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“By the way, what were you doing in the park?” Cameron asked Morgan and Susie on their way home to Morgan’s place.
Morgan and Susie looked at each other then both smiled sheepishly.
“Well, we thought that you might have a date and since we’re not doing anything, we decided to follow you which were a good thing because if not, you must have been bullied by that bastard of a guy.” Susie answered with a huge lollipop in her mouth.
“You followed me?” Cam asked again.
“No, Cam, you were the one who followed us.” Morgan said sarcastically with a note of annoyance.
Susie laughed at that. “Bully Morgie”
Cam felt the nerves on his temple twitch. Darn this guy!!!
“Stop calling me that Susie or else…” Morgan warned.
“Morgie?” Cam repeated what Susie just called Morgan.
“That’s his childhood nickname because he and dad had the same name.” Susie explained.
“Huh?”
“Susie is my twin sister, moron.” Morgan explained.
“What?!” Cam looked at Morgan then at Susie then back again. He didn’t realize that the two were look alike… too alike. Susie is the female version of Morgan.
Susie giggled. “Ne, Morgie, I think I’m having a crush on your best friend… He’s just so cute…”
Cam blushed at the compliment. “T-thank you, Susie.”
“Susie likes making guys like you feel giddy just by talking like a kid.” Morgan said coldly.
“You’re just jealous, Morgie!” Cam and Susie said in unison.
Morgan gave them an icy death glare.
Cam and Susie laughed.
“Hey, Susie, can I have a simple question and get a simple answer too?” Cam asked.
“Sure, why not?” Susie said with a smile.
Cam looked at his friend first before looking at Susie. “Why was Morgan disowned by your family?”
Susie and Morgan stopped walking and so did Cam. They looked at Cameron in unison.
Cam laughed nervously. Overstepped the line, Cam… “I-it’s okay if you don’t—”
“I told them that I was gay and they didn’t accept for who I am.” Morgan answered without hesitation.
Cameron was shocked. “But you’re still a family, right?”
“We came from a family of great and famous lawyers, Cam.” Susie said. “And dad thought that having a gay child is a disgrace, besides, Morgie didn’t like to become a lawyer. He wanted to become an artist like mom.”
“Accept it, Cam. Not all families are like yours who accepted you with their arms wide open.” Morgan said with bitterness tainting his voice.
Cam stared at his friend with sad eyes. So that was it, huh? He wasn’t accepted… He forced his self to smile. “But I accepted you, right? And Susie too!”
At that, the twins smiled at him.
“Yeah, you did.” Morgan said.
Cam laughed. “Then I’ll start calling you Morgie from now on!”
“What?!” Morgan exclaimed as he ran after his friend.
Susie just laughed as she watched her brother run after Cameron. He’s happy in here. She thought. He deserves to be here. She ran after Cam and Morgan until they arrived at Morgan’s place.
“Susie, you stay in my room while I and this jerk here stay here in the living room.” Morgan said while preparing their supposed to be bed.
“Okay.” Susie said simply. “I’ll just take a shower.”
Cam didn’t give the twins any attention because he was reading a new novel that his dad gave him the day before. He just sat on the sofa with his legs stretched as far as they could go.
“Cameron!” Morgan called.
“Hmm…?” he didn’t even look at Morgan. He just continued reading the novel and sucking the huge lollipop in his mouth.
“What side?” Morgan asked.
“Hmm…? What side?” Cam repeated.
Morgan felt the nerve on his forehead burst so he took the book away from Cam’s reach. “What side will you sleep?” he asked.
Cam looked at him with his thick eyebrows becoming one. “Any side!” he answered. “Now, give me that darn book!”
Morgan smirked. “Get it if you can!”
Cam stood up and jumped with his arms stretched but Morgan is taller and faster so he wasn’t able to reach it in time.
Morgan took a few steps back to get the book away from Cam’s reach.
“Give it to me, Morgan!” Cam said in a frustrated voice.
“Come and get it, Cameron!” Morgan said.
Cam kicked Morgan on the leg but the other didn’t even budge. “Give the darn book to me!”
Morgan just smirked at him and in one swift motion; he was already behind Cam and took hold of the smaller teen by the arms. “Gotcha, Cameron!” he whispered into the other’s ear.
“Jerk!” Cam said as he struggled to get free from Morgan’s touch. “Let me go and give me the stupid book!”
Morgan laughed as he wrapped his long arms around the smaller teen’s waist. “Hey, Cam…” he said against the other’s hair. “Do you still love that guy?”
Cameron stiffened. What the hell’s going on? Why is he asking such stupid question? “What kind of question is that?” he asked as he started to struggle again.
“Just answer my stupid question.” Morgan whispered as he tightened his hold of Cam.
Cam stopped struggling and sighed. “Didn’t you hear what I told Nelson a while ago?”
“You said ‘I love Morgan now so leave me alone!’” Morgan said in an exaggerated girlish voice.
“And…? What do you make of that?”
Morgan’s hold loosened as he stared at his friend as if his mind was currently loading. Then all of a sudden, he let go of Cam as he backed off. “Holy shit!” he exclaimed. “You meant that?”
“What do you think?” Cam asked with an eyebrow raised.
Oooohh… Okay… Morgan stared at Cameron with a startled look. “Whoa! Are you serious?”
“No, Morgan, I’m serious.” Cam said. He walked to Morgan and took his book from the red-head’s hand. He sat back to the sofa.
Morgan stared at the back of Cam’s head. The spiky hair looked like a silver fire. Looks so cute… He smiled to himself.
“Morgan…” Cam looked at him with those oh-so-innocent eyes of his.
“Yup? Is there any problem?”
“I didn’t expect you to be a happy-go-lucky type of guy.”
Morgan looked taken aback then laughed. “This is the true me. I just do not like other people to find out who I really am.”
“Oh!” Cam didn’t ask any questions again.
“Hey, Cam!” Morgan poked at Cam’s head.
“Hmmm?” he just continued to read the novel.
“I won’t come to school tomorrow…”
Cam looked up at him. “Why?”
“Umm… I’m still not feeling well.”
Cam stared at him with suspecting look. “O-okay…”
Morgan smiled and threw his self into Cam’s arms. “I’ll miss you.”
Cameron felt something weird but didn’t give any attention to it. He just held his friend in his arms.
Cameron went to school the next day with something at the back of his mind bugging him but he doesn’t know what it is. His day went by with his heart beating hard against his chest. What the hell is wrong? What’s happening? Why am I so nervous?
After class, he walked directly to Morgan’s apartment but found it locked. Where is he? He looked from around the front of Morgan’s apartment. He saw a sheet of paper under the door.
Cam,
I am so sorry for not saying anything about my illness. I just thought that there’s no use telling you about it because I thought you didn’t care but when I realized that you’re special to me, I finally realized that I need to go and have that surgery that my sister told me. I do not know when or if I will ever be back.
There are a lot of things that I wanted to tell you but I’ll wait until the time that the two of us meet again to tell you those (If there is any chance at all).
You’re really special to me, Cameron…
Morgan
Cameron’s hand shook wildly. He read the letter over and over again; making sure that he didn’t misread it. He left me… He left me, for Christ’s sake! After he made me promise not to leave him!
He ran home in his fastest strides ever.
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