Only For Him (boyxboy)

Chapter Three: Hospitals (part two)

So guys.... I know I am late and that I deserve to be put in a straight jacket in a room full of hornets, but I can’t do anything about it now… So yeah. I’m sorry, guys:(

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Kase:

    “He’s been here the whole time I have been in the hospital?” I had to ask to make sure I heard him right.

    “Yes, Kase. He seems to care for you a lot,” He smiled secretly as if he thought he knew something nobody else did. I narrowed my eyes at him and shook my head.

    “I may as well at least talk to the brat for a minute or so since he’s stayed,” I said in fake distaste. I was actually really shocked and kind of flattered that he had stayed by my side this whole time, even after I threw him to the wolves a few days ago. Dr. Smith gave me a weird look and walked out of the room. I sighed and played with the stupid hospital gown as I waited for Braylin.

    Braylin… It’s such a nice name….

    “Kase, I am so sorry!” I gave Braylin a weird look and shifted to sit up more in the stupid hospital bed.

    “What are you sorry for, Braylin?” I shocked myself with how soft my voice sounded towards the kid that I can’t seem to be rude to without a clear conscious. I don’t know what is with this kid but he just gives off the impression of having a good heart…

    “I shouldn’t have punched you like I did, but do you know how horrible those people are? They are disgusting human beings and you just dumped me on them!” He was pouting. Pouting. What do I do? What do I tell him? Do i just tell him the truth, that I didn’t want his reputation to be ruined because he was seen hanging out with me? Or do I tell him that I just didn’t want to be around him and save him from me hurting him some way or another? He seems so nice…

    “Why do you talk to me? It’s only going to ruin your possibilities of people liking you at school.” I stared at him really hard, trying to read him.

    “Why don’t other people talk to you? There is nothing wrong with you; you are just a little rough around the edges, that’s it. I don’t want to be liked by a bunch of people that are fakes and can’t be a decent human being. You can be nice, you just don’t have a reason to…” He spoke softer as he got farther into what he was saying, as if he was talking to himself instead of me.

    “The guy I handed you over to,” I looked up to see him grimacing at the memory of Davon, “he’s my brother,” I don’t know where that came from. We weren’t even talking about my family or anything. That just came out of no where…

    “Wha-”

    “I told him to kind of mentor you because I know he has a high status in school. He’s invited to all of the parties and is always going out all the time with my other brother, Deon. Once you told me you were new to the school… I realized that you had no idea what you would be doing, following me around or me helping you. You had no idea who was who in school and I figured I was doing you a favor by giving you to the best crowd to get into- socially wise,” I said softly. I don’t know why I feel so bad about just handing him over to my brothers. I guess I just kind of decided for him what was best for him when I didn’t even know his name. I didn’t even give him a choice.

    “I don’t care what they think of you at school! Not at all. You are a good person, I know you are. You just hide yourself from everybody. You hide your emotions so nobody knows that you can feel and so you keep yourself from getting hurt. I see right through your defence mechanism. I can see when you are struggling to keep your emotions hidden. I personally would like to be your friend… You know… If you’d have me…” He was looking down at the floor at this point, brushing his hair behind his ears… It was so cute.

    “I would end up hurting you or-”

    “Oh don’t give me that bull crap! You are doing it again! You are trying to choose what’s best for me, but you don’t even hardly know me,” He glared defiantly at me.

    “That brings us to now. Why have you been staying here?” I asked emotionlessly, my mask now back in tact. I can’t do that to him. What if I hurt him? I never have to maintain actual conversations with anybody. I actually go out of my way to avoid people.

    “I’m very good at reading people, darling. I look into your eyes and watch your body language and I know you want a friend so badly, but you’re so self conscious that you think you would be a burden to somebody. Well, you know what? I need a friend too.” I was stunned silent.

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Braylin: (yes, my darlings. Be shocked.)

    “I told you, go home!” I hid my smile behind my hand as I led Mr, Grumpy to my car. His parents had come, signed his release papers, and left immediately after. I was left staring at their retreating back in disgusted shock. They were just going to leave him here! What kind of parents do that?

    I decided that I wasn’t going to tell Kase that small detail of his release from the hospital. He wasn’t very happy that I’m still here, however.

    “Shush, you. How else did you plan to get home? Walk?” I raised my eyebrow and watched him try to come up with something to cover up the fact that he hadn’t thought that far yet. “Yeah, I thought so. Besides, I told you. I’m not going anywhere.” I smiled softly at his poor attempt at covering up his emotions. It fools other people, but not me. I don’t buy it. I helped him into the passenger seat of my car and tried not to coddle him. I almost went to buckle his seatbelt for him. I pinch myself out of those thoughts and went around to the drivers seat and got in.

    “I told you I didn’t want to be friends. I don’t need a friend.,” I shook my head at him trying to convince me that he didn’t like me.

    “And I told you that I’m not going anywhere. You don’t fool me, mister.”

He doesn’t fool me. He likes me, but he just hasn’t realized it yet.