(Don't play this song until I tell you to! The song is The Other Guy by Jesse McCartney... The story is coming to an end soon :/ plz enjoy)
Chapter 20
Thomas's P.O.V.
Lyne gave me the sketch of Joey and it looks amazing.I haven't texted Joey in 5 days he hasn't texted me either. What does it mean? I don't know. I kind of want to keep the drawing of Joey so I can have something to remember this relationship by. But I can't, I need to talk to him.
Me- hey can I come over?
Joey- not home right now, what about tomro?
I look at the time. 7:05. Why isn't he home? Ug whatever, he's probably with Michael next door. I need to stop, Joey said that he would never cheat on me, yet he still goes to see Michael.
Me- okay see you are 2
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Walking up to Joey's house, my heartbeat is hard and fast.
I ring the doorbell and wait. What did I want to say, should I break up with him before he breaks up with me. Damn it, I forgot the picture in my car. I run to my car and fumble with the keys, once I get it open I jump on my seat and pull the framed drawing. I close the door and turn into Joey.
"Sorry, I didn't see you there." I take his hand as he almost falls backwards.
"It's okay, I was distracted by your fat ass." He smirks while grabbing my ass. My face heats up.
"This is from Lyne." I say turning around the frame. His mouth opens and he takes it into his hands to get a better look.
"Oh my God this is amazing!" He pressed it to his chest. "She deserves the biggest hug."
He smiles so big and I smile.
"See, told you you'd love her." He takes my hand and pulls me to the front door.
"Whatever." He grumbles opening the door.
"Joey! Oh is this the guy from the other night?" I'm guessing his mom, what night is she talking about? I turn red once I remember, she knew.
"Yes, this is Thomas." His hand lets go of mine and he sighs.
"Thomas, it's nice to finally meet you." She smiles and holds out her hand and I take it. "I'm Joey's mother. Jerry, Joeys boyfriend is here!"
"Oh God." Joeys hand is in mine again and he tries to pull me up the stairs but his mom is now clung to my arm.
"Thomas! Its a pleasure to meet you." He pulled me into a big hug. "My wife told me that you guys used protection, I'm so proud of my little boy!" I watched as Joey's father gave him a noogie.
"Dad!" Joey pushed his cheesing father away.
"What?" He says smiling.
"Nothing, dad, nothing." His hand is in mine again as he pulls me up to his room. Maybe there was a reason why I haven't meet them before.
"I'm so sorry, my parents are crazy." He covers his face sitting on his bed.
"It's fine, they seem cool, unlike my parents." My parents were homophobes, at least his parents accepted him.
"Na, they are so embarrassing, they have no.shame in sharing anything. One day they warned me either leave the house or to keep my headphones on all night so that they could... " He shivered to the thought.
"Ew." I sit next to him.
"Anyway, how was your week?" He lays down on his back closing his eyes. I watch as his shirt rides up a little as he puts his hands behind his head. My mind goes back to the question he asked me and the nerves came back as I tried to figure out what to say.
"Thomas?" He opens one of his eyes to look at me and I smile.
"It was fine, I hung with Lyne a lot. She has a girlfriend now." I blab out.
"Cool, we should go see her so I can give her a nice long hug for that drawing." I don't want to go because she'll know I didn't talk to Joey about how I felt and she would force me or she would say it herself.
"Yeah, later." I say with weird laugh. Joey looks at me weirdly before sitting up and looking into my eyes. Why does he look at me like this?
"What's up, Thomy?" He says cuddling into my arm. Too close, he can probably hear how fast my heart is racing.
"I..." Damn. (Start the song now )
"You..." He says pulling away to look into my eyes, mind and soul.
"Do you love Michael more than me?" He pulls away from me and sighs. Too sudden, too blunt, did I hurt his feelings?
"Thomas, I still love Michael, I've known him for too long to not." Tears fill my eyes and Joey gets blurry. "I don't know if I love you yet." Tears flow down my face and I look down, hoping that my hair covers all of my face.
"I understand." My voice cracks but I can't help it.
Joey's P.O.V.
Thomas is holding onto his hands so tight they've turned white. I watch as tear after tear falls from his chin. What do I do now? I've told him the truth, and it hurt his feelings.
"Thomas?" He shakes his head no and wipes his tears away rather roughly.
"No, no, it's okay, I'm okay. I just." He sniffles and stands. I stand also putting my arm in his.
"Joey, no." He slips his arm out of mine. "I need to go." He walks out of my room.
My stomach flips. Did that just happen. I made Thomas cry. But I couldn't say that I love him because I don't, I love him in a different way. Nothing compares to the love I have for Michael. Well I fucked up. How could I get 'I love you as a friend' and 'I love you as a lover' mixed up?
(Yes the song is supposed to play through Joey's P.O.V. Its like a reminder of how Thomas feels now. Two more chapters to go. XD)
