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Chestnut brown

The eyes from my dream

I was stunned into silence, frozen on the porch as the boy approached

“Ray? Ray is that really you?” he asked, looking right at me

I looked up at King whose expression had coeful He was staring daggers at the boy His jaw tensed so hard I swear I could hear his teeth grinding

“Who is Ray?” I asked King

“Don’t fucking do this,” Bear snapped from the doorway

“Go the fuck back inside,” King barked

“Fine It’s your fucking life Fuck it upass for this I’ to visit my sister I can’t stick around and witness this shit” Bear stepped out onto the porch and pecked irl,” he said before disappearing around the side of the house Aup dust in its wake

“You,” King finally answered “You are Ramie Price”

“Ray, don’t you remember me?” the boy asked “I’m Tanner Don’t you knoho I am?”

I turned to King “What is this? Who is he? Why is he here?”

“He’s your…boyfriend” He forced the words off his tongue like they were stabbing him in his mouth

“My what?” I didn’t wait for hi?” Then, it hit led breath “You kneho I was?”

King didn’t say anything, but most importantly, he didn’t deny it

“How long have you known?” I whispered

King looked down at his shoes

“How long have you fucking known?” I shouted

“Since the very beginning,” he adain after you escaped”

“Escaped?” Tanner asked, re me of his presence