Jace and I stepped in to the leisure centre and instantly embraced it's warmth. He looked perplexed because I didn't tell him where we were going. The only thing I did tell him is to wear a pair of sweatpants so that he is comfortable.

The leisure centre was buzzing with all sorts of people, I stepped up to the reception desk and a man that had 'Lionel' written on his name tag put his phone down.

"You alright lads?" He asked.

"Hi, er, where is the rock climbing?" I asked.

"Over there on the left, through that archway." He pointed to the right direction and I thanked him and ushered Jace to follow along.

"Rock climbing?" He asked incredulously.

"Yes." I grinned, "you'll love it."

"But... Rock climbing?"

"Just shh." I shook my head to myself and grabbed his hand, pulling him to the direction we were told.

There was another reception desk where we could get our gear, I was met with a lady in her twenties. "Hiya,"

"Hello, could I get a space for two?" I asked.

"Of course," she typed on her computer and asked for my details as well as a pretty hefty payment but I didn't mind, this was my date with Jace after all.

When we finally received our helmet, shin pads, elbow pads and knee pads and a set of ugly brown trainers, we went through a set of wooden doors and saw the Rock climbing facility. It was absolutely enormous and had lots of walls to climb on and also a ball pit and this giant pit that was like a ball pit but instead had spongy shapes instead of balls.

The excitement was coursing through me, I was just itching to take Jace here for the past few days and now the day has come and I'm here with Jace. My first idea was to do something boring like hang around my place watching a bunch of movies and eating a gluttonous amount of food but I knew he'd rather get out and do something; he's always been that kind of person and that's one of the things I liked about him- it's a change from my lazing around all weekend routine.

"Woah." He glanced around the area.

It was an early Saturday afternoon so there was a lot of children younger than us running around and making noise and then their parents trying to chase after them.

"Thanks you for this." He grinned and pecked me on the lips.

"Hey, there's nothing to thank me for." I said and pecked him back but on the nose. He wasn't happy about that.

I knew that Jace would like Rock climbing, it was better than going to some fancy restaurant where we'd have to dress up like every kind of mainstream date. That wasn't our type of scene, he'd just be bored. Seeing him with a grin plastered on his face, now that was something I loved seeing.

We put our gear and specialist shoes on and hurried to the ball pit, of course, we'd go to the ball pit first.

As soon as we were stood in front of it, Jace dived in as if it was a swimming pool. He didn't even check if there was anybody within his landing space so if there was a little kid hiding beneath the balls, he'd probably have broken a bone by now.

I followed suit and dived in, landing on Jace's back, he let out a loud 'oof' and I rolled off him and let all the multicoloured plastic balls surround me. I starting sinking into the balls more because of my weight and there was a point where you couldn't even see me anymore. Jace walked past me, unknowing that I was right beneath him and I kicked my leg out to trip him up. It wasn't a very good idea because he ended up falling on me and intentionally elbowing me.

"Ah, shit... I'm so sorry, oh my gosh... I didn't mean to do that! Honestly, I'm so sorry!"

"Jace, shut the hell up." I smirked at him and pulled him to me, kissing him hard on the lips. The pain in my ribs almost disappeared because I was too hung up on kissing the boy I loved. His knee was pressing into the private area and my arms were all running up and down his back and the area behind his neck. I turned over, sending him on the ball pit and me on top without breaking the kiss and I ran my hands through his long hair that he still hasn't cut.

"There are children around!" He gasped and scrambled away from me.

"We're making a political statement and teaching them that gay is ok." I snickered.

He cracked a smile, thwacked me on the head and pulled us both out of the ball pit, running to one of the rock climbing walls like a little boy high on sugar. I nearly tripped over my own feet because he was running too fast.

We put on our harnesses, and even though they were pretty uncomfortable around the forbidden area, Jace wanted this and I was prepared to go through with it. We started climbing up the walls at the same time, the idiot was already beating me by far. His arse was right in my face and I had to stop myself from slapping it, I mean, it was right in my face and stopping me from climbing higher up. You don't do that to people.

"You know," Jace started one I caught up to him, "I'm forever grateful for this."

