Chapter 8 "Angry Hearth"

In the clear sky of an exaggerated blue, without even a bit of soft white clouds, only a light breeze moves, impalpable, but very spiteful because it made Hy's notes fly off the table, at which they were sitting.

"Help me get them back ... quickly!" yelled at Tip

Jumping immediately to his feet, grabbing one of the sheets

"I'll help you too, bro"

Ipno gave him a voice while he was running after another sheet that enjoyed playing hide and seek between the tables in the canteen the three had made an appointment for lunch

"Check them carefully again ... so you are sure that everyone is there !!!"

Tip suggested panting after the unscheduled run

"Let's see ... yes ... they are all there ... I was ... luckily because I need them for the mid-term exams" "Well, anyway you could have asked someone else in your course if we hadn't recovered them all, right !?" says Ipno

The look halfway between the terrified and "oh my god what are you saying! you could risk your skin" of Tip didn't arrive in time

Hy turned abruptly to Ipno with a look that if he could have incinerated him instantly

"What do you mean sorry !?"

"In the sense that you could have asked someone else ... in what other sense" continued Ipno, slowly murmuring the last word surprised by Hy's gaze

"Do you by chance compare my notes to someone else's!? I never borrow the notes of others ... they are useless to me ... My intelligence is superior to all those in my course, so the notes of others are rubbish for me ... I have to use mine; at must are the others who want my notes! You UNDERSTAND me " said underlining the last word

"Ok ok bro ... calm down... calm down ... I didn't know you were number one of your courses ... we have only recently met after all ... now I know "replied Ipno with a disarming smile looking Hy in the eyes, because he certainly wasn't the type to be intimidated by a look.

"Do you have any mental problems!? Childhood trauma no one is aware of!"

Reve screamed

" You are by chance a repressed fucking person who, not being able to do what he likes and wants, unleashes himself with those who are free, free to do what he wants, free to say what goes through his brain without having to answer to anyone!"

He continued banging his hands on the table, so hard that the table shook once again.

Ipno had never seen his best friend so angry, so he tried to calm him down

"Calm down Reve ... calm down ..."

"And why should I! We two have to talk! " Reve said, with a voice full of anger, looking at Hy

"I have nothing to do with you! I don't want or even care to hear what you have to tell me! If I have any trauma, problem or mental saw, I certainly won't come to tell you because it's none of your business ... I do what I want and like. OK!"

Hy snapped, looking up at Reve, his eyes, this time, are cold, cold and impenetrable.

"Uhm... YES?!Is that so! What you want and like!?" at the top of frustration

"Yes, what I want" reiterated Hy, slamming his hands on the table, as if to challenge Reve

"No! No, you can't do it, that's not how it works! " burst out Reve grabbing Hy by the arm "We two need to talk now even if your majesty doesn't want, you understand!"

"No, I don't want! Leave me " Hy replied trying to free himself from Reve's grip

"I didn't ask you; we'll talk whether you want it or not! " Reve said dragging him away without even looking at him.

It was impossible for Hy to free himself from Reve's grip despite being the captain of the swim team, despite his body being statuesque and muscular, despite his arms being powerful and vigorous ... no ...

He couldn't get rid of them, Reve's hand had tightened around his arm, like the coils of a snake from which it's impossible to break free.

Reve dragged him to the first bathroom, entered opening the door so hard that the wall shook, and the din was so deafening that scared the two boys present to death, who looked at Reve terrified almost to ask

"WHAT'S GOING ON!?"

"Get out! Out! Immediately!" Reve said with fury and with a look that left nothing good to foretell.

He slammed Hy back against the wall.

With one hand kept him glued to the wall with the other he prevented him from escaping

"Now let's talk! Ok!"

Yelled in his face, getting so close that his lips nearly touched Hy's one.

Hy's heart began to pound in a very strange way, his fingers twitched, he trembled and his face, when all resistance seemed to vanish in his mind, leaned forward to be able to kiss those agonized lips ... but a strange sound came from his mouth

"No"

" No! But yes, we do! How dare you do that scene last night at the club! You must never allow yourself to behave this way again! I decide who I go with, what or who I like, you know! If I want to kiss a man, I do it without having to answer to anyone, much less to you! We are not friends nor are we dating! I'm not your boyfriend so keep these jealous lover dramas to yourself whether you understand it or not! Mind your own business! If certain things disgust you so much and you don't want to see them turned the other way and that's it! "

Without waiting for Hy's answer he left, leaving Hy quivering against the wall, his heart completely out of control, intoxicated by the exciting scent of his skin.

He was going crazy, his heart felt like it was about to explode, and all for a single word "LOVER" that rang in his head and not only ... his whole being vibrated at the sound of those few letters ... of that word...

He clenched his fists, his legs got weak, his back slid along those icy tiles, while, without realizing it, a tear ran down his che