Love Is Love

The party

Parker's POV

When I get home after being at the ice cream shop, I go to my room and read for a while. I must have gotten lost in reading because when I look at the time, it's 7:30. I quickly throw a hoodie over my jeans and t-shirt and grab my phone. I walk out of my room, my family just sitting down for dinner.

" Hey bud, wanna join us?" my dad asks.

" Um, actually I got invited to a party tonight so..." I trail off.

" Okay well just don't stay out too late," my dad says.

" Got it," I say. I walk to the door and step out. Just as I'm about to close the door my mom shouts something.

" What?" I call back inside.

" Don't drink too much!" she says.

" I won't," I say, closing the door and heading out. Once I make it to the party, I spot Hannah and Jackson on the couch, talking to other people. Hannah sees me and smiles, waving me over.

" Hey you made it!" she says. Jackson scoots closer to her to make room for me to sit down next to him. A kid comes over to me with two bottles.

" Pick your poison," he says. I chose a random bottle, and pop the lid off. I take a swig of the cold beer, the strong taste running down my throat. Jackson and Hannah both have solo cups since they got here early.

" I'm gonna go find my other friends!" Hannah shouts over the music. We wave her off, and then it's just us two. We sit there, just drinking, and I wasn't even close to being done with my beer, but someone hands me another, and another and soon I'm too drunk to remember how much I've had. I guess Jackson was too because we were just laughing about random stuff, too drunk to care about anything we said.

" Hey," I say.

" What?" he replies.

" I'm gay!" I yell over the music. He just laughs, making me laugh.

" Me too!" he says, making us laugh harder. We both looked at each other, trying to regain our breath from laughing. All of a sudden, his lips were on mine. I close my eyes and I could feel my stomach flutter as I taste the beer left over on his lips. He pulls away and looks me in the eye, and then we burst out laughing. Talk about a sober-wake up call.

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