Summer, 1983 (I'll call you by mine)

Rules Don't Apply

(Authors note: This is a filler chapter, I wanted it to be its own little bit of the world. I'm still going to upload a chapter every Friday but I may have some little chapters here and there. Love all the love you are giving! Happy Reading!)

Music tore through the air, sweeping over the patrons in the disco. Jona had followed after David's sister, who oddly seemed to be enjoying the attention from him.

"She does know he's almost 16 right? It's almost wrong to lead my poor little brother on like that." Christopher yelled into Davids' ear, the music was so loud he was sure it almost sounded like a whisper.

"She knows, but she's has a thing for guys with long hair."

"Don't let Jona know that, any girl who thinks he's cute. He runs with it." Christopher joked, he danced closer to the older boy putting his hand right above Davids' hip pulling his pelvis closer.

David quickly grabbed Christopher's hand holding it putting distance between them. The younger one laughed.

"Oh slick one, I thought I was going to get away with that one!" Christopher laughed, they had started this strange game of chicken. A let's see how far one will let the other go before stopping them.

"You can't get away with anything around me Alder."

"Is that a challenge?"

"No, just a simple fact." David threw back his fifth beer of the night. Christopher was so close to David he could feel him breathing on his neck.

"You are so full of shit. How're things going with Idris? I noticed he's not been there the last few times I've been over."

"No no, we aren't talking about my life. You are the one that's always bouncing from one person to the next." David poked him in the side.

"I am not!" Christopher faked being offended.

"Really? So you're still with that one rude girl and whoever that guy was? Because last week I'm fairly sure I saw you with your tongue down a different girls throat last week."

"Are you keeping track of who I'm kissing?" Christopher was going to drill him now for answers.

"Maybe, I'm just worried that you will do something you will regret."

"Oh right, because I'm just a kid right? I make mistakes."

"I didn't say that I just don't want you to get hurt."

"It's hard to get hurt when you don't have feelings for any of them." Christopher smiled, he wanted to tell David the only person that could hurt him would be David. He never said things like this to David anymore, he didn't want to see the face of hurt. He knew that David cared for him, he saw the looks that he thought Christopher didn't see. He would come to Christopher's games and when they won their championship game, David got so overwhelmed he kissed Christopher in a crowd of people. No one even saw the act of pure joy, Christopher was shocked and happy over the act. Christopher knew David thought he was sleeping with other people, but the truth was he had no desire to be with anyone but him. He referred to them as placeholders, they were people but they were not important to Christopher. He knew it was awful to think of them as such but no matter how hard he tried Christopher just couldn't bring himself to go any further than heavy petting.

"What are you thinking about?" David asked him as he looked off.

"Nothing, it's private."

"You not going to tell me?"

"Nope, it's my thoughts I don't have to tell you."

"There are ways I could get you to tell me, you know."