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The sun was hot and heavy on Jude's shoulders. That was just a little weight being added to the entire lifting machine that was hanging on him. Knocking on his best friend Reyana's door, he panted and hung his head low from the run.The door swung open to reveal Reyana's little sister, Jamie, "Hey, Judie!"Jude gave her a half-hearted smile at the cute nickname and gestures inside the house. "Can I come in? Is Reyana home?""You ask a lot of questions!"
Jamie opened the door wider to let Jude in. He couldn't talk to just anybody about this. He needed to talk to Reyana. His dads wouldn't be able to listen well enough, and Jaeden was on the opposing side. It seemed Jaeden was never on his side anymore."Yeah, Rey is home; he's in his room." Jamie nodded towards the room with the famous 'stay out' sign on it.Jude nodded and smiled at Jamie. She was like the little sister that he never got. Instead he got a severely annoying, overbearing big brother and a pushover, silent-but-still-annoying twin brother.He pushed open the door to Reyana's surprise. Reyana has snow-white hair and red eyes that were covered by prescription sunglasses most of the time. He told Jude that it was a trick so that nobody could see where he was looking, but it was really because he was very light sensitive as an albino person.Mostly importantly, Reyana was the nicest boy Jude ever knew."Hey." Jude sighed defeatedly, walked over, and plopped himself on the bed beside Reyana."Jude? What's wrong? Did Saint Francis say something rude again but didn't get in trouble?""Don't call him that. He's still my brother no matter how annoying, and he's never raised the dead. Plus his name is Frankie not Francis.""No need to get into specifics. All that matters is that he acts like a fucking holy figure who can do nothing wrong."Well, Reyana was the nicest person Jude ever knew whenever Frankie wasn't involved. Those two together were recipe for trouble ever since Frankie's big, non-filtered mouth accidently insulted Reyana."Whatever, Rey." Jude rolled his eyes fondly, already feeling a little bit better from talking to his best friend."But you never told me what you guys were fighting about. May I ask?"
Jude sighed and takes a hand through his short, practically buzzed hair. "It wasn't much. I was complaining about something--""As usual.""and Frankie got really pissed off and started to explain how great I apparently had it."Reyana stayed silent for a second, such a long second that Jude thought he had fallen asleep. Reyana was a nocturnal person, so two in the afternoon was usually his nap time. Jude looked over at his friend to see that he was smiling and patting the space beside him on the bed."Sounds stupid to me. Come here." Reyana yawned simply.Jude grinned bashfully, scooting over beside Reyana and lying down."You need to stop worrying so much about what Saint Francis thinks. He's your brother; you aren't supposed to care about what your thinks about you, Judie!" Reyana lifted his arm over Jude's shoulders and pulled him closer.Jude flushed at being pressed up against his super tall best friend's side. "Yeah, okay.""Say it with some spirit; come on!"
"Okay!"
The pair laughed and Jude relaxed against Reyana's side happily. Perhaps if Jude stayed here for a while to let things cool down, he could go and apologize to Frankie. No matter if he wasn't supposed to care or not.