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A/N: I want to thank you guys for reading and voting, it makes my day ^^ And I’d love some more feedback, I need that. Anyway, carry on. P.S that’s Tanner, ugh my love. I’m in love with that kid.
It didn’t take more then 5 minutes for Taylor to answer me. Its a record.
From: Taylor Manuel
What?
I didn’t have time to type in my short answer and he texted again.
From: Taylor Manuel
Why?
From: Taylor Manuel
Are you okay?
From: Taylor Manuel
Tell me where you are
To: Taylor Manuel
I’m at Tanner’s, don’t come I’m fine, I’m staying over his house for the night. Sorry.
My thumb was ready to press send but then I thought better about it. I quickly erased the ‘sorry’ and pressed send. I had nothing to be sorry about.
“Help me make the bed,” Tanner grabbed my shirt and dragged me upstairs again, sticking his tongue out to his mums, “bitches stole my pizza..” He grumbled and opened his bedroom door dragging mattress from underneath his bed, quickly making his way to the closet taking out some sheets.
“Green or…” He looked to see any other sheet colors he had, “pink..?” He shrugged.
“Green,” I mumble but I’m not focusing anymore. I’m waiting for Taylor’s replay, but it never comes that evening.
Instead, minutes later Tanner and I are already in bed, and we could hear the soft laughter and murmurs his mums are making coming from the kitchen, slowly disappearing into their bedroom.
“Night.” Tanner says and we both fall asleep.
However, not for long.
Hours later, when its still dark outside I wake up screaming.
I barely finish my horrified scream when Rose and Tress are already throwing the bedroom’s door open.
“Hey hey hey calm down,” his mum sits down next to me hugging me tightly, while his mother is holding a broom looking around the room.
“Wa..” Tanner mumbles waking up and freezes at the sight of both his mums in PJs and messy hair, sharing a look.
Mother puts down the broom finally understanding there’s no killer or anything like that, in the room.
“Hey, what happened kid? You scared us.” His mother sits down on my other side, not touching me.
“I.. I just..” I just had another horrible nightmare.
“Bad dream?” His mum guessed in a small and soft voice, rubbing my back.
“Y..yeah.”
“Okay listen, its 2AM now, so you guys only have 3 more hours of sleep. Tanner, go back to bed, and Devin, I’ll take you back home, you can’t stay here alone, your parents will help you, okay darling?” His mother gets up and looks down at me, but I only nod.
I don’t want to go back home. My mum will just be a bitch about the whole thing.
“Are you gonna be okay if you go back to your parents?” His mum asks softly, as if suspicious of something.
I don’t want them to worry. I have to just agree.
Or maybe…
“Yeah. I’ll ask my friend to give me a ride, his up at this kinda hours all the time, so you don’t have to give me a lift.”
Taylor, I swear to God, you better be up. If tonight out of all the nights you decide to go to sleep early I’ll kill you.
“Oh, really?” His mother asks, even more suspicious.
“Yeah, he’s in college so he stays up learning, since when he finishes his classes first thing he heads to work and there’s no time left to study.”
They nod in the same time. “Oh yeah, he’s right. I know the guy its okay.” Tanner says in a husky voice and I look up at him. He looks extremely adorable with his messy hair and his big eyes, still puffy from his sleep.
“Oh! Okay then! Great! So you go on and call him!” His mum says excitedly and drags mother out of the room, whispering her something.
“Did you even know who I was tal-”
“Nope, but I saw my parents being unhappy with that, they really trust me, so I knew if I said I knew the guy they’ll let you go.” Tanner smiles at me and yawns.
“Uh… Thank you. That’s really.. Nice of you.”
“Its okay if you don’t get along with your parents.. Most of us don’t, even when it looks like we do.”
“How do you know I don’t get along with them?” I asked frowning.
“You didn’t want to go home.” He shrugs and nods at me, as in ‘go on, call him’ and goes back to sleep.
I sigh and get out if bed, getting ready to leave. Even if Taylor isn’t up I’ll just lie and walk and sneak home or something.
“Did you call him yet honey?” His mum comes back into the room and asks in soft murmur.
“No I’m gonna ask him now,” I say and look at my phone.
You’ve got 1 new message 2:54
From: Taylor Manuel
K
Instead of texting I decide to call. Tanner’s mum was still in the room.
Ring
Right after the first ring he already answered, and I sigh in relief.
“Hello?” A very low voice answers.
“Hi.. Its Devin,” I say looking up and meeting Tanner’s mum eyes.
“I know who it is, aren’t you with Tanner? Why are you even up?” He kept talking in a low raspy voice, was he sick?
“I.. I need you to come pick me up.” I say nervously and quickly add, “please.”
“Oka-” he pauses to cough a little, “I’ll.. I’ll be there in like ten.” I can hear shuffling noise in the background and some more coughing.
“Are you…are you okay?” I ask.
“Yeah. Just a cold. Bye,” he says and waits a little before the line goes dead.
“Bye..” I mumble and look up from the phone.
