Mark's POV

I like to polish my surfboard because it makes me feel good to surf on a clean board. Plus, the surfing tournament is coming up soon (not exactly sure when) and I do it in preparation for that.

I was almost done with it, but then I heard Tony call out that my phone was ringing.

I rushed to the room and grabbed my phone.

"Ugh, fuck!" I groaned when I looked at the caller ID.

"Excuse me, Mark. We do not use that word in this house." Megan informed in that weird nice tone.

"Sorry Meg."

I answered the phone then walked out the room. "Yeah dude? What's up?"

I could barely hear what Kyle was saying because Tony was whining and complaining in the background so I went outside.

"What's all that noise dude?" Kyle asked.

"That's uh... my little cousins." Since I'm an only child, I really can't blame siblings on stuff. Tony is also an only child. "But whatcha say bro?"

"I said you still coming to that party Saturday?"

"What party?"

"You know, that party we always have a week before the surfing tournament."

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the tournament's next week. We always have a party a week before it so we can get hyped and prepared for it. Sometimes I go, other times I don't, depending on Tony.

"Uhh I don't know dude. Depends on my parents." My parents don't care if I go or not, just gotta let them know beforehand.

"A'ight then. Just let me know soon."

"A'ight bruh. Bye." I hung up the phone and went in the house. Megan was making breakfast and Tony was complaining about how hungry he was.

"Boy, if you don't shut the fuck up, I swear I will-- oh hey Mark! I'm making breakfast, want some?"

"Sure, but I thought you don't use that word in this house."

"Yeah Mom!"

"I'm an adult, I can say what I want." Megan snapped her fingers in a Z formation.

I chuckled. "Whatcha making?"

"I got eggs, bacon, pancakes--"

"Uuuuuggggghhhhh, mommy stop, you're making me more hungry."

"Well, instead of watching me cook, why don't you go do something?"

"Because I'm too hungry to move."

"Mark, come get this idiot I call my son."

"No Mark, come get this bully I call my mother."

I laughed. "Both of y'all are crazy. Come on Tony." I grabbed his wrist and took him to his room. "I gotta tell you something anyways."

"Oh, what's up?" He sat on his bed, and so did I.

"You know how my other friends be throwing a party a week before the surfing tournament?"

"Yeah?" He was quiet for a while then gasped. "The tournament's next week! So the party is this week."

"Yeah, this Saturday. Which is in like 2 days."

"Oh, well you can go if you want. I won't be home anyways."

My eyes widen. "And why not?"

"I'm going to Aunty Nancy's for the weekend. I don't know why, but my mom just told me."

"So I'm gonna be bored this weekend?"

"No, you have a party to go to. Ooh, we should totally pick out whatcha gonna wear!" He squealed jumping up and down.

"Why? The party's only in 2 days and there's no need to pick out what I'm gonna wear. That's dumb."

"So, you just pick whatever and go with it?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

"Oh ok, well you certainly don't do a bad job at that. But still, could I pick out what you could wear?"

"Sure dude."

He clapped, then Megan told us it was time to eat. We ate for 15 minutes, changed clothes, then went to the beach and waited for 30 minutes, since we can't swim after we eat.

While we waited, we did other beach stuff, like bury Tony in the sand, cartwheels, splashing in the shallow part of the water, etc.

After that, we started to swim to warm ourselves up, then surfed. "Where are all the big waves?" I wondered. Tony smiled when he saw the small-medium sized waves. I shrugged, then ran to the waves with him.

I swam to the waves with my surfboard to my stomach. He just sat on his, watching the waves. Then when the waves rise up, I stood up on the board and smoothly rode it, performing little tricks on it as well, such as spinning in the air, and stuff like that.

Tony looked at me in awe when I got off the wave. "That was so cool!!!"

"Yep, your turn." I teased. I know he can't do what I did, well without falling off.

"Uh uh." He shook his head and we both laughed.

I grabbed his wrist. "Just ride this one wave with me then. I won't do any tricks, I promise."

"Ok then, sure!"

We both ran to the waves. I let him go first. Tony likes to run his hand through the water while he rides a wave. I start to do that too, and see why he likes it. The water feels so cool and smooth, like someone is running a soft blanket through your fingers. Tony looked back at me and saw me copy him, then giggled. I laugh a little too, then we both got off the wave.

