The Runaway Groom // Brallon

Chapter 9

It's been four days, and he feels like this little dance he has with Brendon is becoming suffocating each day.

Explaining it would be complex. But it's not because he doesn't want to be around Brendon or anything. He feels like he's doing this for Brendon's own good.

That's right, for Brendon's own good.

"I've seen Brendon crumble and break down over something like this. Please don't be another one that breaks him."

Spencer is apparently Brendon's best friend. He specifically searched for an apartment close here to watch over Brendon. And that talk with Spencer just shows that he means well for Brendon.

It just brought him guilt, if he was honest. Just when he was starting to warm up his feelings to Brendon; to the point where he thought about giving it a chance. It's Brendon's change of demeanor in these past few months that made him see that the once boy who barged his car almost a year ago seems more like a man each day.

Dallon feels like he may not be the right person for Brendon, but he started to think about wanting to be.

He's been careful for so long. He knew the younger man's infatuation but it seems he wasn't careful enough that he's the one ending up falling deeper instead. He's older than Brendon. He should know better.

Dallon musters the strength to sit up from his bed, despite the protest that his body and emotion feels. He knows he's over thinking this, and Matty would have hit him in the head for being so ridiculous.

But Brendon matters to him much more than he thought he'd be that he couldn't bare hurt him.

Well, that's another problem to add in his list.

"What should I do, Zero?" Dallon turns helplessly to his puppy, looking up at him innocently from the floor. How he'd wish to be just as oblivious to the world's problems like Zero is.

Dallon hears soft steps from outside of his room. The steps halts in front of his door, and Dallon gulps; is Brendon gonna knock at his door?

He holds his breath, waiting for a sound to hit on his door but it doesn't happen. Dallon watches the shadow from under the door shift, then disappears just as the sound of the steps disperse.

Dallon sighs, hiding his face behind his hands out of frustration.

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He knew that the very moment Dallon came home that day was odd. And then the following days just became confusing.

Dallon is avoiding him.

Did he do something? Did he make Dallon mad at him or something?

Brendon can't take the silence he has to go through around Dallon. He wants to tell him how his day went, or how he's doing a great job at the cafe. In turn, he wants Dallon talk about how his day was. Were the kids good? What activities did they do? Did he talk to Nikki?

After making their breakfast, he thought he should at least make the first move and talk to the older man. He doubts Dallon would make the move between the both of them due to his anxiety.

That's how he's standing right at Dallon's door, arm raised as he readies himself to knock at the hard wood that separates them.

Well, he knew he was ready. But is Dallon ready?