The Two Princes

Chapter 8: The Rainbow Prince

"I HAVE YOUR SUIT!" Nat ran up to me during study hall the Friday before the presentation looking so excited I'm pretty much positive something will shoot confetti out of her backpack. "Try it on!" So I had to because you can't get out of things with her. Once it was on, it did look really ragged. "Spin and pull this." She showed me a ribbon in the jacket. So i did and the entire jacket folded magically into a blue suit.

"How did you manage this?"

"YouTube." I laughed. She brought out another package. "This is Owens suit." I took it and put it in my bag. I'll give it to him later when he comes over to my house.

"Hey I can't make it today. It's my brothers birthday." Nat said to me.

"Oh that's fine. I can read your parts, it's easy enough. I don't-I don't have many lines anyway."

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Don't get me wrong. I am now kinda excited for this project after we all worked on it so hard. But it's still gonna be terrifying doing this in front of the class. Especially when I'm not out yet and this script is so obviously gay.

Once he eventually got here, I made sure to give him his clothes before I forgot and showed him how amazing Nat sewed mine and how it turns blue. He applauded after my twirl and I blushed hard when he wouldn't stop.

He suggested going over everything one last time and I agreed. The story we made did deviate from the original story quite a bit but we were very proud of it.

Once we got to the end I felt as if we weren't even acting anymore, and that this was real. Although this was just another fantasy. Maybe if I wish it enough it could come true. I know that sounds childish but if the world can be so against me it can be on my side for once.

"Narrator: The prince didn't in fact need the ring at all. He knew that this boy was the one from the ball." I read the part for Nat and looked at him. This was the hugging part. He walked towards me and he did put his arms around me. But his blue eyes stared into mine. And he closed the gap between us. My eyes widened and closed in a second and then it was over.

I smiled and started to cry at the same time. This was my first kiss.

"Alexander are you okay? I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that. Nononono I hope I didn't fuck this up Alexander. I'm really sorry" He looked as if he was going to cry now.

"No. It's not that. It's just, this is the first time anyone's ever shown interest in me. And... it's you." I paused. "I would have never thought it would be you."

"Come here." He pulled me onto my bed and rested my head on his shoulder.

The two boys had no idea someone was watching from the cracked door.