Boy Of The Forest [Malum]

Chapter 9

        Later on that day after the boys had fallen back to sleep, not even caring about the other events that happened before. Their main focus was now on the future, and that was how they wanted it to stay.

        Forget about the past, look to the future, because it will shine brighter. 

        That's what Michael's mother had always told him. And she was normally right. She was right about a lot of things about Michael that he didn't understand when he was younger, but now does understand. Michael never thought that he mother would have been right when she said that he'd grow up to like guys more then girl, never thought she was going to be right; and she told him that when he was 10. 

        Now almost 19, and after kissing a boy at the age of 15, Michael know's that his mother was right. Even before he kissed that boy when he was 15, Michael always found guys a little bit more attractive then girls. He always seen girls as being really, fake, even some of the girls that he was friends with, he seen them as being too fake.

        But guys, they didn't wear make-up or use fake boobs and stuff like that; they got a six-pack by working for it, their looks were natural normally, they could pull off just about anything clothing article without really having to try. Michael just saw the beauty in guys more then he did girls. Michael also realized that he should have listened to his mother more about some of these things, because most of them have been in her favor of being right.

        "Mike, what are you thinking about?" Calum's voice snapped Michael from his thoughts of his mother. Giving the other boy a smile, Michael leaned back on the couch looking at the ceiling.

        Shaking his head he told him, "Just someone that meant a lot to me, and always seemed to be right about me." That was actually Michael's normal answer to questions like that when he happened to be thinking of his mother. He didn't have to actually tell them who it was; but Michael had a feeling that Calum knew who it was.

        "Oh..." Calum's voice was soft, and Michael knew that he shouldn't have said that.

        "Oh dammit, I'm sorry Cal." Pulling the younger boy into a hug, Michael held him for a few minutes, still feeling like that complete asshole for that. Calum hadn't even said much to Michael when he answered him, he just knew that he was talking about his mother, and well, Calum thought about how he didn't know his family, but he still missed them.

        "I's okay Mikey. You didn't mean anything by it, I just knew what you had meant is all. It's not a bad thing." Calum weakly smiled over Michael's shoulder, looking at something random in the room, zoning out as he continued to speak, "You mom loved and care for you, you're lucky you knew her. Though I didn't ever know her, she always knew that I was out there, and just too scared to ask for help, she still tried to care for me." Michael's eyes widened, he had heard Calum talk about how his mother had helped him before she passed, but now he knew something else.

        Michael pushed the younger boy back by his shoulder, looking at him in shock. "She helped you, though you were too scared to ask for it. Calum why didn't you just come out of the forest before now! We wouldn't have had to go through all of this mess! You could have lived a normal life!" Michael's shock had left him, and turned into some kind of rage that he didn't understand. Why did Calum not take his mother's help? Why didn't he ask for some kind of help, he could have had a normal life before now. 

        Calum looked at Michael, confused and shocked at his words. Sadly, to Calum; Michael's words were jumbled up, making it sound like to Calum, that Michael thought that he should just go get a normal life. Where that was coming from Calum didn't know. He just figured that Michael would care for him more, if he had a normal life.

        "Well if you want someone normal, call up your other friends. They'll be normal with you all day." Calum spat at the older boy moving from his place on the couch. Yes he did want a somewhat normal life, but he liked the life that he had now for the most part. Yes living in the forest was complete hell for him some days, and now coming into Michael's home, it was so nice for Calum. Now he felt as if it was all a mistake.

        "What? No, Calum that's not what I meant!" Michael exclaimed following behind the dark haired boy that was leaving his home. "Calum just stop and listen to me for a minute! Please! That wasn't what I meant!" He continued to beg the other boy who stood at the edge of the forest, sorrow covered both faces, knowing that they had both done something stupid. But one of them was going to keep leaving no matter how hard the other tried to stop him and explain.

        "I'm going back to my home. The place where I don't have to deal with the world trying to change me. Goodbye Michael." Calum retorted turning away from the boy that had fallen to his knees in tears half way through the yard. 

        "Calum please! I'll stop saying stupid things, just please!" Michael cried out to the boy who had no intentions of turning back. Calum felt stupid for trusting Michael, even if that trust still lived. Michael left idiotic for believing that for once, there could be another person that could care for him like his mother did. 

        "I'm sorry, Calum..."