Thr Forgotten Love

Just then a voice shouted at us. "FAGS AREN'T ALLOWED HERE!" we all looked in the direction of where the voice came from and saw three guys heading towards us.

I instantly got up and shouted back, "We aren't bugging you or bothering you. We aren't even anywhere near you. So why don't you leave us alone!"

They picked up their pace and started waving sticks around like bats. I turned to Mikel and told him let me handle this. I stepped forward and intercepted them. They all swung their sticks at me but I just broke them all. One of the guys swung his fist at me but I blocked with the side of my arm as one of his buddies aimed a punch at my side connecting with my ribs. Mikel watched in a bit of a panic but he respected my wishes until two of the guys grabbed me and the third went to repeatedly punch me in the gut. Mikel jumped into the fray attacking one of the guys holding me. The guy was forced to let me go allowing me to kick the third guy and swing my open palm into the remaining guys chin. We both fended them off until they were bruised and beaten left us alone. We didn't want anything like that happening again so we packed up and left the cove.

We went to the park that was near Tressa's house and we sat down in the grass. I stretched out and laid against Mikel and to their annoyance started to fall asleep again. He just laughed when Tressa hit me telling me to wake up. I opened one eye and stuck my tongue out at her. She went to hit me again when Mikel wrapped his arms around me like he was going to protect me from her. Tressa then surprised us both by asking why Mikel and I don't go out. I opened both eyes and looked at her replying he is still closeted and afraid to come out to people. As I answered her he tried to smother me saying, "Shut up!"

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Chapter 2- The Auction

Tressa and I laughed and Mikel began to blush, his whole face turning red. He tried looking away from both of us so we couldn't see his face but I placed both hands on his face and tilted his head down towards mine and pressed my lips against his. His face went even redder as we kissed. When we separated our lips, Tressa was looking at us with a huge grin on her face, "Oh, I just remembered there is going to be a pride festival here next week if you guys wanted to come."

"Do you want to, Mikel? You don't have to but I would like to go." I said looking at him with the saddest of eyes

"Yeah, I would really like that!" Mikel has said with excitement.

"Okay, I will meet you guys there." Tressa had said. Then asked me in my ear what time it was. I pulled out my phone and showed him that it was about 6:30.

"Shit! We must go, Alec. We are going to be late!"

"For what Mikel?!" He then reminded that we had a movie that we wanted to watch together.

"Oh, crap you're right we have to get going. Sorry Tressa we will see you next week and I will try to get ahold of you later."

As we were driving her home there was the best sunset Mikel and I had ever seen. It had all the mixtures of reds, yellows, oranges, and pinks that we had ever seen. We decided that we would look at the sunset for a while.

When Jayden and I got back to the school we had to hurry up and get changed. We rushed to our room and changed then headed to the front doors and to get our assignment from the headmaster. To our surprise, he told us we were going to be in the auction for the night.

"Oh, yeah I forgot it is custom for the junior and senior class to participate in the auction during this event." I gave him a 'you could have told me sooner' look and he just smiled apologetically at me. the headmaster told us where to go as people started to arrive.

When everyone was there the dinner and auction began. While we waited for everyone to show up, Mikel introduced me to our fellow classmates. They all were excited to meet me and wanted to ask me a lot of questions when the auction started and the first boy was called on stage. As the number of boys waiting back stage started to dwindle the more intense the auctioning got. Then Mikel was called up on stage there was a lot of screams from a bunch of girls in the crowd. He was auctioned off to a tall blonde girl from our sister school for 4,500 dollars. There were a lot of complaints from other girls in the crowd but the headmaster told them not to get discouraged because there was one more guy left. He called out my name and all the girls went even crazier than when Mikel was on stage.

When Mikel was auctioned off he was wearing a formal tux. When I walked on stage I was dressed in a formal male's oriental outfit that was very form fitting and had no sleeves. When the price for me started to be called out the girls in the crowd placed a new price record for the auction. I was sold for 12,000 dollars to a striking brunette that was friends with the blond that bought Mikel.

