Chapter 51 - 51

Reiner went home, his heart was heavy in thought as he struggled to accept the feelings he was developing for Brandon. He missed school the next few days and avoided his friends too. He felt his whole world falling to pieces right before his eyes.

He went online and happen to read all the negative and harsh things people write about two people of the same gender being together. All this made him even more scared of his feelings.

He was scared of what will happen if anyone were to find out that he liked a boy. His family might leave him, his schoolmates might bully him and call him names and he wasn't ready for any of that to happen.

"I am perfectly normal," he repeated to himself over and over again in his bed scared to even get up. He covered himself from head to toe and kept chanting this mantra to keep himself sane. The room seemed to be getting smaller and smaller and was soon to crush him.

"Sir, your lunch is here," he heard his butler say.

"I am n..not h..h..hungry send it back," he said in a shaking voice too scared to lift the covers.

"But you haven't eaten anything for days," he said but Reiner neither moved nor answered him. He sighed in defeat and left the room with the food. He took out his phone and called Rocky and informed her that he refused to eat yet again.

Rocky drove back home from the spa and went straight to her brother's room. She opened the door and rushed inside.

"Let me hear it. What is the problem and why are you refusing to eat?" she asked but got silent as a reply. "The butler tells me that you skip school, you don't eat your food, you don't play or get out of bed. What is the matter?"

Rocky waited for a reply but none came, she got mad and removed the blanket that covered Reiner and threw it on the floor. She looked at her brother in anger only to notice him shaking severely. She jumped onto the bed and took her brother into her arms.

"What is wrong with you? Why are you shaking?" she asked feeling his forehead to check his temperature. His body was burning hot and he seemed to be having a fever. She took her phone out and dialed the doctor's number and asked the doctor to come to the house and check on him. In the meantime, she got water and a face towel that she used to wipe his body.

She ordered the chefs to cook some soup for him to have and a steamer brought to Reiner's room.

"There is someone here to meet young sir," the maid informed her.

"Who is it?" Rocky asked her.

"He says that his name is Brandon and he claims to be a close friend of Reiner's," she informed.

"Alright. Let him in," she told. The maid left the room and went downstairs where Brandon was waiting patiently for her. She bowed her head to him and asked him to follow her. She led her to Reiner's room and left closing the door behind her.

Brandon walked into the room, he was shocked to see Reiner's condition. He ran over to the bed dropping his school bag on the floor. He started down at the male feeling guilty. He blamed himself for his condition as he had pushed him to accept him without thinking of what that could do to Reiner's state of mind. He wasn't the Same Reiner from his past who was open to such relationships and he should have been understanding and should have taken it easy with him.

"I take it you snuck out of school to come here?" Rocky asked after analyzing him. He was wearing his school uniform and it was still during school hours so he didn't to be there.

"I had to see him," he said taking a seat at the table.

"What relationship do you share with my brother?" Rocky questioned.

"I. I am his friend," he said to her.

"Are you sure you to are just friends? The way you looked at him when you came in, it looked to me like someone would look at their lover after seeing them for a long time. There were a lot of mixed feelings in your eyes so I can't believe that the two of you are simply friends," she said Matter-of-factly.

"It's nothing like that," he said defending himself. The Rocky from before didn't mind him having feelings for her brother but if Reiner has changed so much he assumed that she must have too.

"If you insist. Stay with him, I will go and see what is keeping the doctor so long," she said and walked out of the room. She stopped outside the door and listened.

Brandon took Reiner's hand and brought it to his lips and kissed it gently. "I know you are awake so open your eyes," he said to Reiner who had his eyes closed. Reiner didn't open his eyes and continued to sleep.

"If you don't open your eyes then will kiss you," he threatened and Reiner's eyes flew open. They looked at him with fear and other feelings that made his heartbreak."Do you dislike me so much? Is that the reason you are like this, if you don't want me to come close to you Reiner all you had to do was ask? I would never force myself on you. Since I now know I promise this is the last time that I will come close to you again," he said to him.

Reiner felt a panic in his heart that far surpassed his fear. He realized that he was scared of his feelings for a boy but he was more scared of losing the boy who evoked such feelings in him. He reached his hand and grabbed Brandon before he left and pulled him back down on the bed.

"I don't w..want you to leave," he said in a soft voice and looked away from Brandon.

"Then what do you want?" he asked him.

"I w..want to be your b..boyfriend," he confessed.