Deadly Affairs

This week has been extremely stressful ever since I ran into my boss at the art museum. He’s been making me stay really late every night and instead of making Justin get his coffee and lunch he’s been making me do it. He’s basically made me his bitch all week because I lied about not being able to stay late. I also think it has to do with me being a little too cocky at the art museum. I should’ve just backed off but I didn’t and now I’m his bitch boy until he gets tired of it and I don’t think he will get tired of it. Every time he tells me to do something or gives me that smirk I imagine myself gutting him like a fish but of course I can’t do that, so they’ll just continue to be vivid daydreams. Luckily today is Friday and I don’t have work tomorrow.

“Fuentes, I’m hungry. Where’s my lunch?” My boss said standing behind me as I was looking over some documents on my computer. I turned around to look at him and he had Justin standing right next to him as usual.

“Well you’re just telling me that you’re hungry so I don’t have it.” I said.

“Are you getting smart with me?” He said looking for a reason to mess with me even more.

“No sir. Would you like me to go get your food for you now?” I said rolling my eyes.

“Well I did just say I’m hungry so.. yeah go get my lunch.” He said in this arrogant tone. I got up from my chair and started to walk pass him, he put his hand on my shoulder. “You’re paying.” He said grinning at me I just kept walking to the elevators. “And you have 15 minutes to get back here.” I didn’t even acknowledge what he said I just keep walking. As I got to the elevator and the doors opened I walked in pressing the button to the ground floor. The doors were starting to close as a hand stopped them at the last second, it was Justin.

“Hey.. He’s being extra douchey today, huh?” The boy said breathing heavily. He must’ve been running to catch the doors before they closed.

“Yeah.. I guess he didn’t get laid last night.” I said leaning back against the wall. He chuckled at my remark and we rode the rest of the elevator ride in silence. As we got out the elevator and I started to head towards the front doors I saw that Justin was following me out the corner of my eye. I walked out the front door and started walking across the street, Justin was still following me. For some reason it made me uncomfortable, I’m usually the one following people but to be the one being followed felt weird; I didn’t like it. At all. “What are you doing?” I said turning around to look at him a little on guard.

“Going with you to get lunch” he said looking at me confused. I tried to shake it off and act normal again.

“Sorry dude. Guess I’m a little on edge today.” I said giving him a little smile. He gave a little smile back and we continued walking to deli shop.

“So you never told me why he’s being such a dick to you this week.” He said breaking the silence as we walked into the deli.

“Remember when I said my aunt was in the hospital and on her death bed?” I looked at him waiting for some type of response; he nodded at me looking curious. “Well she wasn’t on her death bed. She wasn’t even in the hospital. My friend invited me to go to an opening for an art museum with him and I had already told him I would go so I didn’t want to bail on him.”

“Oh the guy that was standing out front that night?” He asked.

“Yeah..” I said walking up to the counter to order my boss’ lunch. We stood there waiting for the food in silence and Justin offered to pay for the food as the cashier handed the food to us. He’s only been here for a week but he’s clung to me. I’m the only person he talks to besides the other assistants and he’s always being really nice to me, it’s really weird sometimes.
We got back to the office and I gave my boss his food. He didn’t even say thank you or anything but it wasn’t like I was expecting it seeing as he thinks he’s royalty or something. I went back to my desk and ate my food then tried to finish my work as fast as possible.
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It was a long day but it was finally over and I could head home and just relax for the rest of the weekend. Hopefully on Monday my boss would be over his ego and ready to leave me alone. He knows I like to keep to myself and he’s doing all of this because he wants me to retaliate. I think he’s just looking for a reason to fire me but he already missed that opportunity, he could’ve fired me when I lied about my aunt but instead he wanted to mess with me. I’m not going to give in, even though it would be easy. I was walking down the street almost to my house when my phone buzzed in my pocket, it was a text.

From Kellin: Hey remember that movie you were telling me about? Well I picked it up.

To Kellin: Alright… Come over. We can watch it I guess…

From Kellin: I’m already here, waiting out front for you to get here.

To Kellin: oh… okay.

Ever since the night at the art museum Kellin’s been acting different. In the beginning he only came over because he didn’t want to be alone but now he comes over and wants to actually hang out and do things together. It’s weird, it’s not like I don’t like hanging out with him I mean it’s cool to have a friend since I usually don’t have friends. The weird part is I like having him around which scares me because I never like hanging out with anyone and I especially don’t like having anyone in my house but it’s like he’s practically my roommate only he doesn’t pay rent. It’s a new feeling to actually enjoying being around someone to the point where I let my guard down completely so while I enjoy this new feeling I also want to stop it because it feels dangerous and I don’t completely understand what these feelings actually mean. I know I like him as a friend but when he held my hand it made me immediately calm and I got this little warm tingly feeling inside. I usually don’t like to be touched but when he let go of my hand for a quick second I wanted to grab his hand to get that warm tingly feeling back.

“Hey, you ready?” I heard a voice say causing me to look up. It was Kellin. I didn’t even realize that I was home I must’ve been really lost in my thoughts. He showed me the DVD, smiling. “You know I should really have a key; I’m here all the time anyway. Plus I’m tired of always waiting on your front porch for you to get home.” He said as we walked to the door.

