Winning Hand

Chapter 7

Zyaires pov-

I don't know how I expected him to act when we got to school on Monday but this wasn't it. He wouldn't even look at me. The soft guy in the cave did not equal the heartless guy standing in front of his locker with a blank face. I watched him from afar, he was stiff and really looked like he could use a hug or a blowjob...I mean I'm down for either.

"Ayo, why you got dreamy eyes looking at Mr.blush. Y'all got a little fairy ass relationship going on or something?" Justin asked, raising his eyebrow. I panicked quickly looking away.

"Hell no. what the fuck. I was looking at the girl he's with. Her name's Izzie." I lied smoothly. I heard grunts of approval and one of these dudes slapped me on the back.

"The fire engine red head, with the nice tits? ain't that Noah's girl? Noah!!! Aint that your girl?" Sha said loudly, smirking and craning his whole neck to see who I was talking about. Shit I forgot they had a little thing going on.

"Nah we not official... I mean I actually like her bro but if you wanna go for her I'll back off." Noah said leaning back against a locker. See this is what I loved about Noah, he was the only one who actually acts like he give a fuck, if he was gay I'd suck his dick as a thanks.

"Nah nah you got it." I said, and for a while we went back and forth ping ponging between "she's yours" and "nah bro you can have her" It hurt me to sit here and talk about her like she's a fucking object or something but I went along. Little does he know I want her MALE best friend.

"Oh shit. Kairo's looking over here. Shit bro what if he like totally like..beats our ass?" Sha asked. Cowering behind Justin. I scoffed, if only they knew he was actually really nice, and soft hearted.

"Riiiiiiiiinnnnggggg" all four of us jumped,startled by the unexpected loudness of the bell.

"Aii peace out bro. Catch y'all later." I said, they all looked at me weird knowing I'm usually never on time to this class, the reason I was leaving so early is because I happen to know Kairos' class is down the hall from mine so maybe I'd be able to catch him before he goes in.

I actually caught up to him halfway there, he was looking down at his phone and Izzie was gone. Perfect.

"H-hey." I said , looking down a little. He looked at me blankly.

"What?" He deadpanned. I took a step back in shock at the distance I heard his voice at. It was such a drastic change from the trip, there he spoke with slow careful words in a soothing voice that could make even your biggest and most scary demons lay at rest. Today he spoke coldly, his word clipped as short as possible like he just couldn't wait for this conversation to be over.

"I-I was just saying hi. You seem kinda... I don't know upset? Do you wanna talk about it?" I hoped and prayed he would say yes, hoped he would open up like he did on Friday night but instead I was met with a stone cold face and a simple:

"No."

Needless to say for the rest of the day I was completely bummed, like "I ran out of ice cream" or "all of my drafts on tik tok got deleted" The typa bummed that makes everything else that goes on seem like the most horrible thing in the world too. The only thing keeping me together at this point was the fact when I seen him a few times in the hall throughout the day he looked guilty, so fucking guilty and the one time we made eye contact the guilt grew ten fold.

Kairos pov-

Shit. shit. Shit. shit. Fuck, damnit, shit motherfucking fucking shit.

This morning Izzie had texted me and told me to bring back her few shirts and shorts she asked me to take to my house and wash, I was so occupied thinking about how badly I wanted to see Zyaire again that I threw things in without paying attention and I may or may not have accidentally threw Zyaires basketball uniform in the bag.