Please don't be in love with someone else

The Night Air

The rest of the game went pretty smoothly according to Sophia's plan. Jaeden was blindfolded and in the closet. Wyatt went in. He took off Jaeden's blindfold and the talked and hugged and held hands but nothing more. Then they decided to watch Stand By Me on the tv until they all fell asleep.

Finn p.o.v.

I woke up in Wyatt's basement chair curled up into a ball with a blanket over top of me. The tv was off.. that's weird I don't remember anyone shutting it off. I looked over at everyone else. The three girls were cuddling in Wyatt's tent they sent up and left open across the room. Noah was lying on the couch and Wyatt was sitting underneath him asleep with Jaeden leaning his head on his shoulder. I got up lazily and walked to the bathroom. After that I looked at myself in the mirror and washed my face. I walked to the mini fridge Wyatt kept downstairs and got a water bottle, careful not to wake anyone, and walked out the sliding door in the back of the room. I don't know if any of these guys had ever done this. I checked my phone. It was 1:32 am and i walked out and stared into the horizon. The sky was black but not too dark. It was a light black. The shadows were of trees from the small woods area behind Wyatt's house. The group loved playing in there. I remembered when we were 10 and a few of us built a fort back there and slept in it. I then just stood there in open air, just... living. Everyone loves being up at sunrise and sundown but the night air was so much better. All you could hear was nature's sounds. It was beautiful. The trickling water from the stream and the slow wind in the trees. Everything was sleeping and I had to enjoy this all on my own. Then i heard a sound that mother nature obviously was not making. It was crying. It came from above me.

The upstairs bathroom. I quietly, hurried into the house. I ran upstairs trying not to wake Mr and Mrs. Oleff. I tried to open the door. The crying stopped. "HEY OPEN UP!" I whisper yelled. "I KNOW YOU ARE IN THERE" I pried again. "G-g-g-go away F-f-finn" the voice stammered out between sobs. "Jack? Jack is that you?" "I-i said go" "Jack open the damn door or I will kick it down and you can explain to Wyatt's parents!" I waited a little and heard the door hesitantly unlock and saw half of Jack's face peering out at me. I pushed myself into the washroom and closed and locked the door again. I stood there silent for a minute, holding the stare. Jack was wearing his same, baggy red sweater and acid washed jeans as yesterday. He looked cute... wait? Never mind. He had tear stained cheeks and stood there looking back at me with no love, or hope, or happiness left in his eyes. All I could do was rush over and hug him. He winced. I looked over at the counter and saw pill bottles. I picked them up, they read 'GRAZER, JACK. Anti-depressants' and the other one 'GRAZER, JACK. Pain Killers' "Jack Dylan Grazer .. how many of these did you take?!?!" I asked almost yelling "Shhhhhh Finn be quiet I only took what i needed." "Then why were you crying?!" I didn't care anymore Jack needed to be safe. " They don't kick in right away" I kept my gaze on Jack as he looked at the floor. Slowly I looked back to the counter. I saw a knife from the Kitchen. It was stained with blood.

"IS THIS WHY YOU WINCED WHEN I HUGGED YOU?" I pointed at the knife. I wasn't mad but this is how I showed sadness I guess. I'm over protective. "...Finn its nothing" I grabbed his arm and pulled up his sweater sleeve. Nothing. I knelt down and yanked down his jeans. Nothing. "Jack..." "Finn it is nothing please don't" "TAKE YOUR SHIRT OFF" "Finn no.." "Jack I'm not asking I'm telling you." He hesitantly took his shirt off to reveal a wound up bandage around his stomach. "How bad is it?" I asked. "Not bad only.. o-one.. o-or two..." he said in a not sure voice. I unwound the bandage to reveal about 16 cuts across the boys belly. All I did was stand up and go to the medicine cabinet. I pulled out some disinfectant and cleaners and put them on Jack's cuts. He squirmed and tried to get away but I was gripping his hipbones. Eventually he held still, even though it stung, I knew that. I felt a deeper connection towards Jack. At least... I though I did. I wouldn't call it love but it was something that Jack felt for Noah. I wrapped a clean bandage loosely around his stomach and stood up.

"Uhh thanks" he said to me nervously looking down. I didn't respond. "Finn look... I know your mad just don't be please!" "Mad? Jack I'm not mad I'm just worried about you. You are my best friend and I can't lose you." "Oh... I'm sorry I woke you Finn" Jack said quietly "woke me? Nah I was already awake" I replied smiling "but can I ask you something" Jack hesitated "sure why not?" "Why did you do that to yourself?" Jack stood there thinking for a moment, " In that closet... you..... you kissed me" i stopped dead in my tracks "and I...I liked it. But I love Noah. I did something bad. But it felt good" "ummm yeah about that. I don't know what happened but if you want you can forget it and continue to love Noah."

Jack opened his mouth probably to say something along the lines of 'oh my god thanks Finn I want to forget all about it' when his phone buzzed. He looked at me with fear in his eyes "what's wrong?" I asked, concern in my voice. "I have to go to the hospital"