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All right everyone! Chapter 10 has made it to the board and I'm thrilled to death with the reception this has gotten. Thank you all very much!
Matt
Lost in a Dream, Chapter 10
“Coach,” a familiar voice said while sniffling, “what should I do?” I looked around this place, but I didn’t recognize it as it had a haze to it. It appeared to be an office, but I couldn’t make much out of it.
A second voice spoke up and said, “There’s nothing you can do, Aiden. What’s done is done.” That makes Aiden the first voice and a coach of his the second. “But, you should know that not everyone shares your father’s view.”
“Thanks coach.” Aiden said with a sniffle, “Since mom’s gone and dad’s now out of the picture, it’s just so hard to think about.”
“Aiden, there will always be people who care about you. You’re a good kid and someone special will come by and sweep up your heart.”
“I hope so coach.” He said, sniffling more, “What about the team? My dad’s little ‘tirade’ wasn’t exactly quiet...” he said, trailing off.
“Don’t worry about the team, just be yourself. If they’re going to have a problem with you being gay, then they’re going to have a problem playing. It’s as simple as that.”
For the first time in the whole sequence, Aiden smiled. And it wasn’t a fake smile, his pearly whites showed through the haze. Slowly, the haze got stronger and before long, I couldn’t see anything or anyone in the room.
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I woke up just before eight on Friday morning. I was confused about the ‘dream’ about Aiden, but for once, I was glad I wasn’t upset. I was happy for him, if he was in fact a real person. I’ll have to ask Kevin when I see him in Spanish. I lied in bed for a few minutes, allowing myself to wake up a little bit. I was extremely comfortable next to Brayden, as his chest made a really fine pillow.
Albeit reluctantly, I got up from bed and trudged my way to the bathroom to get the morning started. As I was in the shower, I thought about everything that had happened in the past week. A week ago, I had Jason and Kelsey as friends. I mean, I had other friends, but none meant anything like those two did. Now, though, I had Brayden, Kevin, Lukas and Evan. I couldn’t help but smile at thought of how much my life had changed in the past week, let alone the past year.
Before I knew it, it was time to go to class. Brayden still hadn’t stirred much, so I used a chair to get to face level with him and I quietly told him I was going off to class. He mumbled something that probably resembled ‘okay’, but I really didn’t have a clue if it was even English. I just laughed to myself and gave his lips a soft kiss. As I pulled away, he smiled and said, “Bye, love.” My heart melted as I walked out of the room. ‘Love?’ I thought, ‘Was that a new nickname, or was he trying to tell me something else?’
“Matt! Wait up, man!” Jason said, bringing me back to reality. “What’s on your mind?”
“A lot, Jase.” I said, “Nothing bad, though. In fact, everything is grand!” I said, all the while smiling.
“I’ll take your word for it!”
“Good!” I said, and then changed the subject, “Jase, can you believe how crazy the last week was? I mean, I never expected to have a boyfriend, drop the f-bomb twice in the same sentence, get punched in the face, get someone arrested, and meet my twin brother.”
“Well,” he said as he laughed, “when you put it like that, it has been a crazy-ass week for you! By the way,” he said, stopping as we got to his classroom, “what are you going to say to your parents?”
“Umm,” I said, thinking, “I’m not quite sure yet. I’m going to talk to Evan one of these days and see what he thinks. It’s all kind of up in the air at this point, unfortunately. We’ll get it figured out for sure, though!”
After that, I said I’d see him later and I walked off to Spanish. When I made it there, Kevin had a spot for me and I sat and we chatted as we waited for class to start. Spanish was one of my favorite subjects, so the class was always enjoyable and far from boring. Better yet, my professor was a riot.
As Kevin and I were leaving, I walked up to the professor and gave her my thanks for not mentioning my black eye in class. She just smiled and said, “Mateo, ya sé que pasó. ¡No te preocupes!”
As we walked out, Kevin leaned in and whispered, “What did she say?”
I just laughed and said, “She told me that she knew what happened and that I shouldn’t worry about it!”
“How did you know that?” he asked, “We’ve barely started past tense!”
“Languages are easy for me,” I said, “and, I took some Spanish in high school. Say, this is really a change in conversation, but when does football season start?” I asked, trying to find a way to ask about Aiden without being too blatant about it.
“First game is tomorrow at three! Are you coming?”
I smiled and said, “Well, Jason and I usually round up some people and play Ultimate Frisbee, but we could probably play in the morning! Have you found out if your starting or not this year?”
