**LUKE**
Here we were. Sammy and me. On the hood of his car, at the lookout over town. How did I get here? The events of the past few months played back in my head. Waking up with an oversized bubble butt. Getting that crazy itch. Discovering what getting fucked did to me. Losing Sammy. Finally figuring out what the fuck was going on. And then getting Sammy back. Figuring myself out, finally.
"You okay, babe?" Sammy looked up at me from the crook of my arm. My arm was around his shoulder, despite him being taller than me. My fingers were tangled in the curly hair near his neck. Sammy nuzzled into my chest, rubbing his stubble against my pecs almost like a cat.
My stomach did a weird flip when he called me 'babe'. It was different, but not in a bad way. I just had to get used to it.
Was I okay? I was more than okay. Even though I had cost us the Championship this year, I felt like I just hit a Grand Slam and won MVP for the entire state. Sammy always gassed me up, made me feel like I could do anything, and right now I felt like I could hit a home run pitched by the best pitchers in the MLB.
"Yeah. I really, really am, bro." Despite the fact that I wasn't cured, having Sammy around meant my JPS was mostly managed. I still had attacks every now and then, but it turns out getting dick regularly helps keep them from happening. I'm sure Dr. C was loving all the free experiments Sammy and I were doing for him.
Sammy smiled back at me and rubbed my stomach contentedly. I turned my head back towards the sky, to take in the stars.
"Damn, it's beautiful tonight."
"It sure is." I felt Sammy's hot breath hit the side of my face.
I turned back to see his deep brown eyes already fixed on me. I could really get lost in those chestnut eyes. I was barely able to pull myself away from his almost hypnotic gaze. I laughed and shoved his shoulder.
"You dickhead, I meant the sky."
Sammy propped himself up on one elbow. "You're more beautiful than the sky."
I let out a deep groan and rolled my eyes. "Duuuuude you already got me in the sack, enough with the cheesy pick-up lines." Sammy could say the dumbest shit sometimes. I'd never admit this to him, but I kinda loved it. He wasn't afraid to tell me how he felt, after keeping it bottled up for years.
"I can't help it, I'm a romantic!"
"I don't think romantics fuck like rabbits all the damn time."
"Hey, romantics can still get horny! Besides we only fuck so much because I have to help out my boyfriend with his totally real, not-made-up, officially diagnosed medical problem."
I rolled my eyes again. Despite the fact that we were now "official" or whatever, nothing had really changed that much between Sammy and me. We still liked to rile each other up and horse around and shit. It's just that now, our horsing around usually ended up with him balls deep inside me.
Sammy snaked his hand into mine, curling his fingers tightly. His deep brown eyes felt like they were staring into my soul.
It was surreal. I've known this dude since we were in elementary school together. We've always had each other's back. All my happiest memories are with him, no exception. And all these years, I finally understood why my heart would beat faster, the funny feeling I'd get in my gut whenever I was close to him. This wasn't admiration for my best bro. It was like I had finally woken up to what everyone else had already realized.
I felt like such a dick, the way I'd treated him.
"Bro, I'm sorry," I said, Sammy turning to meet my eyes, "I was such a dick to you. Pushing you away like that. What I called you. I overreacted, I was surprised but that doesn't excuse it."
Sammy's eyes went wide. "Damn, I never thought I'd hear you apologise for shit," he replied.
"Yeah, well, I made a new friend and he got me trying out this whole 'taking personal responsibility' shit."
"Well, I guess I gotta meet this mysterious new friend and thank him personally. Just so he knows who you belong to now," Sammy said, half-jokingly.
Sammy talks a big talk, but I know he would honestly appreciate Mark being there for me.
His face suddenly got serious. "I should be the one apologizing to you, babe. I basically forced myself on you. I was so obsessed with the idea of being with you, I jumped to conclusions, misread your signals. I saw what I wanted to see. When you rejected me like that, it hurt. I was being an immature bitch. Anwar even said so."
I laughed. Sammy's brother Anwar is alway so critical of him, and I can totally see him using those exact words.
"Bro, I totally get it. You weren't misreading the signals. I just hadn't realised the signals I was sending. We both made mistakes. But we're here now, and that's what matters."
Sammy pulled me in closer to him, his face beaming.
"I'm so fucking happy, Micucci. I can't believe this. All these years, I never thought that my dream would come true."
"What dream?"
"Dude, you've had top billing in my jerk off fantasies since I started whacking it!"