I'm Gay, He's Straight -SERIES- [boyxboy]

*Kiss Me Like You Did* IGHS Sequel {14} Slash

‘Move out of the way guys,’ Landon said officiously, gently elbowing Ethan and Noah to the side so he could get access to the door. He extended the master key towards the lock, but before he could insert it, the door handle twitched and a second later the door swung open, revealing a sleepy looking Ryan standing there, blinking in the light of the hallway, confusion etched on his face.

‘What’s going on?’ he asked groggily, rubbing one eye and then pushing his hair out of his face.

Landon looked sceptical, made to push his way into the room, but Ryan stepped to the side to stop him.

‘If you don’t mind?’ he added, as though finishing his original question.

‘Why did it take you so long to answer the door?’ Landon asked, crossing his arms over his chest officiously. I was reminded of being questioned by the Gardai in the airport two years ago by his tone. He’d make a really good cop if the whole engineering thing didn’t work out.

‘I was asleep,’ Ryan answered, his voice becoming clearer as he took in the scene outside his bedroom door; Ethan and Noah glaring at him slightly, Johnny biting his lip, Landon’s interrogation voice, me looking terrified, and, now, Jacob and Kelly running down the hall, Kelly with tears streaming down her face. Not to mention the growing crowd of strangers emerging from their bedrooms, looking confused and annoyed.

‘Dude, I practically knocked down the door,’ Ethan told him flatly. ‘It would have woken the dead.’

Ryan’s eyes shifted at his words, and Landon shoved him out of the way, switching the light on as he did so. Ryan tried to grab his arm but Landon wrenched it away and turned around, pushing him out of the room into the hall, where Ethan grabbed him by the shoulders on impulse.

‘Keep them both out here,’ he murmured, and I frowned in confusion until I felt Johnny gently but firmly grab me by the shoulders.

Landon walked further into the room, out of my line of sight, and I noticed Jacob’s grip tightening on Kelly’s hand as well.

‘Hello?’ I heard Landon mutter from inside the room, and thought for a moment that that was an odd way to wake somebody up until it was followed by, ‘I need an ambulance at Cherrytree Hall immediately...’

Without even realising I was doing it I started struggling violently against Johnny’s hold on me, and another pair of arms – Noah’s – encircled my waist as Kelly started shouting and struggling against Jacob.

‘Right, that’s the one... Okay...’

I broke free of their hold on me and darted into the room before they could catch me again, in time to see Landon tossing the phone onto the bed as he straddled Jake and started CPR. Jake was laying on the bed, unnaturally pale, even for him, not moving. His eyes were closed and his body limp.

Suddenly I was by the bed, on my knees, grabbing Jake’s hand, and a weird, unnatural keening sound was coming from my throat.

I felt Kelly next to me before I saw her in my peripheral vision; her free hand reached for mine as the other grasped Jake’s as well. In the distance, we heard sirens.

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Jake’s POV

Black.

Blue and red, flashing.

Black.

Noise. Lots of noise.

Black. Calm.

Really bright white. Blinding. Ouch.

Calm.