“I have, but I’m not, unfortunately.” He said, a little bummed, “But, Coach says that anything can happen and I could be if I work hard. So I am gonna be workin’ my ass off this season.” I just nodded in acknowledgement as he spoke.
“Say, Kevin?” I asked, “Is there a guy named Aiden on the football team?”
“Yeah, he’s a fag.” He said as I stopped dead in my tracks as Kevin continued, “What do you wanna know?” When he realized that I’d stopped, he turned and looked at me.
I didn’t really know what to say, but hearing him say the word ‘fag’ was like popping my happiness balloon. “Do you know him?” I said, sternly, trying to emphasize the word ‘know’.
“No, but--” He started to say but I interrupted.
“Kevin, hearing that word is like getting punched in the stomach, regardless of the intent behind it. I don’t care if everyone on the team says it about him, I can guarantee that it hurts.” I said, pausing to let him think.
“Okay, I’m sorry, Matt. How do you know about Aiden?” He asked. It was a fair question, I hadn’t ever actually met Aiden.
“A dream, Kevin.” I said, stopping to think, myself. “Can you promise me something, Kevin?” He nodded, so I continued, “Promise me that you’ll stick up for Aiden if anything ever happens.”
He looked at me a little confused, but nodded at my proposal. “All right, Matt, I promise you that I will stick up for him, no matter what.”
“Thanks, Kevin. It’ll be good for you, I’m sure of it!” I said as I remembered the coach and Aiden talking. “Say, I’m gonna surprise Evan with a visit. Wanna come with and meet him?” I asked.
“No thanks, I’ll meet him when he moves in. See ya later!” He said, and I walked to my room to drop off my backpack. When I made it to my room, I saw that Brayden was gone. I checked my phone since it was on silent, and saw that I got a text from him while I was at class. He wanted me to know that he and Lukas were going swimming and would be gone a little while. I responded and said: “Sounds good babe! I’m going to visit Evan until lunch or so!”
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When I made it to the clinic, I didn’t really know what Evan and I would talk about, but I didn’t care. We were brothers and had a lot of catching up to do!
When I walked into the room, Evan seemed genuinely surprised. He was sitting in one of the chairs in the room, but got up and came to greet me when he saw me. “Matt!” he said, elated, “Thanks for coming! I’m getting so bored here!” After that, he pulled me into a hug. I was a little surprised, but I returned it without question.
“I couldn’t sit around twiddling my thumbs while you were here probably bored to tears!” I said, “Besides, if we really are brothers, shouldn’t we do some catching up?”
“Yeah, we should.” Evan said, “So, about Brayden. When did you meet?”
I grinned and said, “Last Saturday! I was playing Ultimate Frisbee and took a wicked stupid dive. I zoned out for a bit and he and my best friend Jason were kneeling over me when I snapped out of it! After that, I found out he lived in the same dorm and we hit it off from there.”
“Wow! You move fast!”
“Only in that aspect, Evan. Even though we just met a week ago, we both followed our instincts and have a ton in common! That’s pretty much all there is to Brayden though. Anyone like that with you?” I asked. I thought it was fair, he’d never said anything about him and Lukas as a couple. Or anyone else, for that matter!
“Nope. There’s gotta be some guy out there for me somewhere!”
“Not just some guy, Evan. There’s someone special out there for you. I take it that means you and Lukas are just good friends?” I said, smiling.
He looked at me and grinned, “Yeah, you could say that. He’s like a brother to me, Matt. And because of that, I love him like a brother.”
Evan and I chatted for a little while before I had to go and grab something to eat before class at one. I asked if he wanted anything, but he told me that Lukas was going to bring him something. I was quite surprised to hear that he and Lukas weren’t a couple, but I believe him when he says they’re like brothers. It’s the same way I feel about Jason.
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The rest of the afternoon was, well, for the first time in a while, normal. Classes were incredibly boring, but I’ve learned that’s how most lectures go when the material isn’t exactly interesting. After I was done for the day, I told Jason that I wanted to go to the football game tomorrow afternoon, and he agreed that we should play Frisbee in the morning. The rest of the afternoon was spent lounging and watching TV.
At least, that was the plan until Lukas called. He wanted to know if he could borrow my Trailblazer so that he could move everything across campus in one big load. I said yes, of course, and went over to help him and Brayden pack his stuff. Fortunately, Ryan had the same plan, so they could move simultaneously without any problems. Before long, both RA’s had checked out of their former rooms and were working on the paperwork to get moved into their new rooms. Brayden and I were just sitting in the lobby waiting to help when he asked me a question. “Matt, would you be upset if I asked Lukas about him and Evan?”
