25th of July, 9:32 PM

  I hung out with Logan and Toby.

  Today was my first time hanging out with Logan outside of the Castle of Temptation.

  I stayed up until 2 playing The Sims. I woke up at 10. I met Logan in front of his aunt’s house at 12. Toby came nearly 20 minutes late.

  Toby was wearing his red sneakers and a red beanie, a Nirvana t-shirt, and brown corduroy shorts. Logan wore a green beanie, jean shorts, black Vans, and a plain white t-shirt.

  I felt a little weird at the start of us hanging out. I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt too, but I was the only one without a beanie. It might make my head hot, especially if I’m wearing one in the afternoon, but I think I should get one.

  Logan and I had lemonade and popsicles and watched Scary Movie while we waited for Toby to come.

  Logan went to the door and opened it when he heard Toby walking up to it.

  “Thanks,” Toby said to him. He was sweating a lot. “It’s boiling out here.”

  He took off his sneakers, then noticed the lemonade and popsicles. He pouted at Logan and asked him if there was any left.

  “Yea, sit down, I’ll go get 'em.”

  As Logan walked to the kitchen, Toby asked if we were alright with him being naked.

  I nodded and said yea. Logan said he could, but he needed to put his clothes back on before 6 because that’s when his aunt gets home from work.

  While Toby was undressing, he looked at the TV. His jaw dropped. He said, “Oh my God!”

  He quickly finished taking off his clothes and walked to the TV.

  “I love Scary Movie!” said Toby. “Can we watch it from the beginning?”

  “It’s not our fault you're late, dude,” Logan replied. Logan then came back from the kitchen and handed Toby a popsicle and a glass of lemonade.

  “Ryan, please,” Toby begged. “I’m sorry.”

  “Fine.”

  “Yayyy!”

  “I also have Scary Movie 2 and 3, so we can watch those too if you guys want.”

  “Dude, we have to watch them!”

  “OK,” I said to them.

  This was my first time watching any of these movies. Toby has seen the first two, Logan has seen all three. He watched the third one recently.

  Toby was the first one to shout “WAAZZUUUUPP!” when Shorty and his friend started shouting it. Then Logan shouted it. Then I shouted with them.

  Toby remembered some of the lines from the movies. When we were watching the second movie, Toby and one of the ghosts told Cindy to, “Check the fucking music room!”

  “I love Brenda, dude,” Toby said during the third movie. “She’s my favourite character. Black girls are always so loud and sassy and so funny!”

  I think so too.

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  We finished watching the movies at 4:47.

  “Hey. Do you guys feel like spending the night?” Logan asked us.

  “Hell yea,” I answered.

  “YES!” exclaimed Toby.

  He said he would call his aunt and let her know, she’ll have no problem with it. Toby told Ms. Yang he would be back tomorrow, I told Helen the same thing.

  “What do you guys feel like doing now?” Logan asked us.

  “What can we do?” I asked.

  “Hmm. We could swim in the pool, play basketball. We could also skate, I’ve got 5 boards.”

  “5 skateboards?!” Toby asked. “Ryan, how many do you need?!”

  Logan smiled and said, “More than 5.”

  “I’m definitely gonna skate like shit. I skated twice… I think 5 years ago.”

  “The last time I skated was around that time,” I said. “That was the only time too. I fell.”

  “It’s been too long since you guys last skated. You two have to go skating with me.”

  We went to the backyard, to the shed past the pool. 4 of the 5 skateboards were in there. Toby picked the one I wanted, so I had to get one of the others. Logan told Toby to put his clothes on, because we were going to the park nearby, then went to his room to get his favourite skateboard.

  We went to the park at the corner of the street Logan lives on. He had me and Toby try skating in a straight line on the way there. I nearly fell twice and then actually fell. I was fine, I didn’t break anything or bleed, luckily. They both tried to help me up, but Toby was quicker than Logan. Toby fell too, but because Logan was right next to him, he was able to catch him.

  I only really noticed what the house looked like after crossing the street and looking back. It’s beige with dark green under the roof and around the windows. That’s a nice shade of green. Logan said it was built sometime in the 50s.

  Logan tried his best to teach us how to skate and some tricks. He showed us some tricks I don’t think I’ll ever be able to do. I think I’d break my neck trying to do them.

  We started heading back at 7:34. Toby and I kept on telling Logan “5 more minutes” so we could do a trick Logan showed us.

  Logan’s aunt came back before we did.

  “Hey Aunt Tina! We’re back!” Logan called into the kitchen. I could hear her cooking.

  “Ah, the guys that took my popsicles,” she said after coming to look into the living room. Logan laughed, so I thought it was OK to laugh. Toby said sorry.

  She told us it was fine. She pushed a bit of her hair out of her face and said we should go wash our hands, because dinner’s almost ready, and she hopes we like pork chops. I like pork chops.

  Aunt Tina tucked her hair behind her ears before eating. Her hair is blonde like Logan’s. I used to do that when my hair was long so my hair wouldn’t get in my food. My hair is way shorter now, so I forgot I used to have to do that.

  She asked how we knew each other. Logan said we met at work. Her eyes widened a bit and she said, “Alright, maybe we should leave it there.”

  I wonder what Aunt Tina thinks of Logan being in gay porn. Logan isn’t homeless, so she has to be OK with him being gay and in porn at least a small bit.

  I also wonder what Ms. Yang thinks about Toby. Does she even know he’s in porn? He’s been gone for days, she has to know.

  I’m writing while Toby is showering. We’re gonna watch TV more before bed.

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  I’m writing this at the dining table. Everyone’s asleep. I waited until Toby was asleep, then snuck out of the room to write this.

  There’s only one guest bedroom. Me and Toby did rock, paper, scissors before the movie. The winner got to sleep in the bed and the loser had to sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor.

  We went to bed after the movie. We turned off the lights. While we were waiting to fall asleep, Toby asked me a question. A lot came from that.

  “Hey Trev?”

  “Hm?”

  He asked if he could ask me something.

  I said yea.

  “Do you believe in anything?”

  If I was in another part of the world, and got asked that question, and gave an honest answer, I’d get my head cut off. I’m luckily not there, but I also haven’t known Toby very long. I decided that since he’s cool, and I would win if we fought, I would answer honestly. I said no.

  He said he hasn’t believed in anything since he was 12. He said he hasn’t seen his brother in a while. 4 years. His name was Matthew. He helped him stop believing. He wanted to be a girl so he ran away. Toby never saw him again.

  Matthew is a guy, but if Matthew thinks he’s a girl, let him think he’s a girl. If he wants to be called she, call him she. I don’t know how Toby would react to that. And I wonder how he would react to me telling him I ran away from everything too.

  I turned on the lamp next to the bed after I heard Toby crying. He got on the bed after I asked him to. We hugged for a bit and then laid next to each other. I tried to stay awake until he fell asleep, so I could write down what’s happened.

  I’m pretty sure Toby likes me. I’ve thought so for a few days now. I’m OK with that. I like him, and I wanna help him.

  I’m going back to bed, I hate waking up in the afternoon.