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A/N: I’ve never watched the ‘The Maze Runner’, so excuse any mistakes I might have made.
When I wake up Taylor is gone.
I get out of bed and tip toe to the door, hearing laughter in the living room. Guess he’s not so sick after all. The medicine did help though.
When I open the door I sigh in relief, down stairs, Taylor and Tanner are sitting on the sofa eating pizza and laughing at something one of them said.
“Uh..” I awkwardly say and clear my throat, hoping they’ll notice me already.
“Oh! Davin! Come, we’re having pizza,” Tanner says when he notices me and Taylor turns in surprise too.
“Not to be rude or anything, but why are you here? Don’t you have school or something..?” I ask as I walk down the stairs pulling at my shirt awkwardly. At least it not Taylor’s parents, What a relief.
Tanner faked a gasp “oh so that’s it? I’m not welcome here anymore? Ugh I’m offended, it’s not my fault you guys aren’t cool enough for me.”
I raised an eyebrow at him and set down on the floor in front of them, “oh yeah,” He says suddenly, “how do you feel?”
“Better,” I mumble and mentally sigh, I don’t like when people ask me that.
He just cares about you, you selfish. A voice inside my head whispers, the last word was in a singsong tone.
“I’m not selfish.” I frown at my weird inside voice, and immediately face palm. I just talked to myself.
“Ya kinda ‘re” Taylor says with his mouth full of pizza, and Tanner gives him a harsh punch in the gut, making Taylor wince, “shut up.” He says playfully and takes a bite himself.
Ew. I hate pizza.
“Want some?” Tanner asks me after he swallows, and I look a the pizza in his hand in disgust, “oh,” he laughs a little, “not this one, I meant your own piece, there some more left.” He nods at the table behind me.
“Uh no.. I just..” if I say that I don’t like pizza they’re both gonna be like ‘oh my god what how why but its so good I can’t believe you’re so weird.’ Etc.. I’d like to avoid that.
“I’m not hungry.” I lie. I am. A lot actually, I’ve started to build quite an apatite because of Taylor, “Bull. Have some.” Taylor says and frowns at me handing me a pizza, but I don’t take it.
“I said I’m not hungry.” I insist and push the disgusting pizza away from me.
“Don’t make me force feed you.” Taylor threatens and Tanner looks at him in surprise, “hey if he doesn’t want to eat then its okay..” Tanner mumbles uncertain of what’s going on.
“I mean it Dan.”Taylor raises his eyebrows at me and ignores Tanner completely.
I stand up and glare at him, “oh for fucks sakes Taylor go fuck yourself.” I storm off to the front door ignoring their calls for me and throw the door open, only to be greeted with the cold wind.
I shiver but walk outside anyway.
“Devin wait.” Tanner calls me and I stop, he never did anything wrong, I shouldn’t ignore him.
“Yeah?” I turn around and I see Taylor looking at us from his front door worried, good. You deserve that.
“Don’t leave. He’s not gonna force feed you that’s stupid.” He says and takes a step foreword in my direction,
I take one back, “you don’t understand -“
“Yeah, I don’t, but I can promise you he won’t. Do you trust me?”
I look at him for a few long moments. Do I trust him? No.. but Mark did, they were best friends.
I sigh. “Okay.” He smiles at me and we both walk back inside, brushing by Taylor.
“I need to be back home before my mums come back and realize I lied about being sick, that would be around 6PM?” Tanner asks himself and glances at his phone concentrating.
” Yep. Around 6PM, now, who’s up for a good movie?” He asks and finally glances up at me and Taylor.
” We can watch ‘The Maze Runner’?” Taylor suggested and we all walk to the living room,and sit down on the sofa, while Taylor searches for the movie’s DVD.
“I’ll go bring some drinks, Coke’s fine?” Tanner got up suddenly and Taylor nodded in agreement.
Don’t go you fucktard.
And I was right, the minute he left Taylor turns to me, “I’m sorry.. I just.. ugh you promised so I ju…” just what you big baby?
