Connor's Tale - A Jonnor story

Chapter 8 - Hey Jude!

The girls continue to smile and obsess over the story for a few minutes, basically ignoring Connor.  He sat and smiled remembering that time of his life when he was just getting to know Jude. It was a good time discovering each new thing about each other, but it paled in comparison to what they had now. They had went through so much to get here, and now it seemed that it may have been for nothing. Why had Jude said that he wasn't gay? He had thought they were through with all that drama and difficulty, and even though Jude hadn't wanted to be open at school, he didn't think that there was a chance that they weren't on the same page about how they felt about each other.

"Connor!" Taylor yelled startling Connor out of his thoughts. "What?" he replied looking at the two girls across from him who were staring at him. "Where did you" Taylor asked? "We have been trying to get your attention for a while now." Taylor was smiling guessing that he was thinking of Jude.

"Sorry" Connor mumbled "just remembering something."

"So," Daria said slowly "what happened next?"

Connor took a deep breath, "Actually, for a while, not much. I mean we didn't do anything more than talk in class a couple of times and ate lunch together, but not really anything else. I still hung out with other friends and soccer season was picking up so things just kinda didn't change. But then on Friday we had a project assigned in science class. Mrs. Williams assigned us to work on a DNA/RNA project and that meant that we had to find a partner to work with and I knew who it was that I wanted to be my partner."

FLASHBACK TO SCIENCE CLASS

"For this project I want you to work in pairs, it will make it easier with two of you" Mrs. Williams says from the front of the room as she hands out the instruction sheets to the class. "So everyone needs to pick a partner."

Connor watched as his classmates all stood up and started moving around the room in order to partner up and plan to work together, but he really only had one person he wanted to work with. Taking a deep breath he turned around to see if he was still there, he was! "Do you have a ..." he started "No" Jude said shyly. "Do you wanna be mine?" Jude just smiled slightly and nodded.

Connor got up and moved to the back of the room to sit next to Jude. "Ok, cool. How bout I come over on Saturday? My mom doesn't like it when kids come over, she says it gives her migraines." He smiles as he thinks of how parents are kinda crazy, but what can you do.

Jude is looking down, not making eye contact, but he nods, "Yeah, okay. I mean, I have to ask, but..." Connor smiles broadly, "okay, well let me know. Connor stands back up and heads back to his seat when Mrs. Williams says "Okay everybody, back in your seats." Connor looked back after a second to see Jude with a very big smile on his face, one the biggest he has ever seen the shy boy since he met him. 

Connor sits back down and smiles. "This will be fun" Connor thinks as class continues. At the end of class he makes a point of giving Jude his phone number so that he can let him know if they are still on. Jude give him his address and says he will let Connor know once he gets permission.

After school that afternoon

Connor was home in his room playing on the PlayStation game that he had gotten for his birthday last year when the phone rang. "Connor, telephone" his mom called from downstairs. Putting down his game, Connor came to the kitchen to pick up the phone.

"Hello" he said. "Hi Connor, it's Jude...from science class..." Connor laughed into the phone "I know who you are Jude!" "Right, sorry" Jude said "my moms said it was okay for you to come over tomorrow. What time did you want to come over?"