After School...

"Tell me the truth this time." Cyrus calmly demanded as he lead Jonah into the park.

Jonah stopped and nervously placed his hands in his pockets. Cyrus also stopped but continued to stare forward despite Jonah being behind him.

"Cy I...I..." Jonah stuttered.

"Did she make you feel like you were normal?Like how your dad wants you to be." Cyrus replied passively.

"Cy...no...it's not like that. Me and her just go way back. I...don't know what was wrong with me but I couldn't see how important you are." Jonah expressed.

"I don't care anymore Jonah. I can't leave for obvious reasons but we're definitely not together anymore." Cyrus made clear.

Jonah stared at Cyrus absolutely baffled. "Cy no...I love you. You can't be serious?!?!" Jonah reminded.

Cyrus closed his eyes, keeping them shut for a long excoriating ten seconds before opening them back up. "I've already come to the conclusion that there's no fixing you. So I just have to deal with you."Cyrus admitted with no emotion what so ever.

"Cyrus...please. Don't do this. I love you way to much. You're everything to me. You're the only thing that makes me want to wake up in the morning. You make me whole." Jonah stated with his arms extended in front of him.

Cyrus slowly turned around and stared into Jonah eyes. He had a cold stare. A stare that Jonah had never seen before. Jonah didn't have to feel Cyrus's emotions to understand what the boy was feeling. His eyes told it all. They where dark and could freeze the sun over twice.

"You've continued to hurt me despite me being the person you love. I know I said that it's no ones fault but it is. It's yours. I was wrong. It's all your fault and I see that now. It's as clear as day. You'll never change Jonah and I'll have to endure that for the rest of my life." Cyrus harshly stated.

Jonah stepped forward to touch the boy only for his hands to be smacked away.

"Don't touch me!" Cyrus yelled backing away.

"Cy!?!" Jonah said with tears forming at the corners of his eyes.

"Cyrus I promise. I promise that this is the last time. I promise that you'll never have to deal with this again. Please...I'm begging you." Jonah pleaded getting on his knees.

Cyrus shook his head no. The boy had already made his decision. He was done with it all.

"No Jonah. Not this time. I want boundaries set between us. This allows you to do whatever you want Jonah. Something that you wanted since the beginning." Cyrus explained.

"If you want boundaries then why did you comfort me at launch? What was all that? This is obviously breaking you down inside Cyrus. You don't want that and I know it." Jonah cried angrily.

"Because you're a selfish, cheating, spoiled alpha who I'm madly in love with, and despite all that you make me feel the deepest pain and regret I have ever known. When you're hurt or upset I feel everything. I throw my morals and ideals out once it comes to you. If I continue to do that then you'll be the death of me. So the only way to protect myself is to distance myself." Cyrus retorted keeping his composure.

"Fine Cyrus! If this makes you happy! I'll gladly abide!" Jonah yelled.

"I'm not happy and I never will be Jonah. Don't you get that? I'm marked by you. I'll never be attracted to any other Alpha no matter how much that Alpha loves me. I'm just doing what I can to keep myself at least sane" Cyrus expressed.

"Aghhhhh!!! You're so fucking complicated. It's either we're together an we're happy! But you don't want that because you assume that I'm gonna repeat the same thing and hurt you again! Then you want space between us only for you to hurt even more as you watch me do whatever the hell I want!! It doesn't make any fucking sense!!! And you don't make any fucking sense!!" Jonah spat.

Cyrus took a step forward and placed his hand on Jonah's cheek keeping eye contact. He then smiled a smile that radiated pain and sorrow. He dropped his hand from Jonah face and turned around and continued his walk into the park.

"Cyrus!!! Don't fucking walk away from me!" Jonah commanded with tears dripping onto his leather jacket.

Cyrus continued to walk away from the screaming boy. Jonah's voice became faint as Cyrus got further and further away.

15 minutes later...

Cyrus sat firmly on the swings. He used to come here when things got really bad, and right now things were horrible.

The swings next to Cyrus made a jingling sound which made Cyrus jolt his head up.

"Hey..what are you doing here?" TJ asked curiously.

"Nothing." Cyrus sighed.

"Oh come on Cyrus. You're literally by yourself at a park that I'm sure we're to old to be in right now." TJ pointed out.

"Yeah...I guess you're right." Cyrus frowned.

Cyrus looked at TJ curiously and as the boy played with the wood chips on the ground.

"I come here to think." Cyrus admitted.

TJ looked up at Cyrus with wonder. "Does it help?" He replied.

"Helps me." Cyrus shrugged.

As TJ contemplated whether or not to try it Cyrus noticed.

"Go on...you look like you need it." Cyrus offered by gesturing towards the swing.

TJ sat down in the swing and pushed his feet so that he started to swing. Cyrus copied the boy and both boys started to swing. A small smile started to appear on TJ's face as he got higher.

"Wow!...this does kinda make me feel better." TJ smiled.

"What do you need to feel better about?" Cyrus asked with a bit of attitude in his curiosity.

"I got stuff." TJ admitted turning his head towards Cyrus slightly then focusing back on his swinging.

"Betcha I got more stuff." Cyrus replied.

"You got Jonah stuff...I got life stuff." TJ admitted.

"Life stuff? Like life and death stuff?" Cyrus questioned.

"Yup" TJ replied.