Levi Winchester

"Tyler's not coming, and he doesn't know the place has changed either," I said walking up to the restaurant booth. "How about speaking with me instead? Like telling me why you invited my boyfriend out."

Giovanni looked up at me from the booth after sending a text and grinned. "Levi Winchester...Come and sit."

"Tyler, where are you? Your boyfriend showed up instead? Why are you texting Tyler? I already told you that Tyler's not coming. And don't you remember his 'phone is broken.'" I asked with a smile.

"What? But-"

"I switched his phone with a broken version of the same model when he dropped his phone. I changed the meeting place." Tyler was probably sitting in the school cafe waiting for this asshole right now.

Just to avoid me!

"Suspicious aren't you? So how much do you know?" Giovanni looked beyond pissed. "You seem like you already know a lot. When did you notice?"

"I didn't know anything at first, but I thought something was off when you suddenly took up Tyler today. You've never approached him before but stayed strategically close to him. You said you wanted to be captain, but you're not even really on the team, right? The design of your uniform top was slightly different from everyone else's. Your shorts and slacks, with similar designs, were still different. The staff and students are too dumb to notice a subtle difference like that," I explained. "You usually are there so no one would really know, they're too focused on winning games and training to notice. I just wonder how you got onto school grounds without being noticed without any inside help. And you're never in a class, yet you move up grades. There's also no record of you ever attending our school."

"How could I have done all that?"

"Either you had help from the staff or the school security is all fucked up. Who are you really?"

"You seem to know a lot, did you stalk me too?" Giovanni smiled. 

I felt nothing but annoyed right now. Stalker was everyone's favorite word suddenly. All i did was observe this asshole and everyone else at school. "You approached him on purpose."

"Anyone can figure that out."

"I was going to ignore you not being an actual student until you spoke to Tyler. So what are you up to with minors? How old are you, pervert?"

"I've done nothing with minors." Giovanni hissed.

"That's not all, i know you're going to try to hurt my Tyler. Of course, maybe I don't know how or why or when exactly you showed up, but you better not try it. I don't know what's going on but you are never going to get close enough to put your filthy hands on him." I pressed.

"You really are the smartest kid around, you know, but that's expected considering who's kid you are. But for someone so smart, you don't seem to get that Tyler really hates you." Giovanni told me. "He really wants you gone. All he did was speak about how he wanted you out of his head."

I froze. Tyler hates me? No, he was still claiming me to other people, which is why I wasn't as distraught as I could've been. There was still a hope of Tyler not being mad at me anymore!

In that split second the left half of my face exploded in pain. I could feel the blood spill into my eye from the fresh cut on my eye brow as my vision went red in one eye.

"You should never let your guard down like that. I guess that'll leave a scar on that face!" Giovanni slowly put his butterfly knife away and backed up a bit. "Thanks for the entertainment. Your dad was right, you're an entertaining guy once you're in action."

Giovanni ran out of the restaurant as people started to try and see what was wrong with me. What fucking dad was he talking about?

You don't seem to get that Tyler really hates you. He really wants you gone. All he did was speak about how he wanted you out of his head.

He's just stubbornly upset and refusing to speak because I majorly fucked up. He'll forgive me soon!

I stood up and followed the unsuspecting Giovanni once I spotted him down the road. He didn't walk very far to my surprise. Just a little bit down the pier. Of course he would live at a pier. "-said you was smart but he figures shit out too quickly. I don't know how much he knows. But I'm really not a match for this kid-"

I jumped at him with a nice sucker punch knocking the phone out of his hand and rattling his brain. "Say what you said again!"

"How did you know I was here?! How did you find me so fast-"

I kicked him across the face. "Say." Punch. "That." Punch. "Again." Punch, punch, punch, punch. "Tyler said what?"

"You're crazy," Giovanni chokes threw a mouthful full of blood. "You don't care about anything else?!"

"Why are you ignoring me?!" I punched him again accidentally knocking him out. Shit! I lost control for a moment. I grabbed the bucket of water close to the wearhouse and threw it on him to wake him up. "Say it again! Tyler said what?"

Giovanni, for some reason burst out laughing. "This is why Tyler hates you! You're so obsessed about protecting him yet you do crazy shit like this! If only you had tried to be real friends and see him as a person! But he'd probably find a social misfit bastard child like you out eventually-" I punched him sending him scrambling on his feet.

"Your plan was to bring Tyler here and then what?" I snapped at him.

"Think about it, why do you think Tyler trusted me? It's all because of you! All the things you did to 'protect' him caused nothing but anxiety." Suddenly my vision was blurred. When did he grab a fire extinguisher? Where?! There was a rope at my peripheral that was now around my neck. "Finally, you brute. I was going to give Tyler a nice clean burial by the sea, but I failed. But if you die like this, it would be just as satisfying."

