Trans Boy | G.W.

31. Ron

"I need to go after him," I say when Garrett leaves the room. I walk out but Shane holds me back.
"Maybe give him a moment? I've never seen him act like this before," Shane says.
"I'm worried about him. I don't know what's wrong. Did I do something wrong?"
"No you didn't," Ryland says. He wraps an arm around me. "Maybe he is overwhelmed?"
"But why?" I ask. I rub my head. "I need to talk to him." I continue to follow the direction Garrett went.

I look for him but I find him anywhere. I checked inside of the house so now I go outside once again. I see him sitting there but the weather got worse and now it's raining. I run over to him. "Are you okay? What happened?" I ask worried.
"I need some space," he says. "Just a moment alone," he replies but he doenst look at me.
"Then at least go inside," I say. "It's raining."
He nods. "I'm sorry I'm acting like this..."
"It's fine. I get that it can be a lot for you." I hold out my hand so he can take it.
He takes it and lifts himself up with it. "I don't know why it happens."
I pull him close and wrap my arms around him. "It's alright. I'm here for you."
He keeps me close to him and smiles. "Thank you," he says softly.
I smile. "No problem. Anytime."

Garrett and I just stand there for a while. He keeps me close and I rub his back softly for comfort.
"We should go inside," I say softly after a while.
He nods and carefully let's go of me. "Let's go inside. But can we not go to the others?"
"Sure. Of course. Let's go to my room." I lead him inside and we go towards my room. I sit down on my bed and he sits down yet again.
"Here we are again," I joke.
He chuckles and looks at me. "Yup."

"Do you still want to be left alone?" I ask him.
He shakes his head. "No. I'm glad you're here."
I smile. "What made you this overwhelmed?"
"Just everything that happened today, I guess," he says. "You becoming my boyfriend and all."
I nod and rubs his back. "It's alright. I found it weird as well. The whole 'let's celebrate it' thing."
"I mean I get it. I think I would do it myself maybe."
"You totally would do it for people you know really well," I say.
He chuckles. "Maybe. Yes."
I laugh. "It's still odd, though."
"Yeah. But they've been waiting for it."

"What if we never got together?" I ask and I look at him.
He shrugs. "I don't know. Maybe they would have never stopped."
"I would go crazy."
"Same. It got so much after a while."
I chuckle. "It's kind of sad they were so focused on it."
He giggles. "They don't have anything interesting themselves so they focus on us."
"Because we're so interesting."
"Well now we have to find someone for Morgan."
"I'm down."
He smiles. "Then we have a plan."

I move closer to him and he smiles and wraps an arm around me. "When do you want to go back to the others?" I ask.
"I don't know. I'm good with this for now. But we can go back in a few."
I lean against him. "Yeah we can stay here for a little longer."
He smiles and kisses my cheek. I blush and chuckle.
"We're not going to be too clingy, right?" I ask.
"No," he says. "And we will keep it secret for a while if you want."
I nod. "Yeah let's keep it secret."
"We'll become public once you're ready."
I just nod. I grab a water bottle from next to my bed and take a few sips.

"I still can't believe you're my boyfriend," I say as I put the bottle back. "When I met you I never would have thought this. Or even, like, a month back. But it kinda went fast today."
He nods. "Yeah it went pretty fast," he says. "But I don't mind it. I liked you for such a long time."
"I've seen those videos about 'Ron and Garrett being in love for 5 minutes straight' and I got so confused. I was like: what? No? I don't like him. What do you mean YouTube? You are crazy."
He laughs. "I saw those too. And I was like 'oh no I hope its not too obvious I like him' but then I also saw a lot and of 'Garrett crushing on Ron for 10 minutes straight' and I was, like, 'oh fuck it's too obvious! I hope he won't notice!'"
I laugh. "Well I just couldn't believe you liked me."
"Well I do. Clearly."
"I know that now," I say and smile.