Jake Snaps || The Music Freaks ||

Chapter 3

| Tuesday, Third Person pov |

Jake woke up to his mom yelling at him, he didnt even realize he had fallen asleep, and despite having slept for hours he still felt exhausted.

"Why did you skip school yesterday?!" he could finally make out his mothers words. He sighed and sat up, quickly rubbing his eyes while yawning.

His eyes felt heavy from all the crying he did last night. He could tell from the worried expression on his moms face that she now knew he had been crying. "Honey, have you been crying?!" she asked, a worried tone and expression quickly replacing her earlier angry ones.

He knew he should tell his mom, she probably wont leave him alone until she hears it, but he was too exhausted to say anything about it.

"Can I tell you later? Please? Im really tired right now." he mumbled, struggling to keep his eyes open. His mother took a moment to think before responding, "I guess. Just know you're going to school tomorrow." She warned in a stern tone, aswell as putting her finger up and pointing it at him. "Okay mom. Thank you."

With that she left the room and Jake flopped back down, almost immediately falling back asleep.

♡Time Skip♡

Jake slowly opened his eyes, attempting to adjust to the light that filtered into the room from the windows. He yawned and brought his hands up to rub his eyes, sitting up. He grabbed his phone and checked the time, reading 12:49 pm on the screen.

Suddenly there was a light knock on the door, startling him. "Um- Come in!" He stuttered, still a bit tired due to having just woken up. He turned off his phone and set it down on the bed next to him as the door opened, and in stepped his little brother. "Hey Milo." He greeted quietly. "Hey Jake, um- Mom wants you to come and talk to her." The young boy stated impatiently, clearly wanting to do something else at the moment. "Okay, thank you for telling me." "Yeah yeah, anyways Im gonna go, bye!" He quickly rushed out the door to go back to doing whatever he was doing earlier.

Jake chuckled lightly and stood up to follow the boy out. The blond walked down the stairs and towards the living room, preparing himself to reiterate the events that happened yesterday. A pit beginning to grow in his stomach as he thought more about it.

Once he entered the living his mother looked up at him, a concered expression forming on her face. She shooed Milo out of the room, to which he groaned and ran up to his bedroom. "Jake, how are you feeling dear?" She asked in a soft tone once it was just them. "Fine. I guess." he muttered, rubbing the back of his neck with one hand and stuffing the other in his jacket pocket. (I think i forgot to mention he never changed so he fell asleep in his clothes)

"Okay then. Well now can you tell me what happened?" She asked, patting the spot next to her on the couch, signifying for him to come sit down next to her. He sighed and nodded walking over to sit on the spot, looking nervously down at his feet.

"Well.. You know how I joined the music club?" He asked, to which his mother nodded. "You know Drew too, right?" The pit in his stomach grew even bigger as he looked up at the sour expression on his mothers face. She was never fond of his "friends" and she made sure he knew that.

"Anyways, recently, Drew's arguing with the music club has been getting worse. And this had caused Hailey to try and get me to stop being his friend, but he's also been trying to get me to leave the club too. They are basically both trying to get me to pick a side, which i guess I did.." He muttered the last part, looking back down at his feet in shame. "You know how I went to Drew's house a few days ago after school? Well when I was there they said some things about the music club using me and not actually caring about me, and it pushed me to say some things I shouldnt have said about the club. I thought they wouldnt find out so it would be fine but it turns out someone recorded what I said and sent it to them, so they found out and- ... kicked me out.. Dangit! I never should have said those things!" He put his face into his hands as tears began to pour out of his eyes once again, guilt overtaking him.

His mother sighed and put a hand on the peach haired boys shoulder, "Hun its nots your fault." She stated, wanting to calm the teen down before explaining what she could gather from the situation. He lifted his head up and wiped his eyes, sniffling a little. He turned his head and looked her in the eyes, confused on what she meant.

"Drew and them purposely got you kicked out of the club, its what they wanted." "No way! Drew wouldnt do that to me!" "Dear its called manipulation, they wanted you to say those things so they could get you out of the club, its why they pushed you to that point. Although, I dont think they were the only ones who pushed you to snap, I think the music club may have unintentionally caused it aswell." She explained, doing her best to get him to understand. Jake's eyes widened and he began to tear up again, "I-i- I need to go." He muttered before standing up and running up the stairs towards his room, slamming the door.

He slid down against it, struggling to process how he felt about the information he just recieved. He felt a mix of emotions, hurt, angry, sad, and many other things he just couldnt name. He pulled his knees up and wrapped his arms around them, hugging them to his chest, and burying his face inside then, crying once again.

He didnt know what to do at this point, his "best friend" has manipulated and hurt him for his own gain. Heck all of his "friends" did it for their own gain without even thinking once about how it make him feel, it didnt even cross their minds once.

The tears began to flow even fast as he continued to think about it. He didnt if he could ever fix his relationship with them or the music club or how he even could, but he did know one thing.

He has to confront Drew about what he did.

Although the idea of him staying calm while doing so is a slim chance.

End of Chapter Three

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Man was this one fun to write!

Tbh when I was drafting I procrastinated quite alot, but its finally done!

Also this one is alot longer than the others too!

Expect major Drake conflict next chapter >:)

(Platonic Drake, incase your not following me and haven't seen the post on my message board, no ships will be in here other than Lander and Droey considering they are the only cannon ships. I want to keep this as cannon as possible and enjoyable for everyone no matter what you ship.)