"That was fun!" He said calmly.

"Yeah, it was." We both smile at each other.

He turned around. "Look Mark, the sun is setting."

I turn around and see the sunset. We both stood our surfboards up, and sat on the sand, watching the sunset. His hand ended up on top of mine again, but I didn't care. It was a nice feeling.

After watching it for a few minutes, I heard some noises. Not just the calm, splashing waves, I also heard noises of people. I glance behind my shoulder, and see a couple of my friends.

I immediately got up. "Dude, whatever I do, just play along."

"Huh? Why?" He also glanced behind his shoulder and stood up. "Ok I--"

He never finished his sentence because I pushed him into the sand. I hear my other friends laugh.

"What's going on here?" Nick asked, everyone else following him.

"Oh I was just surfing alone, practicing if I could still be able to do my tricks for the tournament, then this fag shows up." I said casually.

"Yep, I'm that fag who showed up." Tony also casually said.

I put my foot on his back, as if I'm gonna push him down further with it. "What did I tell you about following me, fag?"

"I'm sorry, I'll never do it again. Just please let me go." He fake pleaded. He was doing a better job at this, until I heard him giggle. I lightly kicked him to shut him up.

"Yeah fag," Kyle jumped in. "You're lucky that you and Mark got first place in the tournament last year, but this year, we gonna partner up and win first place. Isn't that right dude?" He patted my back.

"Yeah, depends on the tournament."

Last year was a tag team tournament, the tournaments change every year, but the surfing and the judging stays the same. In the tag team tournament, either you or the judges pick who your partner is gonna be (depends on the tournament). Last year was judge's pick, but I told the judges to sign me up with Tony, and since they like me, they did.

During the tournament, you could surf on the same wave, or same board together and perform tricks and stuff. Or you could surf individually and perform tricks to gain points for your team.

"This fag's not coming to the party right?" Nick asked in a whisper.

I shook my head. "Good. This party is gonna be so fly. We're gonna have food, drinks, endless surfing, and the hottest chicks you'll ever see." Nick bragged. I see Tony cringe when Nick mentioned hot chicks.

"I don't know, you said the same thing last year, but the chicks weren't all that hot. They would've probably been hot to middle schoolers." I shrugged.

"Yeah, that's because we let Nick's dumbass in charge of the party." Kyle lightly pushed Nick. "This year, I'm in charge."

"Sweet." I said, thinking about it.

"Eww." Tony whined.

"Why is this fag still here? Let your foot off him Mark." Kyle told me. So I did and he got up.

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in your party. 'Hot chicks'?" Tony fake yawned. "So lame. Not interesting. Unless you're referring to chicks as guys? Will there be any cute guys there?"

Kyle and Nick made a weird face at Tony, and I gestured him to stop talking by pretending to slice my throat.

"Yeah, I didn't think so." He picked up his surfboard and walked away.

I wasn't sure if he was acting or not, but I'll have to meet up with him later.

"Hey Mark, could you show us some of your surfing tricks?" Lily, one of the surfer girls, asked.

"Sure, whatev." I shrugged. The girls squealed, then started feeling my muscles. After they were done, I got on the wave once again, and did the same tricks, but this time, I had a bigger audience, and it felt great.

*****

I got home at 9:30, and as soon as I got there, Tony called. "Hello?" I answered.

"Hey dude, sorry if I embarrassed you."

"Oh naw, you didn't embarrass me. I'm just relieved that you played along and didn't get too offended. You're ok, right?"

"Yeah bro, I'm totally fine." He chuckled.

"Cool."

We were quiet for a while, then he broke the silence. "So, the party huh?"

"Yeah dude, I can't believe you said that!"

"Said what?" He asked.

"'Will there be any cute guys there?'" I laughed.

"Yeah, I mean a party full of half clothed girls? Yawn. A party full of half clothed guys? Yass."

We both laughed. Tony is very weird, but he's still my best friend.

"Are you going?" He asked.

"I might, I might not. I don't know."

"Mhm, you know you wanna go, to get you some pretty little girls. Speaking of pretty girls, I remember your ex, Veronica. Is she gonna be at the party?"

"I don't know and I don't care. She can do whatever, she just better not get near me."

