Sinking In The Deep End - Chanlix

Seven

If I gave you one more chance,
Can we go back again?

Chris arrived at the bottom of the hill as he walked home from school that day, it had been about a week since parents evening and was the average Monday. Except for Chris, it wasn't. Felix hadn't been seen all day and his boyfriend had no idea why, it made it harder that only one boy had a phone to contact the other with (Felix's parents never let him have one). He walked around the corner onto the street he had met Felix on, his hands shoved in the pockets of his simple waterproof jacket. He was thinking about his special boy until his thoughts were snapped away. When a mysterious yet oddly familiar female figure came into view.

"Uh, hello? Can I help you?" Chris asked, wary as the woman came closer. He had full memory and familiarity of the woman's face but he just couldn't figure out who it was. What women did he know that wasn't teachers? She was way to old to be his sister, Hannah was younger than him.

"You are Chris? Am I correct?" The woman questioned, monotone with her voice. She had a blank expression with no emotion, who did that remind him of?

"Maybe, who are you?" Chris slowly stepped back, nervous around the mysterious female.

"So you are, Chris? I remember your face now." She spoke, barely moving from her spot directly in front of him.

"How do you know me?"

"I don't know you half as much as my son does." Then it clicked, this woman was Felix's mother. Chris recognised her from parents evening, her aura similar to the one Felix gave off when they had first met except Chris didn't know if this woman had any love or care in her. With Felix, he felt it. "You have distracted him and messed up his life. You also made him break our rules."

"The 'rules' you and his father have against him are cruel! Forcing him to hide all emotions and teaching him to feel like nothing but a burden to all the people in his life? That's fucking abuse! Neither of you have any love for eachother and certainly not for him! That's unfair!" Chris pointed his finger in the woman's face, anger building up in him more and more after his outburst. He hated the woman before his eyes in a way he never thought he'd ever hate someone. Hate may be a strong word but that hate came from the love he had for the son of that woman.

"How dare you speak to me like that?" She yelled, right back into the boy's face and taking him aback. "You have quite the nerve speaking to me with such a horrific tone!"

Chris didn't speak, he just smiled. That smile turned to a chuckle, which went to a laugh very quickly. The blank expression across the woman's face just as quickly turned into a glare that was so sharp it nearly sliced right through Chris.

"Quit laughing." She said, quieter yet firmer in her words. "I was originally just going to merely ask you to go away."

Chris' laugh faded into the abyss, as each word slipped off the tongue of the woman he despised.

"Yet you've proven to be nothing I want around my son."

SINK-

"I don't care where you go as long as it isn't here in Australia."

-ING

"I just want you as far as you can possibly get away from Felix."

IN

"And if I don't?" Chris had no clue where he had the courage to ask this, but he did.

THE

"I won't hesitate."

D

"To do what?" Chris asked, shivers down his spine. Fear, anger and sadness filled his clouded mind. He was on the brink of breaking down right then and there.