Matt gets in the car and before he even grabs the seat belt I attack "So, a little heads up would have been nice"
He is freaking out, so cute "I have no idea what's going on" he full body turns to me "seriously, I moved here just a few months ago, I tough you knew her" he seats back and grumbles more to himself "those fuckers should have told me"
This day just keep on giving "who? What?? Who should have told you???"
"Your friends, those fuckers never mentioned anything about any of this" and I just can't even. "Not about your mom, not about your cousin aunty, and they definitely never told any thing about your boyfriend" he looks panicking now "fuck, if I had known you had a boyfriend, I wouldn't have gotten all flirty before" he cover his face with both hands, he's all red and embarrassed, the cutest guy ever., well, the second cutest.
"You were flirty?" I think I'm melting "wait, what da fuck, I don't have any friends!!!" He looks shocked and... Sad? Oh fuck, now he thinks I'm a pathetic loser "in here I mean, I don't have any friends in Helltown"
And now he is just as confused as I am. "Are you sure?" Is that pitty? Again??? Oh hells no!!! "Because they can never shut up about you" now I'm seeing red "by the way they talk you up, I was thinking you were the second coming, or at least second coming adjacent"
Deep.
Breaths.
It's not his fault.
"Who?" I don't know if I'm whispering or screaming, I just don't "who told you?" And it clicks "wait, they told you to come here now??? How the fuck did they know I'm here???"
"Mullet texted me... You didn't told them you were coming??"
"No. They stop answering my calls twenty years ago" I'm going to murder them "how do they know I'm here??!!" I'm gonna make it look like an accident.
"I don't know... He must have seen you car?"
"AND HOW DA ABSOLUTE FUCK WILL HE KNOW WHAT MY CAR LOOKS LIKE????" Ok, I've lost it "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be screaming at you" I bang my head on the wheel, because of course I do.
He waits until I calm myself down "I mean... They're always going on and on about your car, even I've seen the pictures"
Fuck. "So, cyber stalking then"
"Oh come on! It's not stalking if you're Facebook friends" his smile is so adorable that I almost wish I could see past all their bullshit, almost.
"I have them all blocked"
"So, cyber stalking then"
We seat in silence for a few minutes "I think I am shell shocked, I've always heard that frase, never really got it, I think I get now"
"Yep, that sounds right"
"Can you... Fuck ... Can you explain from the beginning??"
"Ok, sure but can you give me a little context before... Seriously what is going on? They lied to me?"
"Context. Ok. Context..." Deep fucking breath" A few days after high school graduation my mom cough me with a guy, she kicked me out, so I tried calling the guys to see if I could stay with them for the night," do not fucking cry "but I guess she must've called them or something cause no one answered, not then, not months after. So yeah. Not my friends now, not my friends ever"
There it is.
Pitty again
"Don't look at me like that" deep "I may have spend a few months living under a bridge" breath "but I met real friends who helped me out when I really needed them, they are my family, I have the love of my life, who is going to be pissed that I'll be late to pick him up at the airport, I have a career, I am successful, I am happy, so do not look at me like that, I don't do pitty"
Yep. I've gone bat shit crazy.
Those are half truths of course, I am a prideful animal, sue me.
It was only one friend that helped me, the same that now is my only family, the love of my life, who is not my boyfriend, but he will be pissed, that is true almost always.
"Yeah, no, sorry, I mean, uhm..."
"So... Which assholes have been catfishing you? How did it start?"
Now he is taking deep breaths, man, I am contagious.
"I moved here like 5 months ago, and met the guys at Hunter's bar, we had a few beers, and when i told them that I'm gay there was this moment of silence, shock? I don't know, but I was imagining the worst, but then they all started talking about you, and showing me pictures and I was freaking out cause..."
He's so shy and sweet "you though that were trying to set you up with the one gay they now, cause hetos!!"
"Fucking hetos!" He sighed "well, I told them I did not wanted to be set up, and turns out it wasn't a set up cause you live like in the other side of the country and they just wanted to make me feel welcome or something, but then they spend talking you up every chance they got and I don't know man... It's weird..."
"It is... It is fucking creepy... Wait, and what did they tell you about her funeral? Why didn't they tell me she died??"
And if I thought I broke him before, now I killed him, he turned completely white, he looks like he is about to pass out any second now.
"T-they... They didn't tell you??"
"Mrs Gonzalez called me two days ago, I've just found out"
"But it was over a month ago!!"
"Yep"
Oh fuck, he was so cheerful and lovely, I made him... No... It is those fuckers, assholes, shit stains, cum worms bastards!!!
"They said..." Oh no baby don't cry... "They told me you were on a trip" and now he is getting angry, and fuck me sideways, but farmboy suddenly turned into the man of my dreams (a hunk of a man with obvious murder intent to those traidor bastards) "that you had no cell coverage there, that they left messages!!"
"Nope, no trip, no calls, no messages, sorry"
"Are you alright? How can you be so calm right now?"
Aw, fuck, now I'm doing the pitty look "I'm sorry dude, but they didn't do anything to me... It's you... I'm sorry, but its you the one they mess with this time"
"But way??" And now he is hyperventilating, I'm running circles in his back, I'm really a shitty comforter.
"No fucking idea, You probably know them better than I do"
"Do I? Because it all feels like a fucking lie to me"
"Yep. They haven changed have they..." Fuck those fuckers "wait, who are they exactly?? You mention Hunter and Mullet?"
"Yeah" he swallowed hard, please don't cry "them and Q, Grapefruit and Gaucho"
Yep the whole gang, almost "what about Curly?"
"Who??"
"They never even mentioned him??"
"Not that I remember... Why??"
"Doesn't matter, what ever happened with them, not my fucking business"
Fuck, maybe I should just hire someone to handle all this shit "fuck, I gotta go to the airport, still going to the town square??"
"Fuck no, I... I'll see you later I guess"
"Sorry man"
He looked at me, really looked "you don't have anything to be sorry about, but those assholes... They will be sorry"
I just lost it, again, but this time I wasn't the only one, we laugh for a few minutes and the he went his way, while I just speed racered out of this hellholle.