Motorcycle Boy (It’s Fine) by Shaneobi

Epilogue: somehow I knew we’d survive

Shane tried again. He went even lighter, and slowly, as soft as butter, the bike began to roll forward. The engine roared as he worked through it, and then, while it moved forward, he began to turn the handlebars to the right.

Now he was moving in a circle around Ilya. It was stop-and-go, and sometimes he’d jolt a little out of formation, but by the third rotation he was able to keep a consistent pace.

“Look at you go, malysh!” Ilya beamed, his eyes still watching protectively, but a smile broke across his face as he moved his body with Shane’s circles. He made sure his back was never to Shane, and Shane was moving at a slow enough pace that wasn’t getting dizzy.

Motorcycle Boy

by shaneobi

Chapter Eight: You’ve Lost a Lot of Blood

Words: 11,114

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“Aren’t you going to ask how he is?”

Ilya blinked up through the smoke. Hayden looked like a ghost.

“What would you like, Hayden?” Ilya asked. As usual, he held no emotion.

Hayden scoffed and shook his head again. He turned away to look at Troy, but Troy had a stone expression on his face.

“He won’t stop asking about you,” Hayden admitted. He sounded exhausted.

“I told you he would-”

“Yeah, well, I’m tired of fucking lying to him! Did you know he tried crawling out of the house last week? He wanted to drive to the bar to see if he could talk to you since you weren’t answering his calls. Or did you know he got an infection in his shoulder? He has been screaming awake from night terrors, and I have to change the bedsheets twice a day because he sweats through them so fast. His fever broke only yesterday.”

“Is he alive?” Ilya questioned. Hayden blinked at him in astonishment.

“Yes, but-”

Motorcycle Boy (It’s Fine)

by shaneobi

“Because you want to ride my bike. You stare at it with those pretty Bambi eyes. I know those looks, and those looks cause trouble.”

“What if I like trouble?” Shane asked innocently, their breaths mixing together. He could see the sparkles in Ilya’s eyes. In this moment, Shane had officially voiced his decision, there was no turning back now. From this gang, from Ilya.

“You don’t.” Ilya answered for him. But then they were crashing together.

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