Excuse all spelling errors my word is messed up. If things don't make sense don't hesitate to point them out, word was not doing anything for me when I wrote this. I messed up with going from second person into third person so if you find any mistakes like that don't hesitate to point those out. New friends and feedback are always lovely.
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The look on Andriy’s face is one that makes Ricardo pull himself up from under him. He takes hold of the jersey, looking at it before their eyes meet. Andriy is still looking for some hint that this means what he think it does. He is scared and nervous all at once. Afraid of losing what he needs most, his grip has already been slipping but it’s as if someone is trying to make him let go. It seems that the man Andriy thought he knew so well has changed since he left him for a country he was afraid of. He’s harder to read, Andriy used to be able to read Ricky like a book and he did. Andriy had spent hours with him, feeling and loving him. His body was like the words of a good book that he could never set down, one that would never be finished.
“What is it, Ricky? Why is this in your bed?” He asked him, reaching out and grabbing at the jersey until he held it in his hand again. The name on the back hurting his heart. Andriy felt hopeless now, he didn’t want to know if Ricardo had cheated on him with that boy that was downstairs right now. He didn’t know what he was going to do. His eyes shifted back to Ricky who had wrapped himself in the white sheets as if to make himself smaller. To make himself disappear.
The hurt that met his eyes was something he had not been expecting. Despite the anger he now felt or the confusion he was about to figure of what was going on between Ricky and that Yoann fellow. Had Ricky forgotten how much Sheva loved him? Was this payback for him leaving for England? The regrets he was now forcing upon himself were the ones that he had been pushing at ever since he had signed the contract for the team that would force a shift in the relationship he thought would last forever.
“Sheva…” It’s out of his mouth and Andriy realizes that he has been holding his breath, waiting for any words to come from the Brazilian. A few moments later, shallow breathing and Ricardo’s heartbroken glance at him again as he waits for the next sentences to come out. The truth, he hopes. He doesn’t ever want to be lied to. He has had enough lies in his life. “I just want to love you. I do, you have to realize that…I think about you all day long. I’m sorry, I never wanted to lose you but you left me. I didn’t know what I would do.” Ricardo is upset, his eyes turning red as he fights back the tears that are struggling to escape the corners of his eyes.
Andriy fights with himself to not lean forward and pull the shaken man into his arms. This was not the question he had asked but it was an answer to another. Those words, dug deep. He needed to be stronger but his walls were breaking down with the realization that Ricky had cheated on him. No, he had not gotten the answer to that question. He didn’t want to doubt like this but he was finding himself going in deeper. He was falling in and not coming up for air.
His hands grip at the offending jersey that has started this mess. He wants to rip into pieces, to burn it, throw it somewhere but it is the evidence that might kill him. This had to be a mistake. This had to be a dream, a silly little wound, oh how he wanted to wake up screaming rather than face the reality of what Ricardo was telling him. His eyes slowly opened and Andriy focused on him again, his eyes wide and scared as much as Kaka’s were selfloathing and sad.
Andriy feels hands against the red and black striped jersey that he had lived in for so many years. They tugged, desperately at the material, not able to let go. He watched as Ricardo seemed to crumble in front of him. This was too cruel, this truth, the realization. The look upon his face can only mean one thing. “I’m so sorry Andriy. It was only once, I didn’t even know that the jersey was under the pillow. You have to forgive me. I would never want to hurt you like this. Don’t look at me like that…Please Andriy.”
Not knowing what else to do, his hands slid around Ricky’s waist, pulling him into his arms and staring down at him. Andriy can tell that Ricky hates what he reads in his eyes, that he hates the things that Andriy is thinking as he looks down at him. This is what he hates now, the lost expression in Ricky’s eyes that he now has as he waits for him to finally say something. This was an empty feeling and he did not want it replacing the ones that he had had for Ricardo for so long.
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The look on Andriy’s face is one that makes Ricardo pull himself up from under him. He takes hold of the jersey, looking at it before their eyes meet. Andriy is still looking for some hint that this means what he think it does. He is scared and nervous all at once. Afraid of losing what he needs most, his grip has already been slipping but it’s as if someone is trying to make him let go. It seems that the man Andriy thought he knew so well has changed since he left him for a country he was afraid of. He’s harder to read, Andriy used to be able to read Ricky like a book and he did. Andriy had spent hours with him, feeling and loving him. His body was like the words of a good book that he could never set down, one that would never be finished.
“What is it, Ricky? Why is this in your bed?” He asked him, reaching out and grabbing at the jersey until he held it in his hand again. The name on the back hurting his heart. Andriy felt hopeless now, he didn’t want to know if Ricardo had cheated on him with that boy that was downstairs right now. He didn’t know what he was going to do. His eyes shifted back to Ricky who had wrapped himself in the white sheets as if to make himself smaller. To make himself disappear.
The hurt that met his eyes was something he had not been expecting. Despite the anger he now felt or the confusion he was about to figure of what was going on between Ricky and that Yoann fellow. Had Ricky forgotten how much Sheva loved him? Was this payback for him leaving for England? The regrets he was now forcing upon himself were the ones that he had been pushing at ever since he had signed the contract for the team that would force a shift in the relationship he thought would last forever.
“Sheva…” It’s out of his mouth and Andriy realizes that he has been holding his breath, waiting for any words to come from the Brazilian. A few moments later, shallow breathing and Ricardo’s heartbroken glance at him again as he waits for the next sentences to come out. The truth, he hopes. He doesn’t ever want to be lied to. He has had enough lies in his life. “I just want to love you. I do, you have to realize that…I think about you all day long. I’m sorry, I never wanted to lose you but you left me. I didn’t know what I would do.” Ricardo is upset, his eyes turning red as he fights back the tears that are struggling to escape the corners of his eyes.
Andriy fights with himself to not lean forward and pull the shaken man into his arms. This was not the question he had asked but it was an answer to another. Those words, dug deep. He needed to be stronger but his walls were breaking down with the realization that Ricky had cheated on him. No, he had not gotten the answer to that question. He didn’t want to doubt like this but he was finding himself going in deeper. He was falling in and not coming up for air.
His hands grip at the offending jersey that has started this mess. He wants to rip into pieces, to burn it, throw it somewhere but it is the evidence that might kill him. This had to be a mistake. This had to be a dream, a silly little wound, oh how he wanted to wake up screaming rather than face the reality of what Ricardo was telling him. His eyes slowly opened and Andriy focused on him again, his eyes wide and scared as much as Kaka’s were selfloathing and sad.
Andriy feels hands against the red and black striped jersey that he had lived in for so many years. They tugged, desperately at the material, not able to let go. He watched as Ricardo seemed to crumble in front of him. This was too cruel, this truth, the realization. The look upon his face can only mean one thing. “I’m so sorry Andriy. It was only once, I didn’t even know that the jersey was under the pillow. You have to forgive me. I would never want to hurt you like this. Don’t look at me like that…Please Andriy.”
Not knowing what else to do, his hands slid around Ricky’s waist, pulling him into his arms and staring down at him. Andriy can tell that Ricky hates what he reads in his eyes, that he hates the things that Andriy is thinking as he looks down at him. This is what he hates now, the lost expression in Ricky’s eyes that he now has as he waits for him to finally say something. This was an empty feeling and he did not want it replacing the ones that he had had for Ricardo for so long.