Jordan vs All the Boys by John Goode

Author:John Goode [Goode, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 9781640809888
Publisher: Harmony Ink Press
Published: 2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

Round Four: Jordan vs. The Internet

“SO THAT was my guy, huh?” I asked Harley—er, Lori the next night at the club.

“I am so sorry, Jordan,” she said, and she sounded like she really meant it. “I had no idea he was one of those types of people.”

“What type?” Melissa asked.

“One of those assholes who act like they’re shareholders in Warner Brothers, so they feel the need to defend every movie like they made it themselves,” Lori, well, Harley, the girl said, holding one of Ethan’s hands.

You know what? I’m just gonna call her Harley in my thoughts, okay?

“Well he was an asshole, comics or not,” I said, pissed.

“If it makes you feel any better, I get that all the time when I dress up as Harley from the movie. People are always, like, ‘you like that piece of shit?’ Or ‘DC sucks so bad why would you dress like that?’ It’s always the same.”

“Who says that to you?” Ethan asked her, sounding upset.

She smiled. “It’s okay, Tab, it was before we met.”

“Tab?” I asked confused.

“Tab Hunter, the old-time actor?” she explained. “He has the same dreamy look about him that Tab did.”

Ethan was practically beaming with pride at this point.

Which of course was when Dominic piped in with “You know Tab Hunter was gay, right? Like super gay the whole time he was making movies?”

Ethan’s hand let go of hers. “I’m named after a gay guy?”

Brandon rolled his eyes. “And if you were?”

He thought about it for a moment and then smiled. “Oh yeah, good point,” he answered, and to Dominic he said, “So what if I’m named after a gay guy?”

This time Dominic practically spat fire. “Your name isn’t really Tab!”

“Can we get back to Jordan?” Melissa asked. “So what are you going to do now?”

I had no idea and told her so.

“You should try meeting someone online,” Harley said in the silence.

Dominic looked at her, his blinking eyes the only indication he was a human. “How’s he going to find a gay guy in WOW?”

Harley burst out laughing, and by that without even realizing it, landing on Dominic’s most hated list at the very top. “No, on dating apps,” she replied, and then she looked at me. “Have you tried Grindr or VGL? There are, like, half a dozen in the app store. Download one, make a profile, and meet someone. Way easier than wading through this crap.”

Brandon looked at me in amazement. “We never thought about that.”

It’s true. To us the internet was the needle we used to get to our drug of choice, gaming. Using it to meet someone in real life… well, crap, I should have thought about that.

“My friend Billy used it, and he’s been dating this one guy for like two months now,” Harley said. “They don’t even come here now because it’s so cruisy.”

Brandon nodded at me. “Try it, dude.”

“Last time I listened to you, I ended up almost getting into a fistfight in a Starbucks,” I said to Harley.

She gave me a wink.

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