Christmas Time

I neded to study

London

12th December 2017

It was a sunny morning, the sky was completely clear. It was a bit cold, of course it was, it was december, but the sun rays were kind of warm. That day,  Brian was in his favourite place; the wood. He loved it for the peace he could find in there, and also because he loved nature; being completely wrapped by trees and little sounds of water and animals made him feel like he was in heaven... He was laying on the grass as usual and he was just staring at the blue sky... Actually, he was waiting for Roger, who was, as always, late. Kind of annoying, but not anymore when you learnt that Roger could do everything he wanted. Brian laughed softly thinking about his bestfriend. That blond head was a little candle in his life; he just made him feel happy...

That smile and those baby blue eyes of him... just beautifull

He told to himself, nodding at his own thoughts. But, the time was slowly passing and Roger hadn't arrived yet. At that point, Brian decided to write a message to Roger

"Where are u?" "Sorry Bri! I'll be there in a minute, or maybe two..." "Ok. See u later!"

He then turned his phone off. Brian wasn't that kind of person who spend all of his time on social. He used to post something on instagram from time to time. More than anything else, he preferred use his phone just to chat with friends, especially Roger.

After an hour, Roger wasn't still there and Brian began to worry; Roger used to be late of course but hadn't never made Brian wait for that long. At this point, Brian called him...

When the phone rang, Roger was locked up in his room, laying on his bed and staring at the ceiling. His phone was on his bedside table, so he had to get up from his bed to take it. He heard Brian's voice "Roger? Where are you? I've been waiting for..." Roger suddenly interrupted him "My father locked me in my room, I can't come, sorry..." Brian got up from the grass "Another bad grade?" Roger rolled his eyes "Yes, this time it was physics, and as always he scold me and he was actually going to beat me" Brian eyes widened "Did he hurt you?" Roger took off his t-shirt and looked at the scar on his chest through the mirror "Roger?" Brian's voice called from the phone "No, he didn't" Brian sighed in relief "You know what? Is he still there?" "No, but I can't get out my room because he literally locked me in it so..." "I'm coming over, I'll climb the window ok?" Roger wanted to say no to Brian, because he was worry that his father could be home when Brian was still there, but he was so impatient to see his bestfriend, so he limiyed to don't give Brian an answer "I'll be there in five minutes" Brian said and ended up the call.
Roger laid on his bed and breathed deeply

-If my father discovers that Brian's here, I'm fucked up... Though, he wont be home until evening... The worst thing is that I'm literally in prison... The good one is that neither my mother has the key, so she won't find out that Brian is here -

He just told to himself. After some minutes, he heard someone knocking on the window; It was, of course, Brian who arrived as promised. Roger got up lazily from his bed and went to the window to open it. Brian jumped inside the room, stretched himself a bit, and studied with his gaze his best friend "I'll help you with physics Rog" He said after a while, but Roger frowned at his best friend's exclamation "I haven't asked for your help" Roger said a bit bothered by Brian "No, but if you keep having those kind of grades at school, I think we won't be able to see each other for a long time..." Roger snorted and went to the other side of the room. He went down on his knees and took a book and the pencil case  from his backpack. He then got up and walked to Brian "Ok, let's do it" He said rolling his eyes and throwing his book on the desk.

Roger was rubbing his temple in despair "It is too hard! How am I supposed to solve such an hard problem!?" Physics was literally blowing Roger's mind; at least Brian was teaching him, so actually, he was having fun. Roger was still looking at his notebook filled with formulas and lots of numbers
"If you focus on the problem you won't find it that difficult Roger..." Roger rolled his eyes "Of course it's easy for you Brian! You're a genius!" Brian sighed deeply to not lost his temper "Please Roger, after this we're done with homework and we can do something else!" Roger turned to look at Brian "Let's do something else then!" Brian raised his eyebrows "So that you can get another bad grade?" Roger was starting to be annoyed "Its not about bad grades now; my brain will explode if we don't take a break!" Brian was staring at him "We'll take a break when you'll be able to solve this problem..." Roger threw his head back and rolled his eyes in desperation. Then, an idea came to him. He looked at Brian with a smirk "Why are you looking at me like that?" Roger began to tickle Brian "No please!" Brian was laughing trying to escape from Roger "Roger! Roger please!" Roger was now having fun for real. He stopped for a second to let Brian breathe for a bit "You! Little...!" Brian took the moment to have his revenge on Roger and he started to tickle him "Wait Brian! That's not funny!" Roger said between the laughs. "It is for me Roger!" They kept doing this for at least half an hour...

"And war it is, Brian!" Roger was next to his bed with a pillow in his hands "I'll defenetly win! I'm gonna face no defeat Roger!" Brian exclaimed with a pillow in his hands as well "if I were you I wouldn't be so sure!" Roger yelled running to Brian and beating him with the pillow. Brian immediately threw his to Roger. "I won't lose, Brian!" Roger kept yelling "I won't lose either!" Suddenly, they heard a familiar voice from downstairs: it was Roger's father "Shut up Brian! My father's at home!" Roger whispered at Brian, who threw the pillow on the bed and went to the door to listen what was happening outside. Roger did the same "Is that timewaster of your child studying?" They heard the old man asking to Roger's mother "I don't know... You locked him in his room, how am I supposed to know what's he doing?" She asked "Remember this: if he keep taking bad marks at school, he will never come out of that room!" He yelled so loud that he whole house trembled "For God's sake..." Roger whispered "At least he isn't drunk..." Brian's eyes widened "Brian... He usually comes back home shitfaced and beats me and my mother, but he doesn't find me at home that often..." Brian hugged him "I knew it wasn't easy, but I didn't think it could be that hard to survive here" he whispered in Roger's hear "I'll be always here for you Rog..." He then promised to the blond, who was now about to cry; Brian touched him "Thank you Brian" Roger just said.