"Hey"
"Hey!"
I felt a kick from behind, lunging my seat towards the front a feet. I turned my head around, frustrated and annoyed
"What?!"
"You should've really planned it out, man." Joy rolled her eyes
"What do you mean?" I rolled my eyes, even though I knew exactly what she means
"Her birthday is on the corner, if you wanted to catch some air for her, you should definitely come out with something special." Joy thought for a while before shrugging. "Nah, just try not to demand price tags, she really isn't short of anything liquid."
True, she is one of the most generously spending kid of school, even though her parents were just normal government workers. Yet she is always packed full of brands and flashy names, Nikes Guccis Apples and whatever you can think of.
"Wonder what she does to get all of that?" Joy asked the question I am equally asking for
"Dunno man." I shrugged. "Hope she still had her second kidney intact."
Then we laughed for a few moment as if we were idiots
"Damn bro, really, seriously, you should've planned it out." Joy catch a wheeze, patting my shoulder as she spoke. "Don't deny it, we all knew that you had a crush on her at the beginning of this semester."
"No one said that is true." I tried to act like I don't care, although I knew my face is catching heat
"Just tried to do something that impresses her, k." Joy tried to put her serious face, and failed immediately. We spent another five minutes trying not to die suffocating. And when we got on our feet and ass back to our seats, I immediately switch topics and soon we are about how Black Panther 2 doesn't feels the same.
Yet deep down I knew I am planning onto something
The girl that we are talking about, is of course Sarah Clover from our grade. Her class right opposite ours in the hallway. Just like what we've stated, she is quite filthy rich for some unknown reason, her birthday's just around the corner, she threw a party, I got invited, and I am quite desperate trying to impress her beautiful cheeks.
Thought we are not that close, I still wanted to have her, since she is quite a popular kid at school, and that definitely cough up some additional fame in school.
The only friend that I dare to tell of this is Joy. She lived behind my semi-D's, and seats behind me at class, too. We knew each other forever for too long, which kind of make us look each other in a different way compared to others. I didn't quite look at her as a girl, and she doesn't look at me as a boy, at least for what I felt.
Since I am quite shy in terms of smoochy relationship like this, and Joy is the only friend that I trust to have a sealed mouth regarding this topic. Since although she is a girl, she doesn't gossip around stuff the way girl does. She just hangs around, with me, for some reason, all the time.
Seems like a good thing to me, because it is quite enjoying to be with her. Rumours started to spread, something that we both don't give a fuck. Well that is a lesson to learn, because it turns from "Joy and Ben are a thing" to "The reason Ben is good with Joy is because Ben is gay" and by the time I want to correct it, it is already too damn late.
As if middle school isn't shitty enough for me, nowadays I am treated like a man with a pussy
Glad Joy didn't care much, and I decide I should, too
Oh, forgot to self-introduce, by the way
Name's Ben, Ben Johnson not-the-Rock, fifteen, male and definitely straight