Chapter 117: Ocean - Thanksgiving Part 3
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Ocean
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Thankfully, no one really said anything about Makai kissing my cheek. I guess they just saw it as part of the course since we were dating and all. Still, I was embarrassed by the looks on their faces. I swear my sisters and mom saw it as the cutest thing ever.
The rest of the meal went really well, all things considered. Though, there was a time following the meal that made me really, really embarrassed. That was when my family started to ask questions about our relationship. Let's just say that my sisters knew more about gay relationships than I thought.
"So, Ocean, talk to us, tell us everything." Julie pulled me onto the couch to sit between her and Deliah.. I was just looking over at Makai helplessly. Silently begging him to save me. Thankfully, he sat in the chair across from us. Not so thankfully, my parents, brother, and sister in-law also came to sit in the room with us.
"W..w..w..wh..what do you want to know?" I asked Julie apprehensively.
"Don't be so shy, baby Ocean, we just want to know all about your relationship with Makai." I gulped, the fear causing me to hyper salivate, or was that the urge to vomit causing that? Oh well, the fear was causing the nausea, so it was all the same thing.
"L..l..like what?" I shrugged, pretending not to understand what she wanted from me.
"Well…" Julie looked at me deviously. "Who asked who out? Who started this whole thing between you? I mean, my brother used to have a girlfriend so how is it he went from having one of the most sought after girls in school to playing for the opposite team?"
"Maybe Britt the bitch was horrible in bed." Dad laughed at his own response.
"DAD!" I yelled at him.
"What?" He looked like there wasn't an issue at all.
"I never slept with that skank." I admitted to my whole family.
"Oooh, scandalous. Why not? If you've already done that with Makai, then you're not exactly virtuous. Oh, maybe Britt the skanky bitch was more honorable than we ever thought." Deliah added as she scooted closer to me.
"She never wanted to have sex, so we never did." I admitted, not even embarrassed by it. "But, considering what happened, I am glad I never did. She's a fucking bitch."
"I just love this family's vocabulary. You can hardly tell that we're secretly pirates with how pristinely they speak." Mom glared at me as she spoke with full on sarcasm.
"Sorry." We all said, even Dad who had been swearing as well.
"I will allow it for right now. That bitch was a fucking whore, and I don't like what she did to my baby boy."
"MOM!" The four of us stared at her in shock. Dad, however, was laughing with his head thrown back and Makai and Rachel were trying to silence their suppressed laughter.
"What?" Mom acted as if nothing had happened. "Let's continue." She made a rolling gesture with her hand telling us to get a move on.
"Whatever." Deliah rolled her eyes. "Can someone explain to us exactly what happened with Britt the skanky bitch?"
So Makai, as helpful as he always was, regaled them all with the events that led to me and Brittney breaking up.
"So, does that mean that you have been chasing him ever since?" Grantham asked Makai with a smirk on his face.
"I had actually been trying to catch his attention from the day I first met him. For me it was love at first sight." Makai grinned at me as he spoke.
"What about you, baby brother?" Grantham looked at me. "When did you fall for Makai?" I knew that I couldn't keep from answering their questions, they wouldn't let me stay silent for long.
"W..well I uh, I..I uhm, I think that I started to fall for him before Brittney d..dumped me. I..I..I th..thought about him a..a..a lot. I..I would h..h..have dreams about him, a..and things like that."
"Awe, that is so sweet." Rachel looked as if I had just melted her heart.
"I think so too." Makai looked at me but his eyes didn't say he thought it was sweet, he was clearly excited by that revelation.
"So, who made the first move?"
"MOM!?" I couldn't believe that she was the one to ask that.
"What? I don't need details. I just want to know." She looked at me with sweet eyes.
"Well, to be honest Mrs. Shores, Ocean made the first move, but he didn't know it."
"Oh, do tell." Julie leaned in with excitement in her eyes. That led to Makai telling them about the night on the beach.
"Yeah, but the first conscious move was you." I snapped at him.
"I didn't deny that." He turned to look at me. "And that is a moment that I would love to keep private, just between the two of us." He winked at me and my sisters squealed.
