Zac
"What are you staring at?" I exited my house to find a very happy Taj leaning against his car.
"My best friend."
" I wouldn't exactly use that word." I huffed and started to walk to school like I had for the last couple of months. "Why are you here anyway?" I said over my shoulder to him.
"To give you a ride to school. Why else would I be here this early?" I just shrugged and kept going.
"I walked every other day, I'm pretty sure I could make it today," I called back to him once again.
"I'm trying to get back into your good graces, but you aren't really being helpful." He whined from behind me.
I tugged on my backpack straps and kicked up the dirt in front of me. I turned around and looked at Taj. He had changed and all too much in five months. When I really knew him, he dressed in khakis, boat shoes and button ups. Now he had on denim with all sorts of cut in it, a very low cut tee and sneakers. He seemed so relaxed. Almost like he had gotten on better without me."Tell me something nobody knows."
"I told you to give me a month and it hasn't been a week yet." He chuckled.
"As much as I want to forgive you and wait that month, I just don't have the will to. So can you tell me something that nobody knows?"I ran my hands through my hair out of frustation.that you haven't left me behind completely. I trailed off and coughed when I didn't get an immediate reply.
"Do you remember after my mom died when we were in sixth grade?" Taj's voice was soft. I nodded. How would I ever forget? Never in my life had I spent that long of a time away from Taj. We were inseparable then and lived next door to each other. A couple of days after his mother's death, his dad put the house on the market. His dad had even gone as far as to change schools, but Taj begged him to come back. "After the funeral, my dad was so sad that he didn't notice me for a while. He was just sort of running on autopilot." He looked me in the eyes at this point. "When it was time for school, I would just walk to the shed outside and cry. I did it for hours each day. It got to the point that the school called and my dad didn't even answer the phone."
I quickly enveloped him in a hug. If there was one thing I knew about Taj, it was that he had a hard time speaking about that period of his life.
"I should be the one comforting you." He breathed into my shoulder.
I chuckled at him.
"Yeah, you're gonna get the chance to."
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A Drop Of Complexity (LGBT)
RomanceTaj had the world in his palm, but he dropped it all for his true passion. No one knew about it, save for his father. And his best friend , Zac, was left in the dust. Taj and Zac were infamous as the co-captains of the football team, but after bein...