I just giggled and said, “No, babe. I asked Evan about Lukas this morning! We were talking about significant others and it just sorta came up!”
“Oh! And? What did Evan say?”
“It’s all brotherly love between them. He thinks of Lukas as an older brother, much like I think of Jason.” I said, “What about Lukas? Please tell me something similar!”
“Oh yes. ‘Brothers for life,’ I believe was the way he put it.” Brayden said, smiling.
“Now we just have to find them hot dates!” I said, beaming, “Anything on that front for Lukas? Evan said there was a special guy out there for him somewhere.”
“Ya know, I didn’t think about that. I honestly don’t know! We’ll make that Evan’s job.” He said, laughing.
Just then, Gina and Lukas came down after completing their paperwork. “Alright, boys.” Lukas said, “Let’s get started! Hopefully after, we can get into Evan’s room and move some of the heavier stuff.” With that, we went out to my car and started unpacking. This whole process reminded me just how glad I am to live on first floor!
After we finished moving things into Lukas’ new room, we found Kevin and asked if he wanted to go eat. What we didn’t tell him was that afterwards, we were going to go over to Evan’s room and move the majority of his things over to his new room. Evan had already given Lukas permission to move his things, so Mark let us in and ‘supervised’ while we did all of the grunt work. While we were working, Lukas got a phone call from Evan and got the word that they were releasing him, so he went and picked him up.
Soon enough, Evan was at his new room and unpacking with Kevin. They had told us they were planning on just hanging out and getting to know each other, so we left to go watch a movie. Brayden, for some unknown reason, hadn’t yet seen Spaceballs, so we sat him down and watched the movie straight through. Thankfully, he had seen the original Star Wars series, so he understood much of the humor in the movie.
Afterwards, Jason and Lukas had left so that we could all get a decent amount of sleep before Frisbee in the morning.
Brayden and I both made our way to the bathroom to get ready for bed. There wasn’t going to be anything special tonight, as we were both quite tired and sore from all of the lifting and moving. Brayden crawled up into bed first, and I followed shortly after. We were both down to our underwear when I gave him a good night kiss and rested my head on his chest. As I closed my eyes, I could feel his arm move from above his head to around my shoulder. Man, life was truly great right now.
To be continued...
Matt
Lost in a Dream, Chapter 10
“Coach,” a familiar voice said while sniffling, “what should I do?” I looked around this place, but I didn’t recognize it as it had a haze to it. It appeared to be an office, but I couldn’t make much out of it.
A second voice spoke up and said, “There’s nothing you can do, Aiden. What’s done is done.” That makes Aiden the first voice and a coach of his the second. “But, you should know that not everyone shares your father’s view.”
“Thanks coach.” Aiden said with a sniffle, “Since mom’s gone and dad’s now out of the picture, it’s just so hard to think about.”
“Aiden, there will always be people who care about you. You’re a good kid and someone special will come by and sweep up your heart.”
“I hope so coach.” He said, sniffling more, “What about the team? My dad’s little ‘tirade’ wasn’t exactly quiet...” he said, trailing off.
“Don’t worry about the team, just be yourself. If they’re going to have a problem with you being gay, then they’re going to have a problem playing. It’s as simple as that.”
For the first time in the whole sequence, Aiden smiled. And it wasn’t a fake smile, his pearly whites showed through the haze. Slowly, the haze got stronger and before long, I couldn’t see anything or anyone in the room.
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I woke up just before eight on Friday morning. I was confused about the ‘dream’ about Aiden, but for once, I was glad I wasn’t upset. I was happy for him, if he was in fact a real person. I’ll have to ask Kevin when I see him in Spanish. I lied in bed for a few minutes, allowing myself to wake up a little bit. I was extremely comfortable next to Brayden, as his chest made a really fine pillow.
Albeit reluctantly, I got up from bed and trudged my way to the bathroom to get the morning started. As I was in the shower, I thought about everything that had happened in the past week. A week ago, I had Jason and Kelsey as friends. I mean, I had other friends, but none meant anything like those two did. Now, though, I had Brayden, Kevin, Lukas and Evan. I couldn’t help but smile at thought of how much my life had changed in the past week, let alone the past year.
Before I knew it, it was time to go to class. Brayden still hadn’t stirred much, so I used a chair to get to face level with him and I quietly told him I was going off to class. He mumbled something that probably resembled ‘okay’, but I really didn’t have a clue if it was even English. I just laughed to myself and gave his lips a soft kiss. As I pulled away, he smiled and said, “Bye, love.” My heart melted as I walked out of the room. ‘Love?’ I thought, ‘Was that a new nickname, or was he trying to tell me something else?’
