"What do you want to do today? I want to go to the movies" I ask Briseis, it's Friday and we always go to somewhere this day, that's our tradition.

Achilles has been sitting with us since the day after we first met, we were all kind of friends now and I liked us, I don't really know what's about this boy but I feel him more as my friend than some of the guys I've spend my whole life with.

"I want to go to the ice rink" She answers, her smile is so big it makes me smile too, I pass my arm around her waist and she lays her head on my chest. "Do you want to go, Achilles?"

"I would love too but I've things to do today" he smiles at her.

"What things? You're going to watch porn all night long or what?" I ask, my hand moving over Briseis' waist.

"My mother is in town, just for a few days so no, I want to spend time with her" he responds me coolly.

"I'm sorry" I say, I lower my eyes at my mistake. "So, ice rink... Why not a movie?"

"I'm going to watch a movie with Alexandria on Saturday" she says, Alexandria is her best friend.

The bell rings and Briseis goes in a different direction. Surprisingly, Achilles and I have almost the same schedule.

"Who is Alexandria?" He asks me as we walk to history.

"She's in the class we're going to, I'll introduce her to you, she's really nice you could date her... I think" I feel a certain type of ache when the words leave my mouth.

"No, I'm fine being single." He smiles "I'm going to try for the basketball team today" he announces when we get to the class room.

"Congrats, dude" I say and pass my arm over his neck "That's great!" we both laugh. "Oh, see there's Alexandria she's the girl that's sitting right at the back of the room, the one with red hair" I say, as if she had heard me she turns and I say hi, Achilles does too.

"She's beautiful" He says and I nod, there aren't any sits for us to sit side by side so we both go to different places.

"Hey, Patroclus! Party tonight at Muse's house! You're in?" Chris asks me, he's part of the basketball team.

"I don't know, I was going to go out with Bri" I say.

"Oh, forget about it! You won't go! Just go and fuck her as you normally do" He jokes and my middle finger shows to answer him, this makes him laugh even more. I see Achilles seeing me and I smile to him, he returns the smile, his most beautiful one.

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On Saturday I take my time at waking up, yesterday Briseis and I agreed we were barely going to talk today, she wanted to spend time with Alexandria as she spends most of her time with me.

As I'm alone in my house I begin to get annoyed, this house is so big and I don't really get the purpose, my father is never here anyways, why would a teenager like me want a house like this? But then I remember Achilles, his house is way bigger than mine, but yet it looks like the perfect house, you wouldn't want to move from there.

Time flies and I'm literally going insane, I've tried to talk with my other friends but they're all fucking busy and Achilles isn't answering texts.

Around seven o'clock a text comes, Achilles has finally answered me.

*Hey, wanna come? my mom would like to meet my new friend*

*Okay, i'll be there in 30 mins*

45 minutes later I'm on Achilles' house in front of his door, nervous, why am I nervous? I knock and I wait but they don't answer, I knock again and again and again and when I'm about to go a woman opens the door.

She's a Little bit smaller than me, dark hair, dark eyes, very beautiful features, she's wearing a blue dress that has flowers all over it, she doesn't really resemble Achilles still when you see her you know he's her son.

"Good night, ma'am. My name is Patroclus, I'm Achilles' friend" I introduce myself and kiss her cheek a small smile takes her mouth.

"Good night, my name is Thetis. I know who you're." She has a sing-song voice "Come on in, it's starting to be cold, sweetheart." She tells me and I enter the house. "Come with me to the kitchen, Achilles is taking a bath." I follow her through the big hall and passed the dinning room, I still find it really weird the design of this house, we turn to the left after we pass the dinning room and then we get to the kitchen, where a beautiful stone breakfast table is set right in the middle of the kitchen, I sit in one of the stools.

"Do you want my help?" I ask when I see that she puts an apron on.

"If you want to." She smiles and I stand up, we start cutting vegetables almost in silence, we just break it to say a few things about the food and how to do it. "I'm really glad Achilles has met a guy like you." She smiles but she doesn't raise her eyes from the stove where the food is being cooked.

"Thank you, I'm glad I met him too, he's really nice and Briseis and I always enjoy spending time with him." I tell her, I'm thirsty so I walk to get myself a glass of water.

"Briseis? He hasn't told me about her." She looks at me a bit concerned.

"Oh, she's my girlfriend, we've been dating for a time now." I say and smile, the thought of her kind of make me happy.

"Girlfriend? Oh, I thought, well never mind." She tells me.

"It's weird he hasn't talked to you about her, they get along really well."

"Well, he only talks about you if I'm honest."

"What are you two talking about?" A voice says behind us from the door, Achilles is standing there. He's wearing khaki pants, fold right over his ankles, with a white shirt, black jacket and black vans.

"Just things, you know, this and that." His mom answers with a smile, you can clearly see she loves him" I don't really trust when you say things like that, you know?" He smiles.

"Well, you should, let's go eat, dinner is ready. You" She points to Achilles. "Help me carry the plates, and you" she points to me "You've done a lot, sweetie, can you just open the yard door? We will go there with the plates in a minute." I nod and walk to the yard, turning the lights on in the process, I sit there waiting for them.

"Here it's our delicious food." She says and Achilles places the food in the white table.

The food is in fact delicious, I stay there later than normal, we talked a lot, his mom is really nice and somehow she always made us laugh.

"It was nice to you meet you" I say to his mother before heading out.

"The pleasure is mine" she says with a smile and enters the house, leaving us alone.

"Your mom is really nice."

"Yes, she's" He answers, he swings on his heels. "She thinks you're really nice, I can tell."

"You think?" I smile "I've to go, see you on monday." I say and wave a goodbye.

"Hey! Patroclus!" He half-screams when I'm walking down his doorsteps

"Yeah?" I ask, turning to face him, from where I'm he looks different, more like an angel than a human.

"Come tomorrow for lunch if you like." He says, a little bit nervous I think, and I nod.

"Okay, goodbye." I say and walk home.

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*Achilles' POV*

"He's a nice guy." My mom tells me when I enter the house again, she's sitting in the living room a book sitting on her lap, I sit on the couch next to hers and turn the TV on.

"Yes, really nice" I say with a smile. Patroclus is the nicest guy I've ever have the pleasure of knowing.

"But he's dating someone, a girl" She says.

"What does that have to do with me or our friendship?" I ask, I think I know exactly where she's going.

"I can see how you look at him... And he's, he's dating a girl, just that." She tells me

"He's my friend, mother. Just that."

"Okay, whatever you say sweetheart."