7.
As the door closed behind Tai clicking back into place inside it's doorframe I became acutely aware of another presence in the room. Takeru was standing in the doorframe, his features were tense his eyebrows lowered in anger. I looked away from him squeezing my eyes shut and taking another drag from the ciggarette in my hand. I could hear his breathing from across the room coming in quick haggard gasps.
"Is that what it was, Matt?" He questioned. I opened my eyes confusedly and stared at him. What on earth was he talking about? He really needed to quit this being vague business. Sometimes I think he forgot who he was talking to.
"Huh?" I spat out shaking my head in wonder.
"Was it a mistake?" T.K. shot, blue eyes flashing in the darkness of the unlit room. It wasn't so much that I didn't like sunlight, but it always glared on the TV. Hence the darkness and the flashing of those beautiful cobalt eyes.
"No-" I forced out, and that was when I'd realized that I had made a desperate mistake by lying to Tai. Takeru had been eavesdropping. He'd heard everything. More likely than not he'd thought he would stand there in case it became neccessary to come in and rescue me and just by chance I'd had to say something stupid.
"Well you didn't deny it, did you?" Takeru choked out his eyes were watering now, he seriously was on the verge of breaking down and I had no idea what to do. I just did what I always did. I put the ciggarette out in the ash tray on the endtable and walked over to where he stood wrapping my arms around him. For a moment he relaxed in my grip and then he pushed me away.
"Takeru-" I started but he stopped me quickly.
"I have to go." T.K. decided shaking his head. A tear fell down his face, I decided quickly that all I was doing...all I'd done ever since I'd told him I loved him was hurt him. He hadn't cried this much in years. I was breaking my little brother into hopeless bits and it was killing me to see it just as much as it was killing him to feel it. So I didn't stop Takeru from going upstairs and packing his bag. I didn't call after him when he came back down the stairs and paused in the livingroom doorway as though he expected me to say something. I didn't even stop him when he walked out the door and slammed it behind him.
No. I waited until he was long gone before I hung my head into my hands and cried like my world was ending.
As the door closed behind Tai clicking back into place inside it's doorframe I became acutely aware of another presence in the room. Takeru was standing in the doorframe, his features were tense his eyebrows lowered in anger. I looked away from him squeezing my eyes shut and taking another drag from the ciggarette in my hand. I could hear his breathing from across the room coming in quick haggard gasps.
"Is that what it was, Matt?" He questioned. I opened my eyes confusedly and stared at him. What on earth was he talking about? He really needed to quit this being vague business. Sometimes I think he forgot who he was talking to.
"Huh?" I spat out shaking my head in wonder.
"Was it a mistake?" T.K. shot, blue eyes flashing in the darkness of the unlit room. It wasn't so much that I didn't like sunlight, but it always glared on the TV. Hence the darkness and the flashing of those beautiful cobalt eyes.
"No-" I forced out, and that was when I'd realized that I had made a desperate mistake by lying to Tai. Takeru had been eavesdropping. He'd heard everything. More likely than not he'd thought he would stand there in case it became neccessary to come in and rescue me and just by chance I'd had to say something stupid.
"Well you didn't deny it, did you?" Takeru choked out his eyes were watering now, he seriously was on the verge of breaking down and I had no idea what to do. I just did what I always did. I put the ciggarette out in the ash tray on the endtable and walked over to where he stood wrapping my arms around him. For a moment he relaxed in my grip and then he pushed me away.
"Takeru-" I started but he stopped me quickly.
"I have to go." T.K. decided shaking his head. A tear fell down his face, I decided quickly that all I was doing...all I'd done ever since I'd told him I loved him was hurt him. He hadn't cried this much in years. I was breaking my little brother into hopeless bits and it was killing me to see it just as much as it was killing him to feel it. So I didn't stop Takeru from going upstairs and packing his bag. I didn't call after him when he came back down the stairs and paused in the livingroom doorway as though he expected me to say something. I didn't even stop him when he walked out the door and slammed it behind him.
No. I waited until he was long gone before I hung my head into my hands and cried like my world was ending.