The story beneath the shirt (BoyXBoy)

seventeen

So do you believe in God?” Dakota asked off his phone. We had been playing a long game of questions. “No, I mean yes and no. I disagree with a lot of what the Bible says but I do believe that their is ‘something’ that is out there.” I answered, which was true. “Okay your turn.”

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“Oh. The sun is shining through the window now.” He laughed looking over. And indeed it was. “Well there goes all ideas of sleeping before dawn.” He laughed. I liked when he smiled. He had this big dimples and his eyes crinkled on the side. “So why that tattoo?” I said pointing to the words on his arm. It said, ‘It gets better’. I never really understood tattoos; mostly due to the fact that I've never had one. But I also never needed one.

“It’s a reminder that no matter what I can make it through whatever life decides to throw at me. I had a rough childhood so this was my simple reminder that it gets better and that I can get over the inner child that went through what he did,” He rubbing his hand over it. “It’s a long story really.” His words trailing off at the end. “Let’s go eat breakfast?” I asked trying to lighten the mood. “Yea alright.”

We decided to go out to eat. Nothing at the house sounded appeasing to him. I looked and there was a ton of options; But he is picky so I told him we could go out. I still had the credit card and I called my brother to tell him I’d be using it during my stay. He pulled into this old looking building. Not 80’s retro but like old and it looked like the maintenance was failing. We walked in and it looked amazing. There was a large chandelier and a few dim lights. It wasn’t dark but it wasn’t bright. It set a really soft mood. It was amazing. “Close your mouth before a fly gets you.” Dakota said laughing over at me. I could feel my face heat up as I closed my mouth. It was just so cool here. A lady came over, who looked really familiar, and took us to a booth about halfway down the building.

“Hi, my name is Danielle, ill be your server today. May I start you off with some drinks?” She pulled out her notepad and looked over at us. I flipped through finding the drinks. I ordered a Cherry Coke and Dakota got A.W. Root Beer. She wrote it down and went to cook area. “She looked really familiar.” Dakota randomly popped off with. I looked at him surprised that he even noticed. “Yea she did I could of swore I know her from somewhere.” I said looking back at her. Maybe school? I don’t know. I'd have to actually speak to her to find out. Hearing her name tho reminded me I should check up on Dani. I haven’t spoken to her in a couple of days.

She came back with our drinks and asked if we were ready to order. I got meatloaf with corn, green beans, mashed potatoes and a side of gravy sauce. Dakota got a New York style steak and mashed potatoes and macaroni with cheese and queso sauce on the side. We talked about random nonsense through the whole dinner and shared many laughs. We created quite a few people to look our way. By the time we left it was already going on at 11am. We had arrived at 9am earlier that morning.

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We went out and then came back to the house it was nearing 5pm. We came in laughing at the jokes we had been telling each other. I headed straight up stairs and jumped onto his bed. It was comfy.

He came up and grabbed 2 cans from the fridge dropping it in my lap. It was a root beer can. I opened it taking a sip. “So I got a question but I don’t want to offend you by asking it?” Dakota said staring up from his phone where he had been watching a video. I gave him an odd stare confused on what he was implying, “what's that?” I was confused considering we pretty much played 50 rounds of 21 questions last night. “I uh…. I wanted to now uhm… what your sexuality is?” He said looking down like he was scared i would lash out.

“I’m 2 things by society's standards. I’m either bi sexual or pansexual. Some people don’t think pan and bi are 2 different things so i say both.” I didn’t see why it was such a big problem to ask but I didn’t question him. “So you like all people?” He asked looking confused. “Technically yes. It's not like I want to be with EVERYONE. It's just that I’m attracted to all genders/ humans. So instead of being gay and likeing only men or man labeled people i also like feminine or female or female labeled people as well.” I stated. He just nodded. We sat in silence for a little bit. And then I felt something soft touch my lips. He kissed me. When I didn’t respond he pulled back. “Sorry.. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have done that. If you want me to call your brother to get yo-” he started to say but i leaned forward and kissed him. He immediately responded and kissed me back.

When we pulled back he was breathless. We kinda just stared at each other, not really knowing what to do now. “Ummm, so I probably should of said something before doing that.” I stared at him scared of what would happen next.

A.N.// so i know i left a cliffhanger but this is a big chapter as it is. Please vote and comment or even share for more of max and Dakota <3
What do you think max will say? Do you think Dakota will mind? How do you think it Will go down? Comment below. Update is on Tuesday?(hopefully)