It all went downhill (boyxboy)

Part 13- I see the way you look at him

Benji's POV

We made it to my house. Instead of walking to my house like usual, I road with Zero since we were going to the same place but Alex drove behind us cause he has his car too. This French bastard has a fucking tesla.

Were currently in my oh-so-familiar room. The details in every nock and cranny retain numerous memories. From the gray walls that Zero and I painted my room after my parents split leaving random splashes of paint on the carpet. We didn't even get in trouble cause my dad was feeling guilty about the divorce.

Posters laying flat on my wall acting as windows to showcase my broad taste in music. My bed sits in the corner of my room with a black bed frame contouring the front and back of my mattress. My closet door has multiple stickers collected in many different ways littering the front of it. My scratched-up desk with a gaming computer that sits on top of it and a gaming chair that Zero loves spinning in.

My TV that sits on my black dresser that came with the bed with a ps4 consul that lays right beside it. My mom bought it for me on the first birthday I spent without her because she was in Australia with her new family. Zero and I played with it all night until I fell asleep. He was supposed to go home like all my other friends but he didn't want me to be alone after my birthday party cause he knew I would be sad.

I know that a lot of people might think I'm being dramatic but my parent's separation took a toll on me, but Zero was my light. Zero was the one that helped me through that. He was my only friend that I wasn't afraid to be vulnerable with.

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About two years after my parents split my parents already decided that it would be a good idea for me to stay with my dad in America and go to Australia with my mom during summer. Summer had already started for about a week and I was supposed to go visit my mom for the summer. I was so excited that I packed weeks earlier anticipating every moment before I knew I had to leave. The night before I was supposed to go Zero was over my house because I was about to leave for the whole summer so he wanted to spend as much time with me as possible, but then my mom called and told me that it wasn't the best time because she just found out that she was pregnant. I acted like it didn't affect me and congratulated her but I felt like I was being stabbed in the heart by my own mom. The women that was supposed to protect me from all evil.

As soon, as I hang up the phone Zero instantly, started asking questions. "What happened?" he asked very concernedly as his eyes searched my face. "You don't have to worry about being alone this summer." I replied with a fake smile painted on my face. "What?" he asked very confusedly.

"Oh, nothing really, it's just that my mother who I haven't seen since last summer just canceled the only time of the year that I get to see her." I said as I started laughing. "It's funny cause her excuse is so stupid. She said that she's pregnant so she can't see her already existing son, like how I'm I going to affect her pregnancy in any negative way. She's acting like she doesn't already have a stepson living with her." Tears start to pour out of my eyes involuntarily. I harshly wiped it off and stood up from the edge of my bed. I went straight toward my suitcase and started violently unpacking.

I wasn't sad I was just angry. She doesn't really care about me. She never really did. I kept on throwing all the clothes that I neatly packed out of the suitcase. I was so angry that I didn't even notice Zero walking up to me.

He wrapped his arm around me from the back and I froze. I didn't know what to do. He turned me around and grabbed the clothes that I was holding and gently placed them on the floor. He looked at me for a second and then started wiping the tears that I didn't even notice were still falling down my cheeks.

"She has replaced me," I spoke. "She's gone to Australia with her perfect new family and has replaced me."

Zero didn't hesitate to wrap his arms around me, embracing me with his warmth. I cried into his shoulders and he just held me tight as he uttered a bunch of reinsuring words to me.