“Bunny!” Jamie beamed, running out the school building and into Alex’s arms.
“How was my little chipmunks first day at school?” Alex asked, seating her at the back of his car.
"It was amazing, I drew a picture, look it's me, you, and our two mummies."
Alex had already taken his seat when his smile slightly faltered. He turned to look a Jamie, reestablishing his smile. “No way, can I see?”
Excitedly digging through her bag, Jamie fished out her self-drawn artwork and passed it to Alex. On it were two stick figures that had yellow hair that Jamie pointed out to be them.
“They didn’t have any brown crayons so I couldn’t draw mama,” Jamie said, slightly pouting. She then pointed to the tallest person in the picture.
“That’s mummy Cindy.” Jamie’s voice faltered a bit, her bright blue eyes looking up at Alex. “When is she gonna come back, I miss her.”
Alex kept his gaze on the drawing, afraid to make any contact with Jamie. How could he even begin to tell her that their mother had already passed on. It was already enough stress on their mum who had lost her life partner, how then, could she break the news to Jamie when she herself still refused to accept it.
Alex finally looked up at her, lightly patting her head. “She’s in a better place now.”
Jamie said nothing, almost as if she’d understood his words. She lightly nodded, stuffing the drawing back into her bag.
The ride home was quieter than usual. The radio the only thing to keep them from being in total silence. Alex was debating whether he’d said the right thing, maybe it wasn’t time.
“Bunny,” Jamie lightly called, getting Alex to humm in response.
“Will mama be alright?”
Alex threw her a side glance, lightly smiling. “Ofcourse, this is why we should always help her out when she’s not feeling well, alright?”
Jamie nodded, also smiling before taking her gaze back outside the window.
Alex sighed quietly, his thoughts abustle. Ever since the death of Cindy, their second mother, its been harder for their mum to take care of them. With her autism, keeping a job was growing harder and being one of the only people of colour in town meant she was thoroughly looked down upon by many.
This made getting into college an essential as well as taking up as many part time jobs that he could force himself to. After scraping enough cash, he was finally able to buy himself a car to provide safer for commute for both Jamie and his mum. It was hard, juggling work and studying, but he had to do something. He couldn’t just sit around and watch as their mother tried everything she could to provide for them.
"We're home," Alex announced as he parked the car on the driveway. Jamie was quick to jump out and burst through the front door. "We're home!" She shouted. Alex was right behind her when their mother stuck her head from the kitchen.
"Welcome home," she greeted, accepting Jamie’s hug. “How was school today,” She questioned, Alex the first to groan.
“Boring.”
“Amazing!” Jamie threw her hands in the air, her voice loud enough to hide Alex’s incessant complaints.
“No one’s bullying you right?” She asked, a wrinkle creasing her brow.
Alex laid a hand on her shoulder as to calm her worries. “Don’t worry,” He said, Jamie furiously nodding.
“Ill beat up any who bullies me or Alex or mummy.”
“There will be no beating up of anyone, young lady,” their mum said, placing Jamie back down.
“How are you?” Alex asked, now his turn to worry. Jamie had ran out the room, leaving the two.
Sighing, she kept her eyes on her fingers. “Its hard but I’ll manage.”
Alex pressed his lips together, eyeing his mum. “You don’t have to work so hard, I can get another part time job and—”
“No, Alex you already work so hard, you should focus on your studies. I’ll find a way ok? Trust me.”
Sighing, Alex reluctantly agreed. He hated the idea but he knew there wasn’t convincing her once she set her mind to something. Despite being adopted children, she treated them like they were her own and that only made him feel they were the reason her suffering.
“I’m going to study,” Alex said, making his way up the stairs.
Falling onto his bed, he let out a groan. His body felt physically worn out. The day was cut short yet it felt to have strechted for several long days. He still had a lingering headache and a constricted chest.
His thoughts quickly went back to that person he’d seen. Those crazed eyes.
These thoughts didn’t help any of his symptoms, they actually worsened as he tried to force the image out but continuously failed. He was already curled up in a ball, his hand clutching onto his chest.
His airways felt constricted, each breath growing more painful than the last. He let out a throat scratching cough, the world around him spinning. He forced himself up, his hand reaching out to the inhaler by his bedside.
He took one puff, his eyes now watering but he could feel tons lift from his chest. He took another puff and could finally breathe. His headache though, had only tripled making sitting upright, unbearably painful.
