Chapter 185: Makai – New Housemates
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Makai
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"Start explaining, son." Dad joined mom in her interrogation. Dammit, this was not going to be easy.
"W..well, these are friends of mine and Ocean's. They are on the swim team with us."
"OK. Are they going with you to visit Ocean?" Mom narrowed her eyes at me like she already knew that the answer to that was going to be no, but she was daring me to try and get away with a lie anyway.
"No, they aren't. They came back here because they are-."
"I am sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Rivers. My name is Ben, this is my boyfriend Ryan, and we're staying here with Makai and Ocean. I am sorry if we overstepped your boundaries. We can pack our things and leave immediately. Come on Ryan."
After apologizing Ben took Ryan's hand and started to step away from me. I could sense the same fear in him that I had been feeling since my mom looked at me so icily.
"Hold it!" Mom nearly snapped the words at them, causing both Ben and Ryan to freeze in place. Ben turned around completely, but Ryan only turned enough to look over his shoulder. He looked like a child that just got caught trying to sneak away from the cookie jar.
"I..is there a problem, Mrs. Rivers?" Ben sounded so tense and apprehensive that I swear I could feel it physically leaking into me.
"All three of you in the living room. NOW! I want to know what has been going on and I want to know now." Mom was pointing to her right, into the living room, but her eyes never left the three of us.
"Come on, boys. Let's all sit down and have a nice, long talk." Dad backed Mom up and started to lead the way into the doom room.
I had never once thought of the living room as the doom room, but I am now. There was no other way to put it right now. I swear that just walking into the space made me feel doomed.
DAMMIT! I had been so busy since Friday, when everything with Ben and Ryan went down, that I hadn't had the time to call my parents and let them know what was going on. Shit! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
Would they forgive me if I fell to the floor, groveling and begging for forgiveness? No, they would probably just call me weak and tell me that I was making a disgrace of myself or something like that. Granted they had never said those things to me before, but I could just imagine that it would happen now.
The three of us decided, completely without talking and apparently simultaneously, to band together as one to give a united front to my mom. What I mean by that is that all three of us sat down on the same couch at the same time.
While mom looked at me with the most evil and harshest of her stares, she looked at all three of us in turn. I could tell she was trying to figure out what it was that let me let these two humans start living in a house filled with creatures of the sea. Yeah, she wasn't going to be happy with me. She was probably going to scream at me some more after Ben and Ryan left.
"Explain." Mom pointed at me. To me it both looked and felt like the stare that you got from the evil monkey that lived in the closet in that stupid cartoon [1]. I couldn't tell my mom that though, since she would literally murder me for making that reference in respect to the way that she was looking at me.
"W..w..well, last week had been pretty intense for all of us." I turned to look at Ben who was sitting in the middle on the couch. "Ocean's ex found out that he is gay, and that he and I are dating. Her and some other people in the school were making our lives a living hell. There were a lot of nasty words thrown our way, but they didn't stop with us. Ben and Ryan here are a couple as well." I looked at Ryan and told him with my eyes that I was going to leave off the majority of what happened with him and Ben last week.
"OK, so that hasn't explained anything to me yet." Mom was still angry.
"W..well, I am getting to that." I recoiled a little. I didn't want to disappoint her, but I didn't want to hide this from her either. What the hell was I going to do? "A..anyway, neither Ben's nor Ryan's parents knew about them being gay or in love before last Friday. When they did find out, after everything that had happened at school, both of them were kicked out of their homes."
"It's true, Mrs. Rivers. My mother told me to either leave or go to gay therapy camp to be fixed." Ben shuddered as if the very idea was horribly disgusting. Which, of course, it was.
"And when I proudly told my dad that I was happily in love with and dating my best friend, he kicked me out. He told me that he never wanted to see me again. I was honestly afraid that he was going to hurt me. He balled up his first and everything. The first place that we thought to go so that we weren't out on the street for the night, was here. Ocean and Kai are our friends and they have been with us and supported us from the beginning."
It was very easy to see that Ryan was a lot more charismatic and for that easier to talk than Ben did. Ben was clearly nervous right now while Ryan was hiding it a lot more with his calm attitude.
