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Sorry about the flashback in a flashback... my brain didn't want to remember a little detail and before I knew it I was just about done the chapter... So I had to go back. Now Shane's and Lucas' back story is over. Now to carry on with the story!
This chapter will be the end of the sleepover and will go into a tech meeting. So some little things happen. Not allot of big stuff but I hope you enjoy it anyways!
Just a few more notes before I start. I'm not sure who Nick should go out with. I've been building him with Lucas, but not sure if I want to start with that. So send me an email at kuragari129@hotmail.com or you can take the poll at the fan page on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/LifesExpectations don't forget to like it while your there!
Chapter 16 – Hanging By A Moment
Issac's POV
It only took like ten minutes before the gaming started. Nick, Gage, Lucas and Tanis resumed Gears of War 2's horde mode. Zach called taking over who ever died first's controller. Shane seemed less interested.
I asked Nick for a pencil and paper and started to draw the scene. Gage on the edge of his bed leaning over towards the tv. Sam on his belly, feet in the air swaying back and forth, laughing at all of Gage's excitement. Nick siting on his desk chair and Tanis is siting right beside him on Gage's. Lucas siting leaning back against Nick's legs. And finally Shane snuggled up to Zach on a beanbag chair.
I took place by Nick's bed. There is a small area at the foot of his bed with beanbag chairs lying around. So I thought right there would be good to from. Gage's bed was on the other side of the room against the side of the room and the opposite corner than me. A desk right beside it, to it's right.
When I was just finishing everyone's outline a shadow went over my paper. I look up to see Nick, "What ya doing in the corner?" He then looks at my drawing, "Dude that's sweet! So that's what you've been doing?"
"Ya, I thought since I don't really like Gears, I would draw what everyone was doing..."
"That's an amazing picture, but why can't I see everyone's faces?"
"I'm not that great at faces, so I usually draw silhouettes." He stared blankly at me, "It means you only see their shadow."
He thought about it for a second and then came to a realization, "OH like the 9th opening in the original Naruto anime!" Now it was my turn to stare blankly. I've never really gotten into anime and stuff like that.
"Here I'll start up my comp. and show you!" Nick turned around and grabbed his chair, which had Lucas siting on it. "Up, up you!"
"What?" before Lucas even really knew what was going on he was on the floor. Gage actually pause the game in his laughter. I gotta admit Lucas' face was priceless. "Little more warning next time please?"
"Maybe..." Nick stuck out his tongue and Lucas greeted him by a certain finger. After just a little more laughing everyone went back to what they were doing. Before I knew it Nick had found what he's talking about. "Here this!"
"Exactly that!"
"The song is called Yura Yura if you're wondering." He went on to explain a lot about the anime... Mostly about how anything after episode 135ish is filler and you can skip it.
I just finished up as Shane came over and laid on the bed, "What ya drawin'?"
"I just finished drawing the room with everyone in it." I showed him and he examined it for a few seconds before grabbing it for a closer look.
"Dude, I can tell I'm there even though it's in silhouette. That's awesome, your really good! How long have you been drawing for?"
"I've been drawing almost everyday since I was young. So I don't know, like 5..."
"Well it doesn't really matter cause your good."
"Thanks." Nick then came into the conversation talking about how I should watch anime or read manga. This lasted like an hour of Nick showing me 'cool' manga. Naruto, Fairy Tail, Pandora Hearts, and Full Metal Alchemist are just some of the ones he showed me.
He even forced me to read the first chapter for each of them. I gotta admit some of them were interesting. Full Metal was probably my favorite out of first impressions. Mostly cause of the art style but it had a cool story for the first chapter.
Shane apparently was a fan of manga and we started talking about stuff. Shane was careful not to give out spoilers and even caught Nick before he gave them out. It was hilarious cause Nick was getting so mad at not being able to spoil anything for me.
It wasn't long after that Gage paused Gears and gathered our attention. "I don't know about you but I'm getting kinda hungry." It's about 6:30, "If we order pizza now it should be here by the time everyone is hungry." We all seemed to agree with him on that one, "So what kinds should we get?"
Nick responded immediately, "Meat lovers!" Almost everyone agreed. Sam was the only one who didn't.
"Cheese?"
"Really Sam, cheese?" Zach gave a questioning look.
