Ours- Yandere!Logicality, Book 3 (Sanders Sides)

= CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT - Oh. (JOE) =

:January 20th, XX47; Monday.

:BRING ALL STORYLINES TOGETHER.

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"Hey, do you know where Sage is?"

Joe blinked as he sat down at his usual lunch table- except, it wasn't usual, because Sage wasn't there. The first day Joe had come back after being absent, that previous Thursday, Sage wasn't even at school, but all the days after that he was just avoiding them both. Which... that made sense, Joe supposed.

"Uh, no, I don't," Joe shrugged. Him and Oliver laced their hands together, the latter looking around the room with a frown.

"He seems sad lately... I mean, he'll talk to me in class sometimes if I start the conversation but he's not very willing to converse."

"Hmm." Joe was probably a horrible person.

"Have you tried talking to him?"

"Uh... no, I haven't," he shrugged. "Seems to want space, might as well give it to him."

Oliver smiled a bit, and then he raised an eyebrow. "Joe, did you two get into a fight or something?"

That was an understatement. "What? I- no, of course not."

"Sure," he chuckled. "Well, whatever happened, he's your best friend, so... it'll probably be fine."

"Yeah... probably."

"Was it that bad?"

"No, no, I- nothing even happened, really, Oli. I don't know what going on with him."

"If you say so," Oliver shrugged, before beginning to eat his lunch. Joe stared at him for another moment, debating just telling him everything that had gone down, but he just decided to eat, too.

...Maybe Oliver deserved to know.

No- well, yes, he did deserve to know, but should he? Ugh, thinking that thought just made him feel like his parents. Hiding stuff from him even though he deserved to know the truth. Except, would Joe's relationship with his parents really be damaged much further at this point? If Oliver found out what happened, everything could just come crashing down. And that would just suck, wouldn't it?

Suddenly, Oliver frowned and leaned against Joe, slowly, phone in his hand. Joe glanced down to the screen and frowned a bit when he saw someone had messaged him the the link to another school's website- one he had never heard of before.

"What's that?" He asked.

"My dad just sent me the website for the school he says I'll go to if he gets custody," Oliver rolled his eyes a bit. "An all-girls private school, in Nevada, because that's definitely the best option there is for me."

"Jeez. Where do you think you'll go if it's with your mom?"

"Someplace similar, probably. Or maybe she just won't bother to enroll me. I don't know anything at this point."

Joe wrapped an arm around Oliver's shoulders and rubbed his side comfortingly. "I've really been trying to figure out if there's anything we can do to convince them not to force you to move but... I don't know if there is."

"Yeah... it's a lost cause at this point."

"Well, but-"

"But?"

"-Technically, if you just wait it out until you turn eighteen then I could just convince my parents to drive up there and pick you up on your birthday. You'd legally be able to leave, and then you can just come back to this school or get your GED or something, right? Maybe I should actually get my license first, or you, but y'know, that all could work."