“It’s okay, I know I promised you, I just don’t like pizza.” I say when I see he doesn’t know what to say anymore.
“Oh.. so-“
“DAVIN DAN MAAG DOESN’T LIKE PIZZA?! I MEAN COME ON THATS IT! WE CANT BE FRIENDS ANYMORE.” Tanner comes in and screams in fake horror. Great.
“Uh..” Taylor looks over at Tanner and they both start laughing while I just awkwardly wait for them to finish.
“Aw. Look at that, Dev is blushing! It’s all out of pure love don’t worry hun.” Tanner calms his laughter and comes over to me ruffling my hair and gives me a bear hug. It was incredibly warm and comforting, I can’t help but snuggle his chest slightly and he chuckles.
“Aw you’re just so ad-” he stops mid sentence and looks at me in horror, unwrapping his arms from me.
Uh fuck. He noticed.
“What the-” he pulls up my shirt and stares at my very skiny stomach, some of the bones showing.
I blush and push his hand away from my shirt, letting it fall back into place. “Tanner please don’t.” I say and look away embarrassed, before any of us can say something the movie starts in the background and we all stare at Taylor who’s trying to figure out how the hell does this machine work.
“Movie time I guess,” Taylor sighed and sat down on the sofa, Tanner joining him and gesturing at me to come too.
I sit uncomfortably between the two and try the best not to die while the movie takes forever to finish.
Not even that good of a movie pfft.
At one part of the movie the characters got obnoxiously loud and Taylor winced next to me, “its giving me a headache..” he mumbles so only I can hear him, “do you want another pill? It seems the medicine is starting to wear off.” I whisper back at him and he nods.
I get up and go get the medicine for him back in his room, I try to hurry and because I’m clumsy me my pants decide to slide a little too low and I trip at the door frame of his room.
Lucky no one saw this embarrassing fall.
I don’t bother to pick my pants back up now that they’re showing some of my boxers waistband, and look around for the little Advil bottle. Where the fuck did I put it?
“Here it is.” My head immediately jumps to the side looking at Taylor holding the Advil bottle in one hand and rubbing his temples with the other.
“Oh..” I mumble and grab it from him taking one out. Suddenly I get a flashback, from not that long ago when I tried to kill myself. What was I thinking?
I shake my head at the memory and hand Taylor the pill with a glass of water that was on his night stand.
“You know..” he swallow the pill before he continues, “it’s kinda hard to stay cool when you’re teasing me like that.” His eyes looking at my pants that seemed to slip down even more,
I blush and pull them up, “move on already you creep,” I say under my breath, totally embarrassed by his comment and walk past him.
“What was that?” He grabs my arm and pulls me back before I could leave. “It’s funny though. You tell me to move on when you can’t even do it yourself.” He says slightly annoyed and angry, but mostly hurt.
I swallow loudly and look up at him, scared of what he might do next. Tanner, now would be a good time to pop up…
” Tell you what, I’ll move on, if, and only if-” he takes a pause, thinking over what he’s going to say, “you move on too.” Sigh. Total silence.
” What do you get out of all of this? I move on yeah, but you won’t be with me because supposedly you’ve moved on too.” I raise an eyebrow at him, its win lose. I win freedom somehow from moving on but he just goes through so much trouble and doesn’t get much out of it.
“Let’s put it differently, just because I move on from you it won’t mean that I never loved you, so seeing you happy, seeing you moving on will make me happy anyway.”
“You’re happy I’m happy.” He adds after a short pause, “besides you made it pretty clear that you dislike me, wouldn’t you like me to be off your back?”
No, not really. You’ve helped me recover more then anyone else ever succeeded.
” So… you move on from me and live happily ever after if I move on from Mark?” I make sure I understood him.
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but yes.”
“You better believe it. Because I agree.”
When we walk back down stairs Tanner is half asleep on the sofa the movie already over, showing the names on the screen.
I look down at Tanner’s peaceful face and I already have a plan on moving on, I smile widely thinking how amazing would it be to try and kiss Tanner, but my smile immediately fades in realization.
I just agreed to move on from Mark.
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