He's a Jealous Wolf (BoyxBoy)

Chapter Eighteen

Someone could fill a book with the rules and expectations of a first date, yet everyone would still feel that nervous, butterfly feeling in their stomachs as they drove to their date. Carter could wholeheartedly vouch for that. It wasn't like this was his first date ever or something momentous or extravagant, it was just a normal first date at a small diner, yet worried and nervous thoughts swarmed around his head like a group of bees in a hive. He pushed those thoughts aside as he repeated to himself, for the thousandth time, that it was just dinner with a guy, no biggie.

His car flew through the small streets of his city as he headed towards the main road, and he was thankful that there were no cops around who would have surely given him a ticket for the speed he was going. If he got pulled over, what would he even say? I am moving on from my ex-boyfriend and was so nervous about my date tonight that I didn't realise I was going ten miles over the speed limit? He shook his head, that would never work, and slowed down his speed.

His mother had warned him about the dangers of talking on the phone while driving many times, but when his phone started vibrating like crazy on the seat next to him and the caller ID said that it was Roxy, Carter felt like he shouldn't just ignore the call, she was his best friend and best friends don't ignore each other's call. What if there was an outfit emergency or a gossip crisis that just had to be discussed? That's best friend duty, and when duty calls, well, you answer the phone.

"Hey Roxy," he greeted as he put his phone on speakerphone, happy to hear from his friend as he hadn't seen her in a few days.

"Hey," she greeted happily, "I just wanted to wish you luck for your date tonight!" So no best friend emergency, but who cares, it was just nice to hear her voice. Carter felt like his best friend had been MIA since her date with Cole.  

"Thanks, what are you up to tonight?"

"I'm hanging with Cole."

Carter wasn't sure how to feel about this. It seemed like every time he talked to Roxy that she was hanging out with Cole, and he didn't want her to jump head first into this relationship before she really got to know this guy. At the same time, he was happy that she was happy and as her best friend, he couldn't really say anything.

"You've been hanging out with this guy a lot, how is it going with you two?" he asked just as he came to a stop at a red light.

"Really good, I think that he is the one."

Carter almost crashed into the car in front of him. "He's the what?" 

"I don't know, I know that it's really early and everything, but Cole, he is just so perfect. He gets me, you know? He treats me like a queen, and he is the perfect gentleman, he opens doors for me and pays for dinner and we go for walks and talk for hours."

To Carter, she sounded like a lovesick teenager from an eighties movie who was in love with the school jock. This was new, innocent love, and Carter understood that, he just hoped that when the glamor of new love faded, that there was still something meaningful left.   

The light changed to green and Carter continued to drive along the main road. "Roxy, be careful, I don't want you to get hurt."

"Cole feels the same way, I think, so don't worry," she brushed his concerns off.

"How do your parents feel about you spending all of this time with Cole?"

Roxy took a few seconds before answering in a guilty voice. "Well, I may have told them that I was with you..."

"What? Why?" he asked, yet in the back of his mind he completely understood why she had told that to her parents. Her parents weren't one to let their daughter date, they were completely alright with her spending time with boys, but the moment she mentioned a date, well, suddenly there was a ten o'clock curfew and her date had to come to the door to meet them, and that sure was a lot of effort for everyone involved.