Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:16:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoper Lock Subject: The Staring Contest This is my first time writing, and by the end of this you're going to be able to tell. This story is of a homosexual content, if you are under age, please leave, but we all know that most of you out their wont be listening, but I had to warn you, also that if your not into the whole gay thing, too bad go somewhere else. I reserve all the rights and all that hullabaloo. Some of this is actually real, im infatuated with this person, but yet im in the closet and im afraid, you know how that is, the names will be switched but the place will remain the same. Ding Dong! Ding Dong! "Ugh what the fucks that noise!" Here I am trying to get some sleep and some idiots waking me up, who ever it is im so going to kill them! Bang, Bang, Bang. "Wait a sec!" I yelled. I went ahead and put on some jeans and my Volcom T and answered the door. "Your not ready?! What the fuck Vince! Hurry your ass up! It's the first fucking day of school and your gonna make us late!" my friend Kamron yelled. " Aight, aight, wait a sec bro, lemme just grab my bag and we'll head out." I yelled in my room not really minding the yelling, I've known Kam a while now and that kid has no ounce of badness in him, he just gets annoyed easily, especially when it comes to his school attendance, the kids such a kiss ass, but you got to love him. Oh let me tell you about my self, my names Vince, im a senior now in Campbell High, im 18 and im 100% Asian, what can you expect? Living in Hawaii the whole island of Oahu is practically Asians, from Japanese to Chinese to Filipino to what ever, its common here. Anyways before I was sidetracked im about 5'10 weigh about 190lbs. I know I weigh a lot but during the summer I have been hitting the gym non stop so I have managed to gain some muscles. Im gay, but no one knows except for a select few, but we'll get into that later, Im a senior now, and you would not believe how relieved I am to finally be a senior, I have worked 3 years to be in this position and I want to make it a MEMORABLE one! "So how was summer in Cali. Bro?" Kam asked me, I was away for the summer in Cali. Visiting some relatives, it was the usual shit, all the "hey good to see you's" and the sight seeing." It actually wasn't that bad, same old shit you know?" I responded. I could here the Hawaiian music playing in the background while we were driving to school, Kam managed to persuade his parents to let him take the Scion XB to school, there must have been some heavy begging because Kam crashed his Dodge last time. We got to school rather early, 30 minutes early to be exact, we arrived at 7:15, classes didn't start till 7:45, I don't mind really, that gives us extra time to see our friends and catch up, and we had to get in line to get our schedules in the cafeteria. Who ever thought of cramming 4,000 kids in a café? That can only occupy 2000 at a time is an idiot. So let me brake it down for you real quick about my school, our school is made up of 2 to 3 story buildings, and each building is assigned a letter, and during the mornings and lunches they are occupied by the students, so its designated by different cliques, there is N and R buildings, these buildings are occupied by the JROTC kids, they hang their during lunch and aren't really bothered with because the place is surrounded by a fence where only the JROTC kids can enter into, unless you have a class assigned their which occurs sometimes, I have a class their. Okay theirs D building this is a 3 story building, occupied by the underclassmen, the 9th and 10th graders hang there, theirs K building it's where the special ed kids hang out at, theirs J building, the break dancers and the rockers hang out their, no one messes with them because their weird, and the last but 4 major buildings are the library, office, G, and O buildings. The office is occupied by the junior kids, I know half of them, so do my friends, the library is where you will find, the stoners, you cant miss the building you can smell it 25 feet away with all the stench. And theirs G building, now bare with me this is going to get complicated, its 2stories and its occupied all the way around, one side is where all the Samoans and Tongans and Hawaiians hang out at, make friends with them and there wont be trouble, some are actually real cool, the building is made so that theirs a hang out spot in the middle of the building, and that's occupied by the blacks, there are not a lot of blacks in our school, so if you were looking for them, that's where ALL and I mean ALL of them will be. The other side of the building consist of the Jocks, from football, basketball, baseball, and all other types of sports, you cant hang their unless your in one of those sports, or you know people in that building. But now comes O building, this is where me and my bro's hang out, O building is occupied by the Asians, the circumference, radius, area, what ever terminology you call it the whole building is 100% Asian, from Filipinos and beyond, if your not Asian you don't belong here, now you got to understand, were not racist or anything of that sort, but over the years it has just become our spot, and no one has bothered us, we get along with everyone and we probably have the most kids hanging out their, so I guess we seem intimidating but were not what so ever. WOW sorry for that brief lesson, now where were we? Hmmmm. 