Hurts

Chapter 3

It was Saturday noon when the door rang, not thinking about it I opened the door, and my heart skipped a beat, I invited him to work on the project.

"If you won't come to the pizza, I bring the pizza to you.", he handed me the cardboard box.

"Oh, okay."

"Here's the apology, take it.", he commanded.

"Okay, accepted."

"Should we start then?"

"Okay, my room is upstairs.", I closed the door.

"Let's eat first, before it's cold, also I'm starving.", he sat on my bed and crossed his legs.

"Good point.", I sat on the opposite side of the bed.

"Mind if I take my jacket off?"

"No.", he threw it over the chair and revealed his trained arms.

"So, why did you apologize to me?", I nervously started, taking a bite of the pizza slice.

"Well, erm.....I didn't like that they outed you, I'd be furious if they did that to me, that's not something you should ever do without permission."

"But why do you care? It's not your problem."

"Not now, but it could be, I.....am gay, too, y'know.", he nervously rubbed his arm.

"Wait what? YOU are gay? You are the biggest macho and the coolest person in the entire school."

"Can't cool people be gay? I'm not a macho honestly. I pretend to be one.", he laughed.

"Why are you so rude to me?"

W"hy are you so nerdy?"

"That's how I am, doesn't explain why you hate me."

"Who said I hate you?"

"You make my life a living nightmare."

"Eat your pizza, dipshit.", he stuffed his mouth with it.

After we finished, we started working on our project. He sat next to me, I could feel his warm body on my arm, even though he didn't touch me. I tried to hide my smile, he was actually pretty nice, a bit direct maybe but nice.

"Where are you going?", he looked up.

"Getting something to drink. Do you want something?"

"You got diet coke?"

"Yeah."

After I few minutes I came back and handed him the glass.

"Erm, since your friends call you Mars, what do I call you?", I sat back down.

"Marlon.", he shortly answered with a smile.

"Marlon?"

"Yeah, that's my name. Don't know how they came up with Mars, never liked it much. I'm not a sweet snack."

"Not for eating maybe..", I mumbled.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"You're a snack, too.", he said more to himself.

I just smiled, continuing my work.

When I looked up to see his reaction to what I explained our eyes met, for the first time I noticed his eyes were dark green with a bit of brown, they were beautiful.

"You okay?", he asked and brought me back.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Never noticed your eyes are green."

"They are. Yours are dark blue.", he answered without looking at me.

"Why do you know that?", I raised an eyebrow.

"Watch it, dipshit. But there is a chance I looked closer every time we met.

"Why do you.....?"

"Ask one more question and I will punch you.", he stared at me with a warning smile.

We worked for a few hours, it was almost 9pm now, so he made his way home.

"When should we finish it?"

"Tuesday after school? Don't have time earlier."

"Sure."