My Little pet

ch. 7

ZANDER'S POV.
I grabbed my plate off of the bedside table and walked out and into the living room. We ate in silence but it wasn't awkward silence. After we ate I took the dishes to the kitchen and washed, dried, and put them away. I went back to the living room and sat next to Hayden who was flipping through channels.
" so..... if you don't mind my asking.." I looked over at him "why did that song make you cry?"
I thought back to that day 3 years ago
"His name was Dallas, it was sophomore year. He was tall, blue eyes, and had blonde hair he always dyed blue and pink. He had a bubbly personality; even though he would get beat up everyday by bullies, he would smile, and his smile was contagious.
One day I saw him run out to the woods behind the school so I followed him. He punched a tree and fell down crying, I walked over to him and hugged him I didn't know what he was crying about because at that time no one knew he was being bullied. He sat and cried hard into my chest.
We became very close, told each other secrets, and things no one else would know about. Then one day he committed suicide. I didn't understand why he did at the time, I was so torn apart and confused because the bullies stopped torturing him.
The police found bruises and cuts all over his body and did an investigation; turns out he didn't tell me everything, his father was an abusive drunk and his mother hopped up on drugs. He and I would talk about running away together if only I had known what was going on at home I would've taken him and ran away." I said tears leaving my face. Next thing I knew Hayden was getting up and walked into the kitchen. He came out with a bottle of.... what is that.....I read the bottle he handed to me...
"This is whiskey I'm not old enough to drink this and its not even noon yet." I said handing him back the bottle.
"Just drink it." he pushed my hand back towards me."wait, on second thought don't we have to leave haha I forgot its a day and a half trip to the place we are going." He said standing up and reaching his hand out for me. I grabbed his hand and got up. "I already have everything packed and in the car."
We headed out to the car; after stopping for lunch he put his aux on and we listened and sang the songs. Luckily I knew almost every song he played. We went to taco bell for dinner, after a few hours it started to get dark and I was getting tired. I quickly fell asleep listening to Nevershoutnever play on the radio.
HAYDEN'S POV
I looked over at a sleeping Zander.... my god he's even more cute asleep...
He mumbled some things in his sleep; I couldn't make them all out, but it sounds to me like he loved that guy. Weather it was in a brother sorta way or not I couldn't help but feel a bit jealous.
"Hayden..." he said quietly followed by a slight moan.
"Yeah?" I said and he was quite... did he say my name in his sleep? Another moan left his mouth... my god now I'm really curious as to what he's dreaming about. I didn't want to wake him though so I put my headphones in and peeked over at him every once in awhile to make sure he was okay.