Brandon Lawry knew that he struck gold. Days of rigorously following Seth Wiley and Gilbert Hugo had finally bore him some results. You see, Brandon was indeed instructed by Simon to follow his two schoolmates just to dig some dirt about them. The first few days, Brandon felt nothing would come out of his stalking. Seth and Gilbert were obviously close with each other but Brandon didn’t have enough evidence to back up his claim. Simon wanted proof—something concrete.
But why would someone like Brandon Lawry—a perfectly normal high school student—do something ridiculous as following Simon’s bidding. Why? It was simply because Simon blackmailed him. Brandon had an obssession with capturing pictures of girls in their most vulnerable moments. Yes, he was indeed a voyeur. Simon caught him sneaking into the girls’ locker room, holding a camera to fulfill his deviant fantasies.
Instead of reporting him to the teachers or to the police, Simon made a deal with Brandon. The student council president would keep Brandon’s perversion a secret if he would do ‘something’ for him.
That ‘something’ turned out to be the task of stalking Seth Wiley and Gilbert Hugo. At first, Brandon was confused. What was Simon trying to do? What would he gain by stalking the two? Brandon knew about Gilbert Hugo’s notoriety. He didn’t want to be on his bad side. On the other hand, Brandon heard a few things about Seth Wiley, but he was too absorbed with his secret ‘hobby’ Brandon was practically uniterested with rumors surrounding Seth.
“I want you to follow them every chance you get. Make sure to use you camera skills to capture them in inappropriate moments.” Simon said to him.
“What do you mean by inappropriate moments? I don’t understand.” Brandon was genuinely confused. What would be considered as an inappropriate moment between two boys?
Simon gave him an exasperated look. “Fucking idiot. Just follow them and you’ll know. Just make sure to work your hands with your camera to capture the evidence. You have to do this right, you twerp. If you fail, I will report your sickening hobby not only to the school but to the police. They will throw you into juvenile prison. Your family will be ruined because of your perverted mind.” Simon slapped his face. “You fucking sicko.”
Brandon gulped. He knew he had to follow Simon’s orders without fail.
Thus he started stalking Seth Wiley and Gilbert Hugo. At first, Brandon saw nothing out of ordinary between the two. However, days passed, he noticed that Seth and Gilbert were too close to the point they were touchy-feely with each other.
At that point, Brandon didn’t have any idea, not even basic knowledge about relationships between the same gender. He thought the two were just good friends enough to hug each other without any malice.
However, Brandon saw Seth and Gilbert holding hands. Do male friends do that on a daily basis? He was confused more than ever. Though, he let his camera do its purpose. Brandon captured many photos of Seth and Gilbert. But, he knew Simon wouldn’t be happy with them because there were not enough inappropriate moments in the photos.
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And then, the camping trip happened. Simon pulled some strings for Brandon to ride the same bus with Seth and Gilbert even though they belonged to different classes.
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Brandon saw the two kissed. They fucking kissed! Not just the ordinary peck on the lips kind of kissing, but tongue-twisting, saliva-dripping kind of kiss. Fuck. Brandon’s whole being shook in surprise. Who would have thought two men could kiss intimately like that? It was fucking disgusting. But he felt he become hard while watching the two kissing. Brandon dismissed it as his excitement to the fact that he made a discovery of a lifetime. Fucking high and mighty Gilbert Hugo was a homosexual. The whole school would have a feast when they learned about it.
Brandon lingered enough to see Seth and Gilbert go back to their tent. He was smiling from ear to ear. Simon would be happy, too.
His camera was not a digital one. His father wanted to buy him the new high-end digital camera that had been launched just a few months ago. Brandon was not impressed wih new technology so he didn’t want something new. It brought him unfathomable joy whenever he was inside his dark room making his magic with the photos he captured. Brandon couldn’t wait to go home and process the photos he snapped of Seth and Gilbert kissing.
