A Taste of America in London
Chapter 6
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Then I turned to the person standing just behind her.
HOLY FUCK......
IT WAS HIM! IT WAS CODY!
It felt like my entire stomach just came straight up to my throat. He looked a little surprised to see me too, and he grinned slightly.
"errr. Hi!" I said,
Eveline looked at me like I was stupid for repeating myself, and so I just waved her in. Cody patted her on the back of the head and she walked past me and I indicated that the other girls were upstairs.
I turned back, he had his hand out in front of him towards me...
"Hi, it's nice to meet you. I'm Cody!".
I put my hand out and shook his hand... Fuck... I didn't know what to say.
"What's up? Cat got your tongue?" he asked. I couldn't stop looking into his eyes - he was really fucking hot.
"Errr yeah. I mean no, sorry. I'm Craig"
"It's nice to meet you Craig".
I became all too aware that I was still holding his hand. I knew it was odd, but my brain just wouldn't tell my hand to let go. I was enjoying the warm firm grasp of his hand.
I eventually managed to convince my hand to let go of his, and he carried on talking to me, he had an American accent. I wouldn't have even tried to place where he was from in the US, but it was hot.
"Fancy seeing you here. I've seen you around school."
I eventually managed to form the words,
"Errr. Yeah. I've seen you too. Carlotta's my sister. I didn't know Eveline had a you... Oh my god, I mean had a brother!"
His eyes were glowing and as he looked at me, I knew that he could see I was nervous as hell talking to him. I never got nervous talking to anybody. Why was he having this effect on me?
"Ha ha. Yeah she has a few of us.".
At this point my dad walked around from the garage,
"Hey Mr Chalker" Cody said.
My dad turned to him and said,
"Hello Cody, nice to see you again. You dropping Eveline off?"
Hold on a fucking second. How the hell does he know my dad?
"Yeah Mr Chalker, and just chatting to Craig, here".
"Hold on a second... How do you two know each other" - I was confused.
I looked at my dad, but I could see Cody grinning at me,
"I met Cody when he picked Eveline up the other night. You were up in your room. Well are you going to invite him in, or do I have to?"
I looked back at Cody,
"Sure. Errr. You wanna come in?" I asked.
He gave me a toothy grin, and just replied,
"I was just about to head to the park actually, but thanks".
I felt really disappointed. Shit! Had I made a fool of myself? Was he trying to get away from me for being a goon?
"Oh okay".
And then he winked at me, and I damn near shat my self with nerves again.
"Fancy coming? I'm just going for a wander through the market."
I was staring at his eyes. Surely he had to think it was odd the way I was looking at him.
He coughed, and said,
"Well?"
Suddenly coming to my senses, I remembered where I was and who I was talking to.
"Errr, sure, I'd love to."
I broke out into a wide smile,
"Let me grab my jacket"
I ran back into the house, leaving the door open and went into the kitchen. I told my mum that Eveline had arrived, and that I was just heading to the park with her brother. She started to ask questions, but I had already grabbed my jacket and was off. I ran back to the door, and saw him standing there with his back to me. God he was hot.
He was about 6ft 1, lean, and athletic looking with wide shoulders which tailed to a thinner waist and then broadened out to that fantastic ass. His legs bowed slightly above his knees from his athletic bulk. He was wearing a white t-shirt, and bright red, light jacket, dark blue jeans and a pair of white Nike trainers. His dark brown hair was short, but with bit of sweep and definition to it, and his skin was flawless. His eyes, which I had spent long enough looking at now, were a rich emerald green colour.
He turned around as I walked out and I pulled the door shut behind me. He led us down the path, and then as we reached the street we started talking again, just talking about the weather (how very British of me) and crap like that. Cody did most of the talking. I was still pretty shocked to be out with him. I was out with a guy that I had been dreaming about for the last week! I was turned on just listening to his voice, I was grateful that he didn't have a whiney American voice, but instead had a bit of a drawl, and whatever his intention, he was paying ME attention.
He told me about how he had moved over here with his mum, dad, brothers and sister for his dad to do a year at a British school - of course he must be Mr Brunwicks son too, duh! Cody told me that he was from Illinois, and that he was 17, a year older than me. He explained that he liked the school and the UK so far, but that he wasn't finding it that easy to relax. He looked at me the entire time he was talking to me. Really paying attention and talking to me and not at me.
