Beauty or a Beast? Ch. 7 (BoyxBoy)

Zayden Sanders (17) and Kade Grant (18) are just your average high school students. Well, mostly. One; they're both gay, and two; Kade suffers from a split-personality disorder.
WARNING FOR THIS CHAPTER: A lot of BL. Not much for this one just some kissing, and such. Don't like? Don't read.

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Awkward. That was the only word that could come to Kade’s mind right now. Not as awkward as the time Jason and Lyle had walked in on them in the shower, but still hell of an awkward moment.  He was sitting in the gym afterschool to watch Zayden’s basketball practice. Zayden was sitting next to him talking away, and sitting next to him meant pretty much sitting in his lap. Kade really was trying to pay attention to him, but with all the eyes he was getting it was just too hard to concentrate. Eyes that were saying I don’t really know you, but, hey, I still don’t like you. Every single one of Zayden’s team mates were scrutinizing him, making him highly uncomfortable. Zayden had mentioned that he had known all his teammates for years, and that they were all good friends. Maybe they were just looking out for Zayden? Yeah, that was it. There was no way they could hate him already, right?

Kade tried zoning back into listening to Zayden. He was going on about how he couldn’t wait for dinner at his house tonight and that he couldn’t wait to introduce Kade to his parents. Kade was giving him as much of his attention as he could, that is until he caught a glare from Ryan. Ryan freaking Evanson. Captain of the basketball team, Zayden’s ex-boyfriend, and also the son of a biscuit who had sent Zayden to the hospital. Yeah, that Ryan. His glare definitely irked Kade the wrong way.

“…Kade, are you even listening?” Zayden nudged Kade’s shoulder. He finally focused on what Zayden was saying again.

He watched Ryan for another minute before turning back to Zayden. “Sorry babe. That jerk, Ryan..He just, ugh!” Kade glanced back down onto the court to see Ryan shoot from the 3-point line, and Swish. Ryan looked towards Kade, a smirk on his face and raised his eyebrows. Kade took this as a challenge. He stood up and looked down at Zayden, “Well, this ass just doesn’t know what he has gotten himself into!” Kade threw his fist in the air. Zayden seriously contemplated why he went out with such a nutcase.  

“Seriously, Kade? What are you talking abou-” Kade cut him off by planting a quick brush of his lips to his own.

“Your honor, Babe, your honor!. That’s what I’m talking about!” Kade said righteously. Zayden looked at him questioningly. He followed Kade’s line of vision all the way back to meet Ryan’s eyes. Zayden sighed loudly before pulling on Kade’s arm for him to sit back down.

“Just ignore him; He is just a narcissistic jackbutt!” But Kade refused to sit back down.
Jason and Lyle had been sitting there the whole time witnessing the little scene. Lyle high-fived Kade and encouraged him to go protect Zayden’s so called ‘honor’, and Jason just laughed but still encouraged him.

“As much as what you just said is true, I don’t care. He is gonna get what’s coming to him! I mean this is your honor we’re talking about.” Kade nodded his head several times as if agreeing with himself. He leaned down to peck Zayden on the lips one last time before he descended down the bleachers.

“You are Kade, right?” Zayden said, making Kade turn and look at him, “I mean, with all this honor stuff, you sound like King Arthur or Romeo or someone, like seriously?”

“Just me, myself, and I. Although, I have always thought of myself as the hopeless romantic type, stoic, and ever so brave.” Kade winked at Zayden, and turned back around to walk down the last few rows of bleachers. He smiled at himself when he heard Zayden laugh loudly.

He walked up to Ryan silently. Ryan had the widest, fakest grin on his face. Kade gladly returned the phony smile. Ryan looked back towards the goal, and shot. Swish. He turned back to Kade and smiled even bigger than before, if that was even humanly possible. Kade took his turn, looking towards the basket, and shot, also making his.

