The Monster Under the Bed || Kickthestickz

Gay Points

"It was amazing and perfect and I've never been so happy in my life, you know when you just want to scream and wiggle but then again cry and explode all at once!? It felt like that! And he kissed me, Calum. Are you hearing this! He kissed me! He. Kissed. Me! I'm so happy that I'm gunna poop glitter!"

"I know, I knew this the first thousand times you told me," Calum sighed whilst trying to keep my excitement down as I bounce my way through the corridors on our way to lunch. "But, I hate to break it to you, frankly, I am happy for you- I really am, but you've kinda been telling me the same thing all morni-"

"But not just normal glitter- I'm gunna poop RAINBOW glitter," I exclaim, not taking in one single word of what Calum says to me. I take my messenger bag from my shoulder and throw it a couple of meters in the air watching it plummet to the ground at the base of our tree.

"Chris, you're gunna break all your stuff."

"I know but I'm just so excited!"

Finally, my giddiness catches onto Calum as he dumps his old backpack, grabs me by waist and spins me around in the air, the wind blowing my badly tied tie over my shoulder. "He kissed you!" He screams whilst I giggle and he places my back down on the ground before settling himself at the bottom of the tree. "I thought you didn't want to let him get you. I thought that you didn't wanna be a 'piece in his games,'" he says adding air quotations at the end.

"I know," I sigh. "But I feel kinda rude, you know. You don't understand how hard it is to keep a straight face and not just shove his sexy ass into the wall and snog his perfect mouth off."

"Wow," Calum chuckles. "You've really been holding back what you're feeling."

"I know, I know," I mutter. "But I've never felt like this about anyone before. ANYONE!" I say, tugging on the collar of the tanned boy sitting next to me. "I think I'll carry on playing hard to get, though, I mean, he'll probably just use me then throw me away like all the other people." I glance over at Calum and see his brain whirring as he struggles to keep up with my swift changes of conversation.

"Just be careful, okay. I don't want you getting heat broken. I need my Chris to stay chirpy now he's finally showed his crazy personality."

"But isn't his butt just so perky?" I ramble, not listening to Calum once again.

This time, however he speaks up louder. "You know, whenever you say something really gay I'm gunna give you a 'gay point'."

"Why?" I question.

"Why not," was his reply as he pulls a toffee out his bag and hands it to me because of my previous outburst.

*

45 minutes later, the school bell rings and we both make our way to science. Arriving at the classroom door I twist the door handle and step inside taking my seat at the back of the room. Just before the room is nearly full, Pj sidles into the room and gives me a quick wink. I grin back uncontrollably in response before earning a sharp nudge from Calum to which I drop my smile, roll my eyes and pick up my pen to begin writing the date.

"Is this anaphase?" I ask, only to receive no answer for Calum. I lift my head from the cold lens of the microscope to find him over the other side of the room chatting to Toby. I didn't even notice he was gone.

"If that's number four then: yes." I hear coming from the opposite side of the table. Glancing back up again I see Pj standing directly in front of me. I ignore his comment and begin to write the word in the dedicated box on the sheet of paper. "Listen, Christopher," He begins and he slides his hand on top of mine, taking my fingers in his.

"I don't wanna hear it, Pj," I reply trying to act as if I didn't care for what he had to say.

"Well, I want you to hear it. Come out with me." He says.

"Wait- wh-what?" I stammer.

"Come out with me. On a date."

"You're Pj Liguori. You don't date." I reply simply and push the next slide into place under the microscope.

"I know, but I do date you."

I shrug, and roll my eyes again, writing 'prophase' on the paper. "Whatever," I give in, pretending this wasn't the biggest deal in my whole entire life.

"What!?"

"I said, 'whatever' in other words 'okay, I'll go on a date with you.'"

"Yes," he cheers before turning back around and getting on with his own science work.

Spinning around in glee I notice Calum walking back towards with a knowing look on his face. "What just happened?" he whispers.

"He asked me out! I'm going on a date!" I chime smiling at Pj's back then proceeding to jump around in excitement, only to be faced with Pj's smug face smirking at my reaction. My face heats as I nuzzle it into Calum's shoulder, burning with embarrassment.

"Gay point," Calum chuckled before pulling another toffee from his bag.

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"So when exactly is he coming over?" Calum questions whilst watching my struggle to get my tie done up properly in the mirror.

Sighing, I fling my arms down to my sides in anger saying, "Well he's getting here for half 6, so 5 minutes-ish, I suppose."

"Don't be nervous," Calum soothes, walking further toward my trembling figure and fixing my tie for me. "You've never been nervous around him before."

"But I wasn't going on a date with him before, Cal."

"I know, I know-

"I can look at his sexy ass the whole time, damn that thing is perfect-" the door swings open and in Pj walks, looking not only extremely gorgeous but also incredibly smug. Again. How much of it did he hear?

"So, you ready for my 'sexy ass' to take you on your date?" he sickers, winking before extending his hand to me. Hesitantly I take it before taking a couple of steps towards him. "I like your tie," he comments before tugging me out Calum's room ony to give us a couple of moments to pull a face at each other before Pj yanks me around the corner and down the creaky wooden stairs, not letting go of my hand once.