Chapter 17

Crossing the campus Blake walks with his friend until they get to the cafe, after a long line to pay for her food and his drink, the two make their way to the sitting area. Blake barely comes to the cafe so he's not used to how crowded it is, people at tables talking, some clearly working, and most are just goofing off. Finding them an empty table, Tara and Blake sit and she starts to eat.

With minimal conversations between them, Blake sits there on his phone when he hears a voice directly across him screech, "Jeb don't you fucking dare!" Looking toward the sound Blake is shocked when he sees his skater boy rushing away as a familiar boy chases him with a ketchup bottle. It's them! Skater boy with his friends, there's 5 of them including him, they're really rowdy and playful at their table far across from him. Blake studies him even harder this time.

Today skater boy is wearing a white long sleeve shirt also too big for him, and dark gray jeans. The sound of his laughter filled Blake's ears.

A room with over 100 students making as much noise as possible, and Blake somehow only hears the sound of his voice, his laugh, it was all enticing.

"Etienne boy squad," Tara says catching him staring. Looking at her confused Tara continues to explain, "they're freshmen from Etienne high school, they are kind of famous,"

Famous? He's never even heard of them, "how are they famous?" Blake asks confused

"They have a YouTube channel EBS, they have something like two hundred thousand followers" His eyes grow after Tara says that, "how do you know about them?"

"Went to high school with them, I was a senior when they were sophomores," not being from the

town it makes sense Blake's never heard of them.

Tara wasn't lying, the moment he gets a chance Blake heads to YouTube on his phone typing in EBS, and their page pops up immediately.

Blake presses the most recent video titled Sebastian showing us how it's done. As soon as the video starts playing skater boy pops up on his screen, he's on the ramp standing on his board. "Ready?" He asks the camera and not a second later he took off.

Spending the rest of his day binging the boy's channel, Blake watches as many videos as he can... and there was a lot. But he got how they had so many followers, the boys were good and he's never been someone to be impressed by skateboarding. Maybe it's because of how skater boy makes him feel, but Blake couldn't help himself from becoming a fan, so he starts following their channel. Now it's night, Blake's back in his dorm in bed, somehow he found himself on the boy's Instagram.

@Basboydrake Sebastian Drake 18 years young

Living small but dreaming large.

There's no method it's all madness. Click the link to watch our latest video!

He reads the boy's bio over and over again, then proceeds to comb through Sebastian's entire account, he doesn't post much but the pictures he does post are mostly of his friends being idiotic, snippets of him skateboarding, and one picture of Sebastian kissing a guy on the cheek. Maybe that's just a friend? There's only one picture with the guy so maybe it's not so bad, if that were his boyfriend wouldn't there be more posts? Trying not to let the picture mess with him Blake continues scrolling.

Never has Blake ever been invested this much in a girl, his last serious relationship was in high school and the girl broke his heart, Blake didn't need that again so that's why he just hooks up. But with Sebastian, the skater boy who doesn't even know he exists, Blake isn't sure why but he'd let that boy hurt him, Sebastian could do whatever he wanted to Blake, and Blake just needed a chance to show him that.

And a chance he got.

Going to the boy's story he sees a post, it's black but the writing simply says

COME CELEBRATE WITH US! FRIDAY 9 PM 1724 Maine Street EVERYONE WELCOMED!!

Days past before it's finally Friday, but the day is here and Blake didn't even have to convince his friends to come with. If it's a party they are there. Blake and his friends weren't sure what to expect, but when they arrived what they found wasn't it. This wasn't some college party at a house, this was a club. They walk in to glaring music and strobing lights everywhere, it's kind of dark but not enough to not be able to see each other.

It's packed with people dancing or standing around, there's a DJ and a fully stocked bar. "Where the fuck are we?" Tim barks over the music to the rest of them amazed by it all already "How'd you find this?" Magnus asks Blake

"Does it matter? Just go have fun, I'll be back." He leaves his friends behind walking deeper into the

crowd. If you were the host where would you be?

Blake walks around until he spots him, standing in a corner with his much taller friend the boys pass a blunt back and forth as they talk and laugh. He has to find a way to talk to him tonight, Blake doesn't think he can go another week without saying a word to him, and Blake's never been shy with what he wants, so why would he start now?

The party goes on and Blake keeps tabs on the boy waiting for the right time, as they're at the bar drinking and looking around the music stops and everyone looks over at the DJ

"All right thanks to everyone who came out tonight," someone starts on the mic as they step on the small stage next to the DJ, "we had no choice but to throw a kickass party after the awesome news we got last week—" the one talking hands the mic over and Sebastian grabs it

Bringing it to his lips Blake becomes very attentive as he waits for the boy to say something, "as of yesterday the Etienne Boys are officially sponsored by DGK!!" He announces and everyone cheers!!

"Who are these guys?" Tim asks as they're on stage talking

"I've seen them at the skate park a few times," Magnus answers "Are they a big deal or something?" He asks confused

"They skateboard on YouTube and have thousands of followers," Blake answers

"I'll always regret not joining YouTube, I'm funny I could've been a millionaire. Wait do you think they're rich? They rented out this club and they're talking about sponsors and shit, they have to have money." That never dawned on him, with so many followers on YouTube and Instagram Sebastian has to have money or some semblance of that.