"Oh, why do I get the feeling that my brother is the bottom right now?" I was burning red as I listened to the conversation delve into the intricate roles between tops and bottoms and those that switch it up. At least, right now, my sisters were doing all the talking and I was able to slip away from them all. I couldn't handle any more of that.
After a few minutes, Makai came into the kitchen to check on me. He didn't say anything, he just hugged me and held me close. We didn't need words at that moment. We just needed each other. I knew Makai loved me and I knew my family loved me. I was the one that got embarrassed way too easily.
After a while we went back out to the living room. No one asked us why we had left or what we had been doing and that was a relief. I think that they knew I needed to get away for a minute.
It was time for my siblings to leave though, so we all walked to the door and gave hugs.
"Take care, baby brother." Grantham said as he hugged me.
"Come see us soon, when the baby is here." Rachel held onto me next.
"I'm happy for you, baby Ocean." Deliah said as she came over next.
"Don't get so embarrassed, your life is yours and no one can ever make you feel bad about that. We love you and are happy for you." Julie was the last one to hug me.
I also noticed that all of my siblings were hugging Makai as well.
"Welcome to the family." Grantham first shook Makai's hand then pulled him into a hug.
"I am happy that Ocean has you." Rachel hugged him as well.
"Be good to my brother." Deliah was next.
"If you're not good to him you'll have to answer to us. But you seem like a good guy, so we're OK." Julie both threatened and hugged him.
Now that they were gone and the door was shut, I noticed a look on my mom's face. Was she angry or sad about something? The look on her face was sort of a mix of both of those.
"Come with us boys, we need to talk." Oh God, this didn't sound good at all.
The four of us went back into the living room, where we had spent most of the day. Mom and Dad sat together, holding hands. Makai and I sat across from them. And to make it more intimate, Makai put his arm around my shoulders.
"Look, there is no easy way for me to say this." Mom was already making me nervous.
"A..a..are you going to tell us that we have to break up or stop seeing each other?" I could hear the panic in my voice. I just knew that I couldn't do that, it would kill me.
"No!"
"Not at all!" My parents immediately denied it.
"Then what is going on?" I was confused by this.
"Ocean, we love you. You are our baby boy. We want you to be happy, but what will make you happy isn't the life that you have right now." I wasn't following my mom's words at the moment, so I looked over at my dad.
"Look Ocean, we know you've been miserable since you came home. You've been back for less than three weeks and it's clear to us that you are upset and miserable every day. We may not like it, but we understand that you don't want to live with us anymore."
"That's right. We can see that you're much happier when you're living with Makai. It pains us to see you so upset by not being with him."
"What are you saying?" I couldn't process this right now, and when I looked at Makai I saw that he was confused as well.
"What we're saying, boys, is that you can live together again. We want you to be happy Ocean, and you too Makai. We know how hard this last week and a half has been on you. It's been heart wrenching to see you so broken, Ocean." Mom was almost in tears.
"B..but, if I live with him then you'll be upset. I don't want to see you cry."
"We would have had to deal with this next year anyway. You were going to go off to college soon enough. This way, we can ease into the empty nest." Mom was smiling at me, but I could see the tears threatening to call at any moment.
"What do you mean by ease into it?" Makai asked them.
"Well, Makai, Ocean's mom and I would like for the two of you to come to dinner with us once a week. That way we still get some family time."
"That is more than doable." Makai smiled at my dad and nodded his head.
"Are you sure about this?" I asked them once more. This might make me happy but it was going to make them miserable.
"Yes, Ocean, we are sure. We've thought about it for a while now and we're ready to let you go for now. But we want you two doing good in school and keeping up with practice. This isn't some full time party that we're giving you."
"Absolutely, Mrs. Shores." Makai was nodding along with her. "Just like the last time that we stayed together, we will both make sure that we are responsible and do what needs to be done."
"Thank you, Makai. I knew that we could count on you."
My parents were giving me such a bittersweet look that it nearly made me cry. I had not expected that they would do this. I was happy, but I was also sad as well.
