DISCLAIMER: This is the second story I ever wrote and I am doing this for fun and to entertain you, so if you have any suggestion about what needs to be fixed here, I will appreciate it a lot, thank you!
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Michael’s story begins with him, a middle school dog boy who every weekend loved to have little sleepovers with his 4 best friends, they were cool guys, sometimes they were annoying and they would joke about personal stuff, but they would also help each other every time another friend needed help, they were a group, no matter where or what happened they were always together, talking about games, girls, jokes or laughing about funny times they had together, it was always cool to be with them.
It was Friday, Michael knew his friends would come by at 9 PM to start the sleepover as usual and this time It was Michael’s house turn, he had prepared everything, asked his mom to go to sleep late, had bought candies, several bags of chips, had turned on the TV and his console to play some videogames just to end up with the night, he was ready to start the sleepover but it was just 8 PM, minutes seemed to have turned into hours out of nowhere but he was trying to hold his excitement watching the TV from the living room, which was the only thing talking in the whole house until his mom broke the silence
-“Hey Michael, just so you know, try to not being so loud when your friends arrive and I go to sleep, remember the last time you did the sleepover here I thought someone had broken up in and I got scared” his mom said while letting a little sigh out
-“I know mom, we promise to be quiet this time, we won’t be watching another silly horror movie, it’s not in the plan tonight” Michael replied while rolling his eyes and biting a chocolate bar
-“I hope so, that night I was so scared I took a bat to break into your room” his mom reminded him
-“Hahah yeah, I saw you, that was so cool, the door still has a few scratches from that day” Michael said while he giggled softly
Suddenly someone knocked at the door, it was a very particular knock, Michael knew it was Brian, the friendly panda bear, Brian was the friendliest of all, no matter how things would get he always tried to keep everyone with a positive mind and when it was about making a joke or a prank to another one of his friends he was the worst of all, the kind of friend partner that would support you without any doubt always with a big smile.
-“Ohhh that’s Brian, I am coming!” Michael yelled while he ran towards the door to open it, once he did Brian was standing there in front of the door with a big smile and came in
-“Hey, hi there, what’s good?” he said while he walked towards Michael and gave him a small hug
-“It’s fine, you’re the first one to arrive, as usually 30 minutes early heheh” Michael said while pulled out of the hug
-“Well yeah I mean, you know how the guys are, it’s better to be sooner than later for sure” He walked to the sofa and placed his backpack on the ground
Michael’s mom walked into the living room to say hi to Brian who was her son’s favorite friend, since he was so polite and always so chatty
-“Hey Brian, how have you been?” Michael’s mom said while looking at Brian sitting down on the sofa
-“Hi miss, I have been fine, you know what day is today, so as usual we’re all fine and excited heh” Brian said giggling while also looking at Michael
-“I bet and how has school been, I heard from Michael here it’s been tough” Michael’s mom asked while she was looking at him
Michael was nervous, he had said that to his mom as an excuse for his bad scores and he had forgotten to tell Brian what to say in case that question came up, his face said it all, an expression that him and his friends knew
-“Oh, yeah it has been, kind of, most kids are having problems with chemistry and maths too, including me, I can be a bit dumb when it comes to those hah” Brian said while looking at Michael trying to hold his laughter, he knew Michael so well, Brian knew what Michael’s expression meant, so he helped his friend out again, as always
-“I see, I suppose they can be tough subjects, yeah” said Michael’s mom while she turned around letting out a sigh while Brian winked at Michael, letting him giggle a bit
Once again, someone was knocking at the door, this time it was a normal knock, so Michael was unsure who could be, he stood up and walked to the door as he opened he realized it was Rodrigo, the lizard Hispanic boy who had arrived from Mexico to the US a long time ago since he was 7, he got into middle school at the same time as Michael, he had known him for a while now, he was the kind of cool funny friend that everyone had, sometimes he could be annoying and wouldn’t stop talking and talking, but something was true and it’s that he always had something to say, he was the funniest of the group, sometimes shy, rarely quiet, but he was the funniest of all, wherever he was, there would be a nice amount of laughs, no matter what, you could also trust him the deepest secret, for Michael although, he was cute and nice, and he was, he was a warm boy, a bit clumsy when it came to other stuff like work or something important, but hard for him to not help people and try to cheer them up too, very cute.
