okay guys sorry I lied, nothing "juicy" like I thought it was going to happen in this chapter I have no idea where this chapter went. Like I'm kind of not happy with how this came out. Um I updated the warnings and tags to include suicide and self harm so please check that out. There WILL be another chapter up today or 2moro with the "juice" I was talking about. pls forgive me for this.
The morning light peeked through the curtains, shining rays onto Hiro's closed eyes. They fluttered open to see bright red numbers flash the time, 7:36am. Groaning, he reluctantly lifted the covers from his body, stretching away the stiffness in his limbs. Waiting for his eyes to adjust, they landed on the bed across the room. It lay empty and neatly folded, just the way Alisen left it.
It was quiet. Usually by now Alison would of woken him up, before going to cook breakfast for Gogo and themselves. It left an empty feeling, not having her around.
Not even bothering to get dressed, Hiro walked into the kitchen wearing only sweatpants that hung low showing his red boxers. Alison would have scolded him, telling him to pull them up, but she wasn't there so...
The apartments was dark do to the curtains being pulled over the windows. Alison would have opened them letting the sun shine in. "You need the vitamin D!" She would of said. Hiro smiled sadly at the thought. "She did always know how to brighten my day." Hiro tried to joke. In the end it only made him feel worse.
Hearing a door close and the shuffling of feet Hiro didn't bother to turn around. The shuffling stopped for a moment when it hit the kitchen. Hiro could feel eyes staring at the back of his head. "Good morning." Hiro's voiced wavered as he spoke. There was no answer, just more shuffling, leading to the fridge. "I can make breakfast if you want." Still no answer. "Gogo I-"
"Where were you, when I texted you the other day?" She asked pouring a cup of orange juice. Hiro was taken aback but the question. What should he say? I wasn't with her because I was with a guy and I didn't come right away because we were to busy sucking eachother off? Yeah, that wouldn't be the best thing to say right now.
"I was bot fighting."
"Your a shit liar you know that."
"I'm not lying."
"Bullshit! You two are always together, you should of been with her, you always are! Where were you!"
Hiro understood what was happening. Gogo was upset. She was trying to place the blame on something to make herself feel better. She was angry and Hiro couldn't be mad at her for the things she was saying. "I know, but this isn't my fault, and you can place the blame on me. I understand you're upset, but don't take your frustration out on me." Hiro said trying to remain calm. He did feel bad about not being there for her but it wasn't like he could spend forever with her and in the end he couldn't change the past. He was angry he was hurt and he wanted Alison back. But arguing who's fault it was, was only going to make things worse.
"Where were you!" Gogo asked again, hands gripping her cup of orange juice tightly.
"I told you I was-."
"Get out!" Gogo yelled. Hiros heart clenched. He tried not to lose his composure.
"Okay." Hiro wasn't in the mood to fight. He packed a few things and left. He just didn't care anymore.
He didn't know where he was going he just continued to walk. Maybe he could go to Cass's? Or maybe text Tadashi?
No, he didn't want to be a burden. That and he wasn't up to explain to his boyfriend why he was kicked out of his house. There was always Lily's, oh wait nevermind, her parents hated him. Who else was there? Hiro took out his phone and flipped through his contacts. There was one friend he had named Alex, but she lived all the way in Alamo. He was running out of options.
"To Cass's it is then."
He didn't have to walk for very long before entering the small cafe. "Hiro!" Cass attacked the teen in a bear hug. "Are you hungry, do you need anything to drink?"
"No, no, I'm fine thanks." Hiro was going to continue speaking when the t.v the upper left hand corner of the shop showed some news about the juvenile detention center. Cass noticed his sudden blank expression on his face. Turning her attention to the screen her face fell. On the t.v was a news report of a young girl who had committed suicide in custody of the police. Hiro's heart raced.
'No, no, please no!'
When a picture of the girl shown brightly on the monitor Hiro almost dropped to his feet.
"Poor girl." Cass said out loud. She looked back at Hiro to see his head down. "Hiro are you okay?" She asked concerned.
"Yeah I'm fine." Hiro looked up showing his signature smile. "I just forgot, that I have to do something today, so see you later okay."
Without letting Cass answer Hiro left out the door. Taking in deep breaths, he reached for his phone again scrolling to Alex's number. Putting the phone to his ear he waited for his friend to pick up. "Hello?"
"Hey Alex's I need a favor."
...
It was midday by the time his friend rolled up in her Aston Martin.
Hiro sat in the front seat, wiping away tears from his eyes. "I'm sorry for asking you to come out here." Hiro said quietly.
"It's okay." Alex gave a small smile. "I told you if you ever needed anything to let me know, that's what friends are for right." She started the car and on they drove. "Do you have all your stuff?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, okay cool." There were a few awkward moments of silence before Hiro spoke.
"She didn't kill herself."
"What?"
"She wouldn't do that." Hiro watched cars pass by out the window. He stopped trying to clear his face of tears.
Nothing seemed real anymore. What was the point to anything? How could someone so strong become nothing in a few days. Alison was gone and he couldn't come to see it as real. This was a dream right? His best friends dead, his mentor kicked him out and the world was just falling apart. "I hate everything." He stated. "I hate the police, I hate death, I hate the world." More tears began to stream down his face. "I hate everything." Alex sighed.
"Hiro, I know you're upset, it's going to be okay." Hiro knew she was trying to be sympathetic, however he couldn't come to make himself care. Everything felt numb. Like nothing mattered and nothing would from now on. For the rest of the ride he sat quietly staring out the window lost in his thoughts.
