Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:27:20 +1000
From: The Haydster <thehaydster@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Love On Campus - Chapter 13

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Love On Campus
by theHaydster
Copyright 2006, theHaydster. All rights reserved
PLEASE email me at thehaydster@yahoo.com.au I run off feedback!

Hey! Thought I should warn you, there may be a fair old delay between this
and the next chapter, as uni exams are on the way. Thanks for reading.

Thanks goes to Alex for reading over my stories and providing feedback
before posting, and for being an inspiration.

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Chapter 13

We rode back to St. Andrews where Kate let us in the back way, so we didn't
have to go past the security guard, who never seems to let anyone in, even
with an invitation. He also reminds me of a gorilla. The back entrance
opens on to D wing, where Kate's room is. She is in room D204, which is not
the 204th room in D wing. It works like most hotels, She's on the second
floor, and it's the fourth room on the second floor. It being one floor up,
Alex & I were conscripted to carry her bags to her room.

She had 2 ports (suitcases), a carry-on and her handbag (how she charmed
the airline into letting her take 2 ports, I will never know). Once we got
them out of the boot (trunk), Alex locked the car and picked up 2 of the
ports like shopping bags. I struggled with the third port, which Alex had
made sure was the pink one. Remind me never to take a job as a bellboy. I
nearly died getting it up the stairs. By the time I got it to Kate's room I
was sure the port was full of lead. Alex heaved the port onto the bed along
with the other two, and he was also surprised at it's weight.

"Come on guys, help me unpack" Kate said, springing open her suitcases. I
took one look at the port I had heaved to her room and saw that it was full
of her uni books. No wonder it was heavy. Kate directed us as to where her
clothes were to go while she unpacked her uni stuff. We left her lingerie
till last, which she put away herself, thank goodness. Kate said that she
had lots of photos of Perth, and that she would show them to us some time,
but she was tired from the flight. "Thanks for helping me unpack, but I'm
knackered." With that she flopped down on her bed, then jumped up again
"Oh, I'd better see you out, so you don't get into trouble. At least
everyone knows that you aren't a danger to the girls" Alex and I blushed at
that.

We arrived back at St. Marks and went to my room. There was a message on my
phone saying that we would definitely have to appear in court as the
defence lawyer had informed the prosecutor that he intended to prove that
the video and audio tape was falsified evidence, and everyone had pleaded
not guilty. We were to fly down the day before the trial, but would not be
required to stay after we had given evidence.

The St. Marks college ball was happening the coming weekend and we were
expected to get dates for it. "Alex, since we're out, can't we take each
other to the ball?" I proposed.  "I don't know Dave, we are out, but we
don't want to stand on anyone's toes too much. Also I'm sure that Kate and
Felicity will be expecting us to take them, as they want to go to the
ball."  "You are right about that, but I am sure that there are some other
guys that want to take them. Tiny and Scotty are a bit worried as they have
no dates for the ball."  "Still, guys just don't take other guys to the
ball."  "Alex, you mean that they haven't done it yet. Admittedly it hasn't
happened before, but I can't see any reason as to why it can't happen. If
you are set against it we don't have to do it, but I would really like it
for you to be my date for the ball." With that Alex started grinning and
said "Ok, to hell with treading on anyones toes. We are out or we're
not. We are so we may as well take the benefits. I still think that we
should check whether college admin lets us."

The office lady's eyebrows rose into her curly hair when we told her of our
request. "I-I'll have to ask Mr. Johnsson about that tomorrow, it's never
been done before." Alex replied with "That's why we're asking whether we
can do it." "I'll get back to you tomorrow about it" she assured us. Then
we had our uni work to catch up on.

As much as I love Alex, I still have to admit that when it comes to maths,
he is terrible. It didn't help that one of our subjects was physics. I
explained the maths behind trajectories and moved on from there. My problem
was the lab report, I am no good with words so Alex helped me to get the
right words and it sounded pretty good at the end. The work took us through
to lunchtime.

After lunch we started to dig out our formal suits, as they would probably
need to be dry-cleaned. As soon as I had got my suit out Alex came in with
his and hung it up next to mine saying, with an evil grin, "By the way,
you're the one wearing the dress". I promptly tackled him to the floor for
that joke, or rather I tried to. As soon as Alex worked out that I was
going to tackle him he put up his foot and flipped me over his head. As
soon as I hit the floor he pinned me down. I gave up then and we took our
suits to the dry-cleaners.

