The next day, instead of thinking of his awkward relationship with Cloud, Cole was more focus on getting Mattew to see that he wasn't gay and the only way to do that was to treat Sid right.

     As he slid an arm around her waist, his tongue glided against her. She tasted like pancakes and strawberry. Probably what she ate and the taste of her lip gloss. Sid's arm was wrapped around his neck and the other one was gripping at his hair.

If this was some dude, he would have been hundred and one percent into it but since she's not, he was giving her the lead.

"Get a room you two." Someone shouted and Cole knew it was Marcus.

He pulled away almost immediately and could make out the hint of lust in Sid's eyes. Her hair was messy due to Cole running his hand through it and her breathing was heavy.

She smiled at him as she ran a hand softly through his hair. "When was the last we made out hm?"

"Sorry, I haven't been the boyfriend you've always wanted." He whispered nuzzling her ear.

She laughed then pulled him in for a soft kiss on the lip and with a wink she walked off.

"It's been long since I saw you giving out PDA. What's gotten into you?" Marcus said ruffling his hair in the process.

Tapping his hand away, Cole glared at him. "Just felt like."

"Thought you were gonna break up with her?" Mattew asked with a glare and that made Cole smile.

"We talked yesterday and it was epic so I thought I give her a chance." He lied swiftly. They had talked but it wasn't exactly epic. It consisted of the normally complaining and blah blah.

"Did he?" Mattew asked his twin.

"Ya, although it was mostly made of groans." He shrugged.

"Okay. Well, we will see next period. Marcus let's go." He said then pulled his brother away.

Cole smiled after their disappearing figure but he knew that was not enough to fool Mattew. Mattew was smart and that, he was sure of. Trying to fool some one that wanted to win Valedictorian could take a while but he was ready for it. He got his books out then headed to his class.

     As usual, class went the same way. The teachers annoyed him, gave him stupid homework and made him answer questions. The only time he enjoyed class was when he had class with the twins and surprisingly, Dustin.

They had to sit together for History since Cloud missed the class. Cole didn't want to think the main reason Cloud didn't come to class was because of him so he focused on Dustin.

He found out Dustin had a thing for history because it was like he knew everything and that included The WWI and WWII, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bernini, and the civil war. There were more and Cole was completely intrigue by his sudden intelligence.

     It was lunch now so Cole quickly took his lunch tray and left to his man cave. Firstly to run away from Mattew and his watchful eyes and Sid and her extremely horny body.

On getting there, he stopped by the door, finally realizing he might also see someone he had tried to avoid throughout the day. Yesterday's uh meeting with Cloud had led to some awkward leaking of his sexuality but the good part was Cloud also had secrets of his own. He grinned, he might make a leverage out of that.

Cole opened the door to see the most and he meant it, most beautiful sight ever. Cloud was lying on the couch reading a novel but even though that was odd that wasn't what he was calling beautiful.

He was lying there shirtless. His muscles flex every once in a while, his abs and oh god that chest. They were so...they were calling to him. Don't blame him, he's got a chest fetish.

Cloud's muscles tensed when he saw Cole walking up to him with his lunch in hand. Sitting up, he flashed him a blank stare. "I thought you would hang with your friends today."

He collapsed on the couch, not before dropping his tray of food on the stool. "Why is that?"

"I don't know. Thought you only run here to get away from your twisted girlfriends."

"I do." He nodded as he bit into his cheesecake.

"But I saw you and Sid today. You don't seem to be trying to push her away."

Cole paused mid bite. "Have you been stalking me?" he blurted like the idiot he was.

He rose a brow at him but said nothing as he laid down back on the couch. With the novel placed on his hundred and two percent attractive chest, he stared up at the ceiling.

Wonderful, just extremely wonderful.

They were having a nice conversation and he just have to be stupid and say that. But he was Cole. Talking was a part of him, just the way being smart was for Mattew and being oblivious was Marcus.

When he was done eating he strolled over to his personally made book shelf and frowned at his collection as he took out Isle of the dead. He was done with all the books there except the one he held in his hand and now to refill his library he had to do odd jobs since the Lumberg twins were stingy asses.

Walking back to the couch, he caught Cloud watching him but he said nothing about it as he sat back down and opened to the page he bookmarked then continued reading. It took him a while but he finally got to the end. "Seriously?" he fumed. "The gay guy suffers a heart attack?"

"You read gay books?"

Cole blinked. He had totally forgotten Cloud was still awake. "Uh," he shifted awkwardly, "No. it just turns out that this book had gay people."

"How many?" he asked sitting up.

"Two." He said as he dropped the book on another stool.

"How did they end up?"

"Dead. The woman got skinned and the man died of heart attack because his cause of fame sank in the Atlantic." He sulked.

He whistled then grinned, "So, that went well."

"Haven't seen anything better."

They fell silent for a while until Cloud threw the book at him and said, "I got that for you."

He caught it then stared at it. It was a book by Peter James, Looking Good Dead. He turned the back and read the story information. It was a thriller book and had cost him nine dollars ninety nine cent. He blushed then bit his lips to stop himself from saying something stupid.

He ignored the butterflies that were fluttering wildly and thought of something not over dramatic to say. "How did you know I read thriller?"

"I have seen the books you have read." He shrugged. "Do you like it?"

"Like it? Jesus Christ, I love it. I love Peter James and James Patterson a lot. Thanks." He smiled at him.

"That's good to know." He ran a hand through his hair coolly then laid his head on his lap.

"So, does this mean we are cool after yesterday's awkward display of affection?"

Cloud froze on his lap and in just one second he was up and glaring at Cole. Sadly, Cole didn't even notice it because he was staring at his chest. Bloody hot chest. "What do you mean 'awkward display of affection'?"

"You were uh" he managed to tear his eyes from that addictive chest to those addictive grey eyes, "acting weird."

His forehead furrowed as he looked away trying to remember but from Cloud's sudden widened eyes Cole knew he just did. "You are gay?" he asked looking back at him.

Cole's jaw dropped. "Come on, is that like the only thing you remember?"

When Cloud didn't answer and just stared at him like he had grown a pair of horns, Cole started to panic. Was what happened yesterday just because he was drunk? He doesn't really like gay people? Oh my...did he just loose his chance to get laid by his crush yesterday? He steadied his breathing then stood just as the bell went. "We will see later, I guess."

He didn't even wait for a reply before he practically ran out of the room. Nice going Cole, you just told your bully/crush that you were gay. Nice going.

Cole spent the day thanking God because Cloud was nowhere to be found. He talked to Sid more but from the way Mattew kept grinning at him meant he wasn't buying it. And that was bad because Mattew's deadline was that night.

     Pouting when he got a detention for being late to his last class, he took a seat at the back of the class and spent the last forty-five minutes thinking of how he was going to get home after his one hour of torture.

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Cole: I am sorry to inform you but my darling Fiona fell sick yesterday so updates will be slow. Bear with us dolls.