Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 19:59:19 +0000
From: Joao Silva peixoto <historias46@hotmail.com>
Subject: pumpkin 7

Well, I'm back; I just want to apologise to everyone. I stopped writing
cause I didn't had no inspiration, and I had a lot of exams, but now I'm on
Summer vacations and I'll try to continue writing this, thanks again for the
support. If you want to say anything e-mail me to historias46@hotmail.com

Pumpkin 7


Well the weekend had started... me and Pete were on the bus to go home, we
were sated on the end of the bus, and I was starting to think about what we
were doing that weekend. Of course that besides the obvious we had to pass
some time with Gill since he needed someone now! Pete also seemed to need
someone now cause he wouldn't stop with his hand... I wasn't complaining but
someone could see it, I looked at Pete and he just smiled. I groaned
silently.

"If you continue like that I'll have to do something drastic!" I whispered
to him

"I hope I'm included on that!" he said smiling" Relax no one saw it, I'm
careful you know, everyone thinks that I'm clumsy and that I don't have
responsibility but I do have..."

"I don't think that!" I said squeaking his hand

He smiled and looked out at the window... We were almost there, my house
wasn't very far from the school, more 10 minutes and we would be home.

...

Pete was really happy for being away from school, I guess being an intern
was difficult... After lunch (made by me, and that's why half of it was
thrown away!), me and Pete just watched TV, I mean we tried to watch TV!
When we were getting into watching TV the bell rang

"Forget it" Pete said on top of me

"No, it can be Gill" I said trying to convince myself

Pete sighed and got up, we arranged our closes and I went to the door, when
I opened Gill was there with a pizza on his hand

"I guess I didn't have nothing better to do, so I got some pizzas, and since
you aren't the best cooker in the world I though that you guys needed to
eat!" he said trying to smile

"Well I may not be the best cooker in the world, but it wasn't me that let
the pancake on the roof of you mother's kitchen!" I said grabbing the pizza
"And thanks for the pizza"

"That was a mistake, because someone said that I should throw it with more
strength, right?" He asked walking with me to the kitchen

I putted my arm in front of him and we stopped, I looked at him and asked,
"How are you holding up?"

"Well, I'm not 100% ok, but hey, we only dated for some days, I just don't
get why I was so sad about it..." he said trying to smile

"Gill I know you better than that! You know that you were head over hills,
you could have only dated for some days, but I bet that for you it looked
like months, right?" he nodded "I think that you should get over it and move
on, cause well you deserve someone that is more sure about the
relationship!"

"I know that, but hey, I can't control my heart!" he said sadly" You know
that I had a crush on him forever, and dating him was like a dream, but hey,
I can't do anything! But please lets just enjoy this time that we have
together!"

I smiled" It was your fault anyway, you were the one that thrown the
pancake..."

...

"I don't think so!" Pete said

We had ate all the pizza and me and Pete were on the couch, while Gill was
sated in front of us talking with us

"Why? You don't want to see Mike kissing another girl?" Gill asked with that
smile

Gill remembered some stupid pictures that he had taken from me and my only
girlfriend kissing, and he wanted to show Pete

"Why don't you keep those photos with you? I don't want to know anything
about Mike's love life!" He said hugging me

Suddenly someone knocked on the door" I'll get it!" I said getting up, and
leaving Pete embrace" I'm tired of hearing you guys talking about pictures..."

I walked towards the door and opened it, there in front of me was Mike" What
the hell do you want?"

"Please hear me," He pleaded

I nodded" I know that I shouldn't have done what I did, but I'm here to
apologise, I don't want to lose him, I promise..."

I rolled my eyes at him" Wait here"

I called Pete" What?" He asked coming towards me

"Guess who decided to come here?" I asked

He just shrugged" Mike" I said really low

"What's wrong?" Gill asked appearing from nowhere

"Gill, you have a visitor!" I said putting my hand on his shoulder

"A visitor? Who is it?" he asked

"Me" Mike said appearing behind us

Gill was shocked, I grabbed Mike and we went outside" We'll leave you too
alone!"

...

"I'm worried about Gill, I don't anything bad to happen to him..." I said
sitting near Pete on my garden

"I don't know, Mike isn't a bad guy, he just is afraid... he doesn't have many
friends, and he is afraid of losing the ones that he has..." Pete said
grabbing my hand" Besides coming all the way here to talk to Gill shows that
he really likes him..."

"I don't know, I mean you never kissed a girl in front of me since we
started..." I said" And I hope you don't!" I said smiling" But I didn't know
that Mike didn't had many friends... he is always surrounded by people on the
corner..."

"They aren't his friends, he only has like 2 or 3 friends, me included..."
Pete said sadly" Mike is a great guy, he likes Gill since the beginning of
this year, he is so afraid of losing people..."

"Everyone his Pete..." I said resting my head on his shoulder" When Mike and
Gill started dating I was afraid of being lonely cause everyone was dating
and I felt like I was starting to be alone... and then there was you annoying
me with that pumpkin thing..."

