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They were going to be actual chickens but...yeah no. Also uh trigger warning: homophobia. Don't worry I'll follow up with a fluffy DonKi one because PRIDE MONTH IS NO TIME TO WRITE ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA! Actually Pride Month is about acknowledging the struggles the community has faced and celebrating each other (and not just putting a rainbow on everything AHEM Target) so maybe this is actually the perfect time to write about these struggles. ANYWAYS, Happy Pride Month, leave requests, and/or constructive criticism and I hope you enjoy!)~



Today was just supposed to be like any other day. Beat up some nerds, try not worry about the ongoing war, burn through a pack a of cigarettes. And all of these things were done today. And it wasn't like he knew what exactly was going to happen or be said. But he certainly was not expecting this to happen.

Stunned, Jimmy stared back at a tense Jack. He looked back at Jimmy with a expecting expression like he was supposed to say something. But what the hell was he supposed to say? For a few moments they just started at each other in silence the tension grower thicker by the second.

     "Well-"

     "What the fuck did you just say?" Jimmy spoke faster than his mind. Jack seemed to slightly move his shoulders up in quick fashion that seemed to almost resemble a flinch. To Jimmy who, was so used to seeing Jack with little to no emotions at all, it seemed like such a big movement.

     "I said...I said I'm gay." Silence. That was all that Jack was greeted with; silence.

     "I'm sorry, what?" Jimmy's mind couldn't quite comprehend those words. Gay as in-?

     "I don't like girls, I'm into guys. You know, homose-"

     "Yeah I know what gay means, but the hell do you mean you're gay?" Jimmy took a shaky drag on his cigarette. His best friend couldn't be gay. That was just not right...right? Maybe there were a few times Jimmy had thought about being with a guy but he wasn't like that. He thought himself disgusting for even having thoughts like that. Everyone thought it was gross, he thought it was gross, why would this be okay?!

Jack stared back Jimmy blankly. Or at least it seemed blank but to Jimmy, who had grown accustomed to reading Jack's microscopic shows of emotion, he saw the slight downward twist at the corner of his mouth and the tiny crinkles at the bottom of his eyes as signs of anxiousness.

"I mean I'm gay....I thought that you...we- I mean don't you...-"

"The hell are you on about?!" Jack didn't need to finish his sentence for Jimmy to understand what he was getting at.

     "You don't really think I'm-I'm- I'm like that do you?!" Jimmy practically yelled at Jack.

     "Didn't one time you tell me you thought you were bi?" Jack responded calmly. It wasn't really calm though. Jimmy noticed how at the end of his sentence his eyes shifted ever so slightly to right. A sign of unease.

      Jimmy recalled the moment Jack was talking about. They were just chilling at the back of the school, just the the two of them, like usually when Jimmy had suddenly declared he maybe felt a bit differently. That maybe there was some attraction to guys. Now he finally understood why Jack's eyes glinted when he said that.

     The thing was he wasn't bisexual. And even if he was it's not like he was gay. Plus he didn't talk about bisexual in a nasty way like they did about gay. And, yeah, that was because people hardly knew what bisexual was so there wasn't much to talk about in the first place and discussing sexualities besides straight wasn't practically forbidden around here. So he decided that if hardly anybody knew about then it wouldn't be as bad as gay and if he was bi then be couldn't be gay right? But the point is he isn't bisexual or gay.

     "I'm not like that ok?! I said I thought not that I am! And even if I was I'm not gay! I'm not...not-"

     Jimmy couldn't even find the words to properly explain. Why was it so hard for him to just say that he wasn't gay?! He wasn't! So why couldn't he say it aloud?

     "Jimmy I thought that we had this-this..." Jack gestured widely at the space between them.

     "This what, Jack!" Jimmy was just downright annoyed and confused which was rapidly turning into frustration and anger. "You thought there was 'something' there? You thought that since I didn't treat you like dirt that I, what, liked you or something?! That's-that's fucking ridiculous!" Even as he said it he could've sworn he felt betrayed. Not by Jack but by his words. He was so utterly lost that even his own words and thoughts didn't make sense to him anymore.

     "But I-"

     "Jack, no. I-no. Just no." As he said it he made a chopping motion with his hand like he was cutting off the last ties of their friendship.

     As Jimmy, an angry and confused mess, walked away he spared one last glance at Jack who might've looked completely fine to someone else but to Jimmy he read the slight crinkle of his brows as a sign of sadness. Jimmy knew that he caused this sadness but what he didn't know was why it made his heart feel so heavy.

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HEADCANNON OF THE DAY: Kingsley is a germaphobe. (I forgot to add this earlier sorry)

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