A Summer Spark - A BoyxBoy Story

Chapter 5 - Firestarter

"Box? Bottle? Tin?" Kevin shook his head violently, emphasising his wrist motions on what he was trying to act out. Seb was yelling words as well but with similar success. I tilted my head, squinting my eyes slightly; thinking it will give me a clearer idea. "Can?" I asked, confused. He clapped his hands together excitedly before giving us two thumbs up.

Then he started pointing at me. "Me?" I asked confused. He shook his head before emphasising his point.

"Oh I got it" Seb exclaimed, "Him!" he called out. Kevin looked at him before face palming.

"You?" I tried. He gave me the thumbs up again. 'Can you?' I thought to myself, leaning forward in my seat.

Then he started looking around with his hand on his forehead like he was trying to keep the sun out of his eyes. "Look? Sun? View? See?" he clapped his hands together, nodding excitedly. "Can you see..?" I mumbled to myself. What could tha- "Can you see me!" I exclaimed, standing up as I did.

Kev released a triumphant "Yes" before running over and picking me and spinning me around. He put me back down before glaring at Seb, "Him? Seriously?!"

"What?" Seb said defensively, "You were pointing at him". The worst part was I think he was dead serious.

"18 Seconds" Chase called after we quietened down. We were playing charades. Kev, Seb and I were on a team Versus Imogen, Teegan and Skye. Girl's vs. boys. Chase volunteered to be time keeper for this round. "That's gonna be hard to beat" he chuckled, looking at the girls. The theme was movies. There are 3 rounds and this was the last. Each round 1 person from each team have to act out a movie title that the other team tells them to; whoever has the shortest time in the round wins. We won the first and the girls won the second. It all comes down to this; lucky we saved the hardest for last. This game is as good as ours.

"Don't worry, we got this" Imogen encouraged, standing up and walking up so that she was in front of everyone. It was getting late and we were sitting around the fire. I stood up as well before walking over to where Imogen stood, handing her a small slip of paper with a wink.

Her eyes widened as she opened the paper and read the movie title. "How the hell am I supposed to do this?"

"You said it has to be well-known" I laughed, "Not easy." I grinned as she glared at me, before turning around and walking back to my seat. "Good luck" I added sarcastically. This is going to be fantastic.

...

Imogen screamed as she ran, wrapping her arms around Teegan and Skye as they celebrated.

"What the hell just happened?" I muttered to Kev and Seb. I swear they must have cheated.

"I have no idea" Kev replied, closely followed by a "Me neither" from Seb.

"12 Seconds" Chase chuckled, obviously amazed.

"How did-" I started but Imogen cut me off.

"How many movies do you know that start with cloudy?" She deadpanned, "Sure the first word was a bit tricky but you guess that and the rest is pretty simple".

"I didn't think of that" Kevin mumbled, looking down at the ground. If you haven't figure it out yet, the movie we chose was 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. It was Kevin's idea but we all agreed, thinking it was perfect. Turns out it wasn't as good as we thought...

"What's that now?" Imogen mused sarcastically, "Girls-2, Boys-0?" She winked at me before continuing. "I can't believe you thought you were going to win."