I didn't answer him and instead let him continue.

"Zach this is the best date ever!" He boomed. "I really like you too by the way."

I really like you too.

I like you.

He likes me!

I was caught off guard and fell back, the harness stopped me from face planting the floor. I had a mini heart attack and then kicked on the rock walls to bring me back down the floor while I saw the idiot laughing to himself from above me.

"Ha! You flop!" He yelled from the top and then rang the bell, meeting me down on the ground.

"Shut up." I huffed once he was stood next to me.

"Can we go there next?" He asked and pointed to behind me and to the weird shaped rock climbing walls.

"We can go wherever you want." I smiled at him and he dragged my arm towards the other climbing area.

Jace started climbing on the wall and eventually turned upside down due to the shape of the wall and the placement of the hand and foot bits; he looked all red In the face and his fingers started to go white, he climbed a little more before flopping on the safety mat beneath us.

He lay down next to me, on the safety mats while we just watched the world go by. Hopefully nobody would fall on us, I mean, we were pretty far from the walls but you never know.

"Having fun?" I asked.

"So much fun." He grinned at me. "Thank you so much for this."

"You already said that, you wally." He stuck his tongue out at me.

We fell into a comfortable silence and I intwined out fingers together and let them rest on my abdomen. Jace was playing with his hair with his other hand and we just sat.. Literally for the next twenty minutes or so. It felt like twenty minutes, I didn't know how long it was really.

He pulled me up with him after being told off by one of the employees and I sighed. I was comfortable.

We walked over to the pit filled with spongy shapes and Jace started climbing on the wall next to it, it wasn't a very high wall and didn't require a harness. Most of the walls didn't need harnesses, it was only the really tall, shapeless ones that just went straight up.

Once Jace got to the top of the short wall, he completely let go of it and fell in to the sponge pit and popped his head back up some time after, his black hair all disheveled and sticking up in random places, my hair was probably like that too, though, he had longer hair than me so it wouldn't be as messy. I was tempted to copy what he did, it looked like so much fun.

"That was amazing!" He cried and clambered out of the pit and ran straight to the wall again. "Are you not going to try it?"

I shrugged and ran to where he stood, climbing up on the wall and sticking my bum in his face like what he did to me. When I reached the top of the wall, I let go and fell back, feeling my t-shirt ride up my abdomen and the wind through my hair. I fell back on the sponge pool and scurried away before Jace fell on top of me.

A little over two hours later, we started making our way back to where we left our belongings. We both kicked off our shoes and went back to the reception desk to give all our gear back and then we stepped back into the cool air after ordering a taxi. You would think that it's April and it would be a little warm but it wasn't, it was barely reaching ten degrees.

"This was the best date ever!" He boomed and ran up to hug me, I opened my arms wide and allowed him to fit snugly against my chest.

"It's not finish yet." I grinned.

"Oh, seriously?"

"Yep." I breathed against his hair, "when's the goddamn taxi going to show up?"

-

When the bloody taxi came to take us away from this stranded area, I gave him directions to a nearby carnival that starts in about half an hour.

Brights lights flashed in our faces as we passed the carnival. It looked amazing, you could see a huge tent where there would be a circus and lots of mini concession stands everywhere. Lots of people wore costumes, it wasn't Halloween, but it felt like it. I had my face glued to the window, my nose squished up against the glass, taking in the beauty of the view.

"We're going there?" Jace asked.

"Yup." I grinned at him and grabbed onto his hand.

"But we're wearing sweats?"

"Who cares?" I smirked and him and pecked him on the lips.

He shrugged as a reply and the taxi came to a halt near the entrance. Jace jumped out the car in lightening speed and came round to my door and waited for me to get out. He almost resembled an obedient dog and that one thought alone made me chuckle.

I payed the taxi driver and got out and then Jace and I walked to the entrance that was lit up with lots of different coloured lights. Nearby, lots of people standing on tall sticks and clad in suits with extra long leg length walked past us, they were at least two meters tall.

"Oh my god, it's like the carnies you see in movies!" Jace let out a huge grin and I could tell that he was just bursting with excitement to hurry and go further into the park.

