The Tree 》l.s *boyxboy* ✅

Chapter 53 ~ Beaten

Work was horrible for me, I was distracted and made a heap of mistakes, that the students picked up on, thankfully. During lunch Jade sat with me and comforted me, made sure I was still okay from last night’s news. I wanted to cry, so badly, but I stopped myself. I wasn’t going to cry in public.

“How are you doing? How’s Harry?” Jade asked, pushing hair out of my face.

“He’s fine, I’m fine” I mumbled. “I just can’t believe it’s back and we can’t do anything about it”

“I know, I’m so sorry about that” she told me and kissed my cheek. “But you’ll be okay, I know you will”

“Without him, I don’t think I will be”

Work continued on the same way it started, me forgetting everything and being useless. I could tell the students knew something happened, and I wanted to be professional but everything reminded me of Harry, and everything that reminded me of him reminded me of his cancer and it just reminded me that I didn’t know how much longer I had with him.

At home Harry and I spent our time alone in bed, making love if you will. I was scared to hurt him, I didn’t want him to be in pain. Yesterday I noticed he was in pain, the way he gripped the chair, or table he was hiding how much he was actually hurting.

“Louis” Harry groaned, moving his hips up. “Louis more” I breathed out a hot breath and rested my head on his chest. “Louis” Harry groaned, not enjoying the pace we were going.

“Close” I murmured on his neck and kissed it.

I came in him and he groaned, releasing at mine. I fell off and lay on my side while Harry continued to lie on his back. He didn’t say anything, just regulated his breathing. I traced lines on his chest but he ignored it, he didn’t even acknowledge me.

“Harry?” I looked at him.

“Why?” he said, not taking his eyes off the ceiling. “Why did we have sex like that?”

“What do you mean?” I frowned.

“Why didn’t you do more? I asked you and you didn’t give it to me” he faced me. “Is it because of the cancer?”

“What? Of course not” I lied terribly.

“Fucking hell Lou” Harry groaned and pulled himself out of bed. “I don’t want you to treat me different because of this. Please” he almost cried.

“I-I’m sorry, I didn’t want to hurt you. I saw how much pain you were in yesterday”

“I don’t care Louis! I can handle that pain. I can’t handle pain caused by you” my heart tugged and I almost cried. “I don’t want you to treat me any differently, please don’t”

“I won’t. Come here, we’ll do it properly” I smiled.

“I don’t want to. I’m still mad at you” he walked out of the room in the nude leaving me alone in bed.

I groaned and fell on my back. I ran my hand over my face and let out a frustrated groan. From the bedside table my phone rang. Sighing I blindly grabbed it and answered it without looking at who it was.

“Hello?” I answered annoyed.

“Louis” Jade sobbed. “I need you at the hospital, please it’s Connor”

“What happened?” I asked worriedly.

“I’ll explain when you get here, just come please”

“Sure, Harry and I will be there soon”

We hung up and I climbed out of bed and pulled on some jeans and a plain shirt. I walked out and found Harry in the shower.