Elephant Shoe [BXB] [SAMPLE]

If his sixteen years experience has taught Mikey Alston only one thing, it's this:

Life is too damn cruel to face alone...

The ice took our car off the road.
The tree wrecked it.
Tate and I didn't make it out unscathed.
My parents didn't make it out alive...
I was eleven, and that's the day my whole world was ripped away from me.
My brother, David, was twenty-one. All the family I had left, I needed him. He didn't need me.
David sent me away. Packed me off far across the country from my hometown in Devon - from Tate and everything I'd ever known, to live with grandparents I'd never known.
Six years is a long time.
But now I'm back.
(Not through choice. Not mine, anyway).
And Tate's still here.
Only... he's not the boy I left behind.
He won't speak to me. Won't speak to anyone.
The one upshot of my return to a life I no longer fit and he's letting me down spectacularly.
Well, Tate, here's the thing:
I'm not giving up on you. I'm not everybody else. You can't shut me out. You need me - we need each other. And we will be friends again. Best friends.
I'm decided.
It's decided.