Once again when I woke up Jake had gone. Last night he had chosen to sleep on the sofa in my room instead of my bed, and I saw the blankets thrown over the arm. I looked at my phone and again saw the message he had to go to practice and thanking me for last night.
We had spent the night gaming and planning with Ricky. Jake's parents had started to drop hints they thought he was spending too much time here, so we decided he'd stay home today, show his face, and we would meet up the following night at the beach. I spent the rest of the day chilling around the house, watching TV, gaming, napping, not a bad day.
The night of the bonfire came, and I headed down to the beach. I had a pair of olive shorts on, with a grey t-shirt and started to walk down to the beach. It had just started to get dark when I reached the car park we normally met up at. I looked around for a minute, when I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. It was from Jake.
'Turn around.'
Jake was sat on a small stone wall that ran along the edge of the car park. I waved and started walking over to him. All I could think was that he was looking good, wearing a tight black t-shirt and a pair of khaki shorts. He started to wave back, almost losing his balance and falling off, before managing to catch himself on the edge.
'You didn't drop the booze did you?' I shouted over to him, barely holding back my laughter. Jake loved beside the big shop in town, so normally did the booze runs for us.
'Asshole,' he started back in mock hurt, "I could have died.'
'And if you had we'd need something to drink to toast you off'.
Jake laughed, it quickly turning into a yawn. 'Tired?' I asked.
'Yeah, my brother had some friends over last night in the room, two of them on the sofa downstairs, two sleeping in my room. I couldn't sleep the ones downstairs were snoring so loud I could hear them in my room. And, well you know.'
'What?'