Ryan sneered at Kade before taking a few steps backwards from the 3-point line. He raised his eye brows questioningly at Kade. Kade gestured his hand towards the basket in a go-ahead sort of manner. Ryan shot and once again made it. Kade then made it too, and looked at Ryan mockingly. They both span around to look at Zayden when he was suddenly cheering and yelling from the stands. “Woohoo! Good job, Baby!” Kade smiled and puckered his lips, kissing the air towards Zayden, who laughed and returned the gesture.

Ryan was clearly pissed off now. He took a few more steps back, shooting the ball and making it. He waited for Kade to take his turn. Kade, of course, also made his shot. Over and over again they would take their turns.

All eyes were on them now. The other teammates and their friends had stopped their conversations to watch the ensuing battle. They would cheer after both Kade and Ryan had taken their turns.

The two of them had paced back until they were all the way to the half court line. Ryan looked at Kade. Kade could see the evident worry in Ryan’s eyes. Ryan twisted back to look at the goal. He gulped. Seriously, gulping? Kade chuckled quietly, earning himself a glare from Ryan. Ryan bent his knees, arched his elbows, and let the ball fly. With a thunk the ball hit the rim and dropped to the ground. He missed. Completely and utterly missed.

The crowd ‘Awed’ and looked to Kade waiting for him to shoot. “Come on! You can do it!” Zayden yelled giving him a thumbs up. Damn, was he cute or was he cute? Kade grinned, breathing slowly. He dribbled a bit before finally shooting. Swish. That was most defiantly a swish he heard. The crowd cried out and cheered for him. Everyone was still cheering, but Ryan just scoffed before walking away.

Zayden raced down the bleachers towards Kade and jumped on his back piggy-back style. Kade turned his head so he could see Zayden out of the corner of his eye. “See, I told you. No need to worry though, your honor is safe.”

Zayden giggled a bit before saying, “Sorry I ever doubted you, Romeo. You just don’t look like the athletic type!” He leaned up to kiss Kade’s cheek.

“You got that right!” Kade whipped around to see Coach Hanley standing with his arms crossed, “You ever play before, kid?”

Kade just stood there before it registered to him that the man had asked him a question. He quickly tapped Zayden’s leg in a ‘get off me, this is just slightly awkward’ kind of way. Zayden jumped down, and Kade finally answered. “Uh yes, Sir. Back in middle school. I was the team captain.”

Coach Hanley furrowed his eye brows. Kade couldn’t tell if the man was thinking or if he was just constipated. “Well then, what can I do to convince you to play for me? Because you just out shot Evanson who is our best shooter. We could defiantly use you!”

Kade glanced down to Zayden. He was nodding up and down like a mad man, trying to get Kade to agree. Of course he would want to play…But could he control his emotions? He had to quit back in middle school after his split-personalities had caused one too many mishaps. But what the hell, right? As long as he managed some self-control it would be awesome to get to play basketball again and spend some more time with Zayden. And the thought that joining the team would probably drive Ryan insane didn’t even cross his mind…HA! Who was he kidding? Kade practically smirked when he agreed to Coach Hanley’s request.

Ryan immediately ran over and protested, like the jerk he was. “But coach, he’s already a senior and how do we even know if he is eligible to play?” Ryan leered at the couple before he continued, “And didn’t you know this guy is a total nutcase?!” Kade really didn’t take offense to his words. He had been called much worse than that, but Zayden, oh sweet and wonderful Zayden had the death glare of all death glares on his face. The brunette boy opened his mouth to retort -very rudely most likely, knowing that Zayden, despite the innocent look he had going on, had quite the filthy mouth- but Kade quickly covered the boy’s mouth with his hand. The hand only seemed to tick Zayden off more but being the little minx he was Zayden swiped his tongue out to lick at the hand covering his mouth. Kade stifled a chuckle, when the coach spoke finally.