A couple of months ago, I dated this girl named Veronica. We've dated for a year, but I had to break up with her when she saw that my friends were picking on Tony, and she joined them for a couple of days. She moved away for a while, then came back, but I never saw her ever since.

"Yeah, sorry dude."

"For what?"

"For making you guys break up. Even though you guys were a straight couple, y'all were kinda cute together."

"Don't be sorry. She was picking on you, and you know I don't play like that. Plus she was terrible at sex anyways, so I had to let her go."

"Yeah, you're right, I shouldn't-- wait a minute, what?!"

"What?"

"You had sex with her?!" Tony shrieked.

"Tony! Shut up!" I whisper-yelled. "And it was barely sex. I mean sure we laid on my bed in our underwear, but we never did anything further than a make out. That's why it was lame."

I'm not sure if Tony even heard me, because he was just laughing his ass off in the background. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He continued laughing. "I heard you man, that was funny."

"Har-har."

"So, since tomorrow's gonna be the last day we see each other, whatcha wanna do then? Go surfing one last time?"

"Nah, we're gonna be surfing at the party. Plus I've been surfin' everyday this week. I wanna take a little break for a day. That wouldn't hurt, right?"

"True true. Well what should we do during our break?" He asked, yawning while he spoke.

I started to yawn too. "Idk, let's just decide that as the day goes on tomorrow. I'm going to sleep."

"Alrighty then, so am I. Night man."

"Night bud." I hung up my phone, put it on charger, then fell asleep.

*****

The next day, I had slept in. I didn't let my ringing phone, or my parents' constant arguing awake me. It was the first time in a while that I actually had a good nights rest. I'm gonna need plenty of sleep like this if I want to be in the top 3 for the tournament.

I woke up at 12:00, reached over to my phone, and had 5 missed calls from Kyle, 3 from Nick, and 2 from Tony, making a total of 10 missed calls.

I also had a bunch of texts from them, and from Nick and Kyle's group. The group messages mainly consisted of them asked where the hell am I, or Kyle calling Nick a dumbass.

'Srry y'all, I overslept. Im just gon chill at home 2day, gon use all my surfin energy 4 da party tmr.' I texted back to the group chat.

Here were Tony's messages:

'Hey dude, we still gon meet up 2day?'

'My house or urs?'

'Dude, u there?'

'ANSWER ME GOD DAMNIT!'

'If u dont answer me, Ill fall asleep on u'

Just now, he texted, 'My bad dude, I didnt mean to actually fall sleep'

I laughed. 'Srry bro, I overslept. And it fine. Where u wanna go?'

'Call me.'

And so, I called him.

"Hello, thank you for calling Tony's phone, how may I take your service today?" A woman on the phone asked in a friendly, hostess tone.

That's probably Megan because in the background, I heard Tony whine, "Gimme back my phone Mommy!" She laughed.

"Here's your phone you crybaby. Hey Mark! How ya doin'?" Megan yelled through the phone.

"I'm doing fine Meg."

"Ok Mom, bbbyyyeee!" I heard some shuffling sounds. "Sorry about my mom."

"She's cool. I didn't end up texting her, did I?"

"Nah, you were texting me. She came in the room, before I called, wondering why I was so quiet."

"Heh heh!" I chuckled. "Anyways dude, my parents are arguing again. I'm gonna come to your house."

"Ohhh, sorry dude--"

"It's fine I guess."

"But," he continued. "My mom has to work later on today, and you know that she can't trust me being home alone, remember what happened last time?"

"Oh yeah I remember."

A month ago, Megan went to work and let me come over their house so Tony wouldn't be too alone. It started off pretty good and innocent, then we got hungry, so we made Roman Noodles on the stove (this was before we knew it can be made in the microwave).

We got bored of watching it cook so slowly, so to pass time by, we watched a little TV. The 'little TV' time turned into a long movie, then the next thing we knew, we heard the smoke detector, and our noodles caught on fire.

We laughed at that little moment. "So, since we can't go to your house or mine, what can we do?" I asked.

We got quiet for a while. "We could...... go to the park?" He suggested

I laughed. I don't know why, that doesn't seem too bad. "First of all, what we gonna do at the park? Second of all, how we gonna get to the park?"

"We could swing on the swings, slide down the slide, climb monkey bars. Shit like that, you know how children do. Now, about getting there... hmm... we could walk to the park."

