A New Year's Kiss (BoyxBoy)

10. Happy Birthday

Jay

New Years Eve 2015

I'd settled on blue jeans and a tight black t-shirt coupled with my leather jacket. I'm pretty sure i'd seen Alex checking me out in this outfit before so it was my best shot.

It was 8:00 and nearly time for me to go. I told Alex I would pick him up at 8:30. I was going to drive us in my VW Golf. My pride and joy.

23 November 2015

It was my birthday. I didn't really care. My mum didn't even acknowledge it, so I never bothered either. If it wasn't for Alex buying me a present every year, I would probably forget the day altogether.

Alex usually bought me a DVD or new Xbox game and then kept it as his house as that was the only place where I watched DVDs or played on the Xbox, so it was kind of like he bought it for himself.

I didn't mind though. Even the fact he remembered was enough for me.

Even though it was my 18th this year, I didn't expect anything to be any different.

When I got to Alex's though, his mum made a huge fuss of me and had made my favourite meal. Alex was being extra nice to me as well which was weird.

When his mum left the room, Alex said, "Wait there, I'm going to go and get your present."

I frowned a little as he left the room. He usually just thrust a bag in my hand in the middle of something, with a mumbled Happy Birthday.

Today he appeared at the door clutching a small box wrapped in gold paper. It definitely wasn't a DVD or game.

Alex handed it to me with a slight blush on his cheeks.

I was intrigued. I opened it carefully and was amazed to see a beautiful D&G watch. I stared at him open mouthed. "Oh my god, how did you even afford this?"

Alex was blushing heavily now.

"I saved for it, didn't I," he said shrugging.

I stared at the watch some more. I'd never owned anything as nice as this in my life.

I turned to Alex and still in a bit of shock said, "thank you".

Alex laughed and walked over to me throwing his arms around me bringing me close in a hug.

I immediately hugged him back, my heart suddenly racing at the closeness.

"Happy Birthday," Alex whispered in my ear, then gave me a quick kiss on the cheek as he pulled away.

I quickly looked down pretending to study the watch to hide the blush on my face, and to stop me from touching my now tingling cheek from where he kissed me.

I didn't think my birthday could get any better, but it did.

I'd received a text off Mrs Finley asking me to pop into the garage so she could wish me happy birthday and have a slice of birthday cake and cup of tea with me.

When I arrived, I could see that Mr Finley had taken on another restoration project. I hoped he'd let me help him on this one.

"Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Jaaay. Happy Birthday to you," Mr and Mrs Finley came out singing behind a lovely chocolate birthday cake with what I assumed was 18 candles on.

I smiled widely at them then blew out the candles.

"Wow, it looks amazing," I said admiring the cake.

"And that's not all" said Mrs Finley, "Happy Birthday" she said while handing me a present. It looked very similar in size to the present from Alex and it briefly crossed my mind that I might end up with 2 watches.

"You shouldn't have" I said to Mrs Finley, but accepted the present with a smile.

I opened the small box and gasped looking over at Mr Finley.

It was a set of car keys.

"I thought it was about time you had a project of your own" said Mr Finley standing back to reveal the car I'd spotted earlier.

I wandered over to it to take a closer look. It was an old style black VW Golf. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

"I don't know what to say." I said looking at Mr and Mrs Finley. "It's amazing, it's more than amazing, I don't know what to say."

Mrs Finley chuckled at my reaction. "Well 'thank you' would be a start!"

My eyes widened, "Oh my god, thank you. Of course thank you. No one has ever got me anything like this before."

It occurred to me that this was the second time I had thought that today. I felt like I was the luckiest guy alive.

When I told Alex, he seemed a little put out. I quickly realised that the car had kind of overshadowed his gift so I toned down my enthusiasm about it. I really did love my watch too. But Alex needn't have worried, because by far my most favourite gift was the kiss he gave me. Because beyond anything, it gave me hope.

Some people would say they wouldn't think anything of it if a guy kissed his best friend on his cheek on his birthday, but I had been Alex's best friend for 4 years, and he had never kissed me on my cheek before.

Could this mean he liked me more than a friend?

And so I made a decision. I was going to kiss him on New Year's Eve.

A/N. The next chapter is New Years Eve!  Do you think it will all go to plan?  The story has only just started....of course it doesn't......hahaha!