Refusing To Think About Him

His parents didn’t help him. Not at all, they’d given him the gun to hurt himself with. Left it in some busted box where they knew he knew it was, without even a flimsy lock on it. His friends idolized him to the point of seeing no flaw in a boy on the brink of death. And his teachers saw him as a delinquent not worth their time.Asher isn’t any of those, but he’s still one of Mike's failures in his own right.Mike had no one else to reach out to, he didn’t even like to ask for help, he wanted to be perfect, wanted to act it, at least, but he’d let Asher’s number go to use, had talked to him, had confessed unto him, and Asher failed him then the last he would be failed.