Disclaimer: This story is completely fictional. None of the names in the story are real people, at least ones that this author knows. This is gay fiction about high school romance, therefore if you are UNDER 18, GET OUT, it is illegal for you to view this AND YOU KNOW THAT.
Author's Note: This is my first time ever writing a story like this, and all comments are welcomed. Even criticism, I'm a new writer who is still learning, so, don't kill me with it, but some is okay. Enjoy Sophomoric Blues! E-mail me @ Punkincognito313@AOL.com
Same as Last Time, what can I say, I'm not that original I guess.
P.S. For all of you looking for porn written out, wait a while, I write stories not scripts for Falcon! The sex will come (pun not intended there :P), but wait, the story has to evolve to that point first.
"Sophomoric Blues" CHAPTER 3
"Tommy say something. Please, just please say anything!"
"I don't know what to say Alex really."
"You're straight aren't you. Damn it, I knew you were. Why did I ever let Shruthi into talking me into do this! I just made up with a best friend in a day, and I'm going to loose him. Oh this frigging sucks. Tommy, I am so sorry. It's just that ever since forever"
"Alex, you're gunna miss the exit, c'mon Highway 6 is right up there!"
"Oh, ok, you want me to take you home, or do you still want to go to Westoaks?"
"No! Just drive me home!"
"What subdivision do you live in I forgot."
"Thornwood, it's off of Memorial Drive past Fleetwood and Barkers Landing, listen just drop me off at Maurice Wolfe Elementary School, I'll walk from there. Okay?"
"Tommy, please, I'm sorry. Can't we talk?"
"Talk about what, that the one friend I have who is a guy is either a flamer or posing to be one to ruin my reputation. All you asshole football players are the same."
"Oh for God sakes Tommy, you are a stupid fucking idiot you know something? I thought you were smart, but you are just a moron."
"Drop me off here at Wolfe!"
"Not at all, I'm taking you home!"
"Let me out of the car, I don't want you to see where I live!"
"What? Tommy, can we still be friends. I promise in a strictly platonic way!"
"Oh my God you are for real aren't you? You aren't playing a sick prank or joke on me. Alex you're, you're really gay? You?"
"Yes! Do you honestly think my football friends are smart enough to come up with something that evil?"
"You're gay!"
"Yes Tom, I am gay, I've said this." At this point I had turned on Memorial Drive and we were headed far into Houston, we were going to pass Thornwood in a little bit, I don't think Tommy realized this, I didn't.
"You're gay!"
"Thank you Captain Obvious!"
"You're gay!"
"Tommy say something really, stop saying you're gay. I know I'm gay, I lo...l...like you remember? Are you okay with this?"
"You're gay!"
"STOP IT TOMMY!"
"You're... " Tommy couldn't finish. He had his arm resting on the console, and I gently grabbed it. As soon as I did, he took it right back in a hurry. This was exactly what I had dreaded. Tommy hates me now.
"I'm sorry Tommy, I thought you were seriously gay, a boy told me that you might be and he wasn't making fun of you."
"Who said that?"
"Ronald."
"I told him I wasn't over and over again. Why won't you fags leave me alone?" This statement killed me, the sweetest boy I ever met, the nicest, now all of a sudden was pretty ugly inside, I didn't like Tommy at all now. I hate him, I mean; he's so effeminate he fits the gay mold. Everybody thinks he is, he has had gay friends in the past, but now one who was really close to him, he rejected. And, not to mention this afternoon how nice he was. We even browsed over the topic of gay a little, but he wasn't like he was just now then. What is wrong with him? Well forget about him.
"I hate you Tommy."
"Who the fuck cares?"
"Get out!" I pulled over to the side of the road. It was then I realized how far we were from his house, I had taken Memorial Dr. all the way into the Memorial are of Houston, we were some place by Chimney Rock Rd. I don't care, for all I care Thomas Cleason could go fuck himself and get arrested for indecent exposure. Thomas was dead to me now.
