What Happens in High School

Max’s POV

I slowly and half-heartedly got up off my bed to walk Ray downstairs. I was glad that he’d come over and I got all of this off my chest but it still wasn’t over. Ray was going to talk to Bob for me and I was a little nervous. I had really wanted to get everything resolved but now that the time was coming that I’d actually have to go through with it, I was scared.

I didn’t know how Bob was going to take it and I didn’t want to end up getting hurt. I would just have to trust Ray and hope for the best. When Ray left I was all alone. Andrew was on a Boy Scout camping trip and my parents were still at work. I went back up to my room to pick out something to wear. I really wasn’t in the mood to actually try so I settled on a black tee shirt and some old ripped up jeans. I put aside my clothes and took a shower. I didn’t bother with my hair too much, leaving it to dry by itself into its naturally wavy state. I put on a little eyeliner to hide my red eyes and threw on my clothes. I shot myself one last look in the mirror before leaving.

As I walked down the street to Ray’s house I became more and more nervous to face Bob. It really wasn’t his fault. It’s not like I told him how I felt so he could have had no clue, and probably did. That is unless Ray told him something, in which case I’d cut off all of his hair. I tried to ignore the butterflies in my stomach as I approached Ray’s front door and knocked.

A moment later Ray answered the door and led me inside. The only other person there was Bob who stood when I came in. “Want to talk?” he asked plainly. I looked to Ray who motioned for me to go with Bob. I walked over to him as Ray left us to talk for a minute in his living room. “I…don’t even know where to start.” He began as I stood and listened.

“First I should say sorry, I know I was toying with you and believe me I really didn’t mean to. In all honestly, I was scared to talk to you about this. You don’t realize it, and I don’t know why, but you’re amazing and perfect and wonderful in every way. See why I’d be a bit nervous?” I couldn’t help but smile at this and blush a little. I looked down at my feet thinking of something to say back.

Suddenly I saw another pair of shoes in front of mine and I looked up to see Bob walking toward me. He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me in tight. He’d never done that before, he’d never come to me. I put my arms around him and held him back. It reminded me of why I’d never given up on him. I stayed there with him and was brought back to the school parking lot, him hugging me after telling off Jack. I was brought to his bedroom, almost kissing him as we danced in the middle of the room. I recalled when I first saw him way back those months ago when I was still on square one.

I hugged him tighter pulling him flush to my body. I felt connected with all of him like I never had before. I had been in this very spot before and yet I’d never felt so at home. I felt like I was meant to be there by some higher order. I leaned into his body without saying a word.

I stayed pressed up against him with my arms pulling him in and said, “It wasn’t all you. I could have said something too and I don’t know why I didn’t just tell you. I was being stubborn, trying to keep everything inside when it didn’t need to be.” It felt good to finally tell him what I wanted to say for so long but I wasn’t quite done.

“You know, when I first met you, that’s when I knew you were different. Knew that you were special, someone I really wanted in my life.” I was just letting it all out into the open and I didn’t care. I wanted him to know everything.

“Funny, because that’s exactly what I thought when I first met you.” I looked up to him to see if he was being serious. Are you kidding me? All this time, everything was mutual? I felt so stupid, like all of this could have been avoided if I just trusted my gut in the first place and gone for it. Well, it was too late now and I was just happy to have him back.

It happened again. He got that look in his eyes as he started to lean down to meet me. All those feelings I’d had the first time this happened came back. It was the perfect moment, which I’d come to know as something that was not possible. The reputation Frankie had built as a ruiner of moments hadn’t failed him, not even now. He busted into the front door and yelled, “Ray! I’m here!”

Even though I didn’t get my magical kiss with Bob, at least it wasn’t because he didn’t want to. Ray came out and dragged Frankie downstairs. “What the fuck man, can’t you see they’re having a moment?”
Frankie looked over at me and Bob still in each other’s arms and said, “Oh, woops. Sorry guys, I’m just gonna…” He went down with Ray.

At this point I figured that this kiss wasn’t going to happen tonight so I let go of Bob and went to join the other guys. I got but one step away when I felt a hand grab my wrist and Bob say, “No, not again.”He pulled on my wrist to turn me back to him. As I faced him I felt his other hand grab onto my waist pulling me even closer. Before I had the chance to realize what was happening I felt his lips on mine.

I closed my eyes letting myself melt into the moment. His lips were soft and tasted like cigarettes which strangely didn’t bother me. The cold metal of his piercing sent chills down my back and made my lips tingle making the kiss that much more worth it. I lifted my hands and put them on his chest before sliding them up to his face. I could feel the bit of scruff on his cheeks before moving my hands back down to meet his. I’m not sure how long it lasted but I savored every perfect moment. This was what I’d been waiting so long for and it was just as magical as I’d imagined it would be.

When it was over I looked into his eyes and he into mine. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect moment. If I could go back I wouldn’t change a thing, not even Frankie busting in. I was so nervous about what would happen when I first got here and now I realized I had no reason to be. We said what we needed to say and everything ended up better than I could have planned. “So now that we’ve finally done that, I have a question.” Bob asked while I was still in la-la land from the kiss. “Girlfriend?”

Of course I said yes, any breathing conscious girl who wasn’t a lesbian would. I held onto Bob’s hands and smiled as I stood on my toes to reach him placing another kiss on his lips. “Boyfriend?” I replied as he smiled down at me.

It was official, I was dating Bob Bryar and I couldn’t have asked for anyone better. We went down to meet the rest of our friends. Gerard and Mikey were now there along with Ray and Frank who all looked up as Bob and I came downstairs hand-in-hand. “So?” asked Ray.

I looked up at Bob. I was so happy in that moment. I had a wide vocabulary but still couldn’t think of any words to describe how I was feeling. It was such a crazy journey to finally get where we were tonight. I had gone through so many emotions and had so many days where I just wanted to quit but standing here holding hands with one of the most amazing guys I’d ever had the pleasure of meeting, and now dating, was far beyond anything I could have ever pictured.

Everything that had happened thus far was proving to be totally worth it. I looked out into the room full of the people who loved me most and put up with my shit throughout this whole thing and realized that this was the best place on Earth with or without my hot new boyfriend next to me, although that didn’t hurt. “I’d say everything turned out alright.” I answered not even trying to fully explain my feelings. After all they were mine and I wanted to keep them all to myself. Every perfect detail.

Notes

YAY!!! I know most of my stories generally end with a kiss, but this one's going to be different, This is not the last chapter, oh no, there's more, so I'll you see back here AGAIN next week for another update!!!! There are still about six more chapters, so stay tuned kids!! Enjoy the story, comment if you like, check out my other stuff, message me, do whatever, and have a nice day!!