He laughed" By the way why did you always called me pumpkin?" I asked

"Well, it may sound weird, but I think that pumpkins are really cute, and
since I saw you I thought that you were cute..." he said kissing my head

"You think that I am as cute as a pumpkin?" I asked suddenly

"Well, I think that you're cuter that a pumpkin...but I like the nick
pumpkin..." he sad grabbing me by the waist

"I could say that I like tomatoes, and start calling you that..." I said
smiling

"Call me whatever you want, as long as you continue being here near me..." he
said

We were almost kissing when we heard Gill scream and the front door slam, I
looked at Pete and sighed "I'll go see Gill, you talk to Mike" I said

Pete nodded and entered the house, I just started running to the only place
that Gill could have went
...

I hadn't come to this place for 3 /4 months, this was Gill's place and mine,
it was our tree house, we had built it when we were 7 years old, and since
then that it had became our special place, we had stopped using it since we
were 11 years old but we made everything to preserve it. I looked around and
saw Mike sated near the tree.

"So, what happened?" I asked sitting next to him

He looked at me, and he was trying really hard not to cry, Gill was really
strong and he almost never cry...

"Well, he apologised for what happened on the corner, and told me that he
would never do that again..." he said looking at the sky" Then he said that he
had to continue pretending to being dating Anne..."

I sighed" Gill, do you remember when we first met?"

"Yeah, we both wanted this tree to build our tree house, and after a series
of fights we decided to build the it together..." he said

"Well you remember that we didn't trusted each other but that we learnt how
to do that, right?" I asked, he nodded" Well, I don't know Mike, but from
what people have told me hi is a great guy, but he has a problem..."

Gill looked at me curious "What?"

"Well, he is afraid of losing his friends, and he is afraid that if he stops
dating Anne, that his friends might suspect something..." I said" Now, I
don't think that he should date Anne and you at the same time, but... Why
don't you try? You know that he won't kiss her in front of you, and at least
you know that his heart belongs to you.."

"Mike, do you realise what you're saying?" Gill asked" If Pete come to you
to say |hey I need to start pretending to date that girl s that no one
suspects anything...|, and besides what kind of friends are those that don't
accept Mike? Why can't Mike start hanging out with us and get some new
friends? Why is he so afraid of losing those stupid friends when he has me
and my friends?"

I grabbed a stick and started playing with it" Gill, when two people are
dating, at least in my opinion, they need to make certain sacrifices, so
that they can complete each other, what I think is that you and Mike should
talk and find another solution to your problem, you both need to know if
your are ready to make those sacrifices in order to be happy!"

"Well, it seems that Mike doesn't want to make any sacrifices!" Gill said

"Are you doing any?" I asked simply

He looked at me" Shouldn't you be on my side? Why are you defending him?"

"Gill, I'm always on your side, and that's why I'm giving you an idea, lets
pretend that you let him date Anne, that would prove him that you really
like him. Now if he really likes you then he will stop dating Miss. Bitch in
order to make you happy, if he doesn't love then he will continue dating
her, and you have only one thing to do! Leave him..."

"Are you telling me to make him some sort of test?" He asked suspiciously

"Well, that way you'll know if loves you or not!" I said throwing the stick
away

Gill started thinking, I don't know where that idea come from, but I think
that it was a good idea! Suddenly Gill got up " I'll give it a try, I mean
it's the only thing that I can do, besides leaving him right now..."

"Well, now lets go, I miss Pete" I said" And we have to come here someday to
clean this house"

...

When we got to my house it was really quiet, I thought that was strange, me
and Gill walked to the kitchen to find Pete and Mike watching TV, Mike
immediately got up and grabbed Gill's hand, Pete come towards me, grabbed me
and dragged me out of there, he brought me to my room

"So, how did the conversation went?" he asked me, kissing my neck

"Well, I managed to convince him to try to let Mike date Anne..."I said trying
to concentrate on another thing besides Pete

He stopped immediately after I speak" I managed to convince Mike to only
date Gil"

Now it was my turn, I started kissing his neck" Well, lets leave that to
them... I just hope that they make up quickly..."

"You know that that isn't fair..." Pete said, " I'm the one that usually do
that..."

"Do what?" I asked continuing with the kissing

"You know dam right what!" he said putting his hands on my waist" Mike I'm
afraid..."

I thought that he was joking, so I continued kissing" Really, he said
pulling my head, so that I looked at him" What's wrong?" I asked

"Well, while I was talking to Mike downstairs, I realised that I was going
to a place that I'm afraid to go..." he said seriously

"Where?" I asked confused

"Mike, I think that I'm falling... no...I am in love by you!" he said looking
straight at me
I didn't know what to say, I was taken back by that, the only thing that
occurred me was to kiss him, and I did it, but this time it was special, it
was a kiss where he was trying to show his love, I was so happy, when we
parted I had to ask" Why are you afraid?"

"Cause, I just want to be next to you, and that's not gonna be always
possible.." he said sadly

"Pete, then I think that both of us are afraid..." I said hugging him

TBC...


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