Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:43:14 +0100
From: Matt Brown <darthkitty22@gmail.com>
Subject: My New Friend from America: Chapter 1

Hi! This is my first attempt at a story for Nifty, so any feedback and
comments are appreciated! You can send me an email at
darthkitty22@gmail.com

Hope you enjoy the story! :)

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Hey! My name's Eric, I'm 14 years old and I live in boring old England.
Well I say boring, I guess it's okay sometimes... At least my little patch
of England is pretty nice! I live in a rather well-off little neighbourhood
called Pine View, where the houses are big, the cars are big, the gardens
are big, the pools are big... But then I guess everything is big to a
relatively small 14 year old haha.

Let me tell you a bit about me! I'm 14 years old, like I said, and quite
small for my age I guess. I'm around 5 foot 4 inches tall, so most people
in my year at school are bigger than me. I have jet black hair that I
always like to spike up at the front, pretty pale skin, brown eyes and I
have to wear stupid glasses. I mean, the glasses aren't actually stupid,
but they are pretty annoying, but my mum says I can't have laser eye
surgery until I'm older! Pfft... I also really love Star Wars and
Minecraft, and I'm really into gymnastics, taking part in all sorts of
competitions inside and outside of school! Anyway, it also turns out that
loads of girls at school for some strange reason think I'm pretty
cute. They talk about me when they think I can't hear (or maybe they know I
can?) and they talk about my little button nose, and dimples, and
eyelashes... It's kinda weird, but also in a way it's just a little bit
cool! But none of them know that I'm not super interested in their comments
about me... In fact, only 2 other people in the whole world know about
that.

You see, I'm gay. I've known I was gay pretty much ever since I discovered
gym class at school, and the internet haha... And only 3 people in the
world know it; me, and my two best friends Charlie and Phoebe. When I say
two `best' friends, I kinda mean only real friends. It's not that I'm not
popular, because I guess I am, but I'm not very good at talking to people
and making friends. For a start I'm super shy, like really super shy. I get
flustered just at having to answer a teacher's question in class! But
Phoebe and Charlie are really nice to me, and look after me, and like lots
of the same things as me, so it's all good with those guys. They like to
think of me as their little gay best friend, and look after me like some
kind of kid haha... I guess I am still a kid, and I am their best friend,
and I am little, and I am gay, but still... It's pretty funny mostly
though! But the whole gay thing is kind of the reason I'm so shy and not
very good with people. I'm really nervous about what would happen if
anybody at school found out; kids these days are very mean and I'm certain
I would get bullied for it. Also sometimes when the girls talk about my
eyelashes and dimples and stuff, I wonder if they might be commenting on
the fact that I'm far from the most masculine boy in the world haha...

So basically what I'm saying is I'm nervous, shy, not very good at making
friends, a little bit lonely (although very attached to my two best
friends) and certain that if anybody found out that I am gay then they
would bully me for it. Not the best outlook on life, I know, but I can't
help it! I sometimes check out the other boys in gym class, and daydream
about any of them being gay and liking me, but meeting another gay boy who
likes me will never happen, right?

Well anyway, now I've introduced myself, let's get to what's happening now!
It's about a week before we go back to school from the summer break, and I
decided to go out for a bike ride to Charlie's house. We're going to play
Minecraft of course! So I sorted it all with my mum, and set off. Charlie
only lives two streets away from me, so it wouldn't be a very long trip and
I could take it nice and easy. As I was riding down my street, right at the
end I noticed a removal van outside the big house at the end of the
road. Finally! It's been on sale for such a long time, and I admit I was
eager to stop outside and be a bit nosey, have a look to see who will be
moving in haha... What I didn't expect to find was the most sexy boy I've
ever seen, struggling with a big box on the front lawn!  He was a few
inches taller than me, and he had the greatest blond surfer hairstyle ever!
And he had these really bright blue sparkling eyes, and a really nice shade
of tan, and he was wearing a really tight white sports type t-shirt, which
was also a bit wet so I could see the outline of his body, and his muscles
looked...

"Hellooooo?" I guess I must have been staring, because all of a sudden he
was right there in front of me. Gulp... "Hey? Hey man..."

I snapped out of it and blushed a rather deep shade of red
"oh... umm... sorry! I mean uh... hi? Uh..."

He chuckled "take a picture next time bro, it'll last longer!" and smiled a
wonderful smile at me. I noticed he spoke with an accent from somewhere in
America, and I thought it was so cute and cool!

"Hey anyway, I'm Tyler!" he said. I replied telling him that I'm Eric, and
he asked if I go to school around here.

"Yeah, I go to... uh... Pine View High School, just down the road... I'll
be starting my third year in around a week" I was still stammering because,
well I explained how nervous I get with strangers, and it didn't help that
this particular stranger was super cute.

cool!" he exclaimed. "I'll be starting in the third year at that school
after the summer break as well! Hey Eric, could you maybe ummm help me just
take this box into my garage? It's a little too big for me to carry on my
own haha... That is, if you have time or whatever?"

"Oh yeah, sure man!" I rested my bike down on the grass and picked up one
side of the box. With a little huffing and puffing, we got there in the
end. As we set it down, we heard his mum call from somewhere in the house

"Tyler come and get a drink honey, and then we'll deal with the last few
boxes!"

"Well, I guess I have to go now, so thanks for helping me buddy! It was
nice meeting you Eric, hopefully I'll see you around at school next week,
or even before then if I'm lucky!" he said, then he winked at me and
flashed that wonderful smile again. And again, I turned red...

"It was uh nice meeting you too Tyler! I'll uh... see you around!" I
stuttered out, and then gave him a nervous smile and went to get back on my
bike. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket, and found it was a text from
Charlie wondering if I'd got lost on the way to his house haha... I replied
that I got caught up with something, and I'd be there in a few minutes. I
took one last hopeful look at Tyler's garage, but he must have gone
inside. So feeling quite a mixture of feelings, I left for Charlie's house
and an afternoon of Minecraft and chilling out. Maybe we could even play in
the pool for a bit! One thing for sure though, was that Tyler was in my
head all the way to Charlie's house...