When the headmaster said that I was the end of the auction and that all the money collected was for a local children's charity. The two ladies that got Mikel and I asked if we wanted to step outside to take a walk. Mikel told them that their wish is our command for the night until the event was finished at eleven o'clock. We took a walk outside in the garden where we both linked arms with our buyers. The women said that most of their friends that buy one of the guys in the auction always try and have sex with the men just to say they nailed a hot guy that they owned. The two women surprised us by saying that they just participate in the auction to donate to charities anomalously and that they weren't even interested in men because they were a lesbian couple. They lived together in the same dorm room and planned to get a home together after they graduate. We talked for the rest of the night in the garden out in front of the school. Both women looked around the garden and said how beautiful it was with the design and the flowers chosen in it. I said thank you, and both women looked at me in surprise.

"You designed this garden?" I smiled and replied that I did design the garden a few years ago, while I was helping the school.

"These plants are native plants to this area and all of them have medicinal properties." They looked around and seen a spot that was a food garden with fruit and vegetables and herbs. I smiled at the look of awe on their faces and said, "This is known as a medicine wheel with a section for growing food. The food grown here is used in the cafeteria and in fact the salad bar tonight is from this garden and the medicinal plants are used in the infirmary."

"This is really cool. Can we pick something to eat from the food section?"

"I don't see why not."

We got up and headed over to the food part of the garden where the girls proceeded to walk up and down the rows until they found something they liked. When the time came for the event to end the girls said goodbye to us and thanked is for showing us a good time. Mikel and I went back to our dorm room and got undressed. We both lay down on my bed and he told me that he was so surprised to find out that they were gay.

"Last year the girl who bought me tried to get me to sleep with her but I refused and left her standing there and retired to my room for the rest of the night." I started to laugh when he told me that.

"It isn't funny Alec. I would rather be with you than with any of the women I have met."

"Well why don't we get together then?" he looked at me in shock and asked me to repeat myself for him. "Why don't we start dating?"

"Are you nuts? Do you know what would happen if someone found out we were going together!?!"

"No one would be able to do anything to us." He looked at me and I could see that he was worried. I pulled him into my arms and held him close to me.

"Look at us already; we are more comfortable with each other than with anyone else. We both know how we feel for each other."

"I have never admitted that I was in love with you because I still don't know how I feel."

"Mikel, your body says different and I can tell that you like me like how I like you. If you didn't you wouldn't let me be this close to you like this and you wouldn't kiss me either." He smiled at me and said that I was right about that. He was just afraid to admit it.

"I can help you summon up the courage to tell people and to me and Tressa you can admit it because she supports us and I am in love with you." He smiled at me and then he pulled away from me, looked me straight in the eyes. I could that he was crying a little bit.

"I am in love with you and I want you to be my boyfriend and my lover." Mikel said with tears running down his face.

I hugged him and comforted him until he stops crying so much. We were silent for some time until he finally said something.

"I should think about it." he told me.

I stared at him and opened my mouth to start yelling at him when I quickly leaned in and kissed him. He was surprised but soon started to kiss me back just as passionately as I was kissing him. We wrapped our arms around each other and I pulled us both down into a lying position. He pulled his lips away from mine for a minute and before I could say anything he told me that I just got my answer.

He smiled and kissed me again. As we kissed he positioned himself on top of me straddling my waist and then he pulled my arms from around him and pinned them above my head. I felt his junk starting to harden and I felt myself become aroused too. He started to rub himself against me and I became even more aroused. Our lips were still locked together in a kiss when he moved his lips from mine to my neck. He started to kiss and lick my neck bringing a small moan from my lips. I felt him start to nibble on my neck and then he bit me causing me to gasp for air. I struggled against his grasp on my hands but he seemed stronger than he normally was and continued to restrain my wrists. I used my entire body to flip him from me. He looked at me wide eyed.

