It's Complicated!... Yea, Not Really.
Length: One-shot
Genre: Fluff, Romance, Humor
Rating: G
Summary: In the heat of the moment, I did something stupid. When it was over, I realized I must be gay. Um, why don't you just read the story? Slash.
Lynwood Colligate, the school I'm from, was famous for two things; our city renowned art program and our amazing ability to lose the Provincial track meet... twenty-three times in a row.
Yea, pathetic, I know. I think the neighborhood started to lose faith around the fifteenth loss. When we tried again this year everyone thought we'd finally cracked; Trying again now was like... Cultural suicide! (yea, I don t know any other way to put it.).
Of course, no one else knew about our secret weapon. Tori Jameson.
You wouldn't really guess that he'd be a secret weapon until you see him run, and man can that kid run.
The first time he showed up to tryouts, we all laughed. Tori was a freshman who transferred halfway through first semester. He didn't have many friends and not many people knew about him. If that wasn't enough of a reason to be suspicious, Tori was fourteen, he looked ten.
I swear he has a total height of five feet. His face is really round, and he has really big, round eyes. When I described him to my older, 'Otaku' sister, she described him as 'Moe' , whatever that is.
Anyways, I'm getting off point. The point is, Tori can run. Alrighty, we got that straight, don't we?
Half-way through the meet... we were losing. Actually, it wasn't so bad. We were only losing by a few points. We had a chance of winning, as long as we won the relay.
We started out strong, I was first. I passed the baton to Jamie; he's our second best runner. Things were going well, or so it seemed. By the time the baton was passed to Chris, we started to fall behind. I could the people who came to cheer for us start to leave, they'd given up on us. Oh well. With or without them, it was all the same, besides, we still had our secret weapon.
The baton finally reached Tori, and the kid took a mad dash for the finish line.
Had it been me or one of the other runners in his place, we would never have caught up to the opponent. Tori was like our god sent miracle runner! Because on that day, Lynwood Collegiate won the track meet!
We were all ecstatic. Jamie ambushed our little team mate first, all but tackling his small body to the ground. "Man, you re awesome!" He yelled.
Then Chris, being bigger than the rest of us, hoisted him off the ground, spinning him. The scene we were putting on was actually quite comic; you'd think we were all a bunch of loons.
When Chris finally put the guy down, I went up and wrapped my arms around him in a manly hug.
"God, Tori! You re awesome! I love you!" Tori beamed at me, and opened his mouth to say something... and that's when it happened.
I wasn't exactly thinking straight, see, I was, like, high on the win or something because in that moment I grabbed Tori's face and kissed him full on the lips. I didn't really think about it much, it was just a small peck, and my friends and me would do stuff like that jokingly to each other all the time.
Tori's brain obviously functioned differently than mine.
"You stole it!" I was startled by his sudden accusation. And the fact that he looked like he was gonna cry. Oh and finger he suddenly whipped at me, it almost took out my eye, no kidding.
"Stole what?" I asked. I didn't particularly remember taking anything from him.
"My first kiss..." he chocked.
"Huh?" At that point I was thinking something like, the fuck? What kind of a guy cries over something like that!
"Give it back! Give it back! Give it back!" he cried, shaking me by the shoulders, which startled me. What the fuck?! I remember thinking. How the hell do I give back a kiss!
"Tori! Calm down! It s just a kiss! It didn't mean anything!" I reasoned.
"It does to me!" Tori wailed. Honestly, I'd never seen a grown boy cry like Tori had then, and if I hadn't known any better, I would have thought he was a girl. Either way, he was starting to get on my nerves.
"Fine! I'll give it back! Here!" and then yea... I kissed him again, this time longer and harder than before.
I didn't realize what I'd done until Jamie and Chris started cheering and laughing around us.
Shit.
A peck on the lips to a teammate in the heat of the moment is sorta fine I guess... but I just made out with Tori in front of the entire crowd. Shit.
I was freaking out! And if I was freaking out what about Tori?
I looked at him to see if he was okay. He had a really dumbstruck look on his face. I reached out to touch him and he seemed to snap out of a trance. He looked at me, his eyes seemed to widen then they welled up with tears, all the while blushing. And after that? Well this is Tori remember? The kid ran, ran like there was no tomorrow.
"Poor kid." I heard Jamie snicker behind me. He slung an arm around me and stared at the direction Tori had run off in. "I bet you traumatized him, Aaron."
It was my turn to be dumbstruck.
Turns out that no one really cared that we kissed. Most of the crowd was so excited about the win that they weren't paying attention to us. Still, Tori hadn't shown up to practice the next week. And every time I saw him in the halls, which rare cause he was a freshman and I was a junior, he ran away.
I didn't think I'd ever get a chance to talk with him the way he ran.
That is, until I went up to the roof one day and found him sitting by the door, conveniently.
"You!" I shouted, startling him. I saw he was about to get up so I slammed the door shut. "Don't you dare try to run away from me! I need to talk to you." He seemed scared and I realized that yelled at him. "Sorry." I said quickly.
Then things got real quiet between us, it was sort of unnerving. Tori, I realized wasn't going to say anything anytime soon, so I broke the silence.
"Hey um Tori?" I started, nervously rubbing the back of my neck. "I'm sorry I kissed you."
Tori didn't look up at me, his head was buried between his knees and I didn't hear any response from him.
"Look man, I know that I'm a guy, and you probably wanted you re first kiss to be with some hot chick you l-"
"znatit." I heard him mumble.
"Wha?" I asked "Wha'd you say?"
"That's not it." He said, peeking up too look at me from behind his bangs. Don't know why, but I found the gesture super cute.
"Huh?" that was my ingenious response. Yea, I m so smart.
"That's not it, I don't mind you kissing me." Okay yea, that clears things up a lot. Tori realized that I still didn't get it. So he elaborated for me. "I. Like. You."
And at that moment, it felt like a fire cracker went off in my ribcage.
I stared stupidly at him for a while, until he looked away from me.
When my mind seemed to processes what he said, I was shocked that I wasn't disgusted. Actually, I was happy, ecstatic! It was like I'd been waiting my entire life to hear those words!
Now, instead of wondering if I'd eaten something weird to make me think like that. I scrambled down beside him. I could feel my cheeks ache from the grin on my face.
"Wh-what is it?" Tori asked nervously.
"You like me?" Tori looked away from me, a cute blush painted his cheeks red. He nodded.
"Like, LIKE like?" I asked, turning myself so I could see his face.
"Y-yea."
I felt the grin on my face widen, I really couldn't help it, it was like my face had a mind of its own (creepy... )
"So... if you like me... can I kiss you again?" I could see the shock on Tori s face. I'm sure he expecting me to make fun of him, not ask him is I could kiss him. Either way he said yes.
And so that's how it went.
We've been together for three years now, and when I think back on it, it was that one incident that made it all happen. And despite my sister constantly gushing over me and my boyfriend, I wouldn't change anything for the world.
End
(By the way, if you're wondering, when I told my sister I had feelings for a guy, she totally freaked on me. I thought she was gonna kill me, but it turned out she's actually crazy about GuyxGuy relationships. Now I know what Yaoi is... And moe. Tori is defiantly moe.
Now, if I could only get her to stop asking if we'd had sex yet )
Okay, now! The end!