Part 13- Unlucky for some

“Strike!” shouted Mark at the top of his voice, relishing his fourth strike in a row.
“No fair,” moaned John Paul in a sarcastic drawl, “you never told me you were this good at bowling!”
Mark merely laughed and handed John Paul his favourite deep blue ball. John Paul had his turn but knocked only 6 pins down in both his tries at it.
“Don’t worry, you’ll get better.” Smiled Mark before planting a soft tender kiss on his lips. John Paul relished it for as long as possible. Things were looking up. He had hardly thought about Craig all day.
It was Paul’s turn now. John Paul braced himself again. All of Mark’s friends seemed to be international standard bowlers. Another 3 strikes came and went, courtesy of Mark’s bowling team. John Paul grimaced. Would it always be like this? Would he always be feeling second best, or even fifth best, seeing as all of the people around him had got strikes on every turn. No, he was being silly, it was just bowling, he had never really been good at in anyway. But he was feeling somewhat unlucky today. But it would get better, he was sure of it. He was going to Marks place after this.
*
They both stumbled up the stairs to Mark’s flat, kissing as they went. All John Paul’s bad feelings towards Mark had completely disappeared in this one spontaneous moment of passion. Mark was certainly enthusiastic; He had never been kissed so much at once in his life. They stumbled over the threshold, still kissing vigorously and Mark was directing him towards the bedroom. John Paul sighed. He was definitely rising to Mark…
*
John Paul was asleep. How peaceful and beautiful he looked, lying there, the sun highlighting his gorgeous skin and hair. You’ve picked a winner here, Mark told himself, He is fantastic. And he is honest which is more than you can say for your pig of an ex boyfriend. Yep, this time you’ve done well for yourself.

John Paul lay there, pretending to be asleep. He felt so guilty. He hadn’t officially ended things with Craig yet and there was no way that Mark would look twice at him if he knew who he was sleeping with. He knew Mark thought he was perfect and honest and he felt terrible letting him think that. But it seemed he had no choice in the matter, unless he let everyone find out the truth. And that would be worse, he was sure of it.

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awful? no never i loved it as i always do

aww thanks
and YAY! second page!

hi i just read your story, i think its brilliant, i think its sad how they really do want to be together but neither of them know who each other really feel.

can't wait for more

writing the next part now. Please comment people, I'm starting to think hardly anyone likes it.

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Oh i'm soo happy you continued with this story i was getting a bit frightened before. YAY!!! I love this story don't ever let it end haha.

this is rly good , cant wait for hte next part

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Part 14

Sarah was getting sick of waiting for Craig. He said he would be at the SUbar 30 minutes ago. She was already on her third wine, seeing as she now could not have beer. She had her career to think of. And if that wasn’t bad enough, this was the third time in a row that Craig had been over half an hour late. She then spotted a familiar head across the bar.
“John Paul!”
Oh no. This was what he was dreading. Sarah getting to much information about him and Mark and passing it in to Craig. It would also be unbearable being cross examined by Sarah over every little detail of their love life, grilling him about the sex. John Paul groaned. If this was a girl, Sarah would probably hate her and leave well alone.
“Ooh, what have we here? John Paul, you never told me you had a boyfriend.”
“Yeah, well- I”
“What’s his name?”
“Its-.”
“You know if I didn’t have Craig to keep me satisfied, I would snap him up faster than you could say gay!”
John Paul sighed. When Sarah was on the warpath he could never get a word in edgeways.
“I can assure you, you’re not my type.” Mark broke in, with an air of annoyance and contempt towards Sarah for ruining his date with John Paul.
“Well, I’ll leave you lovebirds to it then.” She said haughtily and stalked out of the bar, Craig having still not turned up.
“Well, I’ll be off then, I just remembered, I have to do something.”
Upon hearing this awfully lame excuse to leave, John Paul had to make an effort to stop himself for screaming with frustration. Didn’t Mark care about him after all? Was sex all he wanted from him? He knew this was ridiculous but this niggling feeling that Mark didn’t really like him had been cropping up a lot recently. He was about to leave the bar himself when Craig came in.
“Have you seen Sarah?” he asked, looking apprehensive.
“Yeah she left when she realized what an unreliable rat you are.” Muttered John Paul coldly.
“Did she say where she went?” He asked, unfazed.
John Paul merely glared back at him and strode out the bar, leaving Craig alone with his thoughts.
John Paul sure was in a bad mood today. Oh well, it’s not as if Craig couldn’t persuade him into giving him a bit of action when he wanted it. The same with Sarah. Though not if he carried on like this. He promised himself he would be on time next time. He needed female action as well. He was lucky he supposed. Not many men could say for themselves that they could have both kinds of sex on tap. Though there was something else with John Paul. A connection of some sort, he just enjoyed spending time with him. He had that bond with Sarah, but it was not as strong. No one really compared to John Paul when it came to enjoying each others company. Could it be that he was actually in love with his friend?