1st period, Art, 2nd period, English, 3rd period, Spanish 2, and 4th period is Psychology. Damn my schedule seems to be easy this term I thought, me and my friends went on ahead and grabbed our schedules and now, me, my friend Ace, Jay, Mark, and Aaron are headed to Art, I don't really fancy art class but with my home boys their it wont be as bad it seems, on our way to class we got a couple of "hi", "what's up", handshakes and the infamous nod, you know how that goes, when a person is to lazy to shake your hand and just nods at you. On our way to class we had to pass G building, it wasn't bad we knew most of the guys their since we all hung out at parties and what not, but I wasn't paying attention to where I was going because I was to busy listening to my new Ipod nano, I was listening to some Eminem when all of a sudden "oof" I collided with a person, I stumbled to my knees, " Mother FUCKER!" I yelled, I was pissed, I just dropped my Ipod and I got my new jeans dirty, as I turned around I saw this guy dust himself off, apparently he hit the floor as well. "Hey bro, can you watch where your going next time?" I had the right to be pissed right? The guy turned around, and the most alluring brown eyes cast itself upon me, " hey my bad bro, I wasn't paying attention, you alright?" he asked me, this got me out of my bad mood quickly, " yeah im fine, don't worry about it." And I walked away, one because the bell rang, two my friends dragged me off and lastly, if I didn't leave I would have sprouted a boner in front of everyone and that's a no, no. 1st period was actually fun to be honest, my teacher Mr. Taylor was a cool guy, he just made us introduce ourselves to the class, and he gave us the 411 on what's going to be happening this school year in his class and the rest of the period was spent idly chatting away with my friends until the bell rang. Me and my friends had to split up into groups, me, Ace, and Mark left one way, and Jay and Aaron left to go another way, I found out that me , Ace and Mark have 2nd period as well, English. Man school can't get better than having an easy class and having your friends they're with you. Our class is located in O building on the 3rd floor, I hate the fucking walks up the stairs, god they're so annoying. We arrived in class with a minute to spare. And us three came to realize that this class was going to be cake, for the next 3 weeks all were doing is reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, and also my other friends, Alex, and Lance where their too so it was going to be fun as well, the same thing happened in 2nd period as it did with the 1st one, Ms. L told us what will be expected from us, and what were going to get into this school year, besides that we just hung out, my friend Alex brought his hand held system PSP with him, and so did I and for the next 45 minutes until the bell rang, us and our friends battled on Tekken, we made a deal, that we both bring our hand held every day and we duke it out at lunch, play for some money and what not., hey don't judge on how I make my money, im a broke 18 year old, what do you expect? When the bell rang it indicated that lunch has begun. Our school is on block schedule, so we only get 4 classes but those 4 classes can go on for an hour and a half. So when the bell rang, us 5( myself, Ace, Mark, Alex, Lance) headed downstairs at our hangout spot to await the rest of the gang, we all did the occasional hand shakes, and we did the PSP money gambling, I won 5 bucks. I swear technology has come such a long way, and its reinventing how we kids gamble. Anyway our lunch period was long, 40 minutes, halfway through lunch I started to get hungry, I didn't eat breakfast and it was killing me, so I asked, Ace, Jay, and Jazz to come eat with me in the café. Jazz is my homeboy, I have known him the longest out of all my friends in O building, and he knows about me being gay, and he kept his word and never told anybody. So here we are in the café. And were eating this so called lunch , which consist of some type of meat and milk and what not, when I noticed a figure pay his lunch and sat down a table away from us where some of the football guys ate at. "hey Jay, who's that kid that just sat down? I bumped into him earlier today and I haven't seen him here before." I looked over at Jazz he was looking at me curiously, as I waited for Jay to answer because I know Jay's on the team, and he might have had some information on him. "Oh him, that's Brandon, he's plays Middle