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Author: neon giraffe
Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Published: 07-13-14 - Updated: 07-13-14 id:10532381
Scruffy and Curly:
3) Driving Lesson 1.
The first thing that I noticed when I got up was that it was raining. I jumped out of bed with such power that the mattress slid from its place. I didn't care, just kicked it back. My room's door happened to be open and my little sister Gemma walked past it in her sleepy morning haze as I was dancing in my room. She walked past the door, then came back and stopped in front of it. She rubbed her eyes a couple of times as I kept dancing.
"Harry?" she asked unsure.
"Yes!" I sang back to her "oh hi Gemma, good morning!" I sang and kept dancing as I pushed past her to the kitchen.
"You're not a morning person." she stated.
"Yeah so?"" I asked as I danced my way to the fridge and took a yogurt out, throwing it to the air and then catching it with my other hand.
"And you surely aren't a happy in the mornings." she said and hurried out of my ways as I took the milk out, fearing I'd do the same with it as the yoghurt.
"So? Can't a man be happy?" I asked, kissed her cheek as I danced (wiggled my hips like a retarted whale Gemma told me later) out of the room.
"Why are you so happy?" she yelled after me.
"It's raining!" I yelled after her.
Don't get me wrong – I loved the rain. I just have these odd little quirks, like I can't remember names, I usually always wear different pair of sox on my feet, I hate tomatoes in every shape and form except in ketchup and small babies creeped the shit out of me.
One other thing I had, was that I just couldn't get a boner when it was raining. It just never happened. I never wanked when it rained, because my little me just wouldn't get up. I could have sex normally on rainy days, but the difference of course was that there had to be some other person encouraging me to get it up. Alone? It never happened.
And right now I was the happiest man alive because of the fact that I couldn't get a boner right now. That meant that I wasn't going to get an involuntary boner today when I was driving with Scruffy Ed!
Thank the lord I didn't have another sex dream about him last night. I started to think that maybe it was just a one off and my attraction was gone now. It must have been. This was getting out of hand anyways.
It was raining while I drove to the school. I was humming happily. I was fifteen minutes early again. I greeted Mike who managed the office desk. I looked at him and tried to think of a name for him. I ended up with Family Mike. He looked like the sort of guy who had like ten children and he loved them all more than the world. He'd come home and all the kids would run up to him –and a dog too I decided – screaming "daddy daddy you're home!" and he'd hug them and then give his wife a kiss. Family Mike.
We did some small talk about the crazy weather (c'mon it was summer and it was cold as fuck and raining.)
Then the doors opened and ever as Cheery Ed walked in. He smiled at me and I smiled widely back. I had no idea why. I kinda wanted to shout out that I couldn't get a boner, but that might have crossed the line. But in the other hand, I had crossed quite a many lines with him already.
"I'll just get a cup of coffee and we'll go okay?" he asked me and I nodded. He went to the coffee automate and pushed buttons and soon a buzzing noise came from the machine.
"So Harry?" he started and turned around. He was holding the paper mug and kept his eyes focused on not spilling it. He walked in baby steps, frowning like he was carrying a hundred year old landmine instead. I found it hilarious (and just slightly adorable) and smiled widely. He sat down next to me, very very slowly and then turned his attention to me.
"What got you smiling so widely?" he asked. I realized that I maybe over did it with the wide greeting smile. And I was still smiling like an idiot. I didn't know what the hell I could answer, since the truth was "hey Ed I'm doing really good since I can't get a boner today and well the reason I could get a boner in the first place is you with your ginger stuff and nice personality and can I drive now?"
I closed and opened my mouth a couple of times, trying to decide what to answer.
"I just really like the rain?" I said, it coming out more as a question.
"Oh me too! It helps to calm my nerves." Ed exclaimed. "and jogging in the rain is much fun too." he added and sipped his coffee. I got a picture in my head him jogging around the town in a wet t-shirt that clung to his body. I had to check my lap that anything wasn't poking my jeans. I found nothing and smiled wide.
"D'you like jogging?" he asked me. It was weird how he asked any simple question like he really cared what my answer was. A dark thought crossed my mind, "well that's what he's paid to do. Be nice and teach me to drive." I pushed it away and focused on the conversation.
"Yeah I do. I just don't like getting wet so I do it when it's sunny." I laughed.