“Yeah, you are here a lot..” I said unlocking the door and walking in. He took his jacket off and laid it where he usually does proceeding to walk to the kitchen and head to the refrigerator. He came back in the living room with two beers and handed me one. I put in the movie and sat on the couch beside him. We sat there just watching the movie in silence but it wasn’t awkward silence it was just silence to the fact we were watching a movie. I got up and went to the kitchen to go get some chips I got two bags and walked back in the living room. I tapped Kellin on his shoulder and he looked up at me and reached for the bag of chips. I started walking back around to the other side of the couch when there was a knock at the door. Kellin and I both looked at each other in confusion seeing as I never have company except for him. He paused the movie and I walked over to the door and opened it. Justin was standing there and I couldn’t help but stare at him in confusion. I didn’t know how he knew where I lived.

“Hey, I hope you don’t mind me stopping by I just needed some paperwork you brought home.” He said with a smile.

“No, come in.” I said “How’d you know where I live?” I asked, closing the door leading him into the living room.

“I stayed late at work and it was in the records. I hope that’s not weird, I just really needed the files you brought home.” He said. He looked up and saw Kellin sitting on the couch. “Oh hey it’s the guy who got you in trouble.” I’m pretty sure he wasn’t trying to be rude seeing as I never told him Kellin’s name but Kellin got this weird look on his face after he said that.

“Yeah that’s Kellin. Kellin this is Justin.” I said introducing the two.

“So what’s going on?” Kellin said looking over at me.

“Nothing, he just needs some papers that I brought home.” I said walking over to the table and grabbing the files.

“It’s pretty late. Couldn’t it wait till the morning?” Kellin said. I felt like he didn’t want an answer to that. I thought he was just being hostile because of the comment Justin made earlier so I didn’t say anything. I walked over to Justin and handed him the files.

“Thanks. So what are you doing?” He said looking around.

“Nothing, just watching a movie.” I said.

“Yeah we should probably get back to the movie.” Kellin added.

“Well would you mind if I joined you? I’ve been at the office all day and I just left to come get this file, I don’t want to go back yet.” Justin said looking at me.

“Yeah, of course. I know the feeling.” I said with a chuckle. I turned around to find Kellin with a not so pleased look on his face. I went to go sit on the couch and Kellin scooted over. Justin came and sat beside me on the other side leaving me in between both of them. Kellin unpaused the movie and we all sat there only it was different this time, it was awkward silence. Justin started making jokes about the main character of the reminding him of ‘our dick boss’ causing me to laugh. Kellin would just look at us; he didn’t know my boss so he really didn’t understand why it was so funny. But Justin kept making jokes and I just kept laughing and Kellin started to act more and more irritated.

“I’m trying to watch the movie so can you be quiet?” He said in an aggravated tone. Justin and I stopped laughing and focused on the movie again. But it didn’t take long for Justin to start making another joke and I guess that pushed Kellin over the limit. “You know what? I’m just going to go home.” He said getting up and putting on his jacket.

“Come on man. We were just playing around. We’ll stop.” I said feeling a little bad but I really didn’t understand why he was getting upset we could just watch the movie tomorrow since neither of us have work.

“No you guys seem to want to joke around more than watch the movie so I’ll just leave you to it.” He said now heading towards the door.

“Come on, Kellin.” I said trying to plead with him one last time but he didn’t say anything he just walked out the door. I looked at Justin and he had this dumbfounded look on his face. I decided to go see if I could catch up to him before he left so I went to the door and opened it. Kellin was walking off down the street towards his house. I started to jog so I could catch up with him. “Hey we were joking around. Why are you taking it so serious?” I said grabbing his arm trying to stop him from walking.

“I’m not.” He said and pulled away continuing to walk, I followed beside him.

“Then why are you leaving?” I said.

“Because I want to.” He said. He was giving me blunt answers which was starting to irritate me. I grabbed his shoulders and turned him towards me making him stop and look at me. He pulled away again. “What do you want? Why are you following me? Why don’t you go hang out with Justin?” he said clearly upset. I still didn’t understand why he was getting so upset, it was just a movie.
“Why are you acting like this? Why are you mad? It’s just a movie!” I said getting upset as well.
“It’s not about the movie! We were having a nice time before he came. We were watching the movie and just relaxing. Then all of a sudden he comes in ruining it, being obnoxious. I mean he wasn’t even funny! I just wanted to relax and watch a movie. That’s all.” He said now glaring at me. I still wasn’t comprehending why he was so mad about this.

“Okay well we can watch the movie tomorrow. It’s no big deal.” I said trying to calm him down and just defuse the situation.

“Vic it’s not about the movie dammit! It was supposed to be a simple night just us watching a movie. Just you and me, not him! He came and ruined it! I mean he was practically drooling over you! Just staring at you and trying to make you laugh. This was supposed to be a ‘you and me’ night. Not you, me and him! No! You’re mine!” He stopped and froze for a second realizing what he said and I just looked at him I didn’t know what to think after his rant. “I mean… you’re my friend. Not mine. My friend.” He said now putting emphasis on ‘my friend’ I still didn’t know what to say I just stood there looking at him. “You know what? I’m just gonna go. I’ve.. made a complete fool of myself and I should leave before I say something else stupid.” He started to turn around but I didn’t want him to go. I never wanted him to go that was the whole reason of me coming out here; I wanted him to stay; to come back in a just stay. But he was ready to leave and I didn’t know what to do so I grabbed his arm and pulled him back to me and kissed him. His lips were so warm and soft and before I could even get into the kiss I was pulling back. I looked at him with my eyes wide just staring at him and he was staring at me. What the fuck did I just do?