Bromance In The band

Chapter 27.

All he had to do was choose. Simple enough, right?
Ben watches as Michael, frustrated as ever, runs his hands through his hair and sighs.
"I need time."
Ben scowls. "Oh, like you needed time to cheat on me in the first place? I trusted you! After everything we went through!"
The air whirls around them as the smell of a storm rages onward toward the bay, Leaves flying high and making patters on the ground like little lost pieces of a broken home. Broken was exactly how Ben was feeling. Betrayed was another. How could this even be happening to him, and he not have a clue it was going on?

Michael's POV

"You don't understand Ben.." I start, as I hear my voice crack. I looked at Ben with the best puppy eyes I could muster and watched him look away.
"Help me to then. Because where I am coming from, all I am seeing is me not being good enough."
God, he's so stupid. How could he even think that ?
"No Ben, you are good enough. Why the fuck would you even think that?"
"Well I wasn't good enough for you to remain loyal to me. What, did I do something wrong? Was I too much bother? Was me trying to protect our relationship too hard for you?? I did it all for you, you have no idea how much I love you. You just threw it all back in my face." He breathed in heavily and began again, raising his voice higher and setting goosebumps on my neck. "How many nights do you think I laid awake wondering how I could ever be so lucky as to have someone like you. It's so fucking mental how quickly things changed. One look from you was all it would ever take. One freaking kiss. That's all it took Michael. It took one kiss for me to finally feel like I belonged. I love your eyes, I love your hair, I love the way you look when you sleep and how you talk when you want something. I love how your face contorts when you small something you don't like. I love how you are so scared of thunder storms that you physically cannot sleep. I love how much you tell me you love me. Hell, I love your kiss. And you know what fucking sucks Michael? You kissed me and you let me believe that I was the only one you loved in your life. You let me love you. GOD, YOU MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU AND NOW IT'S GONE!"
He ends is rage and covers his mouth quickly.
I stand up. Did he just say what I though he said ?
"Y-you're in love with me?"
I see a tear fall from his cheek and splash into the deck below. I wonder, how someone so sad and so broken can still look so beautiful in the moonlight. He turns to face me, eyes no longer shining like they normally are, but instead are replaced with a dim, expressionless film.
I hear his voice shaking as he speaks. "Yes."
I bring myself to sit down next to him, about as close as I could without him leaning away from me as he wiped his face from the tears that had fallen within the last few seconds.
I lean in close to his face, feeling his war breath his my skin as we are merely a few centimetres apart.
"You're the only one I'll ever be in love with." I squeak, finally letting my emotions drop as I feel his hands wrapping themselves around my face. I close my eyes, and feel his lips crash into mine; the saltiness of his tears leaving a painful reminder that this was possibly the last time that things would be the same.