Scars of Love

02: The Confession

Blake and Kennith are at their shared room in Blake's house.

Blake sets his stuff down by the closet as usual while Kenny starts stripping to his boxers to go to sleep. "K-Kenny..." Blake says, "You never answered me.... why don't you go to school?" Kenny lays on the bed and looks at Blake. "BB... I hate school." he states bluntly. Blake looks at him and pouts. "That's not a good enough answer young man! You tell me why on earth you skip school every day or by God I shall beat you with a switch!!!" Blake says in his best impression of his grand mother as Kenny laughs his head off. "Okay, okay!!!" Kenny laughs, "I'll tell you! I hate school because nobody there likes me. They say I'm a freak because I'm not 'normal'... whatever 'normal' is these days anyway!" he says like it's no big deal.

Blake looks at him with remorse. "K-Kenny.... I... I'm so sorry." he says, "I'll make them like you!!!" Kenny sits up. "No... you don't have to do that... I'm fine!" he says, giving Blake his best 'I'm okay' smile. Blake asks, "Why do they say you're 'not normal'?" I can't tell him I see things... it'll make him even more scared of me! What do I do?!?!? I could say I don't know but he'll know I'm lying... Kenny thinks to himself, his expression blank for a while, Blake thinking he 'zoned out' again as usual... now he's just waiting for the strange mumbling and grunts. Finally Kenny decides he has to tell Blake the truth about himself, they have known each other since they were 5, when Kenny got a new foster family that lived down the road from them. Eventually though, Blake's mom took Kenny in because his Foster parents committed suicide right in front of him when he was 10 and she was granted full custody of Kenny by court of law.

Kenny looks right into Blake's eyes with an unwavering blank stare and says without hesitation, "BB, I see things... things that aren't there... and I'm gay. That's why my Foster parents killed themselves, the strict bastards couldn't take it any more. They said I was a 'Demon Child' and deserved to be punished. Not like I wasn't used to death... that's why we moved here in the first place." Blake's eye's widened and jaw dropped. his hands flew to his face and tears welled in his eyes.