-“Hello there, I see you two arrived here before me, dang it, I always try to be the one to arrive first and beat y’all, except Brian, you can’t beat Brian in his own game, hell no” said Rodrigo looking at them both with a slight smile
“Yeah I agree, heheh, so that makes us three, by the way Rodri, did you bring what I asked you for?” Michael said while trying to look inside Rodrigo’s bag
Rodrigo stopped to think for a few seconds with a nervous expression giving a nervous laugh and looking up at Michael
-“Ehh.. heh okay, wait wait, let me see, it’s just I prepared everything last night just so I had to pick my backpack up and leave, but… I didn’t check first so wait” said Rodrigo looking inside his bag a with worrying
Michael got anxious for a bit since what he had asked Rodrigo very important to not make the sleepover a disaster, while Brian began helping Rodrigo to find that important stuff Michael had asked him to bring and after so much looking he found it
-“Ahh yes, here it is the game controllers you asked for, thanks Brian” Rodrigo said while handing them to Michael
-“Alright this is perfect, we can only wait for Jason to arrive and we’ll be complete” Michael said excited
-“Oh Jason always comes when the clock is exactly at 9 PM, not a minute less nor more” Brian said, with his hands on his waist
“That is true dude, you know how Jason always is, even when the sleepover is done in his house he gets upset about us arriving early or late soo strict about time…” said Rodrigo rolling his eyes
“Yeah for sure” Brian replied
Suddenly another person was knocking at the door, the three boys checked their watches which showed 9 o’clock and the three of them told to each other “It’s him” in a single voice, Michael walked to the door and opened it, it was certainly him, it was Jason, the armadillo a Texan boy who had moved into town due to his dad job, he walked in with his backpack in one hand while the other was holding his phone, he was the kind of quiet and responsible friend, who had manners and strict standards too, you could say he was the brain of the group, always so smart and mature, but he was also funny when he wanted to, he gave a step forward and after placing his backpack carefully on the ground he said hi to all
-“Hey guys, good evening, what’s the schedule for today?” He asked with the emotionless face of always
-“Ehh, right Mike, what are we going to do, you tell us, what do you have planned for us?” Rodrigo asked
-“Oh worry not guys, I made a list myself, I thought about eating some candies and chips while watching the Dark Resident saga and after that play some videogames before going to bed, Rodri brought his 2 controllers” Michael said with an excitement face hard to describe, he was so eager to start the sleepover
-“Sounds fine to me, what do you guys think?” Jason said looking at Brian and Rodrigo back
-“Totally perfect, it’ll be great hah” Brian replied
-“Yeah, I think it’s cool, let’s go” Rodrigo replied too

-“Mom we’ll be upstairs now! Will you also come to bed soon?” Michael yelled while he was walking upstairs
-“Yes sweetie, just remember try to be quiet and don’t stay up after 2:30 AM please” Michael’s mom replied while walking to the living room to turn the lights off
“Ok, let’s go guys, last one to arrive gets to play with the worse controller!” Michael said running upstairs
“H-hey no, that’s not fair, you have no backpack!” Rodrigo said while he went running to take his backpack along Brian
Jason who already had picked up his backpack went running upstairs second and after a while Rodrigo arrived third then Brian fourth they both were panting and breathing heavily
-“Hahah yes, I got third! So suck on that Brian” Rodrigo replied while he ran towards Michael’s bed and jumped in
-“Oh man… I hadn’t gotten the old controller in a while, pff” Brian said a bit disappointed
The four boys settled their things and Michael turning on the DVD placed the Dark Resident movie and pushed it in, all of them sat down in front of the TV watching quietly, as the hours passed it was already 12:30 AM, the 3 movies had finished already, Michael heard his mom closing her room’s door as he was ready to start the second part, play videogames until they fell asleep
-“Alright, guys let’s play, what about.. Ring 3?” Michael asked
-“I don’t know, I am not in the mood for Ring 3, the guns are not diverse and it gets boring after a while, plus it doesn’t have the vehicle I have” Jason replied
-“That’s true, we play Ring 3 the most, I think we should play.. Ring 4” Rodrigo said
-“I would also prefer Ring 4” Jason said
-“I want to play Ring Reach tho” Brian replied with a nervous smile
-“Oh come on, you just want to play Reach, because the broken button on your controller is the grenade launch button hahah” Rodrigo replied to Brian with a smirk
