Contacting Space

Chapter 3

After school they meet up together. "I gotta change real quick for baseball practice." Jasper said to Dan as they walked in the hall. "Follow me." He said leading Dan into the locker room. Jasper dropped his bags on the ground as Dan sat on the bench.
"So, what do we need to do still?" Dan asked looking at Jasper.
"We still gotta write the essay." He removed his shirt. "And we have to explain the steps of the experiment." He continued to say when he dropped his pants and boxer briefs. Dan slightly blushed as he moved his eyes from Jasper to anywhere else in the locker room, taking glimpses of the other sports players bodies. Jasper put on his jock, pants, tank top and cleats and they left the locker room.

"Sit here," Jasper said to Dan motioning to the bleachers. "I'll wave my hand to you when practice is over."
"Copy that." Dan threw his bag onto the bleachers then grabbed a seat closer to the top of the stands. He watched Jasper as he played in the field. Dan enjoyed watching Jasper as his tank top had huge gaps cut from the sides, exposing his torso underneath whenever he moved. He occasionally peaked at the bulge sticking from the front of Jasper's pants, and he looked at the other players on the field. Dan has know that he is gay, he's known since he was 12. It's the reason why he had to move.

Dan came out to his friend at a sleepover, a few weeks before he moved, and they spread the word to everyone else. When he walked into school everyone stared at him as if he had the Black Plague. When he went to his locker scribbled in sharpie was "FAG" on his locker. He heard everyone talking behind his back in the hallway. "Ew, there goes that gay guy. I hope he chokes on skittles. He can enjoy the rainbow one last time until he goes to hell." One girl said. "We should gang up and gang bang him." "No, he'll enjoy that dumbass." A group of boys said as he passed by. When Dan went to class he faced even more discrimination. "Good morning class." His teacher said. "Today we are going to have a pop quiz. If you are straight you only have one question, what is your name. Write it down on a scrap piece of paper and you will get a 100 on it. If you are gay you have to complete this entire packet, within 10 minutes." His teacher finished by placing a 10 page packet in front of him. Dan had already been out to his parents, and they accepted him, they were a more progressive couple in the town they lived in. When he got home he unleashed a stream of tears, prompting his mom to ask him what's wrong. He told her the entire story which she passed onto his dad. They both made a decision to move far away from where they lived making sure that Dan agreed. He vowed to himself to never come out again in his life.

Jasper signaled to Dan letting him know that baseball practice was over. Dan packed all his things up and made his way over to him. "My moms here already so I'll just change when we get back to my place, if that's ok."
"That's totally fine with me." Dan said as they walked to Jaspers mom's car.
"Hi, who are you?" Jaspers mom questioned as the two teens got into the car.
"Hi, I'm Dan. I'm Jasper's table mate in chemistry. We have to work together to finish a paper we started in class."
"That's nice." She responded. On the ride home the pair was relatively silent, but Dan gave a glance towards Jasper once in a while, checking out his physique.