"Are you ready?" Shiela walks into Tan's room as he ties his shoes"To go to therapy for no reason? Yep""Be sarcastic all you want Tan but you're father and I could've easily gotten a divorce, that would be worst.""For who?!" Tan stands up facing his mother "I'm only doing this so I won't have to fight with you guys about not wanting to do this. You and dad are doing this to waste everyone's time." Tan walks out, going to the car he gets in the back seat and crosses his arms waiting for his parents.Scott gets in the driver seat and Shiela in the passenger "Tan when we get there can you not embarrass us please?" Scott drives away "I said please""I wouldn't dream of it.""Just be honest and it'll all be ok" Shiela turns back at him smiling"Yep.""Welcome Milton Family, why don't we go around and introduce ourselves? I'll start" Tan and his parents get to the therapists and they sit down to meet her. "I'm Doctor Jacquelyn Dwyer but my patients call me Jackie," She turns to her left
The next morning Tan sits in the car with his mother avoiding eye contact. "Your father and I love each other" Shiela starts talking as she drives "I know you told the therapist you want us to get a divorce-""I've also told you guys a thousand times""But that's not what we want, Tan""That makes no sense to me!" he yells turning to her "all you ever do is fight! Every single day, no matter what time or where we are you guys find a reason to fight. Don't you hate each other-""We don't hate each other Tanner your father and I love each other""Then you have a funny fucking way of showing it""Watch your language.""Yep," he leans back in his seat crossing his arms."We're going to learn how to be good parents, Tanner" his mom's voice gets softer."Do you understand how sad it is to hear you say that? I'm 17 mom, you guys had 17 years to be good parents but weren't and you want to try now? Kinda too late""We were young when we had you Tan" she gets into the drop off lane "Scott was
Kissing on the bed with Sven hovering over him, Tan starts to unbutton Sven's shirt "you look so cute" Sven caresses his face.Tan giggles "shut up you're gonna make me blush"They kiss grinding on each other shirtless, they didn't make a peep but the tension between them filled the room. Making out as they roll back and forth on Sven's bed, the boys catch glimpses of each other and chuckle making each other turn red in the cheeks even more.Tan lays in Sven's arm as Sven plays with his hair and gives him comforting kisses on the face "do you really want to meet my parents?" Tan asks looking up at Sven"Yes and I also want to tell them to their faces to fuck off and realize how amazing their son is" they both chuckle "but I'll settle for just meeting them."Sighing knowing he'll probably regret this "ok you can meet them"Sven grins "yeah?"Tan nods "the night after we went to therapy my mom gave me my camera back, she said that she's willing to try so I have to try too, right? She as
'Hey... I'm sorry I made you mad enough to not want to be near me in class... I won't push. Whatever is going on between you and Lin isn't my business if you don't want to tell me. But Tan you have me now and I'm not going anywhere I'm just worried. I care about you so please call when you're ready to talk.'Tan reads the text from Sven as he's on the train heading to Harris's house, the pit in his stomach hurts, is it guilt? Of course, it's guilt, Tan isn't strong enough to go without Harris for long he needs this. But Sven doesn't deserve this and neither does Harris, let's hope Tan gets to that conclusion.Making it to Harris's he knocks to no response, he tries again and is ignored hearing Harris's muffled voice, Tan thinks to wait until Harris is ready to answer but his lack of patience gets the best of him. Grabbing the knob he doesn't expect for the door to be unlocked but to his surprise, he is able to walk right in."Listen to me we go to court on Monday if there is a surpris
Tan nervously waits for Sven to come over as his mom sets up the table and his dad is in his office working."Are you going to help me, Tanner?" His mom asks"Sure." He starts to set the table with her "when Sven gets here could you please not ask him if we're in a relationship?""Are you in a relationship?""No mom we're not he's my friend""Sure ok" she smiles "I'll go get your father." His mom walks away, knocking before opening the door "Scott dinner's ready""I'm very busy right now Sheila is his boyfriend even here yet?""No, and he's not his boyfriend""Then why are we meeting him? I have cases I cannot waste time meeting all of Tan's friends""Listen to me!" She hisses and Tan hears them "we said we'd try for him right? Our son wants us to meet this boy so get off your ass and try!" Walking back to the living room Tan stares at his mother "he'll be out soon."Tan nods "Sven's on his way."Hearing the doorbell after a while, Tan heads for it opening it to Sven's face "hi" he sm
It happened, his friends won't talk to him and Sven won't even look at him. Tan's screwed and he knows what the right thing to do is but he doesn't want to do it.Skipping the rest of the day Tan goes home to hide in his room, no one can hate him in his room he thinks as he climbs his bed with teary eyes. He can't tell Harris his friends figured it out that'll make him freak out, and if he remembers correctly he did warn Harris about this. No one knows Tan like Lin and eventually she would've figured it out. If he loses everyone then he'll have Harris, Harris has to be better than nothing, right?"Tanner?" He hears his dad call from the front door, wiping his eyes he walks out of his room "I just waited in front of your school for half an hour, what the hell?""And you just left me there? Why didn't you call?""Left you there? Tanner, you're standing right here! Why didn't you wait for me to pick you up? Are you skipping again?""No" Tan lies "school ended and I got a ride from someo
Sitting at home in a real bind Harris pours himself some liquor to drink while he contemplates, Sarah being back is triggering for him. Sarah Stiles knows too much about Harris to be in his current life, one he's tried so hard to build outside of her. Hearing a knock on the door Harris looks at his watch not expecting anyone at this hour, so it is easy to detect who it might be.He gets up opening the door to Tan "hey what are you doing here?""Just needed to talk""Sure come in"Harris walks away expecting Tan to follow but Tan stands near the door after shutting it, he looks very uneasy. "Are you ok?" Tan shakes his head afraid to speak "what's the matter?"The words are harder for Tan to say than he expected "I don't think we should see each other anymore" his low voice carry towards Harris who isn't standing close."Why? Did I do something wrong?" Tan doesn't look at him in the eyes afraid he'll see Harris's heart breaking, he's really not ready to lose Tan.Tan tries to find a wa
"Hey Teagan" Tan walks over to her desk as she gets up grabbing her bag "Hey""Harris in there?""No he's been in court all day should be back soon though, I'm done for the day""All right I'll just wait in there for him""Ok bye Tan.""See ya" he walks into Harris's office shutting the door. Staring at the man's sophisticated chair Tan gets the urge to sit in it, doing so he gets comfortable and starts to look around.Bored out of his mind, Tan paces waiting for Harris to come back. He looked through every drawer in the office even though Harris is a lawyer and snooping is probably illegal. He finally walks in and Tan stops walking "Tanner" he stops seeing Tan's face"Hi" Tan smiles nervously "took you long enough""Were you waiting for me?" Harris shuts the door walking to his desk dropping his briefcase and taking off his jacket."Yes I really needed to talk to you""All right" Harris sits in his chair behind his desk with Tan sitting in front of him."I know it's been almost 2 we