our grand adventure

chapter 8

As the new crested sun rose to shine its new light above the city, and all of its glistening. I rolled over to see Jason fast asleep, we were supposed to go to the gym with John and Aaron, but I had no idea on whether I should disturb Jason with him asleep in such a peaceful manner.

I finally decided to get out of the bed, to leave Jason in the bed so he may get his sleep. I brushed my hair and placed a baseball cap on with a pony tail through the hole in the back. I placed my cute gym shorts and turned to face Jason who was laying on his side, with his hand rested underneath his head on his pillow.

I then started to stretch when I heard

Jason start to return to life, he was moaning. I leaned in to kiss his forehead, but he stopped me. He opened his eyes, and I could hear the light breaths come from his lungs. Before he finished waking up, I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote "going to gym, come over when you're up and moving" I placed it on my pillow and then looked at him as he was turning over, and I could see his hairy arm try to grab me in my spot that I was sleeping in only minutes before. I lightly opened the door, but as I opened the door, I looked down. I had no shirt on me, "shit" I said as turned to grab the first shirt I could find, it was that Lindsey Stirling shirt that Aaron had given Jason. As I walked to John and Aaron's room, but they were gone. I could still see the sun rise above the city slowly, through the windows of the home. The elevator had been broken, but it's alright because I need the exercise.

I ran down the stairs (that's 6 flights) to find John and Aaron stretching. "Gym closed, so we will run, is that okay?" John said as Aaron was still stretching. I looked down, luckily I had my pair of sunglasses with me. "sure." I mumbled "we should run to a coffee shop, so I could get some coffee in me." I mumbled "sure, where is Jason?" Aaron said to me as he pulled his arm over his other arm. "Asleep" I said as I begun to crack my neck. "Okay, let's go" John said. The run was enjoyable. I returned to find Jason, in his underwear. He was cooking, or trying that is. John and Aaron smiled and turned to me as I was behind them, John gave me a thumbs up, and Aaron waved his hands by his neck. "Good morning" John said as he walked from the main entrance to the corner of the room with the kitchen. (The thing about the apartment is that it is extremely open and its basically one room.) Jason turned to John "morning, sorry about my lack of clothing, I'll go get dressed" Jason said as he put his spatula down. "No, don't worry. Aaron and I are going to shower and cleanup" John and Aaron then walked away. I walked up to Jason and put my hand on his lower back. He turned to me. He was looking scruffy, like he had no longer shaved. "Hey" I said to him as he started towards our room to get dressed. "Morning" he said as I had followed him. "Happy birthday" I said to him. "He turned to me. "How did you remember?" he asked as a reply. "I am your girlfriend. It would be horrible if I didn't know" I said to him. "You look amazing after not shaving. He smiled "I just have been lazy, but if you want me to have a beard or a scruffy look, then I'll take it" He said to me brushing his face with his hand. He put on his dark blue jeans with a dark red rugged shirt. "Look good for my birthday?" I was still leaning on the door sill "yes, you look amazing as usual." He walked to me and smiled. "Well, what are we going to do today?" I asked as I stood up from the door he put his hand on my waist, "I don't know, whatever you want" I said as I removed his hand and started towards the bathroom to get a shower from our run. "You figure it out, it's your birthday." I said as I turned on the water, Jason had no answer, he must have walked out.

Once my shower was done, I walked out to get dressed. When I was fully clothed, and cleaned I saw John, Aaron, and Jason awkwardly. "I want to take you on another date, maybe a picnic, and maybe then a movie?" I looked at john and Aaron who seemed to have made Jason want to do that. "Sure, but umm can I talk to Aaron and John privately for a second?" I asked as Jason got up "sure" he said as he started towards our bed room

"Are you guys doing something for Jason?" I asked as I was staring at John and Aaron smile as they grabbed hands. "We might be" John said

Jason and I then got ready to leave, but as we began to leave, I found a picnic basket on the counter of the kitchen.

The walk to central park was a nice one the sun had shone through the clouds, and the buildings high with glass had glistened brighter than normal. The weather was nice, it was a warm July day, but it wasn't humid. The people must have noticed how nice of a day it was, because the people were all hitting either the beaches on the coast of Manhattan, or in the park. There were people jogging, people walking, and people playing with their dogs.

Then there was us two young looking adults who were dating and living together. Jason had put on his sunglasses as he saw the sun rise from the clouds. He had also a baseball cap from NYU. "This is the place where people fought over and over whether to build it in 1857. It was designed by

Calvert Vaux. When ground was broken, people were protesting and fighting against it. Little did those people know was that without central park, New York would be very different" he said as I pulled out the sparkling cider and poured it in champagne glasses. I looked up from the glasses when I was done pouring and I saw Jason's expressionless face staring out into the park and was watching the people. "What's wrong?" I asked, but he hadn't said anything. He was just staring out into the park. "Hey, what's up?" I asked once more, but he said nothing. He looked like a robot, no expressions or movement. "HELLO???" I said as I waved my hand in front of his face. "Oh, I'm sorry" Jason said as he seemed like he was coming out of a trance. "What's wrong?" I asked as I handed him a glass. "Nothing, I'm fine" he said to me as he took the glass and took a sip of the cider. He turned to me. "Do you ever wonder about Aaron, like what is his deal?" Jason asked me. I bursted out laughing at that, but immediately stopped. Jason was not laughing at that. "I'm serious. What if I told you something that could ruin Aaron forever?" this was when I got annoyed, I finally smacked him in the face. As he held his hand over the red mark where I smacked him "I knew it, you're still homophobic, I thought I trusted you, I said I loved you once more, I invited you to live with me. I slept with you" I said with a tone of anger I got up, or at least tried before Jason grabbed my arm. "I'm not being homophobic, I'm trying to help you and John." "Let me go, or ill ill" he made a fake smile as he stood up "you'll what?" His grip lightened, and he looked like he was about to let go of my arm. "I'll scream" I said as I pushed his arm off, and ran from him.

He was doing it again, all he wanted was to ruin a relationship of my best friend, my only friend besides Jason. "Sarah, wait. Its big" He said as he chased me, and he finally stopped me, but only enough to tell me some bull shit. I stopped, and turned as I saw Jason catching up with me "What." I commanded he was panting as I crossed my arms. "What if I told you about Aaron?" he said "You know, I thought you were lightening up these past few months, but I know what you are, you are a liar, and a fake, and you don't stop until you ruin other lives, well then I think you can find a place to stay tonight" I said then turned around and walked away. He must have known that I didn't want to deal with him because he didn't chase after me.