acting like this around him? I've never even acted this way with my crush. Then again that was Kindergarten.
Before I knew it, he grabbed my arms and pulled me into a kiss. Like the first time, I was shocked but I returned the action. This time it's different. I feel like he actually wanted to kiss me. It's more passionate and loving almost him letting me know that everything is okay. His hands played around the hem of the hoodie as he growled into my mouth. We separated and he pulled the too-big hoodie over my head.
"It smells like Hopkins." He mumbled angrily as he threw it on the floor quickly pulling me back into another kiss.
I opened my mouth to let his tongue explore the inside of my mouth. He tastes so good I felt like I needed more of it. I moaned into his mouth feeling his hand go through my shirt stroking my back. He growled in lust into my mouth as he hesitantly separated.
We both started to gasp for air and taking a breather. I looked at him with slight disappointment.
"I'm going to go too far." He breathed out. He leaned towards me again resting his forehead on my shoulder. "I don't want to hurt you…"
"…Gary." I whispered as he leaned back looking into my eyes, studying me.
We literally stared at each other for 10 minutes until he collapsed on top of me. He chuckled when I made an 'oof' sound. He whispered into my ear.
"Sleep with me tonight."
I felt his warmness against my body. I've never felt this way before. So secure, safe, and loved. It's almost like nothing else matters.
"Okay."