‘’Tommy! You’re going to make me late! Get up! ‘’ I was awakened by a screaming banshee. Aka the one and only Jennifer Lee-- too early to think her whole name.

‘’Jen let me sleep’’ I whined

‘’Tommy!! Get your ass up!’’

‘’No! Let me sleep you monster!’’

‘’Tommy Verlane! You have three seconds to get your skinny white ass up out of that bed before I put makeup on Boris again!!!! ’’ She growled.

I shot up straight out of bed and ran to the fish tank on the stand in the corner of my room. I looked in and saw a sleeping penny turtle that I had treasured for the last 6 months.

‘’Boris. Baby. She didn’t mean it. The monster wouldn’t do it again.’’ I hushed him even though he didn’t know what was going on before glaring at Jen.

Jen had covered Boris in makeup last week and he looked horrid. I could barely look at him. There were neon pinks and fluorescent yellows everywhere. My poor Boris’s manly-ness was ruined that day.

‘’Now that you’re up. Get showered and get dressed.’’ She walked out of the room like she had not just threatened my baby.

‘’I’ll still love you either way Boris’’ I cooed before walking over to my tall boy.

I pulled out my outfit for today, a pink and yellow Ghost Town band tee and bright blue skinny jeans. A little flamboyant yes…but… I don’t care. It’s not like I’m so far in the closet that even Narnia can’t accept me. Who am I kidding? I am. I put the clothes back and pulled out a green shirt and tight blue jeans.

I laid my clothes out on my bed and went for a shower next door to my room loving the feeling of the water pouring over my body.

‘’Today is going to be hard.’’ I sighed softly to myself, resting my forehead on the cold white tiles.

Five minutes of self-loathing later I trudged out of the shower and wrapped the soft white towel from the bench top around my waist and walked back to my room.

‘’Come on Tommy! We have ten minutes!’’ Jen called from the lounge room and I groaned slipping my shirt on.

‘’Yeah I’m coming Jen just shhhhh’’ I said quietly.

‘’What?’’ She yelled back making me groan.

I just ignored her for the rest of me getting ready and straightening my hair. I finished off my look with an orange snap back, nerd glasses and my black vans but didn’t leave before checking myself out in the mirror and I actually looked super good today.

I smiled to myself in the mirror before running to meet Jen at the door in her usual pink Donut King work uniform. So ugly. But hey, what can you do about it?

We jumped into Jen’s baby blue Hyundai i30 and were on our way to the good old TreaSwitch shopping centre and park. One of the perks of having the Donut King there was definitely the park. I really loved TreaSwitch Park. Don’t ask why because I don’t know but I just did. Especially my tree. Maybe it was because I was so close to Chace.

‘’You coming Tommy?’’ I looked up and saw Jen yelling from the big double sliding doors of the Donut King.

When did we get here? That was quick. I unbuckled my seat belt and got out of the car jogging over to Jen. There was one thing I was dreading about coming through the front door… and that was-

‘’Hey Jen. Hey Tommy.’’ Chace’s smooth voice flowed through the room and straight to my ears.

‘’Hey Chace. How’s the fort?’’ Jen cut in front of me and walked towards the door close to the counter.

‘’Good. It’s about to get busy though.’’

‘’Good.’’ Jen pressed in the passcode one at a time.

1…5…6…2… beep. The door unlocked and we walked down the hall and towards Jen’s office.

Jen’s office was average sized. It had the stereotypical office feel. There was a big wooden desk in the middle of the cream room with a big black leather swivel chair behind it and two nice black chairs in front of it. She had a pretty nice office feel for Donut King. 

I ran straight behind her desk, the chair suddenly getting lower and then higher again with my sudden jump on it.

‘’Geez Tommy. One day that thing is going to break.’’ She scolded while throwing her bag in front of my legs and under the desk.

‘’It’s fine Mr Grumpy Gills. I’m not that fat.’’

‘’ You sure?’’ she raised her eyebrow before making a run for the door as I threw her bobble head dog at her.

‘’Jen! I’m taking your gum!!’’ I yelled as the door closed.

‘’As long as you leave me some.’’ She called past the door before it clicked shut.

I pulled her tan coloured bag out from under the desk and rummaged through all her crap. Lip gloss… wallet… mascara… lipstick… eyeliner… 10 cents. Oh! Someone’s rich!

A few minutes later of pulling out various makeup brands and a bit more lose change I found the gum I was looking for.

‘’Flirt Fresh Whitening Sugar Free Chewing Gum. Peppermint Flavour.’’ I quoted the grey and blue container before pulling out the silver tray of gum and popping two pieces of out and throwing them in the air successfully catching them in my mouth. Not without a victory dance of course.

I slowly discovered how truly boring it was to be in this office by myself all day. Usually I had Jen to annoy or I’d help out a little but I wasn’t really up to seeing Chace today… not that he ever really noticed me.

Knock knock.

