Short Pieces

Tobias + Jason

  Today is Valentine's Day, and I've never been more nervous in my life. Knowing Jason, he's got something ridiculous planned already and there's no way for me to get out of it. I closed my locker and waited outside of the school for him, because Jason has detention today and he begged me to wait for him. It's not like I had anything to do anyway.

  I didn't wait long though, and only fifteen minutes later Jason skipped out the door and grabbed me up off the bench. "Hey, Tobias! I got outta there early just for you." He said and winked at me.

  "Won't you have double detention now?" I asked him, holding his hand.

  Jason shook his head at me. "Nope. The guy who was watching us was nice enough to let us all out of there. Aren't you so happy?" He asked with a glittering look in his eyes.

  I shrugged my shoulders and kicked some snow at his feet. "Yeah, but it's cold and we missed the bus. I love you, but I'm not walking home like this."

  Jason pouted, leaning into my side. "It's fine! We're going to the store down the street, and then I already have a ride for us," he explained.

  I stared ahead, watching my breath form clouds in the cold. "I don't know why I expected any different."

  "Yeah, so keep walking. Your boyfriend is super cold and the only thing that will warm him up are kisses." He said with that stupid grin on his face.

I rolled my eyes at him and let go of his hand. "Good thing I'm single, huh?" I joked and Jason gasped loudly.

He bent down to the ground and picked up some snow. I was just about to ask if his hands were getting cold and then he shoved it all down my back.
I shivered, pushing him away from me and he started laughing uncontrollably. For the most part, I was silent and then once I recovered I finally opened my mouth to snap at him. "I hate you so much, you know that?"

Jason took a couple deep breaths to calm down before stuffing his hands in his pockets. "Yeah, I've heard it before. Save that anger for later, okay? I know you like it when I cry." He teased.

"I'm never really hurting you anyway, right?" I asked. The answer was going to be no, but I had to make sure. He has a bad habit of not telling me when to stop.

Jason shook his head. "No, I promise you're not. If I'm strong enough to go all day, I'm pretty sure I can handle our sadomasochism."

I smacked his side as we walked into the store and he grumbled. "Stop talking about that. It's not happening anyway, my parents are home."

Jason looked at me, a shocked look on his face. "What? It's Valentine's Day why aren't they going out?" He asked, taking his hands out of his pockets.

I shrugged my shoulders and let Jason lead us around the store. "Because they know we're not." I replied, and quickly added on, "Before you get any ideas, we're not sneaking around. You always think it's funny when you scream like that and I have to make up a whole story."

Jason looked put out, but moved along. "Whatever. I wasn't planning on going to your house anyway." He replied and picked up what looked like random things, putting them in the basket he made me hold.
All that was in it so far was a teddy bear and some chocolates. Then we walked into the alcohol aisle and I groaned.

"No. I'm just gonna go home if your whole plan was for us to drink," I threatened.

Jason picked up a pack of beer. "Well, good thing it isn't for you." He snapped. I would've kept my mouth shut, but I was being completely serious when I said I was going to go home.

"Are you being for real? How are you even gonna buy that?" I questioned, my eyebrows pulled together.

Jason smirked at me and flashed an ID in my face. "With this! We look pretty alike don't we?"