“Is everything okay?” Rose asks, “yeah.” I answer meeting her eyes.
“Okay. Well, I’m gonna go join my love in bed and go to sleep. Lock the door when you leave, with the key that’s inside the plant vase.” She nods and leaves.
“S..sure.”
At thirst I thought I said that, but it was Tanner, he was mumbling in his sleep.
I looked over at him and got a little closer so I can hear better. It takes quite a while till he speaks again,
“But.. I don’t l…”
“Pain, without love
Pain, I can’t get enough
Pain, I like it rough
‘Cause I’d rather feel pain than nothing at all..” My phone rings and I quickly answer. Tanner shuffles a little.
“I’m here, come.” Taylor says and hangs up before I could answer. I hurry down the stairs and lock the door as I exit, just like I was told to, and jog over to the car and slide in.
“Hey… Is your offer still up?” I ask and bite my tongue. He was wearing a pair of sweatpants and a sweatshirt looking exhausted.
“Maybe.” He says and coughs a little.
“Oh?” I ask and he smiles, oh boy..
“On one condition.” Probably something like ‘make out with me.’ Pff.
“And that is?” I ask. His grin gets wider.
“We both skip school tomorrow and you spend the day with me, we haven’t spend time together in a long time.” He says and I take that in considering.
“What about my parents?” I ask scared a little, they’d kill me if they find out.
“I’ll take care if that. They’ll never know.” He says and gives me puppy dog eyes. If it wasn’t for his raspy voice I would’ve melted from overloud of cuteness.
“Okay. I trust you.” I surprise myself saying that, knowing it wasn’t entirely true.
“Awesome.” He grins and starts the car. As we drive his coughing gets worse and he loses grip if the wheel,
“Taylor! Watch out! You’ll get us killed!” I scream and turn the wheel in my direction avoiding a car that was gonna crush right into us if it wasn’t for me.
“You almost got us killed by that…” I start off screaming but soon end up mumbling to myself, “green car with the big scratch…”
It was a small green car, who had a huge scratch on both doors on one side. More like someone tried to break the doors into half with an ax.
“Hey are you okay?” Taylor by now was taking control of the wheel again and gave me a quick worried glance.
“Yeah yeah. I’m fine just watch out.” I dismiss him and try to calm myself down. There could be many cars that looked like that. It didn’t mean anything.
Though, deep down, I could’ve swore that I just saw the same car that killed Mark.
×××
“He-” cough, “- re you go.” Taylor hands me a PJ set and I mumble thank you taking it and going to his room to get dressed while he made some tea in the kitchen for both of us. Mostly for him though.
The T-shirt was way too big on me and the pants slid down every now and then.
Praying my pants won’t fall I make my way to the kitchen and sit down next to Taylor, who looked miserable as he drank his tea.
“Hey..” I use the voice that Rose just did earlier with me, it seemed to calm people when you use it. That oddly soft voice.
“Are you sure you feel okay?” I ask, reaching to feel his forehead but stop in midair awkwardly, unsure if it would be a smart thing to touch him.
“Y-yeah sure,” he coughs a little more and I sigh. Might as well get it over with.
I feel his forehead and almost gasp. “Taylor, you’re really hot, did you take any medicine?” I ask him but he just shakes his head. I sigh and get up “I’ll go g-”
“Don’t go.” Taylor says grabbing my wrist and pulls me down.
“Taylor you need m-“
“I said I’m fine. Just stay, okay?” He looks a bit angry in my opinion but he just shrugs it off and leaves the kitchen after a few long moments of silence.
I stay there a few more minutes rubbing my wrist and finishing the tea, I washed the cups and make my way to Taylor’s room to check if he’s there.
When I come in Taylor doesn’t notice me, his panting hard and seems to have a hard time breathing from the hotness in the room. Just a cold. Pff, what a freaking idiot.
I sneak out and go to the bathroom, the most common place to find Advil. As soon as I do I grab a pill and go to the kitchen, taking a cup of cold water and wetting a small clean towel, and make my way up to Taylor’s room.
He looks up at me in surprise as I set down on the nightstand the cup and pill, pushing him back down on his bed and settling the cold wet towel on his forehead.
“I think we might need to cancel tomorrow..” I offer helping him up a bit so he can swallow the pill with some water.
“No. No I’ll be fine by tomorrow. Don’t worry.” He says and I sigh.
I suddenly felt very awkward, it was already 4AM and I was extremely tired, but.. I didn’t really want to sleep in bed with Taylor again.
“You can have Mark’s old room if you want.” Taylor offers as if he read my mind.
My stomach aches at that thought. Please no.
“Okay okay I’ll go there and you can have my bed its okay.” He starts to get up and I immediately feel guilty.
“No no no! Its okay! I’ll sleep… Here with you!” I say the last part too slow and too uncertain, but Taylor is way too tired by now to notice, so he just falls back in his bed and mumbles a few things I couldn’t hear.
Sigh.
I get under the covers and try to make as much space between us as I can, and fall asleep immediately to sound of Taylor’s soft snores.
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