Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:03:30 -0500
From: Cade Watson <noble.elk@gmail.com>
Subject: Just a scratch part 2

This is a work of mostly fiction. Some characters and events are real, and
some aren't.  All rights are protected and the story cannot be reproduced
without permission. Come on, you wouldn't want to steal something as crappy
as this would you?


	I sat there in algebra II, hiding my Nintendo DS behind my
binder. Now, I didn't always play games in class. Just, one day I realized
that I did terrible weather I paid close attention or not.  The teacher was
talking about factoring with two parentheses or something like that, and I
was playing Pokemon.

	I had considered paying attention in class today, really I had. But
when I got in class I realized I lost my glasses during the fall. I can't
see far, I have astigmatism, and I sit in the back of the class. Without my
glasses I was hopeless in there.

	Only half an hour left. I sat there half listening to the teacher,
half playing, while a pair of glowing hazel eyes and a brilliant grin
stayed burned in my head. Dave... a random guy who I literally ran into who
likes the same music as me.

	I have a few friends, but I don't really fell close to any of
them. Maybe it's the gay thing. Hiding a big part of your life can distance
you from people I guess. One person knows. His name is Troy and I've known
him for ten of my fifteen years on earth. We fooled around a little bit,
but he claims straight. The fact that he rarely initiates contact with me
unless his stupid laptop is broken leads me to feel used.

	"Hey, how many badges do you have?" asked Aaron. Aaron sits in
front of me. He's a runner from a huge family. He's just a bit shorter than
me, curly hair, tons freckles. He gave me the idea in the first place. One
day I saw him playing his Gameboy in class.

	"Uh...five. You?" Oh Pokemon, will I ever grow out of you?

	"Only two. I just started" Aaron replied.

	"Jack, Aaron, eyes forward. Jack, factor this problem" Mrs. Dew
snapped.

	"Uh..." oh crap. I have no clue how to do this. "x + 3 and x - 4?"
I guessed

	"Wrong. The correct answer is x + 4 and x - 3. Do you plan on
passing this class?" She asked, before going on to someone else.  The
decent mood I was in after meeting Dave had dropped. I glued my eyes to the
clock for the second time today. Mom was going to kill me for losing my
glasses. Dad would kill me because he paid for them. I imagine my stepmom
would kill me, just for good measure.

	I live with my mom and my oldest brother.  My mom and my dad
divorced when I was five. Me and Mike, my oldest brother, have different
dads. My dad and my stepmom have two sons. Charles is two, and Glenn is six
months. They are cute, for a while. Let's just say I'm glad I don't have to
live with them.

	Come on...ring... It's almost the weekend. Not that I have much to
do. Actually, I have nothing to do but clean, play final fantasy, and watch
anime.  At last the bell rang. I grabbed my stuff and having learned my
lesson, slowly walked out the door into on to the concrete second story
walk way of building three.

	"Hey, X squared plus four x minus five equals zero. Solve for x"
came a familiar voice. I turned around.

	"Dave?" as I turned around my dull brown met his glowing hazel
eyes. For a few brief seconds I felt like we were the only two people in
the world, gazing into each other's eyes. Was I falling for this guy?

	"Missing something, blindie?" Dave pulled my glasses out of his
pocket.

	"YES! Dave you totally saved me again! My parents would have killed
me!" I grabbed my glasses "I just got called out in class for not knowing
how to factor"

	"Don't let it get you down J. Dew is totally a closet lesbian who's
denying it in her head, causing her to be a total bitch." Dave laughed. I
wondered, what did that comment mean about Dave? Was he homophobic? Or did
he accept gay people?

	"Haha, yeah." I had to admit, Mrs. Dew totally seemed like the
closet lesbian type.

	"So what do little tenth graders do on the weekends now? Hi-jack
busses and knock up nuns?" Joked Dave.

