After a minutes doing their stupidity toward each other. They cleaned their faces with the water hose.
"Sam? Goodness gracious.. what did you've done?" His mom startled for what she saw. "You're so messy, what did you two did with the color paint?" She ask them.
"Nothing a.. auntie. Sam started it so I take revenge." Larry replied to her.
"What? You started it first." Sam replied and he splashes the water from the hose at him.
"Hey! hey!, stop it. Sam!" as he avoiding those water that sam threw to him.
Sam's mom smiled at them. "When are you two finished, just go inside. I've cooked some foods."
"Yes, mom, We will." Sam replied while still splashing the water to Larry and he laughs loud.
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After they make fun with the water in the backyard, Sam and Larry went inside and get changed. "I'm sorry my shirt can't fit you." Sam said. "Its so tight on you."
"Don't worry, it's okay."
Sam's mom were preparing foods that she'd been cooking lately at the kitchen and she shout, "Come here both of you, eat here."
They went outside as he glancing awkwardly at sam's mom.
"Don't be shy, come on. Sit here." She said as she handed those utensils to larry.
Sam quickly went to the chair and he sat while larry still got shy. "What are you waiting for? Come on. Sit down now." He said, waiting larry to dig up.
While they are eating and had a conversation, Sam's mom had noticed something on Larry's face. "What's wrong with your face?" She asks.
"Ah, it's nothing.. I got accident one week ago." He replied in polite way.
"Accident, my ass." Sam said as whispered while taking some rice out of the bowl.
"Are you saying something, Sam?" His mom asks him.
"Nothing mom, eat up." Sam replied to his mom.
"Does it serious?" She asks larry again.
"No, it's not.. auntie, I bump in my classroom's door, then-
"Then he hit his head on it. " Sam cut larry's word in the middle of conversation.
Larry and his mom look at him and he notice it.
"How did you know it? You say you are school mates? " She asks.
"No, mom.. I just think so. What's that? Let's eat, no more conversation. " Sam said.
His mom smiled at him.
"Eat up, help yourself. " She said to larry.
"It's ok auntie.. I-
he felt awkward when sam's mom were serving him.
"its, ok . don't be shy, just dig up and eat more."
They about to eat, but his mom said something again. "Where's your cassette?" She asked Sam and he got startled as panicking silently, larry glance at him as he got nervous, having a panicky eyes.
"W.. why mom?" Sam asks her, stammering. "What you w.. wil gonna do with my cassette?"
"Where's your cassette?" She asks again.
"Of course, In my bag. Why?" He replied calmly.
"I'm going to borrow it." She said.
Larry and Sam got startled and they are starting to tremble.
"N.. no way, mom." He replied.
"What no way? Why can't I borrow that?" She asks.
"No, it's my cassette. You can't borrow it, mikaela brought it to me, asks her to buy yours." Sam replied, pretending to calm.
"Let me borrow it for a minute." She said.
"No, mom.. you can't." as he got mad.
"Ok, enough.. I won't borrow it. Eat up."
Sam feed himself quickly as his sweat are falling down to his neck. "That was so close." Larry and Sam said both on their minds.
After for a moment, they are inside of the room and sam were continuing his painting while larry is sitting on his bed.
"You paint very well." Larry complimented him.
"Of course, I've painted since before." He replied.
Larry stood up suddenly and he went to look around. "This is you?" He asks while pointing at Sam's child pictures.
"Yes, that is me." Sam replied.
"Very ugly." Larry said, teasing him as he kept walking and looking around.
he turned around, pissing off at Larry. "When you're going to leave?" He asks.
"Maybe this evening?"
He put down the paint brush, "Just take your all clothes from your house and live here." Sam teases.
"Really? for real?" Larry said.
"I'm just kidding." Sam replied and he rolled his eyes. "i will not let you live here."
Sam came back painting again after he teasing him while larry kept looking around until he notices the one picture frame.
"What is this?"
Sam turned around and get startled, he immediately runs to larry to take the picture from him but they bump into the bed.
"Ouch, my arm." as he still holding the picture.
"Hey, give me back that." Sam yelled.
he gets off from him and larry gets up to sit, "What is this? Why does its is a girl.. but why does-
He looks at sam and on the picture repeatedly. He can't believe that it was Sam on the photo. "Woah! This is you? " He asks.
