kyle

Without waiting or your reply kyle walks in. "What do you want?" you try to sound as chipper as you can but you just couldn't muster it.

"I wanted to play a game but mom said I had to ask you first."

"Sure." you hear him power up your game box

"Thanks." He said over his shoulder. You listened to kyle play for awhile before falling asleep again.

Once again you were on the couch with tom watching something on tv. Your head again in your favorite place it seems, his lap. His fingers playing through your hair. "How long do you think you can stay away?"

You awake covered in sweat in a darkened room guessing you must have fallen asleep for several hours if kyle was gone to bed. "Why was he still up anyway?" you asked the darkness." Checking your phone you see it's 4am and you have several messages from tom including voicemail. You open the messages first.

Hey qt hope ur ok

I had fun tnight

i miss you

you open the voicemail next "Hey cutie, I just wanted to check on you. I don't know what happened but I'm here if you need to talk whenever."

You wanted to call him back and tell him you were sorry for being stupid but you couldn't. You just wanted to run away again, mostly with him.

You fell asleep staring at tom's texts.

The next morning you showered and shaved and dressed and felt on autopilot the entire time. Something was off. You just felt empty. You went to school and ate lunch without tom, with your team of course. They were talking about the cheerleaders as usual and which one they had banged or will bang. You wondered for a moment if tom talked like that about you. Whenever you looked across the cafeteria and saw tom's face he looked so alone. Even sitting with what you assumed were his friends. You realized your face probably looks the same now. You were fine talking with the guys before even if you didn't have any cheerleaders in your "banged" list.

While the guys were describing what lisa, the sluttiest cheerleader, had done with the team recently your mind drifted back to the couch. You both still played footsie with each other. You finally truly smiled for the first time all day. "-And it just went all over her! I'm telling ya dude you should be there next time!" one of your friends laughed slapping you on the back.

"Next time." you lied sad having been torn from heaven.

The bell rang freeing you from hearing more about half naked cheerleaders. You saw tom emptying his half eaten food in the trash can and wanted to run over to him and just steal him away and find that damn couch.

But you left and went back to class.