Remedied: Volume 1: Barriers to Their Truths by Amanda G Williams

Author:Amanda G Williams [Williams, Amanda G & Williams, Amanda G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-08-19T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

As Oliver had fallen into a system of Alex walking him to class each day and exchanging innocent smiles in the halls and flirting during class and lunch when everyone was watching, he found himself feeling more flustered, waiting for something he knew was coming. There was one end to this. And it somehow became routine, dancing around the question of what are we, or the we need to talk, or the not knowing who was going to ask and when.

But then he got the courage to ask, and stared hard all night at the plastic stars on Alex’s ceiling, but he wasn’t entirely sure how to word his wish so that it didn’t come out begging.

He said Monday morning. So Oliver was jittery when he got up, searching through his closet for something to wear and trying not to be too anxious about something so silly. Alex. Them. He knew he liked him, so there wasn’t anything to worry about.

Still, though. As he brushed his teeth a little harder than he normally did, he looked at himself in the mirror, and he couldn’t exactly see what Alex liked so much, but decided that it didn’t really matter, because it was a blessing all the same.

“Do you need a ride to school?” Jax asked from the table when Oliver headed down to the kitchen in his socks, looking around for something to eat and settling on making himself a bagel, since his mother was working early.

“No, Alex is picking me up. We have stuff to talk about,” he said vaguely, sticking the bagel in the toaster. He hadn’t told any of them what had happened when he’d slept over at Alex’s; had his mother known that they’d kissed, she would never let him stay over again. He did tell them all prior to their little string of dates that Alex told him he liked him, and that whatever they were, it was a little more than friends.

He hadn’t elaborated on the conversation they’d had, though, that Alex wanted to wait, to take it slow, because Oliver hadn’t even really fully processed it himself. He couldn’t figure out what that meant for him. But Alex had said Monday morning. Now it was Monday, and he found himself shaking with anxiety as he came up with a hundred permutations for the conversation they were going to have.

“Ah.” Jax smiled to himself as he grabbed a banana; he was on a health kick since school started, taking his place on the basketball team seriously. “Some sort of gay thing?”

Oliver knew now that he had no bad intentions when he said things like that, playing around in that way Oliver knew they supported him; his brothers teased him until the day he came out, stopping only when they feared he would take it the wrong way. He missed it, though he’d never admit it to anyone. “Yeah. Some sort of gay thing,” he sighed, sketched through a laugh, and wondered how obvious it was to everyone.

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