Kiss Me (yaoi / boyxboy)

Chapter 12.5

Eli

I ignore the glares as I wait for Grey outisde the huge concrete building that looks more like a prison than a school. I keep checking my phone, uncomfortably waiting for a text from someone to give myself something to do. I really don't feel like running into that Drake guy either. Especially after that conversation where I told him he should keep away from Grey. So what if I played the whole, I have a rich family, I-could-do-anything-to-you-and-get-away-with-it card? I couldn't help it- he just sounds so goddamn pleased with himself all the time.

Im so wrapped up in my mental rant that I don't notice Grey until he gently tugs on my sleeve.
I jump and he giggles. He looks like he really does go to this school in his uniform. That sounded really stupid. What I mean is, the look of his shirt that's untucked and not completely done up, and the DM's on his feet. I'm not going to even start on the earring. He looks different, sort of sexy. Jesus Christ, what the hell am I thinking?

He suddenly looks concerned, "You alright? Your face is all red."

"Y-yep, I'm fine." He doesn't look totally convinced but he doesn't ask anything else.
"Let's go." We start walking down the road that leads to town. We cut through the park but he stops halfway through, making me turn back to look over at him.

"Do you remember this place? this is where I met you." He says, in a soft voice, looking at the children's play park full of family's, thankful of the shade provided by the thick canopy of trees.

Returning his smile, I remember what happened, I'd seen him slip on the playground. I didn't usually care when I saw someone hurt themselves- I'll admit it, I was a dickhead as a kid. Having grown up in a rich family, no matter how good my parents were, they spoilt me like rotten. But when I saw Grey, biting his lip and trying to hold in his tears, I couldn't help myself. I ran over and told him the same thing my mum would tell me, I'll kiss it better. So I'd kissed him, like the little wierdo I was. I thought he'd freak out and tell me I was a freak or something but he didn't. He just smiled up at me with those big green eyes glassy with tears. I don't think I'd ever seen anything so pretty.

I look over at him now, and see his face lost probably in the same memories as I had been. I take a breath in and step a little closer, my hand brushing against his. He doesn't move away and a little blush blooms on his cheek.

"Come on," I say, nodding towards the entrance of the park, "I want to take you somewhere." Now or never, I guess. I take his hand and pull him quickly along beside me to the gate.

Grey

He's holding my hand. Holy shit, Eli is holding my hand. He doesn't look back at me and I'm kinda glad excuse if he did he'd see me bright red and practically freaking out. Distraction, all I need is a good distraction. I look for one until I find it and unfortunately it's still Eli, just not his hand. There's a scar, one that I can only see because his wristband has moved up his arm slightly. It runs across inside of his wrist. It looks bad, and I cringe at the thought of how it must have looked when it was made. I want to ask him about it but I don't, not when it would take away that smile from his face.
I barely notice when we come to a stop. I feel my eyes widen, seeing our overhang. It really must mean as much to him as it does me. He pushes a branch from the overgrown bush that conceals our place from the passers by, and holds it open for me to pass. Its so beautiful here, the sun's shine fragmented into little diamonds across the surface of the sea. Pink cherry blossom petals swirl in the air around us we move to the banister.
He faces away from the sea, leaning his back and elbows against the banister. I can't stop staring at it though, remembering how it was when we'd come here as kids, safe in the knowledge that the adults couldn't find us.

Eli interrupts the comfortable quiet between us, "It's a strange place..."

"What is?"

"This whole town." I'd never really thought about it before, I've had nothing to compare it to. He sees my confused face and carries on, "No-one even blinks an eye at that sort of thing." he nods and I turn my head, two guys walk past our overhang. they're obviously a couple, judging by how their hands are clasped together and the way they're leaning into each other.

"Why would they?" I turn back to the sea.

"Because it's weird." I stare up at him, a little gasp escaping from my mouth.

He groans, "I didn't mean it like that. I don't think it's weird but there are a lot of people in this world who think it is and yet, everyone thinks of it as normal here."

"Not everyone." I say softly, thinking of the disgust on Simon's face that he doesn't even bother trying to hide when he looks at me. I close my eyes against those memories, I don't want to think about him right now. The warmth of the sun soaks into my skin, filling me with it's comforting glow. I really do take this place for granted, an island just off the coast of a huge country and a place that everyone says is in 'an eternal spring'.

He sighs and I open my eyes, my heart fluttering when I meet his caramel eyed gaze. He barely even blinks, holding me captive and clearing my head of every other thought.

"Do you think it's weird?"

"God no." I say, perhaps a little too quickly, crossing my fingers that he wasn't going to ask me whether I was the same as those guys because I don't think I could lie to Eli.

Now it's his turn to close his eyes, the corners of his mouth turning up, "Good."
Good? Good?! Good that I'm not homophobic? Or 'good, now I can jump on you.'? Ugh, this boy. I turn around, mirroring the way Eli had been standing a minute ago. I smile to myself, holding my hand up to the sun and remembering the way his hand had felt around mine, I'll just let myself believe that it's the second one. No-one would know if I was wrong anyway...

A noise like a twig snapping from the next overhang over breaks me out of my happiness coma. I glance over, there's no-one there. I look back at Eli, his eyes are still closed and there's still a contented look on his face. It was nothing, I'm just being stupid. But then, out of the corner of my eye I see something. Or think I do anyway. Just a movement, and a bad feeling- one that told me someone was watching us.

A/N

Oh... look at that... a .5 chapter already *sigh* I just felt like I wrote too much in the last one to put this in the last chapter. Sorrry muchhlyyyyy.. Also, I'm sorry if Eli's eyes changed colour haha, I can't remember whether I wrote about them before and I'm pretty sure that Grey grew two inches... woops!

I'm sorry but I'm about to break the semi-happy mood of the chapter- my sister's best friend who lives in London got beaten up by a gang then stabbed early yesterday morning. All he was doing was going to the shops in a place he's lived for the past 5 years. Despite everything that happened, it's looking like he's going to be okay. I'm just so pissed off at the world because the reason for him being attacked is because he's gay. For a supposedly 'civilised' world- some of us are truly horrific people.