-“Yeah, let’s play Ring Reach, just so it is fair” Jason said, looking at both of them
-“Yeah, let’s play Reach” Michael agreed
- “Alrighty” Rodrigo said
While each boy picked their controllers, Michael set up everything and started the game, this felt great, nothing like spending the rest of the night playing videogames with his best friends at his house, with the lights off, this was almost perfect, time didn’t make them feel anything, after they got bored from a game they switched to another and another, until Michael after finishing another match turned on his phone and realized it was 2:15 AM he felt a bit sad, he had to go to sleep along with his friends on a few minutes, but he still had some 15 minutes left

-“Rats, this is bad, it’s 2:15 AM, our night is almost over..” Michael said looking at his phone a bit disappointed
-“Don’t worry Mikey, this night was very cool in my opinion, I had a lot of fun” Rodrigo said giving a few pats on the back to Michael and smiling at him
-“Yeah I also think it was neat” Jason said too
-“Me also bud” Brian said
-“Thanks guys, I was hoping you would have fun, I am glad you all liked it” Michael replied to all of them giving them a wide smile
-“Hey guys by the way, we are out of water, just in case someone wanted some” Rodrigo said while showing them a bottle of water, suddenly Brian gasped like if something had come to his mind
-“Hey guys, it’s 2:15 AM we have another 15 minutes, to play another quick game, want to play truth or dare?” Brian asked them smiling at them as usual
-“Hm.. truth or dare? I haven’t played that since I was 8” Jason said “It could be interesting” he said again
-“Yeah, I think we can do a quick game” Michael replied looking at Brian
-“Truth or dare? That’s girls play” Rodrigo said to all of them
-“Of course it is not, James and Alan play it all the time with his friends” Brian argued
-“Well, maybe because James and Alan are.. you know..” Rodrigo said looking up, trying to insinuate something
-“You mean James the guy who beat that coyote dude?” Jason asked intrigued
-“Yes that same dude” Brian replied
-“Come on Rodrigo, are you scared..?” Brian said again looking closely to Rodrigo, hoping that he would accept to prove he wasn’t
- “Tch, fine, I’ll do it just because if I don’t you’ll be calling me coward after tonight” Rodrigo complained
- “Okay, let’s do that then, let’s form a circle and let the bottle spin” Michael said and giggled
Brian placed the bottle on the center of the circle the guys had made up and made it spin, the bottle selected Jason and him to be the one who asked and the one who replied respectively
- “Ok Brian, it was your idea hah, truth or dare?” Jason asked Brian with a smirk on his face
- “Truth” Brian said
- “Alright, which has been the most awkward girl you fell in love with?” Jason asked to Brian
- “Oh... well, in elementary school, there was this girl, Trish, she was a… pig and well, later on I realized she was horrendous, it’s… complicated” Brian said so shy
The whole band tried to laugh softly so Michael’s mom didn’t wake up, so Jason made the bottle spin again and this time it selected Michael to be the one who asked Rodrigo
- “Oh no” Rodrigo said with worrying
- “Alright Rodri, truth or dare?” Michael asked
Rodrigo was nervous he didn’t want to seem like a crybaby so he went for the hardest choice, hoping they would be surprised and they didn’t know what to make him do
- “Dare” Rodrigo said following with a snicker afterwards
That took Michael for surprise a bit, he didn’t expect Rodrigo to choose dare, and he hadn’t thought about something.
- “Ok, I dare you to… uhh” Michael was trying to find something to dare him to do after he thought twice, he looked at the dirty clothes box, and gave Rodrigo an evil look, Rodrigo got worried after he saw Michael’s face, he knew Michael had found something to make him do, Michael stood up and after lurking through the dirty clothes he took out a sock
- “AHA, Rodri, I dare you to keep this in your mouth for 15 seconds and chew it while you do it” Michael said
- “Oh please no, give me another thing to do, like, lick the floor” Rodrigo begged worried
- “Nah, I want you to do this and see your face” Michael said back
- “Hahah that will be awesome” said Brian
- “And... totally disgusting too” Jason said
Michael handed the dirty sock to Rodrigo and was looking at him eagerly, Rodrigo was just sitting there looking at all of them with the sock in his hand, now he couldn’t freak out, it was the sock in his mouth or having the boys call him chicken, coward or baby for the rest of the month and he was not having it, after he inhaled enough air and tightened his eyes he did it, he took the sock to his mouth quickly and began chewing on it while he used his hands to squeeze his tail and think about another stuff, while the other guys where just looking at him.
