Chapter 46

How I managed to function like a normal human being for the rest of the day was a mystery to me.

Lexi had plans with Daphnee in the afternoon, so after getting breakfast from Anita, Lexi was on her merry way, acting like everything was fine and dandy and no big deal.

I had no plans for the rest of the day. Maybe I needed to have a meeting with Doctor Boseman so I could just pace around his room and freak out.

I was... not okay.

Like, I was okay, but I was also not okay, and ohmygod.

So, instead of letting myself freak out more, and actually deal with what had just happened, I called Josh.

The phone barely had time to ring one and he answered. "Finally."

I rolled my eyes, letting myself all on the couch on my room. "You're being overly dramatic."

"I am not! I am being a concerned best friend," Josh whined on the other end of the line.

"Did you have an actual reason to spam me with calls?" I asked, letting out a slightly exasperated breath.

It was good that Josh felt like it was back to normal. But back to normal Josh was always an adventure.

"Did you enjoy my present?" Josh asked, and I could just hear the cheeky grin he must have on his face right now.

"The present stayed in its box," I replied deadpan.

"I didn't ask you if you used it, I asked if you enjoyed it," Josh pressed being an absolute pest.

"You're unsufferable, you know that right?" I whined.

Josh ignored my whining, clearly enjoying my suffering too much. "Did you explain to Lexi why specifically I gave her that present?"

"No, I did not."

"I think it would be the perfect bonding experience, to share this story with her," he continued, his voice absolutely wicked.

"Why exactly do you seem to enjoy my suffering this much?" I whined again.

"Blake Eaton, you're an adult in a relationship. These are the kinds of things you need to talk with your partner. If you can't have honest conversations about your likes and dislikes and expectations, you shouldn't be in a relationship with anyone," Josh lectured me.

"You're really annoying."

"I always am. And I'm always right too."

"You are absolutely not always right."

"Okay, so maybe I wasn't right when I said that ­­­Taylor Swift and Joe Jonas were going to be forever, but for this, I am right."

I changed conversation, because I didn't want to actually give him the satisfaction. I was not going to tell him he was right. Even if he was.

"Anyway, enough about me. How are you?"

"I'm fine. I'm great. I'm the picture of sanity," he replied quickly, not convincing at all.

"Is absolutely something an insane person would say."

"Thanks," Josh chuckled, and then changed conversation too. "You didn't get hurt during the football game? How many are left now? Two? Three?"

"Two normal games, and then it's the finals," I replied.

It was kind of weird to think that. My football career was almost over. It definitely saddened me.

"Are you getting in the finals?"

"We'll get in on the first round, but probably won't go further than that."

"Oh that's right, your school football team sucks," Josh said, and then laugh like a evil maniac.

I narrowed my eyes for my own sake. "Just because you went to our rival high school does not give you the right to shit on my team."

"It absolutely gives me the right to shit on your team."

"You never even played football," I pointed out.

"Deep in my heart, I did though. Deep in my heart, I helped my team annihilate yours."

"Well, from deep in my heart, fuck you."

Josh burst into laughter. "Love you too."

"You're annoying."

"I'm surprised, I had assumed that after you got some action you would be less wired."

"And why do you suddenly assume I got some action?" I asked him, not actually denying it, because, well, I couldn't, but I wasn't actually going to admit any of that to him.

What happened between me and Lexi was none of anyone's business.

I wasn't the kind of asshole that was going to run around town telling everyone what I did with my girlfriend.

It was private. Only between us two.

"Didn't you give Lexi a birthday present of the D persuasion? Wasn't that what we had agreed would be the best option."

I let out an exasperated breath. "I'm hanging up now."

"Can't wait to be an uncle in nine months!" Josh shouted before I said, "BYE!" and hung up on him.

I spent the rest of my day running on my treadmill and reading books and doing homework and basically trying to stay as much occupied as I could so I would not think back at what Lexi and I had done in the morning because I wasn't sure I was going to be okay if I did.

And Lexi was really acting like it was no big deal, just texting me a quick goodnight in the evening, like life was normal.

Life was absolutely not normal.

Safe to say I didn't sleep well that night.

It was back to school on Monday. I had practice after school today, so I didn't pick up Lexi in the morning.

I was at my locker, when Lexi's arms snaked around me, hugging me.

I turned around, and Lexi's arms stayed around me. She got on her tip toes and pressed a kiss to my lips, lingering there a little too much for the good of my sanity.

My arms went around her automatically, and it was all it took to bring me right back to yesterday morning, and her naked skin and her breathless sighs and I was going to die.

"Good morning," she said, grinning up at me.

Was it just me or did it suddenly get hot? I felt like my whole body was flushed.

"Good morning," I replied, swallowing almost audibly. 

My girlfriend looked at me with a frown, but an amused grin at the same time, "Are you okay there, Blakey Boy?"

"No, I'm definitely not," I admitted a little too easily. 

"From what I recall, there's a seminar room in the library with your name on it where we can take care of any problem of yours," Lexi trailed.

I glared at her. "Bold Lexi is not allowed during school hours."

"And when else would we need Bold Lexi?" she asked, chuckling, her eyes still wicked. 

"Not right now, definitely not right now."

"It's quite endearing how flustered you keep getting. Seriously, adorable," she said, grinning and booped my nose.

I swatted her hand away. "Shut up."

She waggled her eyebrows. "I know ways for you to shut me up."

"Ohmygod, save me," I let out in a pained voice.

Lexi burst into laughter, quite amused at my suffering. She wasn't the one who would get a really noticeable problem if she kept this shit up.

She could hide getting turned on. I could not.

By them, some of our friends had started to arrive and were gathering at another locker not too far from us.

