Am I......?(BxB)

Chapter 18

The feeling of waking up with Leo in my arms is both comforting and romantic. Leo wakes up not long after me and welcomes me with a good morning kiss. Leo and I spend the next twenty minutes not moving, just holding each other. We finally pull ourselves from the bed and have a nice breakfast together.

The next day at school, Leo and I feel a little closer than before, and it really shows. Before every class, he and I have a long hug and kiss before we go our separate ways. It's often accompanied by a few whoops and cheers from other students, which Leo and I both laugh along with.

April arrives, as do the first of the college answers. Along with Stanford, I applied to seven different schools. I come home one day to find a large packet on the mail. I rip it open before I even see which school it's from, or even who it's for, for that matter. I pull out a slip of paper, but I don't even read past the first word: 'Congratulations.'

I see the first answer comes from Virginia Tech, one of my higher choices. While I'm extremely happy about it, I'm still a little bummed to see that Stanford still hasn't given me an answer yet.

A week passes after the first acceptance and I get a five more answers, all of them acceptances from CalTech, Notre Dame, University of Oregon, University of Florida, and UCLA. But the answer from Stanford still eludes me, and the waiting is killing me...

I get to school one morning and give Leo a morning hug and kiss, which has now become routine. "Hey guys." Leo and I look over and see Shawn standing next to us. "More PDA? You guys need to get a room..."

"Shut up..." I say.

"Hey, why isn't Mark with you?" asks Leo.

Shawn grins and reaches into his pocket. He pulls out a small plastic card and holds it up. "Finally after eight months, I, Shawn Leif, am street legal once again!"

"Oh God..." Leo and I both say in fear.

"You actually got it back?" Leo asks. "After they extended the time you wouldn't have your license, I thought you'd never get it back!"

"I'm surprised the courts are letting you drive again!" I say. "The last ticket you got was for you doing sixty-seven in a twenty-five!"

Shawn just shrugs innocently. "Guess they saw that a genius needs to get from place to place and that his best friend was going to kill him if he made him take him to the market for groceries one more time."

"Oh, so you're calling yourself a genius now?" Leo asks.

"Well, I think my intelligence speaks for itself." Shawn reaches into his other pocket and pulls out a few more pieces of paper and hands them to us. "Read all of those."

Leo and I look at the papers and I feel my blood run cold at what I see. All of these are acceptance letters. Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, these are some of the top schools in the United States! And Shawn got into all of them!

We look back at Shawn, who has a small smile on his face. "What the fuck?!" Leo screams.

"Are you fucking serious?!" I tell.

"Yup," Shawn coolly says. "I couldn't believe it either. I was just hoping that one of them would say yes, but all eight said yes! The Ivy League wants me! Six of them are offering me full scholarships too! Fuck! This has been my dream since I was six years old. And now..."

Shawn wipes his eyes with the back of his hand, which makes Leo and I pull him into a hard hug. "We're proud of you Shawn," says Leo.

"We really are," I say. "We both know how much you've wanted the Ivy League. We couldn't be happier for you."