Out Of The Park (Noah Schnapp, Gay)

The Touch

We finally reached the rocks just as I was catching up to him. Man, he's faster than he looks. He sat down on a big rock and I took the one next to him.

"This is nice," he said, sighing.

"Yes, it is," I said referring more to being with him than the sunset.

"Thank you, Eli"

Well, that came out of nowhere.

"What?"

"Thank you. Back in New York, I was friends with the same guys since I was little. Moving here I was afraid that I wouldn't make any real friends, that people would just wanna be around me because of Stranger Things. But then the first guy I end up meeting turns out to be as awesome as you."

Now that really came out of nowhere. I knew he was having fun and all but Jesus the guy's after melting my insides. There was something, too, about him calling me his friend that tore me up. Sure I'd love to be his friend but fuck I wanted to be so much more too.

"Well, man, thanks for making my year; you're not too bad yourself."

He smiled and looked back out into the water with a goofy grin on his face. God his smile was infectious. I started to get giddy again, every so often I'd remember that this was really happening. Eventually, Noah stood up and offered me his hand. Obviously, I took it and he pulled me to my feet.

"Where to next, Mister?" he asked with a coy grin.

I looked up to the sky which was getting darker every minute.

"Wherever you want," I said looking back at him.

He looked at me for a bit and then took off his shirt. I could only look on in shock as he continued on to remove his socks, shoes, and shorts leaving only his boxer briefs.

"Whatcha doin?" I asked with an amused smile.

"C'mon" he yelled after taking off running towards the ocean.

I followed suit and got undressed down to my underwear too.

"Fuck it" I mumbled to myself and took off down the cooling sand.

Thank god the water isn't cold or my lack of clothes could be embarrassing. I was half afraid that the water would be too cold and I'd look like a sissie in front of him. I dove under the water and emerged wiping the salt water from my eyes. Noah was just floating there with his eyes closed. By now the sun was completely below the horizon and the only thing illuminating Noah was the moon, which seemed so much bigger than usual. After looking at Noah like a creep for a few more seconds I decided to join him in floating on my back and closed my eyes.

"Thank you," that one was from me.

I heard him snicker at that and I started snickering too. Soon we were full-on laughing into the moonlit night.

"Seriously though," I said after we calmed down, "When I sent that message last night the last thing I expected to wake up to was a reply."

He was quiet for about a minute. I opened my eyes for a few seconds to see he was laying back again with his eyes closed and a thoughtful look on his face.

"I've been following you for a while, Eli," he almost whispered, "well I wasn't following you but I did look at your profile every day."

"Wait... really?" I was very confused now. "How come you never messaged me then?"

"I was... I was... I... dunno. I was nervous I guess"

"Nervous? Of messaging me? Man, I'm nobody."

"Bro shut the fuck up, you're not nobody. Not to your family, not your friends... not me."

By now we were both standing, looking into each other's eyes. I started moving closer to him. When I got a foot away I panicked and... dunked him.

"Loser," I said as I stuck out my tongue. That was a mistake.

The boy is relentless. He would not rest until I had been well and truly dunked, which I, of course, could not let go unpunished. It turned into ten minutes of us just fucking around. Eventually, we noticed the tide coming in and quickly got out to save our clothes. Noah quickly pointed out to me the problem of wearing white boxer briefs in water as I quickly covered my crotch with him dying of laughter next to me.

We put on our clothes which clung to us with the water and headed home. My house was closest so we reached there first and made plans for the next day and I said goodbye and went inside. I grabbed a quick shower, made some toast and brushed my teeth then lay in bed for an hour with the dumbest grin on my face. Today was the best day of my fucking life and it looked like my life would be full of a lot of days like this from now on. At some point, my eyelids got too heavy and I passed out.