Lying down wasn’t an option though, seeing as how he still couldn’t breathe properly. So now he was in this state of incredulous pain, with no way to treat it yet for some unthinkable reason, his mind flashed the image of Xavier asking if he was alright.
His expression then was blank, almost emotionless even, yet the softness in his tone made Alex' insides go warm. Alex let out a painful chuckle, finding his state nothing short of pathetic.
After calming down, Alex went to studying. Many long and painful hours of painkillers and English he took a break. He went downstairs, the sun having receded leaving the house in a state of darkness. It wasn’t unusually, seeing how power was ridicoulsy expensive and only grew so it saved to keep the lights off unless needed.
Enetering the kitchen, Alex got out the ice cream container from the fridge. The moonlight from outside was enough to provide enough light for him not to accidently stub his toe. He cracked open the container only to find just a spoonful of it left. He got out a clean spoon before turning to leave when Jamie came in, scratching her eye.
“Bunny?” She called, Alex holding onto her free hand. “You want me to turn on the lights?” He asked, ready to flip the switch.
Jamie quickly shook her head, holding the arm that was on the wall. “No its alright,” She said, Alex dropping his hand. He looked over at the ice cream he left on the table before turning to Jamie who was eyeing it.
He smiled, before crouching down. “You want it?” He asked, holding her cheek. Twidling her fingers, Jamie looked up at him.
“Yeah.”
He stood, getting the dessert before passing it to her. He brought a finger to his lips. “Make sure not to tell mum, after all, no ice cream after dark.”
Jamie nodded, looking down at the ice cream. “Do you want some?” She asked, scooping a bit, brining to his lips. He shook his head, lowering the spoon. “I’m fine, you can have it.”
“Really?” She beamed, Alex nodding once more. She excitedly sat on the table, taking careful bites. Alex sat by her, watching as she finished it much longer than the hoped. She made sure to savour her every bite.
He admittedly wanted some, vanilla was his favourite after all but it was also Jamie’s and nothing made him happier than seeing her smile.
“Was it good?” He asked when she finished, her mouth lined with the ice cream.
“Yeah!” She said, enthusiastically nodding. Alex chuckled, wiping her clean.
“Make sure not to tell mum ok?”
“Ok.”
Alex fished out his phone from his pocket, checking the time.
“2 am! I’ve been up that long. Christ, I wasn't going to give you ice-cream if it was this late,” he quietly exclaimed. Laughing like the little devil, Jamie dashed away, leaving Alex still dumbfounded.
“I can’t even get mad at her.”
"Hey what's wrong with you, your face is enough to give a child nightmares, Josh said as they were walked down the hallway. "Gym," Alex answered. "I don't see why you're complaining, you're so good at sports but never participate in them, plus who wouldn't want to see hot girls all sweaty." Alex didn’t hesitate to smack Josh. It was times like those he wished the other was all talk no show but it was all talk and proof to show. As unbelievable as it was, Josh was quite the lady’s man. Unbelievable really. What did they see in such a pervert? Sure, the cooking was good but was that enough to attract girls the way he did? "Well, there's nothing I can do for ya, you'll just have to grow balls, "Josh said right before he entered his classroom, escaping another smack directed his way. Just a bit and he could’ve got him. He really was one lucky bastard. The bringer of hell and worse, rang, piercing Alex’s ear drums. He just had to be right under the
Alex stood under the shower head, making sure there was enough distance was covered between the two because, boundaries. Again, that awkward stretch of silence. The pattering of the water drops against the tiled floor and the rumbling of thunder outside was thankfully there to fill the atmosphere with something but that something just wasn’t enough.Alex was adamant on keeping his gaze anywhere but to his side where Xavier stood. With all these weird fuzzy feelings, he wasn’t ready to risk his sexuality not to mention how self-conscious he’d grow of his own body. T was no secret Xavier looked to be built like a god, as unrealistic as it was for someone in high school, but that fact was only made much clear when he stood there. Completely bare.Its not like he was a little twink, far from it really. He was just the right balance of height and muscle and made an effort to maintain a good enough body. Standing beside Xavier, however, made him feel like h
“Josh, I don’t think I can do this, lets break up,” The girl said, standing at Josh’s desk, the male lazily looking up at her. “Sure,” He said, raising a brow when the girl started sniffling. He sighed, supporting his head with his hand. He didn’t say anything wrong; she was the one who brought up breaking up yet here she was breaking into tears making him look like some asshole. The girl left in tears now whispers erupting in the classroom, all eyes on him. He sighed, tempted to laugh at how funny life was. He sat back in his chair, waiting for the lesson to begin. “People sure be quick to judge huh?” A guy came, sitting beside him, his hand smacking Josh’s back. “Right?” Josh smiled, knowing this guy had been backbiting him just yesterday yet had the balls to come with his cheap mask and pretend they were friends. Pathetic. This is why he only acknowledged Alex as his only friend even with so many claiming them to be friends. Alex wa
