+ they meet at a party, both of them are pretty high and messed up but they gravitate towards each other like dying stars.
+They both just got into high school. Their young and dumb and searching for comfort in the bottom of pill bottles, whiskey and handjobs in the closet.
+ Neither of their parents care where they are. They spend the weekend revolving around each other. On Monday they disentangle from each other on the couch, Aaron makes them pancakes leaving extra’s for the other passed out teens. They both make it to school on time.
+And after that, they both seem to be at the same party at the same time. It’s like they are both clicked into the same frequency and now Aaron now the color of most pills like he knows Seth’s eyes.
+They never talk at first. Seth chain smokes joints for most of the night with his girlfriend before inevitably being drawn to Aaron. They’re never sober when they hook up which is great because these fledgling feelings would burn in the light of day.
+ in the space between orgasms and sleep they talk. Aaron can’t remember ever actually talking to someone and it being the whole truth. They lay back to back sharing body heat most nights. Something in spare bedrooms sometimes smashed into garden tubs sticky with beer.
+ One night when Aaron goes to sleep Seth programs his number in Aarons cell. Add’s Aarons number to his phone too. This is the first time he kisses Aaron. Small and light on the cheek like a secret.
+ It breaks from being casual and they both know this when Aaron calls panicking tripping on shrooms asking Seth to pick him up from the park. Tilda had dosed him before locking him in the closet, somehow he got out and then Seth was there picking him up all casually.
+ Seth has to physically lift Aaron into his car because his limbs aren’t of much use at the moment. They get back to Seth’s house where he sits with Aaron all night giving him water and ice packs and telling him fairy tales because they tried watching t.v. but that freak Aaron out too much.
+ Aaron stays there for three days. He’s still a little sore about being dosed up. Tilda new there was a mandatory drug test and did it to get him kicked off the exy team. He still not ready to go home and Seth's parents have not come to knock on his door once in the whole three days.
+ “They don’t care.” and Aaron wonders how that’s even possible.
+ And somehow they both create hideouts in the each other. Running to one another’s arms or cars or homes. It takes a long time before they touch sober and an even longer time to admit that they aren’t just friends.
+ Seth always patches Aaron up when he does something stupid and Aaron makes sure Seth eats. They build a foundation out of scavenged items and hid in their small fort away from the world.
+ They both still have girlfriends and school and different lives but it doesn’t compare to the way they look at each other. like hope.
