Meeting The Cyber Buddy Who: Mustang Sally and Jaycen Where: Cyperspace, then Pier 51 When: Tuesday Evening, February 15, then Wednesday afternoon
An actual smiled curved when she saw his name finally flash on her BL after waiting almost a half hour past their usual online meeting time. Sitting up a bit straighter, fingers tapped lightly over the keyboard as a message was typed and sent.
MustangSally: Had almost given up hope that you'd show.
Jaycen sat at his keyboard, sighing a little. He was tired of feeling lonely, and now that a few girls actually seemed... possibly interested in him, he needed to really MEET this girl, see if there was anything there in person, any kind of chemistry like they had online.
NotVoorhees: I really wanna meet you. I know what we talked about... but we both constantly say how we feel alone... isn't it time we DO something about it?
There was a sigh when she read his incoming message. Yes, there was an online chemistry which was undeniable, but an actual RT meeting. Well, she was hesitant about the whole thing. What if she wasn't all that he might be expecting. Rejection was something that she didn't do anywhere near well, especially when they had be getting along quite well in the cyber world after their first chance meeting.
MustangSally: Does it mean that much to you?
He quickly typed his answer, having technically known it for weeks.
NotVoorhees: It does. I need this... and I think somewhere deep down, you do too.
God, she hoped neither of them would end up regretting this. And after a momentary pause and response was typed and sent.
Of course, the next day, after getting dressed in the nicest jeans and sweatshirt he owned, Jaycen got to Pier 51 by roughly 3:20. Shut the fuck up, he was nervous, ok? Standing there, he held a single rose in his hand, and took a long, drawn-out sigh.
She had always been punctual to things, but never as punctual as to arrive somewhere more then fifteen minutes early. Arriving at the agreed upon meeting place ten minutes ahead of time, Sally, wearing green cargo pants and beige, tank with a pair of shades shielding her eyes, starting wander around the pier. It was when she saw the guy a short distance ahead of her that the girl stopped dead in her tracks. The way she was to identify her cyber buddy was by a single rose, and she was refusing to believe her eyes when she saw who was at the pier holding that rose.
When Jaycen saw the girl coming, he felt his eyes close, as, all he could think of was: 'oh great... when Sally gets here, I'll be in the middle of being mocked by the most vile girl I know'. He looked at her and sighed, before sucking it up and greeting her anyway. "Hey, McKenna. What are YOU doing here?"
Well, any thought of trying to be pleasant to the guy just evaporated from her mind when Jaycen greeted her. "As if it really matters to you." McKenna returned flippantly. She was now wishing she had gone with her first instinct and, yet again, had refused to a face to face meeting.
"Look..." he said, sighing sadly. "Please don't start with me today. I'm begging you. There's nobody here to see you be nice to me and thus ruin your rep. I'm really... starting to feel like a loser here and I can't really take your jabs right now." He looked at his watch, starting to feel stood up. Why was he opening up to MCKENNA of all people? Maybe he just felt himself falling apart a little. "I think I just got stood up by someone I thought really liked me."
"You didn't get stood up anyone, and if you breath a word of this to anyone I'll... " Well, McKenna didn't know what she'd do, just that she'd do something to Jaycen if word ever leaked out about any of this. And though she wouldn't admit it to him, McKenna had found herself actually liking the guy she had been communicating with online. She just had never expected that guy to be Jaycen Crosby.
"Wait.... you mean..." He stared for a moment, gape-jawed, as if unable to believe this. "Wow... I mean... well... at least I was right when I told Janna I had a feeling you were hot... Jesus..."
"You think I'm hot?" McKenna questioned, then shook her head as if to displace that thought. "That's a mute point at the moment. It was you? You're NotVoorhees?" That guy she had thought had been so understanding, and that she had seemed to instantly connect with, was actually someone she had openly labeled a loser without a second thought.