He went back to his chair and he inhale deeply, "Yes, that is me. My friends force me to do the girl cosplay, at the first place, I didn't don't want it but they force and convince me." Sam explains at him everything.
"You're pretty here." Larry said while keep looking on it.
"Pretty, my ass. Just put that back on." Sam replied and he starting to stroke some lines at the canva as he continuing his painting.
Larry looks at his watch, "I think, I'll get going now." and he take back the photo where it from.
"Better, I'll accompany you outside." Sam replied.
They went outside and Larry took permission at Sam's mom to go home.
"see you next time, auntie." he said and he walk away.
"Just take care, come back if you want." Sam's mom yelled at him and larry waved his hands for response.
"What comeback? No he can't next time." he said to his mom.
"Why? He's a kind man." She said to Sam and they went inside.
"Kind, my ass." Sam said.
"What did you say?" His mom shouted.
"Nothing!" He replied and he runs faster into his room.
After Larry went home. He saw his mom cooking his favorite dish. "Wow, looks delicious, smell nice." Larry complimented her.
"Why did you get home early?" She asks.
"I don't have classes today, but I've gone to my friend's house." Larry replied.
She put down the laddle and she look at larry with all confusion, "friend? you don't have any friend, right?"
"Friend, the boy on the hospital before.."
Larry replied awkwardly as his mom look at him confusely. "I see. The boy who lends you money to pay your bills, right? Does you already pay back him?"
"Not yet, mom. I'm going to pay him next week, I guess. I'll take a part time job on the bar." Larry replied.
"On the bar again?"
"I'm going to make more careful. Don't worry, I can handle myself." And his mom nodded at him.
He went to his room and he put his bag on the bed. "Son, come here now." His mom yelled.
"I'm coming!" He replied. When he went out from his room, he immediately sat on the chair.
"Woah, does we have soda?" He asks.
"No soda, drink water. Soda can ruin your life." His mom replied.
"Just one soda, that can't ruin my entire life."
"Next time." She replied
Larry smile at her while kept feeding himself.
"At Good mood? You smile a lot since you admitted to the hospital last week."
"What smile? I'm not smiling.. I'm just exercising my mouth. My jaw got lock." Larry replied.
"What happened, huh? You didn't tell me what's happening on you."
"Nothing." He replied and they continue to eat while having a good conversation.
1 WEEK LATER AND A DAY BEFORE THE GRADUATION.
Sam were seating on his chair at the study table and suddenly his phone rang.
"Hey, Sam, are you excited for tomorrow?" Chloe asks him through the phone.
"Maybe, I am or I'm not." He replied as he stood up and he laid on his bed as he sigh deeply. "See you tomorrow at the graduation ceremony." and he ends the call.
"Jeez, high school and.. see you senior. can i stop growing?" He said while looking at the ceiling.
He startled for what he said, "What? I'm going to be a senior next school year? Woah.. can't believe this."
The next morning arrived and they are in their school, wearing their graduation gown while students are chitchatting every corner of the school.
"I'm nervous. You know how to get the diploma? Shake hands with the supervisor? Look at my hands, they are tearing up." Chloe said to Sam.
"Shut up, I know how do it, just watch others so you can learn how to receive the diploma and shake hands with the supervisor and the chairman." Sam replied while looking for someone.
"Hey? I just have notice. Who's your searching? just sit properly and listen to the speaker in front."
"Nothing, just mind your own business." He replied.
They are sitting in the their own chair while waiting for the diploma announcer. Sam kept looking for someone but he doesn't see him.
"Weird. He's not here." He said to himself.
He got called on the stage to receive his diploma, Chloe cheered him joyfully. After the graduation ceremony, they are taking pictures with their friends and classmates but sam kepts searching for someone again.
"Hey, look at the camera. You kept searching for someone." Chloe said to him as she looking on the camera.
He got realize that he kept doing searching him for entire day. He looks at the camera and they took a picture. he went to the cafeteria to buy some drinks when he saw larry sitting alone while drinking his soda on the corner of the cafeteria.
"I found him." He runstowards larry. "Hey, what's up. Sitting alone here?" He asks.
