Porter pt. 3

"Look at this," Porter hands Harper his phone as they're walking


"That is a thirst trap" she stares at the picture, "from Elia?" She assumes since the face is blocked off Nodding "he's been DMing them to me since I won't answer his texts"

Harper gives the phone back, "then answer and tell him to stop"

"You don't think I've tried that?" Porter asks "he's thick-headed, stop means nothing to him" "Fine then give him what he wants, get back together we both know you want to."


"But I don't want to get back together with him, we broke up weeks ago. If I wanted to get back

together I would've done so already"


"Ok but this is what you guys always do, you've broken up before"

"For like three hours! And that isn't like this, I don't want to be with Elia" Porter's got his sights on a new venture, and he sees him as soon as they walk into the lunchroom. Watching Garret as he sits having lunch with A/V friends Porter smiles then says, "let's go sit with Garret"

Harper chuckles "yeah right, our friends are over there. Don't be weird"

"I'm not being weird I want to sit with them, come on" Porter tries pulling Harper along but she doesn't budge.

"I have to live with the guy, isn't that enough?"

"Fine suit yourself but I'm going" Harper watches as her best friend walks towards her brother and his band of losers. Walking over when he gets to the table Porter greets, "hey"

Garret, Reggie, and Alexis all look up at him, "hi... Porter," Garret replies finding it strange he's standing at their table.

"Mind if I join you guys?"

Reggie and Alexis share a look and Garret replies "sure..." and Porter sits next to Garret.

The table's quiet as everyone tries not to stare at the popular guy deliberately sitting at their table, it's strange and they know it, at least Reggie and Alexis does. "So what were you guys talking about?"

Seeing that he's probably the only person that'll speak to Porter, Garret answers "GYHM620, AGDVX200, XF400, and AGCF350. Which is better?" They all stare at Porter waiting for an answer to a question he clearly doesn't know. Confused he stares at Garret "camcorders"

Garret answers

"Oh," Porter nods understanding, "because you guys are the A/V club right?" He looks at them, Reggie and Alexis still remain quiet "let me ask you something, how do you guys do it?"

"Do what?"

"The morning announcements, I mean who comes up with the stories and who-"

"The anchors write whatever they want to say and we make sure the equipment works"

"Cool stuff." The table is quiet once again so to keep the conversation going Porter asks, "so which camera is you guys' favorite?"

"Um I just remembered Alexis and I have an important thing we have to get to," Reggie gets up grabbing the rest of his lunch and bag.

"We do?" Alexis asks confused

"Yes mophead get up" she stands and they quickly leave the lunchroom.

Once they're alone Garret says "I think you freaked them out," then proceeds to eat his apple Porter laughs "what gave it away?"

"How fast they ran, what was all that about?"

"What me sitting with you guys?" Garret nods, "well we've barely said anything to each other the last few weeks, and I know you've been avoiding me so figured I'd ambush you. Unless this is too weird and you want to run like your friends just did, I won't blame you."

"I don't want to run" Garret replies, "not from you at least." Garret can't see because he's doing his best to avoid eye contact but Porter is staring and smiling, it's like he can't even help it anymore.

"Does that mean you'll stop avoiding me? You won't lock yourself in your room when I come over" "I don't-" Garret turns and realizes there's no point in lying when he already knows the truth, "yeah

ok."

"Then how about agreeing to hang out with me... alone I mean"

Not wanting to answer Garret starts to pack the rest of his lunch, "wow would you look at the time" he zips his bag,

"You're not looking at the time" Porter watches him get nervous "And yet I can still tell it's late," he stands about to walk away.

"Garret you just said you weren't going to run away like your friends," Porter stands too

Turning as he backs away "I'm not running this is a brisk walk, and I have important things to do so... I'll see you around," he turns heading right for the double doors.

The last few weeks after their kiss in his kitchen, Garret has taken the time to think about what he truly wants. He's mulled it over and over somehow coming out with the same answer every time. Porter Jackson is a fantasy, someone he's dreamt about and in all of his dreams the Porter he had wasn't like this one. Yes, it's the same person but Garret's dream Porter saw no one else, just him. The real Porter has an ex who won't leave him alone, he blatantly told Garret he couldn't be who Garret wanted. So this is Garret doing his best to not fall for the real Porter, and while he's at it he's trying to get rid of his dream Porter too.

"So that was weird at lunch today," Alexis says as she and the other guys edit footage in the A/V room.

"What was?" Garret asks pretending he doesn't know what she's talking about "Porter Jackson talking to us, since when was that a thing?"

It didn't hit Garret until this very moment but he realizes that his 2 closest friends don't know anything about what's happened. Turning to them in his chair Garret feels like he's ready to tell them, his crush isn't anything he's afraid of anymore because he's not even sure if it's still even a crush. "I had feelings for Porter" he confesses causing Alexis and Reggie to turn to him, "I mean I was practically in love with the guy. Then... we kissed"

Alexis gasps "when?!"

"Las month at his party, then again in my kitchen"

"Wow" she grins not believing it, "I can't believe you got to kiss Porter Jackson"

"I can" Reggie finally speaks up, "I mean it makes perfect sense, he's your sister's best friend which means he's around all the time, and he's hot and popular. I'm not gay but I get it"

"So are you guys like a thing now?"

"No!" Garret answers too quickly causing suspicion, "I got him out of my system" he's not sure "Then why's he still hanging around?"

"I think he wants to be my friend," Garret knows that Porter kind of wants more but he's confused

about what Ported really wants.