Gone Too Far | By : angelicmalfoy Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > Busted Views: 1705 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter Two
It was early afternoon by the time James was up and dressed. As he walked downstairs, he was confused by the silence – even given the previous night’s events, he’d expected the other two to be up already.
He walked into the living room and saw Matt sitting and staring blankly at the TV. The TV wasn’t actually on, and this made James even more certain that his boyfriend’s anger from last night hadn’t faded.
Matt looked up as he heard the footsteps. “You’re up, then?”
James nodded. “Where’s…um, where’s Charlie?”
“Out.” Matt’s voice was cold. “Don’t worry; I’ll be following in a bit.”
James sighed. “Okay, Matt, spit it out. What’s bugging you?”
Matt stood up sharply at this. “What’s bugging me? What’s bugging me?! How about the fact that my boyfriend, the boyfriend that I would and have done anything and everything for, decided to ignore me last night in favour of flirting with the first cute guy that smiled his way?”
James winced at the unmasked anger in his boyfriend’s voice. “Matt, we weren’t doing anything, I swear.”
“Only because we found you before you could.” Matt stalked closer to James. “What were you playing at, James?”
James refused to back away, though part of him wanted to. “It didn’t mean anything. I was just being friendly.”
“Right. Which is why you all but told me to go away when I came over to you.” Matt forced James to meet his gaze. “I felt bad enough as it was, without you freezing me out.”
“It’s not my fault you had a lousy time.” James was finding it harder not to back down now.
“Yes, it fucking well is!” Matt’s voice cracked a little. “It is your fault that I spent the entire night feeling uncomfortable. It’s your fault that I had to hunt down Charlie just to talk to someone who wouldn’t stare at what was – I remind you – your idea.”
James shook his head. “I’m sure it wasn’t as bad as that.” He sighed. “Look, I’m sorry if I made you feel insecure or whatever. It wasn’t intentional.”
“And that’s supposed to make everything better?” Matt’s anger was fast slipping to upset. “I have never said no to you, James. You wanted control, I gave it to you. You’ve hurt me, you’ve even made me bleed, and I let you because I trusted you. And this is how you repay all that?”
James gently touched the other man’s arm. “I didn’t expect you to react like this.”
Matt pulled away. “Don’t fucking touch me!”
James’ tone became a little sterner. “Matt, you can’t get jealous of every guy I speak to. Don’t you think you’re overreacting?”
“No, I fucking don’t!” As his anger suddenly flared up again, Matt violently overturned the coffee table in the room. As the glass tabletop shattered, the dark-haired man allowed tears to consume him.
James forced himself to approach his boyfriend. “Mattie…”
“Stay the fuck away from me,” Matt bit out. “I know what you’re trying to do, and it won’t fucking work this time. I’ve backed down to you too many times.”
James was about to reply when he heard a key turning in the front door. As Charlie walked into the room, he stopped dead. “What the fuck happened?”
James bit his lip. “I was only trying to apologise.”
“Don’t lie,” Matt spat. “You were trying to gloss over it all by making out that I was overreacting.”
“Because I want you to see that it didn’t mean anything.” James glanced at Charlie. “Can’t you persuade him?”
“If you haven’t managed to already, how the hell am I supposed to?” Charlie crossed the room so that he was at Matt’s side.
Matt gazed down at the remains of the coffee table. “I should probably…”
“Hey, it’s okay.” Charlie placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder. “We’ll get it sorted out.”
James took a hesitant step closer. “Mattie, please.”
“I’m not backing down.” Matt looked up. “You’d like to think you can do anything to me because I always let you, but not this time. You’ve pushed me too far.”
Before either of the other two could respond, Matt walked out of the room. James moved to follow him, but stopped as Charlie warned, “Don’t.”
James turned to face the other man. “I have to, Charlie. I have to make him see…”
“You’re the one who needs to see.” Charlie moved closer to James. “This domination thing’s all very well, but it’s not supposed to spill over into everyday life.”
James blinked. “But…I don’t…I mean, it doesn’t.”
“You do, James. Matt may not see what last night was, but I do. You wanted the power to ignore Matt all night in favour of another guy, and yet come home and make Matt do whatever you wanted. Only Mattie finally woke up to you.”
”Woke up to me? What’s that supposed to mean?” James felt a little threatened by Charlie’s tone.
The younger man raised an eyebrow. “You mean you haven’t worked it out yet? Matt’s fed up of you walking all over him. You’re abusing his willingness to submit to you.”
“I didn’t mean to…” James’ heart sunk as his brain registered Charlie’s words as truth. His voice little more than a whisper, he uttered, “I’m so stupid.”
“I won’t deny that,” Charlie replied. “You have to realise that you can’t treat Matt like he’s beneath you all the time.”
“I do, and I didn’t even realise that I was. I guess I just got carried away…” James sighed. “How the hell am I supposed to explain to him?”
“Just be honest with him. And finding a way of making it up to him would also be a good plan.” Charlie moved to leave the room. “I’m going to see if he’s alright. I’ll leave you to figure out how you’re going to solve this.”
James sighed as he watched his friend leave, tears streaming down his cheeks as his guilt finally caught up to him. He knew that whatever he did to apologise to Matt, it would have to be big, and he just hoped he could come up with something good enough.
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