"Come on, son. Let's go pack up your room." My dad offered to help. That would be bad, considering what was in there. I didn't need them to see the contents of a certain drawer.
"I think Ocean and I can manage it, Mr. Shores." Makai answered for me.
"I get it. Well, pack what you don't want me to see then I will come in to help you. I am a man and I know that men have things that they don't want parents to see in their rooms.
"Yes sir. We will take care of that first." Makai nodded at him.
"There are boxes ready for you in the spare room. We wanted to be prepared in advance."
"Yes Ma'am." Makai nodded again to my mom's words.
For the next hour my parents and I packed up the things in my room. I was taking everything aside from my furniture with me. And you know that my mom wouldn't let me just throw everything into a box. It needed to be done neatly.
When I was all packed my parents hugged me, a lot. They told me that they loved me, a lot. And they told me to be good and come home once per week. This was surreal and felt way different than the last time I left with Makai.
It was a good thing that we were taking both my car and Makai's. We needed both of them to carry all of my stuff to Makai's house. Once we got there, we unloaded the boxes but decided to unpack tomorrow. It was late and there had been a lot of stuff that had happened today.
"Come on, Ocean. You look like you're about to fall asleep on your feet." Makai supported half of my weight as he guided me up the stairs to his room. No, our room.
We both stripped down to our boxers, our preferred way to sleep, and laid down. Makai held me in his arms as I started to drift off to sleep.
"I'm happy." I heard his words when I was on the edge of sleep. "I get to hold you every night now." His words made me grin but I was too tired to respond.
This was the start of a whole new life for me.
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Ocean
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Thankfully, no one really said anything about Makai kissing my cheek. I guess they just saw it as part of the course since we were dating and all. Still, I was embarrassed by the looks on their faces. I swear my sisters and mom saw it as the cutest thing ever.
The rest of the meal went really well, all things considered. Though, there was a time following the meal that made me really, really embarrassed. That was when my family started to ask questions about our relationship. Let's just say that my sisters knew more about gay relationships than I thought.
"So, Ocean, talk to us, tell us everything." Julie pulled me onto the couch to sit between her and Deliah.. I was just looking over at Makai helplessly. Silently begging him to save me. Thankfully, he sat in the chair across from us. Not so thankfully, my parents, brother, and sister in-law also came to sit in the room with us.
"W..w..w..wh..what do you want to know?" I asked Julie apprehensively.
"Don't be so shy, baby Ocean, we just want to know all about your relationship with Makai." I gulped, the fear causing me to hyper salivate, or was that the urge to vomit causing that? Oh well, the fear was causing the nausea, so it was all the same thing.
"L..l..like what?" I shrugged, pretending not to understand what she wanted from me.
"Well…" Julie looked at me deviously. "Who asked who out? Who started this whole thing between you? I mean, my brother used to have a girlfriend so how is it he went from having one of the most sought after girls in school to playing for the opposite team?"
"Maybe Britt the bitch was horrible in bed." Dad laughed at his own response.
"DAD!" I yelled at him.
"What?" He looked like there wasn't an issue at all.
"I never slept with that skank." I admitted to my whole family.
"Oooh, scandalous. Why not? If you've already done that with Makai, then you're not exactly virtuous. Oh, maybe Britt the skanky bitch was more honorable than we ever thought." Deliah added as she scooted closer to me.
"She never wanted to have sex, so we never did." I admitted, not even embarrassed by it. "But, considering what happened, I am glad I never did. She's a fucking bitch."
"I just love this family's vocabulary. You can hardly tell that we're secretly pirates with how pristinely they speak." Mom glared at me as she spoke with full on sarcasm.
"Sorry." We all said, even Dad who had been swearing as well.
"I will allow it for right now. That bitch was a fucking whore, and I don't like what she did to my baby boy."
"MOM!" The four of us stared at her in shock. Dad, however, was laughing with his head thrown back and Makai and Rachel were trying to silence their suppressed laughter.
"What?" Mom acted as if nothing had happened. "Let's continue." She made a rolling gesture with her hand telling us to get a move on.
"Whatever." Deliah rolled her eyes. "Can someone explain to us exactly what happened with Britt the skanky bitch?"
