Nate's POV I flinch open my eyes as someone beat me hardly on my back. " Hey ! C'mon..wake up ! ", It's Gavin's voice. I try to turn to see his face. But I can't. I'm pressed up tightly against someone's chest with their strong arms wrapped around my waist.It's none else than Ethan. I had told him not to hug me when we finally lied back to sleep yesterday at 3 or 4 Am. And he had agreed after arguing for sometime. But now he has trapped me in between his arms and legs like an octopus. I try to squirm and pull myself away from him. He groans and hugs me more tightly. " C'mon Ethan ! It's past 8: 30 ! ", Grace yells. I see a hand coming down with high speed. And the next moment I hear a loud crack which is followed by an Yelp. Ethan flinch hard and pulls himself away from me. I feel my cheeks heat up as I sit up from the bed followed by Ethan. I can't make myself to look at Gavin or Grace who is standing beside the be
Ethan's POV After first hour I was happily heading to the Biology class to see Michael. He has Biology for second hour. As I turned the left corridor, I saw Gabriel standing in front of a classroom. I prayed she won't see me. But soon she spotted me and smiled at me. I smiled back and she came walking towards me. " Hey..", she said. " Hi..", I responded. " Ahm..Ethan, aren't you going to the ball today ?", She asked. " No. Are you going ?", I asked. " Uhm..no. Why aren't you going ?", she asked. " Don't feel like going. And I've some works to do.", I replied. " Oh...what works ?", She asked. " Works from the days I was absent.". " Oh..I see. Do you want me to help you in copying notes or anything?", She offered. " No thanks.", I chuckled." Okay then. Catch you later." I said and her face went totally pale. But I ignored it and briskly walked
Nate's POV I found myself again entangled in Ethan's arms and legs when I woke up. I pulled away from him and looked up at his face. He was sleeping peacefully whilst snoring softly. He looked really cute at the moment. Like a cute prince. Some of his locks were falling onto his forehead. I slowly brushed them backward and stared at his handsome face. Never in my dreams I thought I would meet someone looking like Alex and then have my first kiss with him and enter into this kind of a relationship with him. In fact I never thought about kissing a guy. This seems strange and unreal. I feel like I'm having a dream and when I wake up I would be on my bed in my home, hugging Alex's pillow. But I know this isn't a dream. Ethan isn't a fantasy. He is real. I can touch and feel him. I moved Ethan's hair on the right side of his head to inspect his wound. It had completely healed. But a scar remained at the place. He groaned and turned, lying on his back as I
Ethan's POV After lying for like ten minutes with his face buried into my pillow, Michael finally turned around on his back. His cheeks still had a pink glow and he was still not looking at me. " Are you shy ?", I asked smiling. He turned his face to the other side and muttered something. " Uhm..? What did you say ?", I asked. He suddenly flinched and shot up from the bed as someone knocked on our door. " C'mon..Ethan, open the door.", Gavin's voice was heard from outside the door followed by a another knock and Michael left a sigh. He thought it was Warden. He was really afraid Mr Garvey would come and catch us here during school time. " Coming ! ", I shouted and crawled out of the bed. I looked at the clock as I walked to the door and found the time was 5 : 40 PM.Oh ! It's this late ? Then where was Gavin until now ? I opened the door and Gavin walked in. He had a plastic bag hanging from h
Ethan's POV After I placed the bill, we walked out of the cafe and headed back in direction of our school. " Why are staring at me ? Look s..straight and walk if you d..don't want to fall. ", he said as I was walking with a little gap from him, staring at his side profile. " I already fell for you. I won't fall again.", I said. He shook his head and left a small sigh. " Between Cupcake, you always eat like this or were you just in a mood to eat a lot today ?", I asked. " No..I always eat like this. Your p..pocket will be empty very soon.", he replied nonchalantly. I couldn't help but chuckle. "Don't worry baby. My pocket won't empty very fast." " Who worried ?", he asked tilting his face to me. " And s..stop calling me baby and c..cupcake. I'm not a baby." "Yeah..you are a baby. And you are my baby.", I said. " No ! ", he scoffed scrunching up his eyebrows. He looked so cute that I couldn
" Do you want to d..dance with me ?", he asked. I was surprised. " Yeah..", I nodded. He stood up from the chair, fishing his phone out of his pocket. His fingers danced on the phone screen and soon a music, which I instantly recognized as 'Thinking out loud' by Ed Sheeran started to Play. He increased the volume to the maximum and placed it on the desk. Then he looked at me and started slowly walking towards me. I couldn't believe he offered to dance with me. I was standing in surprise even when he came near me. I stood like that looking at his baby blue eyes for a few seconds. He too stared back at me. " Grab my shoulder.", I finally mumbled and soon felt the warmth of his hand on my shoulder. I placed my hands on his hips. Then we started slowly moving to the song, without breaking eye contact. I continued to sway to and fro, staring into his eyes. I didn't feel it would be a good idea to take out my usual party mo
" Michael, shall we go to the auditorium and see the ball for sometime ?", I asked tilting my head to Michael. We were lying on the bed beside each other after dancing to about 20 songs. The time had past 10 : 15 PM." Can we ?", he tilted his head to me. " I really want to s..see Gavin and Grace dancing. ", " Yeah..we can go and watch. C'mon.", I said and already crawled out of the bed. Michael followed behind me. Soon we were running down the plethora of steps, hand in hand. It was almost completely dark but we could see the lights from the far away auditoriums. We headed in direction of the main auditorium of our school as Gavin had earlier texted me, they are there. Within five minutes we reached there and Michael withdrew his hands from me. We walked inside and our eyes were greeted with the fascinating sight of boys and girls dancing, dressed in matching attractive clothes. There were almost 30 couples curr
When I woke up and looked at the time, I was shocked. It was 9: 10 Am. I shot up from the bed and found Gavin sleeping peacefully on his bed. Why didn't his alarm ring today ? Now how are we going to school ? " Gavin ! ", I shouted. He groaned and buried himself a bit more under his blanket. I crawled out of my bed and went to him, shaking him harshly. " It's 9 : 10 Gavin. First hour already started ! ", I shouted into his ear. " Ahh..what's wrong with you Ethan ? Today is a holiday.", Gavin groaned closing his ears with his palm. " Holiday ??", I asked confused. " What holiday ?" " Today is October 14th you fool.", he said and buried his face into the pillow. October 14th ? Oh ! Columbus day. I see, so that is why our school conducted ball yesterday night instead of on weekend. Oh wait ! That means tomorrow is October 15th. And October 15th is my Mom's birthday ! Shit ! I almost forgot it and was pl