Barriers Ch. 01
byThingsYouWouldBelieve©
I just smiled at her and moved my hand to signal to continue whatever she was going on about. She knew I was more or less a lost cause so she left me alone as long as I did my work.
The class went by rather quickly as it was your usual first day nonsense. I wouldn’t have even been in class if it was any other teacher but I knew she would have called the vice principal immediately if I didn’t show up.
When the bell rang I was the first one up and B-lined for the door only to be grabbed by Houston. Persistent piece of shit, he clearly had a hidden motive as he had well over 5 years to apologize for being a terror. I assumed it had to do with Jenna.
I turned around. Despite my incredible hatred for him I had to admit that Houston looked good today. Styled short black hair, dark blue eyes and he clearly took time to trim his beard today. He was wearing his soccer shirt because of the after school activities fair today and he was running the booth. I could see he took some serious work over the summer to grow his arms and shoulders out as they looked fantastic. I could see why Jenna started dating him now. I snapped back to reality realizing I was drooling over the guy who made my childhood a living hell.
“Holy fuck what don’t you understand about fuck off?”
“Jason it’s my birthday today and i wanna invite you…”
“Are you fucking serious right now?” I had completely forgotten Houston was turned 18 today
“Look it’s just…”
“JUST FUCKING WHAT YOU THINK AN APOLOGY WILL MAKE EVERYTHING OK?”
“No. I never said that.”
“Well I don’t care about anything you have to say. You don’t need my permission to date Jenna, she’s allowed to make her own decisions and I’m not the type of person to lose my best friend over some stupid fucking meathead. Do what you want I don’t care just know I will never be nice to you, you’re a gigantic piece of shit and always will be to me.”
“Alright.”
I walked away and rustled in my pocket to get my phone out. Quickly texted Jenna what had just happened and reaffirmed my stance with her. She sent me a frown emoji in response and I rolled my eyes.
Noon came around and I waited for Jenna like I said I would. I decided I wanted chipotle for lunch and wanted to see if she wanted to come. As expected she started walking up the trail with her lighter in her hand signaling me to pull out my pack of smokes.
“Let’s go to chipotle.”
“I still have 2 classes Jason not all of us have parents that will pay for their kid to go anywhere.”
“Yeah yeah you and your responsibility.”
“I promise tomorrow we’ll get lunch when my break is longer but I just can’t today ok?” She came over and squeezed me like she always does.
“You aren’t lying to me so you can spend lunch with your boyfriend right?”
“I would never you know me far better than that.”
She was telling the truth, Jenna had no issues being honest with people, me especially. I tossed my cigarette and waved her off.
“Jason…”
I knew exactly what was coming.
“Look we went over this earlier today, I don’t care. Do what you want with him. Marry him for all I care just know I will never forgive him.”
And with that I walked away to my house to get my car.
I didn’t live far from the High School, a 5 minute walk at the very most. It would take me longer to get out of the parking lot if I drove so I just walked every day. It was a crisp day as cliché as that sounds, trees were shedding their leaves and there was a gentle breeze helping them along, it was nice.
As I turned the corner to my house I noticed an all too familiar car parked out front of it. There was Jonathan Han waiting for me with his signature stupid fucking grin on his face.
“Hey babe.”
“I’m not your babe fuckwad. What are you doing here?” I walked up to him in confusion.
I met Jon in my junior year. I had gotten detention for mouthing off to my gym teacher about how he would totally fuck some bitch in my class and pass her because of it. Jon was there for god knows what and sat down right next to me. He was wearing his varsity basketball jacket and some grey sweatpants. Jon was your typical Jock. He wasn’t built like Houston was but he was definitely toned and took care of himself. He had the typical Asian face and black hair and eyes.
“Whats up?” That was the first time I saw his grin.
“The hell do you want?” I pretended to do homework and not give him any attention
“What I can’t say hi?” He took the notebook I was writing in and read it. “Ahh history, I can’t stand this shit I don’t know how you can read it.”
“Give me back my fucking notebook Jon.”
“What this?” He threw it out the window right next to him. “You don’t need this right now.” He smirked again.
“What the actual fuck do you think you’re doing?” I was clearly ready to raise hell.
“Look Jason I’m not afraid of you like everyone else is. I just wanna talk to the guy that I find cute. Give me like 10 minutes of your time then I’ll reach outside and let you get back to the Native Americans or whatever bullshit you were reading about.”
“I…”
Did Jon just say he thought I was cute?
“There we go, ok here’s the deal I wanna take you out to dinner after this. Meet me out front and I’ll drive and take care of everything. You don’t need to dress up or anything I just wanna get to know you. You’re really interesting Jason you should value yourself a lot more than you do.”
I sat there and crossed my arms and tried to figure out his motives. Why the hell was this guy asking me out on a date in detention of all places with everyone listening in? I didn’t even know Jon was bi before this moment. Why is he using all these stupid lines as if I’m some girl? Why are they working?
“Alright, I guess I have nothing better to do with Jenna at the gym.”
