"Get your faggot ass down here now" my dad yells from downstairs. I didn't want to go down though. Instead of going out the door I open my window and climb into the tree right outside of it. Soon I am on the ground just as my dad sticks his head out the window. 'Oh shit' I think to myself and start running. Soon I am on the sidewalk and sprinting away from the torturous house. I can't stop running. No matter how much I wanted to stop, I couldn't. Soon I was on school grounds but I still couldn't stop. My legs wanted me to get away. Away from everything. From my life. As soon as my legs stopped I fell to the ground and stayed there.
"Hey are you ok?" I hear a light voice say. I look up and see a very handsome man above me.
"Yeah" I whisper.
"You sure?" he asks. I just nod and lay back down. I hear shifting and look up to see the man sitting next to me with his arms open, like he was expecting a hug. I hesitated but couldn't resist and crawled over to him and lied my head on his chest as his arms wrapped protectively around me. Oh, my name is Jayy Von Monroe and if you haven't figured it out yet, I am gay. Suddenly I felt something I have never felt before. I snapped back into reality only to realize that the stranger was kissing me and nothing against it, I kissed back.
"What's your name?" he asks after he pulls away.
"Jeremy but call me Jayy" I say back.
"Cool" he says and kisses my cheek. "Want to go to school?" he asks. I shake my head and stand leaving on the ground. I start to walk away from him but then get stopped by the bully at the school, Daniel. He was gay and thought that I belonged to him. He was abusive, like my dad.
"What are you doing up here?" he asks. I hesitate, I didn't want him to know that I was kissing some random stranger.
"Talking to my friend" I say, pointing to the stranger. He looks behind me and looks like he was about to attack.
"Hi" the stranger says.
"Who the hell are you?" Daniel asks the stranger.
"I am David Torres, but most call me Dahvie" he says. That was his name. I think in an 'oh' way.
"What were you doing with him?" Daniel asks and I knew right then that he was going to explode if Dahvie said anything else.
"Talking to him" Dahvie says. 'Shit' I think and see Daniel launch at Dahvie.
"Daniel stop!" I scream as he punches Dahvie in the face. He looks at me.
"Don't tell me what to do" he says and swings his hand back about to make another blow to Dahvie. I grab his hand.
"I said STOP!" I shout and throw his shoulder and hear a loud pop. Knowing exactly what I had just done. I help Dahvie off the ground and start to make a run for it with Dahvie's hand in mine. I turn into the woods and stop knowing Daniel would never find us here. I start walking deeper into the woods and realize that Dahvie hasn't let go of my hand. When we get so deep into the forest that no one would be able to hear us talking.
"Why didn't you let go?" I ask Dahvie as I turn to him. He blushes and looks at the ground.
"Cause you're cute" he says, not looking up. I tilt his head with two fingers making him blush more. Wow this guy really was pretty, even with a bloody nose.
"Are you ok?" I ask. He nods and looks back at the ground.
"How old are you?" I ask hopping he was somewhere around my age.
"Twenty-three" he says. Close enough. I then hear a branch snap and loud shushes like they were looking for us.
"Run" I say and grab Dahvie's hand again as we start running through the trees and over rocks. Soon we reach a creek and I know from experience that the water was freezing and fast moving. I find the rope I normally use to get across and go to it quickly.
"Hold on" I say to Dahvie and he grabs onto my waist and I jump letting us get to the other side without being caught. Half way over the creek Dahvie slips and lands in the creek.
"DAHVIE!" I shout and try to catch him but it doesn't happen. I watch in horror as 26 year old Daniel picks Dahvie out of the water. Yes Daniel is 26 and still in high school.
"Hah, look the faggot has a running partner" Daniel shouts and I hear laughs from the other side of the creek.
"Daniel, just leave alone. He didn't do anything wrong." I say but Daniel didn't leave him.
"Shut the fuck up, fag" Daniel says and puts Dahvie on the ground and kneels down on Dahvie's chest and picks up a rock.
"Daniel don't do that" I say.
"Yeah, how are you going to stop me from the opposite side of the river?" he asks in a mocking tone. I look down at the creek and see that it wasn't moving fast enough for me to go down stream. I jump into the freezing cold water and get across without slipping. I get to the other side where Daniel had Dahvie pinned to the ground and a rock in his hand. As soon as I reach them Daniel swings his arm back and slams the rock into Dahvie's arm. I hear Dahvie scream and suddenly something broke. I pick up my own rock and slam it into the side of Daniel's head. He fell to the ground screaming and Dahvie looks at me. I pull him up and check his shoulder. It was bleeding and had a huge bruise. I lift up the freezing Dahvie onto my back and run out of the forest with his head in the crook of my neck. He slides off my back once we were on the sidewalk and started to walk away from the woods and I follow him.
"Where are we going?" I ask wrapping my arm around his waist.
"My house" he says and leans into my side. As we walk down the sidewalk we were both quiet afraid of what we were going to talk about. Soon we were at his house and he unlocked and we walked inside.
"I think it's best for me to go and for us to never see each other again" I say as my heart broke more by each word. I watched as Dahvie's eyes filled with tears and he fell to the floor crying.
"Why?" he asked.
"I don't want you to get hurt anymore" I say. He started crying even more like he was in more pain then he was in the forest.
"I can't lose you to some stupid ass incident that happened on accident" he cries.
"Where are your other friends?" I ask, I was really curious. Why was he crying over losing a friend that he just met? I ask myself. He only cries more.
"I don't have any other friends" he says trying to calm himself, which he was failing miserably. I suddenly realized that he was my only real friend and I was his. I couldn't leave him like this it would break my heart. I sit on the ground next to him and pull him into my arms. Soon he stops crying and his breathe evens out signaling that he was asleep. I pick him off the ground and carry him into what I was guessing his bedroom. I lay him down and start to leave the room but I feel a slight tug on my jacket.
"Don't go" I hear Dahvie's soft sad voice say. I turn back to him and see his eyes open and bloodshot. I move closer to him and lay down. I couldn't steer myself away from him. I knew right then that I was in love with Dahvie.
