The mud squelched with each footstep as Nick and Will made their way along the empty, but still muddy, creek bed. Summer was finally here and they were on their way to their fortress in the woods. They didn’t say much on the walk. Nick, the older of the two, had told Will he managed to score a dirty magazine earlier that day and promised they could check it out together. Neither of them knew why but they could feel small knots of nervousness in their stomach. It might have been the taboo nature of the magazine in Nick’s backpack. It may have been the subject of sex that’s sure to arise from the pictures they would be looking at. It could just be pure anticipation of seeing what a woman looks like under her clothes for the first time. They didn’t talk about it and their normal banter was non existent.
Nick was only a year older than Will and they had grown up in the same neighbourhood here in town. They liked Star Wars, comic books, and Saturday morning cartoons. Neither of them remembered a time they weren’t the best of friends.