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Chapter Four

John's Point of view.

It had almost been a month after I went to the beach with Mark and his family. It was a fun day. I guess going out and socializing wasn't all that bad. I managed to make a good impression on his sister. I don't know why that's necessary, but I did manage to do it. It is such a wonderful feeling when someone likes you.

I had fun that day.

Mark was acting a bit different around me lately, a bit weird. A bit more flirtatious than usual. I mean that's how he is; always making some kind of a flirty remark. Maybe I was just overthinking it.

Yes, that was it.

I was on my bed with my head resting on my pillow. My phone beside me and with a book in my hand.

"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."

I don't know why I thought reading Pride and Prejudice was a good idea. Romance Novels are always the same.

Cheesy.

Too cheesy for my taste.

My phone blinked. I looked over to see a notification from Facebook.

Mark Woods sent you a friend request.

Now I know what you're thinking. We were really good friends so why aren't we Facebook friends already?

I'll tell you why.

A. Because I don't use Facebook much. I rarely ever check it. B. Because we normally text each other, and I liked texting.

So, it wasn't really necessary.

I accepted the request.

What's the first thing you do after you accept you friend's request?

You go through their profile.

I was going through his profile. It wasn't all that interesting. I did find a few things that caught my attention, but nothing major. 

He sure shares a lot of memes. 

No wonder he's always smiling like a doofus.

His Facebook wasn't that active I guess, just like mine.

"Hello stranger" I got a message from Mark.

That was it.

We started talking and it went on for about an hour. It was mostly about both our facebook profiles and why we weren't as active as most people these days. Well, I just don't find it all that interesting. I have only a few friends in my circle and by few I mean just two. Both of them lived abroad for higher studies.

My life is pretty exciting around books and fictional characters so I rarely ever have time to think about updating my social networking profiles.

As for him, he says he just doesn't have the time.

Somehow the conversation lead to me not knowing how to ride a bike. It was on the list of things I never learned. During high school when all my friends talked about their first time riding bikes I just kept quiet because I never really learned how to.

I don't know why.

Maybe because there was no one to teach me and it wasn't all that necessary.

And I've always been a walker, as you all know.

That's what I said to him.

He said he'd teach me.

I figured why not?

Maybe I can drop him off after I learn instead of him doing it all the time.

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Mark's Point of View

After the small incident at the beach I couldn't help but wonder about this boy.

There was something about him. I just couldn't put my finger on it.

.. those perfectly soft lips.

I wondered I if he knew. I tried giving him signals all the time. He might think I am weird, which I am.

For a smart guy, he's not that smart when it comes to these things.

Did he know if I was gay?

Is he gay?

Well, he never said anything, but I couldn't help but think about it.

We never really talked about that subject. It wasn't something that people normally talked about in Maldives.

It was almost taboo. Perhaps why we never brought that topic up.

What if he's homophobic?

What if he's not?

I had to find out.

We had become close over the months so I figured I'll just bring it up when we go out the next time.

Which was tonight.

I made an excuse. Well, he needed to learn how to ride a bike if he wanted to survive here so it wasn't an really an excuse.

I just had to find out.

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