"Remember we have plans tonight. Guy plans. NO WOMEN ALLOWED!" Trevor yelled, making other students kind of turn and stare, perplexed.

"Isn't that a little discriminatory?" Daphnee asked, one eyebrow raised, arms crossed over her chest.

"What?" Trevor replied, looking a little confused, "Guys' night! It's like girls' night!"

"Oh yes, because that explains it perfectly," Fred said in passing, rolling his eyes.

The twins had decided that we needed to hang out together to boost moral for the last few games.

No one had bothered to argue with them.

The twins usually won any arguments you got into with them.

That was probably because they were so used to it, with their parents always arguing.

It wouldn't be the first time we hung out at their house after all, so we knew we could hear the twins' parents argue from time to time, which was like wild to me. My parents were too proud to ever let anyone hear them argue.

I knew they had arguments sometimes. I could feel it in the way the atmosphere would be tense around them, but I'd never actually seen an argument.

There was no hiding from the twins' parents though.

I wondered which options was the sanest. Maybe that was something I could talk with Doctor Boseman.

Was it healthy to keep it in or to have violent public outbursts?

I was pretty sure neither option was a good one.

The rest of the day was spend apparently amusing my girlfriend about how adorable I was when I was trying to dodge her advances.

I was pretty sure she wasn't even being serious about any of her wild offers. She just enjoyed seeing me squirm.

I would have to retaliate at some point.

After school, Lexi kissed me goodbye and I drove the twin's house, for guys' night.

Everyone pretty much left around the same time, so we basically arrived at their house all together in a herd.

After quick greetings to their parents, we all went to the basement. It had a nice set up. It was a big open space with a pool table in one corner and a TV one a wall with couches arranged in front of it.

There was also a bar along one wall, but there was no booze stocked in it. The twins' parents probably knew what would happen if their teenage kids had free access to alcohol. I did find it funny though, to have a bar set up without actual alcohol.

From what I understood though, sometimes their parents would host evenings with their friends and magically produce booze.

There was only soda and juice in the little fridge, so Peter decided to set up camp behind the counter and act like a barman.

There was a game console hooked to the TV so Dwayne and Mark sat on the sofa and started to play. I had no idea what game though. I was absolutely not a gamer.

Staring for too long and too intently at the television gave me headaches.

Alex called take out and ordered us pizza.

So, now we were just hanging around, waiting for food.

"What are we even doing?" Jimmy asked, lying down one of the couches, in front of the television taking up way too much space.

Connor was actually kicking his feet to make him move, but he wasn't budging.

"IT'S GUYS NIGHT!" Trevor yelled from the pool table.

"Dude, just because you keep repeating it doesn't make it into something," Fred pointed out.

He sat one on of the couches that was beside the pool table and I sat beside him.

I didn't really want to participate in any activities. I was tired. I hadn't slept well. At all.

And right now was absolutely not the right time to think about the reasons why I'd stayed awake.

"So, have we stopped inviting Clark and Shawn to these things?" Justin suddenly asked, playing pool in team with Davis against the twins.

"As long as they don't apologize to Alex properly, I don't see the point in being courteous to them. Honestly. We should not reward shit behaviour," Mark said, playing the father figure.

"Aye, aye," Peter said from behind the bar, Alex sitting on one of the stools in front of him.

Alex seemed pretty happy about having his friends back him up.

I wondered if he was regretting it now, keeping this from the team for so long when everyone was pretty chill about it, after what he'd done to Lexi to keep it a secret.

Even if I had no issue with Alex being gay at all, I would always be a little mad at him for what he had put Lexi through.

"So? Want to talk about whatever is going on with you? Is it just something with your mom? Or is there something else?" Fred asked me.

"He's been acting weird around Lexi today," Cameron suddenly volunteered.

I glared at him automatically. He absolutely ignored me.

"Has he?" Fred replied.

"He has," Trevor agreed.

Oh, so both of the twins were little snitches?

"I have not," I replied, glaring at my friends, hoping we would not get into this. I was a hundred percent not ready to talk about what had happened between Lexi and me with anyone.

"What? Did you try to have sex and it didn't fit?" Cameron asked, way too casually.

"You should have done more prep work if it didn't fit Blake," Trevor warned me, making everyone in the room laugh.

"Ohmygod, I'm gonna kill all of you," I whined.

Fred was practically giggling beside me, having way too much fun at my expanse.

The thing was, we didn't have sex yet. But if we were ever going to, Josh had been right. We needed to have a conversation about it.

This was going to painful. 

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Happy Monday my little Pumpkins! :D

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I wanted to write something that felt more like the way I Sold chapters were written. Hopefully it felt like that for you guys and you liked it! :D

In other news, in like 46 hours I'm going to be on a plane on my way to England. I think I didn't actually tell you guys the reason why I'm going to England. So. Story time. XD My best friend loooooooves Harry Styles. Like, loves LOVES him. She wanted to get tickets for one of his shows when he came to Toronto, one of the only stops in our country, but she didn't get tickets when they were on sale, and resale was like $1000 for shit seats. So, I said as a joke, "at this price, might as well just go see him in Europe." At that time, there were no more Europe dates. But then. Miracle. New Europe dates. So. We're going to England to go see Harry Styles. XD And two Harry Styles concerts, (one night right in the front and one night in seated places further) and plane tickets were actually less expensive then the cluster fuck that is getting tickets for anything with ticketmaster in North America. 8D And Kings of Leon have a show in Wrexham while we're there, so we're going to see them too. That's like two bucket list concerts crossed off. I am VERY excited. 

So, technically, there shouldn't be any issues with uploading in the next two weeks, but I might upload at different hours, just because I won't be on NYC time anymore, but on London time. XD

Alright. I have some more writing to do, and then it's sleep and then it's convincing myself I haven't forgotten to pack anything. 

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