“Matt! Wait up, man!” Jason said, bringing me back to reality. “What’s on your mind?”
“A lot, Jase.” I said, “Nothing bad, though. In fact, everything is grand!” I said, all the while smiling.
“I’ll take your word for it!”
“Good!” I said, and then changed the subject, “Jase, can you believe how crazy the last week was? I mean, I never expected to have a boyfriend, drop the f-bomb twice in the same sentence, get punched in the face, get someone arrested, and meet my twin brother.”
“Well,” he said as he laughed, “when you put it like that, it has been a crazy-ass week for you! By the way,” he said, stopping as we got to his classroom, “what are you going to say to your parents?”
“Umm,” I said, thinking, “I’m not quite sure yet. I’m going to talk to Evan one of these days and see what he thinks. It’s all kind of up in the air at this point, unfortunately. We’ll get it figured out for sure, though!”
After that, I said I’d see him later and I walked off to Spanish. When I made it there, Kevin had a spot for me and I sat and we chatted as we waited for class to start. Spanish was one of my favorite subjects, so the class was always enjoyable and far from boring. Better yet, my professor was a riot.
As Kevin and I were leaving, I walked up to the professor and gave her my thanks for not mentioning my black eye in class. She just smiled and said, “Mateo, ya sé que pasó. ¡No te preocupes!”
As we walked out, Kevin leaned in and whispered, “What did she say?”
I just laughed and said, “She told me that she knew what happened and that I shouldn’t worry about it!”
“How did you know that?” he asked, “We’ve barely started past tense!”
“Languages are easy for me,” I said, “and, I took some Spanish in high school. Say, this is really a change in conversation, but when does football season start?” I asked, trying to find a way to ask about Aiden without being too blatant about it.
“First game is tomorrow at three! Are you coming?”
I smiled and said, “Well, Jason and I usually round up some people and play Ultimate Frisbee, but we could probably play in the morning! Have you found out if your starting or not this year?”
“I have, but I’m not, unfortunately.” He said, a little bummed, “But, Coach says that anything can happen and I could be if I work hard. So I am gonna be workin’ my ass off this season.” I just nodded in acknowledgement as he spoke.
“Say, Kevin?” I asked, “Is there a guy named Aiden on the football team?”
“Yeah, he’s a fag.” He said as I stopped dead in my tracks as Kevin continued, “What do you wanna know?” When he realized that I’d stopped, he turned and looked at me.
I didn’t really know what to say, but hearing him say the word ‘fag’ was like popping my happiness balloon. “Do you know him?” I said, sternly, trying to emphasize the word ‘know’.
“No, but--” He started to say but I interrupted.
“Kevin, hearing that word is like getting punched in the stomach, regardless of the intent behind it. I don’t care if everyone on the team says it about him, I can guarantee that it hurts.” I said, pausing to let him think.
“Okay, I’m sorry, Matt. How do you know about Aiden?” He asked. It was a fair question, I hadn’t ever actually met Aiden.
“A dream, Kevin.” I said, stopping to think, myself. “Can you promise me something, Kevin?” He nodded, so I continued, “Promise me that you’ll stick up for Aiden if anything ever happens.”
He looked at me a little confused, but nodded at my proposal. “All right, Matt, I promise you that I will stick up for him, no matter what.”
“Thanks, Kevin. It’ll be good for you, I’m sure of it!” I said as I remembered the coach and Aiden talking. “Say, I’m gonna surprise Evan with a visit. Wanna come with and meet him?” I asked.
“No thanks, I’ll meet him when he moves in. See ya later!” He said, and I walked to my room to drop off my backpack. When I made it to my room, I saw that Brayden was gone. I checked my phone since it was on silent, and saw that I got a text from him while I was at class. He wanted me to know that he and Lukas were going swimming and would be gone a little while. I responded and said: “Sounds good babe! I’m going to visit Evan until lunch or so!”
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When I made it to the clinic, I didn’t really know what Evan and I would talk about, but I didn’t care. We were brothers and had a lot of catching up to do!
When I walked into the room, Evan seemed genuinely surprised. He was sitting in one of the chairs in the room, but got up and came to greet me when he saw me. “Matt!” he said, elated, “Thanks for coming! I’m getting so bored here!” After that, he pulled me into a hug. I was a little surprised, but I returned it without question.
