I walked over and offered him a can of coke, which he took with a nod.
'Is he not coming?' I was startled for a moment as I stood next to Tyler, the both of us quietly watching everything but I noticed he would check on Zach every few moments. His voice was deep but he spoke quietly and I had to concentrate over the music to hear him.
'I am unsure. We're not... it's complicated.'
'I understand. Not your situation, Zach tells me that your life is... difficult. What I am saying is, I understand difficult, my family, the life I grew up with. It was difficult too.' He seemed frustrated and I ran my fingers around the can in my hand.
'It's alright, I grasp what you mean. Thank you.' Tyler grunted and I looked at the door as more people walked in. Harry walked in and a smile formed on my face before I could stop it, my feet moved to take a step but I stopped when I saw his hand attached to Mia's.
'What is wrong?' Tyler asked as I watched Harry drag Mia into the party, she had a tiny love bite on her collarbone. I felt a hand on my shoulder and I looked at it, following it up until I saw Tyler's face. He looked mad, glaring down at me. 'Why do you cry?' He looked up and spotted Harry. 'So he came with a girl? Are you alright?'
'No... No I don't think I am.' I muttered turning away so he couldn't see me.
'Do you want me to get Zach?' I shook my head.
'No that'll just make it worse. Harry doesn't like me hanging around Zach.' This seemed to really piss Tyler off.
'Why? My Zach is not a bad person.'
'No, it's like you not really liking Zach hanging around me.'
'Oh, I am okay now, before not so much.'
'Well he's still in the not so much.' I looked over my shoulder and he was looking at Tyler and I.
'Would you like to go away? It is getting too loud for me, I was going to go and read a book in Zach's room.' I nodded and he led the way, stopping and whispering to Zach before he smiled at me sadly and we both headed up stairs. I've never been inside Zach's room before so Tyler walked in first, I wonder, do they share the same room seeing as they're a couple and living together? Who stays in all these other rooms? Bookshelves lined the wall and there was a nice bed set and a dresser with watches and bracelets and hair gel. A tv and a play station.
'Make your home, you can read any of the books or you can play video games.' I felt nervous being here but Tyler walked over picked a book and laid out on the bed to read, I walked over and looked at them all.
'Zach has a lot of books.' I muttered, they ranged from fiction to college textbooks.
'He has photographic memory, he likes to have them around though.' Tyler seemed so much more comfortable in this room. I suppose it is his after all, with the way they are with each other, waiting until marriage probably isn't something that works for them.
'Harry I said no. He doesn't want to see you, and who are you to demand anything? This is my house and you showed up with fucking Mia.' Tyler put his book down and growled fiercely as he stalked towards the door.
'Do I look like I honestly give a fuck? Now get out of my way before I knock you out of the way.' Harry barked. 'Just let me talk to him, I'm so sick of everyone pushing me away from him. He's not a china doll, he'll handle a little pressure.' The door handle jiggled but Tyler had locked it. 'What the hell are the two of them doing in there?' Harry yelled before knocking the door in. Tyler was pissed as Harry and Zach stood in the doorway, Tyler was growling and bearing his teeth before he stalked forward and punched Harry in the jaw before shoving him back against the wall.
'Ever fucking think about touching Zach and I'll tear your fucking throat out.' Tyler growled deeply and I stood in the doorway looking at the people at the bottom of the stairs looking confused.
'Tyler, I'm not hurt, it's okay. Please let him go.' Zach ran his hand up and under the back of Tyler's shirt and he slowly calmed down letting go of Harry before he tore off down the stairs, yelling at people before the front door slammed and everyone went back to partying.
'I honestly don't know what you see in this asshat of a human being.' Zach said to me before glaring at Harry and walking down stairs. We stood there silently for a moment.
'What did you do with Tyler?' I looked at him with disbelief.
'Unlike you, Tyler is loyal to his boyfriend.'
'We're talking about Loyalty? You're the one who ran straight to Zach not twenty four hours after you left me confused in my own home thinking I'd done something wrong.'
'I didn't run to him, he came and spoke to me. And there's nothing going on between the two of us, he's with Tyler and they're quite happy in their crazy love relationship.' We looked down the stairs; people coming forward and he pushed me into Zach's room and locked the door before pushing me into his walk in closet and locking that door.
'You ran away from my house at ten at night, crying hysterically. I only went to the bathroom and then you ran off! I at least get to know why.'
'It's nothing you did, I just remembered something and...'
'And what?' It was silent between us but the music thumped underneath our feet. 'And what?! What you don't want to be with me any more? Coz if you don't then stop ignoring me and just tell me!'
'I don't!' I yelled and he stopped and looked at me. 'I don't want to be without you anymore.' Tears started falling. 'It's killed me staying away from you for only a week, I want to be with you all the time, I want to go to the cinema on a proper date and hold hands in public and I want to kiss you like everyone else get's to kiss their boyfriends especially after we finish a game. But we can't, because we're like this.'
'Sen-'
'I'm not finished!' I yelled my body vibrating with frustration. 'My dad made me watch him and his friends torture a man like us, they hurt him really badly. Everything in my body is telling me that this is wrong, that we're going to be hurt like that too!' I cried. 'I can't be the man in the chair, I'm not strong enough to be the man in the chair!' I cried and he sighed out stepping forward.
'I promise, I will protect you so you never have to be the man in the chair Sen, I will protect you from anything and anyone that want's to harm you, but please. I need you in my life, I can't function without you, even my football game slipped and that was just one week, without you I'll lose everything. You're everything, so please, I can't give you the public affection you want but I will protect you and love you when I can. Please, just come back.' He pulled me to him in a tight hug and I felt like I could finally breath again.
'You've been in my life for so long, it hurt not having you there.' I whispered and he kissed behind my ear, then my neck, my jaw, making his way to my lips and kissing me harshly. Harry pushed me down against the floor and lifted my legs, sliding himself between them and grinding hard making me whimper. 'N-no, Harry.' He grunted but continued to kiss me. 'I don't want to do it here.' I cried and he pulled back looking at me with such dark eyes that it was a little scary.
