Counting Stars

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Freakin love that photo for some reason!!!!!^^^^

I am honestly stunned. I

That's the only word that can discribe the emotions I'm feeling right now.

Completely and utterly stunned, a little betrayed zach wouldn't tell me something like this...

Ok, so let me get this straight?

Zach young, my boyfriend, who was abused by his father for 14 years straight, and I barley know anything about his past, is my best friends brother.

That best friend who is Mikey peters, who was abused for 11 years I recently found out, and zach... is his brother.

Well fuck my life.

Out of all the things I thought zach was going to tell jake and I... out of all the possibilities, it's that Mikey, is in fact, his fucking brother.

I did not see that one coming.

"Savanna....." zach says slowly, sounding hesitant.

I stay silent, simply not knowing how to reply to this.

"Are you okay?" Zach says, taking a step towards me, awkwardly poking my shoulder.

"Dont" i say, it coming out as a slightly harsh growl.

As big as a shock this is to me, as much as I want to start asking a million questions, I can't.

The only thing I feel besides shock is betrayal, and slight anger he didn't tell me this.

This is a huge deal. Not one that you 'forget to mention', this makes a lot of things different, and brings up a lot of questions.

Zach looks taken aback for a moment, before sighing and letting himself fall into the couch, resting his head in his hands.

"See, this is why I didn't want to tell you, I knew you would react like this" zach groans.

"Like what" I retort defensively, snaping out of my moments ago trance I seemed to be paralyzed In.

"Like this" he snaps "I knew you would take it the wrong way"

"Oh, you mean you may have forgot to mention the small, little fact that you had a fucking brother!" I scoff/exclaim.

"See, you are making a huge deal-"

"Of course I fucking am! How could you not tell me this" I exclaim, staring at zach in shock.

"Because" he snaps, now turning to glare at me, "I knew you would take it the wrong way and think I don't trust you"

"Well it's ovbious you don't! I mean fucking hell zach, you Have a brother!"

He sighs irritably "not even"

"Hey, I could say the same thing" Mikey snaps, now joining the arguement.

Zach scoffs "I'm not the one who fucking took off, I was always there to protect you against dad"

"I took off because I couldn't handle it! You haven't seen me In fucking 3 years you don't know the shit I had to go threw" Mikey growls, glaring at zach.

"And you don't know the shit dad did to me" zach snaps back "twice the pain thanks to you leaving" he adds, shuddering slightly afterwords.

"Ok, What exactly did he do then" Mikey demands, his glare fading a bit.

"Enough to make me flinch when someone comes within 3 feet of me" zach mutters, mostly to himself.

I see Mikey's face soften a bit, but he soon returns to his stone expression.

"Well are you gonna say" Mikey pushes.

Zach glares at him "no, I'm not putting myself threw that shit again, it haunts me enough"

"Can we stop the pittying party and tell me who the hell Greg is?" Jake interrupts.

Mikey rolls his eyes and zach stiffens at the mention of Greg's name.

It's obvious zach did go threw more than mikey, meaning Greg and Harvey did some pretty messed up shit.

I mean he stiffens at the mention of a name, and sadly, it's not for attention.

"Why do you want to know so badly" Mikey asks, sounding to warn out to yell.

"Because, I do" jake says, not giving up the fire in his voice.

Zach huffs, pulling his knees under his chin and wraping his arms around them.

"It's really non of your buisness" Mikey mutters, looking warily at jake.

"Well, it's savannas" he states.

"Hardly" I comment.

"No, it sorta is, we dragged you into this, your more a part of it then you think" Mikey sighs, and I notice zach stiffen.

Ok, there's still something I don't know about.

I know Greg is Mikey and zachs brother, or at least I think he's also zachs brother....

"How is Greg related to zach?" I blurt, looking questionably at mikey, forgetting jakes in the room.

Mikey sighs, running a hand threw his hair, "Harvey is my dad, and Mae was my mom, me and zach are full brothers, and my dad cheated on our mom, and had Greg before we were born, our parents married young" he explains.

"Then how come your last name is peters?..."

"Because I took after my dad's last name, while zach took after our moms, my dad didn't want anything to do with zach...." Mikey trials off, glancing at zach.

I also take this time to glance at him, only to instantly feel heart broken.

Zach currently is still in his recent positon,with his knees under his chin, but now his brown eyes are closed and I notice silent tears spilling down his cheeks.

I take a glance at Mikey, who looks guilty.

"Zach?" I say lightly, going over and sitting next to the him.

His eyes open at his name, and I can see his glossy brown eyes avert to the ground.

"Hey, look at me" I say softly, guiding his chin to face me.

Zachs wary gaze connects with mine.

"You know you mean everything to me, right?" I ask, hoping and praying he really does no.

But some where inside, I know he has doubts.

With the trust issues he has?

I don't find it un-usual.

Zach simply nods.

"I'm serious" I say a little more sincere this time.

"You seriously mean everything to me" I say Into his eyes.

Zach stares at me warily for a few moments, before he nods his head lightly.

"I know"

His voice comes out quiet, and slightly raspy.

I smile softly, placing a light kiss on zachs lips.

"I love you, zach" I murmer.