loved it izzy

fantabulous!
and YES! it is love!

i agree its definately love, and can we have some jealousy from craig over mark, i love jealous craig.

more soon please

next bit up tonight

Part 15 – More of a little teaser

Craig was still undecided. He had spent days thinking about his dilemma. He could think of many reasons that he might be in love with John Paul but many reasons why he wasn’t. It was doing his head in. If he did love him, why did he carry on with Sarah, and enjoy it without feeling guilty. For a while, he thought he had loved Sarah but now he wasn’t so sure. He couldn’t be sure of much at the moment, his thoughts rushed around his head in a tangled mess when it came to thinking about John Paul and Sarah. All he knew for sure was that he had incredibly strong feelings for both of them, it seemed impossible to choose between them. He needed to know where his heart truly lay, it was impossible to keep going like this, it was killing him. He needed some help.

“Jake! Jake!”
Jake turned around, and saw Craig shouting at him from behind the bar.
“See you in a minute” He muttered to Nancy and planted a soft kiss on her lips. He then proceeded to the back room to meet Craig.
“What do you want?” He asked.
“I erm….I needed some advice. About love.”
“Oh yeah?” Replied Jake, “Things going that well between you and Sarah then?”
“Something like that.” Lied Craig, “listen, how do you know if you’re really in love?”
“Well that’s something you need to decide for yourself. But for me it’s when the other persons happiness matters more to you than anything else in the world and you’d do anything if it meant they were happy.”
“Wow..,” said Craig, “That’s insightful.”
He then knew the answer. It was so obvious he didn’t know why he didn’t see it before. He knew what both John Paul and Sarah meant to him and he knew who he loved.

brilliant as always izzy

so who does he love? please let it be john paul

it's a cliffhanger

this is gooooooooooooooooood hurty up plz

I shall start the next part now

Here it is

Part 16- time is running out.

Craig wasn’t home yet. John Paul had been waiting in the Dean/Osbourne lounge for almost 45 minutes, waiting. If he was going to conclusively end their relationship, now was the time. Suddenly, John Paul heard a tremendous screech that practically shook the whole village. John Paul rushed into the hallway, so see what had caused Frankie to let out this horrible screech.
“Are you ok?” John Paul asked her cautiously.
“I-It’s from Dublin University!” She squealed “Our Craig’s been accepted, He’s flying out there next month.”
John Paul’s brain went into overdrive. How? It all seemed too much for him to bear, even if he had planned on ending it with Craig today. It ceased to matter to him. IT would end for certain next month anyway, what was the point?
“I have to go, I said I’d meet Carmel, I just remembered.” John Paul lied in a frenzy and hurried as fast as he could out the pub, towards his house, feeling completely miserable.
*
Craig entered the pub only to be greeted by cheers from his family. He looked around the pub seeing banners and balloons everywhere, one in particular catching his eye.

GOOD LUCK IN DUBLIN

Oh God, thought Craig. This was it; he had been accepted to Dublin University. Every single emotion he possessed coursed through him, He was elated yet devastated. The happy news couldn’t have come at a worse time.
“Oh Craig, this is great! Now we can definitely go to Dublin together!” Sarah sounded elated. That made one of them. Now Sarah was sure they would be together for years, maybe even forever. All he wanted to do now was see John Paul. But he couldn’t, he was being surrounded by various people, all wishing him luck and congratulating him. He felt like screaming at them all to get out. Even Sarah. It looked like his decision had been made for him, even if it wasn’t what he truly wanted. He had to be with Sarah.

Oh no Craig chose John Paul but now he can't even tell him .Continue soon xxx

he DOESN'T(!!!!) have to be with her he just DOESN'T!!!!