He creased his eyes at me,
"You don't talk very much do you?"
Oh bugger!,
"Sorry, I was just errrrr, enjoying listening to you.."
I looked at him and he was partly laughing, he had perfectly white teeth. I imagined they tasted like toothpaste.
"Dude! I'm joshing. To be honest it's nice having the chance to talk for a bit. The girls at St Christopher's sure do like to chat shit sometimes."
I laughed,
"Sure as shit, that's true".
"Hey, there you go buddy, you do have a voice", as he whacked me mately on the arm.
I smiled.
"Why are you so nervous? I'm not gonna pounce on you".
Damn I wish he would. Just thinking about him pouncing on me, made me blush.
He asked me about the guys he saw me around school with, and I told him about them all, and then I bought up Sim. I told him how close Sim and I were. He listened enraptured with what I was saying.
"Ahhhhh. I thought he might have been your boyfriend".
This shocked me, the smile dropped off my face. How did he know?,
"What?!? No! We are just friends! Why would you think I'm gay?"
He smiled, he smiled a lot. What was it with his smile?
"No reason, I just thought you might be."
I needed to change the subject and quickly.
"So who was the girl I saw you with the other day at school?"
He look confused....
"Eh???? Oh. Yesterday?? God, dude I haven't got a clue. I don't know who half the people in the sixth form are."
How inquisitive could I be here, without being obviou?
"Oh... I thought she might have been your girlfriend?"
He looked back at me, with one eye closed because of the sun in his face.
"I'm not hitched, dude. And if I were, it most likely wouldn't be a girl from school".
Hmmmm cryptic answers.
As we wandered through the market he told me about life back in Illinois, and his friends back there. He had been pleased to come to the UK with his family, and thought it was a really good opportunity for him to make some more friends and get more life experience. This was occasionally interspersed by him picking up trinkets and other odd things in the market.
"You fancy getting some lunch?" He asked.
"Sure sounds good. What do you fancy?"
He pointed over to a burrito stand. We walked over and as we queued he asked
"Have you had a burrito before?"
I looked him blankly in the face,
"I don't think so"
He put his arm around my shoulder - Jesus, he smelt amazing. He was wearing some kind of eau de toilette.
"Well buddy, how about you let me order for you?"
"Enjoying his arm around me,
"Sure. Why not?"
Cody ordered our lunch with the skills of a seasoned Taco Bell customer , telling the server exactly how he wanted everything- and then we wandered over to the park and sat cross legged facing each other on the grass.
He unwrapped the top of the foil off of his burrito and holding it in one hand bit into it, closed his eyes and chewed.
"Oh my, this tastes damn good. Not as good as at home, but close enough".
I unwrapped mine and bit into it. Not being quite as smooth as Cody, I managed to spill a fair amount of it down my chin. It tasted amazing - and then the chillis hit. Fuck that was hot. It was like my mouth was on fire. And then the sour cream negated the heat and refreshed the taste all over again.
"Well?"
I looked over to him,
"Well, what?
"What do you think? Do you like it?" he asked.
"I smiled.
"Actually, yeah I think I do."
He winked at me,
"So I took your Mexican cherry!".
"Ha!!! I guess you did".
He finished his burrito before I was even halfway through mine, and with his legs still crossed he fell back, with his back on the grass. His t-shirt rode up and I could see from where I was sitting, straight up his t shirt. His skin was smooth and tanned, and he had a light line of fuzz running down from his belly button between the button of his jeans. I hadn't realized that whilst staring, I had stopped chewing. Not only that, I had gotten as hard as a rock in my jeans, from staring at this god's treasure trail.
"Hey!!! Eyes up here Mr!"
I suddenly blushed, and looked straight up to his face, where he was indicated his face with two fingers.
"Man,.. Cody... Im sorry I was just day dreaming!"
"He laughed,
"You look where ever you want matey, I'm more concerned with that Burrito. You gonna finish it?"
I looked down and realizing I had been caught staring at this guy, I completely lost my appetite... and my hard on.
"errr.. No. I think I've had enough".
"Even better. Pass it over. I'm starving."
I passed him it and raising onto one elbow he managed to completely finish the remainder of it in two bites. He then laid back down on the grass. He patted the grass next to him.
"Lets chill here, Craig. It's too hot to wander the market. Make the most of the sun".