So Makai, as helpful as he always was, regaled them all with the events that led to me and Brittney breaking up.
"So, does that mean that you have been chasing him ever since?" Grantham asked Makai with a smirk on his face.
"I had actually been trying to catch his attention from the day I first met him. For me it was love at first sight." Makai grinned at me as he spoke.
"What about you, baby brother?" Grantham looked at me. "When did you fall for Makai?" I knew that I couldn't keep from answering their questions, they wouldn't let me stay silent for long.
"W..well I uh, I..I uhm, I think that I started to fall for him before Brittney d..dumped me. I..I..I th..thought about him a..a..a lot. I..I would h..h..have dreams about him, a..and things like that."
"Awe, that is so sweet." Rachel looked as if I had just melted her heart.
"I think so too." Makai looked at me but his eyes didn't say he thought it was sweet, he was clearly excited by that revelation.
"So, who made the first move?"
"MOM!?" I couldn't believe that she was the one to ask that.
"What? I don't need details. I just want to know." She looked at me with sweet eyes.
"Well, to be honest Mrs. Shores, Ocean made the first move, but he didn't know it."
"Oh, do tell." Julie leaned in with excitement in her eyes. That led to Makai telling them about the night on the beach.
"Yeah, but the first conscious move was you." I snapped at him.
"I didn't deny that." He turned to look at me. "And that is a moment that I would love to keep private, just between the two of us." He winked at me and my sisters squealed.
"Oh, why do I get the feeling that my brother is the bottom right now?" I was burning red as I listened to the conversation delve into the intricate roles between tops and bottoms and those that switch it up. At least, right now, my sisters were doing all the talking and I was able to slip away from them all. I couldn't handle any more of that.
After a few minutes, Makai came into the kitchen to check on me. He didn't say anything, he just hugged me and held me close. We didn't need words at that moment. We just needed each other. I knew Makai loved me and I knew my family loved me. I was the one that got embarrassed way too easily.
After a while we went back out to the living room. No one asked us why we had left or what we had been doing and that was a relief. I think that they knew I needed to get away for a minute.
It was time for my siblings to leave though, so we all walked to the door and gave hugs.
"Take care, baby brother." Grantham said as he hugged me.
"Come see us soon, when the baby is here." Rachel held onto me next.
"I'm happy for you, baby Ocean." Deliah said as she came over next.
"Don't get so embarrassed, your life is yours and no one can ever make you feel bad about that. We love you and are happy for you." Julie was the last one to hug me.
I also noticed that all of my siblings were hugging Makai as well.
"Welcome to the family." Grantham first shook Makai's hand then pulled him into a hug.
"I am happy that Ocean has you." Rachel hugged him as well.
"Be good to my brother." Deliah was next.
"If you're not good to him you'll have to answer to us. But you seem like a good guy, so we're OK." Julie both threatened and hugged him.
Now that they were gone and the door was shut, I noticed a look on my mom's face. Was she angry or sad about something? The look on her face was sort of a mix of both of those.
"Come with us boys, we need to talk." Oh God, this didn't sound good at all.
The four of us went back into the living room, where we had spent most of the day. Mom and Dad sat together, holding hands. Makai and I sat across from them. And to make it more intimate, Makai put his arm around my shoulders.
"Look, there is no easy way for me to say this." Mom was already making me nervous.
"A..a..are you going to tell us that we have to break up or stop seeing each other?" I could hear the panic in my voice. I just knew that I couldn't do that, it would kill me.
"No!"
"Not at all!" My parents immediately denied it.
"Then what is going on?" I was confused by this.
"Ocean, we love you. You are our baby boy. We want you to be happy, but what will make you happy isn't the life that you have right now." I wasn't following my mom's words at the moment, so I looked over at my dad.
"Look Ocean, we know you've been miserable since you came home. You've been back for less than three weeks and it's clear to us that you are upset and miserable every day. We may not like it, but we understand that you don't want to live with us anymore."
"That's right. We can see that you're much happier when you're living with Makai. It pains us to see you so upset by not being with him."