"Alex, we're like eight miles from my house, you don't just offer a person a ride home and then drop them off in the middle of nowhere."
"I think under the circumstances, it is understandable if I loose all my moral judgment towards you. Listen, tomorrow, I'm switching lab partners in Chemistry, and don't you dare sit near in Choir or in English, you are dead to me. Get out of my truck now, and never address me in school or in life again!" He got out of the car, I drove up Memorial to the inner-loop, and then got back on the Katy Freeway, as I headed home, I broke into hysterics. I knew this was going to happen, why did I let Shruthi talk me into getting close to Thomas again? Why was he like that? What happened to Thomas, he was never like that. I remember when we were friends, and he had some gay friends. Who was that person who was just sitting next to me? Jeez, if he had turned like that, I've got to get him back, but I really shouldn't do anything out of vengeance. I needed to talk to somebody, not somebody who was straight; I needed a gay man to talk to. I don't know any gay men, but I do know Ronnie. I decided to go over his house, when I finally got there, I took the Barker Cypress exit off the Katy Freeway, and went down to Windsor Park Lakes where Ronnie lives. I stopped at the gates, and called him up.
"Hullo?"
"Hey Ronnie, this is Alex from group, I wanted to come over, could I?"
"Sure, hey Alex are you okay, you sound a little shook up."
"Not really, hey what's the code for the gates?"
"Oh umm which one are you at, the North or South gate?"
"I think I'm at the North one."
"Oh, ok, #2456."
"See you it a bit Alex, you know how to get over here, I'm the big house on the right side of the bulb of my cul-de-sac, Waterside Cove."
"Okay, I'll be right over."
When I got to his house, Ronnie was outside his garage doors waving. I couldn't help it, I was emotionally beat, I was crying, when I pulled up onto his driveway, he could tell cause he came right over to me.
"Oh my God Alex, what happened sweetie?"
"Long story, can I spend the night over, I don't want to go back home."
"Alex, it's your first day back from school, your parents are going to want to see you, but you can stay till whenever, just call your parents before. My parents are cool, they don't care if you're gay or not, obviously, if so, I'd be kicked out!" Ronnie winked at me. He was clearly gay, but I think because he is adopted, his parents are really cool with him.
"Ronald, who is this young gentleman who will be staying for dinner I suppose?"
"My name is Alex ma'am. Alex Parker, I think I'm staying for dinner."
"Sweetheart, call me Ms. Lynda or Mom. So, Ronnie, you never mentioned Alex before, who are you?" Mom said it in such a kind way though.
"He's a junior from group. He was also Anthony in Sweeney Todd last year during the musical." Ronnie answered.
"Are you two an item?"
"What? No, Mom, we're just friends. At least that's what I think." I winked at Ronnie, and he slapped me.
"Okay, I'll let you two do whatever, dinner will probably be in twenty minutes okay? Oh, Alex, you should call your parents if you already haven't told them."
"I will"
"C'mon, follow me Alex." I followed Ronnie up their spiral staircase to his room. It was surprisingly like any other teenage boy. Except, I knew why he had all those soccer posters, he wasn't a real fan of the game, hehe. The room is really nice, it has a bed, couch, desk, a chair, computer, tv, and it also has this amazing bay window with a window seat looking over the lake from his backyard. I chose to sit in the window seat.
"So Alex, what's up? You looked like shit when you pulled up in your truck, granted the best shitty Alex look ever, you look great!"
"I did, what I tried so hard not to do last year Ronnie. I know we discussed that staying away from Tommy would be best for me in group, but I couldn't." I ignored Ronnie's compliment I wanted advice not gawking.
"Alex, you were doing so good, I thought you were over him! I'm surprised you haven't found anybody this summer. How did this all start? I mean you two were ignoring each other, even he was. By the way, call your parents."
"Fine Ronnie, you're such a mother!" In stereotypical Alex fashion I stuck my tongue out at him, even when I'm feeling down and on the verge of tears, I try to stay comical and happy, I hate being sad, so most of the time I ignore things. I called my Mom.
