Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:26:01 EST
From: DefJamMariah85@aol.com
Subject: When Souls Fly Free chpt2
An alarm clock sounded off at 7:30 pm as Terell gently
opened his brown eyes to the sunlight of dawn that shown through the
curtains of his new bedroom window. A faint scent of scrambled eggs
and bacon wafted through his nostrils as he began to get up out of bed
He trotted downstairs and found his mother in front of the stove, a
stern but soft sight she was.
"Good morning mama" he said gently kissing her on the cheek
"Mornin" his mother replied "You looking for a job today right?"
"Yes Ma'am" he said, he respected immensly as she raised him all
by herself since the age of 7 when his father left them for no reason.
Terell had seen what it did to his mother, it devastated her and it
showed. Through it all, Terell had always been by her side.
Terell finished his breakfast and lept up the stairs to his
room to get ready to job hunt. As he fumbled through clothes
still unpacked he found an old picture of his father loose
at the bottom of the box. He couldnt help but feel a pang of hurt
as to why he had left him so young. But that quickly faded as he noticed
a movement out of the corner of his eye. He had never noticed that
Marcus was in the room across from him...he caught a glimpse of him
cleaning his camera.
"He seems like a nice kid...not to mention CUTE" Terell thought
to himself. But he quickly shook himself back into reality and
got back to preparing himself for the day. His thoughts were
centered on getting himself a job today...or at least try to.
In his hurried attempt to grab a pair of socks he accidentally
knocked over another unpacked box sending it tumbling to the floor.
Terell shot over to pick it up as he noticed one of his secret
gay porn magazines slipped out of all the mess.
"Crap, mom will KILL me if she finds this" . Obviously, Terell
had to always hide his sexuality from his mother.
As he went down the stairs and stepped out the front door,
he said goodbye to his mother and went to apply for employment
at the local grocery store. He got 2 blocks away from his
house and was standing at a crossing about to cross when he saw
a 4 door Sedan roll up in front of him. It was Marcus.
"Need a ride man?" Marcus had luckily happen to be driving through
the same time Terell was crossing. He wasnt about to miss out
on an opportunity to help someone or make a friend. Terell paused
for a moment...he took a while to recognize Marcus.
"Oh hey Marcus!..um..i guess its cool" Terell opened the passenger
side of the Sedan and hopped in.
"Where to?" asked Marcus
"To the grocery...my butt has got to apply for a job" Terell
said making Marcus laugh a little.
"You got it!" Marcus said as he pulled into the street.
They drove for another block or so. At this point Marcus was
seriously wondering wether Terell was gay too...he thought he saw
him checking him out a few times through the side view mirror trying
to be slick.
"Thanks for the lift man, so..how long have you lived here?"
Terell asked Marcus.
Marcus went on to tell his life story, his southern friendly side
coming out as he stated he was born here but left a while back for
New York. Terell sat there in his seat ...totally enthralled in
his story of traveling the world and meeting photographers and
important people. He had never done anything close to that. Something
inside Terell sparked...actually, he was bit by bit developing a
crush on Marcus. To Terell, Marcus seemed worldly, friendly, and
interesting, but he couldnt help but feel terrified at the
posibility that Marcus might be straight and would feel horrified
if he found out it was obvious he was gay too.
They finally arrived at the grocery and they found a parking
space that was close. They both stepped out of the car and walked
towards the store. It was a slightly overcast day..it seemed as though
the clouds wanted to tease the sun or something.
"I gotta get some groceries for our house so I might as well
go in as well, ya wanna meet back here when youre through?"
"Sure...see ya in a few!" Terell waved as he wondered if Marcus
was checking him out as he walked away.
Terell walked up to the customer service desk and asked for an
application.
"Are you all hiring at the moment?" he asked the clerk.
"Why yes we are..we might be able to use you if theres an
opening" she said...then she suddenly looked up "Marcus is that you?!"
"Jesse?!" Marcus appeared with a small basket of groceries.
Terell looked dumbfounded as he looked at the two conversing,
filling out his application.
"Since when have you been back?!, its been like forever!" Jesse
shouted.
Marcus trotted over happy to see his old friend and co worker.
"Hey Terell...sorry about that...this is Jesse..my old friend,
Jesse this is Terell...he just moved here" Marcus said politetly
"Nice to meet you...wow...guess everybody knows eachother here"
Terell asked "Ok all done" He said as he turned in his application.
"Thanks...so...you know Marcus now hehe...take it from me..he's
a DORK!" she said in her usual joking tone
"WHATEVER!" Marcus retorted
"I think we might be friends soon", Terell said placing his
hand on Marcus's shoulder subconciously in a "damn i wanna touch
you" state of mind.
"Well, we better be off, it was cool sein you again Jesse..im
back for a while i guess...see ya later!" Marcus and Terell started
towards the front exit of the store.
"I guess that means we're friends now?" Marcus asked smiling.
"Yeah...its cool" Terell replied trying not to sound too
immature and naive. Suddenly they heard cries from behind them.
"You hear that?" Marcus asked as they turned around to see
a little girl crying all by herself in the parking lot.
"Wheres my mommy?"..........
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