He keeps finding me

1.23

Even though Noah made the dirt useable to plant fruits and vegetables again, he had never been to the plantation. So when Zenix guided him through the hallway behind the kitchen to a staircase upward, he was confused.
"I know, I know, stairs? We have an elevator but the way up is unfortunately the stairs," Zenix said as they made their way up, at the top of the stairs Noah saw plastic curtains and something he hadn't seen in a long time, the sun. He pushed the curtains away and walked along a path between the vegetables.
Zenix took his upper arm, then took his hand away, "Sorry, some people don't like to be touched. If that bothered you in any please tell me now."
Noah shook his head, "No, I am fine with you touching me. You wanted to bring me somewhere right?"
Zenix smiled softly, "Yeah, it's just a bit further in this direction." They walked along a path full of dirt, water, and some kind of leaves. Further out where Zenix was walking with him was a grass field. 

Zenix then jogged to the field and sat down, looking at Noah who was getting closer and closer. Noah sat down next to Zenix and looked ahead, he saw the most beautiful sight in such a broken world. A metal fence surrounded the whole plantation, but it still didn't hide the beauty of the red, orange, and yellow colors in the sky. It was a symphony out of the most precious colors. Even a slight breeze of fresh wind blew through the plants and produce around them, "I loved looking at this and feeling this. When were a trio. Maison probably already told you a bit, but let me explain it properly." Noah was surprised, he didn't let it show on the outside though, since he thought, the Dou thought their savior was Jay.
Zenix looked at the sky with a deep feeling of loss, "We were a trio once, Ben, me and Francis... In middle school a lot of shit happened to them both, Ben's sister was diagnosed with mid-stage cancer. It was curable, so his family and he worked hard to get the hospital and treatment fees. At the same time, Francis came out as non-binary, their parents didn't take well to that. Saying Francis had it all in their head and it was just a phase. That it wasn't real."

He sighed deeply, "There was a girl, but Anna wasn't just a girl. That bitch was the daughter of the principal, so she could do whatever she wanted whenever she wanted. And the school turned a blind eye, how threatening that was we knew when she bullied a transgirl into suicide just because she was trans. Her name was Tessa. No one did anything, the whole school knew she was the one who bullied her to death, but no one did anything. Even when the police came and some students, myself included said it was Anna, they did nothing." There was so much frustration in Zenix's eyes, Noah could even see his bawling fists.
Then Zenix took a deep breath to calm himself, "So after that, we tried to keep a low profile. Ben asked me to help him make some money, so after a lot of discussions I decided to join a gang with him. We didn't tell Francis, they would have just worried and maybe even got us to quit. Then after a month or so, we heard about another suicide. Gary Halligan, he was a good friend of mine, came out as gay a year before Tessa's death. When I heard he was dead, I almost killed her myself. I was in a gang for a month, I could get rid of her. But both Francis and Ben held me back. Said it was no use."

Noah could see how emotional it made him, Zenix had tears in his eyes that had yet to fall, "We were so preoccupied in the gang business, that we didn't realize that Anna's next victim was Francis. They didn't say anything either, not even to me and they knew they could talk to me I never had anything in the term of life going on. But they kept to themself, shut us both out and when we confronted them, they fired back, saying that we don't tell them where we go after school either. We knew we fucked up. We- fuck..." He cried, tears running down Zenix's face as he tried to calm himself by breathing slowly and looking in the sky, as to make the tears dry faster. Noah felt that it was a hard topic to talk about and laid a hand on Zenix's shoulder to show that he was there. That that time had passed, that he could talk about it.
Zenix cast him a  grateful smile, "Thanks. On the day they killed himself, we just thought they had a good day. They were smiling the whole day, everything seemed normal and like time was turned back. Only in the evening, we got a message... In the message, they told us that we were their best of friends and that they knew we would stand behind them no matter what, but that they couldn't do it anymore. They couldn't take the torment anymore, and to give them our blessing. In the hopes of them finding a better life."