"Lemme rephrase my question, how we gonna get to the park WITHOUT being seen by my friends?"

"...umm... you can drive, right?"

"I ain't got no car."

"Your parents have a car. Your mom has her own car and your dad has his own, right?"

"......I don't know dude. I mean they do, but I don't know."

"Why don't you know?"

"They're still arguing. And it's getting pretty nasty. And you really can't ask your parents anything while they're angry."

"Oh yeah... what can we do then?"

"......we could chill in my backyard."

"Sure! Could I bring my Nerf water guns? Or my regular Nerf guns?"

"Hmm, yeah it could be a little hot out today, but bring both, and one for me."

"Ok! ...What Mom?!" He yelled to his mom. "You're going to work? Ok, could I go to Mark's house? He said I can...... dude" he said to me. "I don't know why my mom cares, but is it ok with your parents that I come over?"

"Shit, I didn't ask them. I'll ask them now, wish me luck." I went downstairs to the living room where my parents fussed.

"'Cuse me, Mom? Dad?"

"Yes Mark?" They stopped arguing, and talked to me like I was a little, lost child, even though I'm taller than Mom and almost getting there with Dad.

"Could Tony come over so we could chill in the backyard?"

"Sure honey."

After I left, they argued again.

"They said yeah dude."

"Sweet! See Mom? I told you they'd say yes." He yelled at Megan again. "I'm about to go get the Nerf guns then be over your house in 5 minutes." He told me.

"Ok... wait, 5 minutes?"

"Yeah. Because I don't know where the hell they are, it's been a while since we played with them. Then I'm gonna have to clean them because they're might be spiderwebs inside and I don't wanna bring any spiders in your house."

"True, true. Well, I'm gonna go see if the water hose is still working right."

"Ok then, bye, see you in a few."

"Later." I hung up, set my phone on my bed, took off my shirt, changed into shorts, and went to the backyard.

I was looking for the water hose, but it wasn't out there. I've spent 5 minutes looking for it, then Tony had came.

"Hey dude, I brought--" he suddenly stopped, then his cheeks were turning red.

"You brought what? Hello?" I waved my hand at his face. I'd figure that he was staring at my shirtless torso.

"Oh sorry, heh. Anyway, I brought the Nerf guns and this water hose that my mom borrowed from your dad but never returned it."

"Oh my God, I forgot about that. Thanks dude."

"No prob. Anyway, let's have fun!"

I connected the water hose, then we filled up the Nerf guns with water.

"Wait, won't we need-- ACK, MARK!"

He never finished his sentence because I sprayed water on him.

"My bad, just making sure these worked." I lied.

"Mhm!" He whips his hair around, getting me a little wet. "I was about to say shouldn't we get towels?"

"Oh yeah, I forgot. I'll go get-- ah ha, that's why you missed bitch!" I yelled, laughing at his attempt to wet me back, but missed.

"What?? I was trying to see if I had enough water in here." He lied oh so innocently.

I stuck my tongue out at him, then went in the house for towels. As soon as I came back outside, Tony jumped out a bush and sprayed water on me. I was a little surprised. He jumped around and laughed, like a damn fool... well he's my best friend.

I grab a Nerf gun and sprayed him back. He ran around my backyard, so I chased him. At the end of the day, we were so soaking wet. Even the towels we had didn't help much.

So we sat outside for a while until we dried off. After that, we went in my room. On my dresser, I had a few missed calls from Kyle and Nick. The phone rang again as soon as I picked it up off my dresser. Tony looked at me and gave me a small smile. I didn't answer it, and put it back on the dresser.

"Whatcha wanna do?" I asked, changing the subject a little.

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Tony's POV

I found it a little sweet when Mark ignored his friend's call for me. I just hope it was nothing too important.

"Hmm... I just wanna lay down for a while." I said, flopping onto his bed. He did the same.

"All that running was good exercise for us." He said, after a while.

"Eww exercise..." I cringed.

"Well, you're gonna have to exercise a little more if you wanna win the competition or have abs like mine."

God dammit, he caught me staring at his sexy abs. We both don't love exercising because it's tiring and we would rather lay in bed, but Mark's more serious about it than I am. You can especially tell with the type of body he has.