After dropping our suits off we went back to my room and went for an
afternoon walk around the uni. We decided to go through the gardens,
otherwise I knew that I would be too scared to pass through there
again. Alex didn't seem scared at all to pass through there. I don't know
how he did it. I was jumpy all the way through there and was glad to come
out the other side.

The rest of our walk went pretty uneventfully, and we got to bed early that
night, as we had an 8am lecture the next morning. Both our subpoenas
arrived in the mail and we also received notes saying that there was no
rule against us taking each other to the college ball. We called Kate and
Felicity, and they were happy to go with Tiny and Scotty. Tiny and Scotty
were ecstatic, as they were really worried about going stag. Going alone to
the ball is seriously uncool. That afternoon our suits were ready, and we
picked them up.

Throughout the week we pretty much followed the same schedule. Wake up
(alternating between rooms), shower together and have breakfast, go to
lectures and pracs, go back to college, study interspersed with kisses, go
for walk and then have fun or make out (or have fun making out). The week
passed quickly and I couldn't believe that it was Friday afternoon when it
came around. After a light snack at 5 Alex and I started to get ready for
the ball.

The St. Mark's College Ball is pretty much the ball to go to. I know I'm
biased, but Kate told me that is the rumour around St. Andrews. Actually,
she also told us that it looked like Tiny and Scotty had been too nervous
to ask any of the girls at St. Andrews to the ball, as a lot of the girls
thought that they were studs. The ball is held at City Hall in their
ballroom and is a dinner and dancing. That is saying something in itself as
most colleges hold their balls in their dining halls or something. I'm not
saying that their balls aren't great, because they are, but the St. Mark's
Ball is the ball to go to, like the way the Burke Blast (Burke college
party) is the party to go to.

Tim, Scotty, Alex and I pooled our money to hire a stretch limo to take us
to the ball and back. Tim and Josh wanted to take their dates
separately. We were all dressed up and ready to go when the limo arrived at
St. Mark's (Alex looks HOT dressed up). The limo took us to St. Andrew's
where we were picked up Kate and Felicity. I swear I saw some of the girls
turn green with envy. After all, two good looking guys, with good manners
picking up two girls who are also good looking (I'm gay, not blind) in a
stretch limo to go to THE ball. I can understand them being jealous. Tiny
and Scotty were really courteous, helping the girls into the limo and they
had even arranged corsages (flower arrangements to be worn, look it up if
you don't know what it means)

When we turned up at City Hall around quarter to six (it starts at six)
there were quite a few raised eyebrows when the limo turned up amongst a
squad of taxis. The looks turned to surprise when Tiny and Scotty helped
Kate and Felicity out, as all four of them look very different in their
formal gear (Kate most of all, because she normally wears jeans and a
t-shirt). A lot of the looks turned to shock when Alex and I got out of the
limo. The student club ball committee had to be informed (so they could
organise the tables properly), but they hadn't told anyone. We got a
knowing wink from the guy at the door who ticked us off the guest
list. Once he gave us our drink vouchers and we had our 18+ IDs checked by
security, we went to our table.

The drinks at the ball work like this. You are allowed alcohol as much as
you want for the first hour, but after that you need to supply a drink
ticket. You are given eight drink tickets at the door and that's it. The
idea is that it stops people getting drunk (it doesn't always work).

The round tables seat 4 couples so Tiny, Scotty, Kate and Felicity were
sitting at our table. It also turned out that Josh and his date were at our
table. We were surprised about that, as we didn't think he'd want to sit at
a different table to Tim (after all, they are boyfriends). We asked where
Tim was sitting and Tiny told us that he wasn't coming! We were all shocked
at that news, but it turned out that he had something on that night. Once
we all sat down (we were still waiting on Josh and his date) we had a drink
and started chatting (I had a Coke, as I wanted to keep sober so I would
get good photos). The last couples were coming into the hall when a gasp
when up from the ballroom door. All heads at our table turned towards the
door as we saw Josh and Tim walk calmly up to our table, arm in arm.

Alex and I were the first to recover. "Well, you two chose one hell of a
way to come out" he commented while everyone else was prying their jaws off
the floor. "No point in leaving stuff to chance" Tim replied with a
smile. "Quit looking so surprised, I said I had something that I was going
to, I just didn't say it was the same thing as you" He added, grinning.
Tiny and Scotty were still open-mouthed, but Kate and Felicity were taking
it in their stride now. Josh commented that Tiny and Scotty were about to
get very dry mouths, which brought them back to earth with a laugh. It
turned out even the ball committee didn't know about their plans, so they
had shocked everyone. Once they had sat down and got a drink though,
everyone seemed to have recovered from the shock.


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