What You Believe In ~ A BoyXBoy

Our world is filled with magic whether you believe in it or not.

Those who believe in magic embrace and use it, or fear it.

While those who don't believe are trapped in a world of denial.

" Blood Of A Vampire

 Heart of a mule

 stones from Salem

 and flowers of blue

 I cast this spell to

 make him fall in love with you.

 feather of quail

 eye of an owl

 To make this spell

 All powerful

 hair from the lover

 a little horse meat

 To finally make this

 Spell complete."

   Hi, i'm Austin. I has short red-brown hair, i'm 162 pounds, 6'0" and

that was me casting the spell, that ruined my life. Instead of telling

you what I did, why don't I show you?

              October 15th, 1972

   School is about to start so the halls fill with people wearing neon

colored clothes. I am leaning against a locker watching as Ken opens

his locker. He reaches in and pulls out a note. I watched as his face

grew pale. I could see that what I had done probably wasn't my best idea.

   Ken started to walk towards me, his pace growing faster as he approached.

He was almost at a run when he grabbed my arm pulling me around the corner

of the hallway. His dark brown hair, long, and soft touched me as he pushed

me against the wall.

" Are you crazy?" Ken asked in a quieted yell.

" Only for you." I couldn't help but release from my lips.

   Ken grabbed my arm harder, a sign of panic in his face as he moved us farther

from the crowded hallways.

" This is some kind of joke isn't it?"

" nope."

   Ken sighed, sympathy forming in his face.

" I don't go that way."

" I don't care."

   In a split second I grabbed his face and kissed him. No one seemed around to witness

it as Ken wiped his face and punched me in mine. The pain seemed almost non-existent

for the warmth of the kiss was still tingling over my face. Ken left me their on the

ground in front of locker 214, blood dripping from my nose but, the goofiest smile

was spread across my face. Love seems to nullify all pain.

   A few minutes later my friend Sarah came along and pulled me into the girls bathroom.

Sarah has been my best friend for as long as I can remember. She has strawberry blonde

hair though you can't really tell unless you see it in the sunlight. It's probably why

we all call her sunshine. She always seems to be able to find me when something is wrong

and always seems to be there whenever someone is in trouble.

   When she pulled me into the bathroom, the kiss seemed to fade and the pain of being hit

started to sting.

" What happened." I asked Sunshine still dazed and confused.

" Based on what I can see, you got hit in the face. pretty badly if I might add."

" I have no idea what happened." I sunk my head into my hands trying to remember.

Sunshine sighed. " how can you not remember what must've happened a few minutes ago?"

" I don't know."

   I sat there for a few moments trying to remember. My lips grew dry and when I went

to lick them, I tasted something unfamiliar.

" I kissed someone." I paused a moment before I realized " Shit! Ken!"

   I got up off the floor of the girls bathroom and paced in front of the mirrors.

" Shit, shit, shit, what am I suppose to do?"

" Forget about it, you seemed to do that pretty well before."

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   So, if you didn't realize, Sunshine has always known that I am gay. I remember when

I was seven and was kissing my action figures. She was standing there looked at me

with pursed lips and quizzical brows. I didn't actually come out to her until we were

15. It was at Sam's party. We were playing spin the bottle and when it was my turn, it

landed on Eric. I was ok with it but Eric made a big deal about it until all the girls

started calling him chicken. The normal rules for spin the bottle is that the kiss has

to last longer than a minute but, when me and Eric started kissing. We didn't stop when

we were suppose to, instead we kept kissing until 5 minutes were up. The girls were in

complete shock but acted really giddy. Most of them thought if was really cute besides

Sam who kicked us out almost right away.

   Me and Eric walked together to my favorite hideout, a little tool shack in the middle

of the woods. We sat on opposite sides of a little table I had put in the shack and

we just stared at each other. The awkwardness started to become too much and I

impulsively hit him in the head with a large stick. The next school day he didn't remember

anything about the party and when the police were involved they thought it was just

another accident in the woods.

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