Regarding the Truth by Friends

Arriving at his best friends' home, Zayev smiled as he walked in. Cassidy was sitting on the love seat in the den while Vanessa was sitting in Cassidy's wheelchair with a lazy look on her face.

Cassidy smiled as Zayev walked in but Vanessa frowned seeing him, "What do you want?" she outright asked him disdainfully.

Cassidy pulled his legs off the seat so that Zayev could sit beside him. Zayev walked over to Vanessa and kissed her on the lips, then went over to Cassidy and kissed his cheek making him blush.

Picking up Cassidy's legs, he gently placed them over his thighs. Rubbing Cassidy's legs that couldn't feel a thing, Zayev sighed.

"I asked you what you want here, why are you sighing in response?" Vanessa said swing her legs over the armrests of the wheelchair.

He turned his head to the flat screen on the wall noting that they were watching Harry Potter. Relaxing his posture, he started, "I just returned from visiting my mother's parents."

Vanessa raised an eyebrow. She knew how that family was from all Zayev's complaints. Her eyes drifted over to Cassidy who was looking at her with a pleading gaze. Both of them were Zayev's friends but Cassidy didn't know how to comfort others since he hated being comforted. But he really wanted Vanessa to be considerate at the moment.

They attended the same high school as Zayev and all graduated yesterday. Everyone else was currently partying while they were watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the one-hundredth time in a row.

Zayev was also like their undercover friend that they only hung out with after school. He had his own group of friends and was crazy popular like his father Theo used to be when he was in high school too.

He wasn't ashamed to be their friend but they weren't the type that liked being around rowdy people. Vanessa sighed looking at Cassidy, currently, she was dealing with her own problems since she just found out that her boyfriend has been sending pictures of his legs to some girl.

Sighing frustrated as her thoughts trailed off to Mickyle, she said, "Why were you there in the first place? Don't they know you dislike them?"

Zayev turned his head to look at her, "Yeah but that doesn't stop my mother from demanding that I should visit them and when I do protest, she threatens me. I love my mother but she needs to understand that I have my own life and I can choose who I want and down want in my life."

Cupping his cheek he glared angrily at the tiled floor. His eyes began to sting as tears started to form, "I made it clear to all of them that if they don't start respecting my mother, then I will disown them for the rest of my life but my mother wasn't having any of it. She slapped me in front of all of them and told him I'm disrespectful, even Alexander tried stopping my mother because she for one knows that my mother is hurting because of her past."

Vanessa paused the movie from continuing and sat up in the wheelchair, "Ev, I personally think that you should just leave your mother to suffer. You've made it clear to her many times that you won't accept that family unless they accept her. I know you don't like anyone disrespecting your parents but Aunty Cindy is just messed up in the head. She needs to go for counselling because you are the one now suffering under her, she says she loves you but then why does she treat you like shit? She's emotionally abusing you since who knows how long yet you love her."

"She's right," Cassidy added as he wiped away Zayev's tears. "You're her eldest. She has Alexander and she has your dad Reign. From what you told us last time, your mother hates both you and Theo for coming into her life and ruining it. The only people she's ever cared about where her parents and Reign but both you and Theo entered Reign's life leaving her on the sidelines. She has Alexander and the children and she obviously cares for them but disregarded you and gave you to them no? But then again, she kept coming back to love you then would stop caring for you. Honestly, my friend, you are almost eighteen, for your birthday wish, you could ask her to go for counselling instead of giving you a gift."

Vanessa nodded in agreement, "That's a good idea. You mentioned that Theo also suggested she should go but she refused. Use it as blackmail against her especially now since you'll be living on your own in the apartment your father got you near the university but personally, I think you should completely distance yourself from your family especially Jeandre…"

Zayev raised a questioning brow at her. Shaking her head she said, "Don't get me wrong, I understand why you love him. I'll never question someone's love since my own with Micklye started because I finally got an erection as an intersexual. But back to my reasoning, you are at the point of time where you want to have sex right? But the person you are interested in is only thirteen. Jeandre is already doing much by letting you jerk him off, let you watch him jerk off and let you kiss him and you are doing it all behind your parent's backs. This is all considered paedophilia and molestation since you are far older than him even if he is consenting to it. You should think of your future like this, if you continue courting your brother, with how long you've been holding back already, how much can you still take, will you end up raping him or tickling his ass hole with your finger, he will obviously consent to it and it will lead to you wanting more maybe licking his ass out. Fuck Zayev, it's what I want to do with Mickyle and it's fucking hard enduring all my lust full desires. Every day when I hold him I feel like I'd lose my mind but just hurting him in that way breaks my heart as well."

"You and I can have sex with anyone and everyone but not with the ones we want. Jeandre doesn't know it but other people will hurt him for being in love with you, do you really that to happen? Can't you sacrifice maybe two or three more years of your happiness to find out if he really wants to be with you? If he is really willing to be yours if he's really willing to bear the mockery of being with his eldest brother? Ev, as your best friend, I don't want to see you hurt when in public, Jeandre says 'No, it's okay, we are not related by blood so whatever.' Jeandre should say, 'I don't care that you are disgusted by the fact that we are brothers, I love him and that is all that matters' do you get what I mean?"

Zayev sniffed looking at Vanessa with red eyes as his tears kept being wiped away by Cassidy who was also crying. "I know what I am doing is wrong but what do you want me to do, I love him," Zayev asked as he broke down.

Vanessa looked at her friend who was crying and wiped away the tears that threatened to come out, "I know its hard Ev but the best thing is for you to do is distance yourself from everyone. Even I have been keeping my distance from Mickyle so that I don't end up taking him by force by keeping myself busy but because of this, he's gotten involved with other people. I've yet to speak to him but as Cassidy convinced me, this should be a learning experience for Mickyle. I also don't think that he is interested in me since he thinks I'm a woman when in fact, I'm both male and female. I've been enduring this for my life and since meeting him, it's been three excoriating years, attending university will be a nice way for you and me to let our lovers grow and meet other people before deciding on us."

"So I should just let him be with someone else until he decides that I'm best for him?" Zayev asked angrily.

Vanessa scoffed, with a smirk she asked him, "Are you the best choice for him Ev?"

Zayev looked at her dumbfounded. She knew how much Jeandre meant to him and Jeandre looked up to him so it of cause made sense that he'd be the best for Jeandre, if not him then who?

Seeing his thoughtful and dumbfounded expression she smiled, "Jeandre might not even be gay Zayev, he knows and has seen what gay is but does he understand it? Does he know what does it mean to give up his body to a man? Does he even know what it is like to date someone? But I can for sure tell you that he knows how it is to be taken out to the beach or movies by his brother."

"He'll know once we're official," Zayev defended himself.

Shaking her head she sighed, "Honestly my friend, I'm telling you now that you need to leave your brother the fuck alone so that he can be a child and grow up. Let him experience life and falling in love, let him get his heart broken and break someone else's heart and stay the fuck out of his life."

She went silent and left Zayev to his thoughts. Pressing play, they continued watching t.v. Since the Miller's weren't home, Cassidy suggested that he should stay over and clear his thoughts before going back home and dealing with it.

Vanessa texted Reign that Zayev would be staying over and that they would be drinking. Reign and Theo didn't like the idea of their son staying out but from the call they received from Alexander earlier on, they decided to give him space.

They trusted their son, Vanessa, Cassidy and Vanessa brother Ruwayde to not do anything illegal and hoped that this would help calm Zayev down.

(You see more of Vanessa & Cassidy in 'Addicted' – Vanessa & Mickyle's story)