"Makai, tell me everything that happened. Do not leave anything out. I want to know how these boys came to stay here." Mom was still glaring at me, however I thought that I could see an infinitesimal amount of softening around the corners. Maybe we wouldn't all be turned into frozen sculptures after all.
"OK. I will tell you."
I took one last look at Ben and Ryan, a sort of 'sorry guys' look. I was going to be truthful, to the most extent possible. I started with what happened on Monday. I even told my mom how all four of us along with several other students got suspended. That seemed to make both of my parents a little more angry than they had been before. Oopsies.
I told her about the conversation with Ben and Ryan where Ben confessed to Ryan and how Ryan left. I explained everything that happened those couple of days until we went back to school and how things got worse and worse until Friday.
I didn't tell my parents who it was that caused the problems, I didn't need them to know that because they might go and have someone eliminated or something. They were looking like gangsters right now.
By the time that I got to what happened Friday night, when Ben and Ryan came back to our house, both of my parents sighed in exasperation.
"So, you instantly let them stay because Ocean gave you puppy dog eyes and about the two lost pups that were at the door?" Mom was actually laughing by the time that she was done asking if she had the long and short of it right.
"Basically, yes. And it's not just because Ocean wanted to let them stay here. Ben and Ryan are my friends as well. I wanted to help them. I would hope that if the situation had been reversed that they would have helped me and Ocean out. I know that you would never do that though. You two are the best parents in the world." It couldn't hurt to lay on some compliments, right?
"Cool it, Makai. You've said enough." Mom glared at me. Damn! I couldn't even compliment her.
I was nervous now. I thought that she was calming down and that things might have been getting better, but now I wasn't so sure about that. I basically just needed to sit here and wait for the verdict to fall.
"Isn't it odd, dear? When we left in September, we only had one son. When we came back in November, we had two. And now that we come back in January, we have four. Is it just me, or do our children double every time that we leave now?" There was a note of laughter in my mom's voice.
"Yeah, I know. Somehow, we ended up being the owner and operators of a gay frat house." Dad laughed as well. After the two of them laughed for what felt like an uncomfortably long time, mom suddenly stopped and glared at me.
"I will let your friends keep on the way that they are, Makai, but I do not want to come back and see that there are more people living here. Do you understand me?"
"Yes mother." I nodded as I spoke.
"And we will be talking later as well. Right now, let us go and see Ocean. I am sure that you are worried about him. You can fill us in on what happened to him on the way."
"Y..yes." I jumped to my feet and turned to look at Ben and Ryan. "S..sorry guys. I have to go. I trust that you will be alright while we are gone."
"We will be fine. Tell Ocean that we say hi." Ben smiled at me, nervous yet relieved at the same time.
"See you later man."
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Makai
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"Start explaining, son." Dad joined mom in her interrogation. Dammit, this was not going to be easy.
"W..well, these are friends of mine and Ocean's. They are on the swim team with us."
"OK. Are they going with you to visit Ocean?" Mom narrowed her eyes at me like she already knew that the answer to that was going to be no, but she was daring me to try and get away with a lie anyway.
"No, they aren't. They came back here because they are-."
"I am sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Rivers. My name is Ben, this is my boyfriend Ryan, and we're staying here with Makai and Ocean. I am sorry if we overstepped your boundaries. We can pack our things and leave immediately. Come on Ryan."
After apologizing Ben took Ryan's hand and started to step away from me. I could sense the same fear in him that I had been feeling since my mom looked at me so icily.
"Hold it!" Mom nearly snapped the words at them, causing both Ben and Ryan to freeze in place. Ben turned around completely, but Ryan only turned enough to look over his shoulder. He looked like a child that just got caught trying to sneak away from the cookie jar.
"I..is there a problem, Mrs. Rivers?" Ben sounded so tense and apprehensive that I swear I could feel it physically leaking into me.
"All three of you in the living room. NOW! I want to know what has been going on and I want to know now." Mom was pointing to her right, into the living room, but her eyes never left the three of us.
