High School Just Got More Interesting (boyxboy)

Chapter 3: Allison

        My hands gripped on the steering wheel so tightly, veins etched across my arms. It was past 7 in the evening. It was dark and usually my anti-social self would be in my room right now, but I seriously needed someone to talk to. 

        "Alli, you there?" My voice cracked from the crying I'd been doing, but tears were nowhere near my eyes. Right now, I was just tired. I knocked on the apartment door one more time and it flung open.

        My best friend looked at me with a worried expression, strands of her curly hair slipping out of a messy bun on her head. 

        "Alli..." I said wearily. "Can I..." She cut me off and hugged me so tight I swear I thought she was gonna suffocate me. She pulled me inside her apartment, where she lived alone, and placed me on her sofa beside her pet Chow Chow, Mr. Chow. Yeah, she wasn't very creative. 

        A cup of coffee appeared in my hands and I immediately took a sip. "Thanks." I told Alli as she precariously sat herself on the wooden table in front of me.

        She looked at me with worry. "I've seen you depressed. A lot of times. And I didn't think I could still possibly see you even more down in the trenches. Now, you're just... Tell me what's wrong?" She crossed her arms and bit her lip - something she always did whenever she was nervous.

        "I just came out to my mom." 

        Her eyes widened. "And? How did she react to it?"

        "Okay." I remembered how weird that moment at the dinner table was. How she just casually said one word - okay. "She said it was okay." 

        Alli let out a sigh of relief but noticed I was still sad. "Why are you so sad then? You just came out and your mom's okay with it," she said cheerfully. "You can be yourself now without worrying about being outed."

        I was genuinely happy about that, but the news my mom told me about dad had overshadowed everything. Alli seemed to notice.

        "That's not the problem is it?"

        "My dad's cheating on my mom." I hesitated to tell Alli the whole truth. Family secrets weren't something you should have been telling other people. Secrets are powerful. In the hands of other people, your secrets can be as tempting as gold and when these secrets get out, they're out forever.

        This was Alli, the only person I could trust. She was my only best friend and she's basically more of a sister then Reina would ever seem to be.  

        She shifted awkwardly seemingly trying to figure out how to handle a family situation. "I won't say it's okay because it isn't, but look at it this way. Things like that are...um rather common, nowadays. Right? TV shows are all full of it.

        What I mean is... actually I don't really know." She looked at me and put her hands up as she accepted her failure at giving decent advice. "Look, I've seen your mom and dad lots of times and they're basically the perfect couple. I've seen them look at each other in the eyes. They really love each other. Things like this happen and... I know. I know that they'll be able to fix this." Somehow I felt reassured, but I knew this wasn't going to be that easy.

        "You don't understand. Even if they end up together again, nothing would ever be the same."

        She gave me a look of frustration. "What do you mean? I already told you, Rob. You can't do anything about this anyway. They're adults. Just give them time. I'm sure they'll be able to..." I cut her off.

        "My dad's gay...or bisexual, I guess," I shifted my eyes from her shocked expression to the cup in my hands. "He's cheating on mom with my uncle Brandon."

        We sat there in silence for a few minutes, just sipping at our own coffee cups.

        "Thank you," I said. "Thank you for listening to my drama again." I let out a genuine but barely audible chuckle as I remembered all the times I'd went to Alli to tell her my problems.

        "I seriously didn't do anything, though. I couldn't even give you decent advice," she smiled. 

        "Just, thank you. For listening." I smiled and gave her a hug as I got up from the sofa.

        "You can stay over if you want," she suggested.

        "I can't. I need to go back home. I have to check on my mom."

        She kissed me on the cheek. "Bye and have a safe drive home." 

        I was heading towards the door when I saw her macbook open on the bar. It was on facebook and a familiar photo was in her news feeds. I froze in place. My heart seemed to beat a million times a second as I ran up to Alli's macbook. 

        Alli ran after me. "I was supposed to tell you about that," she sounded a little guilty.

        What made it even worse was it wasn't a photo. It was a video. A video of me and Lucas kissing at the cafe earlier in the afternoon. 

        I was fuming. "Who fucking posted this?!"

        "I don't know. The owner's profile says it just joined this afternoon." Alli said as she tried to keep my hands of her macbook in fear I'd end up smashing it. 

        "What's fucking next?!" I screamed at noone in particular. Just this morning, my life was normal and peaceful. It was boring and uneventful, but compared to what was happening to my life right now, I'd rather choose the former. 

        "Lucas..." I hissed. It was probably his idea. He planned it all along. I should have known. To think I even actually trusted the guy? I actually liked him for a second there. In the end, he's just another one of those assholes I tried all my life to avoid. 

        I looked to my left at a troubled Allison. "I'm going to fucking kill him," I said, which made her look like she was going to faint any second.