Early morning. I rolled over to check the clock and threw my arm over my pillow.
That is not my pillow, that is a person.
Slowly the memories of last night began to come back. I was the designated driver but Tim, Tim got wasted. Beyond wasted.
He began to annoy people. A better way to put that would be to say that he pissed everybody off so much people were threatening to beat him within an inch of his life. So I dragged him out of there.
He became more and more incoherent on the way home.
'I wanna play some more Mikey.' he mumbled.
'Okay Timmy. We're going to go to my house and play World of Warcraft, how about that?'
'YEAH!' He yelled. 'I WANNA PLAY WITH YOU!' -until you pass out, I thought.
We got back to my house and I had to physically carry him into the house. He was out.
I threw him down on the bed and he groaned. 'I hope he doesn't puke on my bed.' I thought.
I peeled off his skinny jeans and hopped in the shower myself.
'I hope he doesn't puke on me' I thought again as I laid down next to him in bed.
So, the person I threw my arm around the next morning was my best friend, Tim.
Sometime during the night he'd managed to get his shirt off. All he had on was a pair of boxers.
I started to roll on my back again but he grabbed me and pulled my arm around him, squeezing my hand.
'Mikey' he murmured, half asleep still.
'What?' I asked but he just muttered again and passed out. He was holding my hand so tight and with my other arm stuck underneath me, I couldn't really move unless I woke him up.
But, I didn't want to.
Because I realized I didn't mind having my arm around Tim.
I didn't mind holding his hand or laying in bed with him.
I didn't mind the way his warm back felt against the skin of my chest. It was...nice.
It was nice holding my best friend that way. So I did. And he kept sleeping for a while.
Then he brought my hand up to his face and kissed the inside of my wrist.
I had tried to kill myself a few years back. In high school. I cut the wrong direction of course because I was a stupid kid and I don't know if I really wanted to die anyway. You're supposed to cut down your arm first they say, then across. I started across then when it came to cutting down, my hands wouldn't do it. The doctor's said I nicked a tendon and I couldn't hold the razor.
My mom called 911 when she found me. There was an ambulance, lots of stitches and a nice, long stay in a psychiatric hospital. That's where I met Tim. He'd taken a whole bottle of morphine but his body failed him - like it always seems to- and he vomited up enough pills so they could save him. He was in a coma for 4 days. He said that you actually do dream when you're in a coma and it lasts a long, long time. Like hell.
He kissed the scars on my wrist. I usually keep them covered but not with him.
Then he licked it and kissed it again, running his lips over it, back and forth.