This chapter is Maple's POV.
"Ok hunny you need to breathe for me ok?" I ask my clearly overstimulated boyfriend.
"I can't! His hand! It's not-" chug says hyperventilating.
Soda floats in front of him and says "chuggy...you wanna try something that calmed me down?". Chug just makes some overstimulated noises and grabs at his head.
"Come on hunny let's try ok?" I say
"I I I-" chug just hyperventilates more and looks like he's about to cry.
"He'll try soda. Show us what you do"
"Uh okie so first you cross your arms on your chest then rock your hands back and forth slowly but not to slowly and it should help" soda says. The three of us do so. Chug struggles for a bit but then finally gets the hang of it and calms down. He then inhales then exhales and finally calms down.
"Thank you" he says. Soda just giggles.
"Larry will get better ok?" I say
"I know he will but that's not really why I freaked out. His hand didn't even look that bad to be honest it just reminded me of something"
"Well you wanna tell me while we take a walk?" I ask. He nods.
"The shy looks nice tonight"
"Yeah. Just like you"
I blush. Maybe tonight is the night to do this. I don't know he was overstimulated for a bit so maybe it's not the right timing but maybe in a little bit. Maybe.
"Gross" soda says laughing. We both laugh along with her.
"You really wanna know the reason I didn't like looking at Larry's hand?" Chug asks
"Sure but maybe we can sit down and chat about it?" I say
"Sure but I'm not letting you sit on the ground nor am I sitting down either"
"We've been sitting down all night though" soda says
"True but we've been sitting on top of mesh that's in the tent" chug says taking off a jacket that was wrapped around his waist. He lays it down on the ground then I sit on it. Soda joins me by sitting on my lap and chug just leans against the tree that the three of us are under.
"It reminded me of travis. You knew we were friends before we all met and we'll I remember that he broke his hand one day and his father blamed me for it. He blamed me for a lot of things..."
"Like what?" I ask
"Like turning him gay"
"What???" Soda and I say. This is new. I don't know how I feel about that.
"Yeah I can probably explain more when I tell the group. But it's not important at the moment. What was, was that his father pretty much beat me for hurting travis's hand when he hurt it in the first place. I guess my OCD didn't help in the situation with Larry either but still" he says
"Probably..." I say. I don't wanna ask anymore. I was gonna with this scenery and all but it's not the time nor the moment.
"Anyway come on you two let's go back so I can explain my story" chug says
"After Todd" soda says
"Right after Todd. I forgot he was before me. You coming hun?" chug says
"Yeah" I say. Closing the enhancement ring box behind me hoping nobody heard it.
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Only Way Out
FanfictionWork in progress. But this is a swap au for sally face. This story may contain triggering moments not suitable for younger audience. Suicide, alcohol, abuse and many other mature themes will be involved in this story. Also yes there will probably be...
