Betrayed for the one-word prompt
Inspired by: You deserve to be the love of someone's life
It wasn't a rational response. That was clear from the get go to David, but still, it was there, the sense he was betrayed.
As if he had any right to even feel like that. He was the one who left, didn't look back, chasing dreams, fame and the limits of what he could do and be.
The thing was, Gary had been his North for so long, fixed, like the star who guided him home that he had never thought about even the possibility of his best friend (former lover) having someone else, even as he dated and married, had a family and children.
In his mind's eye, the image was always of Gaz, young and serious and alone, and to find out he wasn't... It was strange, the jealousy, curiously cold and physical, like a revulsion in his stomach.
Whatever he felt, it didn't matter. He had given up that right long ago, so he gulped down the cold, irrational needling feeling, and sent a congratulatory message.
It was the least of what he could do, to someone he had loved for so long, and so badly. Gary deserved better from him, than him.
And he could be happy with it, if the Scouser treated him right.
He would learn to be.