“I couldn’t sit around twiddling my thumbs while you were here probably bored to tears!” I said, “Besides, if we really are brothers, shouldn’t we do some catching up?”
“Yeah, we should.” Evan said, “So, about Brayden. When did you meet?”
I grinned and said, “Last Saturday! I was playing Ultimate Frisbee and took a wicked stupid dive. I zoned out for a bit and he and my best friend Jason were kneeling over me when I snapped out of it! After that, I found out he lived in the same dorm and we hit it off from there.”
“Wow! You move fast!”
“Only in that aspect, Evan. Even though we just met a week ago, we both followed our instincts and have a ton in common! That’s pretty much all there is to Brayden though. Anyone like that with you?” I asked. I thought it was fair, he’d never said anything about him and Lukas as a couple. Or anyone else, for that matter!
“Nope. There’s gotta be some guy out there for me somewhere!”
“Not just some guy, Evan. There’s someone special out there for you. I take it that means you and Lukas are just good friends?” I said, smiling.
He looked at me and grinned, “Yeah, you could say that. He’s like a brother to me, Matt. And because of that, I love him like a brother.”
Evan and I chatted for a little while before I had to go and grab something to eat before class at one. I asked if he wanted anything, but he told me that Lukas was going to bring him something. I was quite surprised to hear that he and Lukas weren’t a couple, but I believe him when he says they’re like brothers. It’s the same way I feel about Jason.
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The rest of the afternoon was, well, for the first time in a while, normal. Classes were incredibly boring, but I’ve learned that’s how most lectures go when the material isn’t exactly interesting. After I was done for the day, I told Jason that I wanted to go to the football game tomorrow afternoon, and he agreed that we should play Frisbee in the morning. The rest of the afternoon was spent lounging and watching TV.
At least, that was the plan until Lukas called. He wanted to know if he could borrow my Trailblazer so that he could move everything across campus in one big load. I said yes, of course, and went over to help him and Brayden pack his stuff. Fortunately, Ryan had the same plan, so they could move simultaneously without any problems. Before long, both RA’s had checked out of their former rooms and were working on the paperwork to get moved into their new rooms. Brayden and I were just sitting in the lobby waiting to help when he asked me a question. “Matt, would you be upset if I asked Lukas about him and Evan?”
I just giggled and said, “No, babe. I asked Evan about Lukas this morning! We were talking about significant others and it just sorta came up!”
“Oh! And? What did Evan say?”
“It’s all brotherly love between them. He thinks of Lukas as an older brother, much like I think of Jason.” I said, “What about Lukas? Please tell me something similar!”
“Oh yes. ‘Brothers for life,’ I believe was the way he put it.” Brayden said, smiling.
“Now we just have to find them hot dates!” I said, beaming, “Anything on that front for Lukas? Evan said there was a special guy out there for him somewhere.”
“Ya know, I didn’t think about that. I honestly don’t know! We’ll make that Evan’s job.” He said, laughing.
Just then, Gina and Lukas came down after completing their paperwork. “Alright, boys.” Lukas said, “Let’s get started! Hopefully after, we can get into Evan’s room and move some of the heavier stuff.” With that, we went out to my car and started unpacking. This whole process reminded me just how glad I am to live on first floor!
After we finished moving things into Lukas’ new room, we found Kevin and asked if he wanted to go eat. What we didn’t tell him was that afterwards, we were going to go over to Evan’s room and move the majority of his things over to his new room. Evan had already given Lukas permission to move his things, so Mark let us in and ‘supervised’ while we did all of the grunt work. While we were working, Lukas got a phone call from Evan and got the word that they were releasing him, so he went and picked him up.
Soon enough, Evan was at his new room and unpacking with Kevin. They had told us they were planning on just hanging out and getting to know each other, so we left to go watch a movie. Brayden, for some unknown reason, hadn’t yet seen Spaceballs, so we sat him down and watched the movie straight through. Thankfully, he had seen the original Star Wars series, so he understood much of the humor in the movie.
Afterwards, Jason and Lukas had left so that we could all get a decent amount of sleep before Frisbee in the morning.
Brayden and I both made our way to the bathroom to get ready for bed. There wasn’t going to be anything special tonight, as we were both quite tired and sore from all of the lifting and moving. Brayden crawled up into bed first, and I followed shortly after. We were both down to our underwear when I gave him a good night kiss and rested my head on his chest. As I closed my eyes, I could feel his arm move from above his head to around my shoulder. Man, life was truly great right now.
To be continued...
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