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“Bro, I need your help.” Aaron jumped when Adam clapped him on the shoulder.
“Need my help with what?”
“You know Victoria Sugden, right?”
“The girl you’ve been crushing on since the beginning of time? Sure. When are you finally going to grow a pair and ask her out?” Aaron asked but then realised something. “No. I’m not asking her out for you. We’re not in primary school anymore.”
“No, no, I asked her out myself.” Adam sat down next to him.
“And she turned you down?” Aaron guess. “I’m not talking her into going out with you either. You’re not that special.”
“Cheers, bro. Way to make me feel loved.” Adam said pretending to be hurt. “But no, she didn’t turn me down so I don’t need you to convince her.” He continued.
“Then what do you need my help for?”
“Well, you see, her dad has this weird old fashioned rule… about his daughter dating anyone.”
“Hmm… and he doesn’t approve of you?”
“No. Yes. I don’t know. Maybe?” Adam paused, temporarily distracted. “No, he has this rule, that Vic can’t date anyone unless her older brother is.”
“What kind of stupid rule is that?”
“I don’t know mate, I don’t know. But it is what it is, so that’s where you come in.”
“Me?”
“Yes. You.”
Aaron gave him a confused look.
“I need you to hook up with Robert so I can take Vic out!” Adam said happily, like he’d just solved the world’s mysteries.
“You what?”
“You don’t have to marry the guy. Just seduce him so I can take Vic out.”
“Just seduce him? How? Is he even into blokes?”
“Yeah, yeah, he’s bi. You’ll be fine. You’re just his type.”
“How do you know?”
“Vic told me.”
“That I’m his type?”
“No. That he’s bi.”
“And how do you know I’m his type then? Didn’t he date Rebecca White? I’m not exactly the same type as her.”
Adam grinned.
“I heard he slept with her and her sister at the same time. Apparently Chrissie caught him with Rebecca and he asked her to join them, and she did.”
“How are you so up to date on the gossip?”
Adam shrugged.
“I just hear stuff.”
“Right.”
“So you’ll do it then?”
“What? Seduce Robert? How would that even work?”
“I don’t know, bro. Wine? Candles? Chocolate? Drag him into a dark alley and have your way with him? I don’t know what works for guys.”
Aaron rolled his eyes.
“I’m pretty sure that last one is only going to get me arrested.”
“Well, whatever you do, think of it fast because I want to take Vic to that half term dance thing in Hotten.”
“Half term dance thing? You mean the club night next month?”
“Yes!” Adam said happily. “That!”
“How the hell am I supposed to seduce Robert in just a few weeks?” Aaron asked, exasperated. “Just go up to him and go ‘hey Robert, fancy a shag?’”
“Does that work on blokes? Is it that easy? Really? Why am I not gay? Man I wish I was gay.”
“Yeah me too.”
“Why?” Adam grinned. “Because you still fancy me?”
Aaron snorted.
“Don’t flatter yourself. I got over that mistake a long time ago.”
“Whatever you say, bro.” Adam teased, slinging an arm around Aaron’s shoulder and kissing his cheek.
“Get off.” Aaron pushed him away and wiped his cheek. “But really, tell me, how am I supposed to seduce him? I’ve never even talked to him.”
“Well then you better get to it. The club night is in a few weeks already.”
“I have no reason to talk to him. We don’t have the same friends, we have nothing in common. It’d look weird if I suddenly sit with him at lunch or ask him out. I doubt he even knows my name!”
“So make sure he knows it.” Adam shrugged.
“How? Just introduce myself out of the blue?”
“I don’t know. You’re a good-looking bloke, I’m sure you can think of something.” Adam said and with a final pat on Aaron’s shoulder, he was gone.
The thing was, it’s not that Aaron didn’t want to help Adam out, it was just that other than his ex-boyfriend Jackson, he’d never so much as kissed another guy, let alone tried to flirt with one.
And from what he’d heard, Robert had plenty of experience in that department.
So in short, he was screwed.
And not in the fun way.