Since Year Five (bxb)

🌷 O N E 🌷

(Pic of Zaine)

[Zaine's POV]

~The Backstory~

Ever since we were 5, me and Kendall have been the bestest of friends. We did a lot together, even stayed up countless restless nights talking to eachother. We had many things in common like favorite band, favorite color, even favorite music genre. We thought we would be best friends forever, we thought our bond was unbreakable. That is, until one day, our parents break us apart.

The way we found eachother was through our parents, who were great friends. Little did we know that there were a lot of flaws in their friendship. Kendall's parents were once happy when they met my parents, but when the years went by, they grew worse. When we were 8, all their changes poured right out, and that led to the separation of me and Kendall.

September 12th, 2008 - The Incident That Tore Us Apart

Me and Kendall were just in my room playing video games and talking about weird things while our parents were talking, as usual. But, we had no idea what was actually happening downstairs due to the fact that we were 8 and careless. Lets face it though, does anyone actually care about what our parents are talking about?

"Are you guys alright?" Joyce (my mom) said with concern as she put her hands onto Kendall's parents' hands.

"We're fine dear, no worries!" Linda (Kendall's mom) reassured with broken enthusiasm in her voice. Suddenly, her smile broke along with her husband's since she knew that obviously wasn't true. Liam quickly hugged her as if he shared her pain.

"Linda, hun, what's wrong? You know you can tell me." Joyce softly rubbed Linda's palm but she was taken aback by that. Instead, anger lit up in her eyes. Linda furiously got up and started pacing around the room. "L-Linda?..." Joyce tried to figure out what's wrong but she instead got a fist thrown at her instead. Linda started beating my mom, making bruises in every patch of exposed skin.

Moments later, me and Kendall heard the screams and quickly escelated down the stairs. We ran into the room to find his mom hurting my mom while his dad was nowhere to be seen.

"Mom!" I exclaimed, running to her side and protecting her from any further harm, which turned out to be a bad idea since almost immediately I was thrown into the wall. Kendall tried to jump in and stop his mom but he got pushed into the wall as well.

I quickly ran into the kitchen and just sat in the corner, knowing there was nothing I could do but at least try and pray. Praying wasn't exactly casual in my manner, only for worst case scenario, and this is definitely the worst thing ever. Just to my luck, my dad came in and almost immediately went into the living room and screamed like a madman. At first I thought Linda had hurt my dad as well, but it turned out she fled for her life. Kendall followed shortly behind but stopped when he saw me. He was gonna say something but his mom quickly grabbed his hand. I ran right after him and hugged him tightly, knowing this would be the last time we would see eachother. He seemed to know the same and pulled me into a tight embrace.

"So.. I-Is this goodbye?" he said and I nodded my head while tears streamed down my face. Soon my mom was pulling at me but I didn't want to leave him. Knowing I couldn't see my best -and only- friend ever again broke my heart. Soon enough they were able to ply us off eachother and we were crying messes as we watched eachother disappear from eyesight.

"Mommy please! I need to see him!"

"I'm sorry baby but he's gone. I know he meant dearly to you but you've gotta move on... I'm so sorry hun, it's all gonna be alright... It's gonna be alright.." My mom tried to hush my sobs but they only grew louder by the minute. She hugged me tightly and I finally gave in and stopped crying. She's right, it's gonna be hard, but life's gonna go on either way.

I released myself from her tight grip only to find she was covered in bruises which led her to passing out soon.

That day was one of the hardest. I thought I would never forget it, I thought it would drill itself into my mind to the point I'll never forget it. But, as my mom said, life goes on so I eventually forgot about it.

Now, I'm currently 17 and I live in New Jersey. Over the course of 9 years, I've gone through many changes. No, not just puberty, but ever since the 'tragedy', I've been a down-right train wreck. I've been through countless bottles of anti-depressants, far too much cutting, even failed rehab. At this point, the only thing keeping me alive is... Honestly, I can't even recall what I live for anymore. What do I live for?

Anyways, Kendall is a long gone memory in my head now, I cant remember the last time I thought about him honestly.

I have a ton of friends - rather fans - but the main group that keeps me alive are Troye, Stacy, Hailey, Josh, Nick, & Nicole. Theyre all popular but have that bitchy vibe that majority of popular kids have but, I admit, theyve been there for me since middle school and I honestly couldnt ask for better friends.

Troye: 5'11, soccer MVP, very talkative, second most admired (behind me of course)

Stacy: 5'6, head of cheer squad, very talkative like Troye, most popular girl

Hailey: 5'4, not a sport-type but great gamer, one of my closest friends, rather an outcast

Josh: 6'4, basketball MVP, cant recall a girl he hasnt slept with, most popular guy in school

Nick: 5'6, likes rick and morty

Nicole: 5'4, co-leader of cheer squad, cliché but also a really close friend, has a yaoi obsession and is really popular

And then theres me; Im 6'4,my interests include bands, drawing, singing, swimming, and food.

Well, tomorrows the first day of the semester, lets hope nothing ends in disaster..