The Story - Part 2

Ok guys. Whoever is reading this. Not sure if it's many or any, but anyone who is, thankyou. This is part 2 of "The Story". You may notice that the characters have names now. It was getting a little too difficult without them. So please enjoy Part 2.

The Story Part 2

Everything was leading up to that Tuesday night at basketball. The boy, let’s call him “Arr”, was freaking out. In a good way. Basketball night was “the” night. He was going to ask the girl, we’ll call her “Jay”, to be his girlfriend. It was a big deal for a 17 year old kid who had had some girlfriends in the past, but nothing overly serious. It was also a really big deal, because in his mind it would finally put to bed the rumours that he was gay. He would show them all that he was straight. He liked Jay and he knew she liked him and nobody could stop him from asking her. Well, except maybe for Arr himself. As the hours ticked by and the time for basketball got closer and closer, Arr started to worry. 

What is she doesn’t actually like me?

What if she says no?

What is she is just pretending to like me so she can say no and make me look stupid?

What if I’m not good enough?

What if I’m too ugly?

And so on. He had driven himself into a frenzy of nerves, negative thoughts and stress by the time he got to the basketball stadium. He found his friends. The best friend “Merc”, the friend who he stayed with after basketball, “Em” and his other great and close friend “Dee”. The four of the played basketball together, however they were on separate teams, so there was a good friendly rivalry. Em, Dee and Merc all knew what Arr’s intentions were for the evening and gently teased him about it.

“woo gonna ask Jay out hey?”

“Better hope she says yes!”

“Gonna fuck her tonight?”

“Fucken hell Em! Calm down. I haven’t even kissed her yet”

“Yeah but if you don’t fuck her you’re a huge pussy”

“whatever man. she has to say yes to going out with me first. Then we’ll see what happens from there”

The time spent with the boys before the game hadn’t helped to calm his nerves at all. Neither had the cigarettes they sneakily shared behind the stadium as their pre-match warm up. Arr was just heading into the stadium when he saw Jay approaching. She was with her two friends from school.  He though she looked really hot that night and he thought that she might have even put in a little extra effort to look good for him. 

“Maybe she had heard he was going to ask her out and wanted me to!”, he thought.

He decided to stay outside for a bit longer and went back and sat with his mates. They had been listening to a song earlier that he thought was funny and appropriate so he started humming it gently to try and see if his mates would start singing it. Then he could join in and it wouldn’t look suspicious. His silly plan had worked and soon Arr and his three mates were sitting around, within ear shot of Jay, singing “Girlfriend” by *NSYNC*. He could see Jay smiling and laughing so was confident his plan was working. He also fancied himself somewhat of a singer so he thought that he was turning the charm all the way up to 11.

It was finally time for basketball. He went inside the stadium and played the game. It was all a blur. He tried his hardest to score points and look cool while playing all in an effort to impress Jay. In the end the game was over and the scored didn’t even matter. After the games were finished each week, everyone would grab a ball and just start shooting baskets, hanging out and talking before they had to go home. Now was his chance. He started to walk towards Jay to ask her the big question when he was stopped by one of his sort of mates from school. He was the guy that everyone was kind of friends with, everyone knew him and he enjoyed the infamy. He stopped Arr in his tracks.

“well are you gonna ask her or what man?”

“yeah im just going to do it right now”

“Bullshit, you’re pussying out, I’ll do it for you”

“No man, I want to do it myself, just leave it”

But it was too late, he was already on his way over to Jay to ask for Arr. This couldn’t be happening, Arr thought. He wanted to do it himself, to make a good starting impression and to start off this relationship right. He had to stop…

“Hey Jay. Wanna go out with Arr?”

“Of course I do, but he should ask me”

Oh god, though Arr. Its ruined now. But Jay was still looking at him and smiling. He was standing right in front of her now and a small crowd had gathered. It’s now or never, he thought.

“Jay, um, do you maybe, um want to, um go out with, um me?”

“Yes of course I do. I’ve been waiting for you to ask for ages”, she replied.

Arr thought his heart my smash out of his chest and explode like a grenade on the floor. He was so happy and it looked like Jay was too, judging be her expression.

“You better kiss her dude” someone said in the small crowd

“I will! Fuck. Talk about pressure”

Arr and Jay left the basketball stadium hand in hand. They were like the pied piper, with a stream of adolescents following, gaggling excitedly about the newest couple. The ride for Arr and Em was waiting outside so if Arr didn’t act fast he was going to have to wait for the first kiss.

He turned to Jay and kissed her. It should have been a magical, special and amazing moment except, they rushed it.

They bashed teeth together slightly, it was a bit too sloppy and was a little awkward with an audience.

“OH GOD!” thought Arr, if I ruined this first kiss, we are doomed.

Jay turned to him and kissed him on the lips, a nice quick closed mouth kiss. And the balance was restored. He was floating again. He hugged her and said goodbye. He told her he’d see her at school tomorrow and jumped in the car with Em.

Later on, when going to bed at Em’s place he was still buzzing. 

“Oh man. I can’t believe she said yes! It’s the best”

“It was my singing that got her man” said Em.

“HAHA fuck off. Whatever dude” said Arr and he slid into the double bed ready for sleep.

Em got in the other side. When Arr stayed at Em’s place they shared a double bed cause there was no other bedding. They didn’t think it was “gay”. They were just sleeping next to each other and thought nothing more of it.

Just as Arr was about to fall asleep Em rolled over and said

“you do realise that you could be sleeping in a bed with your new girlfriend Jay right now. But instead you’re sharing a bed with a dude?”

Arr rolled over pulled the covers up and sighed.

“Fuck you man”.