"NeverWhere"
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By Cori Pixie
“So, we’re here aren’t we?”
“Yeah we are.” They looked very softly into each other’s eyes. “You wanna go find a place to stay?” Brian asked while slipping his sunglasses on.
“Um sure. I guess we should. You want me to call for a taxi?”
“Yeah.” Brian sighed to himself, brushing a piece of longish, brown hair from his face. During the past few months, the two boys had begun to grow their hair longer for no reason other than to piss Jerry off.
The taxi arrived a few minutes later and holding hands lightly, the boys piled themselves into the back seat. They were very tired. Brian was tired, Curt was tired, so they just piled in silently; Curt lounging against the window and Brian next to him, his leg thrown over Curt’s and his head on his shoulder. Tired and beautiful. Very, very beautiful.
“Hey, hey. Bri, babe wake up, we’re here.” Curt paid the driver and gently pushed Brian off of him so he could retrieve their things from the trunk of the old yellow green brown blue taxi. Stretching his lithe body, Brian yawned and stepped out of the car, thanking the driver and he drove away in a cloud of lovely grey mist.
The next few moments were a bit of a blur for both Curt and Brian, but somehow they ended up in a medium sized hotel, dragging themselves into bed.
“I’m tired Brian.” It was a simple statement, one that you could see into and dig into and swim around in, it made Curt’s voice crack.
“I know.” Brian wrapped his arms around Curt tightly, stroking his hair nicely, gently, soothing him lightly and putting the both to sleep.
Brian never liked the night. He didn’t like the way memories and thoughts and colours and people would creep up on you at night. He didn’t like the night creatures that swam through his head and made him wonder about things left behind. He didn't always like to remember.
People think. They always do. People always think. Sometimes they’re wrong. Curt was dark, Brian was light. Curt was rough, Brian wasn’t. Curt was haunted and so was Brian.
Sometimes people think. Sometimes they just don’t realize.
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