Jamie Flint*
"Why... the fuck did you even keep going back to him? I mean... I mean... the guys a proper shithead!"
I couldn't help but laugh. He was spot on. Good ole Kyle was always a straight shooter.
"He had his good qualities."
He scoffed, "Like what?"
I thought over that one.
"He had an ass you could bounce a nickel off of."
Kyle nearly fell off the couch, howling the whole time.
"Seriously man, when you're on your back and he's riding you facing the other way, and you're just watching your dick go into this haven of muscle..." I moaned, a little too caught up in my memories.
"Calm down cowboy. You know, I didn't even know you were gay till he showed up." His face contorted in a way like a puppy who'd been chastised.
"I don't exactly advertise it."
He seemed satisfied with that.
"You know, back when we first started, he was actually really sweet, innocent even." He scoffed again.
"I'm serious. He always made me feel special. Like someone actually needed me... cared for me even. I don't know at what point he changed... I must've been looking somewhere else at the time."
"It's not your fauβ" He hiccupped. "Fault." He finished with a grin.
"Who knows. Whenever he came back, I always got to pretend, for a month or so, that things were like they were, you know, man?" I waved my glass in his direction. "I didn't even get that this time. It was shit the whole time."
"Alex told me how ya'll met." He blurted out.
"Figured. I can remember that day like it was yesterday. Gavin was cornered by these wanna be Billy bad asses. He was genuinely scared. All I could think was these guys are up to something, and the something is pretty cute." I laughed before taking a long pull on my glass, emptying it. Kyle immediately filled it up again. Good man.
"So I's walks up to the guys, right? And I says to them, I says, 'ya'll got a problem?' of course they said they were just having a little fun with the local fag. Bobby!" I suddenly remembered his name. "It was Bobby Landon... or Lambert... it doesn't matter. His dumb ass was the one that said that. I hit him as hard as I could. The rest of the fight, it was three on one cause Bobby was too busy rolling around on the ground holding his nose." I held my nose and yelled, "My nose! My fucking NOSE!!" I rolled around on the couch, my head in Kyle's lap.
We stayed like that laughing. He started to run his hands through my hair, sifting through it. He always said it looked like a wide, long Mohawk.
"Alex said one of them was the principal's son."
"Yeah, he was. The Dill Pickle, as I called him, was Mr. Turner's second son. Right prick."
"Why'd you call him the Dill Pickle?" He looked cute when his eyebrows drew together. Who am I kidding? He's always cute.
"Despite some character flaws, Dylan is hung like a fucking horse."
We both broke up laughing.
"Really?"
I held my hands about ten inches apart, then held my hand in a circle which I left open. I couldn't get my hand around it, and I've got big hands. Nothing like P.E. showers to help a young lad compare his worth.
"You seem real familiar with him." He looked down at me questionably.
"I've only seen it in the showers. Gavin on the other hand..."
"Really?" his eyebrows shot up.
"Blew him in the summer before this little punch up happened. You know what they say, the worst homophobes are often homos themselves. I should really look him up on Facebook, see if he ever came out." The giggles started at that.
"You're wrong." He slurred after our giggle fit had ceased.
"About what?" I was confused. I hadn't said anything he would know about.
"About people caring for you." He was looking me right in the eyes, though his were glassy. "People here care for you. You don't need his ass."
"I meant in a romantic sense you drunky." I poked the end of his nose. "Both of my friends are straight. The one guy who flirts with me was even straight." We'd already talked about the restaurant fiasco and Nathan.
"Who's your other friend?" His brows scrunched together again.
"You and Alex." I said simply. He was drunker than I thought.
"You said you have two straight friends though. Who's the other?"
Now I was confused.
"You. And. Alex." I said slowly.
"But I'm not straight." He said, again sounding as confused as I was.
"But... but... you have to be!"
"Why?"
"How did I not know this!?"