"No believe me, jogging in the rain is the best thing ever." he said and smiled. Then he leaned closer to me and whispered "plus you can listen to "Singing In The Rain". I do that a lot. But if you tell anyone, I will deny it." he said and bursted out laughing.
"You should really try it." he said and joined my laughter.
"I'm pretty sure you have a playlist just for running in the rain." Ed looked around pretending to be horrified, then lifted his finger in front of his mouth.
"Shhh! No one can know that!" he said and I laughed harder. Once we were both under some kind of control, he added:
"I can send you the list if you want. So you if you ever happen to try it, then you at least have the right music for it." he said and got up.
"You take this really seriously don't you?" I joked and he nodded.
"Yep. You have no idea." he said and winked. "I'll just take my cup back and we can go." he said I nodded, getting up and closing the zipper in my jacket.
Ed was back in ten seconds and hopped out from the door.
"So I'll just drive to public swimming hall's yard, there's a good parking space there that we can start and then you can take over okay?" he asked as we walked to the car.
"Sure." I said and hopped in to the car. As we pulled out from the yard, I realized that I was alone with Ed in the car. In a very small space. And I was really bad at small talk. I suddenly got nervous and started to fidget on my seat.
"So, what do you do Harry?" he asked me.
"Well I study baking." I said. I probably should have continued that sentence but this sudden nervousness filled me and I just couldn't talk. I never got this way, this nervous around anyone. I denied that Ed had this effect on me.
"Oh really? Then you should really watch out." he said and he smiled that kind of smile where the corner of his eyes crinkled and he looked mischievous.
"Why?" I asked stupidly.
"Because I have the biggest sweet tooth in the world. And I am being very serious right now." he said and turned from an intersection. I laughed and felt slightly more relaxed.
"Don't even laugh, I am being honest here. If there is anything sweet in a one kilometer radius, I will eat it. You have no idea how much money they use on cookies per month back at the school." he said and I just laughed. He looked at me caught my eye. He started laughing too and almost drove on to the embankment.
"Oh my god you never saw that!" he said and quickly drove away. I just laughed more and he laughed with me. I haven't laughed that well in a while.
We pulled to the parking lot and Ed had to wipe tears from his eyes.
"Are you sure you are certified to do this teaching thing?" I asked and he just started laughing more.
"It might be the best if I don't answer that." he said and we laughed again.
"Oh god now let's focus or we'll never get out of here ." he said and opened the door. I did the same and hopped out.
We met in front of the car and our eyes met. Without a reason, I just smiled at him. He answered with a small smile.
"So, what were the things you had to check before driving?" Ed asked me.
"Mirrors, lights, belt and the bench." I listed and he smiled.
"Very well! Someone's been studying!" he said and I blushed a bit. The nervousness was starting again at the bottom of my stomach.
"So do those then. The bench moves from the button at your left hand side. Can you feel it?" he asked and I bend down to feel for the button.
"Yea I got it."
"Okay then pull the seat forward, yeah that's it." he instructed. "now are the mirrors okay, can you see what you are supposed to see?" he asked and I checked.
"I can't see from your side."
"Okay then there is a button on your left, next to the wheel d'you see it?" he asked and I looked for it.
"Uh…"
"A bit to the left from the window." he helped but I still couldn't find it. Then he reached his hand in front of me and tapped a small button I missed.
"The "L" is for the left mirror and "R" for the right. Turn it to the "R" and then you can just wiggle it around and the mirror turns." he said and turned to look me in the eyes. I was startled since he was really near all the sudden and I wasn't really quite ready for that.
"Like a joystick okay?"
"Oh yeah umm sure." I got out and he smiled.
"Now try it." he said and I did. I managed to get the mirrors so I could see something.
"Now for the lights, there is a button for them too. It's right next to the wheel." he said but again, I couldn't locate the button. I leaned forward to search for it.
"Let me show you." he said and then suddenly moved again in to my space. I moved my hand up and down on the plastic surface of the car and tried to find it.
"Riiiiigtht there." he said and his hand met mine. I jerked away a bit, but to my surprise, he took my by the hand and placed my larger fingers on top if it. I looked at him, his face not far from mine. His mouth was slightly open and so was mine. We held eye contact for a split second before his hands left mine. I just noticed how small his hands were. I mean have very large hands and he seemed to have the exact opposite.