"Ahh-"

"Why? Because I get to help you out of this miserable existence! I'm helping to put you and Tyler out of your misery! And don't worry, once your dead, The others and I will deal with Tyler by ourselves. On and on you just keep getting in the way, but once you die, so will Tyler. You two can just meet up in the next life-Woah! Stay still, you always get so worked up when I say Tyler! That's why-"

I rammed my head into the underside of his chin making him let go of the ropes. I gasped for air trying to ignore the rope burn around my neck. I wanted to hear him speak more but, if I did, I would've died.

I could hear Giovanni starting to run, so immediately I started to run after him dodging bricks and buckets being thrown to slow me down. What the fuck else was he hiding? Eventually he hit a dead end.

"Tell me who's trying to kill Tyler!"

"What good will that do me?! Unless you let me run away!"

"You're in no position to negotiate."

"So you're gunna call the police or something? The only evidence you have of anything is that I cut your face."

"Are you stupid?" I pulled out my phone. "I've been recording our conversation since the beginning. The threats you just made to a minor are enough to get you locked up. So tell me who's trying to hurt my Tyler and we'll call it even."

"If you had solid evidence all this time, why haven't you turned me in yet? Are you the type that doesn't trust police?" The police! Fuck! I could have gone to the police! How could I be so stupid? I impulsively jumped into something without a backup plan again. "Fine, he knew I had a very nice knack for violence. So he used that to strike a deal with me, I get to kill you and I bring him Tyler....but he mentioned that I might lose. As expected, you went all out on me. But it would be too late now."

Too late? "Who's son....wait, 'considering who's son I am' you said. Do you know-" I was cut off by a hard kick to my shin. I loosend my grip a bit from the pain and immediately crouched down to cradle it.

Giovanni took the opportunity to wiggle from my other hand and take off again and I started to run but I was suddenly surrounded by three guys pushing me around. "Asshole, when you bump into someone you should apologize!"

I kept watching Giovanni get away, that was all I could do at this moment now. These three guys were already trying to get me to look at them. "Move," my voice cracked. The smaller I saw Giovanni getting the angrier I got. "I SAID MOVE!!!" I flicked them easily off of me and ran after that little shit!

I ran and ran and ran.

I fucking lost him because of some stupid street thugs. I found myself in front of Tyler's house. He ran this way didn't he? Did I just unconsciously run here? The light in his room was off at this hour?

Did Giovanni already get to Tyler?!

"Levi? What the hell? Why are you here? We're you waiting for me again?" Tyler asked. What the hell was he doing outside right now?! It's too dangerous! "Why are you bleeding?!"

"Do you really want me gone?" I asked. The answer has to be no....Giovanni was just fucking with me. Me and Tyler are in love. "Do you?!"

"That's right, I want you outta my sight! Why are you so interested in me? Why me? I'm so anxious and you've been the only cause of that. What'll make you stop stalking me? Or is it that you just want to walk me home after school and say hi to you and smile at you?! I don't understand what the fuck I'm supposed to do after this! I'm questioning everything."

"So you hate me?"

"You know better than anyone that I hate liars," Tyler snapped. He didn't say he hated me! I reached for Tyler, I just needed to touch him and I would be ok. Just one hug, I know it was selfish. I needed to be near him again. But Tyler quickly jumped back.

"Tyler....please...." I dropped to my knees and bowed my head until it was touching the concret. I was so seriously scared right now. Did Tyler really hate me that much?! I was about to lose him just as I got him! "Please, I'm begging you! Please listen."

"What?!"

"I was wrong for what I did! I won't do anything like that anymore! I'll never lie again! I'll stop following you around if you want me too!! And I won't do anything to make you feel uncomfortable or upset! Ill do whatever you want!! Ill do whatever you say!! I'll disappear but it's not safe right now! Once things get safe again I promise I'll disappear! So until then please let me stay by your side!" I never thought I would ever feel this desperate. I was about to throw up from this feeling.

But I was. If i lost Tyler, my world would fall apart in seconds. I would have nothing else, I'd fall back into a pit of despair. He couldn't leave me!

"N-no....I won't follow you at all anymore and I'll disappear from your life completely!" I begged. Of course I'll be watching from the background, but I'd never let him see me again if that's what he wanted.

"Levi? It hasn't even been a week," Tyler sighed deeply and lifted my chin and wiped my cheeks and looked seriously conflicted. "I hate that I can't stand seeing you like this, so let's just talk this out. Have you eaten?"

I couldn't hold back the tears and sobs that came after. "No."

"Stop that please, I'm trying to wrap my head around all this," Tyler avoided my eyes. "You lied about something really big. You did something so extreme for my sake. You hurt someone. Are you going to hurt me?"

"I'd never hurt you!"

"Shit....it's only been a few days and I can't refuse you when you're in front of me. Let's go inside."