Getting Closer

Chapter Seventeen - Charlie

Seth and I stare at Max who seems to be acting strange. His brows have not once furrowed at us this entire time and he has yet to curse at us. When he realizes we're staring and we haven't said anything for the past couple of minutes, Max asks, "What?"

"Are you alright?" Seth asks right away.

"Why?"

"Because you're not being a dick right now."

Max flips off Seth. "Focus on someone else for once, Montgomery."

"But why are you in such a good mood?" I ask. He's usually never in this kind of mood.

Max gives me a warning look and hisses, "I got my cock sucked off this morning, why else?"

Seth groans. "Why do you always have to be so explicit?"

"It's the fucking truth," Max says as he leans back. "Stop being such a fucking prude once in a while."

I sigh, "So do we know the unfortunate girl?"

Usually Max doesn't care if we know who it is but right now he says, "None of your fucking business." Seth and I share another look which prompts Max to say, "You two always pry. I can fuck around without you two in my business all the fucking time."

"If it's someone from school..." I start off by saying.

Max rolls his eyes. "Just leave it, Evans. I'll tell you guys if I wanna."

"Tell you guys what?" Juliet asks as she stands just at the side of the table. Sliding next to Max, she greets us all by giving us fancy chocolate from a couple doors down.

"Our little boy Max won't tell us who jacked him off this morning," Seth says.

Juliet doesn't hesitate when she says, "Isn't it better in not knowing?"

"Not when he's nearly fucked every girl in our class," I whine.

"Will ya'll fucking shut up?" Max hisses at all of us.

Juliet nudges him. "You can dish it out on us but can't take it?" Yep, I think to myself, she's definitely one of us. Max grumbles that he has to take a piss and then promptly heads for said bathroom. Rolling her eyes, Juliet looks at our bare table. "I told you guys not to wait for me."

Seth shrugs. "It didn't feel right to exclude you. I mean, you already have years of bonding to catch up on, it's only fair we sacrifice a little bit."

Juliet smiles and takes a look at the menu. The guys and I never need any menus as we've been here about a thousand times and know every item religiously. "Just order for me. As it turns out, I need to use the ladies room," she says as she already gets up.

When she's gone, we do order for the two of them and for ourselves. I turn to Seth and ask, "Any developments in your heritage?"

Seth frowns. "Jenny said she went back to ask halmeoni what she meant but she couldn't even remember what she ate let alone a conversation a couple days ago."

"What a predicament," I say with a wide smile.

"I know you're fucking with me, but it is a predicament, Charlie my boy."

"Are you going to ask your mom about it?"

"No, she's as senile as halmeoni."

"Why don't you take a DNA test? It might help sort out the confusion."

Seth frowns but does seem to consider it. "I'll ask Jenny if she wants to do it. Otherwise, we could just try and forget that she ever said it. Anyways, it would suck if I learned Korean for no reason."

I snort. "Yeah, because being bilingual is such a terrible trait."

"How many fucking Koreans do you know?" Seth snaps.

"I can literally name ten people right now."

Sighing, Seth slouches in his seat, "Not including my family, dipshit."

"Got me there," I laugh. In the entire town, Seth and his family are the only ones that are Korean.

When Max returns, he flips us off one more time for good measure and says, "There's a party in Cottage Grove in two days. You fuckfaces in?"

"On a Wednesday?" Seth whines.

"Cottage Grove?" I whine at the same time. "Why do you know someone from Cottage Grove?"

Max scoffs. "Why are you acting like it's across the country? It's literally like ten minutes from here." As Jules joins us once again, Max adds, "Mac's family will be out of town for a business trip in Illinois. He'll have the house to himself."

"We just went to a party," I say.

"Yeah, like two weeks ago Charlie," Max sighs.

As Seth and I contemplate, Jules says casually, "Having a party on a Wednesday sounds like a shit time, if I'm being honest."

"Finally someone has common sense!" Seth sighs of relief.

"I'll just go myself," Max grumbles.

"Is he always this grumpy?" Jules asks us.

"Yes," Seth and I say at the same time.

"You guys are so fucking funny, I forgot to laugh," Max grumbles again while subtly flipping all of us off.

Smiling, I add, "But we also love you buddy. Especially your sunny personality." Just as our food arrives, Max kicks me underneath the table. More and more recently, I wonder why I'm even friends with him.

***

"You're so fucking lucky they didn't take up your offer," I gasp as Max pins me against the wall.

Grunting as I reach down to grab his cock, Max says, "I know them. They never go with me to parties."

As we rip off his shirt, we turn around and stumble to his bed on said Wednesday night when his mother is actually the one out of town. Making him lay on the bed, I remove his jeans and boxers to find him already semi-hard. Pausing before I take him in my mouth, I look up and say, "I didn't like to hear you gossiping about us."

"I never said your name."

I roll my eyes. "Obviously." Charlie and Seth would never look me in the eyes again, especially since our friendship is still so new. "But they know you've been fucking around."

Max sits up on an elbow. "I've always fucked around, Jules. It's nothing out of the ordinary."

Frowning, "I still don't want them questioning you."

"They always will," he sighs and falls back on the bed. "They're fucking virgins and whether they want to admit it or not, they ask me questions so they can live vicariously through me. It's not my fault that they're too shy to get their dicks wet."

Flicking his dick, he hisses at me but I ignore him as I say, "Don't be a prick. But from what I've heard, you've never kept your... lovers a secret before and they might become nosy if you keep hiding who you're fucking."

Max sits up all the way to look me dead in the eyes. As I start to notice the details in his eyes, he reassures, "Charlie and Seth won't find out unless we tell them. They're nosy but they'll move on quickly. Alright?" Sighing, I eventually nod. I'll wreck havoc if Max somehow blabs about our arrangement and ruins my new friendships. For the first time in a long time, my life feels like it's looking up and if this is somehow ruined... I don't know what I'd do. Max snaps me back to reality after he kisses me softly. "Sorry if I sound pushy but I am the only one naked right now," he whispers which garners a laugh from me.

"Then why don't we change that?" I laugh.