Meek sighed, “Aaaaaah!”
“Scott raced past me with a quick, ‘Thanks Holloway!’ and I ran for the first toilet so I could finally poop!”
Meek asked three questions so fast they almost sounded like one long sentence, “Do you know if Scott found Adam? Was Adam all right? Did you ever tell anyone that they were gay?”
I laughed off Meek’s worried expression and told him, “Actually later that afternoon, after school, I was at my friend Gary’s surf shop when I spotted Scott’s orange hoody. Well I didn’t know it was Scott, I simply saw an orange hoody and assumed it was Scott.”
“Was it?” Meek asked.
“Hang on! I’m getting to it.” I joked.
“So I spotted the orange hoody and shouted to Gary that I’d be right back. It was the middle of the week and there was hardly anyone on the beach as most people hadn’t got out of work yet and given that it was the middle of the school year, there weren’t many tourists around. So anyway, I ran to go talk to Scott. As I got nearer, I saw that it was indeed Scott and Adam too, and Adam was not good. He was bawling like a baby.”
Again, Meek sighed, “Aaaaaaah the poor thing!”
“‘Guy!’ I called as I jogged up to them wearing just a pair of shorts and nothing else.”
“Scott seemed glad to see me, Adam not so much.”
“‘Holloway.’ Scott said in greeting.”
“‘Call me Alvin, please!’ I said to Scott and Adam.”
“Scott gave me a half smile, Adam wouldn’t look at me.”
“‘I’m sorry I scared you earlier.’ I said to them both.”
“Scott shook his head, ‘Can you please tell Adam that you won’t tell everyone what you saw?’”
“Whoa, really? He just came right out and asked that?” Meek asked.
Before I could answer Meek’s first question he asked another question, “Did you reassure him?”
A coy smile began to spread across my face, which Meek noticed it.
“Alvin Holloway! What’d you do?!” Meek said alluringly.
“I kissed him.” I said softly.
“WHAT?” Meek shrieked.
I began to laugh, “I grabbed Adam’s tear stained face and kissed him full on the mouth.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!” Meek howled, “NO YOU DID NOT!”
I couldn’t keep a straight face while looking at Meek and soon lost it. I began laughing as I told him, “Nah! Just kidding! I didn’t really kiss him.”
Meek looked around as if he was looking for something to throw at me! “Oh you are horrible!” he groaned and laughed at the same time.
Laughing I said, “Yeah, sorry about that, but I couldn’t resist.”
“So did any of that happen?” Meek asked.
Getting serious again, I told him, “Oh yes! Right up to the kissing part. Actually, I only talked with them both and reassured them, Adam especially, that I would never tell a living soul and until right now, I hadn’t talked about it. You are the only other person on this planet that knows.”
“So you never kissed Adam?” Meek asked again.
I shook my head.
“Too bad! It was a better story when it ended with the kiss.” He laughed.
We were perfectly content inside that boxcar as long as it continued going west, but then after a while it started going more north than west.
There wasn’t much we could do about it, because the train was going way too fast for us to jump off.
“We should have jumped back there when we were going slowly through that one town.” Meek said.
“Too late now.” I said.