"Come on, boys. Let's all sit down and have a nice, long talk." Dad backed Mom up and started to lead the way into the doom room.
I had never once thought of the living room as the doom room, but I am now. There was no other way to put it right now. I swear that just walking into the space made me feel doomed.
DAMMIT! I had been so busy since Friday, when everything with Ben and Ryan went down, that I hadn't had the time to call my parents and let them know what was going on. Shit! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
Would they forgive me if I fell to the floor, groveling and begging for forgiveness? No, they would probably just call me weak and tell me that I was making a disgrace of myself or something like that. Granted they had never said those things to me before, but I could just imagine that it would happen now.
The three of us decided, completely without talking and apparently simultaneously, to band together as one to give a united front to my mom. What I mean by that is that all three of us sat down on the same couch at the same time.
While mom looked at me with the most evil and harshest of her stares, she looked at all three of us in turn. I could tell she was trying to figure out what it was that let me let these two humans start living in a house filled with creatures of the sea. Yeah, she wasn't going to be happy with me. She was probably going to scream at me some more after Ben and Ryan left.
"Explain." Mom pointed at me. To me it both looked and felt like the stare that you got from the evil monkey that lived in the closet in that stupid cartoon [1]. I couldn't tell my mom that though, since she would literally murder me for making that reference in respect to the way that she was looking at me.
"W..w..well, last week had been pretty intense for all of us." I turned to look at Ben who was sitting in the middle on the couch. "Ocean's ex found out that he is gay, and that he and I are dating. Her and some other people in the school were making our lives a living hell. There were a lot of nasty words thrown our way, but they didn't stop with us. Ben and Ryan here are a couple as well." I looked at Ryan and told him with my eyes that I was going to leave off the majority of what happened with him and Ben last week.
"OK, so that hasn't explained anything to me yet." Mom was still angry.
"W..well, I am getting to that." I recoiled a little. I didn't want to disappoint her, but I didn't want to hide this from her either. What the hell was I going to do? "A..anyway, neither Ben's nor Ryan's parents knew about them being gay or in love before last Friday. When they did find out, after everything that had happened at school, both of them were kicked out of their homes."
"It's true, Mrs. Rivers. My mother told me to either leave or go to gay therapy camp to be fixed." Ben shuddered as if the very idea was horribly disgusting. Which, of course, it was.
"And when I proudly told my dad that I was happily in love with and dating my best friend, he kicked me out. He told me that he never wanted to see me again. I was honestly afraid that he was going to hurt me. He balled up his first and everything. The first place that we thought to go so that we weren't out on the street for the night, was here. Ocean and Kai are our friends and they have been with us and supported us from the beginning."
It was very easy to see that Ryan was a lot more charismatic and for that easier to talk than Ben did. Ben was clearly nervous right now while Ryan was hiding it a lot more with his calm attitude.
"Makai, tell me everything that happened. Do not leave anything out. I want to know how these boys came to stay here." Mom was still glaring at me, however I thought that I could see an infinitesimal amount of softening around the corners. Maybe we wouldn't all be turned into frozen sculptures after all.
"OK. I will tell you."
I took one last look at Ben and Ryan, a sort of 'sorry guys' look. I was going to be truthful, to the most extent possible. I started with what happened on Monday. I even told my mom how all four of us along with several other students got suspended. That seemed to make both of my parents a little more angry than they had been before. Oopsies.
I told her about the conversation with Ben and Ryan where Ben confessed to Ryan and how Ryan left. I explained everything that happened those couple of days until we went back to school and how things got worse and worse until Friday.
I didn't tell my parents who it was that caused the problems, I didn't need them to know that because they might go and have someone eliminated or something. They were looking like gangsters right now.
By the time that I got to what happened Friday night, when Ben and Ryan came back to our house, both of my parents sighed in exasperation.
"So, you instantly let them stay because Ocean gave you puppy dog eyes and about the two lost pups that were at the door?" Mom was actually laughing by the time that she was done asking if she had the long and short of it right.
