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“I love you. What? No I don’t. Forget I said anything.”
“You want me to forget that you said ‘I love you,’” Jake counted off months on his fingers, “eight months after I said it to you first? Yeah, no, that’s not gonna happen. No take backs.”
slurred words
“Ugh, he’s so stupid. Stupid hair. Stupid arms. Stupid…chest. What? No! He’s just my friend. My best friend. I’ve known him since I was a little, little kid. He loves me a lot. Like a lot, a lot. It almost got him arrested once. But we don’t talk about that. He’s just, he’s the best thing in the world, you know? Like…everything is shit. The world sucks. I read newspapers and blogs, so many blogs everyday about how much everything sucks. But he smiles, or he tells a joke, or he decides to teach me to juggle and it’s honestly all so…stupid. But it’s kinda nice. I like it. It’s why we’re friends I guess. Best friends.”
I want you and you and nothing but you, miles and piles of you.
Okay, so I know it’s not like PC or whatever to say this, but…that was about the gayest thing I’ve ever heard you say, dude, and you say a lot of gay shit. If you wanna fuck, just say you wanna fuck. I don’t even know what a mile and a pile of me would be.
" He is very creepy. He gives me the creepies.
“You don’t have to go with me. You know that, right? I don’t even want you to go with me after what happened last time. Just stay here and watch Pretty Little Liars or something and I’ll deal with the creepy creepy men.”
" I'm certain I'm trying to kiss you.
Jake pulled back from Ryder’s attempt at a kiss to look around the emptying hallway, before looking back at his boyfriend with lifted brows. “Really? In front of God and everybody?” Truthfully, no one was paying much attention to them, all too busy emptying their lockers and trying to get out of the building as fast as possible. But even though Jake and Ryder were technically out, kissing in the hall wasn’t something they did. There’d never any big coming out moment or announcement, no acknowledgement by others of what they were to each other. Coming out had been a gradual process, born more out of laziness than a need for everyone else’s acceptance. Slowly, they just stopped hiding. They stopped using codewords to talk about the private things between them. They stopped dropping their intimate conversations when friends and acquaintances came up to join them in the hall. They stopped resisting the urge to pull the other close or to take the other’s hand. As always, they were simply Jake and Ryder and they let everyone else make assumptions about what that meant.
Despite all of that though, for some reason, kissing in the open hall, for all of their classmates to see wasn’t something that they did. But today was their last day at McKinley High, likely the last time they’d ever stand together in this specific hallway and even though Jake would never call himself sentimental, he was feeling rather…sentimental. With the soft sigh of a martyr, Jake tugged on the fabric of Ryder’s shirt to gently pull him closer so he could finish the kiss that Ryder had started. Hearing a few catcalls and one loud “I knew it” from some fellow seniors who were still cleaning out their lockers, Jake pulled back with a chuckle and roll of his eyes. “Come on,” he reached for Ryder’s hand, entwining their fingers as they made their way out of school. “We have three months of freedom and I don’t want to waste any time.”
send ♬ for a five-song playlist based on a muse of my choice
ZM Jake...
Only One - Kanye West + Paul McCartney
No you’re not perfect but you’re not your mistakes
Superpower - Beyonce
I guess I didn’t see myself before you
In My Life - The Beatles
There’s no one who compares with you
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince
I need your love, babe. that’s all I’m living for.
The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
Just promise baby, you'll love me forevermore
“Because nothing says heterosexuality like a gold sash.”
“Why would we want to look hetero on our wedding day? The ship has sailed, bro. Let it go.” Jake picked up the gold-ish cummerbund and took a moment to put it on. He stood next to Ryder and took a look at himself in the mirror, a frown coming to his face almost immediately. “I know we’re all doing this whole kumbaya and everyone’s equal shit, but humans are still the worst and I don’t know why we’re using one to help plan our wedding. She’s awful. She totally vetoed my black color scheme idea and now we’re stuck with this white and gold bullshit. I look like I just stepped out of an ABBA music video.” Jake tore off the cummerbund and tossed it back in the box it came in. “You’re right. We’re taking the suits back.”
6 months in and I just realize why Jake never brings up Uprising stuff with Ryder. Because he's actually a 12 year old school girl around his best friend. Why talk about all of that dark and scary stuff when we can make jokes and talk about how much we like each other instead?
