Don't Clap

Chapter Six

After finishing season 3 of Archer and 3 episodes of Space Dandy, I decided to see where Donald was. He and Stefan were on the patio making beats. Stefan was dancing behind Donald who was DJing 'Fruitsnacks'.
I walked in and sat on the couch. Donald turned and looked my way and smiled. I smiled back. Stefan continued dancing. That girl walked by again.
She waved. Stefan waved back. Donald stopped, watched her walk away, then turned to Stefan and me.
"Ya'll know her?"
Stefan danced to no music. "Nope."
I shook my head.
Donald turned to Stefan, "Then why'd you wave?"
Stefan continued dancing, "I'm a gentleman." he said.
Donald turned back around and went back to fruitsnacks. We spent an hour playing with beats. I showed Stefan how ridiculous he looked when he danced.
"You look like chicken." I laughed.
"No I don't. That's how you imagine me looking." Stefan got up and danced some more.
Night had fallen and it was now 6 something. I went outside in hopes of watching the sun set. Donald walked out and I don't know why but I started to get nervous. He sat down beside me.
"When I was in 11th grade, there was this boy who had a huge crush on me. Like, he told everyone that we were goin out. People would come up to me and be like 'Ya'll go out?' I always said no because you know, he just wasn't my type. He was nerdy, ugly, zits everywhere. Just ew. And one day he asked me to prom and he did it real big. You know, got the principal to announce it over the intercom, got on one knee and asked. He was all dressed up to."
I look at Donald. Donald listened. I continued.
"So, I said yea I'll go with you. So the night of prom...I didn't go. And my mama was like why aren't you going? You know, like this could be the best night of your life. So I said I was sick and didn't feel like it. So she was like okay well. So he showed up around 8 somethin ready to pick me up. I went answered the door and was like I'm not feeling good. He was crushed like he was sad and stuff. And he left. So when I got back to school we didn't talk, no one asked me anything, I didn't even see him. So that was the last time I heard of him."
Donald nodded. He looked down at his thumbs and twittled them a bit.
"Your turn." I said.
He looked up at me, "My turn?"
"Yeah. Tell me a story." i answered.
"Ok. When I was like five or six, we were living in Decatur, in the projects. In Commons Drop. Its nice now, but like we were living there and I remember my mom's friend. Like a friend of the family. This kid like....Something happend, I didn't understand it but he had to stay with us for a couple if days. But we didn't have any space. So he had to sleep in my bed. I remember in the morning waking up and he was like 'Lets rub butts.' I was like okay, like whatever I did it. And I didn't really get it. And then I turned, when we turned he kissed me."
I laughed. "He kissed you?"
"Yeah, I mean I don't know why it happend."
"Did you tell your mom?"
Donald shook his head, "No."
That became a regular thing between Donald and I. Just come outside at night and tell stories. Then we'd go inside and act like nothing happend.
Once the moon was fully out, I stood. "I'm goin in. You comin?" I asked.
"No."
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