- “Ewwgh, dude this is so disgusting, I can’t watch this” Jason complained as he turned his head down looking to the floor
- “Oh man, I agree with Jason, this is just… unbelievable” Brian said while he was trying to hold his laughter inside
The 15 seconds passed and immediately after the phone’s alarm counted down to zero, Rodrigo took the sock out of his mouth and threw it to the bed and used his hands to clean his tongue with his eyes totally closed
- “Puagh puagh ughh… d-don’t make me lick your dirty stinky socks again, man that was so disgusting I think I am going to get sick… and puke” Rodrigo complained to Michael, going back to sit down on his place
- “Sorry, you told me to dare you do something so that’s what I did” Michael replied
- “Yes, but not that Mike not like that eugh, ahh” Rodrigo kept complaining
- “Ok so I’ll make it spin again” Michael said
Michael took the bottle and made it spin again, everyone was eager to know who the bottle was selecting this time, as the bottle was slowly stopping this time the tables had turned, the bottle selected Rodrigo and Michael and Rodrigo had to ask this time, this put a smile back on Rodrigo’s face, he was going to make Michael do something incredibly awkward, or he would asking something personal, as for Michael he got a bit worried, he didn’t know what Rodrigo would make him say or do, it was hard to say, but he knew Rodrigo wouldn’t make him do or ask him something simple after what he did, but it was too late now, he could only hope for the best
- “Alright, my turn heheh, truth or dare?” Rodrigo asked Michael with a somewhat mean face
- “Uh... dare...?” Michael replied with fear
- “Oh no, this is going to be bad” Brian said
- “Well, I dare you to take your pajamas off!” Rodrigo said while he pointed with his finger at Michael and laughing afterwards
- “oh, can’t it be something, less extreme? Come on Rodri heh” Michael complained with a nervous expression all over his face and blushing
- “Nah, you didn’t give me something less extreme, so you won’t be having one either, time to pay heheh” Rodrigo replied
- “I mean he is not wrong, you were mean with him, so it’s his turn to be mean with you Mike” Jason broke the silence
- “Yeah he is right, or are you a chicken? Hah” Brian commented too
Michael was in troubles, he was pretty nervous, being only in underwear in front of his friends was awkward, sure he had been before when they went swimming to the pool, but when they did it everyone was in underwear too or with a bath suit, tonight it was just him while the others just looked, Rodrigo had a big smirk on his face, he was totally sure Michael wouldn’t do it, he was already thinking about greeting Michael everyday by calling him chicken, but he wasn’t having it either so he gathered courage and closed his eyes while thinking about like if they were in the pool, which was hard to do since the pool had never been so quiet and off came the pajamas, Michael was shirtless and pantless in front of the guys, as Rodrigo opened his eyes wide and blushed a bit, he couldn’t believe Michael had actually done it, but he couldn’t believe what he was staring at, he was looking at Michael carefully from feet to head with his mouth opened, Jason and Brian did the same, but Jason managed to look aside as for Brian looked at his feet, but Rodrigo couldn’t stop looking
- “Oh, Mike dude, you seriously did that?” Jason complained
- “This just became twice as awkward, god” Brian complained to Michael too
- “Oh come on I still have my boxers on, it’s not so bad, besides I am not a chicken and I won’t be having any of your jokes, no sir” Michael replied to the guys who were shocked at what had just happened
Rodrigo was the only one who kept looking at Michael, he couldn’t turn around, after all it was hard to ignore, but he couldn’t help it, he was blushing and thinking about how cute Michael was until Michael, broke the silence and Rodrigo realized he was staring at him and Michael began talk to him
- “Ahh, wha, what?” Rodrigo said shaking his head with his eyes closed
- “What was that dude?” Michael asked Rodrigo who was being way too obvious as he was looking his body
- “Oh ehh, it was nothing man, I-I can’t believe you actually did that dude, you have big balls, LIKE LIKE I didn’t see that, I didn’t see your balls, not in real life I meant, like you have tons of courage dude” Rodrigo said between stuttering and looking aside, while he tried not to keep blushing
- “Uh... thanks dude” Michael said blushing too and looking up to the ceiling
- “Rodri, you’re weird man...” Jason said
- “Yeah, you’re being very weird man” Brian said too