	"Uh... Play Final Fantasy, watch anime, and wish I was anywhere
else doing anything else with a anyone. What do eleventh graders do?" I
asked

	"Same thing for me. All my friends are busy with their girlfriends,
totally lame" Dave sighed looking kind of sad.

	"Aww...I'm sorry Da-"my phone began to ring and cut me off. I
reached into the pocket of my cargo khaki shorts and pulled out my orange
and white phone. "Hello? What? Ugh...but mom...It's Friday! It's not my
fault you...Ugh...Fine" I hung up and frowned.

	"Whoa, what's up J?" Dave asked.

	"Mom. I have to go wait with her at work for an hour, after she
finally gets here, then we have to go run errands. If I'm lucky I'll be
home in two hours" I sighed glumly.

	"Aww, no way man..." Dave thought a bit, walked over to the bench,
and motioned for me to follow him. We sat down. "If you want, I could give
you a ride home, if you don't mind heading by my place first.

	"Wow! Really?"  I get a ride home AND a chance to hang out with
Dave? Awesome! "Let me ask mom." I called my mom and told her about Dave
and his offer. She wasn't so sure about it at first, but after I told her
about the fall, and going to the nurse, and my glasses, she said it was
fine and that she wanted to meet the guy who helped me.  "Mom said yes! She
said thanks for helping me out, and that she wants to meet you."

	"Awesome! Oh yeah, you get to meet my moms. I hope that's ok" Dave
seemed excited.

	"Moms? You have more than one?" I asked, slightly confused.

	"Yeah, remember how I said Dew was a bitch because she had that
whole mental conflict thing going on? My mom did that too, and then she
just decided to accept it. Her and my dad divorced a few years before that.
I was eleven at the time; she explained to me that it was ok for a girl to
love another girl, and for a guy to love another guy. Eventually mom
brought home this nice lady named Shannon. A few months later Shannon moved
in with us and mom declared Shannon her life partner. Dad got a laugh out
of the whole event." Dave explained

	"Wow, that's really cool Dave. I can't wait to meet them." I
beamed, Dave had lesbian parents, he had to be accepting of gays. Shoot,
maybe if I was really lucky he might be gay himself. Nah, I'm not that
lucky. Even if he was, he's bound to have a boyfriend.

	"You ready to go Jack?" Dave grabbed his book and stood up.

	"Yup! Let's go!" I grabbed my bags and followed Dave to the parking
lot. He waved and said hi to a few people on the way, I felt cool just
being with him.  We eventually got to his car. A dark blue 2006 Scion xB.

	"Like my car? Dad got it for me for my birthday. Dad's a translator
for some big company, so he's always running around the world. His parents
forced him to learn French, Spanish, German, and Japanese when he was a
kid, I guess it paid off. He makes loads, but he's always busy. He has a
pretty cool house in New York; he isn't there too often though. But he
always makes sure to fly here for my birthday. He and mom get along pretty
well."  Dave explained
	"Whoa! My dad is just a maintenance man for the school system. My
mom is a struggling restaurant owner. They divorced when I was five. We're
pretty poor, but we manage" I smiled. Dave looked at me kind of sad.

	"Well, your chariot waits!" Dave got in the car and I got in the
front seat. He popped in a cd and suddenly the car was filled with the
familiar tune of `Kimi to Iu Hana', the song that skyrocketed my favorite
band, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, to fame.

	"Nice song. It's one of their best." We pulled out of the school
parking lot and I glanced over at him.  He was wearing a pair of cargo
khakis like mine, and his black Nano-Mugen fest tee shirt.  His legs were
sort of hairy, and his legs led down to a pair of feet with a pair of flip
flips on them. His car was clean for the most part, except for a few stray
papers. He was really cute, had great taste in music, he was nice, semi
clean... I think I was falling.

	"You hungry?" Dave asked

	"Nah, not really" I lied.

	"Yeah you're bad at lying. You didn't have lunch today. I'm
starving, your starving, let's get lunch! Is sonic ok?" Dave asked

	"Sure!" I smiled. He wasn't making me like him any less. We into a
parking lot and he examined the menu.

