A New Year's Kiss (BoyxBoy)

14. My Secret Stash

Jay

The first two week were tough but I got through it by throwing myself into my college work and working any spare time I had on my car. I may have got it running, but there was still a lot of work to do on it.

In the evening I turned to drink. I hated being at home in the evening. My mum would be wasted by then and couldn't hold down a conversation unless it was about me going out for more drink.

So I stayed in my room all evening. I invested some of my savings into a second hand playstation and some games so I had something to do. So that was how I spent my evenings, playing games and drinking beer.

After 2 weeks of silence I had reached my limit. I wrote and rewrote a hundred texts before finally setting on one that simply said, "can I talk to you yet?"

The rely came about 5 minutes later, "no, not yet."

I hurled my phone across the room. How could he do this to me? He knew he was pretty much the only friend I had. I suddenly smirked. Of course! He must realise that this would be harder for me and was still punishing me. Well, I'd show him!

It was Saturday night so I got dressed up in a black shirt and black jeans and hit the clubs.

It didn't take me too long to find Lilly.

"Hey Jay, what's up? Where's Alex?" she said looking around.

I rolled my eyes, "We're not joined at the hip you know."

She looked at me closely then shrugged. "Fair enough. Drink?"

"Now you're talking" I said, as she passed me a beer.

I spent most of the night talking and laughing with Lilly. It really was a shame I wasn't attracted to her.

By the end of the night, we were both quite drunk. Lilly got up and staggered off to the side, so I got up to try to help her, only to stumble and nearly fall myself. We both ended up in a heap on the floor giggling like naughty school children.

That's when I saw Alex. He was stood about 50 meters away staring at me with his mouth hanging open.

Without thinking, I grabbed hold of Lilly and pushed my lips onto hers. She gasped slightly, but then pushed her body into mine, returning the kiss. It only lasted a few seconds before both of us pulled back. I quickly glanced to where Alex had been standing but he was gone.

I looked down at Lilly and she was staring at her hand intently.

"Are you ok?" I asked, worried that I screwed everything up again.

Suddenly Lilly burst out laughing. "Look at my hand" she said, shoving it into my face. "It's sparkling!"

I looked at her hand and saw nothing. Lilly could clearly see something else as she was mesmerized by it. At least that meant it was unlikely she'd remember me kissing her.

"Come on sparkly hand" I said putting my arm around her, "let's get you home."

The following weeks went by very much with the same pattern. Working during the day, drinking and playing on my playstation at night, and going out at the weekends, getting very drunk and picking up the occasional girl.

I got home at about 2am one morning after a night out to find my mum lying on the floor.

"Mum, Mum!" I said, rushing over to her. There was a pile of vomit next to her, and I began to panic.

What had happened? I pretty much controlled her alcohol intake seen as she no longer went out of the flat by herself, and she shouldn't have had enough to make her pass out unconscious. I quickly scanned the room for empties, and felt my blood run cold. She'd found my secret stash.