The best in him

where it all begun

Well hi i'm Jay nice to meet you, I'm pretty well known throughout my school for being gay. Never outed myself rather everyone just knew from actions, to my crushes, and everything about me.

We all know how quarantine flipped the world upside down. But maybe it didn't? Well atleast in my world. As everyone adjusted and shifted their outside world to their stay at home life,we started working at home, doing things we've never done,getting creative with what we could do inside our houses and the list goes on and on and on. I started schooling,online like majoriy did first quarters went not so good especially with me adjusting myself to the new normal, the new set up and the overall lack of communication with new people. Well i guess that's the struggle of being an extrovert.

As the first day of school started i've met new friends, new and old students i haven't talked to before. It was nice hanging out with them through video calls and having a blast playing with filters,among us and other mobile games. Till 4 weeks go by and we were given a big project, one of our major projects which consists of 6 major subject collaboration in one. If you can tell its major cause if we fail to accomplish the project then we'd fail 6 major subjects. Which will cause my mom another headache. Anyways, back to the story i was given Gary as my partner for the project. Overall a nice guy, always ready for meetings, super kind,taller than me about 2 inches taller, for reference im 5'2.but aside from that he's really funny almost too funny not gonna lie at first i didn't really think we'd get along. We all know the scenario between the gays and the straights. Yeah..... a little awkward. But to my surprise he's actually fun to be with and we get along really well. When we first had our one on one meeting, i noticed he was nervous and kind of asking me to take lead of the project. He told me he wasn't confident leading the project, he didn't trust himself and he told me that he might take my grades down. I laughed and told him to just chill i'm not the principal. To that he let out a smile and said "okay master" to which i replied to saying "master??" He said "yeah" laughing his lungs out. Then we started throwing jokes around till we  realise it was late already and haven't accomplished anything, and to that we had another laugh. Anyways we ended the call right then and there. The next day we had the chance to have another meeting for our project which i've set my mind to finish atleast 1 task "sourcing info". I started the call and 1 ring goes by and he answered, quickly. I was in awe how fast he answered my call then i proceeded to talk about what we need to accomplish that day to make sure we finish the project. I told him to source out information about health related issues regarding weight. I did the same. He sent me links and sources we'd need to start our powerpoint presentation giving a brief preview of how our project outcome would be like,and to also get notes from our teachers wether to change or enhace certain areas of our project. The day emds with us getting to accomplish our first task, meanwhile we chilled and decided to play a round of among us with our other friends. It was my first time playing, and so i screamed out the name of who killed me. Yes, me and my friends were in a call that time while playing to disscuss further who the killer was. I didnt know the rules much,so it was dumb of me. But we had a great laugh after the incident and decided to take a rest already and accomplish another task another day.  Few lectures go by the week and i always notice Gary with a big smile which isn't so normal of him cause he always looked cold. I said to myself"well that's weird" but just shook it off. The next week we were given time again to meet for our project,this time he started the call, my laptop lagged a little so it took a little time for me to answer the call. As i answered the call he asked me"what took you so long to answer" to which i replied "my laptop lagged a little so it froze for a bit but decided to work with me today" he smiled,laughed and decided to ask me what we should do to proceed with the project i told him  to be familiar with the coding software we'd be using cause i'm really bad at coding, he said yet again "okay master" i smirked and told him that i'd be preparing the powerpoint for a sample version of our final output,he said okay and we proceeded with doing our tasks while on a videocall. Midway through accomplishing the task my dog hopped onto my lap and he asked me "wow what a cute dog you have, what breed is it?" I told him it's a shih tzu. As i answered he told me he had 7 dogs whixh i was shocked but also found very cute of him to have 7 dogs, perhaps would be an arm and a leg to feed. Meanwhile i told him i only had 3, told me he wanted to see them all so i called my other two dogs to my room to show him, just to see him looking so cute looking at awe at my dogs. As i showed him the last we got back to doing what we needed to accomplish the day ends and at last we finished everything he got to know the software already and i fi ished the powerpoint which i showed him before the call ends, he was happy with it saying im so creative. I thamked him as i was flattered cause i am really bad at tech especially computers. You see i grew up not being a fond of games and all i knew how to play was piano tiles amd subwaysurf,yeah i was boring. I was into cooking, baking,sewing and drawing. More on the artsy side. My grandpa gifted me a sewing machime when i was 12 and i started sewing dresses and such cause i was always amused with the huge over the top ballgowns and the voluptuos