One Month Later
Gordie was just walking into the school building when he felt someone pinch his side gently, making him yelp and jump to the side. "Chriiis, you know I hate it when you do that!"
"Sorry I couldn't resist, its just so cute the way you squeal like that!" Chris exclaimed, proceeding to pinch his side again.
Gordie yelped again and pulled away from the touch. "Don't do that! Jeez. And I do not squeal!" Gordie said, trying to sound offended.
"What the fuck Gordie? If you don't squeal, then what was that sound you just made, huh?"
"For your information, that lovely noise that you just forced me to make was a very rugged shriek" Gordie said superiorly.
"Oh, ok, I see" Chris said with a very compassionate, understanding, and completely fake face.
"Shut the fuck up you asshole!" Gordie exclaimed righteously.
"Okay, subject dead, new topic…um…so where the fuck were you this weekend?" Chris asked.
"Oh, I spent the night with Vern Saturday, and then we went fishing with his dad Sunday. I tried to call you but no one picked up. We're thinking of doing it again this weekend, wanna come?"
"I don't know, my Dad's been a real asshole the past couple days, but it should be okay."
"Sounds good" Gordie said as they walked past the bathroom.
"Hey, hold on. Feel like a bathroom trip?" Chris asked suggestively.
"I don't think we have time man" Gordie reasoned.
"Come on man I didn't see you all weekend" Chris said with a slight pout.
"Well…I don't know" Gordie said, pretending to be deep in thought.
"Come on, how can you resist this?" Chris asked with a playful hand gesture, knowing Gordie was just messing around.
"Well…okay, I guess I can spare a few seconds" Gordie said, trying to sound put off.
"Don't worry, I'll try to keep it real short" Chris said with a serious face.
"Sorry, I don't think there's anything you can do to make that happen" Gordie said with a suggestive glance.
"Uggh, you are so perverted, I don't know where you get it from. I swear, I just don't know what I'm going to do with you." Chris said, sounding exasperated.
"I do" Gordie said with a raise of his eyebrows.
"Uggh, get in there already would you?" Chris said, pushing Gordie through the door.
"Hey, don't be so rough with me! I'm fragile." Gordie exclaimed.
"Yeah, about as fragile as a newborn dragon!"
The two boys checked to make sure that no one else was in the bathroom and when they saw that it was empty, quickly walked into the stall furthest away, and locked themselves in. They were so involved in each other that they didn't hear the bathroom door open.
Theodore Duchamp walked into the bathroom and was taking a quick piss before he headed to his first period class when he heard odd noises coming from the last stall that made him smirk. He knew what those sounds were. Had made them a couple of times himself. He quietly walked over to the stall and pressed his ear to the door, listening like the pervert he was. But the sounds he heard were enough to make him lose his breakfast right there. Holy shit! It was two guys! Teddy was just about to get the fuck out of there when he heard something that made him pause.
"Fuck Gordie, you are so fucking hot."
"No I'm not, don't say that."
"Yeah, you fucking are. So small and compact. You're perfect."
"Yeah, a perfect girl."
"Oh shut the fuck up, you are totally ruining not only the moment but the mood. And you do not look like a girl and if you did, I wouldn't be gay"
"Gee, Chris, need to get so sentimental on me," Gordie said sarcastically.
"Sorry, I guess I'm just a mushy guy by nature", the huge smile could be heard in Chris voice.
Holy shit, Teddy thought. It was Chris and Gordie. Gordie and Chris. Chris and Gordie were gay?! They still sounded like the same old Chris and Gordie, joking around and teasing each other constantly. Only now they were joking around about the sexiness of Gordie's body! Uggh! Teddy felt himself shiver convulsively. This was just too much! Teddy turned to leave when he heard the stall door open.
"Teddy? Uh, what are you doing here?" Chris asked, sounding nervous.
Teddy turned around to say something and decided that he would pretend he hadn't heard anything. Yeah! That was it! Yeah, he'd pretend he didn't know his best friends were gay together. When Teddy turned around and saw the two of then, though, he couldn't even open his mouth to say anything, much less pretend like nothing was wrong. The two boys saw him turn completely pale and then run out of the bathroom.
"Holy shit Chris! Holy shit! He knows! Teddy totally fucking knows" Gordie shouted, panicking.
"It would appear so" Chris said with fake calm, knowing if he got upset Gordie would completely lose it.
"Chris, what if he never talks to us again?" Gordie asked, no longer shouting.
"Gordie, that's not going to happen" Chris said confidently, knowing it was what Gordie needed to hear right now.
"How do you know that?" Gordie asked, looking at Chris hopefully.
"I don't" Chris said, looking to the door.
"Hi Gordie"
"Hey, Vern"
"Hey, Chris"
"How's it going Vern?"
"Um, okay. Not the best of days?"
"You could say that. Teddy knows."
"Yeah, I know. He told me what happened, he was totally freaking out."
"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck! He's never going to talk to us again!"
"Don't get so upset Gordo. I'll try to talk to him. He might listen a little bit better to it coming from me"
"Thanks Vern, you're a good friend."
"Hey, don't sweat it Chris, I'm sure he's just freaking out because it's a shock."
"Yeah" Gordie said halfheartedly.