"I don't really like meat..."
Once against Nick responded, "Blasphemy!"
"You say that every time Phoenix!" Nick just gave out a 'shhh' sound and went back to his computer. "So everyone is okay with cheese and meat lovers?"
"Yep!" and with that it was settled. They went back to gears and we went back to talking about random stuff. Tanis came over and joined our conversation. I gotta say it was a lot of fun just learning their interests.
In no time at all the pizza was here. When the doorbell rang I heard Kirin bark at it and I flinched. Nick of all people noticed and gave me a concerned look. I just looked away, not really wanting to talk about it.
I was slightly saved by Gage, "So who's gonna come down and help me bring the plates and pizza up?" he looked over towards Sam.
"I will, like always." Sam got up and dusted himself off.
"Lucas, Tanis, you guys should come down and get the air mattress and stuff."
"Okay, come on Tanis," They went downstairs for all the stuff.
It was only like half a minute after they left that the door opened up again. I suppose it would be Kirin, since a dog walked into the room. I think I flailed one of the beanbags up and ended up underneath it.
A heard the door close and Nick came over and looked at me, "Are you okay?"
"Is 'it' gone?"
"Ya, Kirin isn't in the room." I look around to see no dog in the room and everyone looking at me. This is just a little embarrassing.
"Can we talk about it some other time?"
"You've said that twice now! Why can't you tell us?" Nick wasn't mad, he was confused I guess.
"It has to do with my arms, okay! I don't like talking about it." I started to rub my arms, "I have trust issues when it comes to what happened. It's not your fault, it's mine."
"Okay, can you promise when you do trust us you'll tell us?"
"I promise nothing, but I can try..." It's not their fault someone destroyed my trust in telling about my arms. I just can't get over it that easily. Shane had this sympathetic look on him. I tried to ignore it but couldn't. He knows what it's like to be betrayed like me...
Lucas' POV
So as we were eating and getting the air mattress auto pumped Gage brought up, "So who's sleeping on the air mattress and who's sleeping with Nick?"
You don't know how bad I would love to have Nick snuggled up to me. But I didn't say anything cause I don't wanna make my crush obvious. So I went with, "What about you guys? Where are you sleeping?"
"Me and Sam are gonna share my bed, and Zach and Shane are sharing the top bunk. This leaves someone to sleep in Nick's bed with him and the other two on the air mattress."
"I'm not sleeping with Nick. No offense, I just like my personal space" Issac waved his hands in front of him.
Shane through a bite of pizza, "Lucas is likes to pull you in to snuggle in his sleep, just sayin'"
"Shut it you! You enjoyed the snuggles!" Shane just smiles and continues eating. From the look of it, Zach didn't enjoy the comment.
"I'll sleep with Issac, if that's okay." Oh my god thank you Tanis, "That was Lucas doesn't invade Issac's bubble."
"So I get forced to snuggle Lucas? How is that fair?"
"Cause you like them Nick!" suddenly there was a pillow flying across the room towards Gage. He ducked out of the way but Sam hit it with his hand making it land on his head. "Tag teaming I against the rules."
"Hey, if it's gonna hit me I block. Where it lands is not up to me to decide." Gage swings the pillow at Sam who blocks again. Gage gave up and passed it back to Nick.
It wasn't long after that that we gave up on horde and we went to watching movies. We ended up watching the Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. I'd already seen them, but Issac, Sam and Nick hadn't seen the latest one. So we had to watch them.
Sam and Gage were still on Gage's bed. Shane was still snuggled up to Zach on their beanbag chair. Issac was on Nick's desk chair siting cross legged with Tanis on Nick's bed right beside him. Nick was on one of the beanbag chairs on his stomach. I was leaned up right against his chair.
No one moved but when The Dark Knight started Nick was falling asleep. He was leaning over and resting on my shoulder, not to mention drooling. It was only like 9 o'clock but Nick was out like a light. It was adorable in a not so adorable kind of way.
When the movie was done it was like 11 and like half of us were tired. Gage, Sam, Tanis, and Zach all had energy to spare and went to play Halo 3. Nick was still asleep till I moved and his head fell.
"Woah what happened?" Nick looked around drowsy.
