2,000 Lives -Mavin fanfic-

Chapter 8

(Michael's POV)

Chocolate was definitely a delicacy these days. With so few jungles left, you could only buy cocoa beans at a few stores. I thought about the possibility that Gavin had never even tried them before considering how much money they would cost him.

I didn't do anything to distract myself while I baked him cookies. I knew they had to be perfect, or at least I thought they did if I was going to explain everything to him. I needed to explain he wasn't some heart-broken fool. When he had kissed me it had immediately made our relationship much more complicated than I had ever thought it would be, but I didn't want to think of it like that. Truth was I kinda liked that kiss he gave me. Did that mean I was going to divorce Lindsay? No. But me and Gavin could still... be friends. We could just have feelings for each other and just both exist with each other, right? It didn't need to be complicated if we didn't want it to be.

I pulled them out of the oven and saw they were brownish around the edges, but still fluffy and soft looking. The chocolate chips were melted perfectly and I couldn't help but wipe a bit off with my finger and lick in clean. I let them cool and then put on my usual skin for the day. Then I found a nice platter and put all the warm cookies on to it in a pyramid form. I finally walked slowly over to Gavin's house, making sure not to trip over anything and drop them.

I knocked with my free hand on the door.

"Gavy I made you a special breakfast!" I yelled, trying to look through his window. I didn't see him on his bed. I went back to the front of his house and opened his un-locked door.

"Gav?" I asked as I stepped inside his house and looked around at the paintings. His bed was made and the rooms were tidy and well kept. I walked around the house looking for him with a quick pace, going faster and faster as time went by.

"Gavin?"

I set the cookies on the floor and turned to face one of the back walls of his house. I carefully grabbed and picked up one of the picture frames, and then moved it away to reveal there was some large wooden object behind it. I removed two more until one side of the familiar doors appeared, and then I slowly opened the door and entered the large stone room.

Gavin kept the 3 towers of pimps he had ever won in that room. It was quite sad and pathetic really, it was like he had been asking for a beating when he built it. I didn't spend too long in it though. At another time I would have flooded the place with water and teased him about it, but my mind was too filled with worries to act silly.

Leaving the platter of cookies on the floor, I ran out of the house and into Achievement City where Jack was walking towards the cactus field with a pic-axe in hand.

"Jack!" I called out. "Do you know where Gavin is?! Where are you going?"

He stopped and turned to face me with a warm smile but it slowly disappeared as he tried to focus on my words.

"I was just going to go fix up the red stone across the bridge for the mine carts. And I'm not sure where Gavin is, you looked in his house?"

"Yes!"

"Huh. Well I'm not sure, maybe he went on a walk," he said as he turned around and tried to walk off again. I grabbed him by the shoulder and stopped him, making him give me a confused "what gives?" face. He obviously wasn't thinking of it as seriously as I was.

"Last night," I said very slowly. "Gavin was talking about finding out who was responsible for murdering Ray."

"Well technically we don't know that Ray was murd-"

"That's not the point!" I yelled as I looked right in the eye, trying to show him how serious I was being. He finally caught on, and just stood there with his mouth open.