"Hey sweetie, where are you? How was your first day back?"
"It was ok I guess, listen I'm at a friend's house right now, I'm staying for dinner and then I'll be back."
"Alex, it's a school night, don't stay out, start this year off good. Be back by 8:30. Do you have any homework?"
"Yeah, I just have to read a few chapters in chemistry and some problems in calculus that I did before football practice." My mom and I used to be close, now I hate talking to her on the phone at least, we've grown far apart, and talking to her annoys me now. Ronnie started to laugh at this point because I started making gabbing movements with my hand. Mom shut up already!
"Alright, get it done, is there anything you need me to pick up for you at Wal-Mart like supplies or anything because I know you can't go now that you're over, who's house?"
"I'm over Ronnie's house, and yes I need you to pick up some colored pencils and a new TI-84, my old one is getting kind of beat up, the other stuff I was able to buy the other day when we stopped by and I picked up a supply list from the school."
"Okay then, so Alex, who's Ronnie, where do you know him from?" My, my, my, isn't she inquisitive today.
"Th...ootball."
"Oh, okay, hey how was football practice. Did they keep you on the defensive line now, or did they move you. Your body type has changed a lot since last season, as I'm sure they've noted and were proud of. Alley, we are all proud of you." I love you Mom, but I'm here to talk to Ronnie, not you!
"Yes, yes, yes, I'm a running back now, hey Mom I've got to go, we're about to have dinner. I love you. See you later!"
"Okay honey, talk to you in a bit. I love you."
"I love you too Mom, bye"
"Bye" Click.
"You should be nicer to your mother Alex, and now I'm on the football team? What afraid to tell your parents that your with somebody from theater, th...ootball. That was classic!" I threw a pillow at Ronnie, and then began to start off on how I got temporarily close to Tommy again.
"So, I get into school today, and Tommy is in my new homeroom. He sits right next to me. I was pissed, so I left him hanging while he was talking and went over to my friend Shruthi. When we were going to our locker, it ends up that I get the one under his. He made this big shpeal about how much of an asshole I can be, not talking to him for so long, and how I having popularity doesn't mean I can just dump him as a friend or something like that. My friend Shruthi was all like, why can't you defend yourself to him. She's the captain of competition cheerleading; you know which crowd of mine she hangs with. So I realized I had to tell Shruthi about me, I can trust her, but I can't trust her advice. After I told her about my past with Tommy and about me being gay, she says I should go and reconcile things with him. She said that she thought he had feelings for me, and that I was being selfish to ignore him and hurt me. Then I let her into talking me into telling Tommy about me and my feelings for him, and I did. Mr. I have no butchness in my body, all my friends are girls, and the only guy friends I have are gay, turns out to be a homophobe asshole! He wants to know why us fags won't leave him alone. He is utterly disgusted about me, and I dropped him off someplace in Memorial miles from his house cause I kicked him out of the car. He is once my best friend, somebody I thought I would really know. He always seemed so kind, so sweet, and now he's just a real jerk Ronnie, I never knew this ugly side of him. I hate it, and worst off, is that he's my lab partner in science again, and he sits next to me in classes. I told him he was dead to me, and he flipped me the finger. God Ronnie, I hate him, I hate the real Tommy, what happened to the kid I once knew. The one I loved, the one who bought you a Christmas present last year, you Mr. Open to everybody. I don't know what to do Ronnie, all I can do now is cry!" I poured my soul out to Ronnie. While I was going on and on, he had come over to the window seat, and sat in back of me, he held me in his arms; I just brought my head back into his shoulders and cried. Ronnie knows what I'm going through, he's been there. When he was a freshman, he told three of his supposed really good friends who were girls that he was gay, and then the next day at school, he had been outed to all of J. E. Taylor High School. He lost almost all his friends his first week of high school.
"Alex, there is nothing really you can do, I mean you tried talking to him, but that failed. What you can only do now is cry until you can't cry anymore. It's also good when you have friends to talk to, and that is where I stand Alex. If you ever need something, you can come to me, there really isn't anything you're going through now, yet, that I haven't gone through. What we could do, to heighten your spirits is take you out. What are you doing Friday night?"