	"I'm gonna get a double cheese burger, tots, and a shake. What
about you little dude? Dave asked

	"Uh...I want a burger soo bad... but I swore off red meat a few
months ago...I'll get chicken strips I guess, and a cherry limeade" I
replied

	"What? No red meat? You're so weird, you and mom and Shannon will
get along great. They are vegetarians too. I like my meat." Dave said. He
likes his meat? Oh god how can I not giggle at that one.  Dave ordered for
us and I pulled out my lunch money and handed it to him.

	"What's this for?" Dave asked

	"The food?" I replied.

	"Oh no no no. You're the guest, and I offered, I'm paying." He said
in his insisting tone of voice.

	"What? No way! Let me pay" Mom always taught me to be polite and
pay for myself.

	"Jeez J, remind me not to take you out for lunch again" Dave smiled
at me. "Listen, I'm paying. End of story"

	"Ok ok, fine." I grinned at Dave, and we sat there like that, just
smiling at each other until the lady came with our food. Dave paid her and
we began to chow down. I forgot how hungry I was as I wolfed down my
chicken tenders and slurped up my cherry limeade. Dave watched and laughed

	"Wow, I didn't mean to keep the ravenous beast from his beloved
feed for so long." Dave lauged as he ate his burger faster than a normal
person would.

	"You aren't so dainty yourself" I replied, still smiling at him.

	"Yeah yeah, be nice, I saved your beloved glasses AND bought you
food" Dave reminded me. His smirk was charming. "All right, ready to head
to my place?" Dave asked

	"Yup! Let's go!" I beamed at Dave. I don't think I could frown
around him. We pulled out of sonic and down the highway. While we drive he
told me about his moms. His biological mom, Sarah, was a dentist, and
Shannon was a psychologist. They both had high hopes for their son
Dave. Dave didn't really have much of a plan. I told him about my mom, and
dad, and brothers. He seemed genuinely interested, himself being an only
child. We eventually pulled up to the entrance to a gated community. "Wow,
rich boy lives in a fancy neighborhood" I joked.

	"Yeah, it's pretty nice. It's got all the tennis courts and the gym
and pool and all that, but it's a real pain to try to get guests in
here. You have to call ahead, tell the gate keeper what the person's name
is, what they will be driving, then they have to navigate thought this
stupid maze." Dave explained. We drove past the gate and in to the
neighborhood. After driving a bit we parked in front of a nice two story
house. It had a concrete drive way, a two car garage, a well kept lawn,
vinyl siding. It was a pretty nice place. "Well, let's go" Dave and I got
out of the car and I followed.  We walked through his front door and he
shouted "Mom, I'm home, and I brought a friend" He called me his friend,
wow.

	"Just a sec sweetie, I'll be right there." A voice called
out. Suddenly, two figures emerged from the door way in front of us. One
was tall, about David's height, long, straight, dark hair, thin and
slightly tan. She was wearing a White blouse and tan pants. The other was
slightly shorter, about my height. She had shoulder length black hair, a
little less tan, also thin. She was wearing a Light blue tank top and
similar pants.

	"Mom, Shannon, this is Jack" Dave introduced me.

	"Hello Jack, I'm David's mom, you can call me Sarah" She smiled
sweetly at me.

	"Hi! I'm his other mom, you can call me Shannon!" She had a huge
grin.

	"Hi, I'm Jack." I nervously replied

	"Come on J!" Dave motioned as he walked up stairs.

	"Nice to meet you both" I nodded my head slightly and followed
after Dave.

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~End Part 2~

Thanks a lot to everyone who emailed me about part one! You guys are the
reason I stayed up till after 1am to finish this :)

I'm desperate for comments, suggestions, questions, criticisms, or if you
just want to say hi :) email me at noble.elk@gmail.com I'll try my best to
respond. I don't expect to get much fan mail from this :P