Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 20:37:39 -0500
From: Chase <chase.matthews68@gmail.com>
Subject: To Love One Another

			    TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
				    by
			      Chase Matthews

PROLOGUE

"Your birthday is coming up soon, right?" he asked, "Your eighteenth?"

"In two days," I replied.

He smiled, the kind of grin that made me wonder what he was thinking.
"Well," he said, "I will have an extra special gift for you."

I couldn't help smiling back, "Is that so?," I responded cheekily, "Out
with it then, what is it?"

"You will have to wait and see." He answered, it was clear he would not
tell me now.

I chuckled and shook my head as I slung my back-pack over my shoulder. I
raised a salute and turned away heading for home.  "Darek...." James called
after me.

I turned to face him, "Yeah?"

He ran a hand through his hair nervously. "N...no...nothing.  See ya!" He
stammered.

Shrugging my shoulders, I continued down the sidewalk, homeward bound.

****

James stood at the bottom of the school steps, watching Darek walk away.

"I love you." He whispered.

CHAPTER ONE

I had no idea, that first day, that the boy sitting beside me in homeroom
would become my boyfriend. Hell, I had no idea I could even fall for guys,
it was never something that had affected me before. I had the same problems
any 17 year old would have -- bad hair days, which Ralph Lauren polo to
wear the next day, morning wood (and all the wood in-between) -- a pretty
regular life.

To be perfectly honest, that first day was pretty fucked up until he
started talking to me. Starting at a new school is never easy, but I was
used to it. My parents were what you would call corporate climbers, always
chasing after the next promotion. Moving cities was standard stuff to me
from around the third grade.