Waking up Tan looks over hoping to see Harris, but sees pillows and an empty space instead. He sits up and runs his hand in his eyes to wake him up, Tan grabs his phone looking past the 57 missed calls from his parents he stares at the time. 10:36 am. Tan stands up, walks to the bathroom, and gets ready for the day.Standing in the middle of Harris's giant penthouse alone Tan thinks about searching everything to know more about Harris, but Harris is such a mysterious man Tan might find something he can't unsee.Instead, he walks to the kitchen to find something to eat, wondering around in the kitchen his eyes land on a paper on the counter with his name written in capital letters, TAN. Picking up the paper he unfolds it to find a noteI didn't want to wake you up so I wrote a note instead- Tan smiles -I should be home by 3 so hang in there. Make yourself comfortable you're free to anything, if you need help with anything my doorman Jerry can help, I told him to expect you. Can't wait
Harris sits at his desk working when all of a sudden Tan's father walks in "hey Harris got a minute?" He asks sadly sitting down not waiting for Harris to answer "I need your help with something."Putting his pen down Harris focuses on Scott sitting across from him "okay""Tanner talks to you a lot does he ever mention anything about running away from home?" Harris's heartbeat picks up as he tries not to panic "we haven't seen him in two days, he won't answer his phone or texts.""N-no he doesn't" Harris gets nervous "he mostly talks about you and your wife"Sighing Scott shakes his head "I swear that kid is going to freaking kill me, he doesn't come home Thursday night and we see him for like 10 minutes yesterday, now he's disappeared. Not before lying to us about where he'd be. Shiela and I asked his friends and they swore they didn't know anything, which is probably a lie since he tells them everything""What are you going to do?""I don't know, Sheila's freaking out so I spoke to
"You're never leaving this house again!" Tan's mother barks when he walks into the house"Music to my ears" Tan rolls his eyes as he drops his bags walking to his room"Where were you?" Shiela asksTurning around Tan stares into his mother's eyes "do you care? Do you really care?" She thinks about the question and the answer is yes but she's not sure enough to say it out loud. "I'm too tired for this" Tan walks away "let me know when the tyrant gets home so we can discuss my punishment" Tan slams the door and locks it.Taking off his jacket and shoes Tan climbs in bed and slowly starts to sob as he thinks about Harris, how much he's royally fucked up and couldn't even beg. It's only been an hour and Tan misses Harris so much, he misses the way Harris smells, how perfect his hair was, and his smile. It was all over, and for Tan, it was way too soon.On Monday morning after a long and difficult weekend, Tan throws on a baggy sweater and jeans walking out of his room with his bag on his
"Dad I left a message with Amy for you" Tan walks to his father's car after school"I know""Then why are you here?""Because I don't care, it's time to go home.""I care! This isn't your life dad and I may just be a kid to you but I have responsibilities believe it or not." Tan raises his voice as his father is about to get back in the car. Scott turns back around "I don't know why you and mom want to ruin my life but I have one and I'm trying to live it. I go to school, I get decent grades, I'm head of the freaking yearbook committee dad! Me! But you don't see any of that. Tanner's late all hell breaks loose, Tanner's not home watching us fight all night, what madness!" It was obvious Tan's had enough "I'm going to go to my yearbook meeting then hanging out with my friend after, if that's not ok with you then you're gonna have to physically get me in that car dad, and I can promise you it won't happen quietly."Scott stares at his son standing up for himself "home by 9" he couldn't
"Will someone punch me in the face if I ever volunteer to work with Tommy Johnson ever again?" Tan walks over dropping at the lunch table where his friends are after 45 minutes of failing at taking pictures of Tommy."Was he that bad?" Lin asks rubbing his back as Tan lays his head on the table feeling like a failure"He wouldn't smile, and he stood in the same fucking spot the whole time like a telephone pole! No matter how much I said Tommy smile or do something else with your body, boy would not move!" He complains to his friends as he steals food off their trays"That sucks dude, when I took pictures of Sven this morning he was such a breeze" Erica gloats"Yeah?" Tan scolds her "maybe it's because Sven's actually a genuine person with a great smile. While I got stuck with a fucking robot that had a stick jammed so far up his ass, it was causing him to malfunction!" Tan rants"Calm down it's not Tommy you're mad at""No, but I'm also pretty fucking mad at him too" Tan turns on the
"HE'S MARRIED!" Tan paces back and forth in his room like a lunatic, he doesn't know what to do with this information, who does he tell? Can't text his friends, or talk to his useless parents, or Harris himself.Tan has searched the deep web for Harris and all he's found were articles on his work and a web page about his lawyering, besides being a lawyer it's like Harris Wheeler doesn't exist."How was school?" Scott asks as they eat at the table"Stressful I didn't have my camera today to take pictures for the yearbook""You're taking pictures for the yearbook?" Sheila looks over at himDropping his fork Tan stares back and forth between them "I have been the head of the yearbook committee all year, Erica and I took all the pictures in it. Why did you guys buy me a camera if you didn't know what I needed it for?" Realizing his parents aren't going to say anything due to the fact that they're eating and not even looking at him he asks "can I go to my room? Or do you guys need me to wa
"Hey, are you busy right now?" Sven walks in standing behind Tan as he sits on the computer in the yearbook committee room."You mean as I'm editing these pictures right now for the yearbook?" Tan asks sarcastically "not at all what's up?" He stops what he's doing and turns to Sven "woah you're really sweaty" he makes fun of him"It's a mix of working out and nerves" Tan watches as the sweat glistens down his arms, and the muscle shirt he's wearing covers nothing."Nerves?" They walk out of the room and stand closer"I'm freaking out about tonight" Sven whispers"Why? You've played a bunch of games before""This one's different people are gonna be watching""Like they usually do?""No Tan I mean the scouts they're coming and I don't think I'm ready""Sven since you became captain of JV they've won almost every game, you single-handedly turned those losers around" Sven chuckles at Tan calling his teammate losers, "and I know you're ready with all those practices and literally carrying
"Thanks a lot!" Tan yells at Lin as she's talking to Erica and Ronnie in Sven's backyard"That's not how I pictured you saying that" she turns to him"What happened?" Erica asks"Lin and I made a deal that if I talk to Sven and make him feel better she'd talk to Cyrus""What's the problem? We just saw her talking to him""She even got his number" Ronnie adds"Yeah, I did bitch!" They all cheer her on and start to high five"Good for you!" Tan yells getting the attention back to him "but Sven just kissed me upstairs!""What?!" They all ask shocked"We were talking in his bed and there was a moment and he kissed me" Tan explains"You were in his bed?!""Tanner Milton I said to make him feel better""Those weren't very clear instructions!" Tan panics "now he kissed me and I'm gonna make it weird""You don't have to," Ronnie says"It's Tan he's gonna make it weird" Erica chuckles"Thanks so much, Erica! None of you are helping! What do I do?""Avoid him?" Lin guesses"Yeah that's smart yo