"I have a football game against Mayde Creek High School."
"Saturday, during the day, where are you?"
"Cypress-Katy-Sugarland Regional Choir auditions."
"Oy, how about Saturday night?"
"With you!"
"Perfect! My friend Logan who goes to U Houston is having a, I suppose, you could call it a gay party! This is exactly what you need, to be around other gays looking for dates. It's going to be at his friend's townhouse in the Montrose. Have you ever heard of the Montrose?"
"No, not really, isn't that a neighborhood near Jillians?"
"Yes, Alex, it's Houston's gaybourhood!"
"Serious?"
"Yup!"
"So, will you come?"
"I don't know Ronnie, will I really feel up to it?"
"Come on, you need something to get you over Tommy, and you need a good time, you aren't going to find that with Tommy, you need to realize this and move on."
"But I love Tommy, even after all the shit he has put me through, even after all the crap he's given me, the mean names and everything, Is still love Tommy, and I don't know how to stop. At the risk of being ever so gay and quoting Brokeback Mountain I don't know how to quit him!"
"You want to learn Alex, come with me to that party, you'll find somebody who will take all your Tommy thoughts away. Alex you can do it, you will get over him. This is a topic we have to bring up in group. Alex, you get way too attached to people, when you fall in love; you fall in like a fool."
"Thanks Ronnie, you have no idea just being here helps."
"I know Allie, I know." He hugged his arms tighter and stronger around me, his embrace was what I needed, I needed to be held by good company right now.
"Am I interrupting something you two?" Ronnie's father asked when he opened the door. I suppose it might have looked odd, I mean, Ronnie was holding me, it was such a nice and kind moment, I suppose it could be mistaken for intimacy. It was like a friendship type of intimacy, I was glad to be becoming that close to Ronnie. I needed a close gay friend who wasn't a lesbian.
"No Dad, you're not, wassup?"
"Oh, ok, umm, well dinner is ready, and your mother wanted me to tell you two to come down. Dinner was great, it was really cool to be with a family that was totally over their son's sexual orientation, they took it lightheartedly, and there were friendly jokes about it too. Ronnie's parents were so nice as to say that if anything ever happened at home that I always had a place to stay with them, wow, that connection these people had was amazing. After dinner, I shook hands with Ronnie's father, gave Ronnie's mother a kiss and a hug, and Ronnie walked me out to the car.
"Listen, Allie, this is my cell number, anytime you need somebody to talk to, give me a ring okay." I nodded, and then he gave me a kiss on the lips, not fresh (fun), but like a really good friend would. I smiled at the fact I now have a really good gay friend who is a guy who can help me out when I needed it. Then I left, it wasn't a very long drive from Windsor Park Lakes to Green Trails Forest. I punched in the code, the gates opened, and then I was within the confines and security of my neighborhood and home. When I got home, I went to the kitchen, got the supplies my parents had bought me from Wal-Mart, and kissed my parents goodnight. Then I went upstairs and finished the reading I had to do for chemistry. When I finished my reading I thought about all the things that had happened today. I was hoping all throughout the summer that when I came back to school that because I lost all that weight that it would be a fun day full of praise and joy. The truth of the matter was, August 16, 2006 sucked! The only thing worse about it, was that it was about to be over, and the next day I would have to go back to school. Go back to my locker, homeroom, science, English, choir, and band classes. All shared with Thomas Cleason, my former secret crush, now an evil jerk. Tomorrow is shaping out to be fun!
So, how was Chapter 3? Will things be patched up between Tommy and Alex? Will he find somebody at that party? Will he become closer to Ronnie? What do you think? There are many things I can do as the writer, hoo ha ha haaa! JK, I hope you guys liked this chapter, and I'll try my hardest to write Chapter 4 for soon. Tell me what you all thought of this chapter and the others @ Punkincognito313@AOL.com