Chapter 9

Ok, so this hapter was pretty easy to write when I got pretty into it, and I hope you peoples that read it like it. By the way, there's some kissing in this chapter [but nothing more!!!] so be prepared! Enjoy!

P.S. I've decided that I will make a sex scene eventually, but I'll be placing it in another folder, and I'll leave a notice in place of it's chapter to visit my page to look for it. Don't worry, though, that's not for a while though. I just thought that I'd prepare you for the future. Enjoy the chapter! :)

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Chapter 9: Kent's POV, Sunday night, on the front porch

“Thanks for tonight, I really had a good time with you,” Tyler said, casually placing his hands in his coat jacket. “And I'm sorry about not bringing my wallet with me, I feel really bad about it,”

“No problem,” I said to Tyler. He had treated me like a gentleman the entire night, and I liked how he made me feel: wanted and more than just a great swimmer or a brainy nerd.

All of a sudden, Tyler leaned in and kissed me, and this kiss was even better than the one at the party. The kiss was sweet, gentle, rough, and sexy all at the same time. I could feel his warm, moist tongue moving at the bottom of my lip, asking for entrance into my mouth. I gladly let him in as I felt a smirk light up his mouth.

Tyler opened his dark green eyes, and they were filled with lust and desire as his tongue moved around inside of my mouth, sending a shiver down my spine.

I broke the kiss by moving my head backwards and Tyler grunted in obvious displeasure.

“Sorry,” I said, looking at my shoes. “I was just feeling a bit rushed, you know?”

Tyler's eyes softened when he looked at me and sighed. “It's ok, babe, I get it. You want to take thing a bit slower, right? I'm cool with that,”

“Thanks for being so amazing to me,” I smiled at Tyler.

“No problem, see you tomorrow at school?” I nodded, and then Tyler replied, “Sure thing, good night, boyfriend,”

Tyler climbed into his car and drove off, waving to me as he left the driveway.

I was about to go into my house, when I heard a car door slam from across the street. To my surprise, it was Cole, but he looked really pissed off at something....

“Hey, Kent,” Cole sounded really defeated as he leaned against a pillar.

“So, is there any reason why you're here now?” I then realized how rude I sounded; Cole had bee nothing but nice to me. I felt terrible.... “I'm sorry, I just don't know why you're here now, unless you want to talk to my dad, because I can go get him for you and I know for a fact that he's not busy now, and I-”

Cole placed a finger over my lips to get me to stop rambling on about pointless things to hide how I still felt about him.

“Sorry,” I said. “I ramble a lot when I get nervous, and for some reason, that seems to only be when I'm near you....” My voice trailed off as I looked into Cole's dark blue eyes that held the most powerful and convincing emotions that I had ever seen directed to another human: love and longing for something forbidden.

“Would you mind if I kissed you right now?” Cole huskily asked while looking into my eyes, sending my hormones through the roof.

I felt my jaw drop a bit at his request. “Uh,” I hesitated, what was I supposed to say to him, 'no, because I have a boyfriend now?'

Cole saw my hesitation and sighed; and then quickly placed his lips over mine and began to move his lips with mine, trying to get me to open my mouth up to him. The kiss was full of raw hunger and lust; something which terrified and excited me at the same time.

Cole continued this for only a minute longer before huffing in frustration at not being able to gain access into my mouth. So he began kissing my neck instead.

“Please, Cole, stop it,” I managed to say before he found my soft spot, making me gasp just enough for him to slide his tongue into my mouth. The kiss was ten times as exhilarating as any of my kisses with Tyler, but why?

“Fuck,” Cole muttered as he shook his head to himself. “Listen,I'm sorry for that, but that wasn't the actual reason of why I came over here, I just came to tell you that Tyler isn't what he really seems,”

“What?” I was so confused; what was wrong with Tyler?

“Oh, God, Kent? Can't you see what he's doing?” He looked frantically, as if he was looking for something to ease his misery. “He's a gold-digger! He's only dating you for your money, I heard it for myself on Saturday!”

What? Why was Cole with Tyler on Saturday? This made no sense to me, unless... “Tyler's cheating on me with you?” I could feel hysteria quickly approaching my mind. “What the f-” Cole interrupted me before I could finish my sentence though.

“No, no, no, I was at the mall looking for a birthday gift for a friend and I happened to overhear Tyler bragging about how he was dating some guy for his money, and how he was totally disgusted by gays.” Cole's eyes looked so sincere to me, it almost hurt.

“But Tyler's so nice,” I whispered.

“Kent, when someone asks you out, they're supposed to pay,” Cole tried to explain to me. “I mean, really, if someone asks you out on the date that thy picked themselves, they should really be prepared to pay, but you're just to good to see the bad in other people, I guess,” Cole's face looked crest-fallen with his theory. “And you thought you were out on a date with a real gentleman,” Cole scoffed.

Now that I thought about it, was Tyler everything that Cole was describing? I ran through every moment that I had been with or seen Tyler, and none of it was adding up; it just didn't make sense....

“Please, Kent,” Cole begged, practically on his knees. “Why won't you believe me? I'll do anything to try and make you believe me,”

I thought about what I could make Cole Bradley, the star quarterback, good-looking hunk, as well as the guy of my dreams, do for me. I knew what I would make him do.

