Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:44:09 -0500 From: Aaron Saxon Subject: my worst day - chapter 1; gay male/young friends This story is about two boys or maybe more exploring their sexuality with each other. The usual disclaimer applies, if you are under the legal age for you to read such things, please leave now. You may send any comments to my email address at a.saxon1122@gmail.com. For now, enjoy "The Worst Day". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi, My name is John Summers. I am 12 years old, I have brown hair and brown eyes. Today is my first day of sixth grade. My mom, who's name is Judy, woke me up at 6:30 am that morning. My father, Jeff, was already up and reading his morning paper. The only one not awake that early was my younger brother Cody. He's 8. He's lucky to still be so young, he doesn't have to get up for another hour and his school doesn't start until 9:00 am, whereas mine starts at 8:00. This year I start school in a new place for the next three years, up until ninth grade. I was scared to say the least. I'd never gone to school with older kids before. It also meant that I would have no friends at this new school and I'd heard horror stories already about older kids bullying younger kids. I pleaded with my mother and father one last time to not make me go, but they just said what they always do, "you have to go John." "But I won't know anyone there and I've heard that bullying goes on." My father chimed in, "you'll be fine." I just sighed because I knew I wouldn't be "fine." Anyway, I finished getting ready and then I walked to the end of the block with my head down where I'd be catching the bus. When I got to the bus stop, I saw a couple boys from the neighborhood I knew, but we were NOT friends. After that the bus pulled up and thankfully not very many kids were on the bus, so I went and found an empty seat at the back of the bus. The bus did eventually fill up pretty good but no one sat next to me. I was mouthing, "thank you Jesus." We pulled up to the school and the bus started to empty out. I was the last one off the bus and I entered, I was knocked down by some kid I didn't even see, having my back pack and the contents flying across the concrete. Plus my knees and elbows got scraped up. Great first impression, I thought. My first day at this place and I'm already scratched up. No one would stop to help me, but then an unnamed boy stopped and asked if I needed some help. I didn't even get out a response before he was grabbing up some of the stuff that flew out of my bad. I was thinking how nice this boy was and how hot he looked. After I got my things collected, he introduced himself as Justin Chandler. Giving me a hand up he asked if I was new here? I replied yes and introduced myself as John Summers. The bell began to ring and he said we should get inside and that since I was new, I should head for the auditorium just inside and to the left. He smiled at me and said he'd see me around. After the visit to the auditorium, I asked where the nurses office was so I could get fixed up because I was sore and the scratched itched and hurt like hell. On my way there, two older boys knocked me over and called me a `fag'. God, I hated that word, whether true or not. As I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself, out of nowhere my knight in shining armor Justin appeared. He leaned down and asked if I was ok. When I didn't look at him, he lifted my head and saw the tears on my face. He gently wiped them off my cheek and said their just jerks. He helped me up and asked where I was headed. I told him I was going to see the nurse and he said he'd walk with me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I would find out later that every sixth grader was assigned an older student buddy and that mine was to be Justin. And that he lived on my block, a few houses down from us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We got to the nurses office about ten minutes later and Justin asked if I wanted him to stay with me. Everything in me said `yes' but I said only if he wanted to. So the nurse came and got me and put some antiseptic ointment on my cuts and bandaged me up. The last thing she did was give me some ibuprofen for the pain and sent me on my way with a note for my next class. When I exited her office, Justin was still sitting there. He asked, "you okay buddy?" I said, "I would be." His smile was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen on anyone before. We better get going okay? I had a smirk on my face as we parted ways. Three class periods later and it was time for lunch. By this point we had been assigned our seventh and eighth grade buddies. I was going through the lunch line when from behind I was pushed and barely caught myself from falling over. I got my food and went to find an empty table since I didn't know anyone. After about five minutes of awkwardness, I found one in the back. I sat down and started to eat. I hadn't been eating very long or even noticed that someone had walked up to the table. I heard an ahem and looked up. To my surprise it was my knight again, Justin. He asked if he could join me. I wasn't sure why he would want to, but I said "ok sure." Justin asked how my first day was going. All I could reply was eh...it's going. Actually I can't wait for it to be over. I had to ask why he was being so nice to me? He said because I reminded him of himself a year ago. We spent the rest of lunch talking about general stuff, our interests, our likes and dislikes. We found that we had quite a bit in common. The rest of the day went by in a blur, mostly because I couldn't take my mind off of Justin. He wasn't old enough to drive yet, but as school was getting out, he asked if I wanted a ride home or would like to come over to his house and hang out? No one would be home at my house for a while yet, so I said sure and asked if I could call my mother to let her know where I'd be. Justin said that would be fine, he seemed to have an excited tone to his voice. At this point I want to take a moment to describe what Justin looks like. He is about 5'6" tall, he also had brown hair and brown eyes. Unfortunately, his clothes didn't reveal anything, but maybe I would soon have a chance to find out. To be continued...