Fragile Future *shadowpook and I*

"You could have told him any of that!"

"Not likely, Shayne didnt want me to know about his birthday."

"I don't want a fuss about it"

"But its your birthday! we should celebrate!"

"It doesn matter, I'm fine, it's just a number"

"Yes, but soon you'll be seventeen, and then we just have to wait a year before its officially legal for us to be together"

"Yeah, I'll be a drop out seventeen year old who works at the bttom of the foodchain ina supermarket. Not alot ot celelbrate"

"What? i thought you had stayed at school?"

"We did ur GCSEs las week, I know I failed the ones I did and I had to skiphalf of them cause I had blood pouin out of y face"

"You can re-sit."

"I didn't study at all Ray"

"You'll pass them tests shayne, i know you can."

"No I wont! If I resit I'l be in a class full of allthe people that hate me since Everyone That cares has passed. I can't stand to be eighteen and still stuck inhigh school"

"But your not a failure shayne! and dont ant you to keep thinking you are!"

Shayne justs hrugged "I'll just have to deal with it"

"I dont want you to deal with it. when you do that you get very depressed and its kinda scary,"

"What do you mean?"

"When ever you have something you have to deal with you get all unhappy and it scares me."

"Im sorry"

"Its not your fault, hun. Just when ever you've been unhappy before you've...hurt yourself. Wait." Ray looked at shayne sharply and pulled shaynes sleeves up, his face struck horrorfied with what he saw. "Omg.."

Shayne couldnt meet Rays eyes.

Ray began to cry silently, his eyes glues to shaynes arms, he was wrapped up in pain and anger and hurt.

"I'm so sorry" mumbled SHayne

"Oh shayne..."whispered Ray, stll staring

Shayne lookedup guilitily

Ray pulled him into a hug, cradling him like he was the best adn most precois thing in teh world