"You fell asleep and started to drool on Lucas' shoulder." Tanis gave out a little laugh.
Nick looked up at my shoulder and opened his eyes wide, "OMG I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to."
"It's fine Nick, you were asleep."
"I still feel bad about it..." Nick yawns and rubs his eyes. "I think I'm ready for bed though." I couldn't believe my eyes. Nick walks over to his bed, makes Tanis get off and then strips his pants off. It only lasted like 5 seconds before he was under the covers.
He snuggled up to his pillow... Shane just looks over at me, "Just go, I know you want to." he then gave me a sly look.
Gage looks away from the screen, towards me. "Mom doesn't come in the room, she just knocks on the door. You'd be fine if you wanted to go in the same attire he's in."
I look over to Nick who is smiling at the whole idea. "It's probably a good idea that I get in there before he takes up the entire bed."
"If you wake up with less clothing than Nick has on right now, I'm gonna beat both your asses!" Gage had a serious look on his face, which turned into a smile, "But ya he takes up the bed all the time."
"What kind of beating!?" It was Nick looking up towards Gage.
"Sick minded syndrome is all over that comment, Gage." Zach said as he killed him.
"Eh, We're not playing right now." Gage took a good stare at Zach.
"YOU'RE not playing right now."
Gage just rolls his eyes, "Straight guy in the room, just saying." Tanis then killed Zach, "And karma's a bitch." Once again everyone laughed.
I hesitantly took off my pants and crawled into Nick's bed. He fixed the pillow so that I could use it. So I laid down and he snuggled right up on my right side. His hand found it's way down and under my shirt. It didn't go up farther than my stomach but I still got hard from it. This has been a good night.
Gage's POV
The sleepover went great! Lucas didn't hate Nick for semi-lying to him. They even slept together in peace. Shane and Lucas are talking again and no one got hurt in anyway shape of form.
The bad news is though we still have no idea what exactly happened to expose them to the school. We asked Matt if he found anything and he said all his trails have gone cold. Then we talked to Chester and he said he hadn't heard anything about it.
So anyways the sleepover went great but it's now tuesday and the day where the Head Tech gets 'crowned'. So here we are in the theater waiting for John to show up.
I should probably explain how the whole tech seniority works. There's John who is the Technical Director, who is fully in charge of all tech things. Then it goes Tech President, who is Quin, who was our last Head Tech. Then it goes head tech, then it goes to treasurer, who is in charge of selling glow sticks at dances and such.
Sam is gonna get treasurer though and everyone knows it. I mean he helps his mom do her taxes for goodness sakes. Plus all that position really does is get the ability to sit on the stage with the rest of the senior techs during the meeting.
The bell for lunch went about 10 minutes ago, and John just walked in. Eating whatever he obtained for lunch. He sat down in front of everyone, on the stage of coarse. "So everyone knows what today is, and if not then your to new to be considered. Today I make my choice on the Head Tech and Treasurer."
There was clapping all around for no reason. Then Quin spoke, "Quiet minions!" everyone went quiet immediately, "Good..."
"Anyways, Treasurer was an easy choice. I got recommendations from everyone I talked to to choose you, including Mrs. Rampart." Mrs. Rampart is the person in charge of the theater's everything. Advertising, ordering supplies, scheduling, so everything. "So Sam may take a seat up on the stage." Which Sam did."
Kyle then shouted, "Who's the Head Tech!"
"Calm down Kyle.. The Head Tech is someone who knows almost everything about the Tech crew. They must have the ability to show others how to do things while also being able to take charge." John looked around as he was talking to us. Not making eye contact with anyone. "I had brought my choices down to two people. Both in the tenth grade. When I made my decision I made it on a few things. The things I spoke of just now, and the amount of time they have spent volunteering. So I chose Gage."
Sam and Quin both smiled, Matt got up and hugged me from behind. I was kinda in shock, I didn't think that he would pick me. I mean, ya I helped out more than like all of the grade 11s and Quin is the only grade 12. The position would have to to go a grade 10, but Gabe has to be the other option. Gabe helps out just a little bit less than me but he has a tiny bit more knowledge than me.
"Come on Gagey get your ass up here!" I got up as sat beside Sam who just smiled back at me.