“I'll believe you if you do two things for me: one, prove to me that Tyler is really as awful as you say he is, and two: take me out on a date, and show me what a real gentleman is like, since apparently, I've never been out on a date with one of those according to you.” I smiled, proud of my negotiating skills. Not only would I get to see if Tyler was a bad person, and I get my dream date with Cole. It was just perfect, simply perfect.

“Ok,” Cole said, “I'll do what you say, and you'll be blown away of how much better of a gentleman I am compared to Tyler,” Cole grinned a cocky grin at me, winked, and then ran off to his truck and drove off back to his hotel.

“Oh, Cole,” I chuckled, shaking my head in amusement, finally heading into my house and going to sleep after this crazy night.

-Cole's POV: Monday morning, on his way to school-

I still couldn't get over the fact that I had to take Kent out on an amazing date and get proof of how much of a douche-bag Tyler is to Kent. I wasn't worried much about the date, I already had something amazing planned out for Kent. But I was worried of how I would be able to get proof of Tyler's motives without him trying to maul me afterward.

I then realized that the school still thought that I was straight, so I guess that I could see if I could try to get him to confess to me accidentally while I had a tape recorder in my pocket. Yeah, that sounded like a pretty decent plan...as soon as I got a tape recorder.

I decided to not do anything else except plan on how to show Tyler as the conniving bastard that he is, and this mainly occupied my thoughts throughout the day.

Today, though, I was feeling pretty good with all of the congratulations I got for the overall football season, I even felt good enough to go to the library during lunch and finally read that book for the essay that was due last week. Damn, was I on a roll today. Well, I was until I saw Kent in the library simply reading a book in one of the chairs in the library.

Damn, did he look good today. I merely watched like a creepy stalker from between the gaps of the shelves of the bookcase which separated us. I was simply fascinated with his light brown hair which just fell to the point of just grazing his ears. His light green eyes deeply involved in reading the book in his smooth, gentle hands. His lips looked so soft, and then I remember our kiss, and indeed those perfect lips were soft, but the best part of the kiss was when his body molded, along with his lips, to my own body and lips.

Suddenly, he looked up from his book and spotted me. Oh, shit! I thought, while panicking mentally as he got up from the seat and stood across me, his eyes staring into mine despite the bookshelf.

“Cole, what are you doing?” Kent asked.

“Oh, just trying to find a book,” I lied, trying to sound nonchalant. “Would you like to help me?”

“Sure,” Kent sent me one of his perfect, radiating smiles as he walked to the other side of the shelf and stood next to me, his eyes, quickly scanning the shelves which stood in front of us. “Wait, what book are you looking for, Cole?” He asked, a perplexed look crossed his face.

“Uh,” I hesitated, trying to think of the book that the essay was on again. “Moby Dick,” I finally said.

Kent looked at the books in front of us again. “Hmm, well no wonder you couldn't find it; this is the non-fiction section,” Kent said laughing slightly. “Come on, I'll show you where it is.”

Then something wonderful happened: Kent took me by the hand and led me to the fiction section and locked his fingers with mine all the way there. And I noticed that even while Kent was pulling the book out from the shelf, that our hands were still locked together.

I felt my heard beat quite a bit faster and a bush creep onto my face.

“Are you ok, Cole?” Kent asked me suddenly. “Your face it a bit red,” Kent placed a hand on my forehead, and I think that I almost passed out from having him touch my face.

“Yeah, I'm fine,” I said, quickly taking the book from him and tried to leave, but found that I couldn't because Kent has his hand around my wrist.

I stopped trying to flee and turned around to face Kent. His light green eyes were unreadable and that worried me; did he hate me?

Fearing the awkward tension, I quickly pulled him into my grasp and kissed him in the corner of the school library. I let my guard drop completely as I kissed him, trying to get him to relax and open up to me.

When I realized that he wouldn't open his mouth, I let a hand snake its way up his back and stroked his neck as gently as possible and opened my eyes to see his looking straight back at me. Kent smiled at me, and then I felt his mouth open to allow mine entrance.

We just kissed for a bit, our tongues battling for dominance. In the end, I won purely because of the fact that I had tickled his sides a bit, but surprisingly, Kent could hold his own against me. This frustrated me a lot as we were kissing because I had already had so much more experience than him, hadn't I?

When we broke apart, I looked at him, waiting for him to say something to me. His light green eyes seemed blank and distant.

When he said nothing, I realized that I would have to speak first. “Thank you, Kent,” I said to him. “For everything you've done for Paul and me. And thank you for making me realize that I really like you, Kent. A whole lot more than I should, and I'm grateful that you are so nice to me and everyone else, and even to the people who don't deserve it at all.” I kissed him on the cheek one more time and whispered huskily, “I think I'm in love with you Kent Whitman,” And with that last sentence, I left to go check out the book Moby Dick, leaving a dumb-struck Kent in my wake.

-Kent's POV: Monday afternoon, lunch in the library, after the kiss-

Damn...Cole could sure kiss a guy. I felt amazing, like I was on a high that Cole had started and it only made me want Cole even more than I already did.

Wait, wasn't I dating someone? What was his name again?

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Aww, Cole was being a straightforward guy for once. And there was another kiss. Sorry if it offended some people, although I doubt it would.

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