A Troubled Family || Newsies Soulmates AU

Chapter 10 - Anthony

- Chapter 10 - A Talk -
Warnings: Anxiety, abuse
Third Person POV

Anthony had planned to spend the whole day alone.

Yeah, key word; planned.

Except, in a house of a bunch of boys who really want to be your friends, that doesn't work very well.

He was shaken out of his book and musical world by someone opening the door.

"Hey," Albert starts, and Anthony immediately internally panics. "How are you?"

"Repeat that please" Anthony requests, a little nervous to ask.

Albert nods. "How are you?"

"I'm fine" Anthony mumbles, taking off his headphones.

Albert nods. "How loud was that music? You couldn't hear me when I knocked."

"I have an FM system for a reason" Anthony responds, scoffing a bit.

Albert puts his hands up in a surrendering motion.

"Sorry, sorry" Albert responds. Anthony shrugs, slipping a bookmark in the page of his book.

"Did you need something?" Anthony questions. Albert nods.

"There are a few people we want you to meet." Albert informs Anthony, who starts to disagree. "Before you argue, I brought puppy eyes."

And in comes Romeo, JoJo, and Elmer.

Darn it, he's right. Puppy eyes indeed, Anthony thinks to himself. I'm weak against them. Stupid boys with puppy eyes and smarts and how the heck do they know me so well already-

"Fine" Anthony states, closing his book.

The four boys cheer, high-fiving each other.

"Come on!" JoJo exclaims, grabbing Anthony's wrist and dragging him out of the room.

Romeo grabs Anthony's other wrist, as Albert and Elmer chuckle.

The four boys enter the kitchen, and immediately Albert's hands fly over Anthony's eyes and Romeo's hands cover JoJo's eyes.

"PDA!" The two boys exclaim, pointing at Hotshot and Ike, who kissed.

Ike rolls his eyes, as Hotshot and the other boys in the room laugh.

"We must preserve the innocents of the little ones!" Albert exclaims, causing the boys to laugh again.

"Hey!" Anthony exclaims. The boys start laughing harder.

"I have two boyfriends!" JoJo exclaims. Romeo shrugs.

He takes his hands off of JoJo's eyes. "True, true."

"I don't have a boyfriend, but I had a bad father, I'm fine" Anthony states, pushing Albert's hands off of his eyes.

Albert shrugs. "When you aren't innocent anymore, don't blame me."

Anthony rolls his eyes, as Romeo rests his arm on Anthony's shoulder, causing him to flinch. "I'm not sure he can be 'uninnocented'. He's kinda like Crutchie and El."