"What are you saying?" I couldn't process this right now, and when I looked at Makai I saw that he was confused as well.
"What we're saying, boys, is that you can live together again. We want you to be happy Ocean, and you too Makai. We know how hard this last week and a half has been on you. It's been heart wrenching to see you so broken, Ocean." Mom was almost in tears.
"B..but, if I live with him then you'll be upset. I don't want to see you cry."
"We would have had to deal with this next year anyway. You were going to go off to college soon enough. This way, we can ease into the empty nest." Mom was smiling at me, but I could see the tears threatening to call at any moment.
"What do you mean by ease into it?" Makai asked them.
"Well, Makai, Ocean's mom and I would like for the two of you to come to dinner with us once a week. That way we still get some family time."
"That is more than doable." Makai smiled at my dad and nodded his head.
"Are you sure about this?" I asked them once more. This might make me happy but it was going to make them miserable.
"Yes, Ocean, we are sure. We've thought about it for a while now and we're ready to let you go for now. But we want you two doing good in school and keeping up with practice. This isn't some full time party that we're giving you."
"Absolutely, Mrs. Shores." Makai was nodding along with her. "Just like the last time that we stayed together, we will both make sure that we are responsible and do what needs to be done."
"Thank you, Makai. I knew that we could count on you."
My parents were giving me such a bittersweet look that it nearly made me cry. I had not expected that they would do this. I was happy, but I was also sad as well.
"Come on, son. Let's go pack up your room." My dad offered to help. That would be bad, considering what was in there. I didn't need them to see the contents of a certain drawer.
"I think Ocean and I can manage it, Mr. Shores." Makai answered for me.
"I get it. Well, pack what you don't want me to see then I will come in to help you. I am a man and I know that men have things that they don't want parents to see in their rooms.
"Yes sir. We will take care of that first." Makai nodded at him.
"There are boxes ready for you in the spare room. We wanted to be prepared in advance."
"Yes Ma'am." Makai nodded again to my mom's words.
For the next hour my parents and I packed up the things in my room. I was taking everything aside from my furniture with me. And you know that my mom wouldn't let me just throw everything into a box. It needed to be done neatly.
When I was all packed my parents hugged me, a lot. They told me that they loved me, a lot. And they told me to be good and come home once per week. This was surreal and felt way different than the last time I left with Makai.
It was a good thing that we were taking both my car and Makai's. We needed both of them to carry all of my stuff to Makai's house. Once we got there, we unloaded the boxes but decided to unpack tomorrow. It was late and there had been a lot of stuff that had happened today.
"Come on, Ocean. You look like you're about to fall asleep on your feet." Makai supported half of my weight as he guided me up the stairs to his room. No, our room.
We both stripped down to our boxers, our preferred way to sleep, and laid down. Makai held me in his arms as I started to drift off to sleep.
"I'm happy." I heard his words when I was on the edge of sleep. "I get to hold you every night now." His words made me grin but I was too tired to respond.
This was the start of a whole new life for me.
