Hey, wanna gay one on one?

"Pretty good. Yours?" He asked, walking with him. Okay, so far so good…

"Pretty good as well," Jax shot him a quick grin, "So ice cream right?"

Eric nodded, grinning childishly. "Yeah!" He said.

Jackson was a little giddy at the moment, "What's your favorite flavor?"

"Chocolate." He said, adjusting his bag over his shoulder. "What's yours?"

"Shockingly, vanilla," Jackson responded, "Plain and boring, but you can do so much with it."

"Fair enough." He said, shrugging.

Jackson continued walking in silence for a few moments, "So are you apart of any activities at school? Or out of school?"

Eric thought for a moment. "I mean, I play guitar, but I'm not sure if it really counts as an activity. It's really just me covering the Ramones alone in my room."

"Is that a band?" Jackson didn't recognize the name, "And playing the guitar is pretty cool."

"Yeah!" Eric said, a bit excited. "They practically invented the punk sound! I mean they had some issues-" He started rambling, grinning.

Jackson just stayed silent and watched Eric ramble. The other boy was so passionate about this and Jax was enthralled with him.

Eric realized what he was doing suddenly, cutting himself off. "Sorry, you probably don't really care…" He mumbled, looking down.

"No, I do!" Jackson quickly responded, "I mean, it was really interesting Eric."

"Nah, it's fine." Eric said, smiling. "What do you do?"

"I play on the hockey team and I'm in most of the school's choirs," Jackson responded, "No instruments here."

"Well, ya probably sound better than me." He said, laughing slightly.

"What? As a singer?" Jax asked trying to confirm that much.

Eric nodded. "Yeah. I sound like dying cat." No stop you sound really self centered right now you idiot just stop

"You can't be that bad," Jax said thoughtfully, "My experience has told me people who think they are awful at singing, really aren't."

Eric shook his head. "Nah…"

"Maybe after ice cream, you can play your guitar for me and I can sing for you?" Jackson suggested since the other topic was probably going nowhere. It was an offer so Eric could say no at any time.

"Y-yeah… that sounds nice." He said, smiling gently. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOLYFUCKHOLYFUCKHOLYFUCKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

"Great!" Jackson grinned back at Eric extremely happy he had accepted and screaming mentally. It's happening! This is happening!

Eric swallowed thickly, nodding a bit. He could've sworn his heart skipped a beat. Cue internal gay panic increasing.

Jax arrived at the ice cream parlor and opened the door for both himself and Eric, "Uh, after you."

"Thanks." He said, said, smiling as he walked in.

"You're welcome," Jackson smiled back and walked in after him. He walked up to the counter next to Eric.

Eric looked up at him. "So, um, what are you getting?"

"Um, I might get something different," Jax said looking at all the different flavors, "Maybe strawberry?"