‘’Uh… come in?’’ I stopped playing with my shirt when the door opened and Chace stepped in.

‘’ Hey Tommy. Can you come help me unload some stuff? Jen said I should come ask you because there’s a lot to unload.’’

‘’Uh… yeah.’’ I said slowly, making a mental note to kill Jennifer later.

We walked slowly out the back to the pink Donut King truck as the driver opened the back doors of it. I almost fell over when I saw in it.

‘’This is going to take all year!’’ I yelled.

‘’Yeah. We better get started now then.’’ Chace smiled over at me.

We started to unload all the new machinery and it was heavy. Not like lifting a bag of potatoes heavy… like… I’m about to fall over and be squished like the wicked witch of the west heavy.

‘’So Tommy… are you okay?’’

‘’Huh?’’ I tried to catch my breath.

‘’You’re really quiet and that’s pretty rare.’’ He jumped up and sat on the back of the truck while throwing me a bottle of water I didn’t even realise he went to get.

 ‘’Sorry.’’ I apologised as I barely caught the bottle and leaned against the truck taking a sip as I thought about all the times I could have been annoyingly loud around him.

‘’ It’s nothing to be sorry about.’’ He laughed and took a large gulp of his water before continuing.

 ‘’I kind of like it. It feels livelier around here when you’re giggling away in your own little world.’’ 

‘’ I must look crazy.’’

‘’Nah… just special.’’ He nudged my shoulder and laughed.

‘’So reassuring.’’ I pouted, making him laugh more.

For the rest of the day we finished unpacking the rest of the new machines and laughing away with each other. It felt so good and I learned so much stuff about him. Like how his mum is controlling and his dad is laid back. How his little sister loves Bratz dolls and his cousin likes to Sharpie moustaches on them. I think Chace has a guilty pleasure for watching Bratz and Barbie movies because he never complained about watching them all the time with his sister, Jayde.

He was so down to earth. Not like normal hot jock university students. Oh I also found out he goes to Treaswitch University for a degree in literature but his heart lies in football.  Good thing…Treaswitch University isn’t that far from my high school but the football field is. Not that I’m going to stalk him or anything…pfft.

‘’Tommy! Chace! If you’re done slacking off get back in here!’’ Jen yelled out the back door.

We both groaned and walked away from the truck and back into the shop. I guess our bromance is over. I really actually liked that….but as usual… life was just about to fuck me over.

‘’Chace! You promised to take me to the movies hurry up!’’ The brunette girl from yesterday whined over the counter.

‘’Lilly I’m at work. Why didn’t you meet me at my house?’’

‘’ But why? I’ve been hiding in your room all day I didn’t want to stay there anymore.’’

Hiding in his room? Ugh. I don’t even want to know.

I stormed straight out of the Donut King and out back to Jen’s car. I didn’t want to know why she was in his room. I didn’t want to hear about their movie date tonight. I just didn’t want to know anything about them together.

‘’Tommy. Hey are you okay?’’ Chace came out the back door I had just come from.

I turned away and started walking down the street. My house wasn’t that far and I definitely wasn’t in the mood for talking to Chace.

I wasn’t angry or upset with Chace. I could never be. I was angry at myself for being upset. I didn’t want to be upset or angry. I was a happy, hyper, and full of energy kind of guy. Not a jealous, angry, and upset stalker.

‘’Tommy!’’ Chace called from the corner of the street that I had just crossed.

I looked back quickly as he threw his arms up in the air in frustration and turned back to go back to work. His shift wasn’t over yet thank God. Why the Hell was he coming after me anyway!? I bet that lazy ass Jen sent him after me instead of her coming herself. My lazy best friend.

By the time I got home from my hour walk, yes I turned a 20 minute walk into an hour walk by sulking,  Jen was already home. That’s right. My keys were in her bag.

I walked up to the door and opened it heading into the kitchen for the only thing a kitchen is good for other than a setting for porn. Food. Actually… thinking about two people grinding on each other and exchanging bodily fluids where I make my sandwiches kind of put off me my lovely devon and barbeque sauce sandwich I had in mind.

I started to head towards my room before I heard talking coming from it. Was Jen finally going ‘round the bend and talking to herself now? Holy shit my bestfriend is going crazy and she’s going to go psycho killer tonight and stab me in the eye with her eyeliner pencil.  Boris save me.

‘’I don’t get why he would though.’’

That was not Jen’s voice. It was a guy’s. Ewww Jen had a guy in my room and probably on my bed. Oh dear God I have to throw my bed out. I loved that bed!

‘’Jennifer Lee Kartel you better not be on my bed! ’’ I threw the door open while covering my eyes with my hands.

‘’Tommy?’’

I know that voice. But what was it doing in my house!?

I slowly lowered my hands and saw Jen sitting cross legged while leaning on my bed head while the guy sat the same at the end.

‘’Uhh Tommy… Chace needs a place to stay.’’

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A/N

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