"Here Dayce."
Jason handed me the plant. It was a thing with thick vines with bright purple flowers placed here and there on the wrist-thick vines. I looked at it and than up at my best friend.
"What do you want me to do with it?" I asked him.
"Take care of it for a few days."
He begged me with puppy dog eyes. I rolled my eyes at him. He always gave me the puppy dog look when he really wanted something because he knew it always worked on me.
Damn. He knew me so well. But not well enough, I reminded myself. He still didn't know I had been in love with him since junior high. That had been years ago. I had told him I was gay in high school, so he knew that.
It had surprised me that it hadn't freaked him out too much. He had just looked at me and than said that he wasn't helping find me a boyfriend. I had laughed even though his words had ripped a bigger hole in my chest.
Guess it was too much to ask for him to be my boyfriend.
"Fine, how long do you want me to take care of it then?," I asked him after agreeing like he knew I would.
"A week, I am having some remodeling done and I am not going to be able to take care of it."
I smiled at him. We both had come a long way from going to school together. Both of us had our own houses and jobs. He's an author of erotic novels that he had no idea I knew about. My job is a video game creator.
Though my games are for the definite 18+ group. Some have even been based off of his novels.
But, neither of us though has found anybody to settle down with. My reasons were obvious and I guess he still hasn't found the one.
"Thanks, Dayce. Hey can I come over the night after tomorrow?" He asked as I walked over to my car to put the plant in my passenger side seat.
"Yeah, come on over. I'll feed you."
He pumped his fist in the air. I rolled my eyes but thought it was cute when he did that. For some reason he loved my cooking. But then he was the only one to try it. I only cooked for him.
We chatted for a while and then he said he had to go and ran off towards his car. I got in my car and sat thinking for a few minutes. I needed to get over him. I really did.
I started my car, shaking my head at my naΓ―vete. I pulled out of the club's parking area and headed home, missing the twitching the plant beside me started doing.
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