Soham was reaching the climax of a manga's plot when he received a text from Kai saying Hop on Minecraft bro, it's been a while. The legend about the 'hop on' text always displaying at the worst moment kept getting realer.

"D'you hear me ?" 

"Uhhh wait" Soham tried connecting his broken headphones to his asthmatic pc "Talk"

"Ima touch you" 

To Soham's loud silence Kai laughed "Ight let's play"

"Lol 'kay" Soham stretched his arms then cracked his neck asking for the server's code. 

Nostalgia was settling in with the gameplay. 

The two friends used to play together every nights until one of them experienced his so called first love. 

Not kai, it was Soham who took his distance.

Kai had already experienced multiple relationships from a young age, none were much serious thus none were much painful. The casual dater was content of his situation and wasn't displeased by the idea of never going farther in the concept. 

Nevertheless, Laure changed all his childish plans. A beautiful yet flawed girl capable of incredible intelligence and warm silliness, whom was willing to deliver a tsunami of mixed feelings on Kai. 

At first, it was thrilling, the tension in the silent lips and confused looks. Secondly it was scary, desires than had never occurred, an incapacity to let them out nor keep them in ; then it was a burst of happiness giving birth to dreams, the sensation that nothing was impossible ; suddenly a wake up call, lies made to protect ended up stabbing, arguments became frequent, good intentions turned in mind games, love was blinded by itself ; lost in the darkness the affectionate gaze were hidden and so what remained was the touch and words from clumsy teenagers whom grew up with debatable exemples.

In the end one was brave enough to put an end to it, one was childish enough to considerate it a betrayal. Meanwhile a background character was cowardly enough to just observe.

"Stop daydreaming block fucker"

"At least I fuck something" Kai hit Soham, reducing this one's HP. Soham hit back, swallowing a heartless possible comment on this ; because the forbidden topic was still forbidden. Moreover, Soham himself preferred to avoid the subject . Even better, he would forget it for tonight.

What mattered was the present moment, where he could take refuge from the past and future. Something he could only do thanks to this odd bond. 

'Odd bond' is what Soham decided to call whatever this was for he wasn't sure what love was like. 

In the begining he was using the word "crush" however it wasn't really that, he tried to use the word love but it sounded off. 'Odd bond' felt oddly fitting for his odd heart. 

Once he had found the fitting expression, he was ready to enjoy his friendship once again. 

Yet to his surprise, when shortening the distance he had put for a few weeks, there was no one on the other side anymore.

Shit, 'forgetting it for tonight' my ass.