Re-ans

Re-ans Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Prelude to the fall

Luke sat bolt upright in his bed panting, his hand over his racing heart. It'd been that dream again, he just knew it. Though like always he couldn't remember a damn thing about it. All he had was some vague, yet certain impression that it was the same dream every time. He knew that he always woke up panting, heart racing, head feeling like it wanted to explode, and anything left over from the previous night's dinner wanting to come back up. He sighed and flopped back onto the bed taking slow deep breaths and willing his heart to slow back down.

"It's just a dream, It's just a dream." He repeated over and over to himself, and while it was true that it was just a dream, it was also true that he'd been having it more and more frequently lately. Still though it was just a dream. Nothing exciting ever happened in his life. The last exciting thing to happen to him was last week in the cafeteria when the vending machine accidentally gave him two bags of cheddar nuggets instead of one. Of course that victory had only lasted for about ten seconds before Gavin the troll came in and stole both of them from him, shoving him into the vending machine for good measure. Of course he wasn't allowed to call him Gavin the troll at home, considering Gavin was his cousin.

At family reunions, and holidays, and when his aunt and uncle went out of town, despite his being seventeen years old like himself. It seemed his aunt and uncle thought their precious Gavin wasn't old enough to stay home alone, and therefore had to sleep over. It was during these times that Gavin was the perfect little angel, and any attempts to convince his parents otherwise were met with head shakes and disappointed sighs.

When his heart began to slow back down to his normal rate he sat back up and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He reached and grabbed his cell phone, the light from the screen momentarily blinded him. He sighed, it was only 5:45 in the morning, forty-five minutes till he had to be up for school. Of course he knew better than to think that he'd be able to go back to sleep. He looked back at his phone and noticed he had a text message. He opened it and began to read it out loud to himself.

"OMG Luke, Brian is so hot, and so sweet. Last night after we left the club he, well you probably don't wanna know." Luke rolled his eyes and chuckled. It was from Tavish, who was his best friend, and the most interesting person Luke had ever known. Tavish was seventeen like himself, and he was a five-foot ten inch tall African American, built like a linebacker, homosexual, and wasn't afraid to tell you like it was. They'd been best friends since they were four years old. They liked the same movies, and video games, and they still played basketball together at the park down the street from his house almost every weekend. Luke could still remember the day Tavish had come out of the closet to him.

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They were sitting in his living room on his couch, both fifteen, surrounded by soda cans and the remains of a large pizza from their favorite pizza place. They were playing some futuristic war game, where you were the last survivors of the human race fighting against hellish creatures that crawled up from the center of the earth after it had been split from some major earthquake. They had just finished taking down one of the bosses. A large centipede-like creature, with acid spit and sharp spikes protruding from its entire body. When all of the sudden Tavish just blurted out.

"So I think I like dudes." Luke was a little shocked, but honestly not that much. While he at the time was pining over Cindy Vacellace, the head cheerleader who had all the right, uh assets. His friend had always seemed indifferent, and he'd often noticed him staring at Jackson Ashcraft, her boyfriend and quarterback of their team. He'd paused the game and looked at him, not quite sure what to say, but then a smile spread across his face.

"But not me right?" He asked with a little laugh. His friend, who had looked nervous, now laughed.

"Oh no not you honey, you're too skinny."