"My dad's working the night shift tonight, wanna come over?"
"Yeah, that'd be nice, my Dad's been on a mean streak lately."
"Okay"
"Okay"
The two boys turned away from Chris' locker when they saw Teddy see them and immediately turn to leave.
"Teddy, just talk to us man!" Chris exclaimed.
"Chris, I don't know what to say" Teddy said significantly.
"How about hi? Nothing has to change." Chris said pleadingly.
"Don't you understand Chris? Everything has changed."
Gordie got a crushed look on his face and Chris put his arm around his waist for comfort. Teddy pretended that he didn't notice.
"But why Teddy, we're the same people we were yesterday." Chris reasoned.
"Chris I don't think I will ever be able to think of the two of you the same way I did ever again" Teddy said sadly.
"Teddy, don't you understand? It's just love, love doesn't care about stupid things like gender. Love has no eyes." Gordie tried to explain.
Chris tightened his arm around Gordie's waist for a second in a semblance of an embrace to show him that he agreed. Teddy, having seen this, flinched and took a step back as if he had just seen something disgusting.
"That," Teddy said, pointing to where Chris' hand was resting. "That's not love," Teddy said with an emphatic shake of his head. "Love is beautiful and it's the most natural thing in the world. There's nothing even slightly beautiful or natural about what you are doing. Its just fucking disgusting" He finished vehemently. With that, Teddy turned and left without another word.
------------------------------------------
Chris and Gordie were sitting on Gordie's bed with their backs against the wall. They had been sitting like that for a little over an hour without saying much of anything, both were deeply involved in their thoughts.
"He hates us. He thinks we're 'disgusting and unnatural'." Gordie said sadly.
"Teddy doesn't know shit." Chris said tiredly.
"I know. It just sucks"
"Yeah, it does." Chris agreed. Gordie let out a deep sigh.
"Hey, don't worry about it, Gordie, he'll be okay with it eventually." Chris said, not sure who he was trying to convince.
"But what if he's not" Gordie said, voicing both their thoughts.
"Then we'll deal with it" Chris said, looking Gordie in the eyes.
"Yeah, I guess we will, won't have much choice will we? I just, I don't want to lose him" Gordie said matter-of-factly.
"Hey, at least Vern is okay with it right? I mean, its more than I would have expected." Chris said, trying to look on the bright side.
"Yeah, at least there's that" Gordie agreed.
"I'm sorry it has to be this way, Gordie. I wish it wasn't." Chris said, hating that Gordie was in pain.
"Hey, don't be sorry. It's not your fault that the world is a fucked up place that will hate people for loving each other. It doesn't matter though, Chris, because I don't care if the whole fucking world hates us, as long as you still love me, I'll be happier than I ever have before. Because you have more love than all of their fucking hate combined."
Chris felt tears pricking his eyes and pulled Gordie into a tight embrace. "Damn, I love you." he said with reverence.
"Me took, Chris, I'm so fucking in love with you that sometimes its like a physical pain." Gordie said, running his hand through Chris' hair, he loved his hair.
"Really?" Chris asked, pulling back just far enough to look into Gordie's eyes.
"Of course, you idiot!" Gordie exclaimed affectionately.
"I mean, I always knew you loved me, but I guess I just never imagined anyone ever being in love with me." Chris said happily.
"Well, I am, you ass. You know I've always loved you, and now I don't think I could ever be in love with anyone else. You're it for me." Gordie said emphatically.
Chris pulled Gordie into a very passionate but gentle kiss, gently biting on his lip to ask permission to enter. Gordie granted it by parting his lips and softly running his tongue over Chris' top teeth then he felt Chris run his tongue along the roof of his mouth and then rub his tongue against his before pulling back for air.
"Gordie…do you want to…um…I mean if you don't, it's okay. I was just…" Chris trailed off, feeling shy.
"Yeah, I do. Do you?"
"Yeah, of course I do" Chris said immediately. "It's supposed to hurt a lot the first time…and I don't want to hurt you".
"I trust you, Chris".
"Are you sure, I mean, I've never done anything like this before. I don't really know what I'm doing." Chris said, feeling very nervous.
"We'll figure it out together. I trust you" And with that Gordie captured Chris' lips in another passionate kiss, this one a little more confident.
Gordie woke up with a huge smile on his face and without opening his eyes tightened his arms around the stomach that he was currently pressed up against in spoon fashion. He pressed his nose against the curve of Chris' neck and felt hair in the way. That wasn't right. Chris' hair wasn't that long. All of a sudden he realized that the body he was pressed up against was a woman's. He sat up as reality came crashing down on him. Fuck! It had been six and a half years since Chris had died in that restaurant, and still, Gordie dreamt about that first magical night with him. Fuck! Would they ever stop? Would the past ever stop haunting him? With a deep sigh, Gordie laid back down and, trying to put thoughts of Chris Chambers and the past out of his mind, forced himself back to sleep for the millionth time.
A/N: That's all folks! Sorry to anyone who loves Teddy. I don't dislike him at all but that was how I wanted my story to go and of the choices, he seemed the most likely to react that way. J I tried to make it so that you had the choice of deciding that he got over it. Hope the ending lived up to everyone's expectations! Much love, Katie.