"Oh there." I forced out.
"Yeah it's a bit hard to find. Now what do we do when we want to get moving?" he went back to the teaching I was left wondering was that a moment or did I just imagine it. I told myself that it was the latter one, I always came up with these things.
"The main and most important thing is the clutch. When you learn that, you got pretty much everything. You need to learn how to lift it off slowly. Not with a sudden movement." Ed was teaching me.
"Now try." he said I swallowed nervously. "don't stress mate just try." he said and smiled. It made me feel a bit more at ease.
Well the first try was quite bad. The car jumped forward, then I pushed the break and it came to a sudden stop and then the engine turned off. I sat at the wheel wondering what the hell just happened.
"Well that wasn't bad." Ed said and I turned to look at him one brow raised.
"Okay it could have been better." he corrected and I broke in to a smile.
"But you can only go up from here. Now let's try this again."
I did manage to move the car, and even change gears. I did a hill start and was quite impressed.
"Now let's try parking. See that white car over there? " I hummed in agreement.
"Try reversing and parking next to it." he instructed and I did I as I was told. It didn't go that well. I reversed and ended up around three meters right from the car I was supposed to park next to. I tried again and did around ten centimeters better. I turned to Ed with a sheepish smile.
"Close enough?" I asked. He just looked at me and laughed.
"Yeah totally man." he said and I was surprised. "if you owned a monster truck and you could just run over the three cars that were standing here on a real parking lot." he added and I couldn't help but laugh. I lowered my head in the wheel with a "thump" .
"I'll just never park again?" I suggested. His patted my shoulder and chuckled.
"You're not getting off that easy." he chuckled. His hand stayed on my shoulder, but then he took it away.
"Okay, let's try this again."
We did, it didn't work. I got around five centimeters closer to the car. Ed told me to drive forward again and then stop.
"Now look at your mirrors." he instructed. "look at where the white line is." he said and I nodded.
"You need to turn the car so the white line is lining up with your tires. Look here." he said and then reached closer to me to point at something at the mirror. His face was close to mine and I tried to ignore it and concentrate on what he was saying.
"Okay now move back slowly." he said and I did. He stayed where he was, half off his own seat, perched up.
"Now turn right yea that's it." he spoke in a low voice that gave me far other ideas.
"Yeah that's it. Now straighten." I turned the wheel. "okay stop there." he said and sat back on his own seat.
"That's it mate, you did it!" he said smiling widely. I had to swallow something down but returned his smile.
The last 20 minutes of the hour went by quickly. We stopped at one point and he congratulated me on a good hill start.
"Now we should get back. D'you want me to drive or do you?" he asked. It took me around 5 seconds to realize what he was talking about.
"What? You want me to drive back?"
"Yeah."
"Are you being serious?"
"Yes."
"me?"
"Yes Harry, you." he chuckled. I stared at him in awe.
"But I could kill somebody!" He just laughed and shook his head.
"You're not going to kill anyone daft. I got pedals here if anything happens, I'll be able to react." he said. "okay?"
"Okay." I said unsurely. It was only less than a kilometer back to the school but I was nervous as hell.
"okay. " I repeated to myself. "I can do this." I muttered to myself.
"You surely can. Now let's get moving." I nodded and swallowed thickly.
"Good. Take it slow. " he said in a gentle voice as I started to move towards the intersection.
"That's it. Now turn right." he said and I did. We were now on the main road and ahead of me was a traffic circle.
"Slow down yes." he said. I was shaking like a leaf. I made it through the circle and turned towards the school. A minute later, I was on the yard of the school.
"Now put it to free gear, hand break on, turn the car off." he said and I did. Once the car was parked and the engine wasn't running anymore, I let out a breath that I didn't know I had been holding.
"That was good." Ed said.
"That was terrifying." I corrected and Ed chuckled. He seemed to do that a lot.
"You did really good." he comforted me.
"It was nine hundred meters and I wanted to shit myself." I sad and he just smiled.
"You did well." he repeated in a lower and gentler voice that made me believe him. I looked him in to his eyes and he smiled reassuringly. We held each other eyes for a moment before he turned away.
"We'll that was it! I'll see you at the next theory lessons then." he said and got out of the car. I followed his lead and we said goodbye in the yard.