He indeed struck gold. He stayed a couple of minutes more before returning to his tent. He was whistling his way back to his own tent. But before he could reach it, Brandon felt something touched his shoulder. Before he could scream, a hand covered his mouth and a strong force dragged him away.
Fuck, who was it? Fuck, fuck, fuck!
“I never knew you have this kind of hobby. Spying on people, really? You piece of shit.”
Brandon tensed up when he heard the voice. Shit. He knew who it belonged to and it scared the shit out of him.
He tried to scream, but to no avail. The hand that was covering his mouth was doing its job excellently. Brandon knew he fucked up. To hell with Simon! He didn’t want to die in the hands of Gilbert Hugo. Brandon was sure Gilbert was capable of killing him without any second thought. Shit. He was truly done for.
Just when Brandon thought he didn’t have any way out, Gilbert let him go. The latter forcefully snatched the camera within Brandon’s grasp. He was out of breath while watching how Gil removed the film from the camera, tossed it, and stepped on it violently until the film was no more. It was reduced to tiny little bits.
“I’ll tell you everything. J-just don’t destroy my camera.” Brandon didn’t know where he got the guts to tell Gilbert something like that. His knees were shaking in fear. His lips were trembling.
Gilbert Hugo stared at him. His face, illuminated by the moonlight, was devoid of any kind of emotion. And when he spoke, all the hairs in Brandon’s body stood on end. The Gilbert who was standing in front of him was someone who was more dangerous than usual. “Picture this as your head, Lawry.” Gilbert spoke in monotone. He was referring to the camera he was holding. A huge smile formed on his lips. Then without further ado, Gilbert smashed the camera on the ground. He did it again and again, without stopping, with so much violence.
Brandon’s knees gave out. He was sobbing uncontrollably out of fright. He covered his face with his hands. He was too scared to look at Gilbert. In his mind, it was his head Gilbert was smashing to the ground instead of the camera.
“This is not the end, Lawry.” Gilbert said to him. Then he felt a light tap on his shoulder.
Brandon knew Gilbert left already. But he was too weak to stand up. He remained on the ground, regretting his foolish decision to go against a frightening man like Gilbert Hugo.
Now, he was as good as dead.
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Several days after the camping trip, Seth’s school received a report regarding one of its student accused of voyeurism. There was a huge investigation regarding the report. Even the police got involved. After the series of questioning and investigation, it was reported that several photos of female students in vulnerable situations were recovered in Brandon Lawry’s possession.
The victims’ families were all adamant in suing Brandon, thus the latter was hereby facing a criminal case and was expelled in school.
Seth was relieved to hear that someone with a perverted mind like Brandon was now in police custody. But the timing of how Brandon’s crime was revealed made Seth think that somebody was behind all of it.
Seth looked at Gil. Maybe his boyfriend did this?
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Gil asked him with a smile. “You want me to kiss you?”
Seth grinned. Nah, he didn’t want to think about it. Gil might or might not be involved in the situation with Brandon. Frankly, Seth didn’t want to ask his boyfriend. Gil would tell him if he wanted to.
“Okay,” Seth moved closer to Gil. “You can kiss me.”
Gil’s eyes widened in surprise. “Are you sure? There are people here…” They were in the library.
“When did you become afraid of someone watching us? You—”
Seth didn’t finish the sentence because Gil kissed him hungrily—without any care in the world.
The incident with Brandon spying on them concluded without Seth doing anything. He was so fortunate to have Gil in his life. He was so used to getting hurt in the past, but now, Gil would always be there for him for the rest of their lives.
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Author’s note:
I’m back! Sorry for being MIA for months. This novel is nearing its end, so I will try to post a chapter per week (fingers crossed). Hehehe. Thank you <3
-chasingnem
Welcome back, and thank you for the chapter!
Thank youuuuuuuu for the updates and dog foods🙇♂️
Thanks for the chapter.
Awww its gonna be short and sweet!
I love this story! I’ll wait for the next chapters!!