"Yeah... My name's JAYCEN. Get it? Not Voorhees? Like... Friday the 13th? Nevermind. Anyway, well of COURSE you're hot. I just... I never would have thought YOU AND I would get along as well as we have online..." He blathered on a little,sort of stuck between shock, excitement, and bewilderment.
"You think you never would have thought? I would have never imagined someone like you could have anything remotely in common with me." Other then the superficial, McKenna didn't think anyone among her peers had anything in common with her. Or be the understanding person she had found in Jaycen online.
He just stared, trying to process all this. "I just... I can't believe the same girl I've been... dreaming about for weeks is the same girl who made me feel two inches tall at the Sugar Shack last week." Not like he hadn't... caught himself thinking about McKenna, but come on... ANY teenaged boy would! This was just a shock to him here...
"I should apologize for that." McKenna said, though not sure if Jaycen would be acceptant of it. And Jaycen wasn't the only one who had thoughts about someone they hadn't actually met. McKenna, at times, had not so pure thoughts about the guy she chatted with in cyber space. Often wondering what he really looked like.
"So... I mean... where do we go? From... from here, I mean. Obviously, we have more in common than we knew, and OBVIOUS we kinda dig each other..." He said, still almost, well... in SHOCK here...
"You know this was all much easier when you were some faceless, nameless person who I enjoyed talking to. No complications." McKenna sighed as she was finding it hard to bring all her thoughts into a verbalization of words. "Why couldn't you have just left things the way they had been." McKenna knew, as the words spilled out, why he couldn't.
"Gee, McKenna... I don't know. Maybe because I'm tired of being alone? And I thought I found someone who liked me for ME?" He asked, sounding a little bitter, as he just KNEW she was going to tell him to get lost now... he could just FEEL it.
Those words tugged at her. She could either be the superficial bitch that most people took her to be or she could own up to her feelings and dare to act on them. Closing the brief distance between them, McKenna cupped his face and kissed him as she wasn't trusting her own voice at the moment.
He blinked, pausing to freeze like a damn statue for a moment, before finally allowing himself to equally give in, returning the kiss as he placed his palms on either side of her face.
"Where do we go from here?" Their kiss momentarily broken as she spoke, McKenna's mouth just a breath away from his as her forehead rested lightly against his. Getting involved with Jaycen Crosby would be hard for her if people found out, but McKenna felt it would be harder for her to just walk away.
"...maybe take it one day at a time?" He asked, closing his eyes with a sigh. "I know you can't exactly just... admit to people that you like me. I get it." "I think I could handle that if it came to it," McKenna said not too confidently, "what would be hard would be walking away." Not many would be understanding of her the way Jaycen was.
"You know..." he said, with a playful grin, trying to lighten the situation a little. "My sister was afraid I was talking to like... a dirty old man or something. Maybe I should check you out, make sure she isn't right...." He tried his BEST not to laugh there.
McKenna gave a weak laugh at that with a quick swipe of fingers to catch the lone tear that slipped free. "Maybe you should, can't be too sure just who you might meet online." The blond smiled weakly.
"...where should we go?" He asked, unsure if she'd be quite willing to go back to the Bales' place or not. "I think maybe... we should consider giving in to all the flirting we've been doing..."
"I'm open to suggestions." McKenna smiled. If he'd be reluctant to go back to his place the blond was going to make a suggestion of her family's not often used boat. It spent more time docked then it did out on the water.
"I'm... staying with the Bale family right now... but the house is huge. I mean, I have my own room on the second floor where nobody would even know we're there..." He was trying to sound all smooth and confident... but really? He sounded every bit as nervous and excited as he FELT.
The Bale estate was one of the few properties in L.A. that outmatched her own family's residence. And if the Bale's home was anything like her own, McKenna knew that one familiar with the place could easily slip in pretty much unnoticed. "Always wondered what the inside of the Bale manse looked like." And she was now even more curious knowing that Jaycen presently lived there.