the bet

part two: ice skating

"Hey." a calm tone says and pauses for a second before speaking again. I could recognize that voice from anywhere and I freeze.

"Is Jungwon there?" I try to find the words to reply but my words are all twisted and nothing comes out. I finally find the words to say but the phone is quickly snatched out of my hands. I jump a little at the sudden movement.

"Sorry that was my idiotic brother if you couldn't already tell by his dumb introduction." I give him a puzzled look but I don't have the energy to get into an argument with him. I let out a sigh and leave his room.

As I'm staring out my bedroom window I keep repeating his voice in my head. I've had a crush on him for awhile now but how am I supposed to tell my brother I have a crush on his bestfriend. His straight friend not to mention. I don't know what it is about him. I shouldn't like him, he's most likely homophobic and probably hates me. He hangs out with the kids that have bullied me multiple times and I know if I became his friend I would have to hangout with those assholes, but everytime I think I'm over him I think about his smile, his wonderful hair and sweet personality and now that I'm thinking about all the wonderful things about him and I realize I'm not over him.

I sit at my desk and quickly jump up realizing I forgot to do the homework that's due tomorrow.
"SHOOT!" I yell a little to loudly.

"Shut up Sunoo!" Jungwon yells from across the hall. I sit back down and work on my math homework. My least favorite subject. tap. tap. tap. I hear someone knock on my door and let out a huge sigh. I really don't feel like talking to anyone after being stuck on my math problem for 30 minutes.
"Go away!" I hear my door open anyways.
"We're going ice skating wanna come?"
"I said go away Jungw-" There he is, in my room. My eyes meet his and I can feel my face burn up and I quickly turn away.

"I'm fine thanks for asking." I answer to his question. He quickly walks over to where I'm sitting and grabs my hand.
     "Come on you coming with us!" I let out a scream as I'm being pulled quickly. He chuckles and says something under his breath but I couldn't understand him.
"I am not!" I say loudly. He keeps pulling me.
"Stop!" He doesn't stop. He's so annoying.
"Hey bro." Jungwon says.
"Don't call me that, you sound stupid." As much as I love it my heart can't take it anymore so I tell Niki to let go of my hand, as he's still holding onto it for some reason. He gets flustered and apologizes. Before I know it we arrive at the ice skating rink, I look around and see all the people skating with there loved ones, siblings, or maybe both but I hope not. Shit I forgot I never learned how to ice skate. I see Jungwon and Niki already on the ice.
"Is there anything you can't do?"
"Hm?" Niki says confused.

"Nothing." I go to put my ice skates on. Size 9. I can hear 'Converse High' playing in the arena, my favorite song so I rush to get my skates on. I walk unbalanced to the rink. As I get on the ice I start swaying my arms trying not to fall but it's too late. I can hear laughter but I already know who it is. I look up to see Jungwon and Niki laughing so hard there about to fall over themselves.

"It's not funny, quit laughing!"
"It was so funny, the way you fell and everything." Jungwon says trying to hold in his laugh.
"So funny." I say sarcastically.
"It's not my fault I don't know how to skate!"
"That's why we brought you here." Niki says with an evil smirk on his face. I look at him confused.
"How did you know I didn't know how to ice skate?"
"Jungwon told me." That idiot, does he have to tell everyone everything about me.
"Of course." I say while trying to get back up on my feet but I almost fall over again accept this time I'm caught by someone. I turn around to say thank you and also because I'm curious to who caught me since Jungwon and Niki are standing infront of me. Then I see him.

"Sunghoon, I've missed you!" Sunghoon is my bestfriend but he's already in college so I don't get to see him a lot.

"This is a weird surprise, what are you doing here?"
"I'm here with my friend Jake, and I saw you almost fall so I thought I would help." He says while smiling.

"Yeah, yeah we get it your a good ice skater." Then Sunghoon whispers in my ear.
"You should probably get back to your friend, I didn't mean to interrupt anything." I give him a confused look but then know exactly what he's talking about when I see Niki giving Sunghoon a death glare.

"Come on Sunoo let's go." He says with a cold tone while grabbing my hand and pulling me with him. I let go though.

"What the hell are you doing, I was talking to my friend." I say with just as a cold tone as he did. I didn't mean it like that it just came out that way. I let go of his hand. Why is he doing this? Is this a sick joke, everyone at the school knows I'm gay, so I've had plenty of guys try to "lead me on" as a joke but I didn't think he would be one of them. I hate the guys that do this too me. They think it's funny to lead me on and then yell in my face "You really thought I would want to be with a weirdo like you." I was hoping it wouldn't be Niki that would turn out that way but I was too scared to find out so I left the ice rink as tears slipped down my face. I didn't have a car to drive so I just walked home. I may be overreacting but how could he play with my feelings like that. Did Jungwon tell him to do this? Most importantly did Jungwon tell Niki I have a crush on him. I cant control my thoughts and end up falling asleep, never finishing my stupid math homework.