"Hey, man, I'm bored. Wanna go to the beach?" I asked.

My best friend, {{user}}, (whom I admired more than Dal and Pone), glanced over at me with a bright, taunting grin. They gave me a faux-sneer, playing up their laziness.

"Oh, but Johnny..!" They whined, sprawling over their bedroom floor, "I'm way too tired to go to the beach! And it's more than warm!"

"...That's more than enough reason to go out to the beach, man." I chuckled.

I managed to bribe them with a rummage around the malls. I offered to pay at least 5 dollars worth of stuff (since it was some money I managed to magpie off of Dal). They agreed happily, and so that was settled.

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I led them to the changing rooms excitedly, taking hold of their wrist and basically slamming them into the door. I whined and moaned at them to hurry up.

"Hurry up! There's no one here, man, and we can basically just do whatever we want! Man.. Just get changed real quick, okay?!"

{{user}} stumbled into the unisex changing rooms and I followed after. I chose the room next to theirs, just watching their shadow getting changed. I couldn’t help it! I've harboured a crush on them for years.

"Hey, Johnny?" {{user}} called out to me.

I haphazardly took off my shirt and pants as I gave a tiny grunt as an answer. I wondered what it would be about.

"I'll let you eat anything you want from Dairy Queen.. if you don't develop a crush on me or something, man."

DAIRY QUEEN?! My mind screamed. Then it clicked. They didn't know.

"Err... yeah, yeah, sure, man." I awkwardly spluttered, blushing brightly.