"Basically, yes. And it's not just because Ocean wanted to let them stay here. Ben and Ryan are my friends as well. I wanted to help them. I would hope that if the situation had been reversed that they would have helped me and Ocean out. I know that you would never do that though. You two are the best parents in the world." It couldn't hurt to lay on some compliments, right?
"Cool it, Makai. You've said enough." Mom glared at me. Damn! I couldn't even compliment her.
I was nervous now. I thought that she was calming down and that things might have been getting better, but now I wasn't so sure about that. I basically just needed to sit here and wait for the verdict to fall.
"Isn't it odd, dear? When we left in September, we only had one son. When we came back in November, we had two. And now that we come back in January, we have four. Is it just me, or do our children double every time that we leave now?" There was a note of laughter in my mom's voice.
"Yeah, I know. Somehow, we ended up being the owner and operators of a gay frat house." Dad laughed as well. After the two of them laughed for what felt like an uncomfortably long time, mom suddenly stopped and glared at me.
"I will let your friends keep on the way that they are, Makai, but I do not want to come back and see that there are more people living here. Do you understand me?"
"Yes mother." I nodded as I spoke.
"And we will be talking later as well. Right now, let us go and see Ocean. I am sure that you are worried about him. You can fill us in on what happened to him on the way."
"Y..yes." I jumped to my feet and turned to look at Ben and Ryan. "S..sorry guys. I have to go. I trust that you will be alright while we are gone."
"We will be fine. Tell Ocean that we say hi." Ben smiled at me, nervous yet relieved at the same time.
"See you later man."
~~Makai~~"Start explaining, son." Dad joined mom in her interrogation. Dammit, this was not going to be easy."W..well, these are friends of mine and Ocean's. They are on the swim team with us.""OK. Are they going with you to visit Ocean?" Mom narrowed her eyes at me like she already knew that the answer to that was going to be no, but she was daring me to try and get away with a lie anyway."No, they aren't. They came back here because they are-.""I am sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Rivers. My name is Ben, this is my boyfriend Ryan, and we're staying here with Makai and Ocean. I am sorry if we overstepped your boundaries. We can pack our things and leave immediately. Come on Ryan."After apologizing Ben took Ryan's hand and started to step away from me. I could sense the same fear in him that I had been feeling since my mom looked at me so icily."Hold it!" Mom nearly snapped the words at them, causing both Ben and Ryan to freeze in place. Ben turned around completely, but Ryan only turned enough to look over his shoulder. He looked like a child that just got caught trying to sneak away from the cookie jar."I..is there a problem, Mrs. Rivers?" Ben sounded so tense and apprehensive that I swear I could feel it physically leaking into me."All three of you in the living room. NOW! I want to know what has been going on and I want to know now." Mom was pointing to her right, into the living room, but her eyes never left the three of us."Come on, boys. Let's all sit down and have a nice, long talk." Dad backed Mom up and started to lead the way into the doom room.I had never once thought of the living room as the doom room, but I am now. There was no other way to put it right now. I swear that just walking into the space made me feel doomed.DAMMIT! I had been so busy since Friday, when everything with Ben and Ryan went down, that I hadn't had the time to call my parents and let them know what was going on. Shit! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!Would they forgive me if I fell to the floor, groveling and begging for forgiveness? No, they would probably just call me weak and tell me that I was making a disgrace of myself or something like that. Granted they had never said those things to me before, but I could just imagine that it would happen now.The three of us decided, completely without talking and apparently simultaneously, to band together as one to give a united front to my mom. What I mean by that is that all three of us sat down on the same couch at the same time.While mom looked at me with the most evil and harshest of her stares, she looked at all three of us in turn. I could tell she was trying to figure out what it was that let me let these two humans start living in a house filled with creatures of the sea. Yeah, she wasn't going to be happy with me. She was probably going to scream at me some more after Ben and Ryan left."Explain." Mom pointed at me. To me it both looked and felt like the stare that you got from the evil monkey that lived in the closet in that stupid cartoon 1. I couldn't tell my mom that though, since she would literally murder me for making that reference in respect to the way that she was looking at me."W..w..well, last