A Different Kind of Love

Chapter 6: Up Until

Zach went back to his car and grabbed his laptop and a few wires to hook it up to the club's sound system. When he walked back in he smiled at me and made a hand gesture for me to walk over to him, so I did.

"The rest of the surprise is I made a playlist of your favorite bands and I'm gonna play it tonight at the under twenty-one event," he whispered, making sure Thomas and Charlie couldn't hear, "You're not supposed to know, but I wanted you to."

"Thank you so much!" I responded, giving him a tight hug. He was really nice, maybe he liked me too. Maybe he really was doing this to repay me for stopping those bullies, I'll find out later. I hung out with him while he set up his equipment and helped him by holding some plugs and stuff. When he was done we just kinda sat there, then he said something.

"Wanna go down to the minimart and get some ice cream?"

"Sure." I responded and we went, Thomas and Charlie were trailing behind us laughing loudly about something one of them said. I didn't really know what to talk to Zach about since we talked about all of our interests together and I certainly didn't want to ask questions only about him being trans, that'd be annoying. We got to the minimart and went straight to the ice cream. Me and Zach both grabbed the last pint of Ben and Jerry's Half Baked and we both just laughed a little.

"You can have it if you want." He said.

"We'll share." I responded taking the ice cream and a plastic spoon and walking up to the check out counter.

"Hold on, we're also getting, this stuff." Charlie said as he put down a shit ton of food and ten Faygo bottles. Talk about getting the munchies.

"Uh, who's paying?" I asked, I didn't have any money with me and started to get a little anxious.

"Don't worry, I got it," Thomas said while throwing down a twenty dollar bill, "I have to provide for my little Bunny's eating habits." he said while giving the cashier the money.

"Thank you, come again." The cashier mumbled taking the money. We took Charlie's bags of food and left. We walked back to the club and sat out on the curb. Charlie took out three bags of chips and a bag of M&M's. He gave the M&M's to Thomas and poured two of the bags into the third bag and grabbed a handful of the chips and stuffed them all in his mouth.

"Is that how he always eats food?" I questioned while giving Zach the ice cream.

"Yeah, this is a normal occurance with him." He said scooping out a spoonful of ice cream. He then moved the spoon towards me, "I uh, don't know if you'd find this weird, but can I feed you the ice cream?"

"Uh, sure. Okay." I responded not sure why he'd want to do that. Maybe he did like me. He fed me the spoonful and he giggled when a tiny bit got on my upper lip. He wiped it off with his sweatshirt and I blushed.

"Omg stop you guys are so sweet I'm gonna get a cavity!" Thomas shouted while laughing. I looked at Zach and his cheeks were a deep red. Oh man, he really did like me!

"Uh, the club is gonna open in a couple hours and I need to get ready, do you want me to drop you off at your house so you can get ready too?" Zach asked, still madly blushing.

"Yes please," I stood up and walked towards his car, "Are you taking them too?" I asked motioning towards Thomas and Charlie, who were intensely making out.

"They-they'll be fine," he got in the car and we left, "Does the guest for this car ride have any requests for music?" Zach asked like a butler.

"Do you have Fall Out Boy's new album?"

"Of course I do," he proudly popped open the center console and pulled out the case while desperately trying not to dislodge any other CD cases, "Here you are, one American Beauty/American Psycho at your service,"