"give me the strength." \\ salvis //

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⚠️hinting at abuse⚠️
⚠️maybe homophobia i'm not sure⚠️
⚠️swearing⚠️

TIMESKIP

travis's pov
i wake up to larry busting in the room. "hey homos." he says jokingly ripping the blanket off of me and sal. in a tired tone i say "bro...that's my line." larry chuckles "yeah trav. i guess it is." i turn over to sal "babe wake up." i say lightly shaking him. "five more minutes. please travis." he whines rolling over on his stomach. "okay well if you guys aren't down there by the time ash is here we're picking the movie without you guys." larry says walking out of the room. i lightly shake him again "baby come on get up we have to get dressed." he groans and sits up. i push some of his hair behind his ear and out of his face. "how is your hair so soft all the time?" i ask as he replies "i don't know it just is i guess." i smile like a dumbass just at the sound of his voice. he scoots closer to me and hugs me. i hug him back and say "i guess you're just perfect then. aren't you?" "no. i'm not." he says as i pull away looking him in the eyes. "well why do you say that. i think you're perfect." i question. he pauses "...have you even seen my face travis? it's far from normal." i sigh at his response and say "yes i have and i think it's really cool. not everything normal is 'perfect', sal. sometimes your differences is what makes you perfect in other people's eyes. just like mine." i watch him blush and start smiling. he looks down at his lap trying to hide it. i chuckle at him and put my finger under his chin pulling his face up to mine. "you're my version of perfect and that's final. do you understand?" i state starting to smile. he nods his head and connects his lips with mine. i kiss him back and get up off the bed. i start getting dressed in clothes i already had there. i put my shirt on and grab sal's hand. "come on get dressed. or are you gonna make me help you?" i say not really expecting him to respond. "heh. maybe." he snickers getting off the bed. "yeah whatever. brat." i reply.

TIMESKIP

we walked out of sal's apartment and down to the basement. we walk into larry's room and he's sitting on the bed picking a movie with ash. "you guys are just in time because we just picked the movie." he told us pulling the bean bag closer to him and ash. i sat down in it and sally sat in my lap. "what movie are we watching?" sal asked looking up at larry on the bed. he snickered and looked at me and back at sal "the nun." i look up at the ceiling and close my eyes. i grip my cross necklace and quickly mumble "dear lord, give me the strength." larry chuckles "it's not even gonna be that bad, travis, come on." "i'm already scared of themuhhh!" i groan putting my hands over my face. ashley giggles and pushes my head up to look at the screen as it starts playing. i put my arms around sal and larry reaches for the lights to turn them off. i hide my face behind sal's shoulder for almost the whole movie. a jump scare came on and sal jumped back onto me while larry and ash almost jump on top of me. sal turns around not facing the tv anymore and says "no. nu uh. no fucking way." "yes. if i have to you do too." i turn him back around and he leans back on me. the movie ends and i sigh in relief. i could tell all of us were on edge. even ashley was and she's not afraid of anything which was surprising. "wait. guys shut up. do you hear that." he says going over to the stairs in his room. he looks up the dark stair case and yells "OH MY GOD! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!!??" we all start screaming and trying to run off. ashley runs off out into the living room as i subconsciously push sal off of me into the floor as i go to run off screaming like a dumbass. i soon after leaving the bean bag go back and throw sal over my shoulder running out of the room with him. sal, ashley, and me still yelling for our lives desperately try to unlock the front door larry comes out of his room laughing his ass off. he runs into the coffee table and almost falls over from laughing so hard. he squeezes his stomach and wheezes "i got y'all so good." pointing at us and getting on his knees on the floor getting weaker by the second laughing at us. "you should've seen your fucking faces." he laughs even harder with tears rolling down his face. he looks at me and laughs harder "an- and then you pushed sal o- off of you into the-" he didnt even finish before he wheezed again. i put sal down. we all start laughing at our own stupidity. "i'm gonna fucking piss myself. i'll be right back." larry still laughing walks into the bathroom. everyone was still piled up by the door when lisa busted in knocking me and sal on the floor and ashley on top of us. "what's going on in her- OH! oh my god i'm so sorry i didn't mean to knock you guys over!" she exclaims rushing over to us helping us up. ashley got up rubbing her chest "one of you elbowed me in the fucking titty." she groans walking over to the couch and sitting down. "sorry ash." both me and sal say before sitting beside her. "anyway's what do you kids want for dinner." lisa asks us as larry comes out the bathroom. "pizza?" larry suggests looking at all of us. we all nod in agreement looking at lisa. "okay boys....and ashley." she chuckles picking up her phone. todd and neil walk in looking worried. "we could hear ash screaming from all the way in todd's room! are you guys okay?!" neil asks as todd comes over to us making sure we're okay. "yeah! travis, are you alright? you have a black eye!" todd asks me in a worried tone. "y- yeah. i just fell yesterday...i'm fine." i respond trying to hide the fact that i'm lying. "oh! okay. well are you sure because that doesn't really look like you fell..." he says as everyone else in the room looks at me. even lisa looked over at me. "yep. i'm sure i'm okay." i reassure everyone. "oop, travis! honey, henry texted me telling me that your dad wants you home now." i sigh and nod. "sorry you won't be able to get any pizza." lisa frowns. "it's fine. i'll get some next time." i say getting off the couch. "do you want me to drive you home?" sal asks me and i answered "yeah that's would be fine if you want to." he nods and walk out of the apartment with me. we walk out to his car and get in.

sal's pov
we got in the car and i immediately got a gut feeling about taking him back to his dad. i also had a bad feeling about him 'falling'. i felt like he was lying but i just ignored the feeling. i ruled it out as me being dramatic. 'what preacher would beat his kid? they wouldn't.....right?' i thought to myself looking over at travis. he pulled my face closer to his kissing me. i kissed him back putting more passion into it. he returned the same energy running his fingers through my hair. i pulled back looking at him. he smiled at me taking his fingers out of my hair and onto my thigh. i run my fingers through his hair brushing it back. his hair is so pretty. i love it. it's almost strawberry blonde but not exactly. some strips in it are darker than others. on top of all of that it's his natural hair. he's never dyed it and he takes really good care of it. it's so soft brushing up against my hand. i would play with his hair forever if i could. "okay okay get your fingers out of my hair and take me home before my dad gets mad." he chuckles taking my hand out of his hair and putting it in his other hand. i start driving him home turning up the radio.

TIMESKIP

travis's pov
we pulled up to my house turning the radio down as we went up the driveway. we parked and i hugged him making sure my dad couldn't see me peck sal on the lips. i got out and watched him pull off. i walked in and saw my parents in the kitchen. my dad was smiling at me as my mom was standing behind him giving me a sympathetic smile. my mom knew about me and sal. she supported it and didn't tell my dad. "go up stairs, travis. there is a surprise up there that i think you'll really like." my dad said to me as i smiled at him. i started waking up the stairs changing my facial expression to a confused one. it was so abnormal for my father to get me anything 'special'. i walked into my room shooting my head up. "hello, travis!" a girl sitting on the edge of my bed said to me. she got up and walked over to me. "uh hi." i said awkwardly. "my name is lydia huxley. i go to your father's church. it was very kind of your dad to expect my mother's request to set us up." she told me smiling and looking around the corner. 'sus as fuck.' i thought to myself looking down at her.

(end of chapter)
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