~~Ocean~~Thankfully, no one really said anything about Makai kissing my cheek. I guess they just saw it as part of the course since we were dating and all. Still, I was embarrassed by the looks on their faces. I swear my sisters and mom saw it as the cutest thing ever.The rest of the meal went really well, all things considered. Though, there was a time following the meal that made me really, really embarrassed. That was when my family started to ask questions about our relationship. Let's just say that my sisters knew more about gay relationships than I thought."So, Ocean, talk to us, tell us everything." Julie pulled me onto the couch to sit between her and Deliah.. I was just looking over at Makai helplessly. Silently begging him to save me. Thankfully, he sat in the chair across from us. Not so thankfully, my parents, brother, and sister in-law also came to sit in the room with us."W..w..w..wh..what do you want to know?" I asked Julie apprehensively."Don't be so shy, baby Ocean, we just want to know all about your relationship with Makai." I gulped, the fear causing me to hyper salivate, or was that the urge to vomit causing that? Oh well, the fear was causing the nausea, so it was all the same thing."L..l..like what?" I shrugged, pretending not to understand what she wanted from me."Well" Julie looked at me deviously. "Who asked who out? Who started this whole thing between you? I mean, my brother used to have a girlfriend so how is it he went from having one of the most sought after girls in school to playing for the opposite team?""Maybe Britt the bitch was horrible in bed." Dad laughed at his own response."DAD!" I yelled at him."What?" He looked like there wasn't an issue at all."I never slept with that skank." I admitted to my whole family."Oooh, scandalous. Why not? If you've already done that with Makai, then you're not exactly virtuous. Oh, maybe Britt the skanky bitch was more honorable than we ever thought." Deliah added as she scooted closer to me."She never wanted to have sex, so we never did." I admitted, not even embarrassed by it. "But, considering what happened, I am glad I never did. She's a fucking bitch.""I just love this family's vocabulary. You can hardly tell that we're secretly pirates with how pristinely they speak." Mom glared at me as she spoke with full on sarcasm."Sorry." We all said, even Dad who had been swearing as well."I will allow it for right now. That bitch was a fucking whore, and I don't like what she did to my baby boy.""MOM!" The four of us stared at her in shock. Dad, however, was laughing with his head thrown back and Makai and Rachel were trying to silence their suppressed laughter."What?" Mom acted as if nothing had happened. "Let's continue." She made a rolling gesture with her hand telling us to get a move on."Whatever." Deliah rolled her eyes. "Can someone explain to us exactly what happened with Britt the skanky bitch?"So Makai, as helpful as he always was, regaled them all with the events that led to me and Brittney breaking up."So, does that mean that you have been chasing him ever since?" Grantham asked Makai with a smirk on his face."I had actually been trying to catch his attention from the day I first met him. For me it was love at first sight." Makai grinned at me as he spoke."What about you, baby brother?" Grantham looked at me. "When did you fall for Makai?" I knew that I couldn't keep from answering their questions, they wouldn't let me stay silent for long."W..well I uh, I..I uhm, I think that I started to fall for him before Brittney d..dumped me. I..I..I th..thought about him a..a..a lot. I..I would h..h..have dreams about him, a..and things like that.""Awe, that is so sweet." Rachel looked as if I had just melted her heart."I think so too." Makai looked at me but his eyes didn't say he thought it was sweet, he was clearly excited by that revelation."So, who made the first move?""MOM!?" I couldn't believe that she was the one to ask that."What? I don't need details. I just want to know." She looked at me with sweet eyes."Well, to be honest Mrs. Shores, Ocean made the first move, but he didn't know it.""Oh, do tell." Julie leaned in with excitement in her eyes. That led to Makai telling them about the night on the beach."Yeah, but the first conscious move was you." I snapped at him."I didn't deny that." He turned to look at me. "And that is a moment that I would love to keep private, just between the two of us." He winked at me and my sisters squealed."Oh, why do I get the feeling that my brother is the bottom right now?" I was burning red as I listened to the conversation delve into the intricate roles between tops and bottoms and those that switch it up. At least, right now, my sisters were doing all the talking and I was able to slip away from them all. I couldn't handle any more of that.After a few minutes, Makai came into the kitchen to check on me. He didn't say anything, he just hugged me and held me close. We didn't need words at that moment. We just needed each other. I knew Makai loved me and I knew my family loved me. I was the one that got embarrassed way too easily.After a while we went back out to the living room. No one asked us why we had left or what we had been doing and that was a relief. I think that they knew I needed to get away for a minute.It was time for my siblings to leave though, so we all walked to the door and gave hugs."Take care, baby brother." Grantham said as he hugged me."Come see us soon, when the baby is here." Rachel held onto me next."I'm happy for you, baby Ocean." Deliah said