Church Boy And The Stoner

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Travis pov

"Travis... w-what's wrong?" Larry says as he sits next to me. "Nothing." I say staring down in attempt not to cry. Larry cups my cheeks to make me look at him. "Please, baby tell me whats wrong so i can try make it better." Larry says brushing his thumb against my bruised cheek. This time i crack and start completely bawling my eyes on Larry's chest as he rubbed circles on my back. "I-i cant-." I hiccup out inbetween cries. "Its okay jist take your time larry says still rubbing my back. I take a deep breath. "There's something wrong with me its hard to eat..." i say just barely loud enough to hear.

"And why cant you eat, if your comfortable with telling." Larry says wiping my tears. "I havent been able to since... my mom died, and i feel weird when i eat and i-it makes me wanna throw up because i dont deserve to eat." I say  barely loud enough to hear. "Hey look at me." Larry says softly cupping my cheeks again. "You deserve everything, nothing less than, okay, you deserve the world and more." Larry says wiping the flowing tears, making me smile softly.

"And i'll help you, you need to eat, it dosent have to be alot but atleast try okay, do it for yourself not anyone else ok." Larry says kissing my forehead. After a few minutes of us sitting in comfortable silence we decide ro leave the bathroom. "Lets go we've been sitting on the bathroom floor for a while now." Larry says standing up garbbing my hand and taking us to his room. We sit on his bed and just talk and laugh for like an hour. "I should get you something to wear." Larry says standing up and going through his messy drawers. He tosses me a oversized hoodie and some shorts which look like they wont fit.

I go back to the bathroom and change, thank god he did'nt choose a short sleeved shirt. I quickly change avoiding looking in the mirror at my deformed body and look down, the hoodie reaches my mid thighs luckiley because of reasons and the shorts are way to big. I open the door and walk out. "The shorts are way to big." I say tossing them back to larry. "The only small shorts i have here are ash's shorts from a sleepover." Larry says pulling them out. "Okay better than those." I say taking them and slipping them on. The shorts are actually pretty comfy thank god they cover my cuts.

'Damn' i hear larry say under his breathe. "What?" I question laying next to him. "Nothing." He says as he looks away face flushed red. Hmm i wonder what that was about. Larry lays down next to me. "Im bored what should we do?" I say turning to look at him. "Uh i dont know." Larry says looking like he was going to say something else. "Uh we could play a game?" Larry says. "Oh sure, but what are we gonna play with just two of us?" I say. "We could invite the gang if that's okay with you?" Larry says reassuring that they dont have to come.

"Yeah im okay with it." I say and immediantly regret it. They hate me im the homophobic bully they dont want to hang out with me you do that with people you like. Larry pulls out his phone and texts sal. "Everyone will be over soon and sal's bringing snacks." Larry says excitedly. "Oh cool." I say gripping the sleeves of larrys hoodie nervously. Im fucking scared, like really really scared. I must have looked nervous because Larry grabs my hand and flashes me the sweetest most genuine smile i have ever seen in my life, like damn he is so damn sweet. I flinch as i hear a knock on the door interupting my moment with Larry that i was hoping would never end.

Larry stands up to open the door it's sal holding a duffel bag? Yeah its a duffel bag. "Hey Larryface." Sal says fist-bumping Larry. "Where's Travis?" I hear sal say as larry points to me, then Sal walks up to me. "Hey Travis wassup." Sal says high fiving me. "Nothing much to be honest." I say not wanting to be rude. Sal then sits next to me. Then i hear the doorbell ring aggresively followed by loud knocking a yell saying, "Let me in bitches".
Larry quickly swings open the door to be met with ash, todd, and maple. Damn the whole gang is here.

"Hey bitches!" Ash yells walking into larry's room obnoxiously. Everyone else walked in behind her way quieter. Everyone the. Said hi to larry and sal. "Hi travis." Todd says smileing slightly. "Oh u-uh hi todd, look im sorry for well you know being an ass." I say fiddling with the sleeves of larry's jacket. "Its fine, anyways is that larry's favorite hoodie?" Todd asks raising his eyebrows up and down like a weirdo, luckily no one noticed. "Maybe." I say burying my legs into the hoodie.

          "You guys seem to be close huh, good friends." Todd says putting emphasis on the friends. Now im fucking nervous. Im starting to feel my face get hot despite the coldness. "Uh i-i mean yeah were cool i guess." I say tugging at the sleeves of the hoodie. "Mhm." Todd says in an rather odd tone. Then we where just deadass staring at eachother, neither of us looked away. It was akward and suffocating, i felt exposed like he could see right through me. Oh my god what if he knows im gay? What if he knows im dating larry? Holy shit someone help im fucking scared. As if he heard my silent wish Sal spoke up, "aye yo yall wanna play HighDare?" Sal says pulling out a box covered in serial killer writing that said HighDare in red. "Fuck yeah!" Ash says excitedly. "Sure." Maple says emotionlessly. "Eh why not." Todd says. "Uh guys i don't know if Travis is ready for that." Larry says rubbing the back of his neck. "Huh why, what's HighDare?" I say confused. "Well it's a game we made where we they get high as hell and do a bunch of dares, which i help them accomplish like buying things needed for the dare." Todd says pushing up his glasses.

               "Sure why not, sounds fun." I say. Ive never smoked before always to scared to get caught and face punishment. Then everyone looked at me and said something within the lines of "hell yeah go travis" or "damn i didnt expect that." Then Sal open the card board box, it consisted of a box of cards, vapes and other drugs. I was handed a candy pink vape. "You gotta be carefull, gently okay?" Larry says. "Okay." I repeat. I take the vape to my mouth press the button and inhale gently and softly as possible. Then i exhale coughing afterwards. "Oh holy shit." I say while coughing. "Not to shabby for your first time." Larry says taking a hit of his vape.

                  Larry looked beautiful, the way the light reflected in his deep brown eyes i might jist get lost, the way he pulled his hair into a ponytail, the mole under his eye. I was caught in my staring by Larry himself who jist chuckled as i looked away redder than a tomato. After a while everyones high as hell except for todd of course. Ash is braiding sal's hair and maple is hanging upside down, while im sitting criss cross on the floor larry behind me. "Travis your turn." Todd says. I then pull a dare from the box and it says dye your hair.

     "Oh no my dad would actually, like, like kill m-mee. "Well he isn't here now is he." Larry says running a hand through my hair. "True." Then all of a sudden ash's hands are in my hair. "We should dye it pink, like sour candy pink." Sal says running his hands through my hair. "Ash will you dye it?" Sak asks tilting his head towards her like a puppy. "What, why the fuck do i have to do it maple can do it." Ash says pointing at maple hanging upside down like a bat off of the bed.

       "See, she is way to high come on ash please." Sal says pleading like a dog.  "Ugh oh my fucking god fine." Ash says dragging me to the bathroom grumbling. God bitch i couldve done it myself if you were gonna be a bitch about it. I plop into the chair in the bathroom.

"What's with you and Larry?" Ash asks. Well goddamn straight to the point huh.