The Forbidden Bite

Chapter 5: Someone's Heart

Suddenly, I jump awake as the sun is shining in my eyes through a window.  I jump upwards and look around frantically and realize I'm in Daniel's room.  I look over at his alarm clock and realize it's 7:00 am, since it's a short walk to school I don't get up until 8:00 so I don't know when he gets up.  I look down at the floor and Daniel is laying sprawled on the floor, his hair is messy and falls across his face perfectly.  His arms are spread across the floor, and his chest is falling up and down slowly.  He looks so beautiful, then suddenly his eye flicker open at me and he's staring back at me.  I jump back as soon as possible so it doesn't seem like I'm staring at him even though I am.

"Like what you see?"  Daniel said sarcastically, and he sat up to look at me.

"Sorry, once again I probably look crazy creepy"  I say and blush.

"No your fine, and you look cute this morning.  We need to get up, I get up early"  Daniel stands up and grabs clothes then he goes into the bathroom to change.  I pull myself out of his bed and look into his full body mirror, and I look like a mess.  My hair is tangled and falls into my face and my clothes are twisted and disoriented.  The mark on my face has stopped swelling but the bruise was black and blue.  I didn't look that cute.  Daniel walks out of the bathroom and opens his closet.

"You can borrow some clothes from my closet if you want."

"No I can't do that."

"Yes Jack you can and you will.  Your a mess you maybe are a cute mess but your still a mess.  So just grab a shirt and pair of pants."

I sigh and give in and I walk over to his closet and grab a Nine Inch Nails t shirt.  I smile because this is something I wouldn't dare buy at the store.  I grabbed black ripped jeans, and I go into Daniel's bathroom and start changing.  I look at the final product and realize I look very good.  I kind of like this new look and I realize me and Daniel are the same size.  I walk out of the bathroom and join Daniel downstairs, he is in the kitchen pouring milk into cereal. 

"Hey Daniel, do I look okay?"

"Hey, you look fi---"  Daniel suddenly stops pouring the milk and his sentence is cut short.  He's looking up and down, and he just freezes in place.

"It is that bad?"  I look down at my feet and I start feeling nervous.

"No um uhh you look amazing.  You look more like yourself then you have before"  Daniel smiles.  I start to feel more comfortable with myself.  I walk over and take the bowl that Daniel is handing to me and I start eating it.

"You can sit at the bar if you want."  Daniel has a long bar in his kitchen lined with black stools.  I sit in one of the four and Daniel sits down next to me.

"What are you going to do about your father?" 

"I have no idea.  After school I have to change back into my old clothes.  He'll know that these aren't mine in a heartbeat."

"You can keep them.  Only if you want to"  Daniel offers.

"Thank you Daniel.  Your very sweet, but if my parents catch me in a Nine Inch Nails t shirt you'll be coming to my funeral.  They will kill me no doubt, my parents hate any music besides hymns, Thanks anyway Daniel"  Daniel rolls his eyes.

"Stop thanking me, this is what friends do"  Daniel stands up and puts his and my bowl in the sink. 

"Do you think I should tell my parents I'm going to school?"  I say as we are standing on Daniel's porch.  "It's your decision Jack"  Daniel says.  I decide not to, most likely it will lead to another fight.   Me and Daniel walk to school laughing and talking.  I only have one best friend who is Richard, everybody else just kind of ignores me.  I've never thought much about romance, especially since I started having an attraction to boys in 5th grade.  The idea of being with a boy at that age was scary, especially knowing that my parents would hate me.  Now I started thinking and kind of want to be in someone's heart in that way.  Then we walk into school and go separate directions because our lockers are in different hallways.