No Homo

Chapter 12

John's POV

I woke up at about 10 in the morning and climbed out of bed while I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. I put on my glasses and made my way to the bathroom. After changing, I went to the kitchen and passed Dave on the way. He had fallen asleep on the couch and for the first time, I saw him without his glasses on. Granted, he was asleep, but still. I was able to see the freckles sprinkled across his cheeks. I really wanted to know what color his eyes were, but I would feel bad about having to expose his eyes to this light. I kind of wonder just how sensitive they are. He didn't even take them off last night, even when it was really dark and the only light was coming from the television.

I made sure not to wake him as I went into the kitchen to make breakfast. Dad was at the bakery he owns, working. He worked every day of the week except for Sunday, and, despite his constant asking that I work there with him, I would hate that schedule. Besides, I'm already tired of the pastries he brings home everyday, so I don't thing I'd be able to be surrounded by them everyday. I started to make traditional eggs and bacon for breakfast. I could hear Dave shifting on the couch and heard him walking into the kitchen.

"Sup, dude." He had his sunglasses on. I figured he would, but I had a small bit of hope that he might've forgotten to put them on.

"Just making some breakfast. You like eggs and bacon, right ?"

"Shit man, yeah. I haven't had a breakfast like that in a while."

"How would you like your eggs ?"

"Scrambled."

"Alright, coming right up." I smiled at him as I finished up the bacon. A little bit later, we both had a plate of scrambled eggs and bacon along with some apple juice for Dave and orange juice for me.

"Thanks, man," Dave said while staring at his plate, and then looking up at me.

"You're welcome," I responded with a smile. We both dug in and ate our breakfast.

After cleaning up after ourselves, we decided we would go for a walk.

While we walked, we just talked about random stuff, but it was mostly just walking in a comfortable silence and enjoying the scenery. It was a nice day out and the birds were chirping and the flowers were pretty; it was just a really lovely day. We walked back to my house and Dave gathered his things so he could go home.

"Thanks for letting me stay over, bro."

"Sure, Dave, anytime !" I walked him to the door and smiled as he left. "See you on Monday !"

"Alright bro, see ya." I shut the door and headed to my room feeling absolutely fantastic. I had that soft feeling of butterflies in my stomach, though I didn't know why. They were kind of there the whole time we were walking, so I guess I'm just really happy. It's kind of odd, though. I never get that funny feeling when I'm really happy. I guess going outside brings upon that feeling. It would make sense to feel flittering feelings when you go outside and it's really nice out. I should go outside more, I guess. Or maybe it was the power of friendship. Having my first really close guy friend. My first 'bro'. That probably had something to do with it, too. Dave always makes me feel so happy, even just being around him. When I'm hanging out with him, it feels like there's nothing wrong in the world. There's just something about him that just puts me at ease, but at the same time, he sometimes makes that flittering happen in my stomach, and I really don't know what that's all about. I usually get that feeling when I'm mildly nervous. I was only nervous around him when I first met him and didn't know him at all. But even then I didn't have that weird feeling in my stomach.

I made a glass of orange juice and went back into my room to think some more. I really wanted to figure all of this out. It was so confusing and I just wanted to know why. Why did that weird flittering feeling keep showing up when I had nothing to be nervous about ? I sipped on my orange juice a bit. Had I gotten that feeling when I was near anyone else ? Near my other friends ? Did it happen when I used to be around Vriska ? Do I ever get that feeling at school ? I hadn't gotten that feeling around anyone unless I was nervous to talk to them about something. I never got that feeling around my friends. I got that feeling when I was about to ask Vriska out, and before I took her on our first date, but never any other time. I only get that feeling at school when I have to go up and present something, but, again, that's because I'm nervous to present. Even then, it's still weird. It's weird because the flittering feeling I get when I'm around Dave is different from all those other times. Those times when I was nervous, it was more like a tense feeling in my stomach, kind of like a knot. And if I wasn't nervous enough to feel a knot, it was more intense than a flittering feeling; it was like a swarm of birds in my stomach. So, it was so much different than the light, flittering, butterfly-like feeling. But why ?

Why do I feel that way when I'm around Dave ? I've never felt anything quite like that before. I just don't understand why or how Dave would cause me to feel weird like that. What does it mean ? Does it mean anything at all ? Maybe it just means nothing and I'm thinking too hard about nothing. Yeah, that's probably all it is. I mean, it's not the first time I tried to think about something that didn't even mean a thing. In fact, I tend to overthink a lot. To take my mind off of things, I sat down and played on my piano, letting the notes drown out my thoughts.

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> Author's Note

Hello Brotatoes ! Here's another chapter for you guys, and I really hope you like it. I'm basing John's thoughts off of  the experience I had when I was trying to figure out what the flipping fruit bats was going on with me x3 I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, and I should have another one up soon. Have a great rest of your day or night and I hope you're doing well !

~Laurenbob .-.