Ghosts Of The Past [BoyxBoy] ✓

32. Moon

I'm laying on my couch like a dead fish, trying to shut up my mind with the TV on when I feel something on my cheek. 

It creeps me the fuck out so I shoot up and bang against Aron's head.

"Ow! Jesus!" He holds his hand to his lip. 

"Why the hell would you scare me like that?!" 

"I wasn't trying to scare you, I thought you heard me come in."

I look at his lip. It's bleeding. 

I get up. 

"Do you need some ice?"

"I'm fine. No need." 

I go into the fridge and grab an ice pack anyway. 

"Come here." I wrap the ice pack in a cloth. 

He sighs and stands across from me. 

"Sorry." I say as I hold the cold pack to his face. He doesn't even flinch. 

He looks at me, his eyes soft and loving. He's smiling a little. 

"Don't look at me like that." My cheeks heat up and surely, I'm blushing. 

"It's funny to see your maternal side." He grins. 

I roll my eyes and dump the ice pack on him. I walk to the couch. "Forget it."

He laughs. 

I sigh and fall back down on the couch, fish formation. 

Just a few minutes later I can smell delicious aromas from the kitchen. My stomach growls. 

"You seriously need to learn to cook. This isn't healthy."

"It's no use. I'll never be able to cook like you."

"Well, at least learn to wash vegetables and fruit and eat em." Aron goes on about the importance of diet but I zone out. 

I think about what Steven said. I wonder if it might maybe make me better if I did therapy. Is there really something that could fix me? 

"Sky," Aron's sitting next to me and holding the back of my neck. 

"Huh?" I look up at him. 

"Where's your mind?" He asks. 

I pull my legs up to my chest. 

"You know the guy from the carwash?" 

"The creep?" 

I nod.

"He's Chase's dad."

Aron's instantly looks annoyed. "That explains a lot." He says. 

"Right, well, he said he could tell that I wasn't feeling so good so he offered to get me therapy. Like, for free."

Aron looks confused and slightly suspicious. Exactly as I was. 

"Why?" He asks. 

"Well, he said that I'm important to Chase so he wants to help me for his sake or something."

Aron nods understandingly. 

"What, you think that makes sense?" I ask, surprised. 

"Well, yeah. His son just tried to commit suicide. If you're something that's going to keep him alive than it's not so weird he'd do anything to keep you.. well.. alive."

I didn't look at it like that. Or I guess it seemed a bit far fetched to me. 

"What did you say?" Aron asks.