This is a work of fictional love between two males. Usual rules apply. Not to be distributed elsewhere.
My name is Simon and I live in the south of the UK, I'm 19 years of age and thought about giving writing a go. I hope you enjoy.
Beautiful Human Being
Chapter 1
He was only 17. He was a good boy when he was at school, but this also led to him being walked over by the other students. He's always honest, couldn't stand lying, not even to strangers. He doesn't stand out much, no one really noticed him. Not being the tallest person in the school at 5' 6", nor over weight for his height and age, he just blended into the background very easily. He's not pale but he's not tanned either, his skin would remain the same color every season of the year. He had very dark brown hair that wasn't long but covered his ears and forehead. His eyes were a stunning true blue and would definitely catch your attention if you made eye contact with him. His name is James.
It's early December and James was out shopping at the counties largest shopping center, buying Christmas presents for his family with money earned from a weekend job at his local food store. He was queuing in an electrical store, buying an MP3 player from his sister.
After he brought it, he turned round to make his way out the store, but just as he turned round he made eye contact with the most beautiful person he had ever seen in his life.
Time seemed to stand still as James stared at the boy who was stood behind him. The boy had jet black hair, a little longer than James'. He was slightly taller too and dressed in black. He had pale smooth skin, dark brown eyes and a innocent look to him.
Even though James felt as if time stood still while he stared at the boy, time continued to tick away. After staring at the boy for about 3 seconds, the boy's innocent look turn to an almost angry glare as he snapped, "What you staring at!?".
James broke the stare, feeling slightly embarrassed and shy. He didn't want to walk away with no response nor did he want to lie. James just replied with "A beautiful human being." and walked away looking as if he was going to burst into tears with his head bowed.
The boy was shocked with the response from James and didn't know how to react. He thought for a moment, then dropped his basket of items he was queuing to buy and ran out the store after James. He stepped outside the door, stopped and looked round for James. Being this close to Christmas, the shopping center was the busiest it had ever been. The boy stood on top of a bench near by and looked around for James. He saw him about 10 meters away, got down off the bench and started to push through the crowds.
The boy got close, grabbed James' hand. James turned round shocked to see it was the beautiful boy. The boy looked at him with a small and almost shouted in the crowded, noisy place, "Come with me!". With that, the boy pulled James' hand and James followed through the crowd to a door. They got out side and the door shut behind them. The boy continued to pull James a little more down the path, then he stopped, let go, turned to James. They both stood there awkwardly for a few seconds. James tried to put on a small smile and said jokingly, "Was it something I said?"
"Yes!" the boy replied immediately. "Say what you said in the store again."
"I don't want to."
"Yes you do. What was it you called me?"
"It wasn't anything bad. I don't want to say it again."
"Did you, or did you not call me a beautiful human being?"
James stood there, keeping himself quite.
"Well!" the boy snapped at James again. James showed a subtle scared look and the boy calmed. "Sorry, I... I didn't mean to shout at you. It's just I've never had anyone say anything nice to me. People usually just give me dirty looks or shout abuse at me."
"I've never had anyone shout abuse at me, but at school no one seems to respect me." James said looking down at his feet, feeling slightly uncomfortable opening up to the unknown boy.
The boy reached out his right arm with an open hand as he said, "I'm Dan."
James looked up at the boy, looked into his big brown eyes, reached out and grabbed his hand and said, "I'm James."
They shook hands and soon let go.
Dan looked at the time on his phone, "Look, I've got a load of shopping to do today", he said. "What you doing tomorrow? I mean, if you want to, did you want to grab a coffee or something? I don't mind, your choice if you want to meet up again."
James just continued to look at him as a smile a smile showed on his face, "Sure, say around one o'clock?"
A smile soon showed on Dan's face, "Yeah that'll be cool." he said in his most relaxed tone of voice yet.
They said their goodbyes and went their separate ways, James carried on down the path as he had finished his shopping, and Dan went back through the door into the shopping center to continue his shopping.
James was happy for the rest of the day and excited about the following day. He may actually have a friend, or someone who could be more than just a friend.
What did you think so far?
Please let me know, or even better, give me ideas. If I get no response then there will be no more chapters.
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