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A Year to Remember, Chapter Three
Date: 12/29/2014, Categories: Gay Male, Author: JasperWalton, Rating: 6, Source: LushStories
to freak him out. Two can play at being an oddball. “You bastard! I was only joking!” He whines, sitting up. Suddenly a little more serious than thirty seconds ago. “The slippers belonged to a friend.” “Oh right, okay.” What? My face must have betrayed the question in my mind. “My best friend. He's dead.” Shit. I didn't see that coming. “He died. We were friends ever since primary school. I wear these slippers to remind me of him. He was a real and true friend to me.” “Simon. I don't know what to say.” I feel a right idiot now, and shiftily put my phone back in my pocket and look down at him. He suddenly looks small, vulnerable, and a lot less confident than a few minutes ago. “It's okay. You didn't know and you don't have to say anything, but they're his slippers, and I like wearing them.” Of course. My face is deepening in its shade of crimson. I sit on the edge of the bed, next to him, a sudden realisation floods into my head. “So, that's why our parents want us to be friends. It all falls into place now.'” “Yeah, there we go,” Simon says, quietly. He turns to look at me. “So, what's your excuse for the white socks?” Suddenly he is back, back to the mischievous imp I am growing attached to. “I don't have an excuse. They're designer socks, they happen to be white and they look cool with my trainers.” I like white socks, I like socks in general. I wouldn't be seen dead wearing no socks and Superman slippers, I hate my bare feet. “Right, designer! Which one?” I get the ...