close to you ; tofuudiger

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love and blood

joe had about six missed calls from his mom.

his hands were to shaky to call her back so zack drove him home and he'd have to face her rage head on.

before he got out of the car, joe undid his seat belt and threw his arms around zack.

"you promise you didn't kiss him?"

"i promise, i only want to be with you and only you. i told you tyler and josh aren't in a good place and he was hurting and confused." zack replied. he kissed joe's head.

joe pulled away from zack because he had to go see his mom who was worried sick about him.

"i love you joe," zack said. his words were so certain and felt like music in his ears.

"i love you too," and joe got out of the car and into his yellow house.

zack didn't pull out of joes driveway right away. he first watched him go into his house.

he was so worried about joe, all the time.

he shook joe out of his head and began to back out of the driveway. it was time to find josh.

zack drove to josh's house and knocked on the door.

he tried to be calm.

josh's dad answer and zack plastered a smile on his face.

"hi mr. dun, i was just wondering if josh was home?" zack's voice turned to a sweet teenager being extremely polite.

mr. dun smiled back.

"yes, he's in his room, come on in zack," he opened the door wider for zack to come in.

the house smelled of faded cigarettes and vanilla candles.

"thank you," zack replied and walks down the hallway of the small house to josh's bedroom.

the smile fell to a frown as he knocked on the door. josh answer looking dead.

his eyes were puffy and he had dark purple bags under them.

nasty pimples scattered his face and his hair was a fiery mess.

and the smell hit zack right when the door opened.

"god josh," zack groaned covering his nose with his t shirt. "fucking take a shower."

josh didn't say anything. he grunted and pulled zack into his room and closed the door.

"what the fuck do you want?" he growled. his voice was raspy. he must of just woke up which was odd because it was almost 6 o'clock in the evening.

"this is for tyler," and zack pulled his arm back and punched josh in the face. just like he did to tyler, but harder.

"what the fuck!" he yelled. josh had fallen back on his bed. he took his hand away from his nose to reveal blood running down his face.

"why did you do it?!" zack yelled but keeping his voice at a level josh's dad or his siblings wouldn't come in.

"do what?" he mumbled wiping his bloody face with his shirt.

"cheat on tyler!?"

josh looked confused for a second. he looked at zack with anger in his eyes then to the ground.

"my cousin died and i was depressed and got drunk."

zack didn't know what to say.

"sara?" josh and sara were extremely close.