Alex turned into off into a small road leading to Diablo estates. Alex was an extremely privileged young women. She use to live in San Fransokyo and that's how Hiro knew her but she moved a few years back when her mom got married to her step dad. She told Hiro that if he ever needed anything to let her know. She knew of Hiro's background but couldn't care less and Hiro thanked for that.
The estate was huge with cream color walls giving it a calm feeling. In the courtyard grew beautiful purple and pink wild flowers, with a lovely fountain in the center of the driveway making it a loop.
"You've never been to my house before have you?" Alex asked grabbing his bag and carrying it into the house for him.
"No I haven't." Hiro said looking at the expensive looking paintings that covered the walls of the front hall.
The doors opened up to the grand stairs and rooms on either side with more in the back. Hiro's head spin trying to take it all in. "Will your parents care that I'm here?" He asked.
"Oh no, they're both away on business trips so it's just us!" Alex chirped excitedly.
Most of the night was spent eating junk food and watching terrible romance comedies that Alex had insisted upon. It was around 4am when she finally asked. "Where were when you weren't with Alison? You don't have to answer if you don't want to."
Hiro played with the gummy bear in his hands, squishing it, then popping it into mouth. "I was with a guy." Alison Stopped chewing on her gummy worm for a moment.
"A guy?"
"Yeah a guy." Hiro said feeling like he was being judged.
"Like a boyfriend?"
Hiro swallowed nervously. "Yeah like a boyfriend."
"That's wonderful!"
"What?" Hiro wasn't expecting for her to take it this well. Not that he was complaint of course.
"Wait! You slept with someone and didn't tell me!" She exclaimed. Hiro almost choked on his gummy bear.
"No, we didn't sleep together, we just did some stuff." He said sheepishly a blush coming to land on his face. Alex grinned grabbing Hiro into a death hug giggling wildly. "I'm so excited! Tell me more about him!"
So that's how they spent the rest of their night. Talking about Tadashi and how Hiro was happy to have him. Somewhere along the way Alison came back up and Hiro broke down cry. Alex did her best to calm him down, till finally Hiro fell asleep crying in her arms.
He awoke to Alex shaking him awake. "Hiro, someone's here to see you." What was she talking about? Who in the world would be looking for him in the first place and how would they find him here? "What?" He yawned.
"Just get up will you and come see."
Hiro got up out of curiosity, Alex led him down the hall and down to the stairs, when Hiro's eyes snapped wide open. "Tadashi?"
At the bottom of the stairs was none other than the tall brown eyed man. "Hey." He smiled.
...
"You're going to call again right if you need anything?" Alex asked Hiro outside.
"Yes I promise I will and thanks again for picking me up."
Alex gave him another hug, squeezing him tightly. "I really am sorry about Alison. I really truly deeply am, but know that I will be there for you to the end." She leaned in to whisper in ear. "I'll try and find out more about the police guy thing too."
"Thank you." Hiro said letting her go out of the hug. "It means a lot to me." Alex giggled flipping her hair back. "One more thing." She turned to Tadashi who was leaning against his car on the other side of the court yard. "Yo Hiro's boyfriend! You hurt my friend and I will come after you with duct tape and lawyers!"
"Alex!" Hiro's face turned red. Tadashi on the other hand found it amusing and started to laugh.
"I also know karate and will ninja chop you!"
"Okay thank you very much Alex." Hiro said sarcastically, walking over to get in the car.
Alex waved to them as they drove off.
"That was beyond embarrassing." He sighed rubbing his temples.
"She seems like a good friend." Tadashi chuckled.
But before Hiro forgot- "Not that I'm not glad to see you, but why are you here and how the hell did you find me?"
Tadashi's smile fell from his face. "I walked into Cass's cafe last night, she said you were acting strange and ran out looking like you were going to cry. I tried calling and texting you but you didn't answer."
"Huh?" Hiro took his phone out. "Oh." 54 missed text messages and 12 missed calls.
"Sorry I guess I forgot to check my phone."
"I was worried so I may or may not have tracked your phone to see where you were." Tadashi blushed in ebarasemt.
If it wasn't for the fact that Hiro was head over heels in love with this guy and was a normal person, he would have found that extremely creepy. However it was nice to know that the man really did care for him. The last 24 hours have just been a blur of emotion. Tadashi being here helped calm him down. He also felt bad though for worrying him and making go threw all the trouble of finding him. "I'm sorry." He said in a small voice.
"What? Hiro, what for? You did nothing wrong."
"I made you worrying and drive all the way to freaking Alamo."
"You didn't make me do anything. I wanted to come get you." Hiro couldn't find an answer. He still couldn't think straight, so he sat quietly for the two hour ride home.
Tadashi insisted that the Hiro stayed the night. Hiro having no where else to really go, couldn't exactly argue.
To Hiro's surprise Tadashi was a really good cook and made dinner for the both of them. Over dinner Tadashi was able to squeeze out a few things from Hiro as to why he was upset early. All Hiro told him was that a friend of his passed away and he had a fight with his mom. Tadashi responded with "you're welcome to stay as long as you need and I'm sorry about your friend."
So much had happen in just a few hours and all Hiro really wanted to do was sleep. He wanted to forget everything that was happening and just fall into darkness. He didn't even notice that he was slowly closing his eyes drifting away.
