Jake's Point of View
The next morning, as I was driving to pick up Danny for school, I was a bundle of nerves. I had no idea how he would react to my admission the night before, so I had no idea how I should act around him. I really didn't mean to tell him I loved him, but he caught me completely off guard with his boldness, and I couldn't help it, it just came out.
No pun intended.
When I finally arrived at his house, I still hadn't made up my mind, so I just walked up to the door and knocked. I would just play it by ear.
I knocked twice before Danny opened the door.
"Hi!" he said with a smile.
"Hi," I said with a smile of my own. "Good morning. You ready to go?"
"Yeah." He grabbed me by the neck and pulled me in for a quick kiss before stepping out and locking the door. "Let's go," he said, holding his hand out to me.
I was really surprised. He didn't seem shocked or freaked out by any means. He was being very affectionate actually, so I took his hand and we went to school.
*
School, as always, was uneventful, except for the fact that it seemed every single person in there now knew Danny and I were dating.
A lot of students stared at us when we arrived holding hands, but I didn´t care. I was holding Danny´s hand, I'd finally told him that I loved him and he seemed happy about it, so I decided not to let a few stares affect me.
During lunch, we sat at our regular table with our friends, and everything seemed normal. Mike, one of my football teammates was talking about some girl he had recently hooked up with while Ian listened intently. Sarah, being the gossip that she was, was telling Nora the latest piece of news she had learned, while Rachel and Danny were chatting away. It was all every day stuff, except for the fact that I was holding Danny's hand under the table, and he was using his index finger to draw circles in my palm while he talked to our best friend.
I was totally oblivious to what they were saying, until Danny stopped drawing circles in my hand and gave it a pull.
"Jake!" he said.
"What?" I asked, a little startled. "Where you talking to me?"
"Yeah," he said with an amused smile. "Rachel and I were talking about the Halloween party. It's this thursday."
"That's in two days," I said.
"Yeah," said Rachel excitedly. "And Danny tells me you guys don't have costumes yet."
"Wait, are we going to this party?" I asked.
"Yes!" Danny and Rachel said in unison.
"Of course we are," said Danny. "Unless... you don't want to go?"
I really didn't, but looking into my baby's beautiful blue eyes I couldn't say no to him. "Yeah, sure," I said. "I just thought we could do something together, you know? Just you and I."
"You can do that anytime," Rachel intruded. "This is you guys' first party as a couple. You HAVE to go."
"You really wanna go?" I asked Danny.
"Yeah," he said with a smile. "I wanna parade you around. Show everyone who my man is." I couldn't help but smile at that.
"Alright," I said. "Then it's settled."
"Thank you," he said and leaned in to give me a quick kiss.
"Dude!" we heard from across the table. "Come on, I'm right in front of you!" Mike whined.
"So?" I asked. "You've known I'm gay for years."
"Well, yeah," he said, "but you hadn't had a boyfriend before. I'd never seen you in action."
The girls giggled at that, and Ian nodded.
"You still haven't," I said, right before I took Danny by the back of his neck and pulled him in for a searing kiss. He resisted at first, but when I put my tongue inside his mouth, he melted into me and put his all into the kiss. He grabbed a fistful of my shirt and pulled me as close to him as possible, and he kissed me with as much passion as the night before.
When we pulled apart, Danny was a little flushed, and he gave me a shy smile before he went back to eating his lunch.
Then I turned to Michael and Ian, and they were both wide eyed and had their mouths hanging open.
"Now you've seen me in action," I told them, and I went back to my lunch too.
I heard Sarah and Nora giggling again, and when I sneaked a glance at Rachel, she was shaking her head with a smile on her face.
*
That afternoon, I took Danny home after school and had lunch with him and his mom. I didn´t have much to do after that, so I texted my mom saying I'd be spending the afternoon with him.
We watched TV for awhile, but there wasn´t much to see, and besides I wanted to talk to Danny about what'd happened the night before, so I suggested we went out for a walk. He agreed and put on a sweater before we went out the door holding hands.
"Baby?" I asked as we walked down the street.
"Yeah?" he asked with a smile.