I'm forever lost without you || Jeremike

Chapter 1 || The day we met

Michael POV 

5:03 am

"Mike. Wake up, you're gonna make us late for work." I feel myself being shaken, a rough hand on my arm, I could recognize that old fucks touch anywhere, his hands feel like sandpaper. I swat my father's hand away and rub my eyes. Sitting up in my bed and grabbing my glasses off of my nightstand, turning around to face my father. "You smell bad, get out" I say, my father fake gasps and puts a hand on his chest, "How dare you! I smell like a man." He smiles and laughs, I roll my eyes and push him twoards the door as I walk away. Opening my closet as I hear my father leave and close the door behind him. I grab a uniform from my closet and quickly get changed, adjusting my glasses and brushing my hair, staring into my mirror. "Good enough" I say, shoving my shoes on, quickly tying them. Getting up and walking out of my bedroom, heading to my father's car and sitting in the passenger seat. I wait paitently for around 2 minutes as my father takes out the trash and gets in the car, starting it up and starting the long drive to work.

"Why do you do it like that?" My father says, keeping his eyes on the road. "Do what?" I say, turning my head to face him. "Your shoes, why do you tie them like that?" He laughs, turning down the radio a little bit. "...what? I just do the bunny ears--" "Michael you're almost 20 and you still tie your shoes with bunny ears." I feel my face redden from embarrassment. "Its easy!! It works fine so- I don't see the issue here father." I roll my eyes, rolling down my window a little. "It makes you look stupid" My father says,, hes not the kindest man, brutally honest and neglectful. But he's all I have left. I turn to look out of my window as we pull up to the pizzeria. I roll my window back up as we pull into the parking lot. 

I open the car door and head inside, it was only 5:18 am but it was going to be busy. We are reopening again after closing for the winter,, and it was the weekend so we would be flooded all day. My father has been training a few new people, around 6 people I believe? As long as they don't bother me I won't have an issue with them. Besides, I'm only here today and tomorrow, then I have the nightshift all week. Then over weekends I have the day shift. Then it repeats till the last week of the month, then I get the weekend off. I see a blonde-ish,, ginger? Hmm,, his hair colours hard to explain,, sorta like a strawberry blonde,, hes kinda pretty..-- that's not the point-- hes standing at the door with Fritz and Henry. I think they're waiting for us. "Father? Did you lock the door behind you when you walked in?" I say, walking over to the front door,, unlocking it and letting them in. "Mike that dosent MATTER! I need you to sanitize the tables and chairs." My father yells, throwing cleaning supplies at me. I caught the cleaning wipes but,, the Windex hit me square in the face, breaking my glasses. The new worker and Fritz start laughing, Henry walks over to me as my father rolls his eyes. "Are you okay Michael?" Henry asks me, taking my glasses off of my face. "I don't know if you're gonna be able to work today, you're blind as a bat." He laughs, luckily the glass wasnt broken, only one of the arms. "Its alright! I have contacts in my bag,, I can run into the bathroom really quick and put them on." I smile at him, grabbing my contacts and walking twoards the bathroom. "Mike watch out!!" Fritz says,, I trip over a wet floor sign and hit my head on the door frame. Him and the new employee burst out laughing, Henry laughs aswell, helping me up and letting me into the bathroom. I hear him close the door behind me as I open my contacts case. I calmly put one of my contacts in. Around 5 minutes later, I hear the door open, I look in the mirror to see who came in. It was the strawberry blonde boy- he looks a little worried. I put my other contact in and turn to face him. "Is everything alright? That fall looked like it hurt" I feel my face go a little red when I hear his voice,, it's so soft and,, comforting...-- I quickly turn away from him and nod, "Yeah,, I'm fine--" I hear him run up behind me and I feel him touch my head. "You're bleeding!!" He sounds really worried. "What?" I say, reaching up and touching my hair, I pull my hand back and as he said, I was in fact bleeding. 

"Oh" I say, I wasn't very good with blood. I feel myself get lightheaded, "Ooh,, there I go" I say as I fall over, fainting. 

Jeremey POV 

5:44 am 

I try washing the blood off of him, I saw the blood on the wall and I knew something happened. I see him look down at his hand,, I keep washing off more blood, trying to stop it, then I hear, "Oh.", He goes silent for a moment, "Ooh,, there I go" I hear him say, I look up and see him falling over. I catch him and quickly set him down, "Shit.." I say, standing up quickly and running out. I had blood on my hands, I didn't care. "Boss!! Boss! He-He passed out- or fainted-- I don't know what to do- he was bleeding and-" I get shoved over a little by my boss,, he ran into the bathroom, Henry followed him. I followed Henry. Fritz was stuck with cleaning the tables. I see my boss,, (I think his name is William,,) gently elevating his head, having Henry patch him up. I hear William quietly whispering something,, it sounded something like 'Mitchell you dramatic man,,' maybe he said Michael? Or Marcus.. I don't really know. Henry had me call 911 to make sure the guy was alright. 

The ambulance arrived and had William and Me (for some reason) get into the ambulance as well. The nurses in there elevated his head, examining the injury. "He will need stitches, and he has a minor concussion. He should stay home and get as much rest as possible for around a week to two weeks." The nurse says, William just nods. I'm freaking the fuck out, I don't even know this guys name and now I'm in an ambulance with him!!

Around 6 hours later he gets let out of the hospital. William had us open without him, he went to go pick him up. It took him about a half an hour to come back. The guy was with him too. Of course we had everyone working today, so I walk over to William. "Why is he here?? He should be in bed!!" I say, whisper-yelling at him. "Hey, blondie, im fine. I gotta work today" The guy says, smiling, putting a hand on my shoulder. His nametag says 'Mike.',, he has nice handwriting. I feel my face heat up, I move his hand away and look at William. "Hes an adult. He can make his own decesions." William says, walking away. I sigh and walk back to the back of the pizzeria. I hear someone following me so I turn to look at them. It was Mike,, "Do you need something?" I look at him. He just smiles. "What's your name, blondie?" I laugh a little at the nickname. "My name is Jermey, what about you, bloodbath?" I smile. He frowns. "My name's Michael, everyone calls me Mike though. So either work,," I smile, "Well, it's lovely to actually meet you, Michael!" I smile, sticking my hand out for him to shake. He smiles and shakes my hand, "Its lovely to actually meet you too, blondie" he winks at me, letting go of my hand and walking out to the front. He's a waiter I believe..did he even clock in? I laugh, walking out. My shift was almost over.. I walk to go clock out, fidgeting with my earrings. I see Mike sitting in the back, writing something. I ignore it and just clock out. Heading out of the pizzaria. I sigh, "Today was eventful." I say, opening my car door, pulling out of the parking lot, driving home. I see the bright lights of the pizzaria fade from my vision. I pull into my driveway and turn my car off. Getting out and walking inside, heading to the bathroom and washing my hands. Walking out and petting my cat. "Hi lovie..you won't believe what happened today..-"

End of chapter 1, 1500 words in total.