"Yes, why? I don't have friends so I'm going to eat alone here."
he sat to face larry and he put down his choco milk on the table. "does i'm not your friend. I'm your friend." Sam replied.
Larry looks at him and he frowned. "Friend? Are you kidding me?"
"Why? You don't want?" Sam asks.
"Just Drink your choco milk, Little pig." Larry teased him.
"Wow, how dare you to call me little pig, mr. Troublemaker!"
Larry glance sharply and he didn't mind sam in fron of him.
"Where do you want to school if you enter college soon after the senior? next month we will be a senior." Sam asks him.
Larry was looking around as he sips his soda. "I think I won't go to college, maybe I'm going to apply as a part timer at the convenience store after the senior days." Larry replied seriously that having his fierce face.
Sam choked by his drink after he heard it from larry. "What? Are you kidding me? Don't joke like that."
"Why? I'm telling the truth, I'm serious about-
He immediately held larry's hands without hesitation. "We are going to graduate college together. "
Larry took his hands slowly and he replied. "We're not same course." as he confuse.
"Even we're not same course we can graduate each other."
Larry put down his soda on the table and he face sam for serious. "I want to be an English teacher i want to be a good english speaker but i can't afford university." Larry said.
"Hey, promise me we will going to graduate in college together." Sam said. "But I can't afford college tuition fees."
"I can help you with that." Sam replied.
"How? And-
"Taking scholarship. " Sam replied as he sips and twirling his choco milk.
"What? Scholarship? My card got down I can't take scholarship dude. " Larry replied.
"I'll take you there, lets go!" Sam said and he smirked, he holds larry's hands and they run quickly.
"Hey! Where did you take me?" Larry yelled while they are running.
"Just shut up and zip your mouth."
Chloe saw them running and she got confused. "Hey! Sam! Where are you going?" She shouts.
Sam waved his hands at Chloe and they continued running out of the school.
"What's wrong with him.. and who's that boy?" She asks herself. She got confused and think deeply.
"Hey! Chloe.. stops thinking something, let's have fun." Her friend said.
A few minutes, Sam and Larry arrived at the hospital and they are quietly walking on the hallway, "Why are we here? Are you ok? You need to confine?" Larry asks, teasing him as he got confused.
Sam were still holding his hands while he's searching for something. "Just shut up. Just follows me."
He opened the door at the private room and they saw a female doctor and that was his sister. "Can I sit here, sis?" Sam asks Mikaela.
she got startled while she is focusing on reading those hospital papers, "What are you doing here?" asking him.
"Let me introduce my friend to you. Sis, I need your help. You said to me before that your school chairman friend was searching for a student who want to be an English teacher, right?"
Larry sat on the chair awkwardly as Mikaela staring at him.
"But you're going to be a psychological doctor why you want to apply in department of education?" She asks her brother.
"Not me.. but him." he replied as he pointed at larry.
She looks at her brother suspiciously. "What course you want to take?" She asks Larry.
Larry sat up straight and he faces Sam's sister. " Secondary Education major in English." He replied without hesitation as he said it politely.
"Great, let me contact my friend." She said and she stood up, Mikaela went far from them to talk to her best friend through the call. Sam looks at Larry with a smile on his face.
"This is it. You can do it." Sam said.
"Don't act too much, we don't know if I pass. The chairman haven't been approve me." Larry replied and he felt nervous.
Mikaela went back to her chair as she put down her phone.
"Ok, she agreed to that.. but come back here next week, because she's still at the Hawaii.. I'll call you sam if she already came back here." Mikaela said to him.
"Thank you sis, count on me!... tell your best friend, put him on the list until we graduate to senior. " He replied and he winked at his sister.
he stood up and he walks into the door. "Hey! What are you waiting for? Stand up there." He said to Larry.
Larry stood up and he thanks Sam's sister. "T.. thank you v.. very much." He said awkwardly.
When they about to go out. Mikaela said to them. " Congrats both of you, let's celebrate later your graduation party, also Sam's friend, come to our house.. join us." as she smiles widely.
"See you later, my lovely sister!, bring my gift!" Sam shouts.
"Hey! This is a hospital, don't shout." Larry said as he got pissed off to sam's behavior.