#perryxesposito

[davidgoode]

Task 1 - Connections

Heather Wheeler: David doesn’t like Heather, not like that at least. He thinks she’s alright. He likes that she’s smart and driven, that she isn’t afraid to say what everyone’s thinking. They’re friends and, if he lets her think that they might be more than that… well, no one needs to know.

Abel Hawker: Although he’s not sure when exactly it started, David is over at Mayor Hawker’s house every week, like clock work. Sometimes he’s mowing the lawn, others he’s fixing the fence. No matter what he’s doing, and whether or not he’s doing it well, Mayor Hawker doesn’t seem to mind David showing up and helping out. 

Perry Esposito: It’s no surprise that David has a fake, or that he uses it. Many of his friends at the high school know that, some weekends, David will drive up to Lansing and sneak into bars there. He never invites any of them though. The reason being that the bars he goes to are usually gay bars. He doesn’t do much there, just dance and drink and revel in the fact that no one knows him. At least, that’s what he did before he came face to face with Perry one night. The two made eye contact and, before either could say anything, David had fled. He’s avoided the older man since then.

[davidgoode]

@perryxesposito​

Milk. Eggs. Pizza. Cereal...

David repeated the list to himself as he walked up and down the isles of the Piggly Wiggly, trying to remember what he forgot. He knew that there was something else he’d been told to buy. It was something mom had requested. If it had been something Beth had wanted David would have been more likely to just ignore the item. He’d been walking on egg shells around both of them but mom especially. The thought of forgetting whatever it was he was supposed to buy, of upsetting mom, made David wander through the isles, looping around again in hopes of remembering.

It was something they didn’t get often, he remembered that much. But what? 

Deep in thought, trying to remember what mom liked, David didn’t notice the man in front of him until it was too late and they had already collided.

“Oh fuck!” He exclaimed, backing up quickly, trying to hold onto the items he had in his hands. “I’m so sorry, I wasn’t paying any attention. Are you okay?”