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I raced in the front door, where my parents were calmly sitting down to eat dinner.

"I'm so sorry I'm late, I just fell asleep and... You guys don't even care." [Me]

"I didn't even know you were gonna be coming home." [Mom]

"Yeah, I thought you'd decided to stay another night. I know your backpack was certainly packed for it." [Dad]

"You... You were just gonna be okay with that?" [Me]

"Yeah, why not? You've been gone for a week and we had no idea where you were, now that we have assurance, if we needed to get a hold of you or something, we know we could." [Dad]

"... I love you guys. Really..."

"We love you, too, Alex. Come on, sit down. There's enough for all of us." [Mom]

"And, could Seth not sneak in tonight? I mean, I don't mind him staying the night or anything, but coming through the window just shows how awful we were." [Dad]

"Heh, yeah." I dropped my backpack and sat down at the table, letting them say prayer and such. We ate like a normal family for the first time in at least two years, and watched a movie afterwards. They'd decided to be more lenient with the movie, allowing something other than seriously Christian vibes, and got a movie called Elysium. After watching that garbage, I felt bad for that being the first thing they watched that wasn't Christian. Mom went to bed, but me and dad stayed up complaining about all the bull shittery and plot holes in the movie. After that, I went upstairs to go to bed, and left my door open a crack, like when I was a little kid. I fell asleep in a few minutes, and woke up early, also like when I was a little kid.

See, when I was little, I'd only need like five or six hours of sleep, and if I had a friend over, we'd usually stay up til midnight than wake up around six to play more Halo. I'd learned the ins and outs of the first game, and knew every level by heart. I could take the controller with me in the car, and make it to the end of the game as long as the feed didn't cut out.

I rolled out of bed around eight in the morning and grabbed a bowl of cereal. After eating, I knocked on my parents' bedroom door, opening it a little bit, "Hey, I'm heading out... Bye..."

"Wait, Alex?" I turned around and snuck in, seeing dad asleep on the bed, sprawled out over half of it. Mom was calmly sitting in the bed, reading a book.

"Yeah?"

"What do you wanna do for Fourth of July? It's only a couple days away."

"Oh, right. Uh... I don't know, maybe we could join Seth's family in whatever they do."

"Oh, that sounds fun. Yeah, see what they're up to."

"Okay. Have a good day."

"You too, sweetie." I closed the door behind me and left, grabbing my backpack. I was walking to Seth's house when a car nearly hit me on it's way by. The driver got out, and I wanted to punch that stupid lion right then and there.

"No way. No way! Alex?"

"... Valen?"

"Woah... Heh, it's like seeing a ghost. I... I hope you're doing alright."

"Yeah, life's pretty good. It was better before you showed up."

"H-hey... What are you so mad about? You're the one who broke up with me..."

"Because you were an ass! You were my first boyfriend, and you wouldn't kiss me because my parents didn't know I was gay, and you'd refuse to be around me for hours on end doing god knows what and-" He silenced me when his lips met mine. I reached around, groped the scruff of his neck, let him think I was as into it as him, then yanked downward so hard I felt his neck pop. He slipped and fell to the ground, hopefully scraping his knee or something.

"Why... What's your problem?"

"You. You're my problem."

"... You're still just as tempermental... You know, I'm surprised to see you, mostly because I was sure you'd go and commit suicide a few weeks after dumping me. Actually, I was really surprised to see your family. You know, at church. Didn't see you though, so I thought maybe you'd finally spared us of your-" He'd gotten up as he was talking, but I punched him hard in the face. It popped my knuckles, and it felt right.

"... You know what Valen? Sure, I dumped you, but it was because you were the problem. And to be fair, I've got a new boyfriend. Three, actually, and I love each and every one of them more than you. Hell I love the kid who lives here more than you." I pointed at the house next to us.

"Strangers? You value me under-" I felt someone grab my arm, and couldn't suppress the smile as X joined in. I knew it was his house, and I wasn't going to pass up the oppurtunity to use him. As weapon. Against my worthless ex.

"Hey, who's this?" [X]

"You know that worthless piece of trash I told you about? You know, my first boyfriend?"

"... Woah. Nice to meet you." X held out his hand eagerly, and Valen was stupid enough to play along. Once X had a grip on Valen's hand, he turned it fast and hard, holding Valen in such a place that X could drop him or help him up. I loved how well X understood people. He knew how people thought, and sometimes, when he was thinking clearly, he could use it to his advantage. Or in this case, to my advantage.

"So, Valen. I don't need you. Quite frankly, I don't want you, and more importantly, you want me." [Me]

"I could tell your parents, you know. How'd they respond to you being gay?"

"How'd yours respond to you being gay? Word is your parents don't know. Truth is, mine even know I don't believe in your pathetic god. You're figmental, inexistent, deity. And mine still love me. Would yours? Would your parents still love you? ... I thought not. So, X, wanna come over to Seth's place?"

"Wh-who's Seth?" [Valen]

X twisted Valen's arm all the way, making him squeal and drop to the hard cement, "Sure, I'd love to go to your boyfriend's."

We started down the street, ditching Valen, "You know Zane lives right next door to him?"

"Woah."

"Yeah, he-"

"I hate you Alex! I do! You don't scare me, and neither does your pathetic mutt!" Valen got in his car and drove off, heading north towards the real part of town, with the companies and grocery stores and such.

"... So that worthless fuck was your first boyfriend?" [X]

"He didn't used to be like that. It's like he's snapped, lost it... lost me..."

"Dude. That's dark."

"No, what's dark is that I'm glad. Life's going well, X. Life's going well."

"It wasn't before?"

"Before I had Seth. Now I also have Daniel and Ted. I love both of them just as much as Seth, so things are better. My parents hated me, now they love me, just as much as I love them. My friends live nearby, and now Valen's losing his grip on sanity. It's enough to make me believe in god, or some other kind of divine will."

"Lucky... So, I can take Valen, right?"

"I'd be kinda miffed, but go ahead if you're into unreasonably fucks."

"Naw, his personality's trash, but just thinking about that body... God, do you know what he looks like down there?"

"X, Seth was the first person who I've slept in the same bed with who wasn't my parents or cousin." He raised his eyebrows at me, "We were six."

"Ah."

"Although... Yeah, I... I have had my face in his crotch a few times."

"I thought you hadn't-"

"No, but Daniel wasn't the first person to grab my head and make me smell their crotch. It just so happens that Valen was the other person who did that. Then, I loved the smell, I remember waking up in the morning when he'd spend the night, and burying my muzzle in his crotch, inhaling..."

"Oh god, stop, I'm getting a boner."

"You... You do not hide that, do you?"

"Why should I? We're both guys, we're both gay, and more importantly, I don't have someone to hold at night. I need porn form time to time, bro."

"Sick."

"Says the guy with the foot fetish."

"At least I'm not watching others do it. Well... Okay, not by choice."

"Yeah, Ted and Daniel are whores. Lucky fucks... God, I need my crotch buried in something. If I spend an extra few minutes in Seth's bathroom, you'd say it's because I have a stomach ache, right?"

"No, I'd exaggerate and make you sound like you were fisting yourself in the bathroom."

"Hey, I probably would be. Heh... Dude, since my parents found out I was gay, they started letting me order toys and stuff. I kinda wish I'd brought one, now." I turned and snuck into Seth's garage, leading X with me. We closed the garage door and went into the house, tiptoeing down the hall. I opened Seth's door, and crept inside, but stopped when I saw what he was doing.