"I thought this is what you wanted, Alec" Mikel said with a confused look on his face.

"I think this is going to, fast don't you?" I paused and looked at him, I could see that he wanted it.

"I think we need to slow this down a bit here Mikel. As much as I want to continue, having sex now could ruin our relationship if something later was to go wrong." He got up off the bed and walked over to the window without saying a word. He stood there looking out into the night. I got up and walked up behind him and wrapped my arms around his waist and laid my head on the back of his shoulder. He turned around in my arms and wrapped his arms around me. Little did we know someone was watching us from outside the window and he didn't like what he saw. Mikel whispered in my ear that he wasn't mad at me and that he was glad that I had the power to stop what we were doing because he didn't think he would have been able to. The guy that was watching us outside seen Mikel and I kiss one last time before we shut the light off and went to bed.

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Chapter 3- The Disaster with a happy ending

When the pride festival came around we met Tressa there. We all had fun looking around and buying things. Mikel and I danced to some of the music. We spent the whole day with Tressa and when the day ended we made plans to go again the next year.

A few days after the festival, I was surprised to find in my mail a threatening letter that said if I didn't change my ways or leave town there would be dire consequences. I gave the letter to the police and that night Mikel and I were lying on the water bed talking about the letter.

When morning came we, both were still asleep lying in my bed when all the sudden there was popping noises like a gun being fired multiple times and then our window shattered and bullets hit the wall above my bed. I woke up immediately to the popping noise and when the window shattered Mikel woke up and went to sit up but I held him down as the barrage of bullets hit the wall. We both slipped off the bed to the floor and I made my way to the living room window with my throwing knives in hand and opened the window. Just then the shooter saw the window open and fired at me. I felt pain on my right side but I ignored the pain, aimed and threw the knife I had in my hand and it hit him in the throat and he dropped like a rock to the ground. Mikel rushed to my side saying that I had been shot but I still had adrenaline pumping through my veins and I couldn't feel the wounds yet. I looked down at my body and seen a bullet hole in my right hip, my right lung, and in my right shoulder. I looked up into Mikel's face as the pain finally set in and I collapsed.

He picked up his phone and called 9-1-1 and explained that someone just started to shoot into our room and there were injuries. Campus security and the headmaster showed up at our dorm room to see me in Mikel's' arms bleeding from three wounds and Mikel bent over me crying with his phone in his hand. The headmaster rushed to our side and asked Mikel what happened and all he could do was point out of the window towards the dead shooter. I was slowly losing consciousness except for when the pain got so bad I screamed. The campus security met the paramedics at the door near our dorm. They rushed in and took me from Mikel and put me on the stretcher and got to work trying to stabilize me as they rushed me out of the room. Mikel grabbed a pair of jeans and pulled them on and took off after the paramedics. The police showed up to collect evidence and to take statements. They went through our bedroom and pulled the bullets from the walls and at the guy's body placed markers down and took pictures. The coroner showed up and said that the knife was a clean and accurate kill.

When the police showed up to the hospital to check on my condition and to question Mikel. They found out I was in critical condition with a collapsed lung and a shattered collarbone from the bullets. The bullet that hit my hip went clean through and did minor tissue damage. While I was in surgery they questioned Mikel.

"Your friend has some deadly accuracy even with being shot and in a lot of pain. He killed the shooter in one shot with that knife." Mikel looked at them in shock and said he knew I was good at throwing knives partially because I took up weapons martial arts training along with my other Taekwondo but he didn't know that I was that good. Just then his name was called from down the hall and he turned to see our parents heading towards him. My mom hugged him along with his mom and said thank god, he was alright. She then asked if he has heard anything on me and he said no just that I am in critical condition. The officer stepped forward and introduced himself as the officer in charge of the investigation.

"Ma'am I talked to the doctors a few minutes ago, before I started to talk to Mikel here and they said he has a collapsed lung, a shattered collarbone and a small flesh wound."

