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[Previously featured on Tapas.io's LGBTQ+ Community collection] ✔
One night. That was all it took for Senn Reyes' life to change drastically--and permanently.
Senn Reyes is a seventeen-y...
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Saturday
"Ola, my friend!" Lucas cheerfully exclaimed when Senn answered the door about half an hour after their phonecall. He held up a six-pack of beers, and two bags with chocolate chip cookies. "If chocolate works for girls, it should work for guys as well."
Senn couldn't fight a smirk in response, while Avan shoved another six pack of beers into his arms. "Beer? Really?"
"What, don't tell me Tessa and Dean are going to take them from us while you're obviously in desperate need of some cheering up?" Lucas pouted as he stepped inside.
"Would be hypocrite too, since they do allow you to go to McCoy's party and drink beers without adult supervision," Avan said, as he followed Lucas into the house and towards the living room.
"Maybe it's because they don't know the details, like the fact it's unsupervised," Senn said, chuckling because of them. "But since they're not home right now, we can grab beers unsupervised again."
"Home alone?"
"I think Jessica is in her room."
Senn rolled his eyes when he noticed his two best friends exchanging a look, wiggling their eyebrows at each other.
"I will still stab your eyes out if you keep ogling her ass," Senn grumbled, shaking off the thought of Jessica as a hot girl. He also didn't miss the new look the two guys exchanged, before Avan turned to him with a frown.
"You remember telling us that?"
"I do now, why? When did I say that?"
"Dude..." Lucas cleared his throat, "days before... you know..." He shrugged a shoulder, staring at their feet.
Senn shrugged as well, even though both Avan and Lucas were staring anywhere but at him. "I don't really know when, or where we were or... I mean, you know?"
Lucas snorted, and soon, Avan laughed along with him.
"No, dude, I don't know."
Senn laughed shortly, shaking his head before he sighed. "I remember the words, but I can't really connect them with images in my head. I have that a lot. I can't envision the moments."
"Well, it sounds like progress nonetheless," Avan replied, sitting down on the couch before grabbing himself a can of beer.
"I'm just not sure if I should be happy that I'm rembering things that were said days before my life got fucked over, you know?" Senn slumped down on the couch tiredly. "What if I start remembering the accident? I don't want to remember that."
"No, but the happy moments are good to remember, right?" Lucas said, sitting down next to him, patting his knee. "Besides, there's room in your head to worry over Elio, so you are making progress in your process of grieving."
