Chapter 4: Angst
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Ok let me start off by saying that detention sucks… Very badly. God I'm so bored I'm wondering why I let Max get off of the hook today. I yawned before looking outside. The sun was starting to set and it was almost 5. I looked up at the teacher's desk and saw that she was currently watching the clock. I followed her gaze and my eyes widened. 3. 2. 1. "You may leave gentlemen. I hope that taught you a lesson in humility. I plan on seeing you back here Monday." She said getting up and leaving. I stood up and yawned before shaking Tyson awake. He groaned and sat up rubbing his eyes. He looked at me and smiled.
"See? That wasn't so bad!" he said trying to shake himself awake.
"That's because you were asleep the whole time. I swear every second felt like a minute." I said getting my bag and slinging it on my shoulder. I walked over to Kai's desk which was across from Tyson's and gently shook him. He looked up and also rubbed his eyes. He sat back in the chair and yawned as well.
"That wasn't so bad." He said standing up.
I sweat dropped. "That's only because you guys were asleep the whole time."
"Yeah yeah, details." Tyson said walking over to the teacher's desk and grabbing Max's cell phone. He flipped it open and casually started going through his phonebook.
"You're so nosy." I said as we walked out of the classroom.
"For your information Mr. Catman I was trying to call his house to tell him we're on our way." He said with a small pout.
"Then why is there a giant word on the top that reads MESSAGES?" I pointed out.
"I-I was trying to see if I could text his house phone." He said walking a few more inches away from me.
"Sure you were."
"I am sure I was."
"Ray, can I come over your house tonight?" Kai suddenly said making me blush.
"Er, sure. No problem." I said trying to play it cool.
"O-Oh man." Tyson said falling back a little bit, Max's phone glued to his hand.
"WHAT IS IT TYSON!?" I yelled. Ok I don't have any idea why I yelled, I was talking to myself in my head and I don't know, maybe I couldn't hear my own voice or something. I really don't know. Really cool though right?
"U-um its-"his face was pale almost. Something was wrong.
"Hey guys!" Max suddenly said running down the sidewalk towards us. "I got your text Tyson."
I looked at Tyson who stuck his tongue out at me. Since when could you text someone's house? I mean seriously? We walked outside of the building and onto the sidewalk. The sun had gotten lower causing the sky to turn orange. I loved this time of day for some reason. "So what's the game plan for tomorrow?" I asked.
"What about the arcade?" Kai said.
I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Since when are you into arcades?" Tyson said reading my mind.
"I just thought it would be a fun place is all." He said looking hurt.
"You're such a faker!" Tyson yelled laughing.
We all joined in for about 10 seconds. "So it sounds like a plan." I said smiling.
"Yup. Oh I almost forgot Tyson, come on!" he said pulling the bluenette away. "Bye guys!"
"I will call you tomorrow!" He yelled in Chinese. I watched as the blonde dragged him away.
"I wonder why he said that in Chinese." I said to Kai once we had started walking.
"Who knows? So what do you want to do when we get to your house?"
"I don't care really. What else is there to do?"
"Besides playing video games and watching HBO until we die I'd say nothing at all." He said with a small smile. I loved it when he smiled for some reason. It was just so… I can't even describe it. It has that I can kick your ass up and down the block flare yet at the same time it says that he's smiling because he can. Yeah I know weird, but you watch him smile and interpret how it looks.
Anyways, "Sounds like our game plan then." I said also smiling. It took us about 10 minutes to get to my house and by that time I was starving remembering I hadn't eaten. "Kai, what would you like to eat?" I said walking into the kitchen.
"Anything's fine kitten." He said walking upstairs into my room.
I blushed at the comment. He had been calling me 'kitten' a lot lately. Sometimes I think he's just teasing me, but other times it's kind of cute. I looked in our fridge to see that my aunt had already prepared something for us to eat. I took it out and opened it up to see a giant bowl of nachos. I put it in the microwave before walking into my room. I smiled when I saw Kai examining a small toy that was on my shelf. He was so adorable some times. Wait, ok that came out wrong. I mean he's so um, curious! Yeah curious like the cat, er the monkey. That's totally what I meant. I suddenly snapped back into reality when I saw Kai looking at me. "What?" I said sitting down in front of the large flat screen that was implanted in my room.
"N-nothing" he said sitting down next to me.
(Tyson's POV)
You know that feeling you get when you know something bad is going to happen? Yeah well that feeling is rumbling inside like a 22 foot fish. Seriously! Ever since I saw that picture of Max and Alan in his phone I felt something just hit me like a ton of bricks. It's not that I think he's going to go away and never come back but still, I wish he would have given us at least a month or two Alan free. For all of you who don't know, Alan is Max's ex boyfriend. I really don't think I need to go into an epic flashback to show you why I hated him. Anyways, Max never officially broke up with him so I guess he still thinks there going out. I've got this really bad feeling in my stomach that he's going to be showing up really soon. Ok, off topic. After Max dragged me away to his house he showed me his surprise which was a tin of chocolate covered bananas. Yes, I know this is food blab la bla, but these things are seriously delicious. You would have to try them to know what I mean. I'm currently on my second banana right now.
