LOGINDerek's POV The basketball dug into my palm, the textured surface rough and familiar against my skin. I took two heavy dribbles, the sharp thud echoing off the high walls surrounding the court, and drove hard toward the hoop. I jumped, pouring all the twisting rage in my chest into the movement, and slammed the ball against the backboard. It clattered off the rim and dropped through the net, bouncing away into the shadows. "Fuck!!!" The word tore out of my throat loud and violent in the empty yard. I stood beneath the hoop, my chest heaving as I rubbed my face with both hands, my skin hot and slick with sweat. I couldn't stop my mind from dragging me right back to the dining room. Specifically to Gabriel’s mother. He is straight. My son is straight. I bit my lower lip so hard I could taste the sharp copper tang of blood. That useless bitch. What kind of a mother does he even have? It was bad enough that she treated him like trash, but to top it all off, she literally hat
Gabriel's POV The dining room was so quiet you could hear the microscopic scrape of metal against porcelain every time someone moved their hand. I kept my eyes glued down to my plate, pushing a piece of broccoli around in small, meaningless circles just to look busy. Across the table, my mom sat perfectly straight cutting her meat neatly. Next to her, Derek’s dad, Mr. Miller, was eating with a slow, precision that always made me feel like he was calculating the net worth of everything in the room, including us. Ehm. Ehmm. Mr. Miller cleared his throat, the sound sharp and sudden in the quiet room. I didn't want to look up, but my neck moved out of pure survival instinct. Beside me, Derek didn't even pause his chewing. He looked completely detached, like he was watching a boring movie instead of sitting at his own family dinner. Mr. Miller picked up his glass, took a slow deep gulp of water, and set it down. He dropped his spoon and fork onto his empty plate. He leaned his forea
Gabriel's POV It was the next morning and we had already driven home. The second I stepped out of the car, I looked up at the massive mansion and my stomach just turned. Fuck, I hated this place. It was way better when it was just me and Derek back at the apartment. Now I had to survive a whole weekend with his sly dad and my absolute asshole of a mom. The gravel crunched under my sneakers, the huge pillars of the house looking more like prison bars. My chest instantly felt tight. We got inside the house, and as soon as my mom sighted us, she rushed straight over to hug Derek tightly. Derek flinched, but she didn't care, she still pulled him into her fake embrace. "I missed you so much," she said, her voice pitched way too high and excited. I just stood there watching my own mother treat another guy like her son while her real son was completely an outcast to her. She didn't even look at me. Not a single glance. Then Derek's dad came downstairs. He shook hands with
Gabriel's POV "Arghh!" I gripped the table tightly, my fingers digging on the wood as Derek kept fucking me with a brutal force he had never used before. My bare chest slammed flat against the cold, polished desk with every single heavy thrust, knocking the air straight out of my lungs. The room was filled with the frantic sounds of our colliding bodies, his low, animalistic growls vibrating against my back as my own ragged moans drowned out the room. It was deafening. The wet noise bounced sharply off the dressing room mirrors, filling my ears until my mind went completely blank. He suddenly gripped my neck and yanked me toward him, as my legs was still wide spread. His fingers locked around the back of my neck like a vice, pulling my upper body back until my spine arched painfully. A sharp gasp tore from my throat as he drove himself all the way in, stretching me completely past my limit. Fuck, making Derek mad was totally the best thing I have done today, I was seein
Gabriel's POV "Erica told me, guys in our department's are saying we are something more than brothers.....i don't know but they know Derek. They know." My voice was shaking so bad I could barely get the words out. My eyes were wide, just staring at him under the running shower water, desperately waiting for him to snap out of it, to actually look at me and see the massive landmine we were standing on. "Hmm, something more than brothers." Derek just smiled. He actually rubbed his cheek like he was thinking about a joke, and before I could even process how psycho that was, he leaned into me again. His lips crashed on mine, hard and fast, cutting off my breath. He wrapped one hand around the back of my neck, his fingers digging in a little bit too tight, forcing my mouth open. And God help me, I just gave in. I hate myself for it, but I just tried to follow the frantic, messy rhythm of his kiss. Our tongues tangled, and I stumbled backward until my spine hit the cold wall, D
Gabriel's POV Derek was driving me home, and it was already past 10:00 PM. The dashboard lights cast a faint, dim glow over his face, making his jaw look even sharper than usual. Honestly, I had no idea he would still come all the way to pick me up tonight. He was unusually quiet, staring straight ahead with this heavy, unreadable expression. Well, so was I. My tongue felt like lead in my mouth. I just couldn't stop thinking about what Erica asked me earlier in her dorm. My skin still felt hot from the sheer panic of it. I had denied it totally right there, forcing a laugh like it was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard. I told her there was absolutely nothing to worry about, wrapping it up in pretty lies, telling her they were just misconceptions from people who had nothing better to do with their lives. But God, my fingers had been trembling so bad. I turned my head slightly to look at Derek. His eyes were so fixed on the dark road, his hands gripping the steering wheel