mermaid gowns. I was the biggest fan of the cake boss on tlc wishing i'd be able to make a dragon cake that spits out fire one day. I could listen to gordon ramsey ranting on masterchef daily, i can say it's music to my ears HAHAHA. Back to the story we said our goodbyes and proceeded to take a rest. As weeks go by, we accomplish everything and finish just in time for first quarter grading. And the quarter ended with a hit as we got a high mark on our project. My birthday approches im a few days, i was expecting it to be happy, fun and overall exciting, but 7 days before my birthday drama goes down between my family and when we got home it was quite awkward and it took weeks before we were one quilted family again. So as you expect my birthday was silent, we got takeout cause i didn't have the will to cook for my birthday as the mood in my house was quite down and awkward and oh! Someone messaged me, who might this be? I saw Gary greet me a happy birthday, to which i said thank you he asked me about my birthday and celebration. Then i answered not really great, he said why, i responded back  saying"It's a long story" he asked me if it was okay with me to tell the story, and told me he was all ears to listen to me. To Which i replied to saying "is it okay if i vent to you?" He said "it's an honor, just means we're close already" then i started to tell him about my story,he was comforting me and giving advice how to cope with the problem,which i greatly apprciated i felt truely happy being able to vent to a person not judged.and as time goes by we end with a laugh. Minutes later he called me and asked me to go out i said "why would i need to?" Frantically he said "just come outside", and to my surprise there was a delivery from one of my favorite noodle place and didnt expect to get the order right of beef wonton noodle soup with a side of a mountain of chili oil. I blushed and thanked him, especially this was my first time being sent anything. He told me to enjoy the food and stop crying, actually he started tearing up when i told him it was my first time to receive a gift from any of my friends, cause it isn't common for me to receive such. As i saw this i asked him why are you tearing  up? He told me that he would expect friends to gift me cause i was always there and ready to talk to,made them feel loved and appreciated. To which i said i give everything out of pure friendship and never expect anything. After that he said tbis wouldn't be the last time someone sends you some. I smiled and still blushing for the fact someome gifted me, this was a big thing given i had a not so good day.
Late at night he calls me again as i was watching kdrama i answered the call and said hello, he said hello back and asked me how i was and if i was okay already, then i responded back saying"doing great already, thank you for what you did. You realy made my birthday happy!" After that he decided to say goodbye as he just wanted to check up on me. When he hang up in my head i was saying"this man gives me so much butterflies" then i blushed again and went to sleep with a smile on my face, the next day he called me again as it was a saturday i was shocked cause there were't any classes or meetings. But then i answered, he said goodmorning and so did i. I asked him why he xalled me 10am in the morning, he said well i was bored and decided to call you cause i know you'd have some story or gossip to tell. I laughed and proceeded to tell stories and things about my life as he told me he wanted to get to know me more .Days go by we have calls daily sometimes at night, sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. Seems to be such a healthy friendship just pure joy when we talk to each other but a montb after my birthday someone called me on my number,when i picked up the person on the other side said"hi si Jay?" I said "yes how can i help you"  he responded with " i have a delivery for you from gogoeats.ph" i said " okay, im coming to the door. As i went out i asked if i'd pay anything he said everything was paid already,in my mind i already had an idea who was this from. As he handed me the order i was shocked because it was a whole 18 inch pizza and 3 liters of coke. As i took the food inside i hurrily called Gary to ask if he was the one who sent food,Gary  picked up the phone fast and told me that he was the one who sent it but didnt tell so that it'd be a surprise. I asked him what it was for, he said should there be a reason that i should send you a gift? To which made me blush again. After this monthly, sometimes weekly he'd send me gifts. In fact mostly food cause he knew how happy i was withh food and when he knew i was depriving myself of food cause i was insecure of my body, he'd send food right away. To my doorstep. Although one december evening, this was the 23rd of december. I received a extra special gift, an boquest of edible candy roses. I called Gary immediately ro thank him and teased him about it saying " wow so romantic" or saying" so sweet of you" as i was teasing him he got quiet and i asked why he did he stuttered to tell me why but asked me one question. "Can i court you?" I said "what?!!" He sais in a clearer tone"can i court you?" I responded with " i heard what you said the first time but arent you straight?" As i said that he responded with "well i'm not sure, maybe im bi? Or maybe it's just you that i'm having feelings for?" In shock i agreed cause he was nice and super kind, i couldn't say no actually why would i say no?.  As the call ended he said i love you while i responded with goodnight, thank you for today.

While time goes by he really was serious until one day he told me something, something i'd never forget.....