Breakthrough and Breakout

Chapter 10: Breakthrough and Breakout

Things stayed the same for a while. Everyone at the GSA was getting closer.

Izzy and Tai had a few more run-ins. Izzy just tried killing him with kindness.

A few people protested the GSA heavily but nothing major happened with it.

One night, at the end of September, Tai was out at the clinic and on his way home.

Izzy was out taking a walk. He was enjoying a nice evening, as he knew it would be cold soon. He saw a bus stop down the street, and he could see Tai standing in the doorway. As he walked closer, he could hear Tai begging.

"Sir, I'm only short a quarter! I live on the other side of town, please let me ride! I can get a quarter at home.

The bus driver snickered. "Yeah, I bet mommy has a quarter for you."

Tai gritted his teeth. He was about ready to kick this guy's ass when Izzy jumped in front of Tai with a quarter. "Here you go." He said, looking at Tai.

Izzy could tell by Tai's eyes that he wanted to take it and say thank you, but he just couldn't.

"Like I'd take money from a homo! Yeah right!"

The bus driver frowned. "My son is gay. I'm not letting a homophobic jerk ride my bus, ass hole." And with that, he closed the door and drove off.

"Great, now I get to sit here for another 20 minutes and wait for a bus, thanks to you!"

Izzy sat down beside him.

"The hell do you think you are doing?"

Izzy sighed. "I want to talk to you."

Tai turned his head. "I don't want to talk to any homo!"

"Damn it, can you just drop the act!"

Tai was stunned, he never expected this Izzy person would have a temper like that.

Izzy took a deep breath to calm his anger.

"Look," He said. "Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe your straight. If that's the case, I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to convert you, I was just trying to help, if I was right. But apparently I'm not. I'm sorry."

Izzy was feeding BS, and Tai was buying it.

"It's okay." Tai said. Kind of stunned himself he said that.

As they sat there, Tai decided to ask him things.

"So... If you're not trying to convert people, why do you care so much about this GSA stuff?"

Izzy sighed. "All I want, is for acceptance. People don't have to agree with us, but can't we just go on with our lives in piece?"

"What kind of things for example?"

"I told you in the locker room that day, my best friend killed himself."

"Oh." Tai said. "When you said that... honestly I thought you meant you heard it somewhere, and by that I mean made it up, trying to get sympathy."

Izzy was pissed at that, but he felt like he was making progress with Tai, so he let it go.

"I'm sorry that happened to your friend. Bullying then?"

"Yeah. That and his parents. I can't help but wonder if I didn't help because I told him I wasn't ready for a relationship."

Tai frowned. "I'm sure that wasn't it."

"I hope not."

Tai sat there thinking about it. What if when he called Matt a fag if Matt would have been that upset that he killed himself? How could he have lived with himself? This was really starting to open his eyes a little.

Izzy was looking off in the distance.

"Willis was the greatest friend I've ever had. I've had such a rough time without him."

Tai's head shot up.

"Your friend's name was Willis?"

"Yeah." Izzy said, not sure why that was so important.

"And he killed himself?"

"Yeah...?" Izzy said, wondering where this was going.

"...Did he write you a suicide note?"

"Yeah, his parent's brought it to us."

"...Did you see the body?"

"Tai, your kind of creeping me out, what's going on?" Izzy asked getting nervous.

"Just answer the question!" A bus pulled up then for Tai.

"No. His parent's said it was too gruesome, and they had him cremated immediately."

Tai's eyes were wide. Izzy was wondering what was going on. "I gotta go Izzy." He said, and started running the other way.

"But Tai, Your bus!" But Tai ignored him.

Tai got back to the treatment center. He knew no one else would be there. He was happy his dad gave him a key. He went in and ran down the halls as fast as he could. He found the room that said 'Willis'.

He saw it was room 27, and he went in to the main office where the keys were. He ran in the hall and unlocked the door. He knew he had to do this delicately.

He was glad that the shock treatment was stopped overnight, and that all the patients were in a non aware state. He got the drug that would wake him up and shot it into the IV. After he could see the IV was taking effect, he pulled the IV from his arm gently, and all the other things monitoring him. He shook his arm gently.

