The Set Up *~BoyxBoy Romance~*

Chapter Two

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The Set Up

Chapter Two

The next day, when I saw Summer before first period, she was teasing her short dirty blonde hair in the mirror she had set up in her locker door. I walked up to her with a giant grin on my face, and she made me wait until she fixed her bangs before turning around.

"What are you so happy about?"

"Life is great! That's what!" I smiled.

"Life is great? Curious." Then, she examined my face a bit closer, and I watched as her eyes popped open wide. "Omigod! No way! You told Jake?"

"Yep! I did it! Just last night!" I could hardly contain myself.

Summer gave me a short lived scream before covering her mouth with her hand and looking around the hall to make sure nobody was staring at us. Then she wrapped her arms around my neck and gave me a hug strong enough to almost knock me off balance.

"Wow! Oh Tyler, I can't believe you did it! Do you know how awesome this is? That means we can all be on the same page when we hang out now!" She beamed. "That's so sweet! What did he say?"

"He didn't really say much of anything. I mean, I think it kind of surprised him a bit, but, once it sunk in, he just kind of gave me this 'hug' and everything was cool after that."

I swear, I thought Summer was going to tear up and ruin what little make up she had on her face.

"That is just perfect, Tyler! It really is!"

"Yeah...." I started, then shrugged my shoulders a bit. "..Well...not perfect...but it's cool. 'Perfect' would have had an entirely different outcome. But...you know..."

Summer looked at me for a moment, and I blushed, turning away from her.

"What are you trying to tell me here?"

"Nothing. Come on, we've got to get to class."

She giggled, her accusing eyes focused on my bashful grin. "I don't even want to know, dude." She said.

"No. no, you don't. It would have been nice though." I said.

"Well, at least I know you've got good taste in boys." She said, and gently took my arm as she walked with me to our first class of the day. "We totally have to compare notes on who's cute in this 'zoo'!"

"Whatever."

I swear, I smiled for the rest of that week. And the only problem that Jake seemed to have with the whole situation was that I told Summer first. I think, over time, Jake took to the idea of me being gay much better than I expected him to. If anything, he was the first one to make it okay to kind of joke about it. I'll have to admit though, the fact that he took no interest in even 'trying' to be gay, even for a little fifteen minute roll in the hay or something, stung a little bit. I couldn't help but feel a pinch of disappointment. I mean, that was a few years’ worth of fantasizing that I had to erase now. But, what can I say? He got used to me being gay, and I got used to him being straight. And when we finally came to terms with each other, there wasn't really much difference at all.

Things were great. The people closest to me knew who I was. And in some strange way, that was helping me to find out who I was too. It was an experience that I never expected to be so easy, and so fulfilling. It was so uplifting that I never really expected things to change.

But things always change.

It had been maybe a month since my confession to Jake, and the three of us remained just as close as we always had in the past. And then, came the cafe.

"You're going to love this place, Tyler. They've got this really awesome hot apple cider in this big mug, with whip cream on top, and this warm caramel swimming around at the bottom of the glass. Dude, it’s mind-blowing!" Summer said, holding my arm as she always did.

"Where did you guys hear about this place again?" I asked.

"A friend of mine told me about it. It's cool." Jake said, but something about the look on his face was, I don’t know, 'different'.

"Okay." I said. "So it's just us three, right?"

"Dude, stop it! What's with all the questions today?" Jake snapped.

What the heck has gotten him so wound up?

"All of what questions? That was, like, only two." I told him.

"Don't worry, you'll love it. This place is great." Summer was trying to distract me, and now I was wondering if this was more than just us 'hanging out' on a Saturday afternoon.

It wasn't my birthday, or any kind of holiday, so it wasn't like a surprise party or anything. But something had to be up. From the second that we walked in the door, I was scanning the cafe for a familiar face or some kind of clue that would give their secret away. Nothing. Nowhere. This was weird, but I played along. I suppose I'll find out eventually.

We sat down at one of the large wooden tables of the place, and absorbed the laid back atmosphere of the place. We ordered three of the giant caramel ciders and the waitress told us that it would be a five to ten minute wait while they got a new batch ready, and then we could order. Any place where a glass of apple cider takes that long, it's got to be good! So we just sat at the table and joked around a bit for the first fifteen minutes, laughing and teasing each other as we always did.

And then...I think I got my surprise.

"What's up? Sorry, I'm late. Work kept me for a few minutes more to fix up the comic book section." A voice came from over my shoulder, and a 'boy' sat down at our table, right across from me.

What. The. Hell?

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{Author's Note}

I'm very aware this chapter is short and I'm sorry.

But I will be updating regularly.

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