Linebacker, kid can hit, and he's only a junior too." Jay said while taking another bite of this oh so delectable food. As I continued to eat, I kept having this feeling that someone was watching me. I looked around and I found this Brandon character staring at me, when I stared back, he seemed to have noticed me seeing what he was doing and turned away, and I swore he looked like he was blushing, he looked cute blushing, this kid intrigued me. I don't really take notice to any younger guys, but this kid was not an ordinary guy, when I kept off the eyes I gave him a once over, and this kid is all man, 6'0, nice broad shoulders, probably from all the weight lifting and football practices he has been doing, and he had, this adorable smile, every time he did it, he had dimples on both cheeks and there's nothing more hot than a guy with dimples. I think I was staring too much because I could see him glance my way a couple times, and then I would look at Jazz and he would have this look on him, I don't know what it is but I know, we were going to have a talk, that's a given. The bell rang, ending my trance on the cute guy in front of me. So I headed to my 3rd class with Ace, which was in G building. Spanish 2 seemed easy enough, heck I passed Spanish 1 with an A all year, so this wont be that hard. We arrived at class a bit late. When we got in all eyes was on me, and Ace, talk about awkward! Our teacher Ms. B separated Ace and me! Great now this will suck. I kept on standing and I didn't know what to do. " Vince? Isn't it? Why don't you go on and have a sit, near Brandon, and your buddy here can sit up front? Brandon raise your hand so Vince can find his seat please?" And I scanned the room and saw this guys hand raised, and I went ahead and walked to my assigned seat, upon sitting I noticed the same alluring eyes that's been on my mind the whole day. "You?" I said kind of abruptly with out thinking which gave him a confused look. "ummm, hi." He said kind of shyly, god he's so cute when he gets embarrassed. I quickly had to say something from getting him all worried. " oh, my bad, I bumped into you earlier today, I think, umm my names Vince." And I stuck out my hands waiting for his response. "oh, yeah! Im sorry again about that, I wasn't looking to where I was going." He stuck his hands out as well and we shook, now I know what people say, electricity coursed through our hands, but no, it was just a good firm handshake, his hands were bigger than mines but I didn't mind. "would you two like to tell us what's so amusing about your conversation?" this got us both to shut up, and I stayed quiet the rest of the class time. During class, I would sneak glances at Brandon, I mean if you were in my predicament you would understand where I was coming from. We were quietly reading what was on the board when I felt my phone vibrate, I checked to see if the coast is clear and fished it out, I had a message from Jay: "Hey remind Kam that you guys have to wait for me after football practice today, my cars in the shop for a week and I told him about it." I read it once and then I forwarded the message to Kam reminding him about practice. Putting away my phone, the teacher interrupted us, "Class we shall do a class activity to get to know one another, turn to the person to the right of you and I want you to ask them 5 questions, I don't care if it relates to school or not but get to know one another, you have 20 minutes." After hearing what's needed to be done, I turned to my partner, Brandon. "Soooooo." I said this felt kind of awkward, but I wanted to get to know him, and he wont budge so I had to start somewhere. "So what's your full name?" It was a good enough question to ask right? "umm its Brandon Akea, and how about yourself?" he asked. " My names, Vince Potello." Well that's one question, four more to go. "So how do you like Campbell so far Brandon? And the football season so far?" He looked at me a second and then answered. "Umm Campbell, is okay, im adjusting to it pretty well, I have a group of friends, that I have established, English is killing me though." He smiled. "umm also I wanted to know, how'd you know I was on the football team?" with a hint of confusion in his tone. "oh well my good friend is on the team, you probably know him, he's the defensive captain, Jay Sanchez." He looked at me with surprise on his face. "oh, you know Jay? That's cool, yeah he kind of took me under his wing when I came to this school, he's a good guy." I wanted to keep this conversation going, I didn't want it to end. " so who's your teacher for English?" He looked up at me. "umm I think her name is, Ms. L, I can handle the class, but analyzing the Frankenstein book is going to be hard, im not good with that, and with football and all I have to maintain good grades." He said kind of sadly like he wasn't going to pass the class. " well I have her class too, I know its not the same period, but if you ever need any help just ask, or call me , here's my number, you got a cell?" He looked at me and quickly fished out his phone. "okay its 555-1204." I said while staring at him the whole time. God I need to stop doing that, it's going to get me into a lot of trouble. The bell rang , and it stopped me from my staring and I stood up and left. Then I heard. "yeah, im going to definitely give you a call." I turned around and saw Brandon with a smile on his face, I smiled back at him and gave him a wave, and walked the opposite way to my last class. 