It's Not All Roses

Chapter 3

As the summer continued, Dominic and I spent more time together. There was no pain whatsoever at that time. Just happiness. I hadn't felt like this in so long. Is this what pure happiness felt like? Well, whatever it was, I wanted to feel it forever. I loved the feeling that Dominic gave me. Just his presence in the room made me feel good.
After a couple months, I was finally going to ask him to be with me. We went to the pool like usual, but while we were there, something happened. Dominic and I had been talking, and he brought up a girlfriend. I didn't know he had a girlfriend. I should have asked. That news hurt me. I didn't show it, though. We just went on with the day like normal, but that bothered me.
After about another month, school started again. Dominic and I still saw each other every day, but it saddened me when he wasn't there beside me every night. I would stay up for days, just to talk to him. I would stay up through full nights just to be awake when he woke up. After a week or so of school, Him and his girlfriend started having problems in their relationship. I tried my best to help him through it, just as he had done for me. The girl eventually found my username, and started contacting me. She told me that all of the fighting was my fault, and that if I didn't exist, they would be fine. She told me that I should get out of his life, and go straight to hell. I just blocked her. Dominic ended up doing the same. She made a lot of alternate accounts to try to get to us, but we just blocked them. We both agreed that we were the happiest we had been in a long time.
A week went by, it was Dominic's birthday by this point. I didn't get him any presents. I was planning on making that day special in my own way. I stayed up all night again, and was awake when he woke up in the morning to say happy birthday to him. I spent the day with him, took him places, walked him home after dark. I got home, and immediately opened my laptop to text him. When I opened it, I had one message from him.
"Can I ask you a question?" is what he had said.
"Go ahead." I responded, nervous.
"So um, I really don't want to make anything awkward between us, but I want to get this off my chest. I like you, Lucas, and I don't mean in a friend way. I want to be more. I love you, Lucas. I understand entirely if you don't feel the same, and I won't be upset." is what he said.
When I saw this text, it felt like my heart lit up. I was beyond happy.
"I would love to date you, Dominic." I responded. "I love you too."
We continued chatting for a bit, before Dominic said he was tired.
"Happy birthday, Dominic <3" is what I typed, before going to sleep.
The next morning, I woke up to a friendly text from Dominic. "Good morning <3"
I sent it back, and got ready for school. I was very excited to see him, but then I stopped for a moment. I realized that I would have to see Molly, who went on my bus. I would have asked my mother to take me, but she was already at work. I thought about asking her if I could just stay home, but I had stayed home once recently, and I didn't want to push it. I got my things and walked to the bus stop, where there was a group of kids standing. Two of the kids stood out to me. It was Molly and Stacy. Stacy began to approach me, as Molly and another kid grabbed her arms, and held her away from me as I walked by. I sat on the steps, and just listened to them talk about me. I wasn't going to say anything, but it made me a bit pissed. This was me and Molly's business, no one else's. When the bus finally came, I got on and sat alone, then pulled out my laptop. I put in a pair of earbuds, and turned on music. I drew all the way to school. when I got off, I decided to text Dominic to meet me in the bathroom, to which he agreed. We met, then went to get breakfast. He took me to where our friend group was seated, and we sat down with them. We all ate before heading to first class. Dominic told me he would meet me afterwards. We met half way between our first classes, and held hands as we walked to second class. His hand was warm and comforting. I wished that I could have held his hand all day. during lunch, all those nights awake finally started to hit me. I was exhausted. Dominic took my hand.
"I'm tired." I stated.
"Then sleep. I'll wake you up when we get called to get food." He replied.
I leaned against him, and fell asleep. He woke me up to get food, and after the group and I cleaned the table, I went right back to sleep. After lunch, Dominic woke me up and we walked to our last class. I slept enough to make it through one more class. during homeroom, I was asleep yet again. I figured it was best to start sleeping again. I didn't like falling asleep so much in school. After we both got home, Dominic and I met up. We went to get dinner, then went back to my place to watch anime and play games. I love him.
'This is a good relationship' I thought to myself. 'I can finally be happy again.'