Chapter Nine

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A/N; GUYS I GOT MY IPOD BACK IM SO HAPPY - GUYS PTVS NEW SONG IS MY LIFE FUCK ME

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I got up from the floor, Vic doing the same. "I don't know what to do...", I sighed. "Tell him it was a dare?", Vic said like it was obvious. "Don't you understand that it's not that easy?", I asked, "I can't just... He said yes, Vic, yes. Do you know what that means?" Vic just exhaled rather loudly and shrugged. "It'll be okay."

"I have two hours, then I'm meeting up with him.", I informed Vic shortly, "Is it okay if you go home then? You can stay here if you want, but yeah, you'd be alone." He just nodded, "It's fine, I'll go home."

We continued joking, laughing, eating chips and just having a good time, completely forgetting about our unfinished game of truth or dare and the Oli issue. Before I knew it, though, one hour and forty minutes had passed. "Hey, do you know where Oli's house is?", Vic asked as we climbed back down from the treehouse. I stopped. I hadn't even thought of that. I wanted to face palm, but I probably would've fallen, so I just groaned. "No", I sighed, "I'll call him in a minute."

"I know where he lives", Vic said, "I'll walk you there... I mean... If that's okay with you and stuff." I chuckled at his cute awkwardness and just nodded, "That'd be really cool." We made our way back toward the house again, across the backyard. I collected my phone, earphones and a lighter. I didn't smoke, but I had a fair collection of lighters, because I liked to burn things. Random papers, mostly, the fire had something calming and I liked the smell. So, I always carried one around, just in case I felt like setting something on fire.

Vic seemed to have forgotten that he was still wearing one of my hoodies, but I didn't mind in the slightest. He looked adorable and I didn't need it anyway. We started walking along the sidewalk, Vic leading me a few blocks away. We made some small talk here and there, but it was mostly just comfortable silence. I liked, how when I was with Vic, we could go from wrestling on the floor, yelling insults at each other, to silently walking down the street, lost in our own thoughts, from one minute to another.

I usually had different people for different kinds of things. I had the fun people, whom I would always contact when I wanted to have a good time. I had the silent people, with whom I spent time when I wanted to think or just didn't want to be alone. I had the caring people, that would always be there for me and to whom I would go when I needed someone to talk to, so I could have a deep conversation.

I probably appreciated the caring people most, because they were the ones who really helped you through bad stuff. I know, this all sounds really selfish, but it's human. Think of your friends - if you're going to tell me, that you don't have different friends for different "purposes", then you're a liar. Everyone has that kind of friend "system", and it's actually really cool. But then, one day, there's just that one person that has everything. The person you can have endless fun with, talk about your problems with or who would be happy to just keep you company when you're feeling down. I had never met someone like that - before Vic. I think, that's what you call a best friend.

Friends are such an important thing, because they stay. Needless to say, that relationships, especially at such a young age, most likely will not last "forever and always". You should never ever forget about your friends, because they're the ones who will go through everything with you. I highly valued my friends - most of them, at least. I had about three real friends and the rest were people who hung out with me because I was pretty popular.

I tore my gaze away from the grey pavement and looked up. It was foggy. I loved the winter. I exhaled through my mouth. It was so cold, that you could see my breath. I kept doing it, probably sounding like I had asthma, but it was fun. "What the hell are you doing?", Vic asked after a while of me breathing at the cold air. "This", I said and exhaled deeply again. He tried to look weirded out, but I saw the small smile that was tugging at the corners of his lips.

It wasn't long, until we were both blowing our hot breaths into the air, trying to create shapes or just watch them slowly fade away, melt into he rest of the invisible gas, surrounding us. I laughed at Vic who was moving his head around rather strangely while exhaling and trying to convince me, that his breath had just looked like a narwhal.

"A narwhal, sure.", I said sarcastically, stuffing my hands into the pockets of my jeans. "I'm telling you! It was a fucking narwhal! It looked so cool! You should've seen - hold on, let me try again." He continued doing weird things, while I just smiled to myself. I really liked him.

I never thought I'd end up here, only a day after he had told me not to talk to him. Suddenly, I got something wet in my face. "The fuck?", I said. I looked around, noticing that it was raining... Or something. I held out my hand, and immediately some weird thing had landed on it. It looked like a mixture between rain and snow, melting away rather quickly on my (in comparison) really warm hand.

"How far until we get to Oliver's?", I asked Vic, pulling my hood over my head. "We just have to take a right back there and that's the street he lives on." I nodded, deciding not to question why Vic knew exactly where Oli lived. When we were in front of his house, he gave a kind of sad half-smile. "I'm sorry 'bout this, man", he said, "but don't worry, it'll be fine. See ya later."

I had the strong urge to pull him into a hug, but instead I just awkwardly waved and mumbled a "later", before stepping onto Oli's doorstep, contemplating my choices. I could either ditch him, but face him at school anyway, or talk to him and tell him what's going on.

I decided against the first options and knocked on the door, with a really really bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

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A/N; sorry that this is so short it's 1:30am where I am but I really wanted to update for you guys ily all

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