Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 23:24:41 -0400
From: One Shy Rugrat <one_shy_rugrat@hotmail.com>
Subject: Sleepless Nights Series Chapter 5

Warning: This is a story about two boys falling in love. If it offends you,
please don't continue reading.

Copyrights@ 2001. One Shy Rugrat. All Rights Reserved.

Hey! Chapter 5 is here. The characters in this story are fictionalized with
people in real life that I know. Of course, their names have been changed
to protect them, but the plot line does include a very special part of my
life. Hope you enjoy listening to my experiences!

Sleepless Nights
Chapter 5

Where am I? How come it's so dark? So cold? *shivers* Oh no, I fell a sleep
on the bus.  Oh my god! I'm going to miss the stop! I quickly hope off the
bus and was in front of the main entrance of my highschool. As I was making
my way inside, I notice everyone looking at me. I know I'm popular, but
people don't like at you like that. I make my way across the basketball
court and find Kenneth sitting there with a bunch of people. But something
about him looks different, he looked older. Several years older.  Then I
noticed I've grown taller too. I made eye contact with Kenneth but all he
did was look away from me. My heart started to ache. I went into the
bathroom and looked into the mirror. I was indeed older as well, byt least
several years. Immediately I headed straight to where my friends' usual
hangout, the cafeteria. When I got there, everyone was there and, again,
looked several years older. I greeted them and they all looked worried to
see me. Then Kerry came over and told me, "Joe, Kenneth found out about
you, he saw the links you had on your computer. That selfish prick told us
to tell you to stay away from him since he has the SAC election next
week.and. and that he never wants to talk to you again.  He said that he
hates you..." Those words stabbed me like a piercing knife digging deep
into my heart and soul. I felt a cold chill going down my spine and then
everywhere suddenly started to spin vigorously. I screamed.

I woke up all soaked with sweat. Still feeling the icy chill from the
dream.  I looked at the clock, it was 5:45am. He would hate me. Kenneth
would hate me. The only person that mattered to me in all the world will
become my arch enemy when he finds out who I really am. But its just a
dream, Joseph Huckins. Yes, its just a dream.

That day, I went to the hospital as usual and did my chores. I ran into
Kenneth a few times but never talked to each other. Although it hurt to see
that he didn't put in the effort into resolve the problems we had
yesterday, but I was even more frightened that my dream was a prophecy
that's going to come true. I felt safe and relieved keeping a distance from
him knowing that he doesn't hate me. I knew from his eyes as he passed by
several times that he wanted to talk to me, but his pride won't let him.
Most people think that people like him aren't very likeable, too cocky and
snobbish to be the first one to speak out. Maybe because he's a looking
snob so young girls still keep flocking all over him. The truth is, the
girls in our year would choose to never have a relationship with him
knowing he is full of pride and being quite selfish a lot of the time. Who
can blame him?  A smart, handsome, and popular guy has his advantages over
others. In school, we were equals academically. With him being the more
handsome one and me being the truly more popular one. People like me
because I love helping others. I guess I actually care for the people
around me, even my acquaintances, that's why I'm adored not only for my
looks but my heart. Kenneth, well, despite all the flaws with his
personality, I was still attracted to him. Maybe I could change him.

Days continued like this and still no communication between us. I was
starting to worry that he is so full of pride that he will never speak to
me again. Was it may fault that I wanted to know everything about the man
of my dreams even if I find out that he would never love me? Then one day,
the group decided to go watch the Tomb Raider and we were both invited. The
movie was okay but not as amazing as I hoped it would be, but at least
Angelina Jolie was still hot and full of risky stunts. After the movie, we
were in the mall's food court having fast-food and with Kenneth sitting
beside me.

"The movie was so awful!" cries Ada whining about the movie not being worth
the money.

"It wasn't that bad, Ada! The stunts were pretty good, especially the
end.", says I.

"Yeah. I thought the time warping part was really cool." Kenneth replies.

"Yeah, that was amazing!" That was the first verbal exchange that we had
with each other for about 2 weeks. It was great knowing that the cold war
has ended.  Our conversation continued and everything seemed to be behind
us and our friendship was renewed. The nightmare I had earlier in the week
was forgotten.

Well, this is Chapter 5. You guys liked it? Remember to send me some
comments, I'm always happy to hear them. Yes, even the bad ones. Not too
harsh though. If you'd like, give me some suggestions on how the story
should progress. There are many characters ready for development. However,
many of them are not gay. I hope you guys still want to learn about
them. I'm ready to take in suggestions now. Thanks.

Until next time,
One Shy Rugrat =)
<one_shy_rugrat@hotmail.com>

Copyrights@ 2001. One Shy Rugrat. All Rights Reserved.