No homo? (Josh x Chris)

~Chapter 2 - what happend?~

~Chris's Point of View~

I quickly call up another Uber to pick us up for when we arrive at the driveway. though, it would take an hour to arrive. I draped my right arm over Josh's shoulder to give him more comfort and hopefully trust in me. "No homo," I say slyly to him. I see a small grin grow across his contorted, fanged face. he still looks at the ground below and in front of him. I pull out the flashlight and push my left arm against my torso to put pressure on the still bleeding wound. we walked in awkward silence for what felt like an entity. I take a quick look at josh, still looking longingly at the cavern's ground. I could tell that Josh was thinking about something.

I give him a friendly little shake, "so...what you think'in about?" I say curiously while looking at him. Josh looked up at me slowly, (almost like it was painful to) and gave me a saddened look in the eyes that flowed into the rest of his face. "Sorry. I don't mean to pry"

"It's ok..." josh said quietly, and breathily. Still not answering the question I asked him. He let out a long airy sigh of discontent.

"Don't start crying on me now... and, if you don't mind me asking... what's up with your face? I mean, it looks cool and all...."

Josh immediately responded, "why did you forgive me?" I don't know, why don't you answer any of my damn questions!? I think angrily to myself.

"Because... it wasn't your fault. Well, it was, but it's not your fault for wanting to have some type of revenge cuz you thought we hurt you And your sisters in some way. Besides, you're my best friend from childhood. I'll forgive you no matter what you do. And how could I leave a face like that behind?" With the hand that was on his shoulder I pinch his left cheek playfully, accidentally touching one of his fangs. Josh quickly pulled away from my touch and blocked me from looking at his face with his hand.

"You really want to know what happened to me down there?" He said to me, lowering his hand. (and hopefully his guard.) He doesn't wait for a response to his question. "I hadn't eaten anything the past two days before all of you came over For the vacation, in preparation and anxiety for my 'prank,'" he said the last word in air quotes.

"and of course I wasn't able to to eat the day everyone came over, I was trying to pretend that I didn't know anything about what was happening," another long sigh fell of out of his mouth. "Then, When the wendigo dragged me deeper into the cave, they took me to a cavern were a dead windigo lie. It's blood stained the water I stood in red. I remember sitting there horrified, in silence, and I tried to hide for a another day. I remember every thought I had that day, reflecting back on all my regrets about the party. Begging some god for forgiveness. And, I finally came to terms that it would be fair for everyone to leave me in that mine to die."

Josh started to sniffle again, and I hooked my arm around his shoulder and pulled him closer to me again, holding him close to my rib cage. I didn't want to interrupt such a vulnerable moment for him.

" I thought I was going to die down there Chris!But I wanted to prove my regret by trying to get rid of the rest of the windigos. And for that, I needed strength. so, I started to devour the dead windigo. I didn't think I would change me into one of them! I mean, they weren't people anymore, you know?" Josh sniffled another time.

" I found a gun, and the pyromancer's equipment. I tried to fight off the other windigos. And when I did, I consumed them. I just wanted to make up for what I've done! But in order to do that I needed to keep living," He sniffled, for the third time. " I tried to get rid of as many as I could, I'm so sorry Chris..." Josh finally got to his point. As he looked at me with pink eyes from crying.