𝙞'𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙥 (discontinued)

VII

*REAL LIFE*

zion woke up in a sweat and with a pounding headache. he was shirtless in his bed but didn't know how he got there. he looked to the right at his bedside table and saw that his phone was plugged in. sitting next to his was an unfamiliar phone. he assumed that someone must've left it on accident until he looked to his left and saw someone laying beside him.

he felt like he should wake up the boy beside him but then again he looked so peaceful. the boys hair was a fluffy mess, his breathing was soft and slowed. zion didn't know what to do. watching him was calming to zion and he assumed that the boy needed the rest so he left him in the bed and started to make his way to the bathroom. he lifted the covers off him and stood up. i guess he stood up a little to fast for his body to handle because once he rose he got lightheaded and landed right back on the bed. this caused the other boy to stir in his sleep. he turned from laying on his back to side and opened his eyes.

"good morning, brandon" zion said shyly.

"hey" brandon responded with a small smile.

"sorry for uh waking you up"

brandon didn't focus on zions apology yet acknowledge his awkwardness.

"why are you acting weird?" brandon questioned the older boy.

"i don't know. i'm just tired i guess and i have a huge headache." zion lied. other than the headache part zion was full of it. he knew why he was acting weird. all of the details from last night had flooded his mind and when he looked at brandon he couldn't think of anything else but their kiss.

"let me get you some water and medicine. try to go back to sleep." brandon said worrying.

"nah i'm good, i'll come with you downstairs. you don't even know where the advil is." zion said chuckling a little at the end. the two headed down the stairs with zion stopping in the bathroom to use it and of course grab the advil. brandon ended up making zion tea as well as eggs and bacon for the both of them.

brandon handed zion the plate of breakfast and asked him "so what do you want to do today"

"i want to have a chill day. sleep a little more. maybe watch into the spider-verse again." zion responded.

"sounds good to me." brandon said then took a bite of his eggs.

"um before we do all that, can we talk a little." zion wanted to get all of this serious stuff about last night out of the way so they could just chill the rest of the day.

brandon looked up at zion and hesitantly nodded. zion took a deep breath and started rambling. "so, i don't know about you but i was pretty drunk last night and obviously what happened was wired for the both of us and i honestly don't really know what to say but um i just wanted to talk about it cause i still wanna be friends and-" brandon cut him off before he went to far. "we're all good. i don't really know what happened last night either but it's in the past. friends?"

"friends." zion felt a little relieved. he thought that brandon would be more awkward about it but if he says it's in the past, it's in the past.

the two both finished their breakfast and headed to the living room. they sat relatively close to each other without it feeling weird. zion fell asleep around 45 minutes into the movie and 10 minutes later brandon was out to.

brandon woke up from their nap first. he didn't remember zion laying on his shoulder but he didn't mind it either. he grabbed his phone out of his pocket and saw that it was already 3:27 pm. his mom texted him wondering when he was going to be home and he told her before dinner which usually was at 6:45. he wanted to go to edwins house before returning home so he decided the he would have to leave zions now. brandon softly shook zion a little. "hey zion wake up, i gotta go."

zion opened his eyes and lifted his head a bit before laying right back down.
"why do you have to leave now?" zion asked half asleep.

"my mom wants me home" he lied

"oh okay."zion opened his eyes again and asked "can we hangout again tomorrow?"

"yea, just text me." brandon winked. zion gave him a smirk in return then turned back over and fell asleep again on the couch. brandon rose from the couch, cleaned up the kitchen a bit then left for edwins.

*TIME SKIP* (EDWINS ROOM)

"what do you mean you kissed him?" edwin asked giving brandon a very confused look.

"i wasn't planning on it. we were drunk, it sorta just happened."

"well did you like it? ARE YOU GAY?" edwins voice got louder when he asked the second question.

"calm down, i'm not gay."

"but did you like the kiss?"

"uh, a little i guess"

"so you're bi?"

"edwin i don't fucking know" brandon replied obviously stressed.

"okay, it's alright. i don't care what you are i'm still gonna love you like a brother." edwin said calmingly which made brandon start to calm down. edwin rose to the younger boy who was pacing in front of him. edwin hugged his best friend and tried to be helpful.

"it's all good." edwin could feel brandon's heart rate slow down. "everything's gonna be fine."

a/n// wassup y'all. i'm back. thank you all for almost 700 reads on this book. when i left i think it was on like 140 so 700 is crazy to me. love you. lmk what you think about this chapter !

(new chapter tmr)