"Come on then, slow coach." I winked before running as fast as my legs could carry me.

Jace caught up to me and jumped on me from behind. I caught him with my hands and held him on my back.

"The last time we did this was at the shopping centre." Jace pointed out, "look where we are now! Who would've thought, huh?"

"I know right. You probably thought that I was straighter than a pole or something." I snickered jokingly.

"Actually, no. I have an awesome gay-dar but it only worked when we started hanging out more." He commented, "I mean, you stopped getting with girls all the time too and I don't think a straight person could perfectly co-ordinate an outfit and keep it simplistic at the same time quite like you."

"At first, with all the girlfriends and all, I would have never thought you were gay because of the clique thing and Liam and keeping up appearances..." He continued, "but oh my god, I'm so happy you're gay because now you're all mine."

"Wouldn't go as far as that," I winked and he frowned. "Kidding! I'm all yours."

"Oh good, I'd be annoyed if I had to share... I'm not good with that, I wouldn't want to share you anyway even if I was good at it."

My cheeks heated up at that and I pulled him higher up my back, he kept slipping down though because let me tell you something, this boy weighs a ton. In the end, we found a step so that he could climb on my shoulders instead. It was fun and all except for when Jace kept complaining about nearly crashing into the fairy lights everywhere because I didn't duck.

We brought some candy floss and a shit load of sweets and a bunch of other stuff and then we just ate and ate until our stomachs hurt. Jace's wasn't happy about the candy floss being pink, he kept complaining about how there is no gender diversity and that he should sue the candy floss company because of it.

I hoped he wasn't serious though because this candy floss tasted like heaven and I had the sudden urge to buy my own candy floss machine.

Batman walked past us, as did many other fictional characters like The Hulk, Spider-Man and even Barbie. They had frickin' Barbie.

I guess it was a reason for girls to put on a crap-ton of make up and wear short skirts and crop tops and unbelievably high heels.

"Oh my god, now she is absolutely mouth watering. Did you see her chest? I bet she was like I don't know, an E?" Jace stared like a creep to one of the Barbies that walked past us.

I felt a pang in my chest.

"I'm gay." I reminded him. "I don't care."

"Oh right."

"She wasn't hot, she was a slut. Like, who wears foundation on their lips? It looks stupid." I said and shook my head as yet, another Barbie walked past us, this time, with the tiniest skirt ever and her hair in pigtails.

"Mean." He said and turned his head, following the direction of the girl.

"Dude. We're on a date, stop staring at other people." I rolled my eyes.

"Awh, is wittle Zach jealous?" He cooed, "don't worry dude, you're always at the top of my list."

And here comes the heated face and goofy grin again...

I stepped up to the biggest tent, where the circus was going to be held and brought tickets for a show that was going to start in ten minutes. That gives us enough time to buy some more snacks and a good seating space.

Jace got off my shoulders and we brought another candy floss and also some hot dogs, it wasn't a brilliant combination of food but oh well. He didn't like the idea of me paying but I insisted because after all, I was the one who asked him on this date. We headed back to the tent and showed the doorman our ticket before heading inside.

There were tons of people here, benches were set up in rows and small children were sitting on the floor near the make shift stage that was actually just a wooden floorboard with a rope around it.

Jace grabbed my hand and walked towards the front, right near the stage. The bench was already filled up but Jace managed to squeeze us in at the end. My butt was sorta hanging off the edge of the bench.

But it was fine, because as long as Jace was comfortable, I was happy.

Because being in love was making sacrifices and that meant I had to made sacrifices for him.

I could've sworn, not even that long ago that I tried to deny becoming absolutely smitten with the fool for stupid reasons. Stupid reasons like the fact that I thought I was too young or because I thought that I was too lonely.

I should've listened to my head, we always get asked to follow our head or our heart but really, they're both the exact same.

They both wanted Jace.

I shouldn't have ignored the feeling that grew at the pit of my stomach every time we held hands, kissed, touched and spoke. I shouldn't have been such a dick about it and try to deny my feelings and on top of all, I shouldn't have used Flynn due to me being restricted from seeing Jace.

Now I was in deep shit and I had to tell him the truth at some point.