The Mysterious Case of Jasper Drake (boyxboy)

The Mysterious Case of a Falling Sky

Chapter 10

Grey let out a small whimper as he got into his car.

His legs felt as though they were catching fire with every step he took, each one decaying into a fearsome mass of ashes. He now knew what Ghost Rider felt like.

He had swung his bat at flying projectiles so often that his arms ached just thinking about repeating the action. The coach had been a little anal retentive about the game, wanting to get them ready. However, the man seemed to hate him even more because he expected more from him, which was Grey’s own fault for over achieving.

He slammed his door shut and watched the locker rooms waiting for Reggie to come out. Leaning his seat back, he was about to close his eyes was when he saw something out of the side mirror.  He turned and looked behind him. Reggie had come from the locker room, and was walking toward a small green punch buggy that sat on the off skirts of the parking lot. He stopped at the window, Grey tried to squint to see who was driving the car but could not make out the disposition.

Grey leaned out to call Reggie’s name. However, he stopped when he saw the familiar caramel colored face. It was just Shay. Grey grinned; Reggie had finally got some sense knocked into him. He looked once again and saw Reggie walking around the other side and getting into the car. Good for him, now if Grey could only get his love life together.

He sighed, reaching behind him and fastening his seatbelt with a click. Now he could go home and spend more time with Sky. He felt kind of bad because he had been spending less time with Sky in favor of Jasper, he did miss spending his nights watching lame chick flicks and rating the guys one through ten.  He loved sitting with his sister and have her regard his orientation as a super power, able to reveal which of Hollywood’s best had gay tendencies.

He smirked. He didn’t know when ‘later’ would come to talk to Jasper, but the other boy knew where he lived and certainly had no problem knocking on his door to talk to him, even though it was at strange times of the night.

Grey turned onto a back street that would take him to his neighborhood. It was a narrow road surrounded by a wide expanse of forest on both sides. Reggie and Grey had often joked  that something like Wrong Turn would happen on their way home from school one day. That mutated human beings lived in the woods and would one day grab the car and drag it into the forest. Then again he and Reggie had thought that they were power rangers once as well.

His hand gripped the steering wheel. He couldn’t shake the sight of the angry look on his best friend’s face. Grey had never seen him so angry, and he had never told Grey to go away.  Maybe he was mad at him? Grey could see it; he hadn’t exactly been the best of a friend to Reggie lately. Hell, he hadn’t even told him what was happening with Jasper. This Grey found odd, because he told Reggie everything, when Sky was diagnosed with cancer, when he wanted to quite baseball. He had looked out for him when his parents had left him on the steps in elementary school, when his dad kicked him out the house for a week for being gay.

Millions of other things ran through Grey’s mind until he was snapped back to the world around him by something slamming into the window shield of his car.

“Oh shit,” he exclaimed, slamming down on his breaks. The road was empty and void of any vehicles. Grey stared up at his window shield and saw that it contained a spider like crack. Grey paled when he saw that blood dripped in a trail from the crack of the damaged glass. “Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.”