"Tyson? What's wrong?" Max suddenly said looking at me with those big blue eyes. His eyes, man are they beautiful. I could stare into them for hours… Man I really am a softy.
"Nothing. They're good. Thanks Max." I said half heartedly.
"Tyson. I know you enough by now to know that something is wrong. Can't you tell me?" He said scooting closer to me and hugging my arm.
"Really Max, it's nothing. I'm just tired. I think I'm going to go to sleep now." I said standing.
He looked up at me disappointed. We usually stayed up until 3 or 4 in the morning. Right now it was only 11. "Alright. We're sleeping in my bed if that's ok." He said blushing.
"That's great." I said heading upstairs. We quickly got into our pajamas and climbed in bed. He snuggled up close to me and I sighed looking at the ceiling.
"Tykao?" he whispered.
"Hm?"
"Are you sure you don't want to talk about it? I'm here you know."
"Max there's nothing wrong." I said putting my arms behind my head and closing my eyes.
"Would you talk to Kai or Ray about it?"
My eyes widened and my heart felt like it skipped a beat. "What are you talking about?"
"It's nothing Tyson. Goodnight." He said turning over.
"Max. If there was something wrong you know I would want to tell you. I just can't ok? It's something that I feel like Kai or Ray can answer. I don't want to worry you Max. I love you too much to do that." I said wrapping my arms around the younger boy.
He turned around and smiled. "Ok Tykao." The blonde said smiling. He kissed me before closing his eyes and falling asleep. I made sure Max was asleep before looking at him.
"Kami, I hope my intuition is wrong." I whispered before sighing and closing my eyes.
(Ray's POV)
"Kai. Kai. Kai you're cheating."
"It's not cheating, it's called winning."
"It is cheating if you keep beating me at a game you've never played before."
"No, it's pure skill."
"Ok new rule, no using the A button."
"But that's how you jump."
"Yeah I know."
"Well that's not fair."
"It is fair."
"Hey! You just jumped!"
"That was an accident."
"Liar that accident just cost me a life."
"Kai, if you can't be a good sport when playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl then don't play."
"Ray, if you can't accept getting your ass handed to you by a person with pure skill then don't play."
"Kai it's not 'pure skill' its luck."
"Ray your seriously hating on my pure skill."
"I'm not hating on your 'luck'!"
"You mean pure skill?"
"No I mean luck!" Kai suddenly kicked my player out of the arena… Again.
"That's game and match. Pure Skill." He said smirking.
"My finger slipped."
"You're such a liar kitty."
I smiled and laughed. We had been up playing the Wii for about 4 hours now. "Ok I'm officially tired. What time is it?"
"What about my pure skill?" he said with a smirk.
"Kai."
"It's 12:34"
"Woo! New Record!"
"You've only stayed up to 12?"
"Yeah."
"Wow."
"Wow what?"
"Nothing."
"Sure. You think I can't go longer?"
"That's exactly what I'm thinking."
"Bet I can stay up till 2 a.m."
"What's the wager?"
"5 bucks."
"Deal."
"Let's do this."
(Tyson's POV: Morning)
"What are you doing here?" I heard a familiar voice say. It was Max. Wonder who he was talking too. Damn. Way too early to get up.
"I came to see you! Come down and give your boyfriend a kiss!" I heard another familiar voice say. My eyes sprang open and my heart literally felt like it stopped. I knew that voice anywhere. Why? Why the hell did I have to be right for once in my life!?
I sat up before rubbing my eyes. "Max. Who is that?" I said from his bed.
He turned to me, obviously surprised I was awake. "U-um its Alan." He said looking down. God I hate my intuition.
"What does he want?" I said standing up calmly.
"I don't know yet. I told him I would talk to him. It's just so I-"
"I know. " I said putting my clothes on. "It's ok. I'll go eat some breakfast and give you two some time." I said making my way towards the door.
"O-ok." He said smiling. Now this is not in my personality at all. You will never see me doing this again. I hated Alan and I knew that. But, I knew that me beating the crap out of him and yelling and stuff, wasn't going to solve anything. Besides, I trusted Max. "I think it would be better if we talked outside." He said walking out. He kissed me before grabbing a jacket and walking outside.
I walked to the kitchen and grabbed a box of cereal. I looked through the window where I could see both blondes clearly.
"Look Alan. I'm with Tyson now I told you that."