“Well…” Coach Hanley looked as if he was taking Ryan’s words into consideration, staring at the floor absent mindedly, before he got the same eyebrow-furrowed-constipated look.  “I know you have had some medical issues, right?”

Kade nodded his head, “Yes sir, but they are all under control, and as long I can keep a clear head I won’t have a spell or anything. And my grades should be in order, I mean, I do have a 4.0 GPA, and take all AP classes. Not only that, but like I have said before, I have had previous experience with basketball?”

The coach looked like he had just won the lottery. “Alright! Everything seems worked out,” He clapped Kade on the back, “Welcome to the team!”

The rest of practice was Awesome. Coach had scrounged up some clothes for Kade to practice in, and he jumped right in with the rest of the team. After the first hour the glares that he had originally gotten from the other teammates had died down, and they were actually happily holding conversations with him. Lyle had introduced him to some of the other teammates which was pretty cool, and Zayden looked at Kade fondly when he got compliments from his new teammates. Like, come on let’s face it Kade was practically sex on two legs, and was apparently some basketball all-star, could it get any better?

The Kade constantly flirted it up with Zayden non-stop, to the dismay of the asshole team captain. Kade decided he would take his messing with Ryan to the next level. What’s that line that says fight fire with fire? Yeah, Kade practically lived by that. He smirked when Zayden ran up behind him and wrapped his arms around his waist. Ryan just happened to be profusely staring at the two of them, and his face..It was the epitome of all scowls.

After practice Zayden led Kade to locker room- which ironically looked just like the shower room at the camp they had been to a few weeks back -and showed him the locker that coach had given him. Kade smiled at Zayden as he put his stuff in his new locker. They were not the only ones in the room with most of the other teammates getting undressed to shower, or grabbing their things to leave. But Kade didn’t really care and smacked Zayden’s behind while he was getting undressed.

Zayden growled and noticed that Ryan was staring at the two of them like some sort of creep. “Seriously, Kade? Stop letting your ridiculous male pride get in the way!” Kade pouted a bit but Zayden gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before continuing, “Just leave him be, if you keep provoking him he’ll never leave us alone!”

Kade just nodded in agreement. They finished getting undressed, quickly wrapping themselves with towels before separating to different sides of the shower room. They agreed that it would be best not to lose control and start grinding on each other in front of anyone else again. So parted and Kade headed towards a shower. Lyle came up behind him and whispered a quick thank you for sparing him the trauma of seeing him and Zayden in the shower again. Kade laughed loudly which made Zayden turn away from his own shower head to glance at him. Kade watched Zayden turn red as he saw him glance back. Lyle cleared his throat, and Kade chuckled lightly at the sight of Zayden, on the other side of the room, staring at him with his face red as a beat. Lyle just groaned and walked away.

After their showers Kade dressed as fast as he could avoiding the strong look that his boyfriend was giving him. It seemed that Zayden too, was trying to quietly get dressed as fast as he could. They raced out of the locker room and met up with Jason who was waiting outside the locker room sitting on a bench. Jason obviously wasn’t the athletic type, but always came to watch his boyfriend and best friend’s practices. The three of them waited for Lyle to come out and they all walked to their cars.

Jason and Zayden were a good ten feet away from them going on and on about some video game. But that was alright with Kade. After the whole getting to know each other a little too well at camp, they had become pretty good friends.

Lyle laughed when Jas and Zayden had resorted to playfully punching each other over their heated argument about the video game. He turned to Kade, “So I hear you’re getting to meet the parents tonight?”

Wait, what? Kade had completely forgotten.. “Shit!” Kade exclaimed just a little too loudly. Their boyfriends turned to look at them, but disregarded it to continue their argument. Kade used his hand to smack his forehead. “I completely forgot! With all the awkward today, and the whole thing with Ryan.”

Oh well. Just more awkward to add on to the whole pile of awkwardness, right? The four of them split ways and Kade maybe, just maybe, had an internal break down while trying to prepare himself for the dinner that night.
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TBC