Past And Future [BoyxBoy]

III

The next day Xaiden got woken up by Dean and Ashton who brought him breakfast to which he thanked. 'Cause really, they didn't need to bring him some.

They both greeted him Good morning and soon let him leave to get ready for the day. Xaiden came back after washing up and they started working where they left on last night.

"Good to know no one actually tried to sneak inside this storage room" Ashton says while looking Xaiden who shot him back a confused look.

"He's talking 'bout your sleep, did you sleep well?" Dean made the statement clear and Xaiden nodded.

"Yeah, the couch wasn't too bad." Xaiden.

"Don't worry you won't be sleeping in the couch for like, two days" Ashton replied with a warm smile.

"I'm a bit curious about what happened to those seniors.." Xaiden trailed off, earning weird looks from the two.

"Yeah? What do you want to know?"

"What are their names?"

"Okay, I should've said that I'm sorry if I don't know too much first 'cause you know we both just got transferred here two years ago but I think we could give you some information professor Ceause told us before giving us this lab." Ashton laughed awkwardly.

"It's okay, I should be the one sorry for my curious ass.." Xaiden looked down while walking towards the tool table to get some pliers to cut the big wire he used for changing the old wire the machine has.

"No, but here's all I know. Prof. Ceause told us there were three students who died that day. He told us about this machine being there when the accident happened. They were all the top students I guess for managing to create this thing. Truth is professor Ceause agreed to us taking care of this machine since it should be in this room and nowhere else. He says we can use it whenever we need it so here we are right now. Xaid- are you crying?" Ashton hurried to check on Xaiden who was obviously crying.

He felt hurt all of the sudden, why does it sound familiar -but not at the same time, he felt like his brother was there, his brother was one of the people who died. But he didn't know if he's connected the right dots. It hurt him so much, to remember how all of them reacted when they heard about Oliver's death.. It was just too soon.

"Hey, are you okay?" Dean also came close to where the younger was and asked him.

"Y-yeah, I'm sorry..." He wiped his tears while chuckling awkwardly, damn he really cried in front of these two. How embarrassing.

"No it's okay, why'd you cry all the sudden?" Ashton asked while rubbing his back to help him calm down.

"It's just- the incident is just too familiar with my brother. The police declared his death 'cause they couldn't find his body after something happened in this institute.. I'm just being paranoi-"

"Was it Oliver?" Dean asked and just like that, Xaiden's eyes widened in shock as he began to cry again.

"H-how did you know?" He asked between sobs.

"Professor used to talk a lot about that guy, he seemed to like him- not romantically but as the best student in this institute together with the other two but he talks about Oliver a lot not until he passed away.. Even his name he can't mention." Dean continued explaining while Ashton tried to calm Xaiden from crying.

"I'm so sorry for your loss.." Ashton says sadly while patting his shoulder.

It took a while for them to get the neutral mood back and started working, even though they took a few hours to help Xaiden calm down it was okay since the younger felt better after crying. Somehow, Dean felt like he kept his feelings for too long. As if he didn't even let it out when his brother died.