It was a Sunday afternoon in May. I had spent the whole weekend outside in the sun, enjoying the warm weather. Excitement buzzed in my house all weekend. My brothers friend Josh was home from North Carolina and he was coming over to spend the night with us before he had to go back.
It was about 5pm when I saw him walk down the hall passed my bedroom. I was sitting on my bed from just getting out of the shower and was lathering on some Victoria's Secret lotion. On his way back, he paused at my door, then just walked in and looked at me for a second before asking,
"What are you doing?"
Stating the obvious, I said,
"I just got out of the shower and putting on some lotion. What are you doing?"
"Nothing," he said. "About to go play some Halo with Chris. You gonna come hang out with us?"
"Yeah, later," I said.
"Oh, okay." He responded and walked out of my room, back down the hall.
I didn't know what to think about our little encounter. He seemed a little nervous, which he never did around me. We had always been closer than anyone thought.
I finished doing what I was doing, made myself some dinner and watched some TV. When I finished, I cleaned up the dishes then went down to my brothers room. I knocked on the door and walked in. Chris was playing video games and Josh was lounging on the bed.
"Hey," he said, smiling.
"Whatcha doing?" I asked.
"Nothing, just watching Chris play Halo. I didn't want to play, it's nice just hanging out. You can come sit with me, if you want, I mean, there is enough room."
So I went over and sat with him. Things seemed a little awkward between us, which I found weird. We weren't usually like that. Then my brother started talking about the crazy things we use to do and before I knew it, we were all laughing and playing around.
I started playing music on my little MP3 player that had an open speaker on it so we all could listen to music. Josh took it from me and started flipping through the songs. We laid on the bed together, laughing and goofing around with each other.
It was getting late. I looked at the clock, it was after midnight. Josh and I were a little hyper. I went into the kitchen and he followed. I took out a bottle of Malibu and we started doing shots. We killed the rest of the bottle in like 10 minutes.
We went back into Chris's room and laid on the bed together, feeling a little warmer than when we left. Chris was into his video game. We wanted to watch a movie and tried to get Chris to pick a movie to watch with us, but he protested every time.