4th period was pretty fun, I was by myself with out my friends, but I think I needed that space from them, so I can just reflect on things with out them their, plus I knew some of the people in the class, we just didn't hang out, during the end of class I got a message from Kam saying he couldn't make it to Jay's practice because something came up and he had to leave early, so he ran that by Jazz and he's going to be the one to give me and Jay a ride home. SHIT! I thought im going to be with Jazz, this isn't good, and I just know he's going to ask questions. My cell phone ringing stopped me from my day dreaming, it was Jazz on the phone. "Hey what's up bro. Kam told me what happened, are you sure your up for waiting around with me for Jay?" I had to try and avoid him but he didn't budge. "Nah man, I haven't talked to you in a while, we got to catch up, meet me in the student parking lot and we'll talk then alright?" I just answered. "yes." The plan this afternoon was to go to Kapolei, it's the next city over, and to have dinner at Chili's. It was about 3:00 in the afternoon and Jay's practice didn't end till 5 so we had a good amount of time to talk. God I was sweating bullets for what was coming to me. Jazz and me sat as far away as possible from everyone else in the restaurant, we were secluded and I was trapped. "So, Vince, how was the first day?" He asked nonchalantly. " oh you know how it is, the introductions by the teacher and all of that, how about you how was your fist day back?" I countered, trying to avoid conversation concerning my love life. " It was fun, chat it up with people I haven't seen in a while, and made some NEW FRIENDS." He purposely elongated the word to emphasize what he was saying. I sighed. " okay, okay, you win already gosh, I met this guy, his names Brandon." Jazz had a big smirk on his face, knowing he accomplished what he was set to do. " the guy you kept oogling during lunch right?" WOW! That sentence caught me off guard. "What! I wasn't oogling him man." Jazz was in hysterics. "Hahaha, dude what ever, I were practically drooling over the guy, so what's he like, did you talk to him yet?" "well if your asking if he's gay, I don't know that yet, he seems to shy to be, I practically had to keep the ball rolling on this one just for him to answer me back." The food came not long after our conversation, the food was good, Jazz and me made small talk while eating, about classes, his girlfriend and all that. 4:30pm came by quick, and we headed off to Jay's practice, when we got their it was about 4:50, me and Jazz sat and waited on the bleachers for the practice to be over with. When 5 o clock came, coach blew the whistle indicating practice was over. I saw Jay walking towards us, I didn't expect for Brandon to be tagging along with him, I looked at Jazz's face and he was smiling big, trying to contain his laughter. "Hey Jazz, thanks again man for picking me up like this on short notice." Jay said, the whole time I was just looking at Brandon, god he was beautiful, he didn't have his pads on, but that did little to his body frame, he was toned out and his hair was messy from the helmet, all in all cute. Jay continued talking. `Say Jazz could you do me a big favor? Could you drop off my friend Brandon here as well? He lives by Vince probably 4-5 blocks down the road?" HE WHAT! This hunk of a guy lived that close to me and I didn't know? This is scandalous. " Yeah that no problem man, okay let's get going, my girls waiting for me." So we hopped in Jazz's Dodge Ram and left for Brandon's house, the whole ride home I was giving Brandon quick glances on the rearview mirror, and I knew Jazz noticed, but didn't say a thing, thank god. We arrived at his house, it was nice, its one of the newer models in our area and I have actually passed by his street when I went on my nightly jogs, what a coincidence. When Brandon hopped out of the truck , he said his good byes to Jazz and Josh, and he looked at me intently, like it was a staring contest and just nodded his head and said. "Later, Vince." And went on ahead into his house. God High School is such a trip, here I am first day of school and I already have a crush on a boy I barely even know. What else in store for me, I don't know, but I can't wait to find out. Thanks for reading it guys, im writing the 2nd chapter as quick as I can, I would definitely appreciate comments constructive criticism or praise alls welcome, oh and if you want to talk as well. Email me at yoyodrumssex@yahoo.com Thanks again, V