The sky was dark, not a star to give light to what lay below. With the moon nowhere to be found, candles were the only source of light to illuminate the gold, crystal embedded, coffin. In it, a still body with skin as pale as a diamond and hair as white as snow lay. The coffin took its place in the middle of the room under the opening to reveal the inky sky.Several hooded bodies encircled the golden resting places, all chanting in low unknown tongue with their features shadowed, in their hands carrying goblets filled with crimson liquid.One came forward carrying one bigger than the rest, decored even fancier than the coffin, in it, blood. His chanting grew louder, more crazed at the blood was poured over onto the body.Just as the robed strangers continued the ceremony Xavier suddenly awoke from the dream. Beads of sweat trickled down his body and matted his white locks. He sat up, running a hand through his hair, a sigh escaping his lips. His pulse was quick,
"Hey Alex, you need to see this" Josh waved over to Alex who was grabbing his lunch.Alex sat beside him, looking around he noticed that everyone was looking down at their phones. "Dude look at this," Josh said pointing at his phone.'Young girl found dead in woods behind North field High yesterday evening.'-"It's all over the news, they said this girl was found dead in the woods behind the school, they said that she was brutally tortured and had like a billion cuts and bruises," Josh shrieked."Actually these past weeks there's been an increase in murder cases." Alex couldn't wrap his head around it, are these somehow linked with a large number of people suddenly moving into the town."Look there's a picture of the girl.""She kinda looks familiar," Alex commented with furrowed brows"Wait isn't she from the other school across town; she was dating some guy here. How unfortunate. " Alex knew his friend would figure
Josh knocked at Alex's door, Jamie answering. "Hey look who it is, it's my beautiful princess," Josh said as he went on knee kissing Jamie's hand. "Joshy," she said scruffling his curly brown locks.Josh laughed asking the small blonde where her brother was. She held Josh's hand leading him to Alex's bedroom where Alex was found laying on his bed barely even dressed."Thank you, your highness." Josh said kissing her hand one more time Alex smacking the boy on the head "Don't even think about it, she's my sister." He said as he sat back down on his bed.Josh got up looking at Alex who looked like he just woke up from a nap. "Why aren't you ready? And why are you in your underwear?" Josh asked with an annoyed frown on his freckled features."What do you mean, I am ready." He said grabbing a nearby pair of flip-flops. Josh just smacked the flip-flops out of his hand. "I'm not letting you in my car looking like that." He said pushing the blonde into the bathr
Alex gulped what was his hundredth cup. He was sitting on the couch, a girl in a witch’s costume was beside him, running a hand on his chest. He was completely consumed by the spell of the alcohol and could barely register what was going on. He ran a hand through his hair before the girl beside him moved from her seat and instead sat on Alex's lap, her arms wrapped around his shoulders.Through hooded eyes, Alex looked at the female, not sure he enjoyed her on his lap, and even with all the alcohol in his system he still didn't feel right doing this. The girls on the other hand were just as intoxicated and didn't wait to smash their lips together. Again Alex could taste alcohol and lipgloss from the person, and again he didn't like it but this time he didn't push away. He let his hands rest on her sides as she continued.After several minutes the girl pushed away and that's when Alex got her off him and stood. He wiped the link streak on his cheek whilst navigati
Alex instantly awoke, beads of sweat trickling down his forehead; his breathing was fast and so was his heart. He had a rather peculiar nightmare of people in long robes which he concluded to be just another weird dream. He got up, walking to the bathroom before taking a shower ridding him of all the sweat.His phone suddenly rang, his hand reaching out of the shower before he brought it to his ear. “Hello?”“Hey man I know you like Xavier and everything but could you do me a slight favor,” Josh said on the other side of the phone.Alex sighed. “What is it?”Sighing internally, Alex was pushed into the mall by his friend and two other females who he had never seen before. He had no idea why he let Josh drag him into this, the male was very persuasive. The group went into different shops admiring everything, Alex trying to act like cared every time his partner showed him something.They finally stopped in a little