"I know but look Max. I can see it in your eyes. You still love me. I know you do. And I still feel the same way about you."
"I don't care Alan. And I don't. You don't know what I feel."
"I do more than you know Maxie. I'll prove it." He said suddenly kissing the blonde.
Now Yes I know what you're thinking, it was an accident, blab la bla. But the thing is. Max didn't pull away.
My eye's watered as I watched this unfold before my eyes. Three things suddenly hit me there. The first was extreme sadness. I felt as hot tears found their way down my face and onto the floor. The second was shamefulness. I mean was I really not worth it to him at all? That's when the final thing hit me. Anger. Anger that I hadn't ever felt before in my life. Tears stopped coming down my face and my fists clenched. I screamed in agony and smashed my fist into the refrigerator next to me leaving a gigantic dent that didn't look to human to me. It was like a massive crater in the metal of the machine that I couldn't even believe I made. I walked away and grabbed my bag from Max's room and opened up the front door storming across the grass not really knowing where I was going. Max, I noticed, was now on the ground for some reason, Alan kneeling down to help him up. He apparently saw me and ran over to me. "Tyson. Where are you going?"
"Excuse me? Don't you think you should be more concerned about your boyfriend than me?" I said lowly.
"What are you- No Tyson it was an accident. It wasn't a real kiss. It didn't mean anything!"
"Well the next time you kiss someone and it doesn't mean something do it far away from me!" I shouted at him. I walked away not even caring that he was shouting that he was sorry. I didn't care anymore.
(Ray's POV)
I sat up with a yawn hearing the doorbell ring. Kai was next to me, also asleep. I walked down the stairs and opened my door with a yawn. I saw Tyson there, he was looking down and his bag was in hand. "Tyson? What's up? Its 6 a.m. aren't you supposed to be at Max's?"
He sniffled before holding back some tears and shaking his head no. It was then that I realized something had happened and that it was probably Alan related. Max apparently knew he was coming back. At least that was what he told me. I didn't think he would come this early. And that things would go this far so quickly. I opened my arms and he hugged me tightly, crying into my shirt. Poor kid. "Tyson, it's ok. Come on tell me what happened." I said rubbing his back.
"They kissed." He said with his face, muffled by my shirt.
"Tyson, now you know better than I do that Alan probably did that just to freak you out."
"I know but I don't want to have to keep having my chest hurt this badly Ray. I broke up with him." He said still sniffling. "It really really hurts. I can't keep taking this kind of pain every time I see them Ray. I trusted him more than anything. It's just going to keep happening."
"It's ok Tyson. Come on, you should get some more rest. We'll talk when you wake up ok?" I said leading him upstairs.
"Thanks Ray." He said wiping away his tears before climbing into my bed. I sighed before walking down the stairs and into the kitchen. Kai was already there, sipping some hot chocolate. He handed me a mug before sighing.
"How is he?" he said after taking a short sip.
"He broke up with him." I said looking at the swirls of the brown liquid. There was an awkward silence between us when Kai suddenly slammed his fist against the table.
"What the hell is that Alan kid's problem anyways? I should go give him amnesia again." He said before my doorbell suddenly rung. Kai and I set our mugs down before walking to the door. Kai opened it first. Max was there looking at the ground where only moments ago, Tyson stood crying. THE Tyson crying. I almost hated Max for it just like I would hate Tyson if he ever made that blonde cry.
Kai looked at the blonde for about a second. "Go away!" he said before slamming the door in his face and walking up the stairs. I sighed and opened it back up. I stepped outside into the cool morning air and closed the door behind me.
"Care to explain?" I said simply.
"It was an accident Ray I swear! I didn't know he was going to do it!" he spit out all at once.
"Do you still have feelings for him?"
"What?"
"Do you still like him Max?"
"Of course I love him more than anything!"
"Not Tyson… Alan."
"… I don't know. I thought I was over him but-"
"You're not. And that's why this happened. You can't go on if you don't let go Max. That's all I have to say." I said turning to my door.
"I'm really sorry though Ray."
"I understand that Max but you have to think about it. What if you're put in a situation like that again? We're still your friends Max, all of us. You just need to let go of the past though." (Ray is totally supposed to be a psychiatrist when he gets older!)
Max stood there. "Ok." He said simply. "I'll try Ray."
"That's good enough for me. Do you want to come in?"
"Yeah." He said lowly.
"I'd advise you not to make direct eye contact with Kai for awhile. He's not in the best of moods." I said with a small chuckle at the defensive teen.
(At Max's house)
"What the hell happened to my fridge!?"
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Well now this was pretty fast if I do say so myself. Thanks for the reviews they are really really really really really really really really appreciated. Yes this chapter had some angst but I had to put some of the plot in there somewhere! Next Chapter will be a lot more pleasant and hopefully more humorous. PLZ REVIEW!