I followed his direction and laid next to him with about a metre between us. He had his hands behind his head and I was leaning on my elbows.
He was looking directly at my face, and suddenly he got up on one elbow, leaned towards me. I froze as he placed on hand around my jawline and proceeded to slowly run his thumb over the base of my chin. I think I even closed my eyes, feeling something amazing was about to happen.
"You've got salsa everywhere dude".
He pulled his hand away and proceeded to nonchalantly suck the salsa off of his thumb, winking as he did.
My hard on was back. I thought he was about to kiss me. Who was I kidding?. His touch was so firm, but gentle. The skin on his hand was smooth.
After a few minutes, he started the conversation again and started talking about movies and music, theatre and sport. We liked different things, but strangely enough there was a fair share of likes that we shared. The main one being books. I am an avid reader. I love reading and can easily escape in a good story. Turns out so could he. I told him that I had just finished reading a book called 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'. He said he hadn't heard of it, and I offered to lend it to him. He said he'd be really like that.
After about an hour of sitting around, he sat up and as he started to stand and stretch, said,
"Come on Craig, we've been out most of the day. It's time for me to be heading back. I have stuff to do this afternoon with my brother".
I reluctantly began to stand. I didn't want this day to end. I was really enjoying spending some time with Cody. I had been thinking about him since I first saw him, but actually he was really down to earth and we seemed to be getting on so well. Plus, I wasn't oblivious, he was flirting with me. I couldn't tell if that was because he was just teasing because he thought I was gay, or if he was generally just very flirtatious, but I wanted more of it and him.
We wandered back through the market and through the park. I seemed to finally find my voice and nothing could stop me talking now. He found this hilarious and commented on me coming out of my shell. We talked about what made us laugh, The Simpsons, Anchorman etc, and just basically learnt a bit about each other. I'm not sure I entirely took in everything he said, because I was still day dreaming about his voice and his treasure trail, but he seemed to be enjoying spending time with me.
As we approached my street and got near my house, I asked him if he wanted to borrow the book we had been talking about.
"Sure, I'd appreciate that", he said.
I unlocked the door and invited him into the house. I told him to follow me and I led him upstairs to my bedroom -as I did, trying to recall if I had left anything incriminating around, like dirty underwear.
The floor was clear though and as he walked into my room he said"
"Cool room, Craig, looks very cosy... And a big bed..."
As he threw himself on top of my duvet, I decided I may never wash it again.
I went to the bookcase and searched for the book we had been talking about. I grabbed it and I swung back around to pass it to him.
"Thanks Dude. I hope it's as good as you said it is..."
"It definitely is. It's great.".
He began to sit up on my bed,
"Dude, I've really enjoyed spending the morning with you. We should hang out again?"
I was gobsmacked. Not only did he enjoy hanging with me, but he wanted more.
"Yeah, I'd really like that".
"Do you have a cell phone?"
I took it out of my pocket and he reached for it...
"Let me put my number in there. Give me a call or text some time and we can hang out..."
"That'd be great, I'd like that.".
as I said this he looked up and smiled his toothy smile at me. Fuck, he made my stomach spin. He was so good looking.
He finished tapping into my phone, and as he passed it back to me, I heard his phone beep in his pocket.
"I text myself so I have your number too. I hope that's okay?".
For some reason this made me blush,
"Cool!."
He stood up ,
"I should go. I promised my brother I would hang with him this afternoon. He's not great when it comes to meeting people and so he hasn't really got any pals here yet."
"Oh right. That's a shame, but hopefully he will soon. It's nice of you to spend time with him."
"He's an amazing kid. He really makes me laugh."
"Well I hope I get to meet him some time."
"Oh man, you definitely will. He likes cool people."
"Ha. That's the first time I think I have ever been called cool".
Cody put his hand on my shoulder and had a serious look on his face,
"Don't be so hard on yourself. Not many guys would be willing to give the new boy in school a chance."
I shrugged,
"Well.."
I took him downstairs and to the door, and opened it. As he walked out he patted me on the shoulder.
"Cheers, Craig. Speak to you soon. Text me."
With that he gave me a wink and then turned around and walked down the path. I watched him walk not only down the path, but until he was out of sight.
Oh my God! What the hell was today about? I'm besotted with him.
How long until I can text him?????