I woke up from my sleep, I could see the sun going through my blinds as I looked at the time, I remember talking to Trey about meeting him around noon, it was around nine. I got up from the bed heading to the bathroom, I didn't know where this meeting would lead me and Trey, I knew he had lots to do back home in Maryland; hopefully he would stay as much as he could. I felt a little nervous but I think if I talked to him more I would get comfortable with him. I hopped into the shower, it only took me about five minutes and I was out putting my white shirt on. I was so happy to finally meet Trey. I heard the phone ring, I ran to the front of the house picking it up, my hair was still combed to one side.
"Hello?" I said to the other person on the other line.
"Brandon? Is this Brandon?" The person said.
"Yes it is, is this Trey?" I asked.
"Yes it is, how are you, are you ready to meet with me?" Trey said.
"Yes I am ready, I'm getting ready right now, and where is the meeting place again?" I asked Trey.
"It will be here at the mall, I hope you're able to get here by noon, I'm here at the moment shopping, I'm so glad to be meeting you Brandon" Trey said.
"Me too Trey, I'm going to get back to getting ready and I'll see you there in an hour" I said waiting for his reply.
"Okay babe, I'll be here" Trey said hanging up.
I went back to getting ready, all that went through my mind was if I was going to be nervous or not through this meeting, I looked at myself in the mirror, my face was shaved, my goatee was cut and trimmed, I was wearing nice clothing nothing too much it's kind of hot out there today. I remember Trey telling me that he wanted me to go the Inland Center mall to meet with him that had a food court so I would wait at the food court for him while he shopped. I looked at myself grabbing my keys ready to head over to the bus stop. As I went outside waiting for the bus to come pick me up my heart was kind of racing, I wanted to make it there in time so he wouldn't think I was blowing him off.
The bus came to a stop at the bus stop, the doors opened, I pulled out whatever change I needed for the ride, I sat down near an empty area, this bus seemed empty, not a whole lot of weird people on this bus. I looked out the window hoping that this bus ride would be a fast and quick one. I looked around, I knew damn sure none of the people in this bus were gay. It was sad thinking about things, that a lot of the people in San Bernardino were either straight or bisexually married. I didn't try to think about the statistics that had gone through my head when I should have been thinking about my meeting with Trey. It took about thirty minutes to finally get to the Inland Center mall, I got off the bus running inside the mall, I thought to myself as I made it through the doors.
I slapped myself in the head forgetting to call Trey, I knew his cell phone number by heart so I went to one of the pay phones putting in two quarters, and I quickly dialed in his number. I heard his phone pick up after the second ring.
"Hello?" Trey said.
"Trey, I'm at the mall if you're still shopping I'll be at the food court, near the Subway. I'll be waiting for you" I told him.
"Okay babe, I'm at Barnes and Noble right now buying a book I'll go look for you when I'm done." Trey said hanging up.
I walked a couple of stores down searching for Barnes and Noble, I couldn't find it, I finally made it to the food court area, there was Subway, I took a seat near Subway, I looked around seeing Barnes and Noble, I knew what Trey looked like, so I knew when he would be coming this way towards me. I looked at the table, I didn't know what to say, I was so nervous I could feel my knees starting to shake. I looked back up at the entrance of the store, there he was, holding two bags in his hand, and he was wearing a baseball cap, along with a white shirt and tan shorts. He had on socks and low top shoes. I didn't know he would be wearing that kind of thing, or else I wouldn't have dressed so proper like I always do. He saw me making his way through the tables towards me, I stood up. He stopped at my table dropping the bags.
"Hello Brandon, it's good to finally meet you" Trey said.
"It's good to meet you too Trey" I said to him.
He came up to me hugging me, I still wasn't comfortable on doing this in front of a whole lot of straight people around, hell there could be some homophobes running around that would consider this kind of thing degrading. I remained locked in his arms smiling and hugging him back, he took his arms and rubbed my back with his hands. It felt like two minutes we hugged each other, I started to see people looking at us. We parted from each other sitting down, I looked at him, he was smiling he had such a cute smile; it was the type of smile a shy looking guy would give when he was nervous. I looked up at that cap he wore, he wore a lot of baseball caps on his pictures I still don't know why he has to wear one around me.
"Take this cap off Trey" I asked him.
"What for?" Trey said.
"Because, it's silly for you to wear a baseball cap all the time, take it off"
"No, I'm leaving it on" Trey said looking at me with a frown.
"You're so cute, but take it off or I will" I told him never have I been this demanding before.
"No." He said to me.
I snatched the baseball cap from Trey's head, he tried to grab it from me but I slid it under the table between my legs. He looked at me kind of upset. I decided to just smile at him. I looked down at his hands seeing that he had scars on his palms and around his wrists. I looked up at him; I didn't know what kind of expression I gave Trey, but it shocked him, his eyes looked at me.
"Trey what is that?" I asked him.