My Murderous Finale - ✔️

Chapter 23

I was in the hospital for two weeks. Kellan and Milo switched off staying with me. It was the quietest when it was only Milo and me. I couldn't blame him, this was not the situation he was expecting to end up in the middle of. It still bugged me not knowing what he was going to say that first day when Kellan walked in and stopped him Mid-sentence.

Kellan was with me for a few more hours tonight. Then Milo would come to stay for the night, I assumed he liked that time so he didn't have to find things to talk about.

"Has Milo said anything to you when it's just y'all two?" Kellan asked me

"What?"

"Like has he mentioned anything that was bothering him? He's just been really weird lately. Quiet and just like, I dunno, sulky"

"No. He hasn't said anything"

" Maybe he's just messed up from seeing all that. I dunno. I do know he was not himself when we walked in that room." He stated as he flipped through channels like he was just talking about something dumb like the weather.

"What? What do you mean he wasn't himself?" I was very interested in what information I'd get out of this conversation that Milo wouldn't tell me himself.

"Listen, Elliott, I know about yall. I knew the entire time y'all had," he waved his hand around dramatically " whatever it was, going on. I just didn't care. You finally seemed sorta happy. He is my best friend, I know he's a good guy and wouldn't hurt you. You'd just been through so much shit, ya know? I just didn't care. And I still don't. But I knew what I was walking into that night. I knew Evan's past, I knew how he treated you and I heard it all over the phone. But Milo?" He turned to me and I held my breath. I didn't want to imagine any of it, I didn't want to cry about this. " Milo had no idea. Not even a clue. And I mean I get why you wouldn't have told him I really do Elliot. And I'm not saying that you should have. All I'm sayin is that while you were in surgery and after, he just has been not himself."

I didn't know what to do with this information. Part of me wanted nothing more than to go back to the way things were between us these last few months. But then the other part of me didn't feel like I deserved to want anything with him. I never even considered the possibility that he would have some type of feelings for me besides sexual ones.

"Just talk to him, Elliot."

I wanted nothing more than to talk to Milo. I loved talking to him, I had apparently gotten used to talking to him all the time. I hated sitting in silence with the only person besides my brother that I enjoyed talking to. So I nodded, promising I would.