Soon Michael looked at his phone and realized it was 2:45 AM, it was so late, they had spent so much time already and he knew his mom would be furious next day if he woke up late, so he interrupted the guys and said
- “Hey guys, guys, it’s 2:45 AM and mom will kill me if she realizes we didn’t go to sleep when we were supposed to”
The boys gasped and picked up all the bottles of water and tossed the trash into the trash can, they cleaned the whole room and placed their sleeping bags on the floor as Michael turned the TV off and picked the controllers up and he wasn’t sure which were his and which were Rodri’s controllers, so he walked towards him and asked
- “Hey Rodri, do you know which your controllers are and which are mine? I mean I know the old broken one is mine but idk which is the other one”
- “Ahh.. oh, it’s eh… my controllers have a few scratches in the battery cartridge, yeah” Rodrigo answered Michael nervously
Mike didn’t know what was wrong, Rodrigo had been acting up weird after that truth or dare game, he was being so quiet and for him being quiet is extremely rare, there was no reason for him to be shy, since he was only shy with the people he didn’t know, Michael thought he was upset so he turned at him and whispered to him so the other guys didn’t hear as they were already falling asleep
- “Uhm, Rodri, listen I, just want to say sorry for making you lick that sock, it was not supposed to be rude towards you or anything, It was just play, you know...” Michael said hoping Rodrigo would understand
- “Ah that, yeah eh, don’t worry dude it’s ok, I knew it was just part of the game, don’t worry heh” Rodrigo said with a nervous voice looking at Michael’s feet trying to not look at his eyes blushing
- “Listen I think, i should repay the favor after all, I think making you take off your pajamas was too much” Rodrigo said taking his pajamas off
Michael stood there and opened his eyes wide, he couldn’t believe what Rodrigo was doing, unbuttoning his pajama’s shirt and tossing it aside, he blushed awkwardly and tried to not look at him, suddenly Rodrigo had finished and he only had his boxers on, Rodrigo was feeling ashamed and everything turned awkward, they both made sure the guys were asleep, so they could talk, Rodrigo was the first to break the ice
- “Sorry for making you undress in front of them, it was wrong from me, so this is it, now we are now hand to hand, I think… I should have made you suck the same sock heheh…” he said blushing heavily as he kept looking at Michael’s feet and turning his head aside too
- “It’s fine, don’t mind that uhh, you cool” Michael didn’t really know what to say, this was too sudden, he wasn’t expecting Rodri to do that, he was sure Rodri was really feeling bad for what he did so he thought about something else to say while he looked at Rodrigo’s body
- “Uhh I think, you’re cute dude, heh”
- “Ah, heh thanks, that was unexpected ehh, thank you, I think you’re also cute dude” Rodrigo replied stuttering a bit and stunned from what Michael had said
Rodrigo went towards Michael and gave him a hug, Michael got surprised, it gave a tiny jump of surprise as he saw Rodrigo hugging him, so he hugged him back too, both of them giggled and pulled out the hug each other both of them blushing about what had been done
- “Well, it’s late I think we should just sleep already, 3 AM of the morning is just way too late” Michael said to break the silence
- “Yeah, I also think we should sleep already, it’s very late, uh…” Rodrigo was wanting to say something else to Michael but he didn’t know how to say it, Michael turned while getting inside his sleeping bag
- “Something wrong?” Michael asked
- “No, no, I was just wondering if you would like to come over my house, tomorrow, you know, just, you and me and finish that mission we couldn’t complete tonight and… maybe do some other stuff too heh” Rodrigo asked Michael back with a nervous expression, hoping Michael would accept
- “Oh, sure I’d like that, I will be there at 3 heh” Michael answered blushing a bit
- “Cool, heh, well, have a nice night Mike, sleep tight” Said Rodrigo after finally putting his pajama back on and getting on his sleeping back next to Michael’s
- “Yeah, you have a nice night too Rodri, good night” Michael replied with a happy expression
- “Night dude” Rodrigo said with the same expression, one looking at each other
They both fell asleep thinking about how a great time they had spent together, Michael was happy everything went good as planned, that night something had changed inside the two of them, they started feeling something different about each other, something that with the pass of time, would make them closer to each other, they knew this was the beginning of something new and special for them both, after everyone fell asleep after having a quiet night.