Everyone except Gael is in the dining room eating pizza and talking. August hears really heavy breathing and looks at everyone at the table and no one is breathing heavily.
"Quite, everyone. Do you hear that?"
Constance says to that "Is someone hyperventilating? It sounds like that?"
She got a chorus of 'no's
"Is- is it Gael. We should go check on him." PJ said with concern laced in his voice.
"Yeah we should go check on him." Coral replies back.
The three friends go to the living room to see Gael breathing heavily and his body in a weird position and a look of pain in his face with tears running down his face.
"Gael. Gael wake up it's a bad dream." PJ says and running to his side to try and wake him up. As he says this Gael wakes with a start and with tears running down his face.
"Gael are you alright?" PJ says while holding his hand rubbing circles on it.
Gael takes a deep breath and calms down a little bit but still in a panic.
"You alright dude you were like having a bad dream or something." August being the nice friend he is goes to get him some water.
"Ye-yeah it's just a bad dream nothing to worry about." Gael shifts into a better position and moves his ankle and flinches at the pain.
"You are not alright and what happened to your ankle. And I won't take a 'nothing' for an answer." Constance demanded not taking any excuses.
"Noth- I kinda hurt my ankle when I tripped on the sidewalk, I don't want y'all to worry about me so I just left it be." Gael whispered the next part"Not like I haven't broken my ankle and didn't go the hospital before."
"Why did you have a nightmare anyway." Coral asked generally curious.
" I, I don't know what triggered the memories." Gael replied in a small voice
"Wait something triggered it. WAIT memories? What memories are so bad that you have a like a panic attack in your sleep?" PJ said really fast.
"Gael, you can tell us. We won't tell alright." Constance said softly in a mother type tone
"I-I" Gael hesitated "I used to be abused by my father when my mother wasn't home." Gael said barely a whisper. He looked down in shame and embarrassment. "I don't even know being abused wasn't normal until my father died. I told my mother on the phone and she got so mad that she crashed he car. I'm the cause of her death. I killed her. I haven't talked about her death because no one cares enough to talk with me about it." At this point Gael was sobbing.
Everyone was surprised. They didn't know what to do now just stare at him with mouths open. PJ was the first to recover. He got up and hugged a sobbing Gael. Gael was sobbing into PJ's shirt and hugging his waist. While PJ was rubbing circles in Gaels back.
"It's ok you aren't there anymore. He can't hurt you."
"Man you could've told us. "August says, he heard the entire thing and returned with the blanket and water. He set the water on the coffee table.
"I- I thought you guys wou-would look at me a different wa-way."Gael sniffed "I thought you guys would make me an outcast because I'm weak."He mumbled in PJ's shirt.
"Gael we would never. Why would you think that?" Coral said with a look of disbelief on her face
Coral moved closer to Gael to kneel on the floor next to him and PJ who were very close to each other and cuddling and spoke softly.
"Because I told one of my old friends. Who was actually just using me anyway but they told me that I was faking it. And that I deserved it, if it was true." Replied Gael in a sad tone.
"That's just wrong man, we would never do that to you ever. You are such a nice kid." August said truthfully.
Gael starts to shed happy tears. PJ wipes them and pressed a light kiss to Gaels curly hair. Gael giggles with a small smile on his face.
"I also have something else to say. Please don't freak out and think I'm weird." Gael says
"Just spit it out already." Coral whisper yells.
"Shush let him finish." PJ whisper yells back to Coral. Once everyone sat down on a couch or on the floor in front of Gael and PJ who were still cuddling Gael continued.
"So I um... I kinda like boys." Gael whispers
" Aww man I'm happy for you!" August celebrates him
"That's exciting. How long you known?" Coral ask's
"Well last year I found out."
PJ hugged Gael closer to him, with Gaels back to PJs stomach.
"You can tell us anything, we will support you know matter what ok." PJ whispered into Gaels ear. That gesture sent shivers down Gaels back when PJ breathed in his ear. Constance had a smirk on we face and looked at the two and then at Coral and August and they were all thinking the same thing. 'PJ and Gael like each other but don't know it'.
"Thanks guys I was afraid y'all wouldn't be friends with me anymore." Gael says with a smile on his face.
"Do you want to eat some pizza cause you didn't eat. Also why don't we skip school and do some thing together because we don't hang out that much other than outside of school." Coral says trying to convince everyone that they don't need to go to school tomorrow.
"We can skip school and we could have a movie day and since it's Friday tomorrow we can have Constance's amazing Mac and cheese for lunch!" August shouted
Gael chuckles and nods along while snuggling closer to PJ.
"You comfortable there." PJ whispers so no one else can hear other than Gael. Everyone else is arguing on what movie to watch as everybody is settled in and comfortable.
"Sorry, I can m..." Gael gets cut off from PJ. "No don't it's fine your actually pretty warm." PJ smirks when he sees Gael go red.
"Alright." Gael, gets completely comfortable and looks at the time and it's already eight thirty and tired so he decided to get more sleep. PJ sees Gael closing his eyes so he picks him up softly and bring him to the sofa and lays down with his back to the sofa and Gael snuggled into his chest.
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(Like this but different guys)
After two movies of the Harry Potter movies both PJ and Gael are asleep, while Coral is in a ball in the chair Gael was sitting in before.
"August, looks at those two. They are so cute together. They really need to get together."Constance fangirls
"We can't push it they gotta get together on their own." August says
They agreed to go to sleep so the both got blankets for everyone and August slept on the Ground while Constance got the side of the L shaped couch.
"Me and Coral can get clothes from Emma tomorrow and you two other boys can wear Parker James clothes. Ok" She gets a 'mk' from August, as she is satisfied with that answer she and August go to sleep.
