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“Hey, Frank!” Ray says to me, giving me a pretty awkward high-five, even though it’s only been 15 minutes since I last saw him.
“Hey, Ray!” I reply “Are we going on this first, then?”
“Yep! The big wheel has always been one of my favourites; the view from the top is great.” He answers.
So we queue up to go on, the line isn’t long so we get on fairly quickly, however it takes a while to get started because half of the students haven’t arrived yet. God, how slow can we go? They’re still loading people but I see him, we’re half way to the top of the wheel and he stands out like a red rose in a field full of daisies. He’s got almost shoulder-length greasy hair, how come greasy hair on this guy looks so sexy when greasy hair should never be sexy?, a clear but very pale complexion, beautiful hazel eyes which stand out even when I looking at them from a big wheel and a smile that could kill.
Shit! He’s smiling at me; some hot guy is smiling at me! Wait, some hot guy is smiling at me? Holy GOD. Okay, keep calm, smile back. I give him one of my genuinely happy smiles [that don’t come along very often’ and look away. I think he turned away once I left his gaze.
Ray picked up on the fact that I’d just truly smiled, it was the first time this month, I think. “Why the huge smile?”
“Huh?” I’m in a daze, staring at him again, he’s the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen but he doesn’t go to our school; does he?
“Are you staring at that guy? He asks. Oh God, I’m blushing.
“No...” I reply but then turn to face him “Okay then, maybe...”
“Oh Frank! Cut it out!” he tells me.
“Easy for you to say, you have Christa, you don’t need to look for potential dates.”
“Well, I’m not gay”
“You would’ve been looking for girls then!”
The wheel begins to do it’s full rotation, sending us skyward, to the very top.
Ray speaks up again “Does he even go to our school? I mean, I’ve never seen him ‘round”
“I don’t know, but this is our school’s fair and only students from out school are allowed in.” I say.
“Oh, yeah.”
“Can we ask him?”
“NO!”
“Why not!?” We’re on our descent now, I really want to get to know this guy, and he seems interesting. Saying that, I haven’t met him yet, I’ve just seen his beautiful face.
“Because... I don’t know, you just don’t go up to random people and talk to them!” His reason was shocking, but it gives me the upper hand to win this.
“Maybe he’s just a new kid who needs some friends.”
“He’s stood with someone though.” Is he? Now looking, he actually is stood with someone; I must’ve been too busy looking at him to notice another boy stood next t him.
The other boy’s the same height as him but has glasses and shaggy dirty blond hair, their face shapes are similar so I’d say they were brothers so possible are new students and most definitely need friends.
The big wheel stops and we’re back to ground level – our cue to get off. Right, I’m off, where is he? I can’t see him but hopefully he is a new kid at our school so I can see more of him.
“Mr Iero?” The voice of my Gym teacher calls, what does he want now? I’ve already agreed to be on the clean up team.
“Yes, Mr Riley? I answer him.
“Where’s Mr Bryar? I haven’t seen him yet, has he ditched? If he has it’s a call to him parents and 10 days at army camp” He sounds pretty pissed off.
“Erm, no, Sir. I’ve been with Ray since I got here.”
“Mr Toro? Have you seen him?” He asks Ray.
“He was on my bus here and-“ He gets cut off.
“FRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK” Bob yells, running to me then giving me a huge bear hug.
“Found him, Sir.” I say to Mr Riley.
“Okay, guys, you start clean up at 7 until 9 unless you clean up your area quicker.”
“Right Sir, we won’t forget.” Bob assures him.
He’s hyper, I can tell, who knows what’ll happen when we sneak in the alcohol after clean up, maybe we just won’t tell him...
“Fraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank, I saw a guy you might like.” Bob announced, does he mean him?
“So you saw him too?” Ray asks him.
“Yeah, his brother’ much hotter though”
“Yeah, right.” I say. He stood out more than his brother but Bob never likes darker boys, always likes the one who look like typical high schoolers.
We start walking around, we’ve got 3 hours until our extra credit work, I wish me and Bob hadn’t failed Gym. We stop while I have a go on the ‘Test Your Strength’ machine. I’m stronger than I thought; I hit the bell winning myself a rather large unicorn. Why a unicorn? Just because I’m gay doesn’t mean I like unicorns but I say thanks to the guy, take my prize and we keep walking. I’m naming this unicorn Sparkles, she has a blue mane and tail, white body, deep blue plastic eyes that match her mane and tail, grey hooves and a glittery horn. Sparkles suits her.
“Hey, isn’t that that guy? Walking straight over here?” Ray points out. It is him, walking over here?! Shit! How do I look?
“You look fine, Frank.” He tells me, almost as if he’d heard my thought.
He stops right before me, he’s so much more beautiful up close, and I thought he was stunning from the wheel. His eyes boring deep into my soul as we look into each other’s eyes before he started speaking.
“Hey, erm, my brother wanted me to ask you if we could swap his stuffed zebra for your unicorn?” He asks me. Once again, I’d failed to notice his brother stood next to him, looking hopeful.
I think about trading Sparkles for a zebra I’ve yet to name, it’s a pretty good trade but then again I’d probably swap Sparkles for anything that he asked me to swap her for.
“Yeah, okay, sure.” I answer him, eyes meeting his again. Holding Sparkles out to the brother I say “Her name is Sparkles.”
“Okay.” The Brother says grabbing Sparkles from me putting a zebra in place of her. “I hadn’t really named him though,” referring to my zebra “Gerard won him for me, but he didn’t have a choice of animals, he got what he was given, and gave it to me.” He continues.
Gerard, huh? Cute name. “I take it your name is Gerard?” I ask the darker boy.
“Yeah, and he’s Michael, but we all call him Mikey.” Gerard replies.
“Oh cool, I’m Frank, and this is Bob and Ray.” I tell them. Mikey’s eyes lit up when I mentioned Bob’s name.
“Well, we’ll see you later then?” Gerard says “We’re new to the school and we have to go meet our form tutors, Mr Kershaw is mine, I think that’s his name, anyways.” Jesus God holy Christ, he’s in my form! I just witnessed a miracle. “Yeah we just moved from New Jersey in the states and we have no idea how English high schools work.”
“Oh! I’m in Mr Kershaw’s form so you can tell him you met me. “ He nods “Do you wanna meet up with us after? Me and Bob are on clean up duty and afterwards we’re gonna hang out with a few more friends.” I really hope he can join us; I want to see him before Monday in school.
“Yeah, okay then.” YES! I give him the details of our meet up and then we go our separate ways. Only one hour until clean up – and that means only two until I see him again.