"Well that's everything really, other than this Friday is the school dance. So after school come to the theater and help set up, you'll get in for free." John got up and headed up towards the booth.
Sam glomped me, knocked me over with a hug, saying "Good job!"
"I didn't do anything."
"Yes you did. You spent 3 years helping out selflessly for the theater! That's what got you here!"
Nick came up to me and we high fived, "I guess all those late nights are worth it!"
"Ya deff!"
Nick and his group of friends went out of the theater. Well most people went out leaving only my group of friends. So Kyle, Zach, Gabe, Shira, Quin, Sam and Lindsey. Sam moved a little closer as everyone left.
Quin looked over at us as he moved over, "Why don't you two just go out with each other? I mean your out to your mom and everything right Sam?"
"Ya..."
"So what's the problem?"
Sam and I grew silent, I didn't know the answer, but I'm sure Sam does. "Honestly... I don't know really." Wait we both have no idea!! WHAT??
"Gage?"
"I don't know either really. It's always been a wait for Sam to be ready." Quin looks at us and then uses a hand motion to gesture to get to gether.
Matt took the less settle approach, "DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT!!" we both laugh at him.
Do I need to be the one to ask? I mean we both aren't exactly in the best position to ask. To top it all of neither of us are engaging in eye contact for longer than a second.
Don't get me wrong, I love Sam. We both know that we have crushes on each other and have acted as boyfriends for who knows how long. Sam is like the best guy in the world, in my opinion but asking him out in front of everyone? Knowing Sam though, I'm gonna be the one to do it.
"So uhhh... Sam..." Everyone's eyes are on both of us. But we haven't even looked at each other, "Do you wanna be my..." Oh god this can't be happening!
"Just do it you idiot!" Kyle threw his pencil case at me head, and hit!
"Ow, that hurt dude!" Kyle just motioned his hand towards Sam. "Sam... Do you wanna be my boyfriend?"
His hand slipped over to mind and interlocked. His head went on my shoulder and he sighed, "Well, who are the other options?" I smacked him so hard he coughed from it, "I'm kidding, of course I will."
Everyone gave out 'woots' then on Quin's command, almost, went, "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss, Kiss!" We just looked at each other and smiled. I went in for our first kiss ever!
Not joking even, Sam and I have never kissed ever! We have done other stuff like bjs and stuff but nothing more than that. We've known each other for all our lives but never kissed! It's so weird.
I gotta say though that kiss was like lightning! It was outstanding even though it only lasted like 5 seconds. We didn't french but that's okay. Sam's lips were so smooth and soft I could kiss him forever. We separated cause we heard the warning bell go off.
I got up, and held my hand out for him, which he grabbed with a smile. "Drop me off at Socials?" I just smile and start walking, Sam right by my side.
The entire walk there was just a little out of the ordinary. Everyone just kinda noticed that we were holding hands and started talking about it. Probably starting rumors. Either way, what is there to tell?
When we got to Sam's socials class it felt all to soon. Sam blushed a bit and looked at me, "I'll see after French?"
"Of course, where else would I be?"
"Good." Then he gave me a quick peck on the lips and went into class. I was left there stunned for a few seconds.
Kyle came up behind me and gave me a little push, "Come on love bird, lets get to Math class." As we went down the hallway I saw Sam's mom, with an all-knowing smile on her face. All I could do was blush.
The rest the walk was semi normal. Those who had heard by now were looking at my awestruck face. Everyone else minded their own business.
I had barely even sat down in Math before Chester, who took math 9 last year, turned to me and asked, "So, whats the word from the source?"
"Sam and I are a thing now, since lunch."
"Got it! You had hot juicy..."
"Chester!" All of use stopped him before he finished. Chester just laughed it off. Today was a good day, Head Tech and a newish boyfriend... This dance is gonna be the best ever!
Chapter end
Sorry that took a while, writer's block and stuff. But here you go, here's the chapter. Next chapter will be about the dance... and will be out asap.
Don't forget if you have any comments, questions and/or suggestions send me an email at kuragari129@hotmail.com or go to the official fan page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LifesExpectations. Thanks for reading!
P.S. So I got Naruto Storm 3... I beat it in 12 hours. I gotta say, minus my grubs about it's horrible roster, it's a good game. Oh and why the hell would they give range characters a buff... >.>