All Chapters of (bxb)in love with him: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

When I return to the kitchen, Raven is still sitting by the table, wrapped cozily in the quilt he brought from the room, drinking coffee and eating tuna straight from the can. In front of him lies a two weeks old newspaper he found on the counter, and he turns the pages, holding his fork between two fingers like a cigarette. As I stop in the doorway, he raises his eyes and squints at me. In the morning light he looks better than he did yesterday, although still painfully pale and thin.“I’m going to work,” I say. “I’ve missed too many shifts.”He shrugs. “Okay. Have fun.”“I’m locking you in.”He blinks. “Don’t you have a spare key?”“I do, but I can’t give it to you.”He puts the newspaper aside and raises his eyebrows in a mock shock.“So, I’m still imprisoned,” he says, getting up. &l

I’m pretending to be asleep on my mattress when Raven comes out of the bathroom. I can hear his light steps across the room, then the bed creaks as he sits down on it. For a few seconds, it’s completely quiet.“Come on,” he says. “I know you’re awake.”I roll my eyes without opening them. “How can you tell?”“You breathe differently when you sleep.”“Differently how?”“You snore.”My eyes fly open. “What?”I sit up and glare at him. He watches me from the bed, his eyes gleaming with amusement.“You snore,” he repeats. “I don’t mind. Come here.” He pats the blanket by his side.“We’re not sharing a bed.” I shake my head. “And I don’t snore.”“You’re wrong on both accounts.” He tilts his head

I push the door open and the warm atmosphere of the apartment enwraps me, a sharp contrast to the cold December air that’s been biting at my face outside. I kick my boots off and unwrap my scarf, then pause for a moment, breathing in the smells and listening to the clanking of dishes coming from the kitchen.It’s been almost half a year since we’ve started living together, but it still gives me a pause every time I come home. I wonder if Raven feels the same on the days he returns late and finds me there, going over my notes or preparing assignments. I wonder if finding someone waiting for him at home feels as heart-warming to him as it does to me.I peek into the kitchen and find him by the counter, still dressed in his green and white uniform, stacking the plastic boxes with the food he brought from Bella Bueno. Working in a restaurant has come with an unexpected perk of leftover foods that the waiters of the evening shifts can take home.

I drove with my sister this morning to this interview that I have been working on and am hoping I don’t fuck it up. For years now things have been hard for us. Dad got locked up and mom almost ending up in a mental hospital. I have students loans to settle and I can’t afford to not get this job.“Breathe Ty.”I gave Esther a lazy smile and nodded“Thank you so much for everything ”I said.She smiled and continue driving. Esther had to grow up so fast to keep us all together and support me through all of this. She is the one that heard of this new company that’s recruiting and it seems we went to highschool with the CEO.Am hoping it’s one of my football teammates and hopefully things will go well for me.“We are here,” Esther said parking and giving me a comforting squeeze on my arm “I know you gonna do great.”“Fuck! Am so nerv

Trowback*“Watch it, looser!” He pushed me against a wall so hard I felt a scorching pain run through my arm.I wince in pain and recoiled myself in a ball on the floor.“What you looking at, funny glasses?” He sneered looking at me.“Am-am sorry Tyler” I begged justabove a whisper tears rolling down my checks.“Shut up!”“And let me not hear you mention my name again”I nodded fast looking away while he smirked walking into the class.I was in so much pain that I rushed to the nurse. She then sent me to the hospital because she nsuspected I might have dislocated my shoulder.This has been going on for years and I have been begging my father to send me to my uncle’s in Spain but he won’t budge.I didn’t tell my parents what happened. I had to made up a story. I didn’t want those quarterback