章 107: Chapter 104
Standing up, I walked around the counter and straight towards Austin. I had assumed he had changed since he was okay with Max and Kira, but I suppose I had been wrong. The look in his eyes reminded me of that time when we were ten and I had attempted to make a new friend. Thinking back, I suddenly recalled him even threatening to go find the boy named Adrian just so he could make things clear. One of the many times I had known for sure it wasn't friendship. What we had could in no way be termed as a normal type of bond between best friends. He felt threatened and as always, his first move was to fight back using any means he could. But I didn't want this to be like when we were kids. When I used to hang out with Adrian secretly just because I was scared of Austin finding out and doing something foolish. I had actually been a bit relieved when Adrian's parents had come back to get him and they had literally moved all the way back to Taiwan, which was where they were originally from. He has called me two times after that, then there had been no more communication. But I had never really felt his loss that deeply, I was a bit sad since we had gotten quite close, but nothing too deep. However, when I had moved from Phoenix and left Austin behind, I had lived the next number of months in a slow burning hell. I felt like I didn't know who I was without him. Like he was an essential part of my life and there was no way I could function normally without him being around. Despite the bitterness I still carried towards him, I had always missed and longed for him. There had even been times when I had picked up the phone with the intentions of calling him, but I had bred an ego that was too enormous to lose.
" What are you doing? Why are you acting like this?"
I tried to make my voice low so that Reign couldn't hear me, but he was too close not to.
Austin still had his eyes on him as well, I wanted to call him out and ask him to quit glaring. He had never been good at expressing his emotions in a way one would term as natural. He felt too strongly and so he reacted in the same way.
" What am I doing? Don't you think I should be the one asking you that?"
" You're misunderstanding!"
" What do you want from him?"
The question was directed at Reign. He seemed to be a little bit shocked by Austin's reaction but I couldn't blame him.
" Relax buddy, it's nothing like that. "
" I'm not your buddy, and I'd really like it if you left and never contacted him again. "
I audibly sucked in a breath, possessiveness was one thing, but he was being straight up rude at that point. But I also had to be cautious when dealing with him because I could just end up making things worse if I said anything without thinking it over first.
" I'm sorry Reign, but could you give us a moment please?"
" Sure thing, I actually have to go back to the studio. "
" Good!" Austin remarked and I gave him the most disappointed look. He was acting like a immature and envious child and I was not happy about it. But if I dared to say something like that to him, he was going to do either of two things. The first one was get even more upset and do something even crazier, and the second was leave. I personally preferred the first. If he left, he was going to just do something stupid, like find someone to enrage so they could fight, or pinch something the same way he had done last time with the mirror.
" Sorry, " I mouthed as Reign was passing by and he gave me a subtle smile and shook his head, then he turned to Austin, looked him up and down and left. I had to angle his head to look at me inorder to prevent him from saying whatever he wanted to say. The second Reign left, I scoffed and crossed my arms.
" What the fuck was that?!"
I couldn't even pretend to not be mad for his sake. And what angered me more was the fact that he didn't even respond, he just gave me a stubborn look and walked around the counter, sitting down on my seat and ignoring my presence. I scoffed and turned around, he had his eyes fixed on the notebook Reign and I had been using. I could just see his mind at work, and I wasn't even sure I knew the type of thoughts in there.
" How often does he come by here?" He finally asked. His tone blunt and straight to the point. He looked up from the book and arched a brow.
" This was like his second time, and he was just passing by-"
" Oh! Is that what he told you?"
It was a lie but the truth wouldn't help the situation, sometimes you just had to do the sensible thing.
" You're being extremely unreasonable!"
" No Kyle, you are. And you have to be blind to not notice that he's into you. "
" Dude! He's like five years older than me!"
" And your point is?"
" Why are you acting like this? You know I'd never do that to you. What do you take me for?"
" I trust you, it's him I have a problem with. You can't ever meet up with him again. "
Austin hang around countless people who really liked him. I recalled that night at the race and I wondered how he could have the nerve to ask me something like that. It didn't matter whether they had mostly been girls, the point remained the same, he had to grow up and stop being so damn selfish.
" He was helping me study, and why are you even insecure about this?"
" Why wouldn't I be? He was in here just touching you like you belong to him or some shit!"
I went to talk and tell him it was nothing like that but he did so first.
" And don't you dare say he's not gay, he might claim that he isn't but I can damn well tell."
I wasn't going to dicuss that with him, it would mean disclosing information I had vowed to keep secret.
" You need to calm down, I recommend you go get some fresh air and come back once you've cooled off enough to hold a mature conversation. "
He told me he was perfectly okay, so I opted to be the one that walked out. He seriously needed some time to himself, I was mentally drained enough as it was. So I picked up the shopping bag he had dropped, noticing that he had intended for us to eat together as I did so. I placed it on the counter, found him holding and reading through the album cover Reign had gifted me, and just as a precaution, I reached out and took it from him. There was a possibility of me coming back and finding it crushed into bits on the floor. A chance I wasn't willing to take.
" The hell are you going?!"
" Outside. "
" No you're not! " He got up and came over to where I was. I didn't know what was wrong with me. Why I felt like wrapping my arms around him and assuring him it was no big deal the second he got close.
" I didn't wanna upset you, but try and view things from my perspective. "
Sighing, I leaned against the counter and placed the album on its surface.
" You were mean to him for no reason. "
" I had good reason. "
" Jealousy is not a good reason Austin!"
He looked away, swallowed hard and ran a hand over his face. I knew that if I still walked out he'd overthink and end up in a worse state. I once again had to be the voice of reason between us.
" He likes you though, I'm sure of it. "
" And I love you. Austin I've literally been in love with you my whole life, you think that'll change because of someone I met a couple of weeks ago?"
I was glad when he looked at me his expression changed, he seemed to finally go back to his senses. He took the one step that managed to bridge the gap between us, then he placed his hands on the counter on either side of me and leaned into my neck, kissing it before he rested his chin on my shoulder. Then he apologized.
" Don't be mad, " he gently pleaded. He truly was my weakness, a minute hadn't even passed by and I was already forgetting why I had been crossed with him in the first place.
" I'm not, " I felt like he needed the assurance, so I gave it to him freely. Placing my hands on his waist and leaning my head further back. He looked up at me, I could see he meant what he had said.
" I love you," he told me in the purest tone. I knew he did. And I loved him too with all his absurdities.
" I brought takeout. "
I laughed and shook my head, kissing him because I just had to.
" There's Froyo as well. "
" I noticed. "
" Hungry?"
" I'm starving. "
" Then let's dig in, I hope the foods not cold yet. "
Like I said, with all his absurdities!
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