^^This is my Jared^^....

"Come on I want to kick your ass in a race!" I begged him. We stood just outside of the school gates and Will just stood there with his arms wrapped around a tree all because he didn't want to lose another race.

"Nope, I do not want to race." He said closing his eyes tightly.

"Too bad." I took off running in the direction of his house. I did this almost every time. I ran down the street with his pattering feet hitting the pavement not too far behind me. 

"please. slow. down." He called out to me as we rounded the street corner. 

"Ha! Funny..." I ran faster and as soon as we reached his yard I fell on the grass laughing and out of breath. He jumped on me and tickled me before I pushed him off. 

"You bastard...Just for that I am going to whoop your puny butt in MK." In all realities he was so much better at me in every video game for two possible reasons. 1) I wasn't coordinated 2) The Video game gods just don't like me...

"I have no doubt about it asshat..." He pulled out his house key, unlocked the door and we trudged up the stairs before plopping into his beanbags surrounding his T.V and gaming systems. We popped in the games and got settled.   

"Okay, 4 games whoever loses has to get a mouthful of ketchup." He said. I shot him a look. He knew I hated ketchup.

"Fine." I groaned selecting Yoshi as my avatar. We started the game and I quickly fell back into 12th place.

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"Hurrah!" He said as he crossed the finish line for the 4th time while I was still in last. I let out a strangled howl. We were quickly taken to the awarding ceremony and a golden cup landed in Mario's hands.

"Uggh." I groaned as he stopped the game and pulled me out of my chair. "Crap." My body hung loosely and I scrambled to climb up and get out of his grasp as he pulled my body down the stairs. "William Norris! I command you to let me out of your hold now!"  I yelled at the top of my lungs. He let go of me and my legs thumped on the stairs. I followed him into the kitchen to see him with the bottle of ketchup in hand. 

"Open up buttercup." He said in a singsong voice.I clamped my mouth shut tighter and shook my head.  "Come on Jarry..." I shook my head again. "Fine, Only if you promise to come tonight." I contemplated...eh what the heck.

"Fine." I stated matter of factly. "Now put away the damn bottle." I pointed at the cabinet. He reached for it and then turned away quickly in my direction and prying my mouth open. He squirted a mouthful in my mouth before I could protest. I shivered in disgust at the red death that filled my mouth. 

"Swallllooow..." He sang with a content look on his face. I slowly swallowed the red paste trying to ignore the disgusting taste.

"There. Does that do it for ya'?" I yelled lifting my hands in surrender. 

"Oh. My. God! Your. Face. That. Was. Priceless."

"I'll bet it was Major Tom..." I said quickly, running to the sink and washing my mouth out and drying my tongue with the dish towel.

"Major Tom? What the hell?" 

"I don't know." 

He looked at me strange. "Like what you see buddy?" I said running my hands down my body jokingly. 

"I've got a girlfriend my dear." He said flushing red. I ran back over to him and slapped his cheek playfully. He slapped me right back. "You still coming to the dance?"

"Not after what you just pulled." I said shaking my finger.

"You should, there will be tons of cute girls in pretty dresses."

"I think you forget that that's not really my area." I said laughing. 

"You should still come."

"What's in it for me?" I said quietly and suspicious like. He laughed that deep hearty laugh that made me want to wrap him up in a kiss right there.

"You could spend the night and in the morning we could drive up to Big Sur." I thought. 

"Okay. Deal." He stuck out his hand and we shook. I looked at the watch on my wrist. 4:30. "I should probably go get ready. One thing that was true about the gay stereotype; it took me for-freaking-ever to get ready.

"Okay dude, Be here at 7; Maisie is coming at 7:30." 

"Capesh Compadre." I turned and left the house running all the way back to the place I called home.

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Hello My Darlings!

Question for you...Do you like shorter or longer chapters? Chapter one was pretty frickin' long and this one was less than 1000 words, so decide and let me know.

Chapter Twooooooo! Please comment, you make me happy so comment.

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DFTBA!

~Trixxiee