Just then a doctor came out to talk to the officer and Mikel when he seen everyone else standing there. My mom stepped forward and asked how I was doing and he asked her if she was my mother and she replied yes.

"Ma'am your son isn't doing so well. His collarbone is a mess and we are trying to re inflate his collapsed lung. I need any medical information you can give me." Jayden looked up and asked if I was in a stable enough condition for them to see me. The doctor said I was in surgery now and once I was done then they could see me. With the news of how bad I was and the fact he couldn't see me, he slid to the ground and started to ball.

His mom bent down and tried to comfort him. My mom spoke in a firm but gentle voice and said, "Mikel, you know better than anyone how strong he is. He will get through this just fine and be back to his old self." He looked up at her and stood up to give her a hug. The officer took this moment to take his leave and said that he would be back for the bullets and would be in touch with everyone later.

"You know if it wasn't for him forcing me down when I woke up to the sound of the window shattering it would be me in there instead of him or I might have even been killed. He saved my life and even though he was hurt he stopped the shooter." His dad spoke up and said he wanted to know how I did it.

"The police said that the shooter was killed." Mikel looked at him and said, "His throwing knives." My mom said that she guesses it was a good thing I took those lessons even though she said not to for it saved our lives.

Two hours later the doctor came back out and said the surgery was a success. They mended my collarbone and reflated my lung and now I was in stable condition but these next twenty-four hours were going to be critical for me because my lung could deflate again. He was thanked by everyone and said they could come and see me now and led the way. When everyone got to my room I wasn't awake. I had an oxygen machine and a lot of other monitors hooked up to me. I was told later when I woke up that I looked like I was part machine with how many machines I had attached to me. Mikel and my mom were the only ones left in the room. Mikel noticed me and called for a nurse. He then turned back to me and said, "Hey, honey. How are you feeling?"

I Looked at him and said I felt like a train hit my car and then I was put through a car crusher. He laughed and smiled at me. The nurse came in and seen that I was awake and immediately called for my doctor. He came running into the room to see me there awake and talking to Mikel. He was in shock, "I am amazed. I have never had a patient that went through trauma like you did and the surgery wake up seven hours after the surgery was completed. Normally they wake up the next day or later."

My mom smiled and told him, "Like I said earlier he is very strong and determined."

The doctor took my vitals and then he and the nurse left the room. Mikel told me that he was so scared that I wouldn't make it through the surgery and he thanked me for saving his life back at the dorm. I told him that I would never leave him because I loved him. He told me he had something for me and leaned down in front of my mom and kissed me. The kiss took her by surprise a little bit but she smiled because I had already talked to her about my feeling for Mikel and my suspicions about his for me.

As he stood back up his phone rang. When he answered it he immediately held it at arm's length. I heard Tressa's voice on the other end screaming her head off about she just heard on the news about Mikel and I and the shooter. He looked at me for help and I told him to put the phone on speaker. When he did Tressa's, voice echoed through the room. I shouted for her to stop screaming and her voice faltered long enough for me to say that we both are alright. There was silence on her end of the line then we heard "Oh. Why didn't anyone call me?" I laughed the best I could and said that we were too busy to call anyone.

"I also just recently woke up."

"Well you still could have called when you woke up."

"Shut up Tressa." I asked Mikel to hand me his phone and when he gave it to me I took it off speaker and talked to her for a while. When we finished talking I hung up the phone and handed it back to Jayden.

"Hey have you heard anything about our room?" he looked at me and said that there is a lot of damage.

"I don't know what is going to be done about our room yet, my dad's having the insurance come and make a claim so that everything damaged can be replaced or fixed."

I was in the hospital for almost a week. While I was there we heard from Mikel's father that the dorm room and everything in it was repaired or replaced. All the windows in the school and the dorms were replaced with double pane plexiglass windows. They were still able to be opened to ventilate all the rooms.