as she came over next."Don't get so embarrassed, your life is yours and no one can ever make you feel bad about that. We love you and are happy for you." Julie was the last one to hug me. I also noticed that all of my siblings were hugging Makai as well."Welcome to the family." Grantham first shook Makai's hand then pulled him into a hug."I am happy that Ocean has you." Rachel hugged him as well."Be good to my brother." Deliah was next."If you're not good to him you'll have to answer to us. But you seem like a good guy, so we're OK." Julie both threatened and hugged him.Now that they were gone and the door was shut, I noticed a look on my mom's face. Was she angry or sad about something? The look on her face was sort of a mix of both of those."Come with us boys, we need to talk." Oh God, this didn't sound good at all. The four of us went back into the living room, where we had spent most of the day. Mom and Dad sat together, holding hands. Makai and I sat across from them. And to make it more intimate, Makai put his arm around my shoulders."Look, there is no easy way for me to say this." Mom was already making me nervous."A..a..are you going to tell us that we have to break up or stop seeing each other?" I could hear the panic in my voice. I just knew that I couldn't do that, it would kill me."No!""Not at all!" My parents immediately denied it."Then what is going on?" I was confused by this."Ocean, we love you. You are our baby boy. We want you to be happy, but what will make you happy isn't the life that you have right now." I wasn't following my mom's words at the moment, so I looked over at my dad."Look Ocean, we know you've been miserable since you came home. You've been back for less than three weeks and it's clear to us that you are upset and miserable every day. We may not like it, but we understand that you don't want to live with us anymore.""That's right. We can see that you're much happier when you're living with Makai. It pains us to see you so upset by not being with him.""What are you saying?" I couldn't process this right now, and when I looked at Makai I saw that he was confused as well."What we're saying, boys, is that you can live together again. We want you to be happy Ocean, and you too Makai. We know how hard this last week and a half has been on you. It's been heart wrenching to see you so broken, Ocean." Mom was almost in tears."B..but, if I live with him then you'll be upset. I don't want to see you cry.""We would have had to deal with this next year anyway. You were going to go off to college soon enough. This way, we can ease into the empty nest." Mom was smiling at me, but I could see the tears threatening to call at any moment."What do you mean by ease into it?" Makai asked them."Well, Makai, Ocean's mom and I would like for the two of you to come to dinner with us once a week. That way we still get some family time.""That is more than doable." Makai smiled at my dad and nodded his head."Are you sure about this?" I asked them once more. This might make me happy but it was going to make them miserable."Yes, Ocean, we are sure. We've thought about it for a while now and we're ready to let you go for now. But we want you two doing good in school and keeping up with practice. This isn't some full time party that we're giving you.""Absolutely, Mrs. Shores." Makai was nodding along with her. "Just like the last time that we stayed together, we will both make sure that we are responsible and do what needs to be done.""Thank you, Makai. I knew that we could count on you."My parents were giving me such a bittersweet look that it nearly made me cry. I had not expected that they would do this. I was happy, but I was also sad as well."Come on, son. Let's go pack up your room." My dad offered to help. That would be bad, considering what was in there. I didn't need them to see the contents of a certain drawer."I think Ocean and I can manage it, Mr. Shores." Makai answered for me."I get it. Well, pack what you don't want me to see then I will come in to help you. I am a man and I know that men have things that they don't want parents to see in their rooms."Yes sir. We will take care of that first." Makai nodded at him."There are boxes ready for you in the spare room. We wanted to be prepared in advance.""Yes Ma'am." Makai nodded again to my mom's words.For the next hour my parents and I packed up the things in my room. I was taking everything aside from my furniture with me. And you know that my mom wouldn't let me just throw everything into a box. It needed to be done neatly.When I was all packed my parents hugged me, a lot. They told me that they loved me, a lot. And they told me to be good and come home once per week. This was surreal and felt way different than the last time I left with Makai.It was a good thing that we were taking both my car and Makai's. We needed both of them to carry all of my stuff to Makai's house. Once we got there, we unloaded the boxes but decided to unpack tomorrow. It was late and there had been a lot of stuff that had happened today."Come on, Ocean. You look like you're about to fall asleep on your feet." Makai supported half of my weight as he guided me up the stairs to his room. No, our room.We both stripped down to our boxers, our preferred way to sleep, and laid down. Makai held me in his arms as I started to drift off to sleep."I'm happy." I heard his words when I was on the edge of sleep. "I get to hold you every night now." His words made me grin but I was too tired to respond.This was the start of a whole new life for me.