week had been pretty intense for all of us." I turned to look at Ben who was sitting in the middle on the couch. "Ocean's ex found out that he is gay, and that he and I are dating. Her and some other people in the school were making our lives a living hell. There were a lot of nasty words thrown our way, but they didn't stop with us. Ben and Ryan here are a couple as well." I looked at Ryan and told him with my eyes that I was going to leave off the majority of what happened with him and Ben last week."OK, so that hasn't explained anything to me yet." Mom was still angry."W..well, I am getting to that." I recoiled a little. I didn't want to disappoint her, but I didn't want to hide this from her either. What the hell was I going to do? "A..anyway, neither Ben's nor Ryan's parents knew about them being gay or in love before last Friday. When they did find out, after everything that had happened at school, both of them were kicked out of their homes.""It's true, Mrs. Rivers. My mother told me to either leave or go to gay therapy camp to be fixed." Ben shuddered as if the very idea was horribly disgusting. Which, of course, it was."And when I proudly told my dad that I was happily in love with and dating my best friend, he kicked me out. He told me that he never wanted to see me again. I was honestly afraid that he was going to hurt me. He balled up his first and everything. The first place that we thought to go so that we weren't out on the street for the night, was here. Ocean and Kai are our friends and they have been with us and supported us from the beginning."It was very easy to see that Ryan was a lot more charismatic and for that easier to talk than Ben did. Ben was clearly nervous right now while Ryan was hiding it a lot more with his calm attitude."Makai, tell me everything that happened. Do not leave anything out. I want to know how these boys came to stay here." Mom was still glaring at me, however I thought that I could see an infinitesimal amount of softening around the corners. Maybe we wouldn't all be turned into frozen sculptures after all."OK. I will tell you."I took one last look at Ben and Ryan, a sort of 'sorry guys' look. I was going to be truthful, to the most extent possible. I started with what happened on Monday. I even told my mom how all four of us along with several other students got suspended. That seemed to make both of my parents a little more angry than they had been before. Oopsies.I told her about the conversation with Ben and Ryan where Ben confessed to Ryan and how Ryan left. I explained everything that happened those couple of days until we went back to school and how things got worse and worse until Friday.I didn't tell my parents who it was that caused the problems, I didn't need them to know that because they might go and have someone eliminated or something. They were looking like gangsters right now.By the time that I got to what happened Friday night, when Ben and Ryan came back to our house, both of my parents sighed in exasperation."So, you instantly let them stay because Ocean gave you puppy dog eyes and about the two lost pups that were at the door?" Mom was actually laughing by the time that she was done asking if she had the long and short of it right."Basically, yes. And it's not just because Ocean wanted to let them stay here. Ben and Ryan are my friends as well. I wanted to help them. I would hope that if the situation had been reversed that they would have helped me and Ocean out. I know that you would never do that though. You two are the best parents in the world." It couldn't hurt to lay on some compliments, right?"Cool it, Makai. You've said enough." Mom glared at me. Damn! I couldn't even compliment her.I was nervous now. I thought that she was calming down and that things might have been getting better, but now I wasn't so sure about that. I basically just needed to sit here and wait for the verdict to fall."Isn't it odd, dear? When we left in September, we only had one son. When we came back in November, we had two. And now that we come back in January, we have four. Is it just me, or do our children double every time that we leave now?" There was a note of laughter in my mom's voice."Yeah, I know. Somehow, we ended up being the owner and operators of a gay frat house." Dad laughed as well. After the two of them laughed for what felt like an uncomfortably long time, mom suddenly stopped and glared at me."I will let your friends keep on the way that they are, Makai, but I do not want to come back and see that there are more people living here. Do you understand me?""Yes mother." I nodded as I spoke."And we will be talking later as well. Right now, let us go and see Ocean. I am sure that you are worried about him. You can fill us in on what happened to him on the way.""Y..yes." I jumped to my feet and turned to look at Ben and Ryan. "S..sorry guys. I have to go. I trust that you will be alright while we are gone.""We will be fine. Tell Ocean that we say hi." Ben smiled at me, nervous yet relieved at the same time."See you later man."
