𝕊𝕒𝕕 𝕤𝕠𝕝𝕓𝕪 𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕤 ♡

Trusted, as in past tense

He looked so tired.
"Please just talk to me" Elton sighs, voice softer then usual. It's almost a quiet plea.
Colby huffs. "There's nothing to talk about"
"You were in a coma"
"I dont give a shit about the coma"

Or

Colby wakes up alone in the hospital and looses trust in the ones he loved. He's so tired

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There's something heavy about the room. A weight that Elton wishes he could ignore but knows he can't. Colby sits silently and closes himself off. Sinking into a slouch in his bed.

He looks so tired.

"Please just talk to me" Elton sighs, voice softer than usual. It's almost a quiet plea. Colby huffs, "nothing to talk about."

"You were in a coma."

"I don't give a shit about the coma."

Elton squeezes his eyes shut, trying not to think about how he let his friend go along with the stupid stunt he tried and failed to do. How he hit his head so hard he almost died.

Obviously, he gave a shit about something. The effects were obvious. Everything that made Colby, Colby, he had stopped doing. No more laughing, no more teasing, no more random burst of excitement, and no more Sam.

"Then what is it?"

Colby shifts in his spot. "We were always together. It's always been him and me vs the world. We promised we would always be there for each other, no matter what" He sniffs, "we were always seen as one. Always seen as a friendship that would last forever, and I trusted him. He was my best friend"

Elton frowns. He doesn't have to ask who.
" Was ? As in?"

"As in, was . Trust ed. Past tense."

"Colby," the man starts Carefully, "what happened?"

Silence rings In the air, seconds dragging by until finally, Colby shrugs, a broken whisper pushing past chapped lips. "I woke up alone."

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Colby passes Sam on his way down stairs when he finishes talking to Elton. The blonde starts to speak.

Colby rounds the corner and doesn't look back. 

The next morning Sam gets up early to ask Colby how he's been doing. Colby hears him outside his door.

He doesn't let him in.

Nearing lunch time, Sam tries to talk to Colby when he finally does come out of his room.

Colby avoids the voices of his friends and goes out for lunch by himself.

He doesn't come back home till he knows everyone's asleep.

Later in the week when Colby passes Sam while heading to the bathroom Sam no longer tries to get his attention.

The cycle continues. Colby doesn't talk to anyone. He doesn't eat lunch or dinner with anyone. He doesn't hang outside of his room. He doesn't exist unless someone other then his old friends invite him out.

The days feel heavy.

Colby is tired.

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It's a couple of weeks later when Colby goes to open his door and sees the shadow of feet through the crack.

Sam waits.

Colby doesn't open the door.

Sam doesn't leave.

Hours later there's a creak and when Colby looks up he sees Sam has his spare room key.

Sam frowns.

Colby stays frozen on the bed. 

"Look, I know it's an invasion of privacy to open your door when you dont want me to but I really don't want to hear it. I tried to talk to you when you came back from the hospital but you avoided me. So I thought maybe you needed space. Then even after I gave you like a week of space you still avoided me and everyone else?! Serious what the hell Colb-"

"No," Colby says.

Sam frowns. "No?"

"No," Colby starts, "No- you don't- You don't get to be angry with me"

"Are you seriously-!"

"No! Sam! You do not get to be angry with me right now! You don't get to be angry that I- that I left when- when you left me alone!"

"Colby wha-"

"Where were you?! Huh! Where were you Sam?!"

Sam shakes his head in confusion, "what? where was I when?"

"When I was in the hospital! When I was in a coma! When I almost died!" Colby screams, "where were you when I woke up alone?!"

"Colby-"

"Where were you?! Where were any of you?!"

"We went home it- it was a long day-"

Tears slide down Colby's face as he shakes his head, "I trusted you. You and Corey, and Elton, and jake. I trusted you. You guys are my emergency contacts and yet nobody came when they said I was awake!"

"We rushed you to the hospital as soon as you fell dude! You were so out of it we didn't- there wasn't a point in staying- they called but we figured you would be alright-"

"I was alone."

"We-"

Colby shakes his head again, "I almost died and then I woke up alone."

Sam stares hopelessly, tears slipping down his cheeks. He opens his mouth.

Colby ignores him.

He is so fucking tired.