“Sounds great. Lemme get your notebook.” Jon hopped up on the ledge and stuck his upper body out the window to grab my notebook off the grass.
“Here ya go. Remember just meet me out front in 40 minutes when this shits over. Enjoy your homework I guess.” He got up and walked away to go talk to his friends.
Less than an hour later I sat at the front of school with a cigarette in my hand waiting on Jon. He pulled up in his BMW and rolled down his window.
“You can smoke in my car I don’t care get it.”
I obliged and hopped right in.
“So where are you taking me?”
“My parent’s restaurant, I figure we can sit at a booth undisturbed while I get to know you a bit.” He turned to me and chuckled “God you’re so cute.”
“Ok what the fuck is up are you gay or bi? Why the sudden interest in me when you could fuck any cheerleader you want?”
“Woah there.” Jon looked left to see if he could merge onto the road. “First off I’m Bi you caught me. Second I think you’re cute and just asked you on a date, it isn’t that big of a deal after all you did say yes.”
I loosened up and looked back forward. I wasn’t used to being pursued, especially in such a fast manner.
“Sorry…I guess you just threw me for a loop.”
“Look I know you’ve had a rough couple of years but just know I’m not trying to use you or pull off a prank. I just wanna get to know you on a date. I swear. Oh hey look we’re here.”
Jon’s family’s place was an above average Chinese restaurant. One of those places you would go Brunch on a Sunday. It looked nice and definitely felt like they had more food than General Tso’s Chicken and Beef and Broccoli.
When we walked in, Jon yelled something in Chinese at his mom and she came over.
“Hi! I’m Ming.” His mom had an adorable Chinglish accent to it. “Are you his new girlfriend?”
“Uhh what?”
“Mom I know how supportive you are of me but can you not embarrass me immedatley?”
They went back and forth in Chinese for a bit then Jon told me to go sit at a booth while he takes care of ordering.
I sat down and pulled out my phone. Jenna had texted me about 30 times since I told her that I was going out on a date.
“Are you ok?”
“If he pulls anything stupid call me immedatley.”
“Seriously be careful.”
“You there?”
I laughed as I saw the level of panic that she was currently in. I quickly texted her back that I was fine and she was on emergency dial if anything went wrong.
As soon as I finished the text Jon slid into the other side of the booth.
“I ordered noodles and chicken. I wasn’t sure about your diet so I didn’t get anything weird don’t worry.” He really did have an incredible smile.
“I can eat anything, I travel with my parents all over the world in the summer.”
“Oh so that’s why you’re never here in the summer. I was talking to Jenna about you and she wouldn’t give me details about your whereabouts now I know.”
“Yeah well she thinks you’re up to no good so good luck getting her approval if you wanna go any further.” I looked at another 5 messages from her.
“Put your phone away I wanna get to know you not her.”
I threw my phone in my hoodie pocket and started talking to Jon about me and my life so far. We talked about music and our hobbies. He was into Electronic Music as much as I was which was a very nice surprise. I told him about all the festivals I couldn’t wait to attend. We finished up dinner and sat there talking about plans for the future as Jon had just turned 18 a couple weeks ago. I looked down at my phone and realized we had been talking for well over two hours.
“I think it’s about time to get going as much fun as this was.”
“Oh so you had fun?”
“A lot more than I thought I would have with you honestly.”
“Wanna go back to your place and keep the night going?”
“Look I’m not trying to lose my virginity to the first guy to take me on a date.”
“Oh I’m your first? I had no idea.” He said very sarcastically.
“You’re really helping your case here Jon.”
“I’m not trying to get into your pants unless you want me to Jason, I’m just saying I have nothing else to do tonight and we can go back to your place and watch Netflix, I’m not trying to be your boyfriend just yet because I know you’re not ready. Hell you’re leaving for England for a month when school lets out anyways. I’m just looking for a friend and certainly won’t say no if you wanna take things further.” Jon got up to clean up the plates. “Not all of us are douchebags like Mark. I hope I showed you that today.” He walked away and give me a minute to myself.
This really was a strange feeling, someone making friends with me out of the blue. I was still pretty skeptical but I figure it can’t hurt with Jenna looking out for me.
“So is my night with you ending here or are we off to your place?”
“I think this is where you drop me off at home and we call it a night.”
“Aww that’s a shame. At least you honestly enjoyed yourself right?”
“Yes Jon I promise I had a great time.”
Jon shouted something in Chinese at his mom and grabbed his keys and motioned me back to his car.
Since that date I’ve seen Jon a couple of times. He’s been over my place with Jenna and we sat around and watched TV. I was very cautious with him but slowly but surely he was growing on me. I hadn’t seen him since I came back from England in August so it was a real surprise to see him here now.
“Well you never told me when you were coming back from England so I had no idea where you were.” Jon moved from his car closer to me. “I missed you a lot Jason…”
“Why on earth did you miss me of all people?”
“Because I can’t do this to just anyone.” And with that he grabbed me, pressed my back against my house and kissed me.
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