My peaceful deep sleep was rudely interrupted by my beeping alarm clock, I sat up sharply, my head was spinning and I had a gross taste in my mouth, it was the morning after the party, I got up out of bed and looked at my bedroom door, it was wide open. Oh god! He must have left wile I was sleeping I thought to myself. Then I looked around and down to my bed, there was a large lump under my sheets, I pulled them back and there was tom, stark naked in my bed. His beautiful body was all shiny and his angular jaw was slightly open.

I leaned forward and pocked him on the chest, nothing happened, so I pocked him harder. This time he opened his eyes and let out a massive grin.

“hi” he said with a groggy voice

“You feel bad as well?” I said with a smile

“Yeah I feel like shit if I am honest” 

I laughed and walked over to my computer; I switched it on and saw that it was 8AM

“OH SHIT, I have to be in collage in 30 minutes” I shouted

“Calm down Scott, I can give you a lift”

“Will you? Are you sure it’s not to much trouble?”

With that he got out of bed, still naked he walked over to me and hugged me from behind, he put his arms around my waist and moved his mouth closer to the back of my ear “anything for you, Scott”

I turned around and smiled, “thank you tom, you know tom, I really like you”. He looked at me with a serious look on his face, “yeah, I like you to Scott, and by the way, I lied about having a girl friend, I just said it so sound cool” he pulled a sad face and I smiled “don’t worry about it tom” he gave me a killer smile and broke the hug.

At that moment I noticed my dad stood at my door, he had a trey with some soup on it in his hands. He dropped the tray and looked into my room at me and Tom; I suddenly panicked and froze on the spot. Tom ran over to my bed and started putting cloths on, he had reached as far as getting his jeans on when my dad ran towards him, he pushed tom up against the wall and spat on him, tom struggled but could not get away. I could see the anger in my dads face, I ran over to them both and tried to pull my dad off but he just glared at me and I backed off, he punched tom in the face and then the stomach, I pulled my dad of him but he just turned around and punched me in the face. I fell to the floor and looked up, my dad was kicking tom wile he was still pressed up against the wall. Tom fell to the ground and my dad kicked him in the face. I got up and pushed my dad over, I knelt down next to tom and hugged him, my dad just got up, looked at us both and walked out of my room.

I held tom in my arms and began to cry, he looked up at me and his face was covered in blood, his eye was starting to swell up, the man I saw as godlike was now reduced to nothing, we both sat on the floor crying.

After about 5 minutes we had both calmed down, I helped tom off the ground and into my bathroom , I sat him down on the edge of the bath and paced him a towel for his face.

“Tom im so so sorry, I can’t believe he did that to you”

“I … I don’t know what to say Scott, what do you want me to say?”

“Please tom, don’t hate me because of him”

Tom had blood dripping down his chest and face

“Scott! I don’t hate you”

I knelt down to his eye level and looked at him with passion, he looked into my eyes with a deep sadness “I love you Scott”, I knelt there froze on the spot “what did you just say?” “Don’t make me say it again Scott, please” “I love you as well tom”

He slid from the edge of the bath into his knees in front of me, we both held each other in are arms and hugged for what seemed like for ever. I broke the hug and told him we need to get him to a hospital. “No! Scott I don’t need to go to the hospital”

“Yes you do tom, you are injured” he tried to get up but fell back down to his knees with a loud moan. I helped him up and took him over to my bed, I found his t-shirt from the night before under my bed. I tried to get it on him but it hurt him to lift his arm over his head, so I just covered him with a towel and led him down stairs to the front door. My mum and dad were sat in the kitchen. My dad still had anger in his face and my mum was crying. I gave them a sad but angry look and walked out of the door and down my garden path until we reached Toms car. I reached for the keys in toms pocket and unlocked the door, I helped tom into the passenger seat and entered the driver’s seat.

“Are you ok Tom? I said quietly, he just looked up at me and gave a fake smile, I was not used to seeing him upset, his face was normally alive with fire but he was now lifeless. I started the car and drove away down the road.

When we left the hospital tom had been cleaned up and his cuts stitched. He had been given a t-shirt to where. We both sat in his car and looked at each other, the mood was very sombre 

“im ok Scott, don’t worry about me , please” he smiled and the life was starting to return to his face. “Were are we going to go tom? We can’t go back to my house, not with my dad at home” I said with a worried tone in my voice. “ we can go to my house, I will tell my mum that I got in a fight last night at a party” “well ok, but only if you think your mum wont mind me staying at your house” “they wont mind, both my mum and dad know that I am gay”

I looked at him in shock, “you told them! And they didn’t mind” “yeah, why would they mind, im still there son Scott” a feeling of sadness washed over my whole body, I thought to myself, why are my parents not like that, do they not love me?

When we arrived at Toms house I helped him through the door, his mum and dad were in the kitchen making a late lunch (it was around 2 AM), they both looked at me and tom, they both ran to tom and hugged him, “what has happened to you Tom?” his mum screamed, his dad looked at me and asked “did you do this, did you do this to my son!” I backed away close to the door when tom started to speak “mum, dad can you sit down please, I have something I would like to tell you?” they both looked at each other, worried about what there son would say to them. Once they were sat on the sofa he sat in front of them, I stood by the door not knowing what to do. Tom looked over at me and told me to sit next to him, I walked over and sit right next to him, he put his hand on my knee, “mum, dad, this is Scott, I love him”. I looked at him and smiled, almost forgetting that I was in front of toms parents. They both looked at Tom, and then me. “ well then” his dad said proudly “welcome to the family Scott” his mum and dad both smiled at me and got up, they walked around the coffee table and hugged both of us “im so glade you found someone son” Toms dad said to him quietly. I still had not said one word and I finally mustered up the courage to speak “its.. nice to meet you both” I said timidly, “and its wonderful to meet you as well Scott his dad said confidently.

With that tom got up and pulled me up by the hand, “thanks mum, thanks dad, we need to shower and stuff but we will be back down so that we can talk some more” with that we both went up into toms room and laid on his bed, we snuggled into each other, toms arms around my body. “I love you Scott, I really do” “yeah I no Tom, I love you two” we smiled at each other, his face was alive with fire and it made my heart melt “ I no that we can go the distance Scott, what ever gets in are way”

I closed my eyes, and we both drifted off into a deep sleep.

To be continued. . .