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When Cameron arrived home, he saw a man’s pair of shoes in the shoe cabinet and this just made him nervous. It couldn’t be… then he remembered what his dad said.
“Ah!!! Help me!!” he heard his baby sister scream from upstairs.
He ran up as fast as he could. He wasn’t even sure if his feet landed even once. All that he had in his mind is that his baby sister is in grave danger. He slowed his pace when he was already near Candace’s room as to not to alarm the person with Can. He took his baseball bat that stood just in front of his room. He took some deep breaths before he barged into the room and hit the guy on the head as hard as he can.
The guy fell with an ‘oof!’. And he was sure that the guy fell unconscious to the next century.
“Cam!” Candace screamed when she saw the guy fall down.
Cameron immediately ran to his sister and carried him in his arms. “You’re safe now, baby” he murmured.
“You killed MM!” Candace screamed at him as she slapped him so hard that he felt his face burn in pain. He let go of her to cup his burning cheek.
Candace ran to the lying body of the man he had just hit with his bat. “MM! MM, wake up!” she said as she shook the poor guy.
“This is MM?” he asked.
Candace nodded.
“Why were you screaming just a while ago?”
“We were playing! Stupid!”
Cameron felt his face grow hot in embarrassment. He knelt beside the guy and turned him on his back. Cam’s red face grew pale the moment he saw who it was. “Crap! Morgan!” he said as he shook Morgan wildly.
Morgan groaned as he regained his consciousness. He caressed the spot of his head where Cameron hit him. “Ow!” he murmured.
“Come on, wake up!” Cameron said.
Morgan recognized the voice and his eyes snapped open. He saw Cameron looking down on him beside Candace. “Cameron? What are you doing here?”
“This is my house!” Cameron said.
“What?!” Morgan sat up and continuously rubbed his head. “Why did you hit me anyway?”
“Sorry, false alarm.” Cameron said as he raised his hand in a surrendering position.
“False alarm in what?”
“I thought you were hurting my baby sister so… well, you know…” he sheepishly rubbed that back of his neck.
Morgan just sighed as he stood up. “Time for your afternoon nap, Can.” he said to Candace.
“Are you okay now, MM?” the five-year-old kid asked.
Morgan just nodded. “I’ll get your milk.” he said as he walked down to the kitchen to get a glass of milk for Candace.
Candace drank it happily then went to her bed and drifted off to sleep. Her brother and Morgan watched her sleep for a few minutes before Cameron finally spoke. “Sorry” he said quietly.
Morgan looked at him. “It’s okay”
“Let’s put some medicine on that bump.” Cameron said.
Morgan just nodded and followed Cameron to the kitchen to get the first aid kit. He sat on one of the stools in front of the counter. Cameron looked for some medicine and bandages from the medicine box.
“Why didn’t you come to the field trip?” Cameron asked.
“Because I have a job to do.” Morgan answered casually.
“And this is your job?”
“What do you think?”
“Can’t you be nice to me every once in a while?”
“How can I be nice to you when you almost broke my skull?”
Cameron sighed at that. He put some betadine on a cotton ball before he leaned in front of Morgan and dabbed it to Morgan’s bump on the head.
Morgan suddenly clenched the other teen’s shirt because of the sudden pain from the contact the cotton made to his bruised scalp.
“Sorry” Cameron apologized.
Morgan just nodded.
Cameron swallowed hard before pulling back and turned his back to Morgan. He didn’t want the other teen see him blush. Hell, he didn’t even know why he is blushing! He prepared one of the bandages and turned around again to lean in front of Morgan and put it on the other teen’s head.
“Cameron…” he heard Morgan call him.
“Hmm?” he stopped what he was doing and looked at the red-head guy in front of him.
“You have a great family. You’re very lucky.”
Cameron smiled at that. “I know” he replied with a loving smile on his face. “Where’s your family, anyway?”
Morgan kept quiet for a moment. “I don’t have any family ever since I was twelve.”
“Twelve?! That was almost three years ago!”
Morgan didn’t say a word.
“Who are you with now?” Cameron asked again.
“Nobody. I live alone.” Morgan answered.
“Is that the reason why you took this job?”
“Hey, I need a means of living!” Morgan said.
Cameron smiled. “Hey, does anybody know about this, except me?”
Morgan looked at him then shook his head.
Cameron grinned widely.
“This doesn’t mean that we’re friends” the red-head said with a scoff.
“I’ll tell you something too” Cameron started.
Morgan looked at him with an obvious curiosity.
Cameron cleared his throat before starting his story. “The reason why I transferred here is because of a broken heart.”
Morgan raised one brow and smirked. “So, you got your heart broken huh?”
“And not just that… I was in love with a guy.” Cameron said without hesitation.
Morgan’s eyes grew wide in disbelief.
“Yeah, I’m gay.” Cameron unconsciously waited for the disgusted look that Morgan would send him but that never came. “You’re not disgusted or something?”
Morgan looked at him through thick eyelashes. “Now I know why that guy dumped you.”
“Huh?”
“Because you lack self-confidence. If you’re a gay then be proud of it! It’s who you are and nobody could ever change that.”
“You mean you understand?”
Morgan stared at him blankly. “Why wouldn’t I?”
“Well, because I thought you have something about my kind of people.”
Morgan sighed. “I don’t have anything with your kind. I’m not just used to having too many people talking to me or something, especially people who I barely know.”
“But you know me now! And you know my family too.”
“That doesn’t mean anything.”
“My sister loves you, you know.”
“So?”
“So it means that you’re a part of the family too!”
“I’m not.”
Cam just smiled at the red-head guy in front of him then said, “Then I hang out with you?”
Morgan looked at him with an eyebrow raised. “What will be the difference if I said no? You’re already following me around like crazy and I can’t get you off my tracks”
Cam smiled at that.
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