"Willis?" He said calmly.

"Mmm... Izzy..." He said, still asleep. Tai smiled, knowing now for sure he had the right one.

"Willis, can you wake up?"

Willis rubbed his eyes and slowly came to. Finally he opened his eyes.

"What happened?" He asked. "Why am I in the hospital?"

Tai smiled a little, trying to keep him calm. "You're not exactly in the hospital."

"Huh?" He said. "Where am I then?"

Tai suddenly remembered the note.

"You don't remember writing a note to your friend Izzy?"

Suddenly Willis eyes shot open.

"I REMEMBER! My parents said I had to fake a suicide note because they were... sending me to a place to fix gayness. That's where I am?"

Tai put up his hands. "Calm down, please. I mean... I can't imagine being in your position right now, but... I'm here to save you."

Willis blinked. "But... who are you?"

Tai sighed. "I'm... not a very good person, but I am hoping this will be the start of a new leaf for me."

"What did you do that's so wrong?" Willis asked. "You're rescuing me from being a vegetable, I'd say that's pretty cool."

Tai hung his head. "Well... I haven't been the nicest to Izzy since I met him. But... Well it's a really long story, for now, I need to get you to his house."

Izzy was once again playing Willis ghost in Mario Kart. It was Willis' favorite track, Dry Dry Ruins. But Izzy wasn't thinking, and he actually beat Willis. Then the words appeared on the screen:

"New ghost created."

Izzy froze. He just got rid of Willis' ghost. He hung his head, with sadness.

Then there was a knock on the door. Izzy put down the Wii remote and went to go answer it. He opened the door to see Tai. Izzy was really surprised to see him.

"What are you doing here Tai?" He asked.

"Um... I'm not good with this, I don't know if you should be sitting down or what..."

Izzy shook his head, thinking he was going for an apology.

"I'm fine, tell me."

"Um... I'm leaving, but there's someone outside who really want's to see you."

"Who?" he asked.

But Tai walked away, and Willis walked up to the door. There were no words. After about a minute, Izzy yelled, "THIS ISN'T FUNNY TAI, YOU ASS HOLE!"

Willis walked in. "It's not a joke. I'm here." He said, as he put his hand on Izzy's cheek. Izzy knew this couldn't have been a joke. Tai didn't know what Willis looked like, let alone his personality. Izzy didn't know what to do, so he finally decided there was only one thing he could do. He kissed Willis. After that he hugged him tightly, crying in happiness.

"I love you, Willis. I'm so sorry I never got to tell you that before."

Willis kissed him back. "I love you too, Izzy." Then they cuddled tightly for a long time. Izzy was bawling like a baby. Once he finally calmed down, he looked into his eyes and said, "Where have you been all this time?"

"It seems to me like I just saw you a few hours ago..." Willis said. "I've been sleeping pretty much."

"I... don't understand. Where you in the hospital?"

Willis got a goofy grin. "I guess you could say that. But I was falsely Diagnosed."

Izzy was getting kind of frustrated. "Willis, You've been 'dead' for several months now. Please tell me where you were!"

Willis nodded. "Okay. Today- er... several months ago... when I got home from school, I told my dad that I was gay. Obviously he didn't take it well. He tried to tell me I was making the wrong 'choice' and that I couldn't be gay, on and on. When he finally got it through his head that I wasn't going to be changing, he said I was dead to him, and my mom would feel the same way, that she hated fags, and I was going somewhere to be fixed. Then he told me they were going to make it seem like I was dead, and I had to write you a suicide note..."

Izzy hugged him, still crying. "I'm sorry Willis."

"Why? I'm sorry for having the psycho parents that did this to me. But... I did try and leave you a hint."

"You did?" Izzy asked.

"Yeah... I said 'Never forget me' and 'we'll see us soon'."

Izzy smiled. "I thought you meant in heaven."

"Nope."

So they sat there talking for a while, waiting for his parents to get home, they would have to decide what to do with Willis, and what to do about his parent's.

TBC