The Moments With You

WEIRD TENSION

Its a Sunday morning the next day, Andrew was woken up by the ray of sunlight which escapes through the glass window by the left of his corner, and falls on him,

He squeezes his eyebrows, as if trying to join them together, in reaction to the light that fell on his face, which was too bright for him, causing him to open his eyes after rubbing it reluctantly with his hands,

He opens his eyes to Alec’s sleeping face as he was positioned in an uncomfortable manner. Alec was sitting on the floor, with his back resting on the sofa’s edge, and his head position like as if it was about to fall off, Andrew looks at him and a relief smile appears on his face,

Soon after, he feels that his head is a bit uncomfortable, that’s when he realizes that he might have slept Alec’s lap, who has bones that look like they could break any minute,

Then he sits up and turn to face Alec who was sound asleep but still looked tired, “I must have troubled you a lot last night. Didn’t I?” he mumbles as he uses his hand to support Alec’s Head that had nothing to rest on, then the tired expression on Alec’s sleeping face, fades away,

“now you look more like a sleeping beauty” Andrew though as he makes a Melancholic expression on his face, soon after he lifts Alec up and carries him, headed for Alec’s Bedroom. They get to the bedroom and Andrew struggles to open the door to the bedroom as he carries Alec in his arm, but he eventually opens it, he didn’t want Alec to wake up in his arms,

So, he walks in and gently places Alec on his bed, but just as he turns his back and is about to leave, all his attempts to not disturb Alec’s sleep goes down the drain as he heard Alec’s voice from the background,

“hey, you awake?” Alec asks with his voice sounding weak and tired like that of someone who just woke up, “yeah. I am. You should get more sleep, you sound like a crane, literally” Andrew giggles,

“haha… yeah. right” Alec let’s out a short laughter, “but… are you okay. you are not mad at me, are you?” Alec futher asks Andrew while staring deeply into his eyes,

Andrew pauses for a few minutes, doing nothing but staring solely at Alec, the he becomes delusional and sees the Image of another boy, who has the same black wavy hair as Alec, but the difference is that, the image of the boy, isn’t as an adolescence, but as  child of around 10years old,

A weak smile structures itself on Andrew’s face while he is still staring at Alec, then he blinks his eyes twice he notices that Alec’s face is bit sad, so his make a brighter smile on his face then say to him “hey, get some sleep. Seriously! I’m not mad at you okay”

As Alec hears this, he a bright smile appears on his face he says, “okay. I will goof-ball…” then he pauses for a minute, stares deeply into Andrew’s as and asks “… but seriously. Are you okay, last night was-” Alec heisted from finishing his statement as a flash back memory of everything that happened last night surges up, causing a chill to do down his spine.

Andrew observes that Alec is scared, so he quickly answers him “hey I’m okay, I really am. Go to sleep you look very sore. Its not good for your pretty face” ignoring the statement Alec the complete and not being inquisitive about it,

Andrew knew that both didn’t wasn’t to talk about last night, everything was just so messed up and that was a mutual  interest  between them, but it made his heart ache that, they were best friends and they still didn’t trust eachother enough to tell themselves everything even when they have been best friends  and adoptive brothers for the past the past thirteen years now,

But someday, he hopes he can be able to tell each other what they are keeping as secrets to themselves and Andrew can’t deny the fact that he is very inquisitive ab the handsome guy that brought him back in a really luxurious car the other day.

“just how rich is that guy, even though mom and dad are that rich, they’d never agree to buy me a car like that one” Andrew became sulky as he turned his back and head string for Alec’s door in other to leave the room,

Once Andrew was already on the other side of the door, he shut it, leaving only Alec in his room.

Alec closes his eyes and is about to go into deep sleep, but he immediately opens his eyes in shock and remember he has to go to work today “Arrrgh!” he groans loudly, Alarming Andrew who rushed back to his room,

“what! What is it!” Andrew asks without catching his breath, “no! I have to go to café today” alec Whines to Andrew

“hey, don’t look at me, I told you not to go through with it” Andrew blames him

“anyway, what’s the time now?” Alec questions him, “its 12:11pm” Andrew answers as he takes a glance as the digital alarm clock on Alec’s bedside table,

“WHAT!” Alec yells in shock and sudden realization that he is sorely late for his part-time job that he should have been there since 9am.

So, in hastiness, he hurriedly prepares and heads to work with his sore body and hangover he’s experiencing for the first time.

Soon, Monday came and as usual, Alec and Andrew have Architecture class at 8am, but this time, they didn’t sleep in ad were not late, they saw eachother and they walked to school together, giggle and goofing around, till they got to school.

As Andrew and Alec were walking in together into the classroom where they were gonna have their class with his arm across Alec’s shoulder, they saw Martina coming in front of them, 

As Martina saw them and observed the situation around them, to her they looked like a newly wedded couple. “I wonder how I’m supposed to compete with a boy” Martina thought as she has a sullen expression on her face, out of shame and inferiority, she felt the cream tiled floor was more appealing and less painful to look at as she walks towards them,

Alec. Who Is very keen at observation, notices that Martina facial expression changed the second she saw he and Andrew, but he thought he was just seeing things, so he let it go. As both sides were closely approaching eachother, Martina felt even more awkward, “why am I being forced to go through this” she cries out in her mind, her sullen expression became even more obvious and Alec noticed it, so he decided to call out to her,

“Tina” Alec calls as he waves at her, making Andrew to now become aware that Martina is there with them, and in front of them.

“h-hey tina. Wha-what’s up” Andrew stammers as he remembered how things ended with the both of them the other night, tina rolls her eyes as she said “the sky dickhead” then she tries to walk away from them, because she couldn’t stand the sight of Andrew arm crossing Alec like that, and she noticed that every time her eyes wanders off to that spot, his grip on Alec becomes tighter and eveytime she catches that sight, she feel so sick, she thinks she gonna throw up any minute.

But as she was just about to cover some distance between them, Andrew uses his hand which wasn’t on Ale’s shoulder to grab her by her arm, “hey, Martina what’s wrong with you, you been like this since that night” Andrew askes her,

Martina felt like Andrew as finally given her some attention, that made he feel delighted and made her heart feel a little warm, but as she opens her mouth to say something to him, her eyes subconsciously wandered off and landed itself once again on Andrews grip at Alec’s shoulder, Immediately becomes irritated,

She laughs sheepishly, “go f**k yourself dickhead”, Martina says as she pulls her arm, forcefully releasing her hand from Andrew’s grip, then she glared at him and stomps away, the other people in the classroom noticed what was going on with Martina and Andrew, and were confused at the scene of it, they thought Andrew and Martina were a couple and most of the rest of the classroom thought Andrew and Alec were a gay couple, because Alec doesn’t hang out with other people and  when Andrew notices that Alec is Alone, He drops everything he’s doing and goes to Alec.

“isn’t that romantic a relationship between fags” some guy named Brandon Goodman scoffs, “and now little tina has been betrayed” he concluded

“what! What do you mean by that, Brandon shut up…if you wanna date Martina, then just do it” Andrew grits at Brandon who was  3 rows upfront, in the heat of the Argument between Andrew and Brandon, Alec reasons with what Brandon said, he feel it might be true because, he knows that Martina Is kind of interested in Andrew and his relation With Andrew could be mistaken for a whole lot of things,

Alec uses his hand to knock off Andrew arm that was on his shoulder he glares at him and say “hey, why are you holding onto me like that, you know sometimes you can be such a dickhead” Alec runs behind Martina,

“what’s it with people calling me Dickhead today, do I really look like one now” he asks himself out loud, “oh, you don’t know, you a f*****g obsessive dickhead” Brandon answers him as he tilts his head one side and scornfully smiles at Andrew, Making a stupid face,

Andrew, who watched him do all that, narrows his eyes, spreads his arms a little to gesture ‘what’, then he lip syncs “what”, in confusion.

Alec soon catches up to Martina, she was at the rooftop of their major’s block, she was resting by the half-built wall at the edge of the rooftop, she wore a sore expression on here face and it looked like she cried a little,

Alec saw her like that and tried to silently walk to her side so she wouldn’t notice him, but his attempt to do it falls, cause she turns her head to look at him when he has just taken only Four silent steps, and he Appears apologetic to her, wearing a sympathetic expression on his face.

“wow, you have really sharp senses” he says to her as he carves a smile on his face,

“you really are the pretty boy of our Major Lec” she says to him, as she sees him looking Angelic as he smile for the first time in her presence, Alec was very confused as she said that because, appearance was the least of his problems and he had way more things to worry about,

“hey, are you okay. Is everything okay with you and drew” Alec asks, ignoring her statement,

As Martina hears him, she turned her head to face Alec who’s right beside her, then make has sadness written all over her face, then tears start streaming down her cheeks, in a few seconds her face was all wet, covered in the salty liquid that kept coming out from her eyes,

Alec gets shocked and panics, he doesn’t know the first thing about consoling people or feeling their pain with them, he just has the face but that isn’t who he really is, “s**t! What am I gonna do, she was doing just fine before I came here… me and my restless self” Alec cries in his mind, “hey! Hey… don’t cry, stop those liquid from turning your face into a sea” Alec gestures for her to stope crying as his eyes wander around the rooftop to see if anybody was watching them, but to his luck, there was no one around,

“h- he. co- couldn’t even follow me, it h- had to be you” Martina’s voice was breaking as she was trying to speak while she wept, “I feel so dejected” she stared to tremble, Alec was so confused and he’s panicking had already reached its climax, “what do I do-what do I do” he asked himself a billion time,

“hey, tina don’t cry your gonna get your eyes all puffy” Alec was about to fall into utter confusion

“you really are not good at this you know” Martina said “to think I would be consoled by my rival” she thought as Alec grabs her hand and try to pet her.

“but I will try my be-”, Alec replied to her statement but he is struck dumbfounded by the sight his eyes caught.

Just as he was trying to console Martina, his eyes roam around in panic, but he freezes as his eyes falls on a 6’0 tall man, dressed in a pair of black skinny denim pants and a wine colored shirt with black strips that was loosely tucked, which was completed by a pair of black trainers.

“oh” he mumbles as he’s attention is drifted from Martina who he was trying so hard to console, Martina notices it and she stops crying abruptly when she sees the person Alec stares so distantly at without wavering.