I Will Be Beautiful...For You (Manxman)

Prologue

"Ree, what happened now?" He asks with his soft voice. "Is someone in your classes bothering you again?"
I avert my eyes as I continue taking big bites of one of the pies I had just purchased. Banana Cream Pie is my favorite. I could eat ten all to myself. That's the problem though. I always eat. Whether it's stress eating, or eating to push away emotional pain and whatnot. I am a compulsive eater and have been since 3rd grade. It's half my grandparents fault since they are the people who raised me and fed me food whenever I got sad over my parent's death. That's become a habit even now as I am in my third year of college. This guy complaining to me is my best friend, Kacy Parder. Kacy has been my best friend since before my parents died ad he hasn't strayed since. I live in an apartment across the street from my college while Kacy goes to the University a few blocks down the road. We go to different colleges, yet he visits me every day. He stays the night a lot, but he lives in a dorm on his campus. When he isn't here or at his dorm, he's at his boyfriends. I don't understand why he is still with that abusive asshole. Kacy is well built and is able to defend himself, but he won't. It's mostly because he was raised as a pacifist. He's never gotten into a fight or even caused one. He is the most gentle person I know. How can he stand being in a relationship with someone who beats him senseless over the smallest thing. I mean, Kacy's not perfect, but no one is.
"She wouldn't stop. What was I supposed to do? Hit her?" I finally snarl at him.
He grimaces and I immediately regret my choice of words. He gives me a pained smile. "Just ignore her. Ignore all of them. I love you, Ree, but you can't eat all of these pies by yourself. We talked about this. Your over eating will start causing major problems. Don't you want to live long enough to meet your soulmate and spend at least twenty years with him before you die?"
I scoff for two reasons. No one will ever see me as anything other than that fat guy eating a pie, and I will never love anyone more than I love Kacy. Kacy is my soulmate. Or so I'd like to believe that. Why else would he stick with me for so long if there was a small pull? Soulmates don't need to love each other physically. More spiritually than anything.
He sighs. "Well, I'm taking these and if I see that you bought any more sweets, I will freeze your account for a month." He carries the bags wth my pies in them to he front door and I follow him, leaving the one I was working on at the table.
"What are you going to d with those?"
He gives me a sweet smile. "There are some homeless people on my way home. I'm sure they would enjoy a pie or two."
When he says that, I have no choice but to smile back. He's such a nice person. "O-Okay."
He opens the front door and turns to me. We exchange our usual goodbye hug and he gives me a sweet kiss on the cheek like he does every day. A loud ding plays and he checks his phone after stepping back a bit. His face changes from happy to ecstatic. I give him a questioning look.
He giggles, "Jack wants me to come over tonight."
I frown. Great. So he can beat the shit out of you and you still love him?
He frowns and his brow furrows. "What's wrong, Ree?"
I shake my head. I know about the abusive boyfriend, but Kacy doesn't know that I do. "Nothing. You should get going. It's getting dark out and it's not safe for your pacifist self to be out and about in the dark in this kind of neighborhood," I reply with a small, forced chuckle.
He smiles. "Okay, Ree. I love you. I'll stop by tomorrow after practice."
I nod and watch as he leaves. I watch him make his way down the stairs and